2020-11-01 Men's Journal

A Black Police Angela Bassett ADELE’S
Officer’s BACK!
Emotional Marriage, Movies
Story & Making a Her New Life
Difference & Hot New
Romance!

the
kindness

issue

CGRaEYt’SeANrAiTOnMYaSTAR
Scorsone

‘My Daughter
Is Perfect’
The actress opens up about the
beautiful ways her little girl Pippa, who
has Down syndrome, has transformed

her outlook on life and love
Plus Stories of kindness across America

November 9, 2020



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costume out, on Jimmy been an
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coming’
by cutting my
daughter’s —EMMA
ROBERTS,
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of sheer boredom, after she accidentally
and I discovered outed the actress’s
pregnancy, on Jimmy
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GRANT, at 3 o’clock
on his quarantine every weekday
hobby, on Good to see her on
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to be able to pick
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we just wear is part of the
sweatpants
all season?” ’ miracle’

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on her wardrobe on Oprah
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Instagram posts after voting—but in hers, she’s learn that the Netflix horror series’ spooky lead actress
wearing what she tagged as Christian Louboutin Amelie Bea Smith, 9, is also the voice of beloved British
sandals. When fans noticed, she fessed up to being a
pig Peppa on the animated Nickelodeon show.
“barefoot iPhone doodler.”
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Sesame
Street goes

Lego

How do you get
to Sesame Street?

You’ll have to
build it. Fans
voted for the
long-running
kids’ program to
be turned into a
Lego set for the

first time.

4 5

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inspires a
Barbie doll After F9 premieres in May, the following films (the
10th and 11th) reportedly will finish the ride for
Blue jean baby, Michelle Rodriguez, Vin Diesel and pals.
L.A. lady: A new

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homage to the
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17 Scoop On the Also in 34
Cover This Issue... The Grey’s
Adele is back and in a new Anatomy star
romance, plus more celebrity news. 34 3 CHATTER Caterina Scorsone
Caterina Scorsone 10 STAR TRACKS shares how her
60 Policing in America 17 SCOOP daughter, who has
17 23 PASSAGES Down syndrome,
Portland officer Daniel Trummer Adele 25 STORIES TO
strives for peace in troubled times. transformed
58 MAKE YOU SMILE her view
74 Maury Povich and Angela Bassett 27 PEOPLE PICKS
Connie Chung 85 BEAUTY of the world.
60 87 HEALTH
The TV power couple Police Officer 89 FOOD ON THE COVER: Photograph by Rebecca Coursey-
share the secrets behind their Daniel Trummer 90 PUZZLER Rugh. Hair: Pavy Olivarez; makeup: Jenna Garagiola/
91 SECOND LOOK Cloutier Remix; stylist: Veronica Alvericci/Art
42-year love story. This Week 92 ONE LAST THING Department; set design: Wanted PD; (Caterina)
dress: Madewell; (Pippa) dress: Eyee Kids; insets, from
42 left: Nils Ericson; Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images
Kindness 2020

Heather Locklear, Sterling
K. Brown, Priyanka

Chopra Jonas and others
share stories of life-

changing compassion and
humanity. Plus, People
honors everyday heroes
who lead by example

58
Angela Bassett

The iconic actress opens
up about giving back and

her life now

67
The Royals
Next Door

Queen Elizabeth’s
granddaughter Zara
Tindall and her husband,
Mike, raise their two girls
out of the spotlight

71
Racing for History

How Kamala Harris,
with her husband, Doug

Emhoff, is navigating
COVID-19 on

the campaign trail

79
Hollywood at Home

The Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills star

Garcelle Beauvais shares
her serene retreat

6 November 9, 2020 CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM CENTER: VICTOR PROTASIO;
LANDON NORDEMAN; NILS ERICSON; WILL HEATH /NBC;

REBECCA COURSEY-RUGH

editor’s letter

A Force for Good

L ast year People launched for us to make positive change in the This issue’s cover star Caterina
our first-ever Kindness world, we grab it—whether that’s Scorsone talks about how her daughter
Issue. It was one of the working with celebrities to promote Pippa, who was born with Down
things I was most important causes, telling compelling syndrome, has taught her a “deep and
excited to do when I started as editor human-interest stories to make unexpected” kindness. “No matter
in chief, and you, our readers, liked it people aware of vital health and how many chromosomes we have or
too. I’ve never received so many social issues or highlighting cases in where we’re from or what gender we
DMs on Instagram, emails which every GoFundMe donation identify as, we are all family. . . . We are
and actual letters from people who can make a difference. ‘kin.’ That’s where the word ‘kindness’
enjoyed the issue and were inspired comes from.” She writes about how
by the message. The response to these stories being embraced by the disability
reminds me that, while our nation community felt like “the most joyful,
The people who won our Kindness may seem more divided than ever, fierce hug we’ve ever experienced.
Awards—who put their communities It was a kindness I’d never been bold
before themselves—were people are more good than bad. enough to ask for.” Let’s all be bold and
particularly inspiring. When In the dark days of 2020, ask for more kindness in the world.
we surprised each of them we’ve seen how people
with a $1,000 prize, none of have lifted one another up. DAN WAKEFORD,
them wanted to pocket the Americans have rallied EDITOR IN CHIEF
money; they planned to keep together to support our
paying it forward. For Dana and health care workers with
Arkell Graves, who created the hot meals or rousing
Babybuns for Life Network (which applause for their hard work,
provides support and necessities for
parents whose children are in to raise money for those who’ve lost
intensive care) after their son Kaleb their homes to fires or to rebuild
spent 356 days in the NICU, the money communities devastated by hurri-
helped them expand their work to five canes. I’ve seen it firsthand: Last
more hospitals. Stephanie Bowman, month I fractured my elbow and was
who founded One Heart for Women blessed by so much kindness. Friends
and Children, a nonprofit providing organized doctors’ appointments, and
food, shelter and more to those in need strangers opened doors. The nurses,
in Orlando, says, “The ripple effect has doctors and physical therapists were
been pure heaven.” Thanks to more all so empathetic, and my patient
donations pouring in after our story, husband did nearly everything for
they were able to provide 2.2 million me that needed two hands. (He’s still
meals during the pandemic. unloading the dishwasher even
though I can lift plates now. . . . Don’t
We believe People can be a force for tell!) I also learned to be kind to
good. When there is an opportunity myself during this time, letting myself
slow down a little to heal.

THE Many of our staff members go out of their way to be kind, but this
PEOPLE year one employee really inspired me. As a part of our human-interest team,
BEHIND
Jason Duaine Hahn spends his time telling stories about ordinary people
Hahn (left) with his doing extraordinary things, and in 2020 he was as remarkable as his
mom, who was subjects. His birthday fell on the first anniversary of the passing of his

“endlessly giving,” mother, Toni, from cancer. As he thought about how to celebrate on a day
he says. Right: that was also full of sadness, he decided to get on his motorcycle, drive
around L.A. and give out $20 bills to unsuspecting strangers—people
one of his random including a man waiting for his car outside a repair shop, an older woman
acts of kindness.
Follow me on Instagram @danwakeford sweeping around her trailer home and a man standing in the hot sun at a bus
stop. “I’ve never done anything like this before,” Hahn says. “I think my

mom would appreciate that. Grief is hard, but giving is easy. Helping others
can be a way to alleviate that grief, if even for a day.”

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StarTracks

JOHN ROCKS
OUT

Del Mar, Calif.,
Oct.24

John Stamos
performed with the
Beach Boys—who
appeared in 1988
and 1992 episodes
of Full House—at a
drive-in concert in
the San Diego area.

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: DANIEL KNIGHTON/GETTY IMAGES; MATT DUNHAM/
AFP/GETTY IMAGES; DANIEL PEREZ GARCIA-SANTOS/GETTY IMAGES

WILL & KATE
MASK UP

London,
Oct. 20

Prince William
and Princess Kate
wore face masks
to launch the Hold
Still community
photography project
at St. Bartholomew’s

Hospital.

ANTONIO TAKES THE STAGE

Málaga, Spain, Oct. 21

Antonio Banderas teased an upcoming Spanish-
language production of Stephen Sondheim’s

Company at the Soho Caixabank Theatre, which
he founded in his hometown last year.

November 9, 2020 11

StarTracks

Little Big COUNTRY’S Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani toasted
Town’s Phillip BIG their Collaborative Video of the Year win
NIGHT
Sweet, for their duet “Nobody But You” while
Kimberly delivering an at-home acceptance speech.
Schlapman,
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Karen
Fairchild and

Jimi
Westbrook
posed at the
Oct. 21 CMT
Music Awards.

TAYLOR’S CMT Thirteen years after Rising
RETURN! Taylor Swift won the Nashville star
Breakthrough Video Mickey Guyton
2007 of the Year trophy, she performed her
virtually presented
the award to “I Hope” new single
singer Gabby Barrett. “Heaven Down
Here” remotely

from the
Sycamore Barn
in Arrington,

Tenn.

ARIEL’S ROSE &
PUPPY LOVE BOBBY’S
BEACH DAY
Los Angeles,
Oct. 20 Byron Bay,
Oct. 22
Ariel Winter carried
her new rescue Rose Byrne and
Bobby Cannavale
pup Cobey, whom she
adopted from the enjoyed a
Labelle Foundation relaxing day on
in October, the water and
to a check-up. went for a dip at
Wategos Beach
CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: GAC/MEGA; MEDIA-MODE/SPLASH NEWS
in her native
Australia.

IGGY’S BABY DEBUT

Four months after revealing
she welcomed her first child,
rapper Iggy Azalea shared
the first photo of her son Onyx

on Instagram Oct. 24.

November 9, 2020 13

WEDDING A COMEDIAN’S CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: LAUREN HURT(2); EVERETT; WEISS EUBANKS/NBCUNIVERSAL; RACHEL MURRAY/GETTY IMAGES; ALBERTO TAMARGO/GETTY IMAGES; SYDNEY NOELLE; SPLASH NEWS
EXCLUSIVE PICTURE-
PERFECT
PREGNANCY WEDDING
JOY AFTER
HEARTBREAK Malibu, Oct. 23

After suffering a The Mindy Project
miscarriage in June, alum Fortune
Vanderpump Rules star
Scheana Shay, 35, is Feimster, 40, married
expecting a baby with her partner, Jacquelyn
boyfriend Brock Honey Smith, in an intimate
Davies, 30. “I’m just so ceremony, with their

excited to have a Pomeranian rescue
healthy baby and be a Biggie (inset) serving
as ring bearer. “We’re
mom,” she says. really thrilled and just
so happy that we could
CHANNING’S NEW ROLE:
DIRECTOR do this,” Feimster
says. “Hopefully,
Los Angeles, Oct. 23 marriage equality is

Channing Tatum got in the zone on the set here to stay.”
of his new road-trip movie Dog, in which he’ll

star and make his directorial debut.

14 November 9, 2020

StarTracks

KELLY
CHANNELS
MERYL FOR
HALLOWEEN

For the Halloween

episode of The Kelly

Clarkson Show (airing
Oct. 30), the Grammy
winner dressed up as
her idol Meryl Streep’s

character Madeline
Ashton in the 1992
cult classic Death

Becomes Her.

USHER’S DRIVE-IN FRIGHT NIGHT

Pasadena, Oct. 22

From left: Usher, Kelly Rowland, Elle Lorraine and Blair Underwood
attended the Huluween Drive-In 2020 premiere of the new horror

film Bad Hair, streaming now on Hulu.

MALUMA’S BIG NIGHT

Sunrise, Fla., Oct. 21

Colombian singer Maluma performed his hit “Hawái”
for a small mask-wearing audience at the

2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards, where he
received the Spirit of Hope Award.



November 9, 2020

ALL THE HOLLYWOOD
NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

Funny
Girl

On SNL, Adele
(below, with

Kate McKinnon
and musical
guest H.E.R.)

channeled the
’80s and put her
comedy chops

on display.

MIDDLE: KYLE DUBIEL/NBC; BOTTOM: ROSALIND O’CONNOR/NBC A Big Night—and a New Romance!

Adele’s Fresh Start

Adele has had a difficult couple of years, and quipped she would next appear on
the dating show Love Island. She was
but her bawdy humor is fully intact. joking about her reality-star dreams,
When the singer returned to the stage on but a source close to Adele
Oct. 24 to host Saturday Night Live for the confirms she’s been mending
first time, she took every opportunity to her heart with British rapper
poke fun at herself. Joking about experi- Skepta, 38. In recent months
encing “a lot” of heartbreak in her life, “things have been heating up,”
the 32-year-old pop star—who filed for says the source of the new
divorce from husband Simon Konecki couple, who have been friends
in September 2019 after seven years for years. “They run in the
together—appeared on a Bachelor spoof

17

Scoop Back in Action

same circles in London, Adele (left, in
and she’s having fun.” a Bachelor skit

Indeed, Adele has with Beck
found a new zest for life. Bennett and
“She’s been a lot more right, prepping
social and opened up for SNL) “is
quite a bit,” says the as smart as they
source. During her SNL
come but
has a wacky,
goofy side,”
a source says.

stint, the star also

addressed her much ‘BECOMING A and fitness regi-
buzzed-about slim-down SINGLE MOM men including
for the first time. “I know I WAS POSITIVE Pilates, weight
look really different since FOR ADELE. training and
you last saw me,” she said SHE REALLY other targeted
during her opening mono- BLOSSOMED’ exercises. “She
—A MUSIC SOURCE

logue. “Because of all the is still very motivated because London and L.A. during the pan-

COVID restrictions and the travel she feels great,” says an insider. demic, she has been helping her son

bans, I had to travel light and could Much has changed in her life, but stay on track with school. “It’s been

only bring half of me. And this is the Adele’s devotion to her and Konecki’s Adele’s focus to help him be success-

half I chose.” According to sources, 8-year-old son, Angelo, remains ful with online schooling,” the

the star has stayed committed to a diet steadfast. Splitting time between insider says. “They are on a good

schedule.” And yes, new music is

WHO IS ADELE’S NEW MAN? Skepta in London coming. While her much-anticipated TOP LEFT: WILL HEATH/NBC; MIDDLE: TIM P. WHITBY/GETTY
in 2016. new album was placed on hold IMAGES; BOTTOM LEFT: EMMA MCINTYRE/GETTY IMAGES
It’s no rumor: Adele is in a hot new romance. Previously because of the pandemic, sources say
linked to Naomi Campbell, Skepta (real name Joseph her art is evolving along with her.
Junior Adenuga) emerged as an MC in 2006 during “There have been major challenges
the early days of the U.K.’s grime scene. Sources in her life and in the world,” says a
say the pair have a deep connection over music, their music-industry source. “She’s work-
shared home neighborhood of Tottenham, London, ing her way around all of that and
and being parents to young children. “Adele texts will introduce it when she’s ready.
me all the time and keeps me in check,” Skepta—who She’s doing well and feeling terrific.”
has a 2-year-old daughter, River, from a previous
relationship—said in a 2016 interview. —BRIANNE TRACY with
reporting by Pernilla

Cedenheim, Melody Chiu
and Linda Marx

Baby Boom!
THE LATEST ON HOLLYWOOD’S
GROWING FAMILIES

Hilary Duff & Patrick Mahomes &

Matthew Koma Brittany Matthews

The Younger actress and On Oct. 21 the Kansas
the singer, both 33, are City Chiefs quarterback
expecting their second and his fiancée, both 25,
child. “We are growing!”
Duff—who shares daughter announced they’re
Banks, 2, with Koma and having a girl. For their
has son Luca, 8, from a virtual sex-reveal party,
previous marriage—wrote their dogs Steel and Silver
Oct. 24. Quipped Koma: walked down a white
“Quarantine was fun.” runway—with pet-safe
pink paint on their paws!

Scoop

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MONITOR

New Couple?

Cole Sprouse & Reiña Silva
The Riverdale actor appears to
have a new leading lady in his life:
On Oct. 24 Sprouse, 28, was
photographed in a cozy embrace
with model Silva, 22, in Vancouver,
where he films the popular CW teen
soap. Reps for Sprouse and Silva
haven’t commented, but the pair
have fueled relationship buzz on
social media. On Oct. 10 both of them

posted Instagram shots of
Silva that were taken by Sprouse,
who moonlights as a photographer.
Sprouse, who starred on the Disney
Channel’s Suite Life of Zack & Cody

as a teen, previously dated his
Riverdale costar Lili Reinhart, 24.

They called it quits in March.

Birthday Love Split It’s Over

Ciara & Russell Wilson Kate Beckinsale & Goody Grace Lake Bell & Scott Campbell

The Seattle Seahawks quarterback After dating since early this year, the actress, The actress, 41, and the tattoo artist, 43,
honored his R&B-star wife on her 47, and the Canadian rapper, 23, are done, have separated after seven years of
35th birthday on Oct. 25. “You are Heaven insiders say. “It’s not a big deal for Kate. It marriage and nine years together.
sent. You have changed my life for the was great . . . to have him around during the
better,” Wilson, 31, wrote of Ciara. The pair lockdown,” says a source. “He is young and “We will continue to be parental comrades
wed in 2016 and have three children. has other priorities. She totally gets it.” in arms and best friends,” Bell wrote
Oct. 22 of co-parenting their two kids.

November 9, 2020 19

Scoop

Phil Collins Sues
to Evict His Ex

History repeats itself: Phil documents filed by Collins,

Collins is going through another who’s suing her, alleging she

messy split with his third and Bates refused to vacate Love Lost

ex-wife, Orianne the Miami Beach Collins and
ex Orianne (in
Collins. The super- ‘ORIANNE’S mansion he says is 2017) met while
he was on tour in
star English singer, ONLY MOTIVE “100 percent” owned 1994; they wed resolved. She has never
69, famously settled IS TO REMAIN by him. The newly- in 1999 before interfered in Mr. Collins’ ability
his divorce with Ori- IN HER HOME weds hired “armed splitting in 2006. to see or interact with his
anne, a Swiss jewelry UNTIL A FAIR guards to patrol the children and encourages their
designer, for a SETTLEMENT IS property with openly alarm codes, Collins claims. A relationship.” At press time,
reported $46.76 displayed firearms” source says Collins is fighting a Florida court had allowed
million 12 years ago. RESOLVED’ and changed the to spend the holidays at the Orianne and Bates to remain
—HER ATTORNEY property with their two sons, in the house. “We expect
RICHARD WOLFE Nicholas, 19, and Matthew, 15. [the court] to see justice in
“She is using this as a weapon,” her strong legal and moral
In recent years, they the source says. Orianne’s position,” her lawyer added.
attorney Richard Wolfe
reconciled: “We are back refuted the claim, saying in a —TOMÁS MIER
statement: “Orianne’s only
together,” Collins told People motive is to remain in her
home until a fair settlement is
in 2016, because “we realized

we missed each other.” But

their rekindled romance

fizzled—and has now mor- Orianne

phed into a legal nightmare. and new
Orianne, 46, married busi- husband
nessman Thomas Bates, 31, Bates on
in August, according to court Oct. 13.

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The O.C. alum, 40—who produced and Brody says he
stars as a former child PI prodigy in the and Meester
new movie The Kid Detective—chatted (in 2019) are
about life at home with his wife, Gossip “in a cocoon” as
Girl star Leighton Meester, 34, daughter a new family
Arlo, 5, and their 2-month-old son, of four in the
whose name they haven’t shared. pandemic.
You play a grown-up child sleuth
in your new movie. In real life, you are you settling in with two kids?
and your wife both starred in It’s such a crazy time for everyone, and
teen soaps. Did that bond you? we’re so fortunate that we have some
It’s definitely a common bond. of the security we do. At this moment
To have such a truly unique and in our lives, this family growing by one
specific experience and then have
your partner have had the same has definitely had its benefits for sure.
thing, it’s pretty remarkable. How does Arlo feel about being a
The two of you welcomed a big sister? She’s very excited—very
son during the pandemic. How happy! We’ve made sure we get to
spend a lot of time together as a fami-
20 November 9, 2020 ly, and we’re really lucky during this. It’s
been magical, and I’ll remember [this
time] for the rest of my life.

—GEORGIA SLATER

Scoop

Anne Hathaway & Stanley Tucci parents didn’t realize I snuck into the
room while they were watching Poltergeist.
Reunited—and double To this day I’m afraid of getting sucked
It Feels So Good! talk into a closet, which is why I don’t want my
children [Jonathan, 4, and Jack, 11
Fourteen years after Anne Hathaway and [Streep] opened her mouth and I heard months, with husband Adam Shulman, 39]
Stanley Tucci costarred in The Devil Wears Miranda Priestly, who I always read as to see this movie.
Prada, the Oscar-winning mom of two, 37, being loud and barking orders, and I heard TUCCI No one will sleep in the house.
and the Emmy-winning dad of five, 59, the whisper; it took my breath away. At If they wake up with a nightmare, they’re
teamed up again for HBO Max’s adaptation the time I thought, “I’m so lucky to have waking you up.
of Roald Dahl’s The Witches. this job.” The way I loved making it, Any Halloween plans this year?
What was it like working together that’s the way people loved watching it. TUCCI I’m in Madrid working and I can’t
again? It was a lightning-in-a-bottle experience. go back to my family in London [wife
HATHAWAY It was wonderful. If we ever Did you try to spook each other on Felicity Blunt, 39, their children Matteo, 5,
get lucky enough to do a third one, I want set of The Witches? and Emilia, 2, and three older kids from his
Stanley to play a chef and I want to play TUCCI No, we were just trying not to first marriage] because of the quarantine
someone who eats a lot of food because laugh—sometimes I would just rules, so I’m not going to dress up this year.
Stanley’s a wonderful chef. start laughing because what HATHAWAY We’re getting together
Have you been surprised at how The she was doing was so fan- with people in our little circle to do a
Devil Wears Prada has resonated? tastic and weird. candy scavenger hunt in the backyard.
TUCCI It’s incredible. It’s arguably one of Were you scared of Because my youngest, Jack, is 11 months
the best Hollywood movies ever made, witches as a kid? old and climbing everything, I’m going
and certainly one of the best movies I’ve HATHAWAY I was to dress him up as a monkey and I’m
ever been in. It just doesn’t get old. It afraid I wasn’t a witch.
doesn’t feel dated. It’s a perfect coming Witches seemed like going to be a tree.
together of all these forces. something you wanted
HATHAWAY I’m not surprised. I remem- to be. They’re powerful. —DANA ROSE FALCONE
ber the first read-through when Meryl But when I was little, my
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Prada “It did feel lovely
coming on-set [of

Witches] and
seeing my buddy
and knowing we
were going to have

a great time,”
Hathaway says.

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Babies scandal. Huffman Happy
had been sen­ Birthday!
Model and actress Emily tenced to 14 days in
Ratajkowski, 29, announced prison, 250 hours Thandie Newton, 48
she’s expecting her of community Nov. 6, 1972
first child with husband service and one Tatum O’Neal,
year of supervised Nov. 5, 1963 57
Sebastian Bear-McClard. release after she
Arnold Schwarzenegger pleaded guilty for Emma Stone, 32
•Former Saturday Night paying $15,000 to Nov. 6, 1988
Health have a proctor
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Actor and former and husband Billy Kennedy ter Sophia’s SAT died at 36. The cause of
California governor welcomed their first child, test answers. death was unknown at

Arnold Schwarzenegger, •daughter Edith. Harry Deaths •press time. Country

73, announced he under­ Potter actress Jessie Cave, DeOndra Dixon, the music legend Jerry Jeff
went heart surgery to 33, who played Lavender younger sister of actor Walker, famous for writing
replace his aortic valve. Brown in the films, Jamie Foxx and ambassa­ the 1968 hit “Mr. Bojan­
The procedure is his welcomed her third child, dor for the Global Down gles,” died at 78 of throat
second in as many years; son Abraham, with come­ cancer complications.
his pulmonary valve was dian Alfie Brown. The two Jamie
replaced in 2018. “I feel are also parents to daugh­ Foxx and
fantastic,” he wrote on ter Margot, 4, and son DeOndra
Twitter. “Thank you to every
doc and nurse on my team!” •Donnie, 6. Jersey Shore Dixon

star Deena Cortese, By ALE RUSSIAN
33, and husband Chris
Buckner, 31, are expecting
their second child, who
will join big brother CJ,
21 months.

Crime

Actress Felicity Huffman,
57, has served her full
sentence for involvement
in the college admissions

Marcus Lemonis Why
ICare
The 46-year-old host of CNBC’s The Profit
has launched the Lemon-Aid Foundation PERSONAL
to help underserved communities STORIES ABOUT

I spent the first year of my life in an orphanage in GIVING
Lebanon and was adopted by a family here in the States.

My mother used to say to me, “Your job in life is to kick BACK

the door down for people that can’t kick the door down

themselves. That is all you owe me for saving you from

the orphanage.” On Oct. 28 I launched the Lemon-Aid Foundation and pledged

$50 million of my own money to provide grants, loans and equity investments to

underserved small businesses, communities and organizations. To coincide with the

Lemon-Aid Foundation, I am starting the Business Learning Center,

a free platform that helps people understand how to make the best use

of their money, from advising those applying for student loans to buying

their first car or house. This year has been extremely challenging for

Marcus Lemonis small-business owners, and it’s so important that now, more than ever,
(inset, with small-
business owners we show our support and help these entrepreneurs not only survive
he helped this year).
but thrive. —R e p o r t e d B y M I A M c N I E C E

For more information, go to marcuslemonis.com

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Beep beep! Traffic is cause for celebration in some classrooms these days. Southside
Elementary School teacher Missy Windom wanted to make sure the pandemic didn’t ruin
the “magic of kindergarten.” So the shields surrounding the desks of her 15 masked students

became . . . windshields! Taking her cue from similar projects she’d seen on Facebook,
Windom, 58, transformed each desk into a homemade miniature jeep. The child-size fleet,
made of colorful vinyl, was an immediate hit with parents, many of whom were worried
about sending their kids back to school. “They said, ‘Thanks so much for trying to make
this fun for them,’ ” says Windom. As for her students? “They’re so used to having ‘cute’ in

their world that they liked the jeeps . . . and then moved on to play with the blocks.”

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Troublesome Tics

DELRAY BEACH, FLA.

Diagnosed at age 8 with Tourette’s syndrome, a neurological
disorder that causes involuntary movements and sounds,
Shane Koch, now 16, had never found anything that helped

control them. Then last December he and his mom adopted a
puppy named Callum, who captivated them at a rescue event.

As the pair bonded, the tics—which can be stress-related—
diminished significantly. “Callum would cuddle or want to
play; he knew how to distract me,” says Shane, whose comedic
TikTok account (@callumtheridgy) of their antics has more
than 1.4 million followers. “I knew we connected for a reason.”

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B R AVO | The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
Things are heating up in Utah

REALITY A stiletto heel crunches down into a thin crust as “Mormon 2.0.” (“I’m sure other Mormons care
of snow and ice—welcome to The Real Housewives of that I own a tequila company,” she says. “What’s

Salt Lake City. The six fashionistas of Bravo’s new important is that I don’t.”) Whitney Rose is a former

series—the 10th in the super-enjoyable franchise—call Mormon, and Jen Shah is a convert to Islam. But

the wintry Utah capital their home. In the premiere enough: It’s time for the traditional Housewives party,

this raises the novel question of how Bravo will be this one at Jen’s chalet and vaguely inspired by the Met

dealing with Mormonism. Answer: to about the same Gala. Air kisses turn to disses as we get into one of those

CHAD KIRKLAND/BRAVO degree The Real Housewives of Tudor London ‘The delightfully accusatory Housewives rehashes
might have dealt with the Reformation. Bravo 10th in of old history. At a previous get-together, you
is into luxury, gossip, envy, rivalry, parties and the super- see, Mary Cosby (who’s married to her own
booze—and fun!—but not necessarily sin. enjoyable step-grandfather) apparently accused Jen of
None of the women here seems to adhere franchise’ smelling like a hospital. Well, Jen points out,
strictly to the teachings of the Mormon she had been to a hospital. The story builds
Church. Lisa Barlow, for instance, is described from there. (Nov. 11, 10 p.m.)

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picks Happy 10th
Birthday!
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explains a Stream these classics from 2010
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to a patient. Black Swan

ABC | The Good Doctor MOVIE | DRAMA CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: JEFF WEDDELL/ABC; EVERETT(3)

The worst of medical times Oscar winner
Natalie Portman
DRAMA The hit series’ season 4 opens with a two-parter about is on her toes and
the pandemic. The first hour is an effective—and moving— out of her mind as
encapsulation of the experience. It’s all here, in a matter of a perfectionist
minutes: quarantine, Zoom, oximeters, hoarded toilet paper, ballerina. (iTunes)
PPE shortages, the unpredictable, ever-shifting symptoms—
“These complications are inconsistent,” says Dr. Murphy The Social
(Freddie Highmore). “It’s becoming annoying!” And there are Network

patients facing death alone. (Nov. 2, 10 p.m.) MOVIE | DRAMA

The origin story of
Facebook, with

Jesse Eisenberg as
Mark Zuckerberg.

Like! (Amazon)

The King’s Speech

MOVIE | DRAMA

Colin Firth won
Best Actor as the
future George VI,

struggling to
overcome a
stammer. (iTunes)

Laurie picks
stars in the
Masterpiece MUSIC | Cam,
miniseries.
The Otherside
PBS | Roadkill
COUNTRY The Nashville star
Hugh Laurie is a political animal caught in the headlights delivers a cinematic ode to
marriage (“Like a Movie”) and
DRAMA Things are looking up for British politician Peter Laurence a modern-day response to Dolly
(House’s Hugh Laurie). He’s just won a major libel suit, and Parton’s “Jolene” (“Diane”) on
her exceptional sophomore set.
the Prime Minister is promising him a plum new cabinet assign- As she croons on standout
ment. However, “there are no victories in politics,” concedes “Classic”: “They don’t make ’em
like this anymore.” (Oct. 30)
this brash, wily man, an entertaining and completely plausible mix
FROM LEFT: THE FORGE; STEVE JENNINGS/WIREIMAGE of cunning and carelessness. “You just avoid setbacks.” And in rush

the fresh crises that will have to be resolved, quashed or spun.
(Nov. 1, 9 p.m.; check local listings)

CUE A picks
BETTER
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Back from Kazakhstan!

COMEDY Kazakh TV journalist Boris Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen)
returns to America, hoping to make a gift of 15-year-old daughter
Tutar (Maria Bakalova) to Vice President Mike Pence. Apart from
one jaw-dropping encounter with Rudy Giuliani, the comedy
this time works best when focused on Tutar. Brought up to think
her place is in a cage—literally—she craves the same freedom as
American women. When she points out a female driver to her
father, he lies and says it’s Dog the Bounty Hunter. (Streaming now)

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says Shea. (Streaming now)

Star Trek: Discovery’s ownaetctoh
Blu del Barrio
Del
The 23-year-old (whose pronouns Barrio as
are they/them) says that starring
as Adira, the Star Trek universe’s first Adira.
nonbinary character, helped them
find the courage to come out to their
own family about their gender identity.
(The show streams on CBS All Access.)
“I was still going through my coming-
out process when I got this role,”
says the Southern California native.
“The show gave me space to figure
myself out.” — J O D I G U G L I E L M I

Marinelli is a picks
poor man with
rich dreams. ABC | CMA Awards

Darius Rucker and Reba
McEntire host country music’s
annual awards blowout. Eric
Church, Luke Combs, Miranda

Lambert, Keith Urban and
Carrie Underwood compete for
Entertainer of the Year. Char-
ley Pride, country’s first Black

superstar, receives the Willie
Nelson Lifetime Achievement

Award. (Nov. 11, 8 p.m.)

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The stirring tale of a natural-born writer

DRAMA An Italian adaptation of a 1909 novel by American writer Jack
London (The Call of the Wild), Eden is a primal melodrama about the Artist
Against the World, although in that case we could just as well be talking

about A Star Is Born. What makes Eden so striking—apart from an
invigorating indifference to period detail—is Luca Marinelli’s fiery, feverish
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Daughter

Interview by (CATERINA) MADEWELL BLOUSE & JEANS; (PIPPA) LEFT: HUXBABY
KATE COYNE PINAFORE DRESS & TEE; RIGHT: EYEE KIDS DRESS

Photographs by
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C O U R S E Y- R U G H

Is

Perfect’

IN HER OWN WORDS,
THE ACTRESS AND
MOM OF THREE

REVEALS HOW RAISING
DAUGHTER PIPPA,
WHO HAS DOWN
SYNDROME, HAS
OPENED HER EYES
TO THE BEAUTY
AND LOVE ALL
AROUND HER

November 9, 2020 35

When Caterina Scorsone “Pippa and her
settled down for tea with sisters have a
her three little girls— relationship just
like any other
Eliza, 8, Pippa, 4, and Lucinda, 10 months (affectionately known as siblings: sometimes
Lucky)—at a balloon-bedecked table for People’s photo shoot, the festive wonderful,
atmosphere was perfectly in keeping with the usual “joyfully noisy” vibe at sometimes
the home of the Grey’s Anatomy star, who lives just outside Los Angeles. annoying,” says
The presence of a baby goat named Pop-Tart, who was just visiting for the Scorsone. “But
day, was slightly more out of the ordinary. “There is now a full-court press there is always so
to have farm animals living at our house,” Scorsone says with a laugh. much love there.”

It would be just more happy chaos for the busy actress, who has por-
trayed Dr. Amelia Shepherd on the hit ABC medical drama since 2010.
In addition to starring on Grey’s and raising her family (she shares all
three daughters with musician-writer Rob Giles, from whom she filed
for divorce earlier this year), Scorsone, 39, has also found her voice as
an advocate. The Toronto native says having Pippa, who was born with
Down syndrome, triggered a transformation that touched every facet
of her life, prompting her to learn about and fight for those with cogni-
tive differences and disabilities. This year Scorsone was awarded the
Global Down Syndrome Foundation’s Quincy Jones Exceptional Advo-
cacy Award, and while October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month,
Scorsone says the lessons she learns from Pippa and others about com-
passion and authenticity continue every day. After Pippa’s birth, “people
in the Down syndrome community told me I’d hit the jackpot,” she recalls.

Here, she writes about her earliest moments with the little girl who
changed everything and how her daughter might change others. “My hope
now is that people might see my daughter and be reminded of their own

perfect uniqueness,” she says. “That they
might see her and feel free to be loved for
every cell in their irreplaceable body.”

Back Onscreen When my daughter Pippa was born, I one of my wisest woman friends, my mouth silent (ELIZA) MINI BODEN DRESS; (CATERINA) MADEWELL DRESS; (LUCKY) HUXBABY PLAYSUIT;
and open, like a stunned goldfish scooped into a LEFT: MITCH HAASETH/WALT DISNEY TELEVISION/GETTY IMAGES
Scorsone (with was scared. I didn’t know anything new element, gills grasping for oxygen I could no
Jerrika Hinton and about trisomy 21, the name for the longer breathe. My friend looked into my eyes, held
Ellen Pompeo) and occurrence of a third copy of the 21st my hand and said, “What are you afraid of?”
chromosome, better known as Down
Grey’s Anatomy syndrome. I didn’t know that when I said, “I don’t know. What if she can’t talk?”
return to ABC on Pippa was 3½, she would speak in She said, “What if she can’t? Why does that
Nov. 12. The long- three different languages and already be able scare you?”
running show’s 17th to read simple words. I didn’t know that she’d I said, “How will we connect? How will we build
season “is going to sing Leonard Cohen songs by heart and twirl a bridge to one another without words?”
be mind-blowing,” and dance with me in the kitchen. I didn’t know And she smiled and said something that changed
anything. All I knew about Down syndrome my understanding forever. She said, “My love,
she promises. was that people were afraid of it, so I figured I what if you have it upside down? What if the
should be too. words aren’t the bridge? What if the words are
Hours after she was born, I sat on the floor blink- the very thing that’s keeping you and the people
ing, a wicker bassinet next to me cradling my new you care for apart?”
baby’s impossibly tiny self. It felt like a dream. That It was like a bell ringing the purest tone,
day, almost four years ago, I stared into the face of shaking me from a trance I was in, shattering
the spell into splinters. Tears rolled down my

36 November 9, 2020

cheeks, fat and hot. I looked at the tiny baby who Ta k i n g t h e Le a d “Having Lucky join us has been
would grow into my funny, stubborn, beautiful so wonderful,” says Scorsone, with
little Pippa, and I saw how limited my life had been “Eliza is very into
until that moment. How small and contracted. In the idea that she is her youngest daughter. “Pippa
that moment the triplicate 21st chromosome that going to be teaching loves her baby sister so much and
gave her those beautiful, dancing crescent-moon her sisters a lot of
eyes became a tiny skeleton key. things. She’s up for is very protective of her.”
that task,” Scorsone
Pippa and her unexpected arrival cracked says. “Nothing could gender? Your ethnicity? What have you bought
opened a door in my life that led me from a ham- and achieved? Do you qualify for love?
ster wheel dressed as success into a world of be better for her
sensation, sidesplitting laughter and actual com- future than having But when Pippa was born, it suddenly became
munity that I never imagined was waiting for me. Pippa and Lucky crystal clear that the emperor wasn’t wearing
Most of us have grown up believing that we’re clothes. There is no standard, objective, perfect
supposed to aspire to some sort of standard of in her life.” human being. The metrics of perfection are arbi-
“perfection,” some idea of humanity that is locat- trary and imposed in the service of those who fit
ed at the top of a vertical tower of value. How them. My daughter is perfect. Exactly the way she is.
smart are you? How fast? How thin? What’s your
Pippa was born different. Unequivocally differ-
WHAT IS DOWN SYNDROME?
ent. Every single one of her cells had three copies
Down syndrome, a genetic disorder caused by an extra copy of the 21st chromosome rather than two. There
of chromosome 21, occurs in approximately one in every was no altering it, no surgery, no therapy, no fil-
ter that would change the unexpected way she
700 babies born—nearly 6,000 each year—in the U.S. The would unfold. And the nonnegotiable fact of her
additional genetic material affects development and causes difference lit a match in my life and in the life of
our family. It burned down the fantasy of living
such characteristics as low muscle tone, smaller stature up to an artificial external standard.
and almond-shaped eyes. People with Down syndrome
are also more likely to have congenital heart defects and Her arrival was an awakening. And it was terri-
face other health risks, but their average life expectancy fying. Like a free fall, the truth terrifies you before
is now upwards of 60 years. Many individuals integrate you learn to fly. In that first year of Pippa’s life the
successfully into neurotypical society, including schools, questions came hard and fast. What insurance did
we have? What was occupational therapy? Who
community organizations and the workplace. were our friends? How did we respond to small-
For more information or to donate to research, education mindedness? But as time went on, the questions
softened and became deeper. Who was this little
and advocacy efforts, go to globaldownsyndrome.org girl? What gave her delight? What simple delights
had I denied myself in the rush to be someplace
else, someone else? Ultimately, the question that

November 9, 2020 37

‘Pippa’s
difference lit
a match in
my life and
in the life of
our family’

—CATERINA
SCORSONE

came into sharp focus was one of courage. Did we A l l To g e t h e r from a teacher talking. She has a wider sandal gap
have the courage and audacity to confront and fall between her toes than most kids do and shorter
in love with reality? “We’re normal, limbs than her sister.
like every family!”
The truth is, there was nothing wrong with explains Scorsone But why was I comparing her to her sister? Why
my baby. She wasn’t in pain. She wasn’t sad. She (with her girls and a was I comparing anyone to anyone? What was this
was Pippa, a beautiful little girl who would love standard I’d been lulled into thinking was golden?
balloons and swimming, Goldfish crackers and special guest, And the house of cards began to fall. What if there
jumping on the trampoline with her sisters with Pop-Tart the goat). was no objective standard to live up to? What if
the music turned up loud. “The ‘typical’ kids, we could all just love ourselves, defying the pro-
paganda that tries to sell us the idea that we are
She would have some differences. Some physi- Eliza and Lucky, not enough?
cal, some cognitive. She has low muscle tone that don’t disappear
makes it harder for her to articulate her words. It because Pippa Pippa and her extra chromosome led the charge
took longer for her to start talking. She has one has special needs. into an incredible deepening of my life. Is having
deep line across her palms rather than two and a They’re all a part a child with Down syndrome scary? Yes. It’s scary.
visual learning profile, which makes it easier for of this constellation Looking at the uncertainties and realities of life is
her to learn from pictures and written words than scary. But that kind of scary is exactly what we need
of love.”

(ELIZA) PINK CHICKEN DRESS

38 November 9, 2020

right now. That tiny skeleton key contained in Pip- Scan this QR code and unexpected kindness. No matter how many
pa’s DNA might be the secret key that we’ve been with your phone’s camera chromosomes we have, or where we’re from, or
waiting for. I don’t know what kinds of challenges what we look like, or what gender we identify as,
will come up for her down the road. I don’t know if to watch People Cover we are all family . . . we are “kin.” That’s where the
she’ll find a job that is the right fit for her interests Story: Caterina Scorsone word “kindness” comes from: kin. I didn’t really
and talents. I don’t know if she’ll find a partner who know what family could feel like until I entered the
will get her sense of humor and will celebrate her on PeopleTV. disability community and met other families that
life every day with small and large gestures of love. loved and included a person with Down syndrome.
But I don’t know that about my other daughters These hilarious, real humans reached their arms
either. Pippa is perfect exactly as she is. So are you, around us when Pippa was born and pulled us into
and so am I. The only way we lose sight of that per- the most joyful, fierce hug we’ve ever experienced.
fection is to look for it somewhere else. It was a kindness I’d never been bold enough to ask
for. It was a Technicolor world of tenderness and
When Pippa was born, my world and my per- tears, laughter and care I never knew existed.
spective became infused and alchemized by a deep

MORE MOMS MAKING A DIFFERENCE

These three women use their personal experiences—and Instagram—to advocate for acceptance

OAKLEY PETERSON & AMANDA BOOTH & ELENA FONG &
SON WELLES SON MICAH DAUGHTER WYNTER

@nothingdownaboutit @amanda_booth @lifewithwynterandnova

Utah mom of three Oakley Los Angeles-based actress-model Elena Fong wants people to
Peterson urges people to celebrate Amanda Booth, 34, is in awe of the understand that Down syndrome “is
way her son Micah, 6, who has the not this thing to be feared,” she says.
the upsides of parenting a child dual diagnosis of autism spectrum “People are all different. Some of those
with Down syndrome. She says differences are greater than others or
her son Welles, 7, helps their family disorder and Down syndrome, more obvious than others, but that’s
appreciate the unexpected. “I’m “brings kindheartedness out of okay.” Elena, 42, a mom of two from
just living a really optimistic, happy Oakland, is mixed-race, Asian and
life, enjoying the unpredictability everybody in a way that is so Black, and also advocates for Black
that our son has taught us. We authentic,” she says. Micah also Disabled Lives Matter. She says her
get to live life to a fuller degree has inspired her to advocate for
because of that,” says Oakley, 34. greater inclusion of differently 4-year-old daughter with Down
“And we’ve been able to pay it abled people in media. “I noticed syndrome, Wynter, has taught her the
forward. I talk to other moms daily there were babies at castings all meaning of acceptance. “It’s one of the
about their child’s new diagnosis the time and thought, ‘Why isn’t greatest gifts you can get,” she says.
and tell them they’re joining this anybody asking for my baby?’ ”
she recalls. “I began my journey of “Our children show us and teach us
incredible community.” what unconditional love truly means.”
advocacy through [Micah].”

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AN ARTIST BREAKS THROUGH I now know a couple of things that I didn’t know

Sevy Marie Eicher, 16, is an when Pippa was born.
internationally collected I know that the birth of a baby with Down
self-taught artist with more
than 41,000 Instagram syndrome is something to be celebrated rather
followers and a wait list of more than feared.
than 8,000 people eager for
one of her paintings (which she I know that having a relationship with the per-
sells via sevymarieart.com). fect reality of your child is far better than having
She also happens to have a relationship with a projected fantasy.
Down syndrome. After being
adopted from Bulgaria four I now see the birth of a baby with Down syn-
years ago by Houston drome as a bugle call to free ourselves from a con-
residents Lisa and Joey Eicher, stant stream of devaluation and judgment.
Sevy, who is nonverbal, found
her voice through art. “It has I now see the birth of a baby with Down syn-
brought her so much joy,” drome as a wild invitation to step into presence,
says her mom, Lisa. “She has a dignity and authenticity.
career, financial independence
and the freedom to live When Pippa was born, all I knew about Down
syndrome was that people were afraid of it, so I
a beautiful life.” figured I should be too. But it turns out people are
afraid of a lot of things that don’t scare me any-
more. And the greatest of these is love.

With additional reporting by KARA WARNER

‘Pippa is HAIR: PAVY OLIVAREZ; MAKEUP: JENNA GARAGIOLA/CLOUTIER REMIX; STYLIST: VERONICA ALVERICCI/ART DEPARTMENT; SET DESIGN: WANTED PD; TOP: COURTESY SEVY MARIE EICHER
perfect exactly
the way she is.

So are you,
and so am I’

—CATERINA
SCORSONE

40 November 9, 2020

©2020 Mars or Affiliates

THE KINDNESS ISSUE

MY PARENTS
GAVE UP
THEIR

DREAMS FOR
MINE

By PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS

THE ACTRESS CREDITS
HER SUCCESS TO THE
SELFLESSNESS OF HER

MOM AND DAD

Unwavering
Support

“They raised me
to be fearless,”
Chopra Jonas
says of her late
father, Ashok,

and mother,
Madhu

(in Mumbai
in 2009).

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I didn’t even think THE “My parents
about it at the time. It’s KINDEST instilled empathy
hard to be introspective THING ANYONE
when you’re trying to EVER DID in me, which is
live up to all your ambitions and goals. FOR ME a hard thing to
I really patted my younger self on the do. You can’t
back because I survived “in spite of “My son went for a aspire to anything
everything.” But when writing my walk recently unless you can
memoir Unfinished, I realized I really put yourself in
succeeded because I had tremendous and picked a flower someone else’s
family support. for me. I never shoes and see
At 12 years old, I decided to leave how they see
India to stay with my aunt in the U.S. thought I’d see the
and attend school. My parents were day—it’s all about the world.”
fine with it. They said, “It’s your deci- dinosaurs and Daddy.
sion. If you’re unhappy, you always I’m so happy my —LIN-MANUEL
have home to come back to.” So no
matter what, as I dreamed bigger and baby is kind.” MIRANDA
bigger, I knew I had that support.
Both my parents were working —KELLY
doctors, running their own hospital in ROWLAND
our small town of Jamshedpur. At 18,
after I returned from the U.S., I won “I was on a plane
Miss World, and they shut down their recently with
business to move with me to Mumbai [my 3-year-old
so I could pursue my entertainment
career. They were only in their 40s at daughter] Birdie
the time and had worked so hard to and [my new baby]
get where they were. And here I came
like a hurricane, changing their whole Buddy, and this
lives. They didn’t bat an eye. older man saw that
I got a lot of movie offers after that,
but I was still studying engineering. I was struggling.
I didn’t know what to do. My dad told He said, ‘Ma’am, can
me, “I never want you to have a what I please help you?’
if in your life. So give it a shot, and if
you’re terrible, you can always go I think he could
back to school.” tell I was about to
That’s just what my parents did. bawl my eyes out.”
They never made me feel crazy for
having dreams that weren’t common, —BRIE BELLA
and they knew the importance of
providing a young child—especially “Anytime a fan
a girl—with wings. If they hadn’t been posts a picture of a
there for me, I wouldn’t be where I dish of mine that
am today. That’s the kindest thing they wowed their
I can imagine—putting someone
else’s dreams ahead of your own. family with, that
feels so good. When
—As told to DANA ROSE FALCONE I get feedback that

RIGHT, CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM : MICHAEL N. TODARO/FILMMAGIC; MARIO ANZUONI/ what I’m doing is
REUTERS; JEROD HARRIS/GETTY IMAGES; JAMES WHITE/TRUNK helping people, my
soul just fills up.”

—GIADA DE

LAURENTIIS

THE KINDNESS ISSUE

THE SMALLEST ACTS SHOW
OUR HUMANITY

By R I TA W I L S O N

FACING A FRIGHTENING DIAGNOSIS FAR FROM HOME,
THE ACTRESS-SINGER RELIED ON STRANGERS FOR HOPE

F rankly, I was scared when tested a “virtual” way of songwriting,
I was hospitalized for as we tried to make sense of this new
COVID-19 in Australia, normal—that’s what led to songs
like “What I Would Say.” Or in
but the medical team the kindness I was shown when
releasing music during this try-
was so incredibly kind. These ing time, like “Everybody Cries”
from the film The Outpost. I saw
courageous men and women kindness in the performers and
behind-the-scenes workers who
are putting on that gear every donated their time and talents to
fundraise for COVID relief.
day and coming in to take care This year has been a reminder that

of those who are sick with such every day is a gift. And kindness is
so very important, especially now,
empathy. Before the virus really because you never know when people
are struggling. It can be fueled by grat-
kicked in, I wanted to stretch in itude: that you’re breathing, for that
good cup of tea you had in the after-
my hospital room, so I asked if any- noon, the beautiful walk that you took,
the laughs that you shared with some-
one had a yoga mat I could use. A nurse body during the day. All of it adds up—
and should never be taken for granted.
found one and brought it to me just
—As told to JULIE JORDAN
so I could feel somewhat normal. And Hospitalized
in Australia
our conversations—one of my nurses
Wilson and husband
was an artist and showed me all these Tom Hanks

incredible murals that she had painted. received treatment
for COVID-19
When you’re not feeling well, to have at Gold Coast JENNY GAGE + TOM BETTERTON

someone help you take your mind off University Hospital
in Queensland in
of what you’re going through is such a March.

relief. It’s a beautiful act of kindness.

When I started feeling better, I also

saw kindness in the songwriters who

44 November 9, 2020 JIM JORDAN

A M y sophomore year at
FINANCIAL Stanford, I was joyrid-
LIFELINE ing in my friend’s golf
BECAME A
LIFE LESSON cart. She had recently

By S T E R L I N G K . B R O W N broken her leg, and it was the only way

THE THIS IS US STAR she could get around on campus. Long
RECALLS A PRICELESS
story short, I took a corner too tight,
GESTURE FROM A
FRIEND’S FATHER clipped the edge and put a big gash in

‘DO the side.
SOMEONE
A SOLID ... I was devastated that I’d damaged
YOU NEVER
her property, but then the assess-
KNOW
HOWTHEY ment came back—a thousand dollars!

MIGHT That’s when I really started to panic.
PAY IT
FORWARD’ I didn’t have a spare G lying around,

nor did anyone in my family, and my

minimum-wage work-study wasn’t

going to help much.

I called the one person I thought

might have it: Tikey, my friend from

St. Louis. His parents were fairly

well-to-do, and they wanted to make

sure their children appreciated the

value of a dollar, so they gave them a

$10,000 allowance at the beginning

of each year (right?!), which the kids

managed themselves.

Tikey laughed at me. Then, as kindly

as he could, he told me he couldn’t give

me the money, but that he’d tell his dad

what happened. Within a week, Tikey’s

dad sent me a check and a note: “Kelby:

Be careful on those golf carts.”

Holding that check, a wave of relief

came over me. It was a lifeline—I didn’t

have to let my friend down; I didn’t

have to burden my family; and they

didn’t have to be disappointed in this

joyriding knucklehead.

It took me three years and some

NYU graduate-assistant work before I

was able to pay Mr. Fisher back. Tikey

told me his dad never expected to

see the money again, and that he was

impressed I hadn’t forgotten.

I still haven’t forgotten Mr. Fisher’s

kindness, and I think about him when-

ever I’m able to do someone a solid, like

helping out the person behind me in

the grocery line. You never know how

it’s going to affect them or how they

might pay it forward. But if you find

yourself able to be of service, why not

just go ahead and do it?

November 9, 2020 45

THE KINDNESS ISSUE

MY COSTARS
SHARED THEIR
CULTURE WITH ME

By R A L P H M A C C H I O

THE COBRA KAI ACTOR HOPES
TO PASS ON THOSE TRADITIONS

TO A NEW GENERATION

O ne of the things mony elegantly performed
I enjoy most by Tamlyn Tomita in The
about my job Karate Kid Part II is another
poignant example, as it rep-
is the ability resents harmony, respect,
purity and tranquility.
to walk in another person’s
In each of these cases
shoes—seeing the world there was a great deal of care
and pride taken by my fel-
through another lens, finding low actors in explaining the
meaning behind these cul-
a different perspective. And tural traditions. I embraced
this knowledge and through
in the case of The Karate their kindness felt a respon-
sibility to carry it forward.
Kid, it was the immersion
These days, on the set of
into a different culture that Cobra Kai, I have the oppor-
tunity to pass a bit of this
impacted me the most. on to our young cast—Mary
Mouser, Tanner Buchanan,
Gaining an understanding Xolo Maridueña and the
others. It’s been a joy to
of Okinawan and Japanese share those experiences
and to offer a piece of that
cultures has had a lasting legacy, and they have all
been so receptive. Perhaps
impression on me: the they too will pay it forward
to the next generation. Now
responsibility of traditions, wouldn’t that be a kind
gesture?
kindness and respect, like

the prominent custom of With Pat Morita
in The Karate Kid
bowing, first demonstrated
Part III (1989).
to me by Pat Morita. He
With Tanner
explained that the deeper Buchanan and
Mary Mouser
the bow, the greater the in Cobra Kai.

respect you are showing. Or

the careful handling of the

hachimaki, or headband,

and what that honor means

when a teacher gifts one to

a student. The meticulously

detailed Japanese tea cere-

THE “When I was little, I was new to a school and walked in thinking, ‘Where do I
KINDEST sit?’ This little girl tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘Come sit with me,’ ”
THING ANYONE
EVER DID Joanna Gaines told People last year, when she and her husband, Chip,
FOR ME appeared on the cover of our first-ever Kindness Issue. “She stepped out of
her world to show kindness to me, and it’s something I’m now teaching my
own kids.” The couple have continued their Kindness Flyers, designed to
spark local acts of goodness. “The kindest thing anyone ever did for me was
to believe in me. That support gave me the courage to keep going—it may
be the only reason I’m doing what I’m doing today,” Chip says. “So, moral of
the story: Find someone to believe in today. It may just change the world.”

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THE KINDNESS ISSUE Gift ofLove

MY Ava, the
DAUGHTER daughter of

ALWAYS Locklear
FINDS THE and ex-
husband
GOOD Richie
Sambora,
at 3 years old.

THE ACTRESS often seen her transform Beautiful
THANKS HER a potential gossipfest into Bond
2 3 -Y E A R - O L D a conversation about that
person’s most amazing “I can’t
DAUGHTER attributes. take credit
FOR UPLIFTING
I remember one day Ava for Ava’s
OTHERS had a group of girlfriends kindness,”
over to our house, and the says Locklear
A va was a typical conversation turned to the (with her Growing
teenager— one girl who wasn’t there. daughter in To g e t h e r
she was a It started with, “She thinks 2011). “She
she’s better than us,” and I was truly born Ava (with her
thought, “Oh no, here we that way.” mom) recently
go.” Then, effortlessly, Ava
cheerleader, said, “You know, the other graduated
day I was feeling bummed from Loyola
a great student, liked for no particular reason, Marymount
and it was like she knew it. University with
shopping and loved hanging She came up to me and gave a degree in
me a hug.” It changed the psychology.
out with her friends. whole vibe and brought the
focus back to the good.
In an era of “mean
Ava is an example to me
girls,” Ava has always to always try to find the
good in someone. I have
been a miracle to me. She watched her from afar and
up close throughout her
never has a bad word to life, and I aspire to be more
like her. Her kindness is
say about anyone, and contagious. We are very
close, and I am blessed to
for a teenage girl, that is call her my daughter. She
is completely unaware of
something. She has this all the good she brings to
this world—it’s just who
innate sense of confidence she is. I couldn’t be more
proud of her.
and strength. She doesn’t

feel the need to put others

down in order to feel

better about herself. I’ve

48 November 9, 2020

MY MOM Demi and her dad,
MADE SURE I Richard Weitz,
DIDN’T FEEL
reunited Hamilton
ALONE cast members
for a Zoom
enough to sleep. She did
everything she could to fundraiser in June.
help me get through those
WHEN SHE difficult months, from tak- Their Zoom Meetups
GRAPPLED WITH ing me to every doctor’s Make Millions for
appointment to giving Charity
ANXIETY, AVA me tons of books on man-
SAYS, HER MOM aging anxiety. Back in March, faced with stay-at-home
orders and his daughter Demi’s 17th
WAS THERE Dealing with anxiety
FOR COMFORT, can be tough when you birthday, Richard Weitz did what any good
SUPPORT AND feel like people don’t Hollywood talent agent would do: He made
LATE-NIGHT CALLS understand you. My mom a few calls and pulled a few strings, recruiting
always made me feel heard. pals John Mayer and Debbie Gibson for an
M y mom has She never judged me and impromptu Zoom serenade. Richard, the
shown me made sure I didn’t feel 51-year-old cohead of Scripted Television
kindness in so alone. This was so import-
ant to my mental health at William Morris Endeavor, enjoyed the
many ways. and helped me continue virtual concert so much that he scheduled
on with my life. I was also another for the following weekend, then
I struggle with anxiety, a full-time college student another. Within weeks the online hangout
when this happened, and dubbed “Quarantunes” had become one
but about a year ago it was my mom’s kindness made of the buzziest parties in town, drawing the
me feel comfortable likes of Tina Fey, Boy George, Clive Davis
very debilitating. enough to open up to and others. But it was Demi who first sensed
others about my mental its true potential. “We have this platform,”
I live almost an hour health. She helped me see she explains. “People are struggling. What
that it was possible for can we do?” With that, Quarantunes went
away from her, and when I others to relate to me and from pandemic distraction to A-list-fueled
understand my experience. fundraiser for organizations like Cedars-
would have anxiety attacks, Sinai hospital, the United Way and the Equal
My mom always taught
she would drive over and me to be kind to whomever Justice Initiative. To date, the show has
I met. She treats every raised more than $12 million in donations
visit me. Any time of the person with respect and from its invite-only guests and performers,
makes them feel import- including John Legend, Billie Eilish, Selena
day, she would stop what ant. While she embodies Gomez, Barry Manilow, Smokey Robinson
kindness in many ways, and Kermit the Frog. “I look forward to the
she was doing and come to her ability to care for and day when we can do this live,” says Richard of
give to others is what the future of Quarantunes. “If you do it from
comfort me. When I would I admire most. She is self- the heart, without an agenda, the people will
less and inspires me to be keep coming.” — J A S O N D U A I N E H A H N
insist she did not have to, selfless as well.

she would stay on the

phone with me late into

the night, until I was calm

As told to LIZ McNEIL LEFT: AMANDA EDWARDS/DISCOVERY/GETTY IMAGES; CENTER: STEWART 49
SHING/TRUNK; RIGHT: COURTESY RICHARD & DEMI WEITZ