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May 09, 1983 Vol. 19 No. 18

Kristy's Crisis

May 09, 1983

Cover Story

Kristy's Crisis

Kristy McNichol Was Caught in a Terrifying Spiral of Depression, But Big Brother Jimmy Came to the Rescue

Pg. 68

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Table of Contents

Articles

A Rocky Try at Reshaping Lives

At His Santa Fe Mountain Center, Wilderness Therapist Richard Kimball Holds Out a Lifeline to Society's Losers

Pg. 32

Ah, Sweet William! Down Under, He Stands Up for the Press and Steals a March on His Folks

Pg. 36

Producer David Merrick Casts His Wife, Karen, as the Golddigger of '83

Pg. 38

Before His Cancer Ordeal, Lawyer Craig Diamond Defended Des-Makers: Now He's Suing His Former Clients

Pg. 40

Satin-Clad Stars and a Slithering Snake Do a Runway Charity Strut

Pg. 47

Don't Ask Barbara Cartland to Like Today's Torrid Romance Novels: Sensuality Doesn't Grab Her

Pg. 51

When Jake Steinfeld Barks, Spielberg, Presley & Garr Jump (and Stretch, and Bend)

Pg. 56

Same to You Fella!

Bob Newhart, Tv's Most Durable Sitcomic, Takes on His Deadpan Image Head to Head

Pg. 60

Innkeeper Lyndon Sanders Has a Warning for a Welcome: All Smoking Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here

Pg. 74

Claiborne, Md. Sends a Special Delivery Message to the Top: Hands Off Our Post Office

Pg. 77

Down to the Sea in Topsiders Go Houston's Preppy Laundresses

Pg. 82

His Bourbon Floors 'em at the Ritz, but Bill Samuels Rarely Strays from His Old Kentucky Still

Pg. 87

Tales from An Arabian Nightmare

Pg. 90

The Musical Mbas Are Bullish on Their First Public Offering

Pg. 101

Soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez Soars from Philadelphia's Ghetto to Paris Glamour in Diva

Pg. 105

Actor James Stephens Is Up to His Neck Again on Paper Chase—but This Time It's on Cable

Pg. 111

Robert Blake Still Mainly Battles Himself, but His Blood Feud Causes a Scrap

Pg. 117

Also In This Issue

Mailbag

Pg. 4

Take One

Pg. 31

Lookout

Pg. 114

Chatter

Pg. 120

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