STAR TRACKS 6
Sharon Stone gets a ringing endorsement from her boyfriend. Liz Taylor comes up short. Yasmine Bleeth runs away to the circus, and more
UP FRONT
50 Red Cross head Elizabeth Dole is charming, organized and tough, but is that enough to help husband Bob Dole win the White House?
56 It isn't fancy, but for celebrities like Julia Roberts and Harrison Ford, Manhattan's Hogs & Heifers is the watering hole of choice
58 Canadian inventor Bill Lishman teaches geese who can't wing it how to migrate
STYLE 65
Narciso Rodriguez, who made Carolyn Bessette's wedding gown, makes a name for himself
DISCOVERY 68
For years, William Buffum had shown an old silent of Richard III, which turns out to be the U.S. film industry's oldest surviving movie
TROUBLE 71
Scotland's Catholic Church is rocked when Bishop Wright confesses to fathering a child
CONTROVERSY 74
Illinois' John Van Barriger defies local zoning laws to build a mountain in his own backyard
PAGES 77
Poet Kathleen Norris finds peace in a Benedictine monastery and then writes an unlikely bestseller
ON THE MOVE 81
Amy Ecklund's Guiding Light costars swear you'd never know she was deaf—and the lip-reading actress says she refuses to be typecast
SONG 89
A rare disorder took away Linda Thompson's ability to sing. But the woman who had one of rock's most distinctive voices can still laugh
INVENTOR 95
Shaun Hughes is only too happy to engage in coverups; after all, his line of sun-protective sportswear reduces skin cancer and saves lives
TRENDS 99
Shamila Hunter and Lissa Charron's 02 Spa Bar offers air fresh from the bottle
FAREWELL 101
She inspired Maude and made employees shudder, but former Lear's editor Frances Lear, who died last week at 73, awed friends and foes alike
OUT OF THE PAST 105
With all the trouble it caused, maybe Terry Lewis should have kept his mummy under wraps
SCREEN 107
Once, Charlize Theron had a girlhood crush on Tom Hanks. Now she has a part in his new movie
COVER 114
Inspired by The First Wives Club, real life exes take a few parting shots at their celeb former spouses and celebrate life on their own terms
SEQUEL 125
A rising tide of drug violence near Eagle Pass, Texas, leaves Border Patrol Agent Jeff Barr dead
SPIRIT 131
His health failing, Billy Graham returns with his family to Charlotte, N.C., site of his first crusade, for what may be his last
TUBE 139
Like charity, the laughs for Ray Romano's new sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond, begin at home
TO THE TOP 143
Pittsburgh grandmother Lucille Treganowan is the retiring type—car tires, that is. Most days she's beneath a hood in one of her auto shops
EXCERPT 144
In an exclusive excerpt from her new memoir, My Sergei, Ekaterina Gordeeva remembers the husband and skating partner she loved and lost
SCENE 154
Jo Ann Ussery's spirits have been flying high since she converted the stripped-down fuselage of a used airliner into a cozy home
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 19
THE INSIDER 49
FIRST LOOK 85
STYLE WATCH 92
PASSAGES 111
PUZZLER 136
CHATTER 156
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