MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 15
THE INSIDER 45
STYLE WATCH 83
PASSAGES 94
PUZZLER 96
CHATTER 134
STAR TRACKS 6
Prince Charles mixes it up with Spice Girls. Oprah Winfrey makes tracks for charity. John Travolta and Kelly Preston go to the movies, and more
UP FRONT
46 Party, party, party. Stars from all over the world gather on the French Riviera to celebrate the 50th Cannes International Film Festival
52 With his 33-year-old daughter Tia desperately ill with lupus, basketball great Oscar Robertson takes charge one more time—and gives her one of his kidneys
56 An orphaned raccoon named Ringo may have no family, but he does have Pug, a Boston terrier, to take care of him
TRENDS 61
Eating, sleeping, beeping Tamagotchis caused a cybercraze in Japan—and now the "virtual pets" are flying out of American stores
SCREEN 63
Stepping off the runway and onto the big screen, model Milla Jovovich proves she isn't out of her element in the new Bruce Willis sci-fi thriller
ANGELS 67
Prosecutor Julie Alban's crusade against domestic violence is a personal matter: Nine years ago she was shot and paralyzed by her boyfriend
IN HER OWN WORDS 71
Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild discloses in The Time Bind that for harried parents work—not home—is becoming the great escape
SOAPS 75
Playing Victor Newman for 17 years on CBS's The Young and the Restless, Eric Braeden has become soap fans' dirty rotten hero
TROUBLE 79
Comedy is his profession, but the arrest of Los Angeles stand-up performer Vinson Champ for a rape in Nebraska is a serious matter
COVER 84
Red hot moms like Demi Moore, Pamela Lee and Vanessa Williams prove that motherhood and sex appeal can go hand in hand
ON THE JOB 111
Jurassic paleontologist Philip Currie explores lost worlds in the Canadian badlands, where the dinosaurs stopped biting 75 million years ago
UPDATE 114
Philip Michael Thomas hopes a guest shot on Miami Vice pal Don Johnson's new show may signal a professional renaissance
FAMILY 117
Jenny McCarthy's sisters Joanne and Amy know how to hustle for a break—a fast one, that is, as budding basketball stars
KIN 121
With Rosie O'Donnell and Rosa Parks signing on, Jonah Edelman is rallying communities nationwide to take a Stand For Children
INTRODUCING 124
Sorcerer to the stars David Blaine, 24, worked some magic to score his own prime-time television special
CHECKMATE 127
An IBM computer called Deep Blue pulls the plug on world chess champion Garry Kasparov
GALLERY 128
What could make Dean, Brando, Elvis and even Lee Harvey Oswald look good? The classic white T-shirt, celebrated in a new picture book
HOST 130
Cooking amidst paintings by Pierce Brosnan and Gene Hackman, Christian Delouvrier produces edible works of art at Manhattan's Les Célébrités
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