ON THE COVER 88
In an exclusive excerpt from HIS WAY, The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra, the singer grows from a scrappy kid to a womanizer who beds Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor

UP FRONT 48

Their handicapped son, Rick, teaches Dick and Judy Hoyt something about love

Robert Chambers and Jennifer Levin had life by the tail as stars of New York's teen preppy crowd; now he stands charged with her murder

INVENTORS 63
Woody Norris creates a kiddie beeper to track children gone astray

IN THE MONEY 67
How sweet it is! C.J. Rapp's Jolt Cola is loaded with sugar and caffeine

POW! 68
With Madonna in tow, the always lovable Sean Penn renews his hit series with Manhattan's paparazzi

SONG 70
The Pet Shop Boys' West End Girls has made them stars—but hey, guys, will you ever give a concert?

TROUBLE 73
In her latest encounter with the law, '60s golden girl Joey Heatherton could face seven years in prison

ON THE JOB 77
Max and Malcolm, New York's "Kosher Kops," steak out the shadowy world of counterfeit kosher meat

OUT OF THE PAST 82
Ex-beauty queens Diane Sawyer, Cybill Shepherd, Lee Ann Meriwether, Cloris Leachman and Diahann Carroll discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of the pageant game

MYSTERY 107
A masked artist named George takes his protest to the streets with a scourge of purple footprints

CONTROVERSY 111
Drunk-driver defender Richard Essen is one of America's most hated—and successful—lawyers

JOCKS 117
Some say he's a hot dog, but the Mets' irrepressible Gary Carter is all beef and no fat when it counts

TO THE TOP 121
Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Lynn Johnston is gaining recognition, For Better or For Worse

WINNERS 127
Bobbie Duke and all her cooking kids really clean up at the Iowa State Fair

SEQUEL 128
The Monkees, Jan and Dean, Fabian, Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell, the Righteous Brothers, Paul Revere and Peter (Herman's Hermits) Noone bring back the '60s on nostalgia-laden tours

IN HIS OWN WORDS 140
Dr. Stanley Turecki tells parents how to cope with a temperamental child

ON THE MOVE 149
Four years ago tragedy almost deep-sixed his career; now Billy Ocean is rolling again

COPING 155
Paralyzed in a football mishap, Marc Buoniconti battles back

SCREEN 163
Canada's John Wildman racks up dream reviews and dream-boat status as the star of My American Cousin

FOOD 167
Jack Czarnecki serves up mushrooms—on the plate and on the page

RESCUE 173
A parent's nightmare ends joyfully as two missing Florida children, Todd Murphy and Jeremy Ratcliff, find their way home

KIN 174
The dedication of Dorothy Redford leads to a remarkable homecoming for hundreds of descendants of North Carolina plantation slaves

MAIL 12
PICKS & PANS 21
TAKE ONE 47
CHATTER 180