50 MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
Jodie, Jodie, Jodie! I always wondered when I was growing up how this scruffy little kid could ever have gotten where she had. Boy, does she get the last laugh. What a package! Once envious, I now have nothing but admiration for this classy American beauty.
DENISE HARVEY, Meridian, Idaho
After all I've done to be beautiful, and I didn't make the list!
PHYLLIS DILLER, Los Angeles
Each and every time a story is written about Katarina Witt, my name is mentioned as a spurned suitor. The truth is that I hardly know her except that on two occasions she came to my office [on business]. After that I was deluged with calls from Katarina asking to go out (I have an abundance of witnesses), but I had no interest. She then invited me to a skating show at Madison Square Garden and to a party after the performance at which, because of my disinterest, she was very rude. Everyone is spurned at some time, but in this ease it was Katarina, not Donald.
DONALD J. TRUMP, New York City
While beauty is still in the eye of the beholder, how much of it is in the hand of the plastic surgeon? I'm not impressed.
DIANE ARENA, Fort Lauderdale
Please tell me how Patrick Swayze could not be included in your 50 Most Beautiful People?
TAMMY A. GRIM, Middlesboro, Ky.
You have omitted the one person who truly deserves the status of beautiful: Barbra Streisand.
THE EMPLOYEES AT ZEN ENTERPRISES, San Francisco
Remember a certain Greek god by the name of Tom Cruise? Anybody with eyes and an adequate hormonal level can see that Mr. Cruise is nature's ultimate gift to women.
MARIBEL PILOTO and NORMA TCHIR, Miami
How sad it is that Jason Priestley feels he must toughen up his image on Beverly Hills, 90210 by "chain-smoking Marlboros and Bungee jumping." If a Bungee cord breaks, death is usually quick; on the other hand, chain-smoking cigarettes over a lifetime leads to a slow, horrible death. I would rather chance the Bungee cord.
PAT CHANDLER, The Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Hollywood, Fla.
Is there any justice? Without a doubt, the most gorgeous man on this earth is Jean-Claude Van Damme.
HEATHER DAWE, Herndon, Va.
Your list should have been the 51 Most Beautiful People in the World. The fifty-first: romance-novel cover model Fabio! Next to Mel Gibson, he's the only other man on this planet whose picture takes my breath away.
DEBBIE DAJKO, Cleveland
I can't believe it! Once again, you have passed up Keanu Reeves.
ERICA KINNEY, Phoenix
How dare you leave out Garth Brooks? He may have friends in low places, but he's tops with me and my friends.
MICHAEL BOBOLA, Columbus, Ohio
You did make one concession to age—Elizabeth Taylor. But how could you leave out the incredible Katharine Hepburn. Sorry, but that lovely lady would leave most of your choices in the dust!
ALISANDE CHAPPELL, Naples, Fla.
Give me a break! I cannot believe Marky Mark was listed as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People. There's nothing cute about him—with or without his pants.
LISA HEYER, Huntsville, N.C.
LAINA PECORA
Now, hold on! Since when does a size 12 designate a woman as a heavyweight? I'm not even sure Laina Pecora ought to qualify as a large-size model.
JANET DYER, Suffern, N.Y.
I had long ago given up on models and the modeling industry because of the unattainable ideals they force-feed women in this society. But this is really adding insult to injury. As for Ms. Pecora, she looks like she's just the right weight for her height. I should be so "large."
DONNA L. HARRIS, Winnipeg, Manitoba
LEONARD PELTIER
I was astonished by your article. You printed Peltier's version of the murders of FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler without a hint as to the trial evidence. There were no witnesses who placed Peltier asleep in camp, as he claimed he was. Testimony from every witness placed him at the scene when the shooting started. He also admitted, in his 60 Minutes interview last year, that he was shooting at the agents who died. Even if you do not believe, as the evidence strongly suggested, that he was the close-range executioner, it is clear that he is not an innocent bystander. At a minimum, he was resisting arrest—aiding and abetting in a murder.
LYNN E. CROOKS, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Fargo, N.Dak.
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