ON THE COVER 80
After a 10-year Aspen retreat, former starlet Jill St. John, now 42, tries a comeback and a consoling relationship with widower Robert Wagner
UP FRONT 24
As a once-spiraling market goes flat, Hollywood Realtors find they can't sell a house even if Kristy McNichol, Gene Hackman or Rosalind Russell once owned it
CBS Morning Newsman Bill Kurtis returns to the little place on the prairie where he and Laura Ingalls Wilder were children
Joe and Jitsuko Susedik claim raising geniuses is as easy as A-B-C—they've done it four times
COUPLES 37
Famous poet James Dickey writes a book about women—but wife Deborah begs to differ
IN THE MONEY 45
A new sort of gold rush begins anew as Alaska residents await their share of the state's oil bonanza
BONUS BOOK 50
In the first of two excerpts from Master of the Game, by Sidney Sheldon, a power-hungry heiress expands her empire
SCREEN 60
Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan merge their talents in Disney's risky computer fantasy, TRON
SONG 67
The hit theme from Rocky III gives Survivor new life
FOOD 68
Introducing a new section on the people who make American victuals—this week featuring the prince of poultry, Frank Perdue, who's keeping the East Coast up to its giblets in roasters
STYLE 75
Farrah, Raquel, Morgan Fairchild and others send hemlines thigh-high with the return of the mini
LOOKOUT 89
Documentary filmmaker Meg Switzgable
MEDICS 93
Dr. Nicholas Obney's "Shouldice Hilton" is renowned for its hernia operations, not its hospitality
MOVE 97
Pint-size pitchman Peter Billingsley is cleaning up as TV's "Messy Marvin"
ARTS 99
Catherine Filene Shouse, undaunted by a second devastating fire at her concert center, Wolf Trap, resolves to build again
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 10
Divorcés Lawrence Luckinbill and Lucie Arnaz give marriage One More Try on CBS, while Richard Harris does Camelot on HBO
Such couturiers as Bill Blass, Pierre Cardin and Diane Von Furstenberg contribute futuristic designs to the amusing book Fashion 2001
Kenny Rogers is his comfortable old self on his latest LP, Love Will Turn You Around
Richard Gere turns in his most committed performance in an old-fashioned movie love story, An Officer and a Gentleman
STAR TRACKS 42
Ann-Margret braves Atlanta on the fourth leg of her first U.S. tour
Björn Borg celebrates his second wedding anniversary by trying out his latest racket—baking
E.T.'S Drew Barrymore gets party-pooped in Hollywood
PEOPLE PUZZLE 90
CHATTER 102
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