December 18, 2000

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Bad to Worse

Robert Downey Jr. Finds Himself in a Familiar Place: On Drugs and in Trouble. But Friends and Family Fear He Hasn't Hit Bottom yet

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In Their Lives

The Beatles' Breakup 30 Years Ago Spurred Pain and Bitterness, but to the Band and Their Loved Ones, Separate Roads Brought Sorrows of Their Own

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Party Hearty

At Two Glittery Big Apple Bashes, the Stars Turn Out to Raise Money for AIDS and Cancer Research

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Water Hazard

Snorkeling in the Caribbean, NPR's Nina Totenberg Has a Close Encounter—Too Close—With a Fishing Boat

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A Real Downer

Descending Everest Safely Poses a Challenge to Even the Hardiest Climbers, but Davo Karnicar Did It on Skis

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Castaway

For Decades, Renée Broussard Lived a Life of Bizarre Isolation, Cut Off from the World in a Paris Suburb

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Answered Call

John Paul Sullivan, a Bighearted Telephone Lineman, Reaches Out to Touch the Lakotas

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Getting Real

Hoping to Make Women More Comfortable with Their Bodies, Three Friends Rely on Tiny Casts of Characters

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Sew Hip, Sew New

Quirky Quilt Designer Denyse Schmidt Adds a New Stitch to An Old Art

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Telltale Heart?

A Haunting Hit-and-Run Case Took a Bizarre Twist When An Investigator's Friend Confessed. Or Did She?

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Silent Fright

While Madonna Sleeps on An Upper Floor, a Burglar Breaks into Her London Mansion

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The Face of Success

Minnesota Artist Mary Grandpré Created the Magical Look of Harry Potter

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Royal Flush

Phil Dunne's Top-Shelf Mobile Rest Rooms Cost $60,000 Each, but They Go Where You Go—and in High Style

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Full Exposure

Appalled by Conditions in His Father's Nursing Home, Gerry O'Donnell Taped What He Saw to Get Action

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Ageless Battle

Jane Fowler Tells Seniors the Hard Lesson She Learned: You're Not Too Old to Get Infected by HIV

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Tough Talker

TV's Bill O'Reilly Skewers Political Spin Doctors—and Lets His Own Opinions Fly

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Maid to Order

After Surviving Cancer, Will & Grace's Huffy Housekeeper Shelley Morrison Can't Stop Smiling

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Can We Burp?

With Thrilled Mom Joan at Her Side, Melissa Rivers Gives Birth to Her First Child, a Healthy Baby Boy

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Healthy Prophets

Marketing Tasty Vegetarian Dishes Has Rachel and Andy Berliner Rolling in Dough

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Operation: Family Man

Husband and New Dad Paul Mccrane Proves He's Nothing Like ER's House Meanie, Dr. Romano

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Sending a Message

Concerned About Road-Rage Violence, a Judge Sentences Shirley Henson to Prison

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Father Figure

Like His Famous "Papa," Ernest, Jack Hemingway Lived Large

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Valet Bar King

Who Lets the Dogs Out? Bus Driver Donald Bement—but Only When They Get to Their Stop

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Stars' Silly Faces: Whose Is Best?

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Bad to Worse

Robert Downey Jr. Finds Himself in a Familiar Place: On Drugs and in Trouble. But Friends and Family Fear He Hasn't Hit Bottom yet

Table of Contents

Stars' Silly Faces: Whose Is Best?

Pam: Malibu's Most Flaunted

Kellan's Hot Shot

Brad's Tokyo Drift

5 Funniest Moments from Daytime TV

Usher Has a Sing-A-Long

Mya Proves She's a Dancing Queen