COVER 68
First Pretty Woman and Ghost shook the box office. Now the best Hollywood love stories belong to such real-life couples as Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp
UP FRONT 34-48
Survivors of the fiery USAir plane crash in L.A. describe their brush with terror
Kevin Costner, Richard Gere, Debbie Gibson and Mike Tyson—to name just a few—gather to sing their support for U.S. gulf troops
Comedian David Brenner reignites a custody battle by keeping his son, Cole, 9, from Mom Charisse Brody
It was sobbing room only at Danny Thomas's Beverly Hills funeral
Death stalked the highways of Florida for a year. Now authorities have arrested Aileen Wuornos, and they say she murdered seven men
TUBE 50
Eerily enchanting as Twin Peaks's lifeless Laura Palmer, actress Sheryl Lee takes on a real-life character whose past was just as violent—Patti Bailey, an abused teen who was turned into a murderer
JOKES 53
Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer sets out to prove he should be back on the hill—not over it
TO THE TOP 58
In the gulf war of words, spokesman Pete Williams is one of the Pentagon's most effective weapons
ROYALS 61
As she plans to visit President Bush this month. Queen Margrethe—artist, scholar, head of state—shows why her countrymen have no reason to be melancholy about this Dane
FOOD 81
The sprouts have become has-beans, but Moosewood, the legendary vegetarian collective in upstate New York, is still growing strong
STAGE 86
On a U.S. tour with the Moscow Circus, two daring young members of the Flying Cranes aim for the record books with a dizzying quintuple aerial somersault
SOLDIERS 90
Air Force cartoonist Tom Rominger, the gulf war's own Bill Mauldin, sees black humor in every incoming Scud
COUPLES 93
Do all green-card relationships end as happily as that of Andie MacDowell and Gérard Depardieu's onscreen frolic? Four case histories reveal the pitfalls
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 7
ROYAL WATCH 29
THE INSIDER 33
PASSAGES 67
CHATTER 96
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