STAR TRACKS 6
Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger cuddle. Eddie Murphy goes to the fights with the mother of his daughter. Robert Downey Jr. makes like a Tramp, and more
COVER 36
In six hours of compelling testimony, rape victim Desiree Washington knocks out the career of Mike Tyson, whose life has been careening out of control for years now
UP FRONT
42 Thinking of her father, who did not live to see her latest triumph, speed skater Bonnie Blair blades to the U.S.'s first Olympic gold medal
44 Right Said Fred is two bald bodybuilders and a furry-headed guitarist who hope they're not "too sexy" to remain at No. 1 with their "really cheap video and really cheap record"
TRIBUTE 47
Author Alex Haley, who died last week at 70, left a legacy of racial understanding; but while retracing Kunta Kinte's journey in 1976, he almost threw himself overboard in despair over his inability to finish his epic, Roots
STAGE 53
Classy, graceful and long-legged as ever, Cyd Charisse steps out in Broadway's Grand Hotel, boosting box office receipts
PAGES 57
Now that he's writing One Life to Live, novelist Michael Malone says his friends in academe are admitting they're closet soap opera fans
CRIME 60
Rebecca De Mornay's nightmare nanny is a box office hit—but real-life baby-sitters can be scarier still. Here are several chilling case histories—and advice on how to avoid becoming a statistic yourself
MONEY 68
Times may be tough, but for Utah's Jim McPhail and Jeanne Frank, it's snowing dollars. They'll send you enough of their hand-made snowballs, packed in dry ice, to mount a snowball civil war
TUBE 73
Street smarts, dashing good looks—not to mention learning lessons by tagging along with real cops—have earned Law & Order detective Chris Noth the bright badge of stardom
OLYMPICS 78
Four Olympic figure-skating gold medalists recall their historic performances; also. Dick Button rates today's talent (he's not impressed); and Tracy Wilson remembers partner Rob McCall, who died of AIDS
SEQUEL 84
More than two years ago. Capt. AI Haynes helped save 181 Iives when he coaxed his crashing DC-10 onto the runway at Sioux City, Iowa, after an engine exploded; today, to the survivors, he's more a hero than ever
STYLE 89
Ingenious, impulsive Karl Lagerfeld, the designing man who brought sex and spirit to the sleepy house of Chanel, takes a giant runway step toward abolishing the short skirt
MAIL 8
PICKS & PANS 11
THE INSIDER 35
PASSAGES 77
CHATTER 92
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