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A: Actually, no. When Cleopatra’s producer, Walter Wanger, called Taylor about the part, she wasn’t interested, but said she’d do it for $1 million, an unprec-edented salary for an actress in 1959. She assumed he’d never agree—but he did. The 1963 movie (now on Blu-ray in a 50th anniversary edition) took longer to make than expected; thanks to Taylor’s generous contract, she’d made $7 million by the time it wrapped, the equiva-lent of about $53 million today.
The Grammy-winning musician, 68, has a new album,
Wrote a Song for Everyone, on which he has rerecorded some
of his Creedence Clearwater Revival and solo hits with per-
formers including Keith Urban, Foo Fighters, and Kid Rock.
Q: Where did you get the idea for this album?
A: My wife, Julie, said, “Why don’t you get a bunch of the people that you love to sing your songs with you for a new record?” That sounded like Christmas to me, so I dove right in.
Q: Was there any artist you approached
who you worried might not sign on?
A: Alan Jackson. I’ve been a fan of his since 1989 and I own all of his albums. I was afraid to get my hopes up, so when they told me he’d do it, I almost fell on the fl oor!Q: You also perform a song with your
sons, Shane, 21, and Tyler, 20.
A: I’m so proud of them. We put them on not because they’re my
sons but because they’re really talented. I feel the way any parent would when their kid gets a great report card or wins the science fair.
Q: Is there a musician you hope you
can work with again soon?
A: Bruce Springsteen. He isn’t on this album, but he’s a dear friend.
I admire him, and he’s a fan of mine. When we’re together, the sparks are always fl ying between us in a good way.Q: What’s your idea of the
perfect day off?
A: I’d watch iCarly with my 11-year-old daughter, Kelsey. Then we’d jump in the pool and my wife would start up the barbecue. When I’m standing at the pearly gates, I want to say to God,
“Don’t look at the records. Look at my family. I’m much prouder about that part.”
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Hollywood friendship: It can’t be real, right? Nah, it’s all just air-kissing and “Love your work” and
“Let’s do lunch.” At least, that’s what you might expect—until you spend some time with Sandra Bullock, 48, and Melissa McCarthy, 42. Since they fi rst met, on the riotous buddy-cop comedy The Heat (in theaters June 28), the costars have devel-oped the kind of camaraderie that even Oscar and Emmy winners can’t fake. They fi nish each other’s sentences, make detailed, thoughtful observations about each other’s kids, and rib each other mercilessly.
On the Boston set of The Heat
last summer, “they were insepa-rable,” says Paul Feig, who directed the actresses in their roles as an uptight FBI agent (Bullock) and a freewheeling Beantown detective (McCarthy) who are forced to partner on a case. “Normally after movies, those friendships go away,” adds Feig, who also worked with McCarthy on Bridesmaids. “Theirs blossomed.” Back in L.A., Bullock and her 3-year-old son, Louis, went trick-or-treating on Halloween with McCarthy’s husband, actor
Ben Falcone, and their daughters, Vivian, 6, and Georgette, 3 (McCarthy was working); the whole gang visited Disneyland in December; and the two moms get the kids together for regular play-dates (“We’re seeing each other this weekend,” says Bullock).
Here, in an intimate interview, she and McCarthy—wrapped in matching white bathrobes as they prep for a photo shoot—discuss their friendship, their families, and why they don’t consider themselves “Hollywood moms.”
PARADE: So you didn’t know each
other before making this fi lm?
BULLOCK: No. We have friends in common. MCCARTHY: When people found out we were doing this thing, I got between 12 and 15 calls saying, “You’re about to meet the greatest girl in the world.”BULLOCK: That’s awfully sweet. MCCARTHY: Did you set them up? Maybe you told people to call …BULLOCK: No, I don’t know that many people. Before I signed on, I talked to Melissa. Hearing her voice and how calm and happy and sweet [she was] ... it was like talking to a friend who got what it was all about. We’re extremely similar in how we enjoy ourselves in life. We have two different working styles, but once we fi gured that out, the rhythm of it was perfect for the characters. What are those different styles?
BULLOCK: The fi rst week, I was like, “What is she doing? That’s not in the script.” I was the lone actor, jack-of-one-trade, in a room full of improv actors and stand-up comedians. I mean, you should just listen to the stuff that comes out of her mouth. It’s either mental illness or genius.
MCCARTHY: When I do go crazy, they’ll quote this interview, where you were like, “Maybe it’s mental illness.” Ohhhh. She knew! BULLOCK: I believe that every human being has mental chal-lenges. I know what my issues are … but yours are just profound. And they’re so good at making money for you—it’s fantastic. Were you excited about working
together?
MCCARTHY: Before I knew you—don’t listen, I don’t want you to get cocky—I was asked in an interview who I thought was funny, and I said you. Because you know what? I don’t think you have any pride. BULLOCK: She means in work! MCCARTHY: I love to watch some-one who just goes for it and isn’t worried about whether it’s silly or awkward or unfl attering. And I really liked the script. I liked that they were good characters. I had no interest in doing “Two dingbats
get together and things go crazy.”BULLOCK: I’ve always wanted to do a female buddy fi lm, the kind the guys get to do. This didn’t have anything to do with getting a guy, and it didn’t involve shoe shopping. It was about two human beings who are great at what they do struggling to gain the other’s acceptance. I’d seen Bridesmaids, and I said, “If Melissa McCarthy wants to work with me …”MCCARTHY: You did not say that!BULLOCK: I swear I did.Were your kids on the set in Boston?
BULLOCK: The kids were every-where. Outside in our little trailer park it was a kids’ wonderland. MCCARTHY: We were right across from the children’s museum, and they had a hip-hop dance class that they went to and loved. BULLOCK: Louis was like her third
child, the way he fi t together with Vivi and Georgie. And they were so loving with each other. MCCARTHY: Even though he’s so tiny, Louis really played big brother. He would put his arms around their shoulders or go in front of them and block them if he didn’t like something. He was running security. BULLOCK: Having kids connected us on a deeper level. And the things we’re obsessed with outside of being a mom are the same, too. What are they?
BULLOCK: Construction and house renovation. MCCARTHY: We’re bonkers for it. BULLOCK: The minute they’d say, “And cut,” we’d bolt to our little chairs, fl ip open our iPads, and look at magazines. “I’m tearing down a wall; do you think we should do the window here?” We’re kindred spirits in that world. If we had a beer den, with Barcaloungers—but our version of that—it’d be great. MCCARTHY: There’d be fabric swatches everywhere. And reclaimed wood. How much have you been able to
hang out together as families?
BULLOCK: Well, when she returns my calls … I’m sorry, this week you’ve been amazing. MCCARTHY: As you’re still texting to Sandy, she’s texting you back. As you’re hitting send, she already has a very thought-out Part-1a-of-Section-2b response. BULLOCK: I don’t want an oppor-tunity to go missing because of my lack of organization. MCCARTHY: Ben and I live like hermits. The night of a concert, we’ll be like, “Do you think we can get tickets?” And everybody is like, “No, why didn’t you do this earlier?” But you’re the complete opposite. You do it 16 months out.
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TWO OF A KIND There was a lot of comic improv in The Heat. “I thought, ‘Either we’re never going to work again, or we’ve made the greatest love story of all time,’ ” says Bullock.
before i signed on, i talked to melissa,”
says Bullock. “hearing her voice and how calm and happy and sweet
[she was] ... it was like talking to a friend.”
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BULLOCK: Sometimes I do feel compelled. It’s who I am. I’ve learned, though, to let go a lot. Do you worry about whether
you’re a good or bad mom?
BULLOCK: Every single second of every single day. MCCARTHY: It plagues me. I feel intensely guilty for working. In my memory, my mom and dad were constantly there. But in reality my dad worked in Chicago for the Belt Railway arguing arbitration cases, and my mom was a secretary. We were all so happy that I didn’t register that they worked. You have to be able to provide for your kids. But I feel like it’s a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it. BULLOCK: I don’t know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I’m always plagued with, did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction? But I also know that my entire life revolves around Louis. As long
as he knows the minute he walks in the room that he is the most amazing creature I’ve ever met, everything else is pretty much … you can’t do anything about it.Does fame create problems for
you? What about paparazzi?
MCCARTHY: Strangers shouldn’t be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profi t. They think, “We’re putting out a product,” but you’re putting out a child. BULLOCK: We’re adults, and we’re fair game—not that I like being photographed going in and out of school in my sweatpants. But I instinctively throw things over Louis’s head. I’m nearsighted, so he spots them much earlier than
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I do, and he doesn’t like them. He gives them the stink-eye, and they’re like, “That’s such an angry kid,” but I look at them and say, “Only when you guys are around.”Aside from that, do you think
it’s different, or more diffi cult,
raising kids in Hollywood?
BULLOCK: I don’t raise Louis in Hollywood. I raise him in my world. To me the good thing about living in L.A. is diver-sity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion. I want Louis to look around and see every color under the sun. I also have the luxury of splitting my time between L.A. and Austin.
[When I meet other parents], there’s so much baggage that comes with what I do. I go, “Try not to read into what you’ve read, because this is the woman I am. I’m Louis’s mom.”MCCARTHY: Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that’s all actors and the Sunset Strip. We crave talking to people who do different things and are passionate about it. We have some of the most rock-solid, lovely friends in the world.BULLOCK: When she and Ben invite you into their circle, you’re like, “This is going to be great!” To see a couple that has fun, that supports each other—that’s what I love about them. They have that electricity; they look at each other and you think, “There’s not just laugh-ing going on in that house.”MCCARTHY: I like him. I’m gonna keep him.BULLOCK: [nods in agreement] He responds to my texts and emails.
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The afternoon of March 28,2012, was one of those roll-down-the-windows spring days in Fostoria,
Ohio, as Brad Ray drove home from the county courthouse. Yet even the bright sunshine couldn’t lighten his mood. Brad, daughter Gabby, 18, and son Austyn, 16, were returning from a hearingwhere a judge had ordered Austyn to perform 16 hours of community service for punch-ing a classmate. Brad knew the sentence could have been much harsher, but the court scene was just another reminder of the family’s troubles.
Brad, 37, and his wife, Jaime, 36, had recently been released from prison after serving several years for growing marijuana. Though the family was fi nally back together, times were tough. Brad couldn’t land steady work. Austyn got in frequent fi ghts, and his grades were dismal. Gabby, who had gotten preg-nant while her parents were in prison, was struggling to make it as a single mom in high school. And adding to Brad’s frustration that day: They were running late to pick up Jaime from work.
As their car rounded a sharp curve, Brad and the kids heard a loud bang and then came upon a horrifi c car crash. Brad slammed on the brakes and jumped out of his car. “This little black sedan looked like a dinosaur
had stomped on the front end,” Brad says. “Somehow the driver had gotten out. He was sitting on the side of the road, saying, ‘There’s a guy in that truck.’ ”
Brad sprinted toward the smoking and mangled pickup. “I was thinking, no way this guy is alive. I yelled to the kids, ‘Stay back!’ ” says Brad, but Gabby and Austyn were right behind him.
Inside the truck, Matt Ster-ling, dazed and bleeding, was struggling against the crushed driver-side door. He had been
headed to Kathy’s Korner, the restaurant in Arcadia, Ohio, that he runs with his wife, Rachel. After impact, his truck rolled twice before settling on its tires in a corn-stubble fi eld.
At 6-foot-2 and 280 pounds, Matt is a strong man, but he couldn’t budge the door. “It’s okay, we’ll get you out,” Brad told him, then bolted around to the passenger side, which was also jammed.
“Then I saw fl ames under the truck—the whole underside was on fi re,” Brad says. “I knew we didn’t have much time.”
A former amateur boxer, Brad pulled on the door with all his might until it fi nally
gave a bit and he could wedge his body in to pry it open. Then Gabby and Austyn scrambled in, grabbing Matt’s clothes and dragging him out. With a kid under each arm, Matt stumbled to safety. Brad followed behind, feeling a rush of heat as fl ames engulfed the truck.
“Even together, those two kids aren’t my size,” says Matt, 49, his voice cracking at the memory. “No doubt, they saved my life.”
Later that night, the crash got Brad thinking about life, death, and fate. “When I came home from prison, I didn’t know how to make things right,” Brad says. “I prayed: Just give me a chance to show people I’ve changed … that I’m a good person.” As Brad replayed the rescue in his mind, he wondered, Could this be my chance?
Brad says the downward spiral for his family began in 2005 after the death of his grandfather. “He was
more like a father to me,” Brad says. “Everything I knew about being a man and a good person, I’d learned from him.” He began self-medicating with alcohol, then drugs. His home-improvement business foundering, Brad started growing marijuana in his base-ment to make ends meet. When the cops came knocking one August morning in 2007 to bust him and Jaime, it was front-page news in tiny Fostoria.
With both parents serving prison sentences, the kids bounced from one family member to another. Meanwhile Brad and Jaime tried to hold their marriage together through handwritten letters and three
Local HeroesBrad Ray and his kids saved one man’s life. Turns out
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A LIFE-CHANGING FRIENDSHIP Brad Ray (left) and his children, Gabby and Austyn, with Matt Sterling (center), whose life they saved.
15-minute phone calls each year. “I had lost everything,” Brad says. “My only goal in prison was to rebuild myself and be the person my kids needed to succeed.”
Yet after Brad and Jaime were released, they found that no one wanted to hire an ex-con full time. Every day, Brad battled to stay sober and resist his old troubled ways. “I had to wake up each morning and say, ‘Today I am going to make some good happen,’ ” he says.
Then came the crash. As local news reports chronicled the heroic actions, Brad sensed
a shift. Folks in town who’d previously whispered under their breath when Brad walked by now shook his hand and thanked him. Austyn says teachers and kids at school saw him in a new light.
“People seemed to respect me, and I started caring about my grades,” Austyn says. “I guess I realized that I fi nally had what I wanted—a dad I could be proud of.”
Meanwhile, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Brad’s and Matt Sterling’s families. Jaime got a job as a waitress at Kathy’s Korner, and when Gabby graduated from high school with honors last June, the Sterlings’ gift was a fully catered party.
“To be able to call Matt a
friend has been huge,” Brad says. “A positive role model has been sent back into my life.”
Brad still hasn’t landed a full-time job, but in the meantime, he’s picking up more steady work, fi xing roofs, laying blacktop, and putting up drywall. And he has used his newfound status to pursue his longtime dream— starting Fostoria Area Boxing, an after-school program that runs on a shoestring budget at a local gym. “A lot of these kids come from very tough situations, and I want to give them confi dence and hope,” Brad says. “But as much as this helps them, it’s not half as much as it helps me. When I’m here, I’m not an ex-con. I am just Coach.”
Brad, Gabby, and Austyn have received “Certifi cates of Heroism” from the city of Fostoria and offi cial recogni-tion from the Wood County Sheriff Department. They appreciate the awards, but it’s the gold “guardian angel” pendants that Matt gave each of them that they treasure.
“It may sound strange to say that I’m glad to be part of this, but it’s how I feel,” Matt says. “Go through the story and you can only conclude that what happened that day was meant to change lives for the better.”
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