STAR TRACKS 8
Madonna and Michael Jackson dine à deux, Bruce Willis straddles a pachyderm. Princess Di skis, and more

UP FRONT

34 Claiming he was Merv Griffin's lover, Brent Plott brings a "palimony" suit against the entertainer-entrepreneur

38 Rookie New York City cop Yolanda Lugo puts her life on the line to save a desperate man

40 The face is familiar—Florence Henderson, Alex Trebek, Meredith Baxter—but the show isn't? That's no TV series, that's an infomercial!

42 Thanks to Saddam, Kuwait's oil fields are in flames; now, to the rescue, rides one tough bunch of Texas fire fighters

TUBE 49
Young Riders star Stephen Baldwin hits the trail toward the fame attained by older brothers Alec and Billy

ROYALS 52
Monaco's Princess Stephanie, career chameleon, turns another album of her music loose upon the world

OH, NO! 83
About faces: Macaulay Culkin gets cute on cue

SCREEN 87
Dolling his turtle suit, martial-a its expert Trine Reyes Jr. plays Keno in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sequel

COVER 92
A scheming, destructive woman seems to be at the center of the storm about Kitty Kelley's unauthorized bio of Nancy Reagan—but who might that be—Kitty or Nancy?

CRIME 105
Seventeen months ago, Tammy Brannen's daughter disappeared; although no body has been found, her kidnapper has been convicted—and Tammy still grieves

ON THE JOB 109
Though a victim of multiple sclerosis, TV consumer-reporter Ellen MacFarlane still goes after the bad guys in the marketplace

TO THE TOP 115
New L.A. Law attorneys John Spencer, Amanda Donohoe and Cecil Hoffmann pass the bar

OOPS! 120
Separated at birth? A man—Jecquin Stitt—is judged the victor in an Oprah Winfrey look-alike contest

STAGE 122
On a break from Designing Women, Dixie Carter goes from sultry to raucous while doing her cabaret act in Manhattan

TROUBLE 127
Retired superjockey Willie Shoemaker clings to life after a tragic highway crash

STYLE 128
It's (Nicole) Miller time, as men reach out for her wild ties and women snap up her bold and colorful dresses

MAIL 6
PICKS & PANS 11
THE INSIDER 33
PASSAGES 125
CHATTER 130