Table of contents for May 7, 2023 in Parade

With no home phone, Fox had to negotiate his deal for Family Ties from a phone booth outside a Pioneer Chicken restaurant in Hollywood. He met his wife Tracy Pollan on season 4 of Family Ties (1985) but they didn’t date until they were reunited on the set of Bright Lights, Big City (1988). “You’re not going to be cute forever.”—What one of his high school teachers told him when Fox said he was going to drop out to act. Fox sat next to Princess Diana at the world premiere of Back to the Future. The Michael J. Fox Foundation is the largest non-profit funder of Parkinson’s disease research in the world, with more than $1 billion of research. THE FANTASTIC MICHAEL J. FOX What happens when a short kid…

Test your Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks IQ with our trivia quiz in honor of the duo hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards together for the Ĥrst time. 1. What’s the connection between country comedian Minnie Pearl and Garth Brooks? A. She’s Brooks’ godmother B. Brooks’ daughter is named after PearlC. Pearl was the Ĥrst country act that Brooks saw https://parade.com/food/martina-mcbride-special-bbq-ribs-recipe-instagram-video 2. Who is the person pictured? A. Books’ second wifeB. The opening act on Brooks’ first solo tour C. A backup singer 3. What’s the relationship between singer Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton? A. Cyrus is Parton’s cousin B. Cyrus is Parton’s goddaughter C. Cyrus is Parton’s niece 4. What is Dolly Parton’s middle name? A. Rebecca B. Ruby C. Rose 5. What year did Dolly Parton join…

The Baywatch and Citadel star, 40, takes an amorous turn in the just-released rom-com Love Again opposite Outlander star Sam Heughan, 43. It’s a “meet cute” for Mira (Chopra Jonas) and journalist Rob Burns (Heughan) when she sends a series of romantic texts to her late boyfriend’s cell phone number, which has been reassigned to Rob. He is intrigued and arranges to meet Mira. The film also stars Céline Dion as herself. Of all the rom-com scripts, what made you say yes to Love Again? I actually loved the German movie [SMS für Dich]. It was really cute and the tone was really nice. But when I spoke to Jim [Strouse], who’s our director, he said, “It’s up to you if you want to watch the German movie. But we…

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF BROADWAY’S BEST (MAY 12 ON PBS) In a salute to Great Performances’ golden anniversary, the series will present a star-studded revue of milestone Broadway shows from 1973 to 2023. Hosted by two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster, the musical celebration from Lincoln Center will feature performances by André De Shields, Chita Rivera, Sara Bareilles, Vanessa Williams, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessie Mueller and more. Then, if you’re headed to New York City this summer, you can make your way to the Great White Way and catch these stars live on Broadway: JUST THE TWO OF US: DUETS COLLECTION VOLUME 1 (MAY 5) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVJ2YTC8?tag=arena_parade_edition-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1 Fans of Olivia Newton-John won’t want to miss this posthumous collection of songs, featuring duets with Dolly Parton, Mariah Carey, Barry Gibb, Michael McDonald, John…

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. Please don’t laugh at my question! I’ll bet other readers would want to know the answer, even if they never thought about it before. So here goes: What is dirt, anyway? —Ruby Benetton, Dallas, Texas I’d describe it as planetary debris, meaning the detritus of billions of years of Earth’s history. What most of us call “dirt” consists of five major categories: minerals, organic matter, living organisms, gases and water. But to purists, dirt is what we should call only the minerals: the broken-down rocky material of varying particle sizes. All of the categories together are more correctly called “soil,” the precious substance that…