ON THE COVER 88
Footloose makes Kevin Bacon a dance sensation and proves Flashdance was no fluke: The Hollywood musical is alive and kicking
UP FRONT 28
On videotapes soon to air on CBS, Frank Gannon introduces yet another "New Nixon": the storyteller from Saddle River
Playing for high stakes in the burger war, McDonald's hires the teen pop superstars Menudo to pitch its beef to the burgeoning Hispanic market
Wendy's little wonder woman, Clara Peller, has the Democrats and America demanding, "Where's the beef?"
Nutritionist Michael Jacobson says life in the fast-food lane can be hazardous to your health
SONG 47
Pro-environment and anti-nuke, Midnight Oil burns with a message: World, clean up your act
PAGES 51
Molly's Book of Divorce triggers a bitter legal battle between Molly's parents, writers Jonathan Fast and Erica Jong
CRIME 55
Patricia Bowden, widowed by police bullets, finally gets official acknowledgement that Boston cops shot the wrong man
TUBE 63
Antony Hamilton and Belinda Bauer stir up heat and dust as the legendary lovers in ABC's torrid Samson and Delilah
MAIN STREET 69
Drowning victim Jimmy Tontlewicz makes an astonishing recovery, but his parents are still immersed in bitter quarrels
LOOKOUT 78
Richard Pavlicek Jr. has mastered bridge at 14
At 17, Manuela Maleeva is a nascent Navratilova
TEACHER 81
Psychologist Normand Ledoux helps Vermont school kids cope with the tense present
COUPLES 82
His bachelor buddies still don't believe it, but hockey's Ron Duguay has gone domestic; credit his new wife, model Robin Bobo, with an assist
SEQUEL 99
Even after unveiling Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda and Catherine Deneuve, Roger Vadim continues chercher la femme
ON THE JOB 105
Musketeer, the $16 million mutt, is the last of a rare, pampered breed
TROUBLE 111
Virginians Bill and Shirli Mayhugh get a big wrong number—a $195,000 phone bill
MOVE 112
After 15 years on the road, Willie Nelson's guitar is as much a legend as its owner
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 9
NBC dramatizes a tragic crash in Flight #90: Disaster on the Potomac, and Norman Lear produces another sitcom with a message, a.k.a. Pablo, on ABC
Debra Winger and the city of Los Angeles co-star in Mike's Murder
Doris Day, Sophia Loren and Clark Gable make the grade in A.E. Hotchner's book Choice People
Previously unreleased recordings by Elvis Presley and John Lennon show up on two new LPs
TAKE ONE 27
STAR TRACKS 76
Mary Crosby proves two-faced
Nancy Allen takes a new love
PEOPLE PUZZLE 108
CHATTER 114
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