ON THE COVER 34
Last month's arrest of Diff'rent Strokes star Dana Plato for armed robbery is just the latest incident in the traumatic post-TV lives of Plato and her troubled castmates Todd Bridges and Gary Coleman
UP FRONT 40-48
Sent to the Persian Gulf the day after saying "I do," Air Force Sgt. Gary Buckholz is reunited with his bride, Linda, for the wedding night they never had
Environmental activist Amos Favorite, who has lost nine members of his family to cancer, leads a grass-roots campaign to stop chemical polluters along an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi called Cancer Alley
PAGES 57
Dances with Wolves author Michael Blake was washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant when opportunity knocked; now he has tasted both the sweet and sour sides of life
COPING 61
Disabled for a year by a severe case of vertigo, Atlanta Braves first baseman Nick Esasky is trying to battle his way back into the lineup
HAPPY 66
With the arrival of her son, Niki, embattled Today coanchor Deborah Norville is happily hearing a new kind of wailing in the early morning
SCREEN 75
New Jack City costar Chris Rock shines, but violent audience reaction to the film tarnishes the thrill
CONTROVERSY 79
Both revered and reviled for holding a mirror to her German town's wartime past, Anna Rosmus plays out her role as the real-life Nasty Girl
TROUBLE 83
In George Holliday's video of the savage attack on a black motorist, the alleged perpetrators of the crime are members of the LAPD
TUBE 87
For Lynn Whitfield, a sensuous prance as HBO's Josephine Baker was the start of a marriage waltz
PARTY 90
Tom Cruise, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart and a host of Hollywood heavyweights paid homage to the star of Spartacus and 77 other films, Kirk Douglas
WINNERS 94
Oscar night approaches, and a panel of little-known showbiz stalwarts predicts who will be on the menu of winners
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 7
ROYAL WATGH 31
THE INSIDER 33
STAR TRACKS 93
CHATTER 96
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