STAR TRACKS 6
Bill Clinton proves a star pupil. James Brown rolls up the rug. Dan Aykroyd picks up some fleas, and more
UP FRONT
50 Crime on the road is making life hell on wheels for motorists: Pamela Basu died at the hands of carjackers; fighting to save his girlfriend, Rayne Gongh killed their assailant
56 Want a job in the new Administration? You and a whole lot of other people with spiffy résumés have to call Vernon Jordan, head of the transition team that will be telling Rill Clinton just whom to hire
58 Macaulay Culkin's mug is on everything from, well, mugs to yo-yos. His Home Alone 2 fee is $4.5 million—plus points
COPING 65
Ten-year-old Whitney Williams is afflicted with AIDS, but doctors still don't know how she—or 85 kids like her—contracted it
CONTROVERSY 73
Wendy Jaffe thinks her green aphrodisiac candy is dandy—the M&M's people claim it's theirs
CRIME 74
In a stranger-than-fiction-case, the government charges Sol Wachtler, chief judge of New York's highest court, with trying to extort money from GOP fund-raiser—and ex-lover—Joy Silverman
ANGELS 81
Four years ago, Palani Thies was a homeless child in India; now, as the national Easter Seal Child, she's fielding invitations from the White House
TO THE TOP 84
Once Catherine the Great in a miniseries, British actress Julia Ormond sheds her crown to play the dictator's wife in HBO's Stalin
MEDICS 87
For brain-surgery patient Nancy Loiacono, the road back to life led through a near death experience
ON THE JOB 92
Some people fly into Wisconsin's Cable Union Airport just to say hello to 78-year-old manager Libby Parod—and sample her moose chili
IN HIS WORDS 101
With tuberculosis rising at an alarming rate, specialist Dr. Lee Reichman seeks public funding and awareness—not panic
COUPLES 105
Melrose Place's Josie Bisset and Silk Stalkings' Rob Estes have a commuter marriage, Hollywood-style, toiling on TV soundstages 112 miles apart
BIO 109
Country music's living treasure nearly trashed himself. But George Jones pulled back from the brink of self-destruction and now sounds better than ever
TUBE 115
Goodbye, NYPD—hello, Verdi. Paul Sorvino, a humble sleuth on Law & Order, quits to become a golden throat in opera
TRIBUTE 123
Chuck Connors had an athletes grace and an Old West face. So he became TV's Rifleman, a favorite baby-boomer icon
ON THE MOVE 126
When Liz Taylor, VI Pacino, Ivana Trump and Jackie are expected, party crasher Richard Osterweil puts on his tux
COVER 132
After six years of unwedded bliss, Oprah Winfrey finally says "I will" to her ever-lovin' beau, Stedman Graham
PAGES 139
Former jockey Dick Francis writes a best-selling mystery each year in a five-month gallop
IN THE MONEY 161
In Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez tell readers how living modestly can free you from the 9-to-5 grind
HAPPY 165
Staying one of the "guys" on Seinfeld while caring for her newborn son, Henry Hall, has Julia Louis-Dreyfus wearily but happily juggling
INTRODUCING 168
You Bet Your Life Robhi Chong (Tommy's daughter) likes being Bill Cosby's sidekick
VOICES 173
Her son, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, won a starring role next to Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte, but on the set of Lorenzo's Oil, Suzanne O'Malley found herself cast as the wicked Stage Mom
SEQUEL 181
1980 Olympic champ Eric Heiden (five golds) skates into a new career: orthopedic surgery
HOST 184
The star of California cuisine, Chez Panisse's Alice Waters is out to change the way we eat
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 13
THE INSIDER 49
PASSAGES 131
PUZZLER 158
CHATTER 188
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