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THE
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How HGTV’s Chip and Joanna
Gaines remodeled their way
into our hearts and homes
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Is Sela Ward’s former first lady on Graves based on a
real-life first lady?
—Richard A., Chicago, Ill.
A: Ward, 60, says her character—
former first lady Margaret Graves—is
a composite. “She’s got the grace
of Jackie O, the toughness of
Michelle Obama, the Nancy
Reagan finishing-her-husband’ssentences adoring look, Lady
Bird Johnson’s Southern grit
and Hillary Clinton’s political
ambition,” she says. The halfhour dramedy, premiering tonight
on Epix, also stars Nick Nolte as a
former president on a quest to right
the wrongs of his much-maligned
administration.
Did Victoria Justice attend any midnight showings
of The Rocky Horror Picture Show before landing
her role in the TV version?
—Colin R., San Leandro, Calif.
A: The Victorious star saw the cult-classic musical
for the first time when she was in
the fifth grade—and was hooked.
“I’d never seen anything like it
before in my life!” says Justice,
23. She’ll play the role of the
heroine, Janet (originally a young
Susan Sarandon), in the Oct. 20
TV remake, The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s
Do the Time Warp Again, on Fox. It will also feature
Adam Lambert, Laverne Cox, Ben Vereen—and an
appearance by Tim Curry, whose campy portrayal of
Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 film remains one of
his most memorable roles.
WALTER SCOTT ASKS...
CYNTHIA NIXON
The Sex and the City star, 50, who played Eleanor
Roosevelt in the 2005 TV movie Warm Springs, takes on
another first lady, Nancy Reagan, in Killing
Reagan, premiering tonight on the National
Geographic Channel. Based on the book by
Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, the twohour movie looks at the events leading to the
attempted assassination of President Ronald
Reagan (Tim Matheson) by John
Hinckley Jr. in 1981.
What’s the ongoing appeal
of Ronald Reagan? Reagan
was able to catch a certain
lightning in a bottle. He had
such charisma; he saw what
many others didn’t. But I think
we’re fascinated by Reagan because
people who hated him really hated him
and still hate him. And people who
loved him, their love was unbounded.
What was the key to Nancy? To me,
the key was that she had never had
a person who belonged completely
to her before she met her husband.
She really felt
like she wanted
to be the most
important person
in the world to
somebody, and
she never felt
Cynthia Nixon with Tim Matheson (as
like that until she Ronald Reagan) in Killing Reagan
married Ronald
Reagan.
You’re playing Emily Dickinson in the movie
A Quiet Passion (Nov. 18). I’ve loved Dickinson
since I was a kid. Particularly as a younger
person, I really identified with her. [Director]
Terence Davies wrote this film with me in
mind, which is amazing.
What’s your perspective on Sex and the
City? Its longevity is remarkable to me, and
how it really still stands up. The thing it really
put its finger on was this whole generation
of women who were successful, had careers
and lots of boyfriends, but marriage wasn’t
necessarily the first thing on their to-do lists.
What does she think the Reagans would have
thought about the release of John Hinckley Jr.?
Go to Parade.com/cynthia to find out.
What a HAMM
Move over, 007! Jon Hamm,
45, plays “operative” Tim
Jones in the action/spy
comedy Keeping Up With the
Joneses, in theaters Oct. 21. In
the movie, he and his partner
(Gal Gadot) move to the
suburbs, where their unsuspecting neighbors (Isla Fisher
and Zach Galifianakis) get
caught in a web of international espionage. Here are five
facts about the Mad Men star.
1. His first acting
role was Winnie
the Pooh in first
grade.
2. After college
he taught at his old
high school, John
Burroughs, in St. Louis.
3. Actress Sarah
Clarke (24) was his
high school prom
date.
4. He is the voice
of Mercedes-Benz
commercials.
5. Hamm keeps four
eagles in his Los
Angeles
backyard: a
golden, a tawny,
a Spanish
imperial and
a short-toed
snake.
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I love Tyler Perry’s Madea character. What can you tell me about
his new movie?
—Heidi S., Gary, Ind.
A: It has been three years since
Perry’s last Madea movie, so he felt
the time was right to resurrect his
sassy female alter ego. In Boo! A
Madea Halloween, opening Oct. 21,
“she” spends the haunted holiday fending off all sorts of ghouls
while watching over a bunch of
misbehaving teens. Perry, 47, cast
several young internet sensations
in roles, including Yousef Erakat,
Brock O’Hurn and Lexy Panterra.
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Is the new movie American Pastoral
based on a true story?
—Matthew R., Atlantic City, N.J.
A: No. American Pastoral, starring
Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly
and Dakota Fanning, is based on
a Pulitzer
Prize–winning Philip
Roth novel
about a
JewishAmerican
businessman whose
happy life is
shattered by the political and social
turmoil of the 1960s, especially
when it hits painfully close to home.
Fanning, 22, who stars as his teenage daughter who gets radicalized
during the Vietnam War and commits an act of terrorism, hopes the
movie starts conversations. “I think
we learn that history does, in fact,
repeat itself,” she says.
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DO YOU OUIJA?
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Go
Nuts!
T
ake a crack on
National Nut Day
Oct. 22—no, it’s not
a celebration of your
crazy relatives, but a
day devoted to the bitesize burst of energy and
nutrients that is the nut.
Lord Nut Levington Peanuts offers to shake up snacking by
taking “a stand against bland.” If the name sounds familiar,
you may remember the brand—and founder Sanjiv Patel—
from TV’s Shark Tank. The Lord’s latest nutty flavoring? Dill
Pickle Ranch! $5 a canister, lordnut.com for retailers
CUBE CULT
What do Will Smith, Justin Bieber and Ryan Gosling have in
common? Turns out they’re Rubik’s Cube superfans. More
than just a puzzling slice of 1980s kitsch or a test
of geeky prowess, the cube has a culture
and cult following all its own. Read all
about it in Ian Scheffler’s Cracking
the Cube (Touchstone). Available
Oct. 18. $26, bookstores and online.
Visit Parade.com/rubiks for fun facts
about the Rubik’s Cube.
The first commercial Ouija
board was patented in 1890, eventually winding
up under the Hasbro brand.
Scientific studies have shown that the planchette
(the heart-shaped piece of wood or plastic)
is actually guided by unconscious muscular
exertions of the players, not by “spirits.”
Among the earliest horror movies depicting Ouija
board use are The Uninvited (1944), 13 Ghosts
(1960) and The Exorcist (1973).
IT’S A-MAIZE-ING,
CHARLIE BROWN!
Celebrate 50 years of
It’s the Great Pumpkin,
Charlie Brown by
getting lost—literally.
The Maize Inc.
has created Great
Pumpkin–inspired
corn mazes, hosted by more than 80 farms across
the country. Visit Parade.com/cornmaze to find a
maze near you and to see a gallery of Halloween corn
mazes from around the country.
GET MORE GILMORE
Gilmore Girls fans are counting down the days until the
show’s return—Gilmore Girls:
A Year in the Life premieres
Nov. 25 on Netflix. True
fanatics will want to head to
Washington Depot, Conn.—
the town that inspired the
show’s setting, Stars
Hollow—for the Gilmore
Girls Fan Fest, Oct.
21–23, to explore the
town square, enjoy
show-themed events
and meet supporting
cast members.
gilmoregirlsfanfest.com
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In the new Halloween-timed film
Ouija: Origin of Evil, in theaters
Oct. 21, a family in 1965 Los
Angeles is terrorized by an evil
spirit invoked by a Ouija board
séance. Those who’ve used a
Ouija board have their own tall
tales, but here are some hard
facts about the game.
Ask Marilyn
By Marilyn vos Savant
People on the streets seem
to be getting younger and
younger! At what age will I be
older than most people?
—Michael W., Dallas, Texas
Brace yourself, Michael.
If you've passed your 38th
birthday, you're already
older than half of the U.S.
population. But this feeling
of "middle age" could be
worse! In Uganda and the
Gaza Strip, you're older than
half of your fellow citizens
by the time you're 16.
Send questions to
marilyn @ parade.com
Numbrix
®
Complete 1 to 81 so the
numbers follow a horizontal or
vertical path—no diagonals.
45
43
41
35
33
53
27
55
5
77
7
75
69
17
11
9
Visit Parade.com/numbrix for more
Marilyn vos Savant Numbrix puzzles
and today’s solution.
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Magnolia Magic
Cover and opening photography by Marc Morrison
our hearts
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hip and Joanna Gaines, stars of
HGTV’s monster hit Fixer Upper,
still can’t believe that renovating houses in
Waco, Texas, made them famous. “This really is
our life,” says Chip. “It’s what we do.”
The show, entering its fourth season, follows Chip and Joanna
as they turn dilapidated houses into dream digs. It has turned
them into America’s home-renovation sweethearts and made
the rough-sawn wooden paneling known as “shiplap” a household word. But Chip and Joanna aren’t just TV stars. They’re
an empire with a construction company, Magnolia Homes,
that has renovated and redesigned more than 200 homes and
counting, a real estate company and new lines of Magnolia
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There’s also the Magnolia Market at the Silos,
a shopping, dining and entertainment complex in
downtown Waco that sells everything from candles
to clocks in Joanna’s signature farmhouse-meets-shabbychic style. Their vacation rental, Magnolia House, lets fans
spend a few nights surrounded by creamy white shiplap and
slipcovered furniture, Gaines-style. Their magazine, The Magnolia Journal, hits stands this month, and their first book, The
Magnolia Story (available Oct. 18), tells how they went from
broke newlyweds to pop culture phenoms juggling work and
family. (They have four kids.) Then there’s the newest project,
the Elite Café, a 1920s roadside diner in Waco that they’re
renovating (no shiplap but lots of subway tile) into a farmto-table eatery.
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“We like taking on big projects,” says Joanna, 38. “If our
load was too light, we’d be a little bored.”
joanna’s
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Mowing Lawns and Chasing Dreams
Chip, 41, is a born entrepreneur. He turned his first profit
when he was in elementary school, selling juice boxes to kids
at a tennis camp near his home in Albuquerque, N.M. Later,
when his family moved to Dallas, Chip ran a fireworks stand
and sold books door to door. He was always looking for ways
to make money. While a sophomore at Baylor University in
Waco, he began flipping houses using money earned from
his one-man landscape business and a small loan from his
parents. After graduating from Baylor with a business degree, he stayed
in Waco and
continued flipping houses.
That’s where
he met Joanna.
She was a
recent Baylor
graduate with a
degree in communications.
After interning in New
York with Dan
Rather, Joanna
“We seem to give each other energy,”
decided broadsays Joanna. “We function better
cast journalism
together than we do apart.”
and the big
city weren’t for her.
She came home to Waco to work at her father’s tire and auto
repair shop. She appeared in the store’s TV ads and planned
to take over the business someday. She and Chip met when
he came into the store to get his brakes repaired and asked
her out. The two hit it off immediately, even though they
were opposites. She was serious and shy, the smart girl who
always did her homework. He was funny and extroverted, the
cute guy who never did his. But they clicked.
“He made me laugh,” Joanna said. “That’s why I fell in love
with him.”
She began helping with his rentals and flips, painting,
cleaning and decorating them. “I had no clue what I was
doing. I didn’t know anything about interior design or construction,” Joanna says.
“Neither of us did,” Chip says. “We learned it on the fly.”
Less than two years after they met, they married and
moved into one of Chip’s rental houses in Waco, their first
5 STYLE
ESSENTIALS
DECLUTTER “Not too
many knickknacks. I like a
space to breathe. It gives
you room for creativity
when you can see some
white space.”
SKIP TRENDS “Anytime
you do super-trendy
things, you’re going to
hate it in a year or two.
I like classic. Clean.
Timeless.”
USE ARCHITECTURAL
ELEMENTS “I like to put
a piece of history in the
homes I design.” Try decorating with old windows,
shutters and gates from
salvage shops.
“It was the first
flower Chip
ever gave me.
I fell in love
with magnolias
after that.”
— Joanna
MAXIMIZE NATURAL
LIGHT “If I am going to
get inspired [by a room],
it’s got to have lots of
light and windows.”
Tearing down walls and
installing bigger windows will make a space
brighter, fast.
ADD TEXTURE “Texture
adds movement and
visual interest to your
space.” An easy way to
add texture? Shiplap, of
course.
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an exclusive excerpt from
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first Magnolia Market, where
Joanna sold flea market finds,
flowers and candles. “We were
a dual-business couple right off
the bat,” Chip says. “We were
rocking and rolling.”
Ten years, four children and
many home renovations later,
Chip and Joanna were still
rocking and rolling when in
2012 a producer who’d seen
photos of them and their
work called and asked if they
wanted to be on a TV show.
They did, and the series, which
debuted on HGTV in 2013,
was an instant hit. Fixer Upper
is pure binge-watching fun.
You can lose yourself for hours
watching the couple knock
out walls, redesign spaces and
He Said,
She Said
JOANNA
CHIP
FIRST JOB
Server at an all-youcan-eat buffet
Mowing grass
WHAT IRKS YOU?
“Smacking one’s lips
when eating.”
“Quitting.”
“Homebody.”
“Tall, dark and handsome.”
“Brat.”
“Diva.”
FARMHOUSE FAVE
“A clock I bought from an
antiques fair. It doesn’t have
hands. It symbolizes that time
stands still when you’re at home.”
“The back porch. It’s kind of
my spot where I go to relax
and to think.”
ERA YOU’D LIKE
TO LIVE IN
The 1920s: “I love the pivotal
shift in design that happened.”
The 1940s, when his grandfather
was a rancher. His stories were
the “reason I wanted to have
a farm.”
DESIGN AESTHETIC
Light and airy, with lots of
windows and textures
Rustic and western, with
leather and deep colors
DREAM JOB IF
NOT REMODELING
HOUSES ON TV
Cooking show host
Professional athlete
Backward handsprings
Juggling
DESCRIBE YOURSELF
DESCRIBE EACH OTHER
HIDDEN TALENT
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flip as a married couple. They
repeated the pattern—buy it,
fix it, flip it—and reinvested
the profits into more property.
They also bought and renovated
an old store that became the
pull it all back together for the
big reveal.
How They Work
Joanna has the vision of how
a property should look, and
Chip executes that vision. For
the most part, she handles the
design and retail side of the
business and Chip handles the
“
We like taking
on big projects.
If our load was
too light, we’d
be a little bored.
—Joanna
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construction and investment
side of the business. “We’ve
learned that we complement
each other well when Chip
stays in his lane and I stay in
mine,” Joanna says. “We do our
best work when we allow each
other to be creative in our fields
and trust that the other knows
what they’re doing.”
They’ve made a conscious decision to stay in Waco and will
not take on projects anywhere
else. The reason? They want to
stay home with their children.
“It’s not worth it to take on
some big deal and leave the
kids for weeks,” Chip says.
“Maybe when the youngest
heads off to college, we’ll reconsider,” Joanna says.
Today, their dream home is a
renovated 100-year-old farm-
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house that sits on 40 acres in Waco. They bought it in 2012 and
live there with their kids and
60 animals. They don’t travel
much, preferring to stay
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husband and wife. We have all
of these dynamics that keep
things interesting,” Chip says. “There’s always just this little bit of a
spark that even on the tough days makes it all worthwhile.”
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s we head into the holiday season, who better to turn
to for advice than the Barefoot Contessa? Ina Garten
showcases a warm, seemingly effortless approach to
entertaining on her beloved Food Network show. She’s sharing
some of her best party secrets in her new cookbook, Cooking for
Jeffrey (available Oct. 25). Her strategy for a low-stress gathering?
Always make one course a simple cheese platter: “It looks gorgeous
and only takes me five minutes to prepare.” —Alison Ashton
Port Wine Prunes
With Stilton and Walnuts
“One of my favorite things to serve for a cheese course
or dessert is Stilton and a glass of port wine,” says Ina
Garten. This recipe combines both flavors in one easy yet
impressive dish.
Place 24 pitted prunes in a saucepan just large enough
to hold them in a single layer; add 2/3 cup port. Bring
to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Remove
from heat, cover and
let stand at least
1 hour. In a small bowl,
mash together 2½ oz
crumbled Stilton
cheese and 2 Tbsp
mascarpone cheese.
Cover; refrigerate. To
serve, place slightly
warm prunes on a
serving platter. Place a
small mound of cheese
mixture in hollow of each
prune. Top with 24 lightly
toasted walnut halves.
Serves 6–8.
‘Entertaining
is about
celebrating
connections, and
I think that’s
what makes life
worth living.’
—Ina Garten,
Cooking for Jeffrey
Herbed Goat Cheese
Cut 2 (3-oz) disks creamy goat cheese in half horizontally, making 2 rounds
from each. Place 1 round in a 3½-by-4-inch jar. Sprinkle with kosher salt,
black pepper, 1 tsp thinly sliced basil, 1 tsp chopped fresh dill and a few
red pepper flakes; drizzle with 1½ tsp extra-virgin olive oil. Top with
another round of cheese; repeat layers and end with olive oil. Cover with
plastic wrap. Let stand at room temperature 1 hour or refrigerate up to
24 hours. Serve with crackers or sliced baguette. Serves 8.
QUICK TIP
Here's an easy way to slice goat cheese
cleanly: Loop a length of unflavored dental
floss around each disk horizontally. Cross
the floss, pulling each end to slice through
the cheese.
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for the secrets
to her sweet success.
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