On the Cover 100
After five phenomenal years, Farrah Fawcett reflects on her flame (Ryan O'Neal), flops (three films and marriage to Lee Majors), a new Burt Reynolds flick and a TV comeback
Up Front 34
Jackie Onassis' stepsister Nina Straight writes a talked-about novel that her famous friends say is both fancy and fact
Nearly eight years after he quit, Spiro Agnew's past returns to haunt him
The President misses Maureen Reagan's wedding, but Jane Wyman carries the show
Ringo Starr weds his knockout Caveman co-star, Barbara Bach, and Paul McCartney and George Harrison turn it into a reunion
Sequel 49
Jean Harris, the Scarsdale Diet doctor's convicted killer, is doing time—and fine
On Stage 53
Barnum welcomes its newest Tony—Orlando, that is—to the high-wire life of Broadway
Medics 58
Dr. Donald Rasmussen battles black lung disease and federal budget cuts
For a Song 63
The hot Scot Sheena Easton engineers her Morning Train to the top of the charts
In Style 67
Woody Allen, Robert De Niro and AN MacGraw furnish their films—and their lives—with Howard Kaplan's antiques
In His Own Words 75
Psychologist David Lykken claims lie detectors don't always lead to the truth
Bio 84
Shunning politics and the Moral Majority, preacher Rex Humbard girdles the global village with The Word
Body 97
Gary Null fills a void, claiming to be "the vegetarian's Julia Child"
In the Money 107
Gloomsday writers like Douglas Casey, Jerome Smith and Harry Browne reap big profits in bad times
Lookout 120
Judo champion Robin Le Count
Artist Adolf Benca
Couples 123
The Metropolitan Opera and the Joffrey II ballet might seem stuffy if you didn't know their bosses, Anthony and Sally Bliss
Tribute 130
Shocked by his sudden death, the sorrowing Dallas cast remembers Jim Davis
Mail 4
People Picks & Pans 10
Ellen Burstyn stars as the Scarsdale Diet doctor's murderess on NBC, and Ralph Waite sits in another docket for CBS
That inscrutably florid novelist James (Shogun) Clavell checks in with the hugely pleasurable Noble House
Waylon Jennings provides the rawhide, Jessi Colter the frills in the latest family LP, Leather and Lace
Wholly exploitation! It's the revival of Holy Terror, a 1977 horror film in which Brooke Shields, then a mere girl, appears briefly
Star Tracks 80
Jane Pauley & Garry Trudeau shine for solar buffs Lola & Robert Redford
Loretta Young and Zsa Zsa Gabor gambol
Anthony Quinn is lionized at 66
Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher pay homage to Count Basie
Chris Atkins stakes a claim to Lori Loughlin
Zubin Mehta conducts Ravi Shankar
People Puzzle 126
Chatter 132
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