ON THE COVER 40
After a year in a Hawaiian drug-rehabilitation center, Griffin O'Neal confronts his mixed feelings toward his father, Ryan, and the habits of a Hollywood high life that nearly destroyed him
UP FRONT 46
Texas patriots and Gary Foreman square off in a new siege of the Alamo
An 18-year-old brings a revered name back to baseball as Roberto Clemente Jr. tries to make the majors
Out of public view, America's leading artists and authors, including John Updike and E.L. Doctorow, throw a party in New York to honor their own
OLYMPICS 53
Record holder Jarmila Kratochvilova loses her chance for gold medals as Czechoslovakia withdraws from the Games
SCREEN 57
Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall fire up Sixteen Candles
TOP 61
A West German hairdresser sells a barnyard cure for baldness: Get licked by a cow
COPING 62
Helen Kushnick grieves for her 3-year-old son Sam, a victim of AIDS
IN HIS OWN WORDS 71
Economist Joseph Pechman claims a "flat tax" would make the bottom line fairer
ARTS 79
In the obscurity of lower Manhattan, Richard Hambleton paints his basic black shadows for galleries from L.A. to Europe
FOOD 85
Justin Henry, Ahmad Rashad and six other celebrity judges licked themselves silly to find the best ice creams in the U.S.
STYLE 96
Brigitte LeBlanc peddles frankly fake bijoux to such 24-karat names as Streisand and Stallone
MOVED 103
She's not yet 4, but Regina Federico is an old hand at beauty pageants
ON THE JOB 110
The hottest four-wheelers around are Jay Lambert's stagecoaches, made entirely by hand
BODY 113
Robert Haas serves up a diet for champions with his best-seller, Eat to Win
PAGES 117
Don McCaig herds in flocks of readers with his dog story, Nop's Trials
HEIRS 123
Drugs, booze and sex derailed her early, but now Tippi Hedren's daughter Melanie Griffith has her life back on track
SONG 129
Parodists Sandy Pinkard and Richard Bowden find their groove on country music's flippant side
TROUBLED 133
Sadly, it's bye-bye birdie for the dusky seaside sparrows
TRIBUTE 137
In his 35 years, Andy Kaufman made a lot of people laugh—and think
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 11
David Letterman brings rare imagination to the small screen; competitor Alan Thicke doesn't
Harrison Ford returns as Steven Spielberg's adventuresome archaeologist, Indiana Jones
Leon Uris again uses the Middle East as a setting for his fiction in The Haj
Barbara Mandrell's Clean Cut is an understandable title; but Joe Cocker, Civilized Man?
On the home music video front, David Bowie and Phil Collins battle for position
TAKE ONE 39
STAR TRACKS 99
Tom Selleck spikes one
Norman Mailer saves Tammy Grimes
The offspring of John Wayne and Ronald Reagan see red
Christopher Reeve goes to a BYO-booth party
PEOPLE PUZZLE 134
CHATTER 144
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