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Three-year-oldAndrew Eichstadt is among the nearly 30 percent of Oregon’s children who need food assistance.

Can You Help?

From rebuilding Joplin, Mo., to assisting the li� lest customers at

a food pantry in Portland, Ore., Americans are pitching in to get

through the hard times. How you can join this parade of giving.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2011

THE GIVING ISSUE

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PersonalityWalter Sco� ,s

PARADE

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WALTER SCOTT ASKS …

Tom Colicchio The restaurateur and cookbook author, 49, is head judge of Top Chef (season nine, set in Texas, is airing now on Bravo, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. ET).

Do your restaurant patrons offer critiques of your food?

Every day! If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard someone jokingly say, “Pack your knives and go!” It’s like, “Oh, wow, I haven’t heard that one before.” You love to fi sh. Have you ever caught anything you

couldn’t turn into a good meal? I throw most of my fi sh back. It’s really for sport. If I

know I’m making dinner for people that night, I may keep one, but I don’t cut them up and put them in the freezer.What’s your favorite meal from childhood?

I grew up Italian-American in New Jersey, and we made Sunday gravy—what most people

would call marinara sauce—with meatballs and sausage. Every Sunday, we started eating around 4 o’clock. And in the summer, I would go crabbing with my grandfather. We boiled crabs and put them in marinara sauce to make crab gravy. There’s nothing like it.

The chef shares a favorite recipe at Parade.com/colicchio

Letters to Walter Scott can be sent to P.O. Box 5001,

Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163-5001

Q: Would Ralph Macchio

ever do another Karate

Kid movie? —Stephanie

Whitley, Smithfield, Va.

A: “No, I don’t have a desire to,” says Macchio, 50. “It seems like a different franchise now.” The father of two is working on a teen driving safety campaign for State Farm in which he teaches his son, 16, the rules of the road (for the videos, go to Parade.com

/macchio). He’s also produc-ing a reality show about Gypsies for the National Geographic Channel, due in the spring.

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Q: Has Jennifer Nettles

been approached to play

Janis Joplin in a biopic?

—Shi, Tracy, Calif.

A: “Not offi cially, but I’ve heard it thrown around by fans,” says the Sugarland singer, 37. She’d consider playing Joplin but admits, “It would be intimidating. She’s such a legendary character!” Next up, Net-tles returns as host of the CMA Country Christmas

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How many languages does

Alex Trebek speak?

—R. Compton, Bridgeport, Tex.

Five, including English. “I can get by

in Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Swahili,”

says the Jeopardy! host, 71. “But don’t

expect much in Hawaiian and Welsh.”

Email your questions to

Walter Sco� at Parade.com

/contact

Q: Brooke Shields has

appeared in many musi-

cals. Has she had profes-

sional voice training?

—Winston Crowley, Wooster, Ohio

A: “Yes! I get vocal coach-ing through all of my shows, and even when I’m

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special, airing Dec. 1 (ABC, 9 p.m. ET). And she’s looking forward to the holidays after two years on the road. “My favorite part of Christmas is the smell of home,” she says. “The tree, food cooking, mulled wine, cinnamon.”

not doing a show, I work with my coach to keep my voice strong,” says Shields, 46, who ends her run on Broadway in The Addams Family on Dec. 31. The actress’s latest fi lm project is The Greening of Whitney Brown, in theaters now.

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Two hours into a drizzle-soaked con-cert in New York’s

Central Park, Andrea Bocelli lets the sun shine in. He wel-comes Céline Dion onstage for their duet, “The Prayer,” and the audience, estimated at 60,000, whoops like football fans celebrating a touchdown. The concert, airing Dec. 2 on PBS (check local listings) and also available on CD/DVD, is proof that not even Mother Nature can rain on Bocelli’s parade. At 53, the blind,

Andrea Bocelli

Report money, entertainment, and moreyour guide to health, life,

INTELLIGENCE

SUNDAY WITH ... PARADE Your 1999

Sacred Arias is the all-time

best-selling album by a

classical solo-

ist. Did that

surprise you?

My company said, joking, “Probably you will sell this album only to your relatives.” Nobody real-ized this music would have so much appeal.

Your fans, many of them

women, seem to follow you

with an almost religious

fervor. What is that like?

I have to place all the adula-tion and admiration on a scale, and on the other side put all those who have been hating me for many years.

Do you mean classical music

critics? Some have been

hard on you.

I’m not affected very much by criticism that has no reason. There are critics who are honest and those who are just not objective. I’m never interested in looking at things from the negative side.

Do you get gifts from female

admirers?

Yes. Things like that have happened. Perfumed notes.

Ever blushed at such a note?

I’m not that shy. Not in life—only on the stage. I’ve often felt stage fright.

How does that affect you?

It affects my heart rate. Then my hands become sweaty and cold.

Can fear be a useful tool for

an artist?

Fear is never useful, because it weakens you.

But a certain tension can help you become more expressive onstage.

Your nickname as a child

was Earthquake. Why?

I was never still. My parents were always holding their breath, because they didn’t know what would come next. I remember that I broke, willingly, a bunch of toys, because I wanted to see what was inside.

Do you travel with any

special keepsakes?

No, but I do like to practice with a fl ute when I’m warm-ing up my voice. It helps my breathing, and it’s relaxing.

Your extended family lives

in Tuscany, including your

two teenage sons. What’s a

typical day with them like?

My sons are 16 and 14, old enough that we can do a lot of things together. They love the sea, for instance, so we can go out on a boat, and that is always a pleasure.

When you’re

home, do

you cook?

Sometimes I make pasta. But nothing else. I’m not a great cook. It’s danger-ous to eat my food.

You’ve said in interviews

that you miss your father,

who passed away in 2000.

My father was not a musi-cian, but he believed very much in me. He knew that I had to overcome diffi culties in life. [Bocelli had con-genital glaucoma and lost his sight completely at age 12 after a sports accident.] Unfortunately, when I be-gan my career, he was sick and had to stay at home. But every night I called him. He was always telling me, “You have to go sing in America.” So all of the [American] concerts I’ve done—Carnegie Hall, Madi-son Square Garden, the Metropolitan [Opera], and now Central Park—these are all things I would have liked to live with him.

The beloved tenor opens up about stage fright, unexpected success, and the

notes he gets from fans

WHAT COUNTS

IN THE ARTS IS

BEING SINCERE.

YOU MUST BE YOUR-

SELF AND HOPE

THE AUDIENCE

LIKES YOU.”

DONATE YOUR OLD BICYCLE When your sole mode of transport is your own two feet, a bicycle can make all the di� erence. Wheels of Change ships used bikes (plus seats, wheels, and helmets) from the U.S. to Africa, where they’re sold or rented at low cost; schoolchildren and medical volunteers ride for free. To � nd a donation facility near you, visit wocinternational.org.T

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Tuscan-born tenor remains a crowd-pleasing master of pop ballads, traditional songs, and opera alike. Bocelli (and his translator) talked with Steve Daly in New York.



Q: My brother gave me a gi� that seemed familiar … then it dawned on me: I had given him that very present last year. I was so upset. Is it ever okay to regi� ?

—Penny G., Los Angeles

A: Your brother made a morti-fying faux pas, but his inten-tions were good, and he clearly thought this was something you’d want. (You probably did, if you liked it enough to give to someone, right?) As a general rule, though, there’s nothing wrong with regifting. “I’m 100 percent for regifting, as long as you follow certain rules,” says Patricia Rossi, author of Everyday Etiquette: How to Navigate 101 Common and Uncommon Social Situations. “Always rewrap the gift beautifully and add a new card. Remove any tags that could indicate you received it as a present. Never regift in the same social circle. If you received something from a coworker, regift to someone you don’t work with. Don’t pass on anything that looks even remotely used. And make sure it’s something the recipient will actually like.” I’d add a fi nal rule: Check the value of the item. Sometimes looks can be deceiving. —Judith Newman

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MY WEEK WITH

MARILYN (rated R)

Michelle Williams is getting high praise for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in this drama set during fi lming of the 1957 comedy The Prince and the Showgirl. Young Colin Clark (Eddie Red-mayne), on whose memoirs this movie is based, was assigned to babysit the mer-curial star, then married to Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott, above with Williams). He found her by turns charming, seductive, fragile, and tortured during their

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time together. Williams summons up Marilyn’s es-sence without impersonating her, and Kenneth Branagh is a fi ne Laurence Olivier, her costar and director.

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS

(rated PG) From Aardman, the Wallace & Gromit ani-mators, comes a tale fi lled with heart and clever touches the whole family can enjoy. Santa’s bombastic son Steve (voiced by Hugh Laurie) has turned present-delivering into something so

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BREAK THE SPELL

Daughtry ($15) Fans of former American Idol fi nalist Chris Daughtry and his band of emotive rockers won’t be disappointed by their third album, a likable mix of gruffl y sensitive power ballads and tower-ing arena-rock anthems that showcase Daughtry’s dynamic baritone to great effect. These guys know what works for them, and they do it well, especially on the hard-driving “Rene-gade” and the compara-tively tender “Start of Something Good.”

high-tech that a spacecraft not unlike the Starship Enter prise is involved. But when one little girl’s gift gets left behind, it’s up to clumsy

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Flooding English rains expose the skeleton of a much-loved local girl who vanished 16 years earlier. As crime techs comb the site, they discover another set of remains—but no one ever reported a second young woman missing. Hill, an award-winning novelist, shows just how good crime writing can be in this sixth installment of her series featuring Chief Superinten-dent Simon Serrailler. Orville

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8 • November 27, 2011

1HELP A NEEDY FAMILY MEET THEIR MORTGAGE

Imagine struggling to keep a roof

over your family’s head while caring

for a gravely ill child. Scott and

Debbie Gout of Deltona, Fla., had

two sons born with a rare disease

(mitochondrial encephalopathy) that

prevents the body from converting

food and oxygen into energy. Their

fi rst son, Christopher, died just before

his fi fth birthday. Their second son,

Matthew, 8, continues to battle the

disease every day. Debbie left her job

in 2004 to become a full-time care-

giver, and the couple eventually took

out a second mortgage. Now, with

limited income and the collapse of the

housing market in Florida, they are in

danger of losing their home as well

as their other son. Each year, the

Gradient Gives Back Community Out-

reach Program assists families in

fi nancial straits by paying their mort-

gage or lease for a full 12 months; in

the case of the Gouts, fi nancial coun-

selor Gabriel Burgos will also provide

free service for life. PARADE readers

can donate to the Gradient Gives Back

Foundation, which oversees the pro-

gram, to help the Gouts and, hopefully,

other qualifi ed families. // To learn

more, go to gradientgivesback.com

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BY JOE KITA

COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY

STEVEN SCARDINA i

It’s been a brutal year, but this holiday season,

you can help fellow Americans get back on their feet. Here’s how.

No doubt about it, 2011 has been tough: � oods, wild� res, a long-

standing war, and a cratered economy that has taken a toll on all

of us. Our domestic needs are so immense, experts have even coined a term

for that what-can-I-do feeling: compassion fatigue. But the editors of

PARADE believe Americans still want to help—if they know what needs to be

done. That’s why, on this � rst Sunday of the holiday season, we’re spotlighting

some folks and causes that could use a boost. In this Giving Issue, we tell you

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Feed Hungry Children in Oregon

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least one unem-ployed parent. The Oregon Food Bank Network has dis-tributed 1 million food boxes to fami-lies so far this year—a 12 percent increase over 2010. The Kelly SUN pantry in Portland provides food to nearly 60 families each month, includ-ing that of 3-year-

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Here are some disturbing statistics: AIDS is now the third leading cause of death among African-American women in their 30s and 40s, and the number of new infections among gay and bi-sexual black men under 30 increased 48 percent between 2006 and 2009 (the latest U.S. fi gures available). This epi-demic’s epicenter falls in the South, where poverty and lack of affordable health care are thwarting education, testing, and treatment. Patrick Packer, executive director of the Southern AIDS Coalition, says that the 16 southern states and the District of Columbia account for nearly half of the country’s new infections. His organization is out to “save one community of young peo-ple at a time,” but it needs your help. First up: Columbia, S.C., located in Richland County, which Packer says has one of the nation’s highest concen-trations of HIV/AIDS cases and has taken on going hits to health care funding. The coali-tion plans to screen 5,000 at-risk youth and fi nd proper care for those who test positive. “If we can turn the tide in Colum-bia,” he says, “we can do it anywhere.”// To learn more, go

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Establish a New Lounge For Wounded Vets at Fort Belvoir, Va.When Walter Reed Army Medical Cen-ter closed on Aug. 27 after 102 years, its Hooah Lounge—a popular gathering place for Iraq and

Afghanistan vets—closed, too. (The term “Hooah” or “Oorah” is a mili -tary expression of enthusiastic agree-ment; the acronym associated with it, HUA, stands for Heard, Understood, Acknowledged.) Operation Home-front DC Metro, a nonprofi t support group for soldiers and their families in the D.C. area, is building a bigger and better Hooah

Lounge adjacent to DeWitt Army Com-munity Hospital in Fort Belvoir, Va., where many post–9/11 vets are now treated. The cost of getting this new refuge for recover-ing veterans up and running is $10,000. Donate what you can, then holler out a big “Hooah!” for supporting the troops. // To

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The Las Conchas wildfi re, which began June

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Native American Tewa tribe of Santa Clara

Pueblo. Although their village escaped dam-

age, about 17,000 acres—or 80 percent—of

their forestland were scorched. “That canyon

is our church, our heritage, and our life,” says

Walter Dasheno, governor of Santa Clara Pueblo, who has partnered

with the New Mexico Community Foundation to launch a “We Will Heal”

reforestation program. Every gift of $5 covers the cost of planting and

nurturing one seedling. “My hope is that one day our descendants will be

able to point to the new trees and say, ‘My grandpa or grandma planted

that,’” says Dasheno. // To learn more, go to nmcf.org

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7Keep a Home Warm This Winter

The U.S. Department of Energy projects that aver-age household heating costs could increase by up to 8 percent this winter, and those charges will be extracted from family budgets already stretched thin in a cold economy. The National Fuel Funds Net-work (NFFN) is a nonpro� t

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CHANGE KIDS’ LIVES—AND A CITY’S IMAGE

Earlier this year, Forbes magazine named Stockton, Calif.,

America’s Most Miserable City, a distinction that City

Manager Bob Deis likened to “bayonetting the wounded.”

But there’s a bright spot amid the town’s crippling foreclosure crisis and

15.4 percent unemployment: Despite a reduced police force, violent crime

has gone down 10 percent. A chief reason is Operation Peacekeeper, a

program that targets youth gang violence. Its six outreach workers coun-

sel and mentor more than 12,000 kids (ages 10 to 18) every year and re-

ward them with fi eld trips outside the urban area. “When your neighbor-

hood is fi lled with violence, you have no frame of reference,” says program

coordinator Ralph Womack. “These trips change lives by changing their

world.” The economic downturn has caused fi eld trip funds to dry up. But

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for backpacking, fi shing, kayaking, and other adventures. // To learn more,

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Build Safe Rooms in Joplin Schools

On May 22, an EF5 tornado destroyed Joplin, Mo. “When it hit, it was like every-thing exploded,” Dan-iel Fluharty told the Joplin Globe. He had just arrived for work at Pizza Hut and sur-

vived the storm by hunkering down in the remains of the restaurant’s walk-in cooler. That day, 162 area residents died in what became the seventh deadliest tornado in U.S. his-tory—but it could have been much worse. If the twister had struck during the week in-stead of on Sunday, “3,000 kids would have been in schools directly in its path,” says Joplin School District Superinten-dent C. J. Huff. The

schools sustained more than $150 mil-lion in damage and some were reduced to rubble. As part of the rebuilding effort, Huff is raising $10 million to construct safe rooms in each of the district’s 19 schools; the rooms would pro-vide sturdy shelter for students and teachers should the skies explode again. Every donation buys con-crete and steel—and a little peace of mind. // To learn more, go to

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