STAR TRACKS 4
Burt Reynolds goes skinny-dipping, Macaulay Culkin goes dancing, Delta Burke goes to the Emmys, and more
UP FRONT
38 For the ordinary Russians who defied the coup and seized their freedom, the struggle was a glorious—and sometimes painful—rite of passage
44 After years of championing AIDS causes, Princess Di is shattered when she loses a close friend to the disease
46 Forget, for a moment, Johnny Carson's swan song, as Ed McMahon croons a love call to all the girls he's loved before
TRIBUTE 53
For four decades, actress Colleen Dewhurst brought passion and sensitivity to her career and her causes
HEIRS 57
The love child of a New England blue blood, teacher Elizabeth Ann Chantey, now 35, battles her relatives over her claims to the Fieldcrest Cannon fortune
SCREEN 61
British cutup Emma Thompson slices through a murder mystery in the thriller Dead Again
PAGES 65
After sleeping with the devil, former beauty queen Barbra Piotrowski longs for justice
ON THE MOVE 71
Six-time Ms. Olympia Cory Everson goes toe-to-toe with tough guy Jean-Claude Van Damme in Double Impact
TROUBLE 77
Financial shenanigans at Salomon Brothers bring down Wall Street titan John Gutfreund and his high-flying socialite wife, Susan
COVER 80
With its glamorous students (including Shannen Doherty and hot hunks Jason Priestley and Luke Perry) and millions of teenage fans, the high school soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210 has gone to the head of the class
ARTS 87
Thanks to his soothing style, TV's Joy of Painting host Bob Ross is experiencing a brush with fame and fortune
SEQUEL 91
After two decades of personal turmoil, Jimmy O'Neill, host of the influential '60s rock-and-roll show Shindig, is back at the party
CONTROVERSY 95
Does a Miss America doll look too much like Barbie? That's the question before a federal court in a feisty face-off between two toy giants
STAGE 97
The management team that launched Woody Allen and Robin Williams places its next bet on Rick Reynolds, the stand-up comic who can't tell a lie
SONG 101
Railing against "all the candy-coated garbage on radio," lead screamer Sebastian Bach sends rock's bad boys Skid Row to the top of the pop charts
TO THE TOP 105
When artist William Wegman decided to make muses of his weimaraners, he was barking up the right tree
STYLE 110
Thanks to George Rush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Julia Roberts and almost everybody who's out and about, baseball caps are scoring big this season
MAIL 6
PICKS & PANS 11
THE INSIDER 37
PASSAGES 74
CHATTER 112
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