Evangeline Lilly's home goes up in smoke ... Britney Spears parties on ... Lara Flynn Boyle gets hitched ... Plus: Donald Trump's feud with The View's Rosie O'Donnell rages on
63 COVER Half Their Size Weight-loss winners share their stories. Plus: losing on any budget, after age 40, with the help of a famous friend and more!
50 'Tis the season to go on vacation for celebs, who spent their holidays at hot-spots from Hawaii to Aspen
54 Godfather of Soul James Brown, the singer who pioneered funk and influenced hip-hop, dies at 73
58 Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt share the details of their family's passionate fight to help Maddox's homeland, Cambodia
60 Former President Gerald Ford, a Michigan congressman who sought to heal the nation after the Watergate scandal, dies at 93
116 You had a lot of questions for her, and actress Cameron Diaz gives PEOPLE readers the answers
119 Ex-nurse Laura Moore helps get seriously ailing foster kids the best medicine: loving homes
125 Meet Chris Gardner, the real-life inspiration behind Will Smith's The Pursuit of Happyness
137 Ready to ring in '07, Ryan Seacrest dishes on Dick Clark, American Idol and being single
140 Police in Ipswich, England, make an arrest in the chilling serial murders of five young women
142 Project Runway contestant Laura Bennett shows off her latest creation: her sixth child, son Finn
144 Matthews Fox and McConaughey team up for the football film We Are Marshall
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
MAILBAG 6
PEOPLE.COM 8
STAR TRACKS 12
SCOOP 21
PICKS & PANS 31
INSIDER 49
PUZZLER 128
STYLE WATCH 131
PASSAGES 138
CHATTER 146
ON THE COVER Photographs by Jon Ragel. Hair by Mordechai Alvow/Artists by Timothy Priano. Makeup by: Jennifer Farhood/Artists by Timothy Priano. Styling by: Lindsay Moremen/Artists by Timothy Priano. Insets: (from left): Courtesy Janene Campbell; Courtesy Mary Smith; Right Insets (from top): Boris Heger/UNHCR/AP; Araldo di Crollalanza/Unimedia International
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!















