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A generation of kids grew up on LeVar Burton’s educationalPBS show Reading Rainbow, which aired from 1983 to 2006.Now he has an app for that, and the current Perception staraims to bring his and other authors’ work to children withiPads. “There’s been a precipitous decline in children’sliteracy in the past decade,” says Burton, 55. “No Child LeftBehind is doing exactly that: leaving our children behind,and that is not OK.” . . . “There’s definitely sex and there’s
definitely romance, there is no red roomof pain, there’s not even a hot-pink roomof mild discomfort,” says chick-lit authorJennifer Weiner in comparing her latestbook, The Next Best Thing, with the popularFifty Shades of Grey. Weiner, 42, relishes thefreedom that life as a novelist has givenher. “When you’ve got little kids [herdaughters are 4½ and 9], it’s nice to be athome with your little desk in the closet.”
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Gail Versch, Plymouth, Wis.
The 30-year-old NASCAR driver is, infact, married. In 2005, Patrick marriedPaul Hospenthal, a physical therapistshe met 10 years ago when she wasrehabbing a hip injury from yoga. Thecouple live in Phoenix, but they prob-ably won’t be expandingtheir family anytime soon:Patrick said last yearthat she is notyearning tohave kids.The fan fa-vorite does,however,harbor aspira-tions of becoming aclothing designer af-ter she crosses herfinal finish line.
Q Can you please tell me how oldDanielle Colby Cushman is?
Bobby Eisen, Bartlett, Ill.
The multi-tattooed star of HistoryChannel’s American Pickers, who chatswith buyers while working at Antique
Archaeology, is 36. Cushman, who isa mother of three, also hasowned a roller-derby teamand founded the burlesque
troupe Burlesque le’ Mustache— she dances under the name“Dannie Diesel.” The Iowan alsoruns the boutique 4 Miles 2Memphis, which sells antique-inspired clothing.
QWhy did Christopher Meloni leaveLaw & Order: SVU?
Connie White,Marysville, Wash.
He just decidedthat 12 years waslong enough onone show, and sohe moved on toother things, suchas playing a vam-pire politician onthe HBO seriesTrue Blood. “It’sa great life. Youget up in the morning, pop in your fangs
and you get to stake someone,”says Meloni, 51. After hangingup the L&O shield, Meloni’sonly worry — “The idea ofwaking up and saying, ‘Gee,what am I going to do withmyself today?’ ” — proved
short-lived: In addi-tion to TrueBlood, he has apart in the up-coming Super-man movieMan of Steel
and earned hispilot’s license.It’s scary “onlyfor the first ninemonths,” the ac-
tor says aboutflying a single-
propeller plane. “It’snot tiddlywinks.”
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Be sure to water in themorning, when roots aredriest; resist the urge todouse plants throughoutthe day. “It’s better to un-derwater than overwater,because the roots willdrown,” Ball says. “If theplant looks hungry or thir-sty, it’ll droop just a littlebit. That’s when you wantto soak it.”
Think green. It’s nottoo late to add fast-growingveggies to the patch. Ball’ssuggestion: “Concentrateon your leafy greens, likecollard greens, mustardgreens and salad greens.”
Spinach and leaf lettucetake only 30 days to matureand can be planted as lateas September.
Have fun. Why notshow off the fruits of yourlabor with a party in thebackyard, with your cropsas refreshments? Ball rec-ommends “garden-gating,”a homey, family-friendlyversion of tailgating. “Youcan use freshly picked veg-etables and grill them withbrats and beer and watchthe big game on an outdoorTV.” How about garden-gating for the Olympics? 6
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IF YOU’VE MASTERED the artof waiting until the 11th hourto complete the task at hand,
you may be more productive thanyou think. A new study finds thatpeople who take a break from anintellectual task to do some mind-less activity, then return to it, per-form about 41% better after thebreak than those who never deviate.
Delayers get a bad rap in ourculture, something that John Perry,professor emeritus of philosophy atStanford University and author ofThe Art of Procrastination, wouldlike to change. “For the most part,procrastinators actually get a lotdone,” he says.
Perry points out that on a dead-line, procrastinators become mas-ters of file-organizing. Although theters of file-organizing. Although theters of file-organizing. Although the
knowing your tendencies and staying one step ahead.”
— Julia Savacool— Julia Savacool— Julia Savacool
quarterly report may not get doneuntil 10 minutes before it’s due, theprevious week at the office hasn’tbeen a waste. “Some people thinkthe solution is to eliminate all otherdistractions from your life,” saysPerry, a self-pro-claimed procrasti-nator. “That’s badadvice. The morethings a procrasti-nator has to do, themore productive he’ll be.”
A procrastinator’s biggest vice:the computer. Unplug your laptopbefore using it, which initiates anautomatic shutdown time.
“Self-manipulation will help you keep procrastinating undercontrol,” Perry says. “It’s not a matter of willpower — it’sa matter of willpower — it’sa matter of willpower — it’s
LiveSmart Helpful tips for your everyday life
This summer hasbrought wildfiresand poweroutages thathave causedmany toleave homein a hurry.Leatrice Urbanowicz ofFrederick, Md., suggestskeeping a “grab andgo” box with all yourimportant documents.Make it small andfireproof, and stasha little cash forimmediate needs.
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ust as a photographer was to startsnapping at a recent magazine shootfor Sparkle, the background musiclanded randomly on Whitney Hous-ton’s version of I’m Every Woman.
“I burst into tears,” says themovie’s producer, Debra MartinChase, a longtime friend and col-
league of the music icon. “I heard hervoice and it just registered. I believe it was herway of saying to us, ‘I’m there with you.’ ”
Expect a similar wave of emotion when Spar-kle, one of this summer’s most anticipatedmovies, opens Aug. 17. What was to be a
comeback — this was Houston’s first film since1996’s The Preacher’s Wife — now representsa final chapter in her rocky, remarkable life.
“This is the best performance of her career,and she knew it,” Chase says. “The irony is,she was really comfortable in her skin in a waythat I hadn’t seen in a long time. She was like,‘This is who I am. My life’s been complicated,but I’m happy.’ ”
A brighter legacyContentment often seemed in short supply
for Houston, a superstar whose private life wasunder constant public scrutiny. The world em-
THE UPCOMING MOVIEMUSICAL ‘SPARKLE’WAS A LABOR OF LOVEBY A HAPPY, CONFIDENTAND COMFORTABLEWOMAN. BY JULIE HINDS
USA WEEKEND · July 27-29, 2012 7
braced her chart-topping songsand box-office successes but wasglued to gossip about her turbu-lent marriage and drug abuse.
In February came the startlingnews that she had died at age 48 ina Los Angeles hotel room of whateventually wasdetermined tobe an acciden-tal drowning,with heart dis-ease and co-caine use ascontributingfactors. The media presented aportrait of a troubled diva battlingpersonal demons: Her last dayswere illustrated by snapshots of asweaty, disheveled Houston leav-ing a pre-Grammys party.
Chase says the movie will leavefans with another image — that ofa gifted, focused star starring in,and executive-producing, a laborof love. “People will look at her —beautiful, healthy, joyous — andthink of Sparkle first, before theythink about the pictures of hercoming out of the nightclubs.”
A few months before her death,Houston spent about six weeksfilming in Detroit. American Idolwinner Jordin Sparks, who playsthe lead role of Sparkle, describesher as a caring, maternal force.
“Every morning, she wouldwalk into the hair and makeuptrailer, and she would open thedoor and she’d go, ‘How are mybabies today? God is good. Youguys doing OK?’ ” says Sparks,who’s making her film debut. “Shewas always just so encouraging.She was so full of joy and so full oflight, because this was her baby.She’d been working on this movieand getting it out for, I think,10-plus years.”
Unafraid of the pastHouston grew up in New Jer-
sey watching the 1976 originalversion of Sparkle that brokeHollywood barriers with its storyabout the hopes and struggles of asinging sister group made up ofbeautiful young women of color.
At a small gathering with re-porters at a Detroit church in No-vember, a regal and relaxedHouston described how Sparkleinspired her: “I would go everySaturday, for, like four monthsstraight, and I would watch thematinee to the evening show.”
When she and Chase becameproducing partners, Houston sug-gested updating the music-ladendrama that meant so much to her.In 2001, their plans to have singer/actress Aaliyah play the title rolewere tragically halted by herdeath in a plane crash.
Years later, this version jelled,with characters moving from thestreets of ’50s New York to anaffluent African-American familyin ’60s Detroit. In the movie, Spar-kle and her sisters form a group.Houston plays their mother, Em-ma, a dress shop owner and ex-singer aware of show business’shazards. Houston wasn’t afraid of
ENTER TOWINONE OF10 ‘SPARKLE’SOUNDTRACKS AND
SEE WHITNEY IN PHOTOSTHROUGH THE YEARSAT USAWEEKEND.COM
1993Daughter Bobbi
Kristina born.
1995Second movie,
Waiting to Exhale.
1996Third movie, ThePreacher’s Wife.
2002Admits drug use.Sings duet withBrown on albumJust Whitney.
2003Brown charged
with battery; shehas facial injuries.
2006Separation; divorce
final in 2007.
2009Comeback album,I Look to You.
2012Houston dies
Feb. 11. Sparkle,her last work, hitstheaters Aug. 17.
2013To be published inFebruary, mother
Cissy Houston’s bookon “my daughter’s
true story.”
extraordinaryextraordinaryextraordinaryAn
life!life1963
Whitney ElizabethHouston born Aug. 9
in Newark.
1981Cover model,
Seventeen magazine.
1983Arista Records’ CliveDavis hears Houston;signs her on the spot.
1985Self-titled album isbest-selling debut;
No. 1s include SavingAll My Love for You,Greatest Love of All.
1987Second album,Whitney, includesI Wanna Dance WithSomebody, breaks
record for No. 1 hits.
1989Meets R&B singer
Bobby Brown.
1990Third album, I’m Your
Baby Tonight.
1991At Super Bowl, sings
national anthem.
1992Weds Brown July 18.
Stars in movieThe Bodyguard.
I Will Always Love Youbreaks sales records.Continued on page 9
Motherly:American Idolwinner JordinSparks makes herfilm debut asWhitney Houston’sdaughter, a singernamed Sparkle.
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COVER PHOTOGRAPH OF HOUSTON AT THE2004 WORLD MUSIC AWARDS IN LAS VEGAS BY KEVIN WINTER, GETTY IMAGES.ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH OF HOUSTON AT THE 2009 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS IN L.A. BY KEVORK DJANSEZIAN, GETTY IMAGES
similarities to herlife, especiallythe downwardspiral of Sister,Emma’s daugh-ter drawn into adrug-filled, abu-sive relationship.
“There were lots“There were lots“There were lotsof parallels be-of parallels be-of parallels be-tween her life andtween her life andtween her life andmy character, andshe would not shyaway from talkingabout that with
me,” says Carmen Ejogo, whoplays Sister. “She was a trueartist in that sense. She was will-ing to expose herself.”
Houston spread enthusiasm.“She would play gospelmusic in the morning:Fred Hammond, CeCeWinans, Kim Bur-rell. That was herfavorite thing. Itset the tone of theday,” says leadhairstylist KimKimble, star ofWE-TV’s L.A. Hair.
On the set, Houston enjoyedrubbing elbows with cast andcrew. She hung out in the lunch-room and shared stories withawed extras. “She was alwayslaughing and smiling and sing-ing. It would be nothing for us tobe sitting around and she wouldbreak out into a hymn,” saysDetroit singer Beth Griffith,who was Houston’s stand-in andwho bonded with the star oversharing a birthday.
Houston still had the power todazzle a crowd. During filmingat a church, Houston broughteveryone to tears when she per-
6 USA WEEKEND · July 27-29, 2012
ust as a photographer was to startsnapping at a recent magazine shootfor Sparkle, the background musiclanded randomly on Whitney Hous-ton’s version of I’m Every Woman.
“I burst into tears,” says themovie’s producer, Debra MartinChase, a longtime friend and col-
league of the music icon. “I heard hervoice and it just registered. I believe it was herway of saying to us, ‘I’m there with you.’ ”
Expect a similar wave of emotion when Spar-kle, one of this summer’s most anticipatedmovies, opens Aug. 17. What was to be a
comeback — this was Houston’s first film since1996’s The Preacher’s Wife — now representsa final chapter in her rocky, remarkable life.
“This is the best performance of her career,and she knew it,” Chase says. “The irony is,she was really comfortable in her skin in a waythat I hadn’t seen in a long time. She was like,‘This is who I am. My life’s been complicated,but I’m happy.’ ”
A brighter legacyContentment often seemed in short supply
for Houston, a superstar whose private life wasunder constant public scrutiny. The world em-
THE UPCOMING MOVIEMUSICAL ‘SPARKLE’WAS A LABOR OF LOVEBY A HAPPY, CONFIDENTAND COMFORTABLEWOMAN. BY JULIE HINDS
USA WEEKEND · July 27-29, 2012 7
braced her chart-topping songsand box-office successes but wasglued to gossip about her turbu-lent marriage and drug abuse.
In February came the startlingnews that she had died at age 48 ina Los Angeles hotel room of whateventually wasdetermined tobe an acciden-tal drowning,with heart dis-ease and co-caine use ascontributingfactors. The media presented aportrait of a troubled diva battlingpersonal demons: Her last dayswere illustrated by snapshots of asweaty, disheveled Houston leav-ing a pre-Grammys party.
Chase says the movie will leavefans with another image — that ofa gifted, focused star starring in,and executive-producing, a laborof love. “People will look at her —beautiful, healthy, joyous — andthink of Sparkle first, before theythink about the pictures of hercoming out of the nightclubs.”
A few months before her death,Houston spent about six weeksfilming in Detroit. American Idolwinner Jordin Sparks, who playsthe lead role of Sparkle, describesher as a caring, maternal force.
“Every morning, she wouldwalk into the hair and makeuptrailer, and she would open thedoor and she’d go, ‘How are mybabies today? God is good. Youguys doing OK?’ ” says Sparks,who’s making her film debut. “Shewas always just so encouraging.She was so full of joy and so full oflight, because this was her baby.She’d been working on this movieand getting it out for, I think,10-plus years.”
Unafraid of the pastHouston grew up in New Jer-
sey watching the 1976 originalversion of Sparkle that brokeHollywood barriers with its storyabout the hopes and struggles of asinging sister group made up ofbeautiful young women of color.
At a small gathering with re-porters at a Detroit church in No-vember, a regal and relaxedHouston described how Sparkleinspired her: “I would go everySaturday, for, like four monthsstraight, and I would watch thematinee to the evening show.”
When she and Chase becameproducing partners, Houston sug-gested updating the music-ladendrama that meant so much to her.In 2001, their plans to have singer/actress Aaliyah play the title rolewere tragically halted by herdeath in a plane crash.
Years later, this version jelled,with characters moving from thestreets of ’50s New York to anaffluent African-American familyin ’60s Detroit. In the movie, Spar-kle and her sisters form a group.Houston plays their mother, Em-ma, a dress shop owner and ex-singer aware of show business’shazards. Houston wasn’t afraid of
ENTER TOWINONE OF10 ‘SPARKLE’SOUNDTRACKS AND
SEE WHITNEY IN PHOTOSTHROUGH THE YEARSAT USAWEEKEND.COM
1993Daughter Bobbi
Kristina born.
1995Second movie,
Waiting to Exhale.
1996Third movie, ThePreacher’s Wife.
2002Admits drug use.Sings duet withBrown on albumJust Whitney.
2003Brown charged
with battery; shehas facial injuries.
2006Separation; divorce
final in 2007.
2009Comeback album,I Look to You.
2012Houston dies
Feb. 11. Sparkle,her last work, hitstheaters Aug. 17.
2013To be published inFebruary, mother
Cissy Houston’s bookon “my daughter’s
true story.”
extraordinaryextraordinaryextraordinaryAn
life!life1963
Whitney ElizabethHouston born Aug. 9
in Newark.
1981Cover model,
Seventeen magazine.
1983Arista Records’ CliveDavis hears Houston;signs her on the spot.
1985Self-titled album isbest-selling debut;
No. 1s include SavingAll My Love for You,Greatest Love of All.
1987Second album,Whitney, includesI Wanna Dance WithSomebody, breaks
record for No. 1 hits.
1989Meets R&B singer
Bobby Brown.
1990Third album, I’m Your
Baby Tonight.
1991At Super Bowl, sings
national anthem.
1992Weds Brown July 18.
Stars in movieThe Bodyguard.
I Will Always Love Youbreaks sales records.Continued on page 9
Motherly:American Idolwinner JordinSparks makes herfilm debut asWhitney Houston’sdaughter, a singernamed Sparkle.
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COVER PHOTOGRAPH OF HOUSTON AT THE2004 WORLD MUSIC AWARDS IN LAS VEGAS BY KEVIN WINTER, GETTY IMAGES.ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH OF HOUSTON AT THE 2009 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS IN L.A. BY KEVORK DJANSEZIAN, GETTY IMAGES
similarities to herlife, especiallythe downwardspiral of Sister,Emma’s daugh-ter drawn into adrug-filled, abu-sive relationship.
“There were lots“There were lots“There were lotsof parallels be-of parallels be-of parallels be-tween her life andtween her life andtween her life andmy character, andshe would not shyaway from talkingabout that with
me,” says Carmen Ejogo, whoplays Sister. “She was a trueartist in that sense. She was will-ing to expose herself.”
Houston spread enthusiasm.“She would play gospelmusic in the morning:Fred Hammond, CeCeWinans, Kim Bur-rell. That was herfavorite thing. Itset the tone of theday,” says leadhairstylist KimKimble, star ofWE-TV’s L.A. Hair.
On the set, Houston enjoyedrubbing elbows with cast andcrew. She hung out in the lunch-room and shared stories withawed extras. “She was alwayslaughing and smiling and sing-ing. It would be nothing for us tobe sitting around and she wouldbreak out into a hymn,” saysDetroit singer Beth Griffith,who was Houston’s stand-in andwho bonded with the star oversharing a birthday.
Houston still had the power todazzle a crowd. During filmingat a church, Houston broughteveryone to tears when she per-
8 USA WEEKEND · July 27-29, 2012
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IF YOU HAVE DRAWERS overflowing with photographs,images cluttering your computer’s desktop and randompictures stored on your smartphone, getting control of
your precious memories — or simply locating them — canseem like mission impossible. Try this step-by-step plan toget organized and save time searching for pics:
Start a routine.“To keep organizing photosfrom becoming an over-whelming project, set aside15 minutes a month to graball of your devices andsweep pictures onto yourcomputer,” says Melissa Lin,director of merchandising atMixbook, an online photo-book site. Other options foruploading images includeSmugMug, Picasa or Flickr.
Weed out bloopers.To save time sorting through photographs later on,immediately delete or toss blurry or unflatteringor duplicate shots, Lin says.
File vs. frame.Sort and then file prints instorage boxes to keepeverything neat, says NanPritchard, a buyer at Expo-sures, a company specializ-ing in picture-organizingproducts. “Display anyphotos you want to leafthrough or that could beconversation-starters inacid-free albums or frames.”
Choose your album.A three-ring album withremovable pages allowsfor the greatest flexibility;double-weight pages lastlonger for frequently usedalbums, Pritchard says.“Memo albums—withspace for jotting captions— cover personalization,and spine patchesidentify what’s inside.”
Group and label.Photos will be pre-orga-nized if you upload month-ly, “but creating folders iskey for finding them fast,”Lin says. It is helpful tolabel each folder by event,such as Florida 2010, andthen create subfolders,such as Miami and Orlando.Same holds true for prints.Group photos into separatestorage boxes using tabdividers for subfolders.
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Says director Salim Akil:“Knowing when to hit the highnote and when to restrain one’sself is very important in life, andI think that’s what she embod-ied. If you go back and youlisten to her music or watchsome of her performances, whatyou will notice is an eleganceand a beauty to the restraint.”
Houston was proud of beingon time to work, says friendBeBe Winans, author of thenew book The Whitney I Knew.Via e-mail, he notes: “Whitneycalled me as soon as she landedin Detroit, seeing [as] some ofmy family still lives there, andshe asked for my brother Pas-tor Marvin Winans’ number soshe could attend his church.” Ina paparazzi-free haven, Hous-ton joined the cast one night at ajazz club and wore pearls to aDetroit Lions football game.
As Sparkle’s opening nears,colleagues are excited and sor-rowful. “Since this was some-thing she was so passionateabout,” Sparks says, “we wantto represent her and celebrateher and represent this movie inthe best way we possibly can.”
Griffith recorded the broad-cast of Houston’s funeral buthasn’t felt ready to watch it.“After I heard she died, it mademe want to work harder andbetter,” she says. “I really feellike she gave me a part of her.”
And now, with Sparkle,Houston will give all of her fansone last gift. 6
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