ON THE COVER 92
Michele L'Esperance was bedridden after the first two months, swept by hormonal mood swings and in constant pain. Now she and her husband, Raymond, share with PEOPLE the moving story of the birth of the nation's first test-tube quintuplets
UP FRONT 28
The Winter Olympics in Calgary may not pan out for Americans, but top U.S. hopefuls Brian Boitano, Jill Trenary and Bonnie Blair—not to mention Monaco's Prince Albert—are gearing up for a run at the gold
TRIBUTE 41
Heather O'Rourke, the radiant child star of three Poltergeist films, succumbs to sudden death at 12
TUBE 42
Reliving her troubled marriage in the TV miniseries Elvis and Me leaves Priscilla Presley shaken but fiercely determined to make a new life with her lover, Marco Garibaldi, their 11-month-old son, Navarone, and Elvis' only daughter, Lisa Marie
ON THE JOB 49
A modern Cyrano, Elliot Essman puts epistolary arrows in the quivers of tongue-tied cupids
SEQUEL 53
Activist Brian Willson goes to Washington to fast for peace just five months after his legs were severed by a U.S. munitions train
LOOKOUT 56
Pint-size powerhouse Alisan Porter could well be a latter-day Shirley Temple
HEIRS 64
British actor Richard Wordsworth finds rhyme, reason and a starring role in the works of his great-great-grandfather William
PAGES 71
In a stunningly candid autobiography, Lana Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane, writes of rape and violence, as well as the more commonplace perils of a Hollywood childhood
SCENE 76
Mary Louise Hancock's living room in Concord, N.H., is where the boys are who are running for President
ARTS 79
A pariah in his native Soviet Union, émigré pianist Vladimir Feltsman is free at last to perform on the concert stage
HAPPY 85
Newlywed octogenarians Lou Gothelf and Reva Shwayder star in a documentary, Young at Heart, telling their tale of love in the last lane
COUPLES 105
It's all in the game show for John and Kathleen Schultz, who dated on Love Connection, married on Hollywood Squares and now have their door prize—a baby
TO THE TOP 109
Nothing—not the bounds of good taste nor even Night Court's fabled death jinx—can keep Marsha Warfield's big bad mouth shut
CRITTERS 115
Skip the male chauvinist jokes—pigs make perfect pets. Just ask California microbiologist Kayla Mull
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 9
TAKE ONE 27
STAR TRACKS 90
CHATTER 118
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