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A: As the husband of the monarch, Prince Philip, 89, is Queen Elizabeth’s con-sort, not the king. He holds the title Duke of Edin-burgh and was made a prince of the United King-dom by his wife in 1957. The spouse of a male Brit-ish monarch, however, can take on the title of queen.

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PARADE: What do

you like about Phil

Dunphy?

I think that Phil really believes in his family, even when they might not be living up to his expectations. He’s not a guy who’s easily disappointed. And I love that he may be screwing up, but he’s really trying. That’s something I aim to do myself.

You spent some of your

early years in Applegate,

Oregon. What was that like?

Incredibly idyllic. My brother and sister and cousins and I would go out every day to crawl around the mountains and build forts. Sometimes we took our inner tubes and fl oated down the river until we got to the country store our family owned. We would disappear in the morning and come back at dinner, which seems so quaint nowadays. My brother and I spent hours improvising and trying to crack each other up.

Is there something you

consider classically

Oregonian about you?

I ride my bike in the rain.

I have a deep and abiding love for all the

Oregon teams [that’s the Ducks’ mascot, left].

Also, I generally dress like I’m a logger, even

though I wouldn’t last a long morning logging.

When did you realize you

wanted to be an actor?

I had dropped out of college for a couple of years and was sort of coasting. Soon after my dad passed away, I decided to see what I might actually be interested in, and I went back to the University of Oregon. I got into a grad-level acting class, and

Y BURRELL spent the morning of a recent day off looking for his

wallet. Which sounds a lot like something that would happen to Phil Dunphy, his alternately clueless and freakishly intuitive character on ABC’s Modern Family (Wednesdays, 9 p.m. ET/PT). Kate Meyers caught up with the 43-year-old actor, wallet secured, in the loftlike L.A. condo he shares with his wife, Holly, and their year-old daughter, Frances , who was cooing in the background.

the fi rst day we had to come up with a Shakespearean-type character and improvise for three minutes. I pulled out a wooden box and stood on it to play a guy who thought he was really great, who was full of bravado but was a total idiot—which is a bit Phil-esque. I got a laugh, and it felt like I was in a love bath. I ran off and changed my major.

You had many jobs before you

were able to make a living as

an actor—forest fi refi ghter,

busboy, bartender, tour

guide, telemarketer.… What

was the weirdest?

Working at a yogurt shop. I felt like that Judge Reinhold character in Fast Times at

Ridgemont High, when he wore that pirate costume and was just totally humiliated. I remember saying to myself, “I really, really need to sit down and think about my future. This is not going well.”

How did you meet your wife?

We were doing theater in Washington, D.C., and were understudies for the lovers in Twelfth Night. I had been court-ing her for a couple of months, though she didn’t know it because my fl irting is so dull. But on opening night we were dancing, and there was chemistry we couldn’t ignore.

What do you like to do

on Sundays?

We put Frances in the stroller and take a half-hour walk to a kitchen store called Surfas. We get lunch, and my wife, who’s a pastry chef, looks at the stuff—they have every pastry tool in the world there. I walk around the prepared-foods section, and then we meet up at the register. It’s that Sunday thing where you’re just kind of luxuriating, and the most you’re thinking about is lunch and what you’ll create for dinner.

Do you have a favorite

TV dad?

I’m a big Bill Cosby fan. He could dispense all of this wisdom without getting

treacly. I loved how smart that show was, that it was so sophisticated and didn’t pander.

You and your brother recently

opened a bar in Salt Lake City.

If you were going to name a

cocktail for Phil, what would

you call it?

I would call it the Surface of the Moon, because I think that’s about how much noise is happening in Phil’s brain.

I’ve never been to a party where I haven’t

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I’m klutzy.

broken a glass.’

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Cosby, and his love of Oregon

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A PERFECT MATCH

When Michelle Obama and Jill Biden met, they felt “an instant connection,” Biden

says. Adds Obama, “My husband’s decision to select Joe as his vice president was one of

the best decisions he’s made. And it gave me Jill, which was

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They playfully tease and banter. they finish

each other’s sentences. And they laugh—a lot. The fi rst thing you notice when you sit down with First Lady Michelle Obama and vice presidential spouse Jill

Biden is how warm and relaxed their relationship is. They have a “great partnership,” Obama says. “We complement one another,” Biden adds. Out of this First Friendship comes the pair’s fi rst-ever common initiative, Joining Forces. Its aim: to raise awareness about the challenges faced by military families and to encourage all Amer-icans to help the spouses and children of our service members.

The women bring different backgrounds and experiences to their shared mission. A lawyer by training, then an executive by choice, Obama, 47, is the mother of Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9. Her closest family member to serve in the military was her father, who was in the Army before she was born. Biden, 59, the mother of three grown children and the grandmother of five, still works as a community-college professor while fulfi lling her offi cial duties as

the vice president’s wife. Her oldest son, Beau, now attorney gen-eral of Delaware, served in Iraq with the Delaware Army National Guard from October 2008 to September 2009.

On a brisk spring morning, the women met with PARADE in the East Wing’s Map Room to discuss the importance of America’s military families—and how their own families help keep them grounded.

PARADE: Why this initiative?MO: When I started campaigning for my husband, I wanted to meet with groups of women to make sure their stories were a part of the conversation in his campaign and potentially in his admin-istration. Everywhere I went there were military spouses, and their stories took my breath away—the pain of multiple deployments, trying to keep the family afl oat. I remember sitting and crying with a group of them.

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AMERICA’SFIRST MOMS

BY LYNN SHERR AND MAGGIE MURPHY COVER AND OPENING PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIGITTE LACOMBE

For Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, family comes � rst. That’s why this month

they’re uniting to launch a campaign to provide support on the home front

for the spouses and kids of U.S. troops � ghting overseas.


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MO: And when the troops do come home— because that is everyone’s intent, to bring them home at some point—the effort still has to ex-ist. Because the challenges for many of these families begin when [the service members] come back. PARADE: Does this campaign have an end? MO: Our hope is that this becomes part of the fabric of our country forever. JB: A way of life, really. MO: We will always have a strong military, and as long as we do, we will always have military families who need our support. We’re trying to set this up so it lasts beyond Jill and me when we leave here, whatever time frame that may be. PARADE: Mrs. Obama, considering your work on Joining Forces , can we reassure our maga-zine’s readers that you’re going to continue your “Let’s Move” initiative?MO: I have been multitasking my entire life. Ma-lia and Sasha will eat, and Bo will get walked… [laughs] There are a number of issues that Jill and I care deeply about. Jill is also focused on educa-tion and support for community colleges—PARADE: You’re still teaching, Dr. Biden, correct?JB: I am. Full time.PARADE: Do your students seem to know about your other job? JB: Most of them. I can’t say all of them are aware, which is exactly how I like it. [laughs] PARADE: As you know, this interview will ap-pear in PARADE on Easter Sunday. Has there been a time recently when you called on your faith to get you through something?MO: That’s a daily proposition. Because this is a complicated job and it shows you all the highs and lows of life and issues in our country and the world, and so much of it is things you can’t explain . A tsunami, an earthquake, what happened in Tucson—one day you’re living

PARADE: Had you ever thought of this before?MO: This was not a part of my con-versation, and it wasn’t a part of the broader conversation in this country. PARADE: For people who are reading this today, what do you suggest they do? Put down the magazine and…? MO: They can go to www.joiningforces.gov and fi nd out the options that are avail-able. But one of the things we’re also asking people to do is to start in their universe. If you’re a parent, what can you do to fi nd out how many , if any, military children are in your schools? In your churches, synagogues, congregations? Are there National Guard or Reserve personnel?PARADE: And then what?MO: And then do what you do best. If you’re an accountant, think about offering pro bono ser-vices. If you’re a teacher, maybe offer tutoring to military kids. We want to encourage people to be creative and not feel they have to develop a whole other expertise. JB: After I got off the 2008 presidential cam-paign, where I’d also met so many military families, I called the National Guard and said, “Where can I go? What can I do?” They re-ferred me to Delaware Boots on the Ground [a nonprofi t aiding local military families]. We bonded instantly, and we started a fund-raising campaign. PARADE: So Joining Forces is about Americans doing what they’d do to help any family…JB: Any family in need. But it’s not like they’re saying, “Oh, I need this, I need that.” We just want to support them because of all that they have given.MO: To make them feel connected.JB: And valued.

SERVING

OUR

SOLDIERS

Here are three of Mrs. Obama’s and Dr. Biden’s favorite groups that are helping America’s military families.

MO: To make them feel visible. Studies show that many military families feel like the coun-try doesn’t recognize or appreciate [them]. And it breaks my heart, because they’re serving as passionately and deeply and proudly as the men and women in uniform. We always ac-knowledge service members because they’re in uniform and we can see them. But if you’re…JB: …National Guard…MO: …or if you’re a kid…PARADE: …or a spouse…MO: …no one knows you’re out there. No one knows your struggles. PARADE: In a recent poll, Democrats and Re-publicans said they favor bringing the troops home. And some say that it’s the best thing we could do for them and their loved ones.JB: You don’t have to support the war to sup-port the troops and their families.

OPERATION SHOWER

operationshower.orgExpecting a child can be incredibly lonely for wom-en whose spouses are serving overseas. This organization throws baby showers for military moms-to-be. In its four- year existence, the group has hosted events for more than 400 women.

OUR MILITARY KIDS

ourmilitarykids.orgTo ease the burden for military familes who often can’t afford extras, this group raises money to provide grants for sports, arts, and tutoring pro-grams for the kids of National Guard and Re-serve members, as well as wounded soldiers.

SNOWBALL EXPRESS

snowballexpress.org Founded in 2006, this organization coordinates an annual holiday cel-ebration for the children of troops who’ve died while serving our country. Last December, 1,400 kids and the surviving spouses attended Snow-ball Express V in Dallas.

FAMILY MATTERS The Obamas returning in January from their holiday in Hawaii; below, Jill Biden and her son Beau at his 2009 welcome-home ceremony from Iraq.


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your life, and the next, every-thing is changed. And some-times you get to the point where you say, “There are so many things in life that men and women cannot control, and that’s part of living.”PARADE: How do you deal with it? Pray? Ask questions? MO: It ’s a little bit of every-thing. But it’s still a personal thing. It’s one of those things you’re asked about and you al-ways want to give enough of yourself, but you want to leave something that is really just yours. My practice of my faith—it ’s a very personal thing to me. JB: One of the most difficult times we had as a family was when Beau was deployed to Iraq. At his deployment cere-mony, the general’s wife handed me a prayer on a card, and I said it every day. I’d be in the class-room writing on the board, and the thought would go through my mind: “I hope he’s safe. I hope he’s safe.” And I would just say a prayer. Prayer played a large part in my life—it still does—until he got home and I felt like… [exhales]MO: …you could breathe. JB: Yes, I felt like I could breathe again. When I go to deployment ceremonies, I look out [at] the families and see what I felt when my son was deployed. I know they’re so proud, but they’re so scared, too. PARADE: Many Americans are excited about the president’s announcement that he’s run-ning for reelection. So, we’re wondering: What is the girls’ bargaining chip this time? MO: They’ve got the dog—they’re fi ne.

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your fi rst anniversary? (Cornish game hens, on the one and only occasion I’ve used my wedding china.) Or the food that your picky toddler would always eat, no matter what? (Salad. Go fi gure.) I know that when my children grow up, certain dishes are going to take them right back to our dinner table.

Our weekends are hectic. There’s the play rehearsal, the skating lesson, my son’s a cap-pella group. We all look for-ward to a good soup on Sunday night. It’s a time to sit down and relax (and fi gure out who still has homework to do). We dip bread in our soup and talk about what we’ve done over the past few days and what we’ll be doing the following week. I hope my kids will think of these Sundays someday when they see broccoli-cheddar soup on a menu.

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Serving Up MemoriesBest-selling author Jodi Picoult treats her family to a special soup

P “This soup heats up again nicely for a next-day meal. Just add a little chicken broth to reach the desired consistency.”

P “To make a lighter version of this recipe, use other vegetables—and leave out the cheese.”

P “Got an immersion blender? Skip the food-processing step and purée the broccoli right in the pot so you don’t have to clean yet another appliance or bowl.”

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Broccoli-Cheddar Soup

3 cups chicken broth

1 onion, chopped

4 cups broccoli, chopped

Dash of garlic powder

1 tsp thyme

2 bay leaves

4 Tbsp butter

4 Tbsp fl our

½ tsp salt

2 cups milk

2 cups shredded cheddar

Slices of crusty bread

1. In a large saucepan, mix chicken broth, onion, broccoli, garlic powder, thyme, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer 10 minutes, or until vegetables are soft. 2. Remove bay leaves and pour mixture into a food processor. Pulse until smooth, approximately 1 minute. Reserve in a bowl.3. In the original saucepan, melt butter. Whisk in fl our, salt,and a little pepper until a thick paste forms. Add milk and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens. Add cheddar; stir until it dissolves.4. Pour in broccoli mixture and cook until blended. If necessary, add more chicken broth to thin. Season with additional salt and pepper. Serve with bread for dipping.

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PARADE: You both have suc-cessful marriages. The royal wedding in England is coming up. What’s your advice for the couple on living a public life?MO: I’ve said this before: You’ve got to keep laughing. You can’t take it so seriously all the time.JB: And make time for one an-other. This life is crazy as far as time. You really do have to make an effort to stay connected.PARADE: Any plans for another date night soon? MO: Sometimes we don’t even want a date! [laughs]JB: You just want to put on your robe and sit in front of the fi re.

PARADE: Then you add young kids to the equation. How do you make time for them?MO: You just do. And that’s also the beauty of young children—they demand it. When Barack walks in the door, the girls are, “Hi, Daddy! Guess what I did?” It’s immediately about them. And that is a relief. They don’t want to know what he did; they don’t want him to talk. They want to be the center of atten-tion. And when you’ve had a day when everyone is looking at you for the answer, it’s such a relief to turn off and to focus on the report card and the April sing-along thing. [laughs]JB: It doesn’t stop with little kids. I mean, mine are older…

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