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You Could Win A STETSON HAT

SIGNED BY BRAD!See page 10

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PARADE

WALTER SCOTT’S

Q: Did Alan Young, who

played Wilbur on Mister

Ed, continue to keep

horses in his life after the

show ended in 1966?

—Donna P., Philadelphia

A: “After Mister Ed I didn’t want anything to do with horses, because I felt like I was cheating on Ed,” says the 93-year-old actor, who is also the voice of Scrooge McDuck. “Working with that dear animal was a joy. We were buddies. I learned to ride on him, and he was very thoughtful about my lack of ability.”

Q: How many pianos does

Elton John take on tour?

—Roger N., Fort Wayne, Ind.

A: John has fi ve 9-foot-long Yamaha grand pianos, each of which he’s named, and he takes different ones on various legs of his world tour. He just returned from South America, where he played on Aretha, Kay, and a red piano called Nikita. He’s now in the U.S. with Nina. His fi fth, Winifred, is in Europe.

SUNDAY

FreebieEnter for a chance to

win a Rise of the Guardians DVD signed by Hugh

Jackman, who voices the Easter Bunny in the fi lm,

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Q: Will Kristin Chenoweth

be returning to The Good

Wife? —Laura C., Biloxi, Miss.

A: Chenoweth, 44, was in two episodes this season, but her recurring role as a political journalist was sidetracked when a light fi xture fell on her during

Kristin Chenoweth

Alan Young with Mister Ed in 1962

Elton John

The cast and crew were so gracious, and I know that door is always open.”

Q: Why are there new

coaches on The Voice this

season? —Amy G., Tampa

A: When those red chairs swivel around on season four of The Voice this week (NBC, Mondays and Tues-days), Shakira and Usher will be joining Adam Levine and Blake Shelton while Cee Lo Green and Chris-tina Aguilera take a break. “Cee Lo and Christina needed time to honor their commitments to ongoing projects,” says executive producer Mark Burnett. He

adds that with Shakira and Usher, “we got our fi rst choices! They know that The

Voice highlights talent, instead of tearing it down. They fi t in perfectly.” For insights on the competition each week from season three quarter fi nalist Amanda Brown, go to Parade

.com/voice.

New Voice coaches

Usher and Shakira

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The actor, 47, stars as the American who in 1909 founded Britain’s famed Selfridges department store, in Mr. Selfridge (March 31, PBS Masterpiece Classic).

What impressed you about

Harry Selfridge? He came

up with the concept that

the customer is always right, and he was the master-

mind behind the fancy window displays we see today.

Were you disappointed you couldn’t practice your

British accent, since he was a Yank? I was, but I think

this role was meant for me. We’re both from the

Midwest, and I grew up going to the Marshall Field’s

department store in Chicago, where he got his start.

What was it like switching from HBO, where you

played Ari Gold on Entourage, to PBS? Being on

Masterpiece Classic is like telling a Jewish mother

you’re a doctor—it’s instant street cred.

You met Prince Harry and he called you Ari. Did you

remind him that you’re an actor? I was just fl attered that he knew my work. Plus, I knew the name of my next character would be easy for him to remember! Already people are screaming “Harry” instead of “Ari.”

Send questions to [email protected] or P.O. Box 5001, Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163-5001.

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fi lming last July. “I’ve been healing,” she says. “I had a broken nose, a concussion, and a skull fracture. I was out of commission for over two months. Performing at the Oscars was a per-sonal triumph for me.” The actress, now starring in the comedy Family Weekend (on demand and in theaters later this week), says she’d love to return to The Good Wife “if the timing is right.

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Parade

REVOLUTION LIGHTS UP MONDAYS

NBC’s hit drama about anarchy in a world without power returns March 25, with its band of heroes bent on stopping General Monroe’s feudal reign. Miles (Billy Burke, above cen-ter) “is like an addict who fell off the wagon,” says creator Eric Kripke. “He has to give in to his dark side to win.”

REAL TO REELActors (and award givers)

love true-life portrayals—just ask Daniel Day-Lewis and

Meryl Streep. Here are some other stars who’ll soon have us seeing double.

PROJECT PROM

BLAKE SHELTON’S BASED ON A TRUE STORY…As much fun as he’s having on The Voice, Shelton saves the real party for his music. On his new album, he sings about girls, trucks, and missing home when he’s in Hollywood. It’s a rollicking good time.

READING CORNER

If “Thrift Shop” can be a No. 1 song, why can’t prom wear made out of $4 Duck Tape become a fashion trend? In last

year’s Stuck at Prom Scholarship Contest, Cole Sudduth and Lara Ford (above) netted $5,000 each for their winning

look and $5,000 for Desert Ridge High School in Mesa, Ariz. To enter this year’s contest, go to stuckatprom.com,

and check out the 2012 fi nalists at Parade.com/tape.

STEVE JOBS / ASHTON KUTCHER

jOBSRelease date TBD

LIBERACE / MICHAEL DOUGLASBehind the Candelabra

HBO, May 26

PRINCESS DIANA / NAOMI WATTSDiana

Release date TBD

PHIL SPECTOR / AL PACINOPhil Spector

HBO, March 24

Those Angry Days

Spanning the years 1939 to 1941, Lynne Olson’s masterfulbook relives Amer-ica’s debate over whether to go to war—a bitter clash personifi ed by FDR and Charles Lindbergh.

The Burgess Boys

The latest gem fromPulitzer winner Elizabeth Strout brings two lawyer brothers home to Maine to help their sister, forcing them all to face a long-buried family tragedy.

Benediction

Novelist Kent Haruf (Plainsong) delivers a pro-foundly moving tale about life, death, and the ties that bind the residents of a small Colo rado town.

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Brad paisley needs his morning jolt. he waits patiently

in line at the Frothy Monkey, his favorite caffeinated haunt, housed in an old parsonage near his farm in Franklin, Tenn. Though the Monkey is teeming, Paisley doesn’t attract much fanfare. Dressed in

tight black jeans, a black sweatshirt, and motorcycle boots, he’s missing his trademark white Stetson, which tacks a good six inches onto his height.Greeting the baristas by name, he smiles and orders his regular cappuccino.

He sips it carefully, seeming to savor every drop. “There’s something about getting the foam and the cream just right,” Paisley says. “That’s a real art.” He became a coffee devotee during a soul-expanding 2001 trip

6 • MARCH 24, 2013

THE COUNTRY STAR TELLS ALL ABOUT HIS PROVOCATIVE NEW ALBUM, HIS FAMILY LIFE ON A NASHVILLE FARM, AND WHY HE STRUGGLES WITH BEING A WORKAHOLIC

BY

Matt HENDRICKSON

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Brad’s FAVORITE NASHVILLE SPOTS

The Grand Ole Opry, where he fi rst played in 1999

(and where our cover was shot, in the Stars and Stripes

dressing room), tops his list. Artisan Guitars

is another regular stop; here, Paisley chats with cofounders

Bill and Ellie Warmoth. Go to Parade.com/paisley for

more can’t-miss places.

C OV E R & I N S I D E P H OTO G R A P H S

BY P E T E R F R A N K E D WA R D S

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Guitars, his go-to shop in Franklin. A temple to the guitar gods, it has hundreds of gorgeous acoustic models, some priced well into the fi ve fi gures, glistening in the semi-humid, climate-controlled

air. Paisley is here to get a new Martin acoustic, and right after the clerk hands it to him, he starts picking with lightning speed. Revered by many as one of the best guitarists in music today, he’s been collecting the instruments since receiving his fi rst one, a Sears Danelectro Silvertone, from his grandfather when he was 8. When Paisley’s in town, he’ll stop by Artisan a couple times a week just to hang, try out some new gear, and needle the staff. “He gave me such grief when my only child left for college,” says Artisan’s cofounder Ellie Warmoth. “He’s got such a wicked—almost sadistic—sense of humor; he’d just sit there with that grin and say, ‘Ellie, what are you going to do now? Are you lonely?’ I wanted to kill him, but he’ll fi nd out what that’s like someday.”

Paisley and his wife have two young sons, Huck, 6, and Jasper, 3. The couple famously met when he cast her in the video for his 2002 hit “I’m Gonna Miss Her,” after seeing her perfor-mance in Father of the Bride. “I used the video as a way to say hi, and it worked well. I did not,” he says, his eyes betraying him with a mischie-vous glint, “think she would end up as my wife.”

Whatever his intentions, the connection wasstrong. They married in 2003, and Williams-

Paisley relocated to Nashville, where they moved into a custom-made log cabin built on a 100-acre spread. Their homestead is a farm with horses and some heavy equipment that is ostensibly for work purposes, but when Paisley is with his boys, the machines become giant playground toys. During a rare day off, Paisley says, they may motor around in a bull-dozer and ride horses before visiting the Nashville zoo or watching epi-sodes of the original Battlestar Galactica (circa 1978) or Star Wars. Paisley is a huge science fi ction junkie, naming The Empire Strikes Back as one of

his favorite movies—just after It’s a Wonderful Life—and he gets as fi red up as a lightsaber over the recent announcement of new Star Wars fi lms. “I couldn’t be more excited,” he says. “They’re going to do it right.”

Though Williams-Paisley cut back on act-ing during their sons’ early years, she now has a role on ABC’s musical drama Nashville. Paisley is proud of his wife, but don’t expect him to cameo on the show (“They’ve asked, but it’s a little odd, having Kim on there play-ing somebody else”), or even tune in. “I can’t watch it,” he says. “It is really good, but it’s disturbing to me, too close to what I do. It’s like if I was in the CIA, I don’t know if I’d watch Homeland. But I’m not, so I do.” In fact, Paisley, who says spying could have been his

to Italy, the idea of his then girlfriend (now wife), actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley. “She really pushed me to go somewhere where they don’t speak English, where the food is amazing and you’re completely out of your ele-ment,” he says later, guiding his black Chevy Tahoe through Franklin, 20 minutes south of Nashville. “That’s kind of the thing that started me on the path to making this album. I was the last per-son to say ‘open your mind’ back then. But not anymore.”

The album Paisley is referring to is Wheelhouse, due April 9. It’s his eighth studio effort and a pinnacle in his career, a work he’s laid the foundation for over the past 14 years. Paisley, 40, occupies a rarefi ed position: He’s a country superstar who writes wry songs about picking up girls (the 2007 smash “Ticks”) but also thoughtful, observant lyrics that tackle heady topics. On Wheelhouse, he makes his boldest statements yet, with a few tracks that could raise the eyebrows of fans who prefer their country music without controversy.

“Accidental Racist” fi nds the song’s character acknowledging the repercus-sions of slavery, with Paisley’s good friend LL Cool J providing a guest rap that pleads for acceptance and racial harmony. “Brad’s not afraid to express himself,” says LL Cool J. “What other country artist, or any artist right now, talks about slavery?” Paisley tackles religion in “Those Crazy Christians,” written from the viewpoint of a nonbeliever. Born and raised a Southern Baptist in West Virginia, Paisley is still a churchgoer (and an appreciator of traditions like Lent, for which he gave up bread this year), but he likes look-ing at topics from different angles. “This is what I would consider a gospel song, the most important one I’ve ever done—a lot more important to me than ‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus,’ ” he says. “I wrote it shortly after my cousin-in-law passed away in 2011. He was young, and he fought against a debilitating disease. There weren’t fi ve minutes of intensive care that there weren’t at least two church members at the hospital, around the clock, and I remember thinking, what makes people take shifts for somebody they haven’t known very long? Well, it’s belief. To play the part of the skeptic in that song is a much more powerful argument to me—in favor of [belief ] as well as looking at some of the things that are baffl ing. My most devout friends love it and so do my agnostic ones, but for very different reasons.”

Paisley says he isn’t too worried if the edgier material on Wheelhouse doesn’t click with all his fans. “Maybe I’m naive, but I give them a lot of credit for having been with me a long time and knowing me really well. So it’s not like with one album I’m a whole new guy. I’ve had a great career, and if I don’t have one after this …”—he chuckles—“… then so be it.”

WHAT 5ALBUMSCHANGEDBRAD ’SL IFE?

“There’s a warmth to people in Nashville,” says Paisley (above, at the Frothy Monkey). “It’s a

great place to live.” Right, with his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, last year.

Watch our exclusive video from the shoot at Parade.com/paisley

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fallback career, notes that he and his wife celebrated Valentine’s Day by binge-viewing that Emmy-winning drama’s second season.

Ask how his wife would describe him in three words and without hesitation he says, “Work. A. Holic.” Paisley averages nearly one album and 70 tour dates annually, garners raves as cohost of the annual Coun-try Music Association Awards, and still makes time for a hobby: draw-ing and painting. “I like the weird stuff,” he says, citing Salvador Dalí as his favorite artist. He admits that he struggles with work-life balance. “It is tough and frustrating sometimes. When you’re a creative person, there are just times when you’re not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.”

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says Paisley, “or that’s a lot of money wasted.” He walks in through the backstage door, stopping to glance at the completely rebuilt stage. Paisley fi rst played the Opry in 1999, and he became a fi xture on the weekly Saturday night radio broadcasts. “They always tell you to ‘come back anytime,’ but they never think anyone will take them up on it,” he says, laughing. “I did. About 50 times that fi rst year.”

Paisley still drops by when he can for the Saturday pick-fest, and while he quickly acknowledges Buck Owens and Merle Haggard as his primary infl uences, he also feels com-pelled to push country music—and his fans—into more challenging territory. “If I was a new artist, I don’t know that I could have made this album,” he says of Wheel-

house, recognizing the currency he’s accu-mulated. When Paisley was working on the song “Accidental Racist,” LL Cool J visited him in Nashville and asked to see the Ryman Auditorium, the hallowed hall of country music that the Opry called home until 1974 (and where it still hosts occasional performances). Told that the Ryman was built in part by Confederate soldiers, LL Cool J was overwhelmed by the wash of history: “What kind of coun-try do we live in,” he asked Paisley, “that you and I can stand here after all this?” Paisley will return the guest-vocalist favor by contributing to his friend’s forthcoming album, on a track called “Live for You.” “He’s not doing anything crazy,” says LL Cool J. “It’s Brad being Brad. But he loves to challenge himself.”

Paisley knows that as he experiments, “I’m not answering questions with my songs,” he says. “I don’t have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that’s the fun part. I’m like the kid in class with his hand up, going, ‘Um …’ I think that’s a powerful place to create from.”

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recent Shape magazine article starts out with a very provocative

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and why some believe it’s the key to combatting aging. The problem is that while our bodies do manufacture HGH, our levels begin to decline rapidly as we age, and until recently the best way to increase our HGH levels was through expensive prescription injections (costs can run as high

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In addition to their high cost, these synthetic HGH injections are also extremely controversial, because some experts fear that introducing synthetic HGH into the body may upset the natural production of HGH.

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Is there a way to increase

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The formula that was the subject of these research findings is now being sold by SanMedica International™ under the trade name SeroVital™. And despite its much-hyped research, SeroVital remained

an “underground” sensation... until the famed Dr. Oz discussed the product’s research on his show.

He introduced the show segment by asking his audience, “How many of you want to start feeling 20 years younger right now?” and then discussed what he called “a new frontier: stimulating your body’s production of growth hormones naturally with amino acids.”

And when Dr. Oz told his audience, “I have been searching for this from the day we started the show. I’ve been looking for ways of increasing HGH naturally because I don’t like getting the injections,” you can imagine the frenzy he started.

Before long, SanMedica was having trouble keeping SeroVital – with its proprietary, highly specialized, patent-pending amino acid formula – in stock. It went from underground sensation to full-blown phenomenon.

Now, after more than 30 years of time-consuming, detailed research, there’s finally an affordable oral formula that encourages the pituitary gland to increase growth hormone production naturally, without dangerous drugs or synthetic hormone injections.

So what’s the catch? Well, there are three. First, as with HGH injections, SeroVital is not a “magic bullet,” but one part of a healthy lifestyle choice including a sensible diet and exercise regimen.

Second, for proper absorption, you have to take SeroVital-hgh on an empty stomach. That means you either have to take it first thing in the morning and then not eat

anything for two hours, or take it at night, at least two hours after your last meal... before you go to bed.

And last but not least, while SeroVital is far less expensive than prescription HGH injections, it’s still not cheap... SeroVital will cost you about $100 a month.

Is it worth it? To me, anything that may reduce wrinkles, decrease body fat, increase lean muscle mass, strengthen bones, and boost mood, while giving you plenty of energy and improving sex drive, is a no-brainer. However, make no mistake about it, the “established” medical community (and of course, they know everything) would say its benefits are largely anecdotal, with research that’s preliminary. But there’s no denying that something that has a chance of making you look and feel decades, not years, but DECADES, younger, is... at the very least... irresistible. Frankly, I’m ready to try it. How about you?

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1. What’s the best way to avoid high pollen counts?(a) Don’t go outside on windy, dry, and sunshiny days(b) Plan outdoor activities for the morning(c) Stay indoors after a rainstorm

Answer: (a). Pollen counts are highest on days when it’s dry, sunny, and blustery, and lowest duringand just after a big storm. Levels are also generally higher in the morning than in the afternoon.

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3. How can you enjoy the outdoors without bringing on an allergy attack?(a) Wear a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses(b) Change your clothes as soon as you come inside(c) Take a shower before you go to bed(d) All of the above

Answer: (d). When you’re out and about, a hat and a pair of shades (preferably oversize and wrap-around) will help keep pollen away from your face. Once you’re home, tossing your clothes in the laundry means you’ll scatter less pollen around the house. And showering before bed washes pollen away so it doesn’t settle on your sheets and pillows.—Madonna Behen

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