ON THE COVER 64
Celebrating his record-selling music and film deal and her titillating new movie, Michael Jackson and Madonna put their celebrated selves together for a scene-stealing night on the town

UP FRONT 34-44

It's being called the Fatal Attraction trial, and now a New York jury is writing the final scene in Carolyn Warmus's story

New Kid Donnie Wahlberg gets singed with an arson charge

James Brown is out of prison, and he feeeeeels good

WEDDING 47
Lee Iacocca takes his third spin down the aisle

HERO 51
Gutsy immunologist Margot O'Toole put her job on the line to prove her boss's data had been faked

SCREEN 57
Ghostwriter Bruce Joel Rubin wins an Oscar for his spirit-lifting screenplay

EARTH 61
McDonald's dumps its plastic burger boxes—with a little encouragement from the Environmental Defense Funds Fred Krupp

FAREWELL 70
George Harrison and Phil Collins join Eric Clapton in Surrey, England, for the funeral of his 4-year-old son, Conor

COUPLES
M*A *S*H's Mike Farrell and Coach's Shelley Fabares say their marriage has been more than six years of prime time

HAPPY 81
Chip Meahan's whimsical pacifiers put a smile—or a mustache, if you like—on baby's face

IN HIS WORDS 83
Physician Paul Cheney argues that chronic fatigue is a plague upon us all

TO THE TOP 87
What's in a nickname? Ask Saturday Night hive's Rob Schneider

SOLDIERS 88
In occupied Iraq, SFC Sylvia Jo Knisley and her medics are anything but the ugly Americans

PAGES 93
Mary McGarry Morris, housewife turned novelist, scores her second success, with A Dangerous Woman

TRIBUTE 96
Martha Graham set the stage for modern dance

MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 7
STYLE WATCH 31
THE INSIDER 33
STAR TRACKS 48
PASSAGES 78
CHATTER 98