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Apr 12, 2004 Vol. 61 No. 14

Jessica Simpson

April 12, 2004

Cover Story

Jessica Simpson

The Pop Star Answers 30 Questions in 30 Seconds (Approx.)

Pg. 282

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Table of Contents

Articles

Editor's Letter

Pg. 10

President's Letter

Pg. 12

Separate Ways

Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz Call An End to Their Three-Year Romance. What Went Wrong?

Pg. 72

Face-to-Face

Kobe Bryant and His Accuser—Who Says She Has Received Death Threats—Finally Meet in Court

Pg. 74

The Big Play

Passes! Fumbles! Backfields in Motion! Will ABC's New Bachelor, NFL Quarterback Jesse Palmer, Be Next to Score in TV's Super Bowl of Love?

Pg. 76

30 Years of PEOPLE

The Magazine Celebrates Old and New Friends, Our Greatest (and Forgettable) Moments, and the Stories That Kept You Reading

Pg. 81

What I Know Now

Pg. 82

We're Turning 30, Too

Like Us, These Baby-Faced Celebs Will Blow Out 30 Candles in 2004. Better Make An Extra-Large Cake

Pg. 97

Then & Now

The Things We Use Have Gotten Smaller (Usually), Faster (Often), Cheaper (Sometimes) and Better (Well...Maybe)

Pg. 103

Roses, Reality, Romance

Once All We Had Was the Dating Game. Now Looking for Love on TV Means Malibu Mansions and Making Out in the Hot Tub. Thank—or Blame—The Bachelor's Calculating Cupid, Mike Fleiss

Pg. 106

He's Y'all That

When Nashville Needed a Boost, Producer Tony Brown and His Stable of Stars—Reba & Wynonna & Vince & Lyle & Trisha & Georges Strait and Jones—Helped Launch a Revival by Taking Country Back to Its Roots

Pg. 108

Everything Old Is...New Again

Sometimes Stars Head Back to the Future for a Modern Twist on Familiar Fashions...

Pg. 110

The Evolution of Man

Pg. 114

I Love Your Hair!

Ah, the Looks We Longed For—then Longed to Forget. We Combed the Last 30 Years for Some Memorable Dos

Pg. 116

Forever in Blue Jeans

The Highs and Low-Rise of America's Favorite Fashion Statement

Pg. 118

American Dreams

Four American Families Along the Economic Ladder Harbor Different Hopes—and Fears—About the Future. One Thing They Share: A Passionate Drive to Help Their Kids Flourish

Pg. 120

30 Years on the Job

No Need to Update These Résumés. The People on These Pages Have Stick-to-itiveness

Pg. 127

The Trials of O.J.

Ten Years After the Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, O.J. Simpson Plays Golf, Signs Autographs and Raises His Kids. It All Seems So Normal—but It's Not

Pg. 131

Unsolved Mysteries

Once They Were All We Talked About. and Looking Back at the Most Puzzling Cases from the Past 30 Years, We're Still Waiting for Answers

Pg. 141

The Power of People

Their Stories Touched Us All and After These Unique Individuals Appeared in Our Pages, Their Own Lives Were Never the Same

Pg. 151

First Looks

Who Were They Then? Long Before These Celebs Were A-Listers, They Premiered in the Pages of PEOPLE

Pg. 158

Uttered Perfection

Stars Have Talked About Everything in Our Pages, and Here's a Gab Bag of Their Best Quotes

Pg. 179

March 1974-April 2004: 1,574 Covers

Pg. 186

It's a Fact

When We Talk to the Stars, We Get the Story—and Some Details You Wouldn't Believe

Pg. 205-206, 208

I Was the One Who...

They Were There, but You May Not Have Seen Them. Meet the Unsung, but Pivotal, Players Behind Some of the Most Memorable Events of the Past

Pg. 210-214

The Time of My Life

Winning the White House, Becoming a Parent, Grabbing the Gold—the Stars Remember Their Shining Moments

Pg. 221-222, 225-226, 228

Remembering Kurt

Ten Years after the Grunge Idol's Death, Kurt Cobain's Widow Courtney Love Looks Back on a Life Cut Snort

Pg. 230

Click!

The Best of Star Tracks

Pg. 234

Puzzler

Pg. 249

The Next Wave

Keep an Eye on These Extraordinary Young Achievers, Because the Future is in Their Hands

Pg. 252

Future Perfect

Hair that Won't Gray and Grow-Your-Own Breast Implants? A Look at How The O.C.'s Rachel Bilson (and the Rest of Us) Will Stay Gorgeous in 2034

Pg. 264

This New House

In 30 Years, Your Toilet May Analyze Your Diet, Your Dinner Table May Do the Dishes, and the Kitchen (Already Being Tested at Mit) May Be Smarter Than the Cook

Pg. 266

And Now It's Time For...the Pcats*

The People Celebrity Aptitude Test

Pg. 269

People Magazine Club

Fed Up with Their Book Club, These Readers Came Up with a Pop-Culture Twist—a People Magazine Club

Pg. 279

Déjà Vu All Over Again!

Watching the Culture Pop, We've Come to One Stunningly Original Conclusion: the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Pg. 280

Also In This Issue

Mailbag

Pg. 14

Scoop

Pg. 27-28, 30, 32, 35

Movie Reviews

Pg. 41

TV Reviews

Pg. 49

Music Reviews

Pg. 57

Book Reviews

Pg. 63

Insider

Pg. 71

Passages

Pg. 78

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