ON THE COVER 44
Fasten your cinch belts: It's time for our seventh annual accounting of fashion's most torrid—and horrid. Our all-star (and merciless) panel of judges—among them Jackie Collins, Max Headroom, the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Frank Zappa—appraises the style of personalities like Elton John
CRITTERS 62
A bull moose and a Hereford cow fall in love—and find themselves on the horns of a dilemma
WINNERS 65
For two five-dollar bills, gem broker Roy Whetstine comes home with the biggest crystal star sapphire ever found—and a possible 23-million-percent return on his investment
SCREEN 69
Gone With the Wind's Butterfly McQueen takes time off from her job as a playground monitor in Harlem to film The Mosquito Coast with Harrison Ford
HAPPY 76
After one painting sold for millions, Pop Art's dark horse James Rosenquist has a bright future
TEENS 81
Counselor Ron Johnson says boys who become fathers are the neglected resource in teenage pregnancies
TO THE TOP 89
In the Emmy race, the smart money paid off on bookie-turned-actor John Karlen, of Cagney & Lacey
RADIO 115
Known as Truckin' Bozo, deejay Dale Sommers has a handle on listeners like Mississippi Lady, Jailbird and Possum Breath
SONG 121
A Canadian pied piper named Raffi enthralls kids on both sides of the border
TUBE 127
A dozen years after losing a leg to bone cancer, Ted Kennedy Jr. authorizes a TV movie about his courageous fight
COUPLES 134
A pair of (literary) lions from Detroit named Roger and Pam Stanton achieve their goals through football
STAGE 139
With A Little Like Magic and an inspiring behind-the-scenes story, Diane Dupuy and her puppeteers cast a spell on Broadway
SEQUEL 146
Now a grandmother, Linda Brown Smith, whose name is enshrined in a historic U.S. Supreme Court case, continues the battle to desegregate the Topeka school system
CRIME 154
Sean Sellers, 17, says he was under the thrall of Satanism when he killed his parents as they slept
SPLIT 162
Guitar star Eric Clapton gains baby, loses wife
COPING 167
Shot in the head by hijackers, survivor Jackie Nink Pflug works to overcome every airline passenger's worst nightmare
ON THE MOVE 173
Nigerian pop star Fela Anikulapo Kuti has abandoned polygamy but not politics
HOST 180
This Thanksgiving, Americans can go truly native at Reuben Silverbird's restaurant in New York
MAIL 6
PICKS & PANS 11
TAKE ONE 43
LOOKOUT 111
STAR TRACKS 152
CHATTER 182
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