MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 13
THE INSIDER 39
PASSAGES 78
PUZZLER 94
STYLE WATCH 97
CHATTER 102
STAR TRACKS 6
Nicole Kidman walks down the aisle. Susan Sarandon goes to Harvard. Michael Jackson meets the militia. Patrick Swayze horses around, and more
UP FRONT
40 Customs agent Henry Blair is charged as the man who has been making harassing phone calls to the family of Miami teenager Amy Billig ever since she disappeared 21 years ago
44 Mick Jagger, Mira Sorvino and John F. Kennedy Jr. gala-vant at the annual Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards
46 Primary Colors, a hot-selling roman a clef about the foibles of Bill Clinton and his disorganized 1992 presidential campaign, has everyone wondering who-dun-wrote-it
48 On location in Argentina to play the revered Eva Peron in the movie version of Evita, Madonna finds that not everyone in Buenos Aires thinks she's a hit as a myth
BIO 55
Sustained by faith and fortitude, Kweisi Mfume worked his way up from the mean streets of west Baltimore to the halls of Congress; now he takes on his toughest challenge—rescuing the NAACP
SCREEN 63
Despite his Coppola family connections, Nicolas Cage finds stardom—and an Oscar nomination for his role in Leaving Las Vegas—in his own, weird way
COVER 70
Melissa Gilbert and Bruce Boxleitner's son Michael was born three months early but with a strength that defied all the odds
KIN 81
Award-winning film director Rebecca Miller has drama in her genes, and no wonder: She's the daughter of Death of a Salesman playwright Arthur Miller
ARTS 85
In 1964, star pianist Leon Fleisher mysteriously lost the use of his right hand; three decades later he has discovered how to make it play again
CRIME 89
Myrna Lebov, who had MS, took a fatal overdose of prescription pills last summer. Her husband's diary has led police to question whether she really wanted to die
ON THE MOVE 98
With a little help from the makeup, Daniel Roebuck and John Michael Higgins do Jay Leno and David Letterman on HBO's The Late Shift
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