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Q: Can you tell me more

about Soledad O’Brien?

—Anonymous, Calif.

A: The host of CNN’s Starting Point (weekdays, 7 a.m. ET) is also a busy mom of four. “I’m blessed with an amazing husband, who picks up a lot of the slack, and I try to enjoy uninterrupted family time when I can,” says O’Brien, 45, who sometimes takes her brood on assignment with her. “We try to embrace the chaos.”

WALTER SCOTT ASKS …

Dee SniderThe rocker, 56, is a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice (tonight on NBC, 9 p.m. ET) and will release a memoir, Shut Up and Give Me the Mic, in May. Did being in a band help you with the group dynamics on

Celebrity Apprentice? I was terrible in [Twisted Sister]. I was the lead singer, so I was selfi sh and self-absorbed. I tried to learn from that and be a team player. I worked hard to play nice since I didn’t in the past. Your hair is tamer than it was 20 years ago [above].

Would you ever chop it off? Oh yeah—it’s more of a nuisance than anything. But when I perform and am really rocking, I like to get the hair out. You gotta have something to swing around. Do you have any hidden

talents? Writing. And I’m a classically trained countertenor. What will we learn

about you in your

book? That I’d lost everything by 1992. I was fl at broke and riding a bicycle to a desk job. I answered phones and did some light bookkeeping in my brother’s shop for $5 an hour. We would pretend I was just using the computer. What do you like most

about reality television?

It gives me the opportunity to show people who I really am. There is more to me than a screaming guy with makeup on.

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A: Yes, for 10 years she had a modifi ed Cobb, with turkey bacon and chickpeas. She shares her new fave in Loukoumi’s Celebrity Cookbook (proceeds benefi t St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Chefs for Humanity). Go to Parade.com/aniston for the recipe.

Q: I heard Vanilla Ice is renovating houses for reality TV. What else is new with him? —L. Pollard-

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MONEY CHANGES

EVERYTHING

Among the characters � ashing their cash

in prime time are (opposite page):

1. Elizabeth McGovern’s Lady Cora, who presides over the upstairs drama

on Downton Abbey. 2. J. R. Ewing (Larry

Hagman), who puts the fun in dysfunctional

family rivalry on this summer’s update of

Dallas. 3. Kristin Chenoweth’s affl uent

Texas belle, who believes in both amazing grace and retribution on

GCB. 4. Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp), who

bewitches her enemy’s son (Josh Bowman) in her quest for payback

on Revenge.

“REVENGE IS A FANTASY,” SAYS MADELEINE STOWE OF HER P OPUL AR SERIE S, “ YET IT HITS PEOPLE ON A GU T LEVEL .”


We in the hoi polloi

may resent the 1 percent, but we have no problem with their occupying prime time. Soapy dramas

featuring plump-pocketed characters are rocking the ratings and multiplying fast. Not since the 1980s, when Dallas and Dynasty ruled the air-waves, have so many powerful men and women, expensively garbed and impeccably coiffed, connived and schemed against one another.

Case in point: ABC’s Revenge, one of the new season’s few breakout hits and a topic of heated discussion on social media. Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s 19th-century novel The Count of Monte Cristo, this guilty pleasure is set in the Hamptons, the Long Island playground that caters to Manhattan’s wealthy. Every week,

We’re Not.

Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) plots to ruin a high-society couple (Henry Czerny and Mad-eleine Stowe) who framed her late father for a heinous crime years ago. Stowe, who stylishly plays Victoria Grayson, the show’s presiding diva, thinks the series taps into our national concern over the growing gap between the superrich and everyone else. “Audiences get to have it both ways: They peek into the extrava-gant lifestyle of the über-wealthy, but they also

see them getting a comeuppance,” she says. “People have felt so screwed over. I think there’s a collective

anger out there, and people are getting a collective revenge.”

Other series showcasing the swanky set include Master-piece’s Downton Abbey, the addictive WWI-era drama

So why are we loving the 1% on TV?

From Revenge to the return of Dallas, the nigh� ime soap is back. By Leah Rozen

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that?’ ” says Shari Levine, a Bravo executive who oversees the shows. “You get to aspire to what they have and feel superior at the same time, a yin-yang experience.”

So why are these programs thriv-ing now? Because they offer much-needed escapism during difficult times, says Elayne Rapping, profes-sor emerita of American Studies at the Univer-sity at Buffalo. “I think of these shows as luxury porn,” she says. “During times of economic stress, when everything’s going wrong, people just don’t want to deal with real life. We’d much rather be temporarily in that over-the-top, glam-orous world.” Adds Annie Potts, who plays a wealthy widow on GCB, “It gives people such pleasure, because so often they think, ‘If I only had money, my life would be better.’ Then they look at these shows and say, ‘Not so much.’ ”

Rapping points out that during the Great Depression, in the 1930s, Hollywood movies often focused on penthouse-dwelling plutocrats,

and that Dallas and Dynasty were going strong during the recession of the early 1980s. But in the era of eco-nomic well-being that was the 1950s, wholesome sitcoms such as Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver, which revolved around happy nuclear families, were the norm. “When peo-ple are less anxious and more com-

fortable, they like watching shows about people who are living better lives, but not better than they can aspire to,” says Rapping. “Those 1950s shows were templates for a middle-class life.”

The current batch of nighttime soaps cer-tainly doesn’t offer that kind of template. The Census Bureau puts the median household in-come in the U.S. at $49,445, which wouldn’t even cover the cost of a car driven by characters on these shows, much less the country manor in Downton Abbey (really Highclere Castle in Berk-shire) or Grayson Manor, the beachside mansion in Revenge (it’s actually a digital creation).

As if in acknowledgment, shows about the 1 percent serve up their conspicuous consumption with a wink. In GCB, when Kristin Chenoweth’s literally well-heeled character climbs atop her hus-band’s desk to get frisky with him, the red soles of her Louboutins wave merrily in the air. Most of us wouldn’t dream of dropping $500-plus on a pair of pumps, but thanks to fashion and celebrity magazines, Jennifer Lopez, and the Internet, we know Louboutins when we see them. “There’s a level of awareness now, and not just by a small element of the population,” says Robert Harling, GCB’s creator and executive producer, of the luxury goods shown in programs like his. “My dad isn’t going to know [exactly] what it is, but he’s going to go, ‘Oh, that’s that Prada stuff.’ ” (In a case of life imitating art imitating life, ABC may explore merchandising lower-cost versions of some of the goods shown on Revenge, says Mike Kelley, the show’s creator and executive producer. “Everyone wants to know how they can get a bit of that lifestyle,” he notes.)

Even more important, plots and characters must strike a chord with viewers. If it were enough simply to showcase rich people misbehaving, ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money (2007–09) would still be airing. “Shows like Revenge can’t survive on bitch-iness and retribution alone. People have to care,” says Kelley. The key is giving characters depth and making relatable the motivations driving them.

Dynasty (1981–89)

P THEN: Alexis paved

the way for genera-

tions of divalicious

schemers.

P NOW: Collins, 78,

released her fourth

memoir last year;

she and Dynasty’s

Stephanie Beacham

recently reunited for a

Snickers commercial

in the U.K.

Falcon Crest (1981–90)

P THEN: Lance the

lothario was a willing

pawn in his grand-

mother’s plots.

P NOW: Lamas, 54, has

dabbled in reality

television and

continues to act. He

married for the fi fth

time last year and

operates a custom

motorcycle business.

Dallas (1978–91)

P THEN: Tragedy

magnet Pamela made

TV history when it

was revealed she’d

dreamed Bobby’s

death—and an entire

season of the show.

P NOW: The skin-care

maven and environ-

mental crusader, 62, is

training to be on the

maiden voyage of

Virgin Galactic’s com-

mercial spacecraft.

Knots Landing (1979–93)

P THEN: Once a

deserted teenage bride

and waitress, Val

blossomed into a

successful writer.

P NOW: Van Ark, 68,

voiced a character on

FX’s Archer last year

and appeared with her

Knots nemesis, Donna

Mills, in two episodes

of Nip/Tuck.

set in an immense English manor house, which is one of PBS’s biggest hits ever; GCB, an ABC series starting March 4 about Texas socialites who make malicious mischief in between weekly church attendance; and a reboot of Dallas, that avatar of avarice, which will giddyap onto TNT this summer. There’s also, for younger viewers, the CW’s Gossip Girl (now in its fi fth season), which follows a group of absurdly privileged Manhattan private-school grads.

Of course, this voyeuristic obsession with the rich crossed over to reality television several years back. Bravo has made an industry of its variousReal Housewives programs, which currently fea-ture moneyed women in New York, Beverly Hills, Atlanta, Orange County, and New Jersey. Though there have been a couple of fi nancial embarrassments offscreen, when cameras are roll-ing, the casts continue to behave like modern-day Marie Antoinettes. “There’s a sense of, ‘Oh my God, they have all that money and they’re doing

Joan Collins Lorenzo Lamas Victoria Principal Joan Van Ark

Return of the Soaps | from page 7

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?They ruled the roost on your ’80s favorites. Here’s what they’re up to today.

Get a peek at the Feb. 29 episode of Revenge, plus read

an excerpt from the novel (by Kim Gatlin) that GCB is

based on, at Parade.com/soaps

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“Revenge is universal,” Kelley adds, “whether you’ve thought of keying the car of the meter maid who gave you a ticket or [getting back at] someone bigger in your life. It’s been around as long as stories have been around.”

Another common thread woven into all these shows is the presence of a few major characters who represent the 99 percent. Downton Abbey spends nearly as much time with its below-stairs help as it does with its upstairs aristo-crats. “[Servants] Bates, Anna, Mrs. Patmore, and Daisy are

just as interesting to the viewer as Lord and Lady Grantham and their daughters; we’ve had a completely equal narrative emphasis on both sides of the story,” says Julian Fellowes, the Oscar-winning British screen-writer (Gosford Park) who cre-ated the delicious drama, which concludes its second season on PBS tonight. “It works if the world that the characters are in is believable, and that’s as true of Tosca as All My Children.”

It is these middle- and working-class characters—like viewers, they are on the outside looking in—who serve as our conduits. Revenge has Jack and Declan Porter (Nick Wechsler and Connor Paolo), brothers who inherited a failing bar from their father and are strug-gling to keep it afloat. On

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GCB, the show’s heroine (Leslie Bibb) is a former mean girl who returns home to her mom (Potts) in Dallas, poorer but nicer. “She has to start all over again. That’s an age-old hero’s journey,” says Harling. “A lot of people have to do that these days. Of course, we’re doing it in a more comedic way.”

Starting all over again, 21 years after it went off the air following a 14-season run, is Dallas. Veterans Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, and Linda Gray are reprising their roles as, respectively, J. R., Bobby, and Sue Ellen Ewing, and they’re joined by the next generation of rival Ewing sons ( Jesse Metcalfe and Josh Henderson). Everyone still lives on or near the ranch at Southfork, and not much has changed—“I am sick to death of this family devour-ing itself over money!” yells Bobby in the pilot episode— except that now J. R. and Bobby both have Andy Rooney–esque eyebrows. (“I want to sneak up with manicure scissors and trim them,” jokes Gray.)

Cynthia Cidre, the writer and executive producer for nouveau Dallas, notes that everything old is new again. “The show deals with land, lust, betrayal, and sibling rivalry—themes that have been in literature since Greek drama,” she says.

That may be, but Gray rel-ishes the changes time has brought. During the first go-round, “the men would do horrible things, and the women would react,” she says. “Now Sue Ellen is powerful and richer than J. R. She’s a Mama Grizzly fi ghting for her son.”

Let the conniving begin.

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It doesn’t have to be that way. Willpower is not the brute strength to resist temptation, but “the ability to do what you really want to do when part of you really doesn’t want to do it,” says Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist at Stanford Univer-sity and the author of The Willpower Instinct. “It’s remembering what you really want, your bigger goals, in the face of your immediate desires.” And it’s a skill you can strengthen. Science may not yet have devised a surefi re formula for keeping every resolution, but it has lately revealed some tips to help all of us make real and lasting change.

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Studies suggest that glucose in the bloodstream fuels willpower; when levels are low, it’s harder to stay the course. Likewise, engaging in acts of self-control all day depletes glucose. So prioritize and try to limit the number of times you need to exert your willpower each day.

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environment. “When your surroundings stay the same, so do your ingrained habits,” says Miriam Nelson, director of the John Hancock Center on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention at Tufts University. “But when you tweak your environment to make healthy choices easy, your habits automatically change.” Trying to lose weight? Get rid of the junk food and store bowls of cut-up veggies in the fridge. Looking to build muscle? Keep dumbbells in the TV room and do bicep curls while you watch.

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e� orts. Research shows that the simple act of moni-toring your behavior, whether it’s exercising, smoking, or spending, encourages you to, say, hit the gym more often, smoke fewer cigarettes, or preserve your savings account. People who keep a food journal, for instance, may lose twice as much weight as those who don’t.

7Seek support. It’s tough to make lasting change on

your own, so surround yourself with people who encourage your efforts. A study of people who completed a weight loss program found that 66 percent of those who teamed up with friends had kept the weight off six months later; the fi gure fell to 24 percent for those who went it alone.

8Be kind to yourself.

According to McGonigal, study after study shows that self-criticism is linked to less motivation and self-control. On the other hand, “self- compassion—being supportive and kind to yourself, especially

in the face of setbacks—is associated with more motivation and better self-control,” she says. “Try to avoid the ‘what the hell’ effect, that vicious cycle of indulgence, guilt, and greater indulgence. Self-forgiveness and self-compassion are not just about letting yourself off the hook; they’re about remember-ing what it is you really want.”

9Above all, be patient. The good news: Over

time, your resolution will start to require less effort. A recent study by researchers at University College London found that participants took, on average, 66 days to form a new habit, whether it was eating fruit at lunch or running 15 minutes a day (the range was 18 to 254 days, depending on the degree of diffi culty). Even better: A single setback in no way predicted failure. “It’s how you recover from a setback that counts,” says McGonigal. “If you splurge or miss a day, just get right back on track.”

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In my early 30s, i copied a George Orwell quotation and tucked it into my wallet: “At age 50, everyone has the

face he deserves.”A promise? Or a warning? That

depended on how I lived my life.Orwell was right. Even in the

faces of strangers, you can tell who has spent more time laughing than frowning, who rolled with life’s tumbles and who never recovered.

Like maps that are repeatedly redrawn, our faces track the march of time. Line up photos of the same face at different ages and a life story unfolds like a graphic novel. This is my story in fi ve faces.

Age 12

I’m in seventh grade, and I want to be anybody else. Specifi cally, I want to be Aretha Franklin. I’m con-vinced a Toni home permanent and a neighbor’s artistry will transform me into Ashtabula’s Queen of Soul.

She cuts my long, straight hair and wraps what’s left around small pink curlers. She squirts the smelly chemicals all over my head. My scalp burns for what feels like 12 hours. I think I look amazing.

Not Mom. She takes one look at me and collapses on the sofa, fan-ning herself with her apron.

The next week, I line up for my school portrait wearing my new Afro and pointy collars as big as window shades. Before the fl ash goes off, my gym teacher shakes her head and says, “Girl, does your mother know what you did to your hair?”

Age 21

I am an asthmatic, and a prescrip-tion drug makes my face puff out. I

eyes. I couldn’t care less. I’m star-ring in Act II of my own life. I’m a newspaper columnist, a woman paid to give her opinion. After a decade as a single mother, I’ve fallen in love, too, with a man who has the nerve to push back on in-dependent me.

I insist I don’t need him to wait on me—ever. He sits me down in his kitchen and says, “You are not giving up your right to vote or to own property if you let me make you a cup of coffee.”

For the fi rst time in 45 years, I am speechless.

I want to be younger but only because my heart aches with a single truth: When you meet the love of your life in middle age, the odds are you won’t celebrate a golden wed-ding anniversary together.

Age 53

I’m three years past Orwell’s deadline. The worry lines have won the territory between my brows. Starbursts punctuate my eyes. That’s what a lifetime of grinning brings. There are worse fates.

I’ve not succumbed to any tin-kering. No surgery or needles for me. This is not to judge other women. I’m just not big on volun-teering for pain.

My husband is taking this pic-ture, which explains my smile. He still makes my coffee.

“Honey,” I say to him over a recent game of Scrabble. “When I’m old, will you still love me?” He doesn’t even look up. “Honey,” he says. “You’re already old. And I still love you.”

We laugh like crazy, and I don’t want to be anybody but me.

am so self-conscious that if someone points a camera at me, I pucker up and cross my eyes. I want to be less dependent on others’ opinions of me. I’m failing miserably.

A fellow staffer on our college newspaper wears a leg brace and a special shoe with a fi ve-inch plat-form. He walks with a limp, and he hates the goofy pictures of me. I don’t know this until he surrepti-tiously shoots this photo and pre-sents it to me as a gift. “If I looked like you,” he says, softly, “I’d smile all the time.” Then he walks away.

Thirty-three years later, this photo still hangs in my home offi ce as a reminder to get over myself.

My Story in Five Faces

No, it never launched a thousand ships or made it onto Mount Rushmore, but

this face has seen (and laughed) a lot

Age 37

After 15 years of writing freelance stories at my kitchen table, I get my fi rst newspaper job. Weeks later, I’m a newly single mother living with my two kids in an apartment half the size of the house we’d called home.

I want to be fearless, but I am scared to death. See the fear in my eyes? I am also stronger than I know. Like so many women, I have to learn, one crazy day at a time, that if I act brave, the courage will come.

And it does.

Age 45

Crinkles fan out from both of my

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