MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 15
THE INSIDER 43
STYLE WATCH 68
PASSAGES 75
PUZZLER 98
CHATTER 114
STAR TRACKS 6
Noah Wyle swims with the fishes in Bora Bora. Princess Diana jumps ship in Saint-Tropez. Kirstie Alley rides the wave in the Big Apple, and more
UP FRONT
44 The death of 22-year-old ballerina Heidi Guenther, who was apparently striving for an ideal of impossible thinness, stirs both sorrow and soul-searching
50. When he died last April, Washington mogul Jack Kent Cooke left an estate estimated to be worth over $800 million—and a wife who wants her share
54. Vice President Al Gore throws an anything-but-political party as his oldest daughter, Karenna, weds New York banking scion Dr. Andrew Schiff
IN COURT 59
Bill Cosby faces off against the woman who claims to be his daughter—and who allegedly tried to extort $24 million from him
TRENDS 65
Dino Miliotis is making a fortune with a revolutionary bug-proof wristband that takes the bite out of mosquitoes
TUBE 71
Reneé O'Connor raises her profile—and plenty of eyebrows—as Lucy Lawless's sidekick Gabrielle on the series Xena: Warrior Princess
COVER 78
Designer Gianni Versace is gunned down in Miami by a man who police allege is Andrew Cunanan, a suspected serial killer on the loose and on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list
OUT OF THE PAST 89
A new biography and a pair of film projects with Halle Berry and Whitney Houston pay proper tribute to the successes and tragedies of the dazzling late actress Dorothy Dandridge
PAGES 95
With his No. 1 bestseller Plum Island, Nelson DeMille brings back the wisecracking tough guy—a character with whom he can identify
COPING 101
A year after his wife died in the TWA Flight 800 disaster, jazz great Wayne Shorter fights the sense of emptiness with his faith and his music
IN HER OWN WORDS 107
Venturing onto the electronic frontier of the Internet could expose your privacy to abuse, says cyberexpert Lori Fena
SCREEN 110
Pretty, witty and gay, Rupert Everett is the surprise new movie star of the summer in Julia Roberts's smash comedy My Best Friend's Wedding
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