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FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2010 file photo, evangelist Billy Graham, 92, speaks during an interview at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. As he approaches his 93rd birthday, America?s most famous Christian evangelist is reflecting frankly on his mortality and offering perspective for the country?s aging population. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2010 file photo, evangelist Billy Graham, 92, speaks during an interview at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. As he approaches his 93rd birthday, America?s most famous Christian evangelist is reflecting frankly on his mortality and offering perspective for the country?s aging population. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)
FILE - In this May 31, 2007 file photo, Billy Graham speaks during a dedication ceremony for the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C. As he approaches his 93rd birthday, America?s most famous Christian evangelist is reflecting frankly on his mortality and offering perspective for the country?s aging population. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) ? For the Rev. Billy Graham, America's most famous evangelist across a career that lasted some six decades, the prospect of old age and death was for a long time something he tried not to think about, despite his convictions about the eternity that awaits human beings.
"I fought growing old in every way," Graham, who turns 93 on Monday, writes in the newly-published "Nearing Home," a book that ranges from Scripture quotations about the end of life to basic advice on financial planning. "I faithfully exercised and was careful to pace myself as I began to feel the grasp of Old Man Time. This was not a transition that I welcomed, and I began to dread what I knew would follow."
Graham's book, his 30th, comes not only as he reaches another year, but as America's huge Baby Boom generation moves into old age, its senior members now eligible for Social Security and retirement. And although in recent years Graham has stepped away from active public ministry, his willingness to be frank about the trials as well as the pleasures of growing old may still have an effect on the millions of Americans whose lives coincided with his time as the country's most famous preacher.
"I find that, talking to students and a lot of younger people, many of them don't know who Billy Graham is," said William Martin, author of "A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story" and a professor at Rice University. "But the people who will be most interested in this are older, and they do remember and adore Billy Graham."
Graham has said he wants to preach one last sermon before he dies, and while the new book is not quite that, it has a similar set of themes. Pondering Bible passages on aging and death, exhorting his readers to make sensible changes in their lives ("Take full advantage of your company's retirement plan, and borrow from it only in an extreme emergency") in down-to-earth language, Graham's ultimate focus is always on Jesus Christ.
"We were not meant for this world alone," he writes. "We were meant for Heaven, our final home."
All together, it's a set of advice that youth-fixated Boomers might not be immediately eager to hear, but coming from Graham it may have more influence. After all, Graham first rose to national prominence with a huge Los Angeles revival in 1949, just as the first Boomers were old enough to notice. Swiftly, Graham ? who at the time was just 31 years old ? became virtually synonymous with American Protestant Christianity, leading massive crusades at sports stadiums, traveling the globe, and meeting with presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama.
Graham's appeal has not only been durable, it's extended far beyond the world of evangelical Christianity, according to Grant Wacker, a professor at the Duke University Divinity School, who's working on a biography of the evangelist.
"It's his influence on the broader public that's intriguing," Wacker said. "There are a lot of people who are not evangelicals who really admire him."
Partly that's because of longevity, Wacker said, and partly because Graham has a reputation for personal integrity that's in marked contrast with other prominent evangelical leaders tarnished by moral or financial scandal. Primarily, though, Wacker said people outside the world of evangelical Christianity respect the evolution of Graham over his long career as someone who, for example, went from strident anti-Communism in his early days to advocating nuclear arms control in the 1970s, a position scorned by Cold War hawks.
"He's acquired first a national and then an international vision over the years," Wacker said. "Whether or not they like his theology, people admire anybody who can grow into a wider vision."
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Justin Theroux looks into her eyes and whispers softly but intently. "Wrap your fingers around the base of it, work the shaft down to the tip and then... flick the tip," the bearded Theroux tells Jennifer Aniston.
Man, who knew milking a cow could be so romantic.
The film that launched a million tabloid covers has finally hit the web trailer junket, as a first look at the David Wain-directed romantic comedy was released late Thursday to gossip fanfare far different than any original studio marketing division could have anticipated. Aniston plays one half of a couple that moves down south from New York, finding themselves at a commune far different from the urban lives to which they were accustomed. Theroux plays one of the members of the commune, a one-with-nature dude who coaxes dairy from animals and plays guitar for the ladies on the farm.
Oh yeah, Paul Rudd is in the movie, too. Actually, he's one of the leads, playing Aniston's husband. His job loss -- and subsequent misery during a short stint working for Ron Livingston, his brother -- is the event that springs the couple toward the commune, where they meet hippies such as Alan Alda, Malin Ackerman and Lauren Ambrose.
A fun comedy set for February, we're almost more excited for the junket and the magazine stories that will follow.
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RIP Sam Beauregarde. You'll be missed.
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E! News has confirmed that Leonard Stone, the actor best known for playing Violet Beauregarde's father in the classic 1971 fantasy film "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," died Wednesday. He was 87.
The cause of death was cancer, according to a statement from the actor's family.
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As fans of the 1971 big-screen Roald Dahl adaptation will recall, Stone's character notably complained to Gene Wilder's crazy confectioner that he's "got a blueberry for a daughter" when Violet transformed into the giant fruit after trying Wonka's Three-Course-Dinner gum.
The actor got his start on the stage, having trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts before serving as the captain on a minesweeper during World War II. Following the war, Stone appeared on stage in South Pacific, Look Homeward, Angel and Bob Fosse's musical Redhead, for which he won a Tony for Best Supporting Actor in 1959.
Stone appeared on such '50s and '60s staples as :The Donna Reed Show," "The Jean Arthur Show," "Rawhide" and "Perry Mason" among others.
After "Wonka," he landed parts in nearly every major prime-time hit of its day, from "M*A*S*H" and "The Bob Newhart Show" in the '70s to "The Dukes of Hazzard," "Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law" in the '80s.
Stone's most recent credits include playing Warren Buffett in the 2005 TV movie "See Arnold Run" and lending his voice to the animated series "Avatar: The Last Airbender."
The actor passed away surrounded by his wife, daughters and grandchildren.
"Somehow he managed to make each of his children and grandchildren feel that they were secretly his favorite," said granddaughter Frankie Solomon in a statement to E! News. "I think that's his greatest accomplishment."
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Now, Brit is taking the Backstreet Boy on tour with her in South America.
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Britney Spears may be the leading lady on the Femme Fatale Tour, but that doesn't mean she doesn't want to bring some guys along for the ride.
Next up, Backstreet Boy Howie D is slated to hit the road with Spears, following in the footsteps of DJ Pauly D and Joe Jonas. The South American tour dates — which kick off November 20, days after Howie releases his solo album Back to Me — were an enticing offer to the pop singer.
"I embraced it with open arms," he told MTV News of the trek, which ends November 28. "She's such a great, talented person. We've known each other for many, many years."
He isn't lying: Howie and Britney grew up together in the industry, with the Backstreet Boys and Spears two of the figureheads of the late-'90s pop revival. Howie said they're rooted in the same place, which will lend itself nicely to touring together.
"We kind of came out of the same camp, out of the Orlando pop scene with us and 'NSYNC and Britney," he recalled. "I feel like we've all grown together and have very similar, parallel lives with us and our music, [with] certain moments being very, very hot, certain moments not, and just riding the wave up and down as it's going. Even [with our] personal lives, having families, having kids. I have a huge respect for her, not only as an artist, but as a person. It's good to be around people you've known and people you've grown up with."
So what keeps people coming back for more from the likes of Howie and Britney? He has a theory: "It's a test of good music being out there," he said. "We really take pride in making good records, timeless records, and being true to our craft and trying to give our fans what they want ... trying to constantly take each record to the next level, push the envelope."
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