Tabla de contenidos para July 23, 2023 en Parade

Here’s what’s on our radar this week. Go to Parade.com/entertainmentfor more. → He became a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs football team because Clark Kent was from Kansas. → Author Stephanie Meyer based the description of Edward Cullen in Twilight on Cavill, but he was too old to play a 17-year-old by the time the film was produced. → As an ambassador for the Jersey Zoo in the Channel islands, Cavill is involved in the long-term effort to save the world’s threatened animals. → Cavill auditioned for the role of James Bond in Casino Royale but lost out to Daniel Craig. Director Martin Campbell has said, “Henry Cavill would have been an excellent Bond.” → Cavill named his dog Kal, an Akita he adopted in 2014, after the real…

Available in bookstores and online HOTEL 21 Senta Rich Noelle is the model hotel maid—she’s practically invisible to guests—except for the small problem of her kleptomania. She takes “souvenirs,” like lipstick or a hair clip, from the rooms she cleans. But when she starts work at her 21st hotel, Noelle finds herself wanting to befriend her new coworkers, and starts to wonder what it would take to stop hiding herself from the world. Fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine won’t want to miss Hotel 21 (Union Square & Co.). $17, amazon.com EXCAVATIONS by Kate Myers Myers transports readers to an archeological dig in Greece in her debut novel, Excavations (HarperVia). When a group of women discover an unusual artifact that could flip our understanding of history upside-down, they’re forced…

You had just done Jack Ryan, where you were in the CIA, so what about Special Ops: Lioness made you want to rejoin the CIA? I’m just such a huge fan of [creator] Taylor Sheridan. And this world’s so up my alley. I don’t think it’s just because of what I’ve been doing a lot of lately, but I have such great respect for not only the men and women of our armed forces but the CIA, the FBI, our government officials. I always say they’re out there fighting, literally putting their lives on the line, so that I can play pretend and make-believe for a living. I feel a sense of gratitude, and when someone’s going to do a project right like Taylor, it was easy for me to…

“Don’t take anybody’s word for anything—learn it for yourself.” If you ever happen to be in Danny DeVito’s Los Angeles home—or reach him live on a Zoom call—please ask for a tour of his pool table room-slash-office. You won’t be sorry. “Wanna see something really cool?” he asks while swiveling the camera on his phone. Boom. There’s the umbrella he used as the Penguin in the blockbuster Batman Returns. Next is the hat hanging on the edge of a lampstand. “That’s from Matilda!” he says, referring to the quirky kids classic that he directed and narrated. He’s not done. On his desk sits a miniature figure of a grumpy and frumpy older woman. It’s the title character, played by Anne Ramsey, from the dark comedy Throw Momma from the Train.…

Want more Parade? Go to PARADE.COM/NEWSLETTERS for daily stories. HAPPINESS FOR BEGINNERS (JULY 27 ON NETFLIX) Getting bangs or starting a diet is the way that a lot of women get a new lease on life following a divorce. But Helen (Ellie Kemper), who has never been much of a risk taker, decides she needs to get out of her comfort zone in Happiness for Beginners, based on the eponymous novel by Katherine Center. Helen enrolls in the Adventure of a Lifetime, a backcountry survival course hiking 51 miles of the Appalachian Trail with a group of total strangers, among them Yellowstone hottie Luke Grimes, who plays Jake, the best friend of Helen’s little brother—who in true rom-com movie fashion begins as a major pain in Helen’s side. “I thought…

Find solutions to Marilyn’s puzzles and this week’s Numbrix on page 18! Send questions to marilyn@parade.com Numbrix® Complete 1 to 81 so the numbers follow a horizontal or vertical path—no diagonals. For more Numbrix puzzles, go to Parade.com/numbrix. Why do domestic cats love fish even though they would not have access to them if it weren’t for people? Cats don’t like to be in water. —Iva Williams, Brooklyn, New York The standard answer to this question is that Egyptians were likely the first people to domesticate the feline companions we know today, and they attracted them with fish, thus developing an inherited taste for fish over time. I don’t think this makes sense. If cats had no taste for fish before then, how could Egyptians have attracted them with fish?…