On Sept. 19, Leanza Cornett, 21, became the first Floridian to be clowned Miss America. A communications student at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., the 5'3", 105-lb. Jacksonville native is an AIDS volunteer and describes herself as a pro-choice Christian and Republican. "This is the best time of my entire life," she said at her inaugural press conference. "I've never had paparazzi before."

Welsh baritone Sir Geraint Evans, 70, who made his mark singing Figaro at London's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, died of a heart attack on Sept. 19 in Aberystwyth, Wales. In the '60s and '70s, Evans frequently performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, often singing the title role in Verdi's Falstaff.

After a four-month courtship, German tennis star Michael Stich, 23, the 1991 Wimbledon singles champ who won this year's doubles with John McEnroe, married German actress Jessica Stockmann, 25, in a private ceremony in Monte Carlo on Sept. 19....

Sixties leading man (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Blue Max) and '80s leader of TV's The A-Team, George Peppard, 64, married Laura Taylor, 33, on Sept. 10 in Montecito, Calif. Taylor, a West Palm Beach hanker, helped nurse Peppard through his bout with lung cancer earlier this year. It's his filth marriage, her first.

While we weren't looking: Teen singing sensation Tiffany, 21, who built a following touring shopping malls hack in 1987, will he cruising the Muzak-ed complexes pushing a stroller now that she's—yipes!—a mom. On Sept. 17 in Canoga Park, Calif., the former Ms. Darwish and former makeup artist Bulmaro Garcia, her husband of seven months, welcomed a 9-lb., 12-oz. son. I Elijah Bulmaro. He is the first child for both.

After a media blitz that transfixed New Yorkers with a tale of sex tapes, teenage prostitution and attempted murder, Amy Fisher, 18, the so-called Long Island Lolita, admitted to the May 19 shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, 37, the wife of Fishers alleged lover, Joey, 36. In exchange for her guilty plea. Fisher was charged with first-degree assault and will be sentenced to 5-to-15 years in prison. (She had laced 8 1/3-to-25 years for attempted murder.) Authorities are now expected to charge Joey Buttafuoco, with whom Fisher says she began sleeping when she was 16, with statutory rape.

Music mogul Quincy Jones and his companion of six months, actress Nastassja (Cat People) kinski, are expecting a child next spring. Jones, 59, the father of six. has been married three-times, most recently to actress Peggy Upton. Kinski, 32, has two children by ex-husband Ibrahim Moussa, an Egyptian film producer....

Tawny Kitaen, 30, of TV's resuscitated WKRP in Cincinnati and America's Funniest People and of course, all those White-snake videos, is four months pregnant by California Angels pitcher Chuck Finley, 29. The couple have no plans to marry.