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1983. The stock market hit an all-time high. Mortgage rates peaked.

The number of working mothers skyrocketed. Which was no surprise because so did the birth rate.

It was the year Ma Bell finally cut the apron strings. And the year Americans spent an incredible three billion dollars on health spas.

Obviously, things were changing. You were changing. Becoming more aware of your physical well-being. Of the nutritional values of the foods you ate. Aiid the value they gave you for your dollar.

So it was up to us to continue providing you with timely, more imaginative foods. Foods that better met your changing needs.

Foods more in keeping with your changing lifestyle.

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Delicious pasta in out-of-this-world shapes, covered with a rich tomato ^ ' sauce kids can't get enough of.

Another Prego Spaghetti Sauce Premiere.

Since its introduction, Prego® Spaghetti Sauce has been convincing millions of sauce users of its great homemade taste. And 1983 was no exception. It was the year Prego, reflecting another trend, introduced No Salt Added Spaghetti Sauce. Good? You bet! That great ^ Homemade Taste. It's in there! ™ The added salt... is not.

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here's something special about every picture in PEOPLE. Each is usually full of life and often fun. But making them that is hard work for Picture Editor Mary Dunn and her staff. It's hard work for the hundreds of photographers who each year submit 750,000 photos from which we select the 5,000 best. It's hard work too for the people in the pictures. We demand amazing things of them.

Take John Moschitta. He's the guy on the Federal Express commercials who talks faster than the government spends money. Talking fast is not an easy thing to illustrate.

To try, for our April 18 issue, photographer Mark Sennet put Moschitta in the bottom of an L.A. pool for seven hours at a submerged desk equipped with a palm, a phone, a hidden oxygen tank and fish—all of which cost $1,627. The idea was to show bubbles coming out of Moschitta's mouth, quickly. It didn't quite work. When I saw the picture, I couldn't understand what this poor man was doing underwater. So we ran a shot of him on dry land instead. Moschitta says he always wanted to take scuba-diving lessons, and he ended up learning for free. But, he adds, "You have no idea how heavy a suit gets after soaking."

We're never sure our ideas will work until we see them printed. For a June 20 story on Anne Edwards, who'd written a book about Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell, Dunn decided to pose the subject as Scarlett O'Hara. The problem was the photo had to be shot in Connecticut; Rebel territory, it's not. But photographer Mimi Cotter tracked down a Civil War-style dress, then found a Yankee version of Tara. As she was setting up the shot, a motorcycle gang roared past. " 'Way to go, Scarlett!" they shouted.

Cotter knew the picture worked.

Taking pictures is not the sedentary profession it might at first seem to be. For a June 6 story about Dudley Moore as a concert pianist, for instance, we decided to have him play a piano on the beach near his home; to do that, we had to rent the piano, hire movers, get a police permit and cordon off the beach. We did not hire the neighborhood

dog that ambled by and got into the printed photograph.

Shooting our Feb. 28 cover of Brooke Shields in Israel required the patience of Job. The outfit that Brooke's mother, Teri, had chosen wasn't appropriate for a desert scene; it was the kind of long-sleeved dress you'd wear to a tea dance. So photographer Mary Ellen Mark went to a Tel Aviv bathing-suit maker for the scanty, sexy outfit Brooke wore.

Mark then hired a Bedouin camel jockey and his animal to pose with Brooke. The camel was less than impressed; it spat at Brooke. But the picture was magnificent.

Some stars appreciate our efforts as much as we appreciate theirs. Saturday Night Live's Joe Piscopo (Jan. 10) convinced his disgruntled makeup and costume people to work overtime turning him into Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and other of his characters for our camera. Humorist Russell Baker wrote a column about climbing onto a roof for a shot. "The worst part," he wrote, "was imagining how the obituaries would read: 'PUBLICITY-CRAZED BOOK PEDDLER SUCCUMBS AFTER TUMBLE.' " Others are not so pleased with our ideas. Bette Midler, who is 5'2", declined to pose inside a four-foot-long white wicker baby carriage to illustrate the fact that she'd written a book about a baby; instead, she pushed the pram, and for an hour during the picture session the story's writer, Andrea Chambers, rode inside, holding up Bette's book for the camera—though those photos finally were rejected.

Dustin Hoffman was, at first, reticent in his session.

But photographer Raeanne Rubenstein soon warmed him up — a little too much perhaps.

Dustin had so much fun doing the Jan. 17 Tootsie cover he decided it would make a good shot to drop his pants.

"Home takes," as we call them, also are a vital part of our coverage: catching people in their own element, relaxed and just being themselves. We give you a look at personalities that no other magazine can. That is the essence of PEOPLE, and we hope you enjoy it.

Our most cooperative subject, fast-talker John Moschitta Jr., posed in an underwater office with fishbowl and fish (left). His suit was wash-and-wear.

Happy Holiday.

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SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE

Year of destiny for the Marines, 1 1 0

A Cabbage Patch Xmas, 2 8

Sights set on the Olympics, 1 4 9

Jesse Jackson's volatile campaign, 30

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Forecast: Personalities to Watch

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A O A Screen: Robert Redford takes a swing as I Z - ^ - t baseball hero in The Natural, and Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton team up for a hoedown in Rhinestone. Pages: Bob Woodward investigates the life and death of John Belushi.

Song: Foreigner heads back to the studio, and Prince makes a musical movie. Tube: Amy Irving and Ben Cross scale the romantic heights of The Far Pavilions, and Gold Medalist Donna de Varona gets back in the Olympic swim, this time as commentator. Style: Calvin Klein and Jockey add to their bottom line by giving women's underwear a locker-room look

Jaclyn Smith, Rodney Dangerfield, Ed Bradley and other renowned reviewers pick their favorite books, records, movies and TV shows of the year; then the editors weigh in with their pros and cons

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At the end of their bloodiest year since Vietnam, the U.S. Marines and their families reflect on their moments of triumph and tragedy

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MAIL J a n e Pauley I miss the presence of Jane Pauley (PEOPLE, Dec. 5) in my living room each morning, and I'm eagerly awaiting her return to the Today show. She epitomizes the down-to-earth, hardworking woman of our time.

JeffWolcott Steilacoom, Wash.

Finally an interview with a celebrity who doesn't suffer from an overinflated sense of the importance of her pregnancy to the rest of the world. After listening to several of these mothers-to-be in the limelight, I was beginning to think that these women were only conceiving in order to serve as role models. How refreshing to read "I just want to have kids." No words of advice, no exercise regimen. I wish Ms. Pauley and her husband beautiful, healthy babies.

Terry Nelson Ft. Bragg, N.C. Father Ken Myers Your story on Father Myers and the orphanage he started in El Salvador touched me, and I would love to make even one of those 180 children smile. I have always lived in a warm and loving environment, one in which I never had to worry or be afraid. I want to share some of that happiness with these children who are less fortunate. You said they need clothes, shoes and toys.

Please print an address to which I can send a contribution.

Cara Sue Leonardi Peekskill, N.Y. Gifts of money are more useful to the children in Father Myers' orphanage than toys or clothing. Shipping is difficult and expensive; it sometimes costs more to mail a toy to El Salvador than the toy cost to buy. Checks can be mailed to: COAR, c/o Rev. Ken Myers, 1031 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44114—ED. I was moved by your article on the orphanage in El Salvador. By contrast, the money that President Reagan insists on sending to the military government of that country, it seems, is only serving to fill Father Myers' orphanage with still more homeless children who have lost their parents.

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Cliff Robertson Let's lift a glass to actor Cliff Robertson for what his act of courage has meant to fellow performers. He stood up and was counted for all of us. And in any time, especially ours, if that's "taking care of No. 1," then Cliff has added new meaning to the language.

John P. Connell VP, Screen Actors Guild New York City Ralph Nelson's description of Cliff Robertson was accurate in one aspect only—there are "two Cliff Robertsons"—the one he worked with, and the one I worked with. The man I worked with was always on time, or early. When things went wrong, he usually blamed himself. They don't make them like that anymore.

Bob Fosse New York City I'm green with envy. Dina Merrill has everything. Good looks, money and Cliff Robertson, too. Sometimes life ain't fair.

Catherine Carter Charlotte, N.C. Mary Tyler M o o r e After reporting the happy event of Mary Tyler Moore's wedding, why was it necessary to add all the negative comments? Your insinuation that MTM married a younger man to "even the score" with her former husband was laughable. What does age have to do with her new-found happiness?

PEOPLE, why couldn't you have just wished Mary well?

Linda Garrett St. Paul Since Mary Tyler Moore, Olivia Newton-John, Linda Ronstadt and Carly Simon are taking all the men my age, should I start hanging around high schools to find a boyfriend? Is it illegal to marry a minor?

Kimberle McAfee Iowa City, Iowa Why is it that when some old duffer runs off with a bimbo half his age no one bats an eye; yet when a woman marries a younger man seemingly rational adults find the whole thing appalling? And if Ms. Moore has many other "close chums" like those

you quoted, God help her. What's wrong with her husband talking about medicine, which is his profession? And where is it written that looks are any criterion of a person's worth? Many women would be thrilled with a 30year-old cardiologist—even if he looked like Jabba the Hutt. Forget walking on the moon. When we finally decide to respect the right of everyone to make his own best choice, whether in politics, religion or love, then we will truly have taken a giant step for mankind.

Donna Ramsey Land Tucson T o d d Bridges It is 120 years since Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, but a prosperous young man such as Todd Bridges of Diff'rent Strokes is still denied the simple decency that white people such as myself take for granted. What is it that people are so afraid of? After all, white people are the majority and hold all the aces. No one in this land can be free until we all are.

Meanwhile, Todd, hang in there. You have more friends than you know.

Douglas Stokes New York City Duran Duran Thanks for your article on Duran Duran which showed that they aren't just five pretty guys playing pansy pop music, but five real people who are serious musicians.

Shana Hagan Phoenix My mother buys your magazine every week, and your article on Culture Club actually got her to like the group. A miracle! I knew, since we all respect PEOPLE, that she would at least consider Duran Duran if they caught your interest. Now at least she doesn't moan in distaste when she walks into my room. In fact, I think she ogles my DD posters—all 25 of them. Thanks.

Judy Johnson Casselberry, Fla.

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CELEBRITY CHOICE V T RODNEY DANGERFIELD Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life gets respect "this year and every year." The sad-sack comic wore out his videocassette of that classic.

On TV, he prefers boxing because "I'm supporting two fighters: my wife and her mother." As for records, Rappin' Rodney shamelessly cites Billy Joel's Tell Her About It. "The fact that I'm in the video has plenty to do with it," he admits. R.D. also says Robert Ludlum's 1982 novel The Parsifal Mosaic is still his favorite. That Ludlum is a Connecticut neighbor of Dangerf ield's has plenty to do with that, too.

V T BETTY FRIEDAN The women's-movement mover found Gandhi "really marvelous" but thought The Day After made for a better "political event" than TV movie. Friedan was also "outraged" that the six-member postmovie panel failed to include a woman. As for books, she enjoyed the sci-fi classic A Canticle for leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr. about a post-nuclear war society—"It's 20 years old and really devastating to read now." While Friedan enjoyed the Chariots of Fire sound track, she confesses, "Who knows from records? My record player is broken."

VT JOETHEISMANN The favorite TV program of the nation's First Quarterback and chief Cowboy tormentor is not set in

Dallas; it is Dynasty. "I watch it because I am intrigued with the characters," says the Washington Redskins' star. "And John James [who plays Jeff Colby] is a good friend." As a moviegoer, Theismann sneaked back to 1982's £ T for his rave, and the record play he called most often was Lionel Richie. Joe likes reading Eric Van Lustbader's martial-arts novels, where everyone kicks, gouges and otherwise behaves like defensive linemen.

V T JAMIE LEE CURTIS Even though nobody swung an ax in Terms of Endearment, the horror-movie princess calls it "the most completely satisfying movie I have seen."

Throughout the film Jamie held hands with mom Janet Leigh. "We laughed and cried together," Curtis says. Her favorite book was Alice Walker's The Color Purple. At the top of her record heap is Proof Through the Night by T-Bone Burnett, and on the tube, she was glued to Masterpiece Theatre's series Pictures. The hooker in Trading Places identified with one of Pictures' major characters—a "brassy broad with a brassy Cockney accent."

T ? ED BRADLEY Other than his own 60 Minutes, Bradley consistently catches only one TV show a week: Hill Street Blues.

On the big screen, he was warmed by The Big Chill.

Of the alienated teen flick Purple Haze, he says, "I

walked out." He delighted in William Least Heat Moon's literary travelogue Blue Highways. "He explored and talked to a lot of people," says Bradley.

"That's what I do." John le Carre's The Little Drummer Girl disappointed him. "It introduced all these great characters and then followed with 100 pages of nothingness." The music-loving newsman's special album is Jimmy Buffett's One Particular Harbour. But then Bradley occasionally plays tambourine with Buffett's band.

M JACLYN SMITH Smith adored Gandhi and was glued to The Winds of Warminiseries. (WofWstar David Dukes plays Jackie's husband, William Fairfax, in CBS's upcoming George Washington miniseries.) Smith is nothing if not loyal. She starred in Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels on TV, and calls Sheldon's Master of the Game her No. 1 book. Long a Christopher Cross fan, she picks his Another Page as a favorite song.

V4 RICKY SCHRODER The 13-year-old star of Silver Spoons has nary a critical word for anyone. He knows what he likes, though. Michael Jackson's Thriller is his hot album, "great for playing at a party." Hart to Hart ranks tops on TV; "it has adventure, mystery and excitement," Ricky says. He bucks the critics' notices, apContinued

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plauding the movie The Outsiders because "it appeals to kids growing up today." Schroder doesn't read much, but when he does it's Jack London.

V T MARIETTE HARTLEY Among 1983 movies, says James Garner's sidekick, "The hands-down winner is Krull. "The best book? Teddy Bear's Picnic by John Bratton. Her top album: Thriller by Michael Jackson. She's torn on TV between The Smurfs cartoon show and Super Friends. Having said all this, Hartley adds, "Would you say my children [son Sean, 8, and daughter Justine, 5] run my life?" Yes. Hartley's only gripe also involves her offspring. She's against MTV. "If you like your kids exposed to murder, hangings and beatings, then MTV is fine," she says. "I don't."

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The basketball star proves a gentle giant when it comes to criticism. Among books, he favors 1965's The Autobiography of Malcolm X— "It had a profound effect on my life." He names Herbie Hancock's jazz LP Empyrean Isles, featuring trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, as "one of the finest ever." Abdul-Jabbar's TV preference is a sometimes-rerun series, Harry-O. "I'm a fan of Anthony Zerbe [a regular on the detective show] and I enjoy whodunits," Kareem says. His taste for the mysterious carries over into movies, especially The Maltese Falcon: "That it was about a private eye appealed to me, probably because my father was a cop."

T ? JOHN LITHGOW The actor plays a shy, Iowa banker in Terms of Endearment and, modesty aside, Terms happens to be his favorite '83 movie. He loathes films like the teenage titillater Private School, which "seem to be made by market research." On his bookshelf is Alice Walker's The Color Purple ("It made me cry"), but no body-beautiful how-tos. "They ushered in an

age of narcissism, which I feel is unhealthy," Lithgow explains. "Maybe I hate them because they make me feel out of shape." He loved PBS's Vietnam series; his least favorite show was the NBA championship game when the Los Angeles Lakers lost to Philadelphia. In music, his 11 -year-old turned him on to the Police and Michael Jackson, and he thinks Men at Work are terrific. "They seem like exuberant, wide-open Australians."

SANDRA BERNHARD 7776 King of Comedy's upscale kidnapper loved the hot sexuality of Risky Business and admired Yentl for Barbra Streisand's "lovable, endearing and real" performance. Bernhard abhorred Francis Ford Coppola's black-and-white Rumble Fish: "If I pay $5 to see a movie, I want color." As for Matt Dillon, the actress says: "He was the same as always; he got stabbed and acted like a jerk." NBC's Kennedy miniseries was a rave, but Bernhard calls ABC's The Day After "a cartoon statement of what it's like to go through a holocaust." For music, she prefers Joan Jett's album Album. "I like her edge," Bernhard says but pans the Flashdance sound track.

"The songs stick in your head and you wake up singing them and want to kill someone." She blasts Billy Joel's Uptown Girl'video, featuring Christie Brinkley, of whom Bernhard says, "She is vapid and can't dance." As a reader she flips over David McClintick's Hollywood expose, Indecent Exposure, though "I have no business reading it because it shows how horrible this profession can be."

ANNJILLIAN Jillian picked two top movies of the year: Mr. Mom, which she was in, and Terms of Endearment, which V T LINDA ELLERBEE she wasn't. Jillian dug Sheena Easton's Best Kept Until Dec. 3, NBC's late-night newswoman preferred her own Overnight to any show on TV. Then the net- Secret and Jennifer Holliday's Feel My Soul but, adds Ann, "there are singers and then there's Barwork canceled it. Now she consoles herself with bra Streisand." Jillian found Peter Maas' book Masuch movies as Return of the Jedi "because I love cowboys, pirates, love stories and stories where the rie, a study of government corruption in Tennessee, good guys win." Well, almost all the good guys. She to be "fantastic." On TV, Ann admires Hill Street loathed Superman III. Musically, she adores the en- Blues because it's "as close to the way it really is as it ever could be." She should know: Her hustire score of My One and Only by the Gershwins. band is a former Chicago cop. Jillian reserved her And do her a favor. No more "sappy renditions" of Memory from Broadway's Cats. As for books, she's criticism for two subjects. One is "drug-based humor—drugs aren't funny." The other is ABC's Webloyal to NBC editor Gilbert Millstein's "damn good" God& Harvey Grosbeck, a satirical novel about the ster. Why pick on a show about a cute kid? "Because," says Jillian, "it is opposite my show, foibles of New Yorkers. She thumbs down Judith Jennifer Slept Here."

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by Joan Didion The sensitive novelist came out of El Salvador with a detached but hardly dispassionate account of its tragic confusion.

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by Ed McClanahan In a laugh-aloud first novel, a teacher recalls his childhood growing up in a Kentucky town with an unruly high school basketball player.

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by Laura Z. Hobson The free-spirited author of Gentleman's Agreement and other '40s fiction chats about her past as if it were a chic novel.

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by Elmore Leonard The setting is Miami, the hero a Secret Service agent turned photographer. The case: an ex-movie star involved in a plot that's like one of her films. It's 1983's best mystery.

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THE ONE MINUTE FATHER and THE ONE MINUTE MOTHER

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by William Peter Blatty This sequel to The Exorcist about the brutal murders of a child and some priests makes your head spin, if not quite 360°

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by Shirley MacLaine The memoir is about adultery, reincarnation, UFOs and telepathy.

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by Norman Mailer Just call it The Naked, the Dead and Some Old Egyptians.

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Everybody's favorite rock 'n' roll sweetie takes a rewarding trip to the Big Band Era. © HEARTS AND BONES Paul Simon At once Art-less and artful, the LP shows Simon's melancholy lyrics in front of some dazzling doo-wop, waggish rock and bright blues.

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GET IT RIGHT Aretha Franklin Who would ever have thought that Franklin could make a boring, dispirited record?

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EWOK CELEBRATION Meco The relentlessly toneless synthesizer arrangements of Meco Monardo don't quite make you wish music had never been invented, but they do make you wish electricity had never been.

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temptation among the kangaroos, and America's fteart went out to Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward.

D VIETNAM: A TELEVISION HISTORY Often painful to watch, the PBS documentary showed how powerful television can be.

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BREATHLESS f4 Neither Richard Gere's body nor his lack of talent has ever been exposed more graphically.

Q AFTERMASH There has never been a better argument for quitting while you're ahead than a dull, dumb sequel.

DANIEL J4 Director Sidney Lumet huffs and puffs so much in fictionalizing the Rosenberg case that he blows down both the film and his young cast.

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In the tradition of Love, American Style and Love Boat, the ABC establishment is a home away from home for Hollywood's third-rate stars.

J4 LONELY LADY Pia Zadora, looking like a manic-depressive cousin of the Pillsbury Doughboy, gives the second greatest performance of her career.

Q MANIMAL Crime fighter Simon MacCorkindale can turn himself into an eagle, tiger or, in this series, a turkey.

THE OUTSIDERS/RUMBLE FISH J4 Francis Coppola did both these alienated-youth epics. He once made a good movie, didn't he?

He's Mr. Ed with a species-change operation,

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Q BEAT IT The 297-second Michael Jackson video helped spawn a new telecreature: MTV.

J4 SCARFACE All that cussing, coke-sniffing and blood gushing dishonor the 1932 gangster classic in this remake; Al Pacino's overacting may disfigure his career.

D BUFFALO BILL Dabney Coleman found humor in the abrasive talkshow host, but the series was shelved. Bill's not defunct, though; NBC just brought him back.

J4 STAYING ALIVE Director Sly Stallone molded John Travolta's body with the skill of a Rodin cum LaLanne, but the plot barely breathed. Travolta stayed moribund with Two of a Kind.

D CHIEFS Wayne Rogers, Billy Dee Williams and a striking miniseries traced horrible crimes in a Georgia town.

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D FAERIE TALE THEATRE Shelley Duvall is fairy godmother of this Showtime series of kids' stories, lovingly interpreted by such grown-ups as Mick Jagger and Jean Stapleton.

Lynda Carter took liberties as Rita.

MOTOWN 25: YESTERDAY, TODAY, FOREVER Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder helped this soulful bit of nostalgia live up to its grandiose title.

L J THICKE OF THE NIGHT Ranking with Les Crane, Regis Philbin and Joe Pyne, the supercilious Alan Thicke is less a threat to Carson than to the sleeping-pill industry.

Q ON THE ROAD/OUR TIMES CBS scheduled two of its top talents, Charles Kuralt and Bill Moyers, in back-to-back shows where ordinary Americans spoke eloquently for themselves.

D TRAUMA CENTER Faced with this emergency clinic, whose personnel have names like Cutter, Hatter, Beaver and Hooter, any patient would take his chances with aspirin.

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Ronald Reagan

NO WAY TO MAKE IT EASY The close of 1983 saw a man of stern stuff in the Oval Office, but the tug-of-war with Moscow and events in Grenada and Lebanon have darkened the President's usually amiable mien. When Patricia Ryan, PEOPLE'S managing editor, and Garry Clifford, the magazine's Washington Bureau chief, interviewed him Dec. 6, some 48 hours after U.S. Navy jets bombed Syrian antiaircraft nests in the mountains east of Beirut, they found the White House atmosphere tense and the President somber. He showed a bit more gray, but no less determination.

In the last several weeks you've been awakened with news of world crises.

How do you get the reports? Does Mrs. Reagan get up with you?

No. I try to slip out without her. It's usually the bedside phone that rings.

When we were in Augusta that weekend, there were two such crises. Bud McFarlane [the National Security Adviser] called asking if I could come out to the living room and meet with the Secretary of State [about Grenada].

So I whispered to Nancy that I was just going out for a bit, hoping she'd go back to sleep. At the time of the Lebanon incident, one of the stewards just tiptoed in and touched me on the shoulder and whispered to me, and I slid out and did the same thing again.

How do you think the American people feel about committing troops to a military action?

The hardest thing in all my life is committing these splendid young men and women to tasks where you know there is that threat. I've never been so proud of anything as I have been of the Armed Forces. A few years ago everyone said the volunteer military wouldn't work. Well, it is working.

And there is a pride among them that just puts a lump in my throat. With a horrible incident such as the one in Lebanon, there just is no way to make that easy.

And Grenada?

The press and many political figures immediately jumped to the conclusion that the rescue mission was some kind of a warlike thing that everyone would be angry at. It was interesting to see so E WHITE HOUSE

many of them try to crawl back from the end of the stick when they found out that the American people understood very well what we were doing, and supported it.

Even your political godfather, Sen. Barry Gold water, is calling for the boys to come home from Beirut. How far are you willing to commit troops, to escalate?

It isn't a case of whether we will escalate. That is up to the Syrians and to some of those rebel groups who are fighting the Lebanese military; we have only fired back when we have been attacked. And I am hopeful that after this last exchange, the Syrians will decide that they don't want to go on that path. We are going to try for a political solution.

Do you see a day when President Assad of Syria could become a friend of the U.S. like Anwar Sadat?

I don't see any reason why not.

We've made great progress with the more moderate Arab states. I think that they are very ready for a negotiated settlement, building on the Camp David accords and the U.N. resolutions. Right now, Syria is the big kid, and the bad one, on the block.

How would you assess The Day After?

Any motion picture or drama or play isn't successful unless it involves an emotional experience, whether it is hating or crying or laughter. Certainly there was an emotional response to this horror film, but apparently it has not had a lasting impact. My own reaction to it was, "Look, if this can add to what we've been saying, that there

A week before Thanksgiving, the President accepted a Grade A gobbler from the National Turkey Federation in the 36th annual such presentation.

In February Reagan received a delegation of exotically garbed Afghan rebels who recounted atrocities by Soviet troops in their villages.

Ronald Reagan must not be a nuclear war, then maybe the people will understand why we are trying so desperately to get a reduction in those weapons worldwide." I hope that the other side will see the common sense in eliminating them totally. Not since the late '40s has there been such a suggestion, and that was made by this country. Even then, when we were really the only ones with a stock of such weapons, the Soviet Union refused.

If Yuri Andropov had been watching the film with you that night, would you have said that very thing to him?

Yes. And anything else ?

Yes, I would have told him that the only way there can be a war is if they start it. We're not going to start a war.

Do you have second thoughts about calling the USSR the "EvilEmpire"?

No. I think that it was high time that we got some realism and got people thinking. For too long we have viewed them as a mirror image of ourselves and thought maybe we could appeal to their good nature, saying, well, if we 22

unilaterally disarm, maybe they'll see that we're nice people, too, and maybe they'll disarm. Well, they didn't.

So you see them as a source of evil?

Yes. They believe they must support uprisings wherever they take place in the world to bring about a world Communist state. As a matter of fact, every Soviet leader up to Andropov— and he hasn't had time yet—has publicly restated his commitment to world conquest.

In the Jerusalem Post you were quoted as saying that this generation may see Armageddon, that a lot of biblical prophecies are being played out today.

Do you really believe that?

I've never said that publicly. I've talked here with my own people because theologians, quite a while ago, were telling me that never before has there been a time when so many prophecies were coming together. There have been times in the past when we thought the end of the world was coming, but never anything like this.

You've mused about this?

Not to the extent of throwing up my hands and saying, "Well, it's all

over." No, I think whenever that time comes, the generation that is here will have to go on doing what they believe is right.

Do you think about dying?

You can't help but be conscious of it because the security measures are so evident. If you mean do I go around fearful and look over my shoulder—no.

I have confidence in the security people. I had one taste of that.

Is it something you talk about with Mrs. Reagan or your children ?

No. It's better left unsaid?

Yes, because I think it was harder for them when it did happen and much more difficult, for her especially, to get over. It is a lot easier to worry about yourself than someone else. I know what must go through her mind when I set out on public appearances. I wish it didn't have to be.

Does your bulletproof vest hang in the family quarters?

No, no. And when the agents come in with it, they kind of come in flinching, because they know that I do not accept it with good grace.

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Supermodels Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Tiegs and Brooke Shields, in D.C. for a Kennedy Center event in May, visited with the First Couple.

What do you say when they put it on you?

Oh, e v e n an o c c a s i o n a l u n p r i n t a b l e w o r d . It's u n c o m f o r t a b l e . It's bulky, and I w o r k so h a r d in t h e g y m up t h e r e , but I k n o w e v e r y b o d y out t h e r e in t h e a u d i e n c e will say I'm getting fat.

Who do you think would be the easiest Democrat to beat in 1984?

If I a n s w e r e d that I might be helping t h e m to c h o o s e f r o m t h a t o c t e t t h e y ' v e got out t h e r e . Of c o u r s e , I h a v e n ' t said yet that I'm running.

Polls show you have a problem with women voters. The GOP has hired your daughter Maureen to change that situation. What is her advice, and would you support her if she were to run for elective office?

I'd s u p p o r t M a u r e e n for just a b o u t anything, a l t h o u g h if she e x p r e s s e d int e r e s t in this j o b , I might have to think a b o u t that. We a g r e e the p r o b l e m is o n e of p e r c e p t i o n . T h a t ' s w h e r e M a u r e e n is really helpful, getting this out. I don't believe the so-called women's a g e n d a should be d i c t a t e d by just a f e w w h o are very v o c a l .

You have not changed your long-held conservative beliefs. You often seem to

go with your guts instead of facts or political advice. Is this why you succeed?

It's my j o b to r e j e c t s o m e of t h e w e l l i n t e n t i o n e d a d v i c e I get. I try to think about the people beyond the Potomac.

I w e i g h t h e f a c t s carefully, but in t h e e n d it's just y o u and w h a t y o u think is b e s t f o r t h e p e o p l e w h o put y o u h e r e .

How do you maintain the very obvious romance you have with Mrs. Reagan?

Romance takes time, mood, not being harried.

W e ' v e always been very close and have d e v e l o p e d o v e r t h e s e 3 0 - o d d y e a r s little things that are kind of t r a d i tional or have a m e a n i n g t o us. We l e a v e n o t e s for e a c h other. It just d e p e n d s â&#x20AC;&#x201D; o n a b r e a k f a s t tray, and on certain occasions send cards.

What recent movie role would you have liked to play?

I'm not sure I w o u l d have b e e n right for the lead in Reds or The Right Stuff.

Casting has never b e e n my strong suit. When I w a s running for g o v e r n o r , J a c k W a r n e r said, " N o , no. J i m m y S t e w a r t for g o v e r n o r . Ronald Reagan for best f r i e n d . " When you took office, most Americans thought the job of being President was

impossible. You seem to thrive on it.

Ho w do you manage ?

M a y b e t h e eight y e a r s as g o v e r n o r gave m e s o m e training for this, b e c a u s e I d o r e m e m b e r w h e n I first became governor I thought the world had fallen on my h e a d . A n d I g u e s s I l e a r n e d t h e r e . In earlier d a y s our P r e s i d e n t s w e r e mainly f o u n d a m o n g the g o v e r n o r s . I think t h a t is a b e t t e r training place t h a n t h e legislatures.

Would you recommend the job to a friend?

Yes, but he might not be a f r i e n d aft e r w a r d . For s o m e o n e w h o w a n t s to do t h i n g s he b e l i e v e s s t r o n g l y in, this is t h e m o s t fulfilling e x p e r i e n c e .

Do you consider yourself lucky?

I do have s o m e Irish b l o o d , y o u know. But I look at it m u c h as a f o o t b a l l c o a c h . If a t e a m w o r k s long e n o u g h , after a while it's going to m a k e its o w n b r e a k s . But in t h e long run it g o e s b a c k to w h a t w e w e r e discussing b e f o r e . T h e point of r e a d i n g t h e Bible is to realize that this w o r l d and our lives d o n ' t really belong to us. What t h e G o o d L o r d w a n t s f r o m e a c h of us, and f r o m this w o r l d , is up to Him, not you and m e . â&#x20AC;˘ 23

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A HOLLYWOOD SEXPOT TURNS SERIOUS ACTRESS AND SCORES A SUCCESS ON HER OWN TERMS

Debra Winger r \ great star is rarely a great actress.

Garbo, Davis, Hepburn—magnificent performers all, but all unwilling (or unable?) to doff their powerful personas and simply be another being. But now, in a sad, funny, wonderful new movie called Terms of Endearment, a 28year-old American actress gives vivid promise that she may be that special exception: a star who can actually lose herself in the parts she plays.

Her name is Debra Winger, and like many of the great ones she is hardly a beauty. Her eyes are froggy. Her mouth drifts vaguely to the southeast.

Her speaking voice sounds like five pounds of walnuts being cracked underwater. Yet like a medium, this young woman can dissolve her boundaries in the wild smoke of imagination and become whoever she wants to be.

"She's a metamorphic actress, this girl," says Jack Nicholson, one of her co-stars in Terms. "I think she's a great actress—a genius."

Winger came to stardom in 1980, when she slid aboard a mechanical bronc in Urban Cowboy and stole the show by rocking her bottom and rolling her eyes in a parody of slo-mo masturbation. Next she won an Oscar nomination for brilliantly filling in a blank: the role of Richard Gere's mill-town doxy in An Officer and a Gentleman. Finally in Terms she found a character worthy of her steel.

Winger is cast as Emma, the downto-earth daughter of a hilariously overdecorated python (Shirley MacLaine) who truly loves her only child but regularly forgets you're not supposed to eat the thing you love. Starting out as a bobby-soxer with a mouth full of braces, Winger winds up about 14 years later as a gray-faced faculty wife shut up in a small college town with three wonderful kids, a limp academic husband who furtively plays back-seat bingo with his favorite coeds—and a cancer that is quietly eating her alive. All the while, she plays cello to her mother's trumpet in a subtle, touching love duet, the year's finest piece of inter-acting; and at every stage of the story she is simply and translucently Emma, inhab-

iting her character as naturally as red inhabits a rose.

Seemingly effortless, Winger's work is in fact achieved by ferocious effort—she trained for four and a half months to play two small scenes in which Emma is pregnant. "For three months I walked around with pregnancy pads. Every two weeks I added weights. I slept with the pads. My back was killing me. I never gave in."

Winger's drive sets up collisions.

She fought continually with Shirley MacLaine, who fought back. At times the air was so thick with verbal missiles that, as director James Brooks remembers wryly, "I got a feeling I wouldn't notice if they threw up on me." Winger insists that " a lot of what was mistaken for tension was two actresses working." Maybe so. But one eyewitness recently remarked: "They'd better split the Best Actress award two ways. Otherwise the loser is gonna brain the winner with a little gold-plated statuette."

Winger has always been recklessly assertive—"wild" is the word she uses. Growing up as a Jewish princess in Cleveland and later in Los Angeles, she was a raving hypochondriac who woke at night and screamed that she had cancer until her parents rushed her to the emergency ward. At 16, she ran off to a kibbutz and did her basic training in the Israeli Army. Back home, she was thrown from a pickup truck and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage that temporarily left her paralyzed on one side and blind in one eye. Lucky to escape with her life, she decided to do something with it: act.

When Winger isn't acting, she is frequently acting up. She scorches the freeways in her BMW and puts plenty of sizzle in her love affairs. Her current hot-and-heavy is Robert Kerrey, the 40-year-old Governor of Nebraska. "I have no plans for marriage," she says, "but he is absolutely someone important in my life." She does have plans to produce her own pictures. Because she wants power? "No. I'm interested in taking power away from them. Then I just want to sit back and become an actress again." •

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THE AGING LION OF REVOLUTION IN LATIN AMERICA GETS SAVVY —AND PULLS IN HIS CLAWS I t has been 25 years since the bearded man in olive-drab fatigues marched triumphantly into Havana, the "Vivas!" of nearly seven million Cubans ringing in his ears.

At 56, Fidel Castro is an aging Marxist with a paunch, who no longer parties till dawn nor harangues his people on the national air waves for eight hours on end.

But elmaximo lider has not mellowed, only gotten cannier, and perhaps more realistic. "We cannot export revolution," he tells would-be Communists in Latin American countries. "And you cannot import it. You must foster it." . To a degree, Castro's new caution was made mandatory by America's invasion of Grenada. Handed a quick defeat at the hands of an overwhelming force, Castro had to admit publicly that he lacked the resources to resupply his fighters. Moreover, he conceded, "It's not our option to be able to" bail out his friends, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, should America move against them. Nervous about U.S. intentions, Suriname ousted 100 Cubans and Nicaragua expelled 2,100 of the reported 5,000 advisers Castro had there.

But significantly, the leader who encouraged the Nicaraguans to make the tension-lessening move was Castro himself.

It's not that Fidel has lowered his sights, just his rhetoric. Last summer even he endorsed the idea of a ban on amis shipments among all Central American states. Despite a few post-Grenada broadsides, Castro has left the cold war of words to Ronald Reagan, who was seen by many Latins as a bully in Grenada. Avoiding the mudslinging has helped the dictator groom his image as Latin America's socialist paterfamilias, and it could improve his relations with the region's larger and less radical states, like Venezuela and Colombia. No longer the firebrand but still, observers say, a dedicated subversive, Castro may have discovered that the safest road to revolution is moderation. • Photograph by ©Sipa-Press

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PHASE ONE: In Earth Year 1977 a global cerebro-scan, undertaken on orders of Committee for Intergalactic Action (CIA), identified Xavier Roberts, 21, sculpture student in Cleveland, Ga. (pop. 1578), United States of America (pop. 234.2 million), as earthling with optimum mix of ingenuity, greed and fearless compulsion to be cute. Concept of Cabbage Patch Kids was inserted in Roberts' thought forms. Unaware of intergalactic control, drone Roberts rapidly produced a cloth-covered, soft-sculpture doll in form of partly melted human baby with zaphappy eyes and big fat cheeks that lent it expression of imploring potato.

PHASE TWO: Roberts was programmed with ingenious scheme to market the little monsters, each handsewn and hand-painted by local artisans, as live human babies. Strategy: to make CPKs desirable by making them unique, troublesome to acquire and weird looking—just like human babies. Naming his factory Babyland General Hospital, Roberts announced that 1) each CPK was " b o r n " in hospital's "delivery room," and 2) though it could not be bought, it might be "adopted" for fee of $125.

PHASE THREE: Number of adoptions grew steadily. By Earth Year 1982, Roberts had fathered more than 250,000 "Little People"—male/female, white/black/yellow—and hospital staff had expanded to 150. In 1981, adoption fee for babies equipped with mink-lined buntings jumped to $1,000.

PHASE FOUR: Roberts was motivated to ask giant corporation named Coleco to undertake mass reproduction. Sensing a winner, Coleco agreed to generate new breed of Little People at hospitals in Far East. Subcontracts were let for mass production of CPK clothes, cosmetics, cribs, strollers, toys, books, records, etc. Computerdesigned so that no two could turn out alike, new breed was born with vinyl (instead of cloth) skin on face, and in June 1983 was offered to public at thousands of "adoption centers" all 28

over U.S. Adoption rate soon accelerated far beyond predicted norms.

PHASE FIVE: By October 1983, in words of one human observer, U.S. was caught up in "epidemic of idollatry." For last six months of 1983, adoptions will exceed 2.5 million. Average parent now adopts three Cabbage Patch Kids. One woman has taken in 97—at cost of $2,425. Coleco has hired jetliners to ferry 200,000 CPKs from Hong Kong to U.S. every week, plus armored cars to carry them to adoption centers. Yet all over U.S., centers have run out of Kids. Frustrated and furious, public is paying many times usual fee ($25-$30) for black market babies— when any are available.

WARNING! Shortages of adoptees may quickly break momentum of Operation. Either fickle U.S. public will lose interest in Little People, or attractive counterfeits, now appearing in large numbers, will dilute CPKs' share of market. If this happens, Operation Cabbage Patch Kids will self-destruct and CONQUEST OF EARTH MAY BE INDEFINITELY DELAYED! ATTENTION! There is one sure way to prevent disaster. ONE MILLION GENUINE CABBAGE PATCH KIDS MUST BE DELIVERED TO ADOPTION CENTERS BY DEC. 24! Since hospitals on Earth cannot fulfill this quota, request High Command to SET UP EMERGENCY DELIVERY ROOMS IN OUTER SPACE AND LAND CPKs ON EARTH AT USUAL SITES! Wave is rolling! Urge we ride it! Mania for CPKs already spreading to Japan and Western Europe. Within six months, fifth column of 15-to-20 million Little People may be discreetly inserted in homes all over Earth. At strategic moment, microscopic seed pods secreted in navels of CPKs may be activated under cover of darkness. In less than one hour they will grow to full size and by morning will multiply into intergalactic strike force of 500,000 storm troops, armed and programmed to take over planet Earth.

REQUEST IMMEDIATE REPLY. Also: request slight change in plan for disposal of human race. Suggest preservation of small number for breeding purposes. Though harmful in large numbers, individuals might make amusing dolls for intergalactic children. •

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dare claim he hasn't got a prayer.

The illegitimate son of a high school student and her next-door neighbor (Jesse was later adopted by her husband and raised in Greenville, S.C.), Jackson, 42, has thus far used his candidacy to spearhead a grass roots voter-registration drive among his "Rainbow Coalition" of blacks, Hispanics, women and other "locked out, oppressed" groups. His tireless drive is a dazzling study in Hellfire & Barnstorm oratory: "from outhouse to White House . . . from disgrace to Amazing Grace . . . from slave ship to championship." Whether his impact on his party

is divisive or productive, one thing is beyond dispute: Jackson's on-thestump flair can make Mondale look like Fritz the Catatonic and John Glenn sound like the the Light Stuff.

A recent appearance before 5,000 at a packed church in a predominantly black ward in North Houston reveals Jackson at his masterly best. He opens with a flurry of political jabs, attacking tax shelters for the rich, welfare for the poor, low black and ethnic representation in Congress; citing narrow Reagan victories in 1980 in states with massive numbers of unregistered blacks, Hispanics and women.

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Jesse Jackson The pace pumps up gradually. "We can win!" he shouts. "We can win!" A singer belts out a gospel hymn to a choral-organ background. A woman lost in a state of twitching ecstasy is led away by an unnerved Secret Service agent, trained to look for guns, not grace.

Jackson's just cranking up. When he begins a long tale about his grandma, he hits his stride. His voice comes from some gravel pit in the vocal cords.

"She has surviiiiiived to 80," he roars, "always overworked, underpaid, couldn't read or write, but she's a genius." "Yeah, yeah," the all-black audience roars back. "Her eyes are kinda dim now," he says, "but when she could see, ohhhhhhh what she saw."

The testifying becomes electrifying.

"What she lost in eyesight she gained in /nsight," he bellows. The voice grows louder, richer. "She heard a voice, and she whispered to me, she said in my ear, 'Keep on keepin' ooooon.' " His hands grip the lectern hard. "Ohhhhhh, when she could seeeeeee."

"Grandma's kinda feeble now," he says softly. "She got arthritis in her fingers and can hardly bend them sometimes. And when we didn't have enough grocery money to make ends meet she could take . . . " He pauses, rocking sideways like a blues belter, storing adrenaline for a kick-ass climax. "She could take the mold from bread and make medicine . . . when she had hands." "Yes she did. Yes she did," they all moan together. Hankies wave and wipe tears; hands clutch together. Children stare up at him in awe.

"She could take," the voice booms in a grimaced roar of fury, "a potato and peel it one day—when she did have hands. And mash it one day—when she did have hands." "Yeah, yeah."

"And boil it one day when she did have hands. And grate it one day. When she did have hands." "Yeah, yes she did.

Yes she did." "Her hands are kinda feeble now," he roars, "but ohhhhhh, when she did have hands."

road and said to me, 'Choose the high road, never the low road'—when she could walk. She said, 'Put your hands in the hands of the Lord, and the Devil can do no harm.' Ohhh, when she could walk."

Now the voice is so powerful it seems not to be coming from within Jackson but from some other, mightier presence that fills the cavernous church. It becomes suddenly clear the folksy anecdote is also a subliminal parable of 350 years of black America—and it hits its mark. "Now I'm grandma's grandson, and my time has come. I will never forsake her. I will take us to a higher ground 'cause I know rejection. I have known abuse, persecution. I have known jails, I have seen the rough side of the mountain.

But I heard the Lord, and I said, 'Lord, you been so good to me, I'll do what you say, go where you send me.' " The bodies are huddled together, standing, tears rolling. Their one voice of jubilation cannot drown out Jackson's.

"If you want somebody to feed the hungry, Lord, here am I, send me. If you want somebody to clothe the naked, here I am, send me. I feel like going on that journey now. Nothing can stop us. Our time has come. Here am I, Lord, here am I, here am I, send meeeee."

An hour later Jackson is in an airtight, plushly cushioned car, driving back to a hotel, then in an airtight elevator and quickly ushered into a

soundless hotel suite high over downtown Houston. The decompression is alarming. He is weary, solemn but accessible, whispering orders to aides, muttering on the phone, changing his clothes as he works amid near silence. He talks about the "moral imperative" of his run, the "weighty deliberations" with wife Jacqueline and their five children (ages ranging from 8 to 21) about the "dangers of inviting the wrath" of an assassin. "My family is behind me," he says, "but it is a big step. I have faced the occupational hazard of violence all through my public career but it does not preoccupy me."

What helps him through is the " e n chanting, romantic" bond with his audiences. "They give me the inspiration. It is hard to feel fatigue out there, but at night I do sleep sound."

The campaign takes a toll at home.

"I phone twice a day. I miss 'em. I go from 5,000 people out there tonight to nobody in here now. I may not be alone, but I am lonesome." Prayer and regular fasts help to sustain "clarity and focus" on the run. "My personal discipline is very strong."

So, it seems, is his vision of the mission for which he feels he has been chosen. "Charisma is a gift of the spirit. Those people tonight weren't responding to some meteorite. They're responding to something of substance.

There are charismatic people on the stage, too, but their charisma is used to entertain. Mine is to emancipate." •

He pauses for the momentum to catch up, turn into delirium. "She can't walk now, but ohhh when she could walk, she walked all night hummin' the Lord's song, and she led me down the

Jackson relishes rare time at his Chicago home, relaxing with the brood: from left, Jonathan, 17, Santlta, 21, Yusef, 13, Jacqueline Jr., 8, Jesse's wife, Jacqueline, 39, and Jesse Jr., 18.

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William Gates I here is a hint of Andy Hardy in his boyish grin and unruly cowlick. In fact, Bill Gates wasn't too far from the geewhiz plot of an actual Hardy movie when, as a teenager nine years ago, he co-founded the world's first personalcomputer software firm. Today that company, Microsoft, is the warp-speed leader of the burgeoning software industry. Now 28, Gates is to software what Edison was to the light bulb— part innovator, part entrepreneur, part salesman and full-time genius.

Gates got there by writing truly elegant, bug-free computer programs.

He calls it "slick, tight code." It takes nerve to write slick, tight code. Some people never do; others burn out early, like chess masters who peak out at 30.

Slick, tight code must be intuitive, a bold leap of microchismo. As a 19year-old Harvard dropout, Gates adapted the computer language BASIC to microprocessors for the first time—a step that galvanized the industry and made his Microsoft BASIC the common lingua franca among computer users. His MSX software for home computers is preeminent in Japan. Not long ago Gates showed executives at Tandy his rough design for a small, lap-size computer. The result, the Radio Shack Model 100, is widely considered the most exciting computer introduced this year.

Unlike that earlier visionary, Isaac Newton, Gates did not have an Apple fall on his head; it was an IBM. Back in July of 1980, two IBM strategists flew 4,000 miles from Boca Raton, Fla. to meet Gates in his offices in Bellevue, Wash., outside Seattle. After pledging him to secrecy, they dropped a bombshell: IBM was considering building a personal computer. It had to be out in a year. Could Gates help them?

Though no outsider had ever worked so closely with IBM on a computer, Gates spent a hectic year perfecting the operating software that controls the IBM PC. After that success, IBM again turned to Gates for its PCjr. Today Microsoft's operating software is an industry standard used by an estimated 900,000 personal computers.

Software is replacing sex as the real passion among consenting adults, and Gates is happy to play matchmaker.

Microsoft is now going directly to consumers with games (Flight Simulator), business programs (Multiplan), word processing (Microsoft Word) and a "windowing" package that allows users to juggle several programs.

Microsoft is a popular neighbor in Seattle. It does not pollute downstream or give off smoke. Instead, rising above the blue waters of Lake Washington is the bracing fragrance of freshly minted money. Sales have doubled every year since 1974 (they should hit $100 million by next June), and the staff has grown tenfold from 40 in 1980 to 450 today. "I love being at the center," says Gates, whose favorite prefix is "super," as in "superimportant." He adds: "Software is driving the industry. And it's fun."

The fun began when Gates, the son of a prominent Seattle lawyer, was a seventh grader at private Lakeside School. The mothers' club bought computer time on a Digital terminal, and Bill and another student, Paul Allen, got hooked. Soon they were scheduling the school's classes and had started a business studying traffic patterns for local communities. Eventually he and Allen were contracted by TRW to help analyze electrical power requirements around the Northwest and Canada. "No one knew then we were just in ninth and 10th grades," Gates says. An Eagle Scout, he spent the summer of 1972 as a congressional page (where he made a killing buying 5,000 McGovern-Eagleton campaign buttons for three cents each and then selling them as collectors' items for $20.25 apiece after Eagleton was dumped from the ticket).

Gates entered Harvard, though Allen was urging that they start a microcomputer company. The two already had spent $360 to buy one of the very first microcomputer chips. "Paul saw that the technology was there," Gates recalls. "He kept saying, 'It's gonna be too late. We'll miss it.' " The turning point came when they Photograph by Dale Wittner

read in Popular Electronics about a build-it-yourself computer, the Altair, made by an Albuquerque company called MITS. "We called up and said, 'Look, would you like a BASIC?' " Gates remembers. They blithely claimed they'd already adapted the language to microcomputers—and then spent the next three weeks frantically writing a simulated program on a larger computer. It worked. "MITS didn't understand the importance of it," Gates says. "Nobody did. But we knew that people in schools everywhere would have these computers."

Gates dropped out of Harvard at the end of his sophomore year in 1975.

Eighteen months later he and Allen had already made "a few hundred thousand dollars" for the new Microsoft firm. Soon they were writing slick, tight code for struggling companies with names like Apple and Commodore. "Bill had a vision," says one of his head programmers. "It was that microcomputers will be important, and that software will be the most important part of microcomputers."

Today Gates is chairman of his firm (Allen is VP of research and development) but still might be mistaken for a stockroom clerk. Like everyone at Microsoft, where the average age is 26, he dresses in Eddie Bauer casuals—a sweater, corduroys— and running shoes. He drives a Mercedes to work from his lakefront house in Seattle's Laurelhurst district. On his home terminal there he can tap out "electronic mail" memos by the dozen to his staff. Gates works most nights and usually one day on weekends.

His biggest managerial problem is coping with the aftershocks of rapid expansion. A president he hired last year lasted only 11 months. Gates is looking at taking the privately held company public in a few years, a step that would finance more growth (as well as make Gates a zillionaire). "We want to be to software what IBM is to hardware," sums up a Microsoft vicepresident. That, as Gates would say, is the biggest reward for writing slick, tight code. • 37

HE HAS IT ALL AS A LAUREATE OF STAGE AND SCREEN: SO NOW WHAT'S HE WANT? ANONYMITY

Sam Shepard R e c l u s i v e playwright Sam Shepard has pulled a startling switch. Only J.D. Salinger signing for a sitcom could top it. Often teased as the "Masked Man of the American Theater," Shepard is suddenly a wide-screen, posterized movie star playing legendary jet jockey Chuck Yeager in the American epic The Right Stuff. Sure, Shepard's done other films (Days of Heaven, Resurrection, Raggedy Man), but they fall into the succes d'estime category, seen by too few to endanger his cult status.

Now there's another unwelcome spotlight on Sam, courtesy of his affair with 1983 Oscar winner Jessica (Tootsie) Lange. They met while co-starring in Frances, and next thing Shepard had moved out on actress wife O-Lan and son Jesse Mojo, 14, and moved in with Lange and her 2-year-old daughter, Alexandra (by Mikhail Baryshnikov), on the actress's six-acre spread outside Sante Fe. They've just finished a film about farmers called Country. "Who knows?" is Sam's best guess about where the relationship will lead.

At 40, with 40 plays mounted, including off-Broadway's current True West and Fool for Love, Shepard is now the country's most-produced living playwright. Since the 1960s he has been birthing plays as though he'd overdosed on fertility drugsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one of the few he didn't try during those psychedelic days. But don't push him about his writing ("It's just something you do"). Dennis Quaid, who plays astronaut Gordon Cooper in The Right Stuff, sees clanking contradictions in the man. "He can act like a lawn-mower repairman in some dirt Texas town," says Quaid, "and at the same time spout these brilliant things. He's got his straight side and his wild side." Right Stuff director Phil Kaufman describes Shepard as "shy but dangerous and tough." He once decked a drunk who repeatedly provoked him.

Of that reputation and his newfound celebrity, Shepard says typically, "Why should I care?" A line from one of his plays finishes the thought: "I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man, a one and only." â&#x20AC;˘ 38

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THE CAREER OF AN 'INFALLIBLE' PILOT ENDS IN THE DEBRIS OF FLIGHT 007

Chun Byung In • V o r e a n Air Lines pilot Chun Byung In, 45, was, by all accounts, compulsively orderly. Immaculately dressed in his freshly pressed blue uniform, two neatly ironed handkerchiefs folded in his pockets, the onetime Korean air force stunt pilot cut an imposing figure on the international civilian flights he had commanded flawlessly for 11 years.

"You never saw such a methodical man as my husband," says his widow, Kim Ok Hee. "Just about everything had to be precisely at its proper place."

But something, somehow, slipped tragically out of place for Chun on the night of Aug. 31. In a stunning predawn catastrophe, Chun's KAL Flight 007 from Anchorage to Seoul was blasted from the sky by two Soviet missiles after the Boeing 747 strayed more than 200 miles inside that country's airspace. The 269 people on board, including 61 Americans, were killed. The lethal attack, grudgingly admitted by the Soviet Union only after days of denials and obfuscation, etched on the world's consciousness an indelible image of Soviet brutality and paranoia.

But the question persisted: How had the jetliner wandered so far off course? The U.S. and South Korea have steadfastly denied that Flight 007 was spying on the Soviets, pointing out that advanced satellite technology would have made such a mission unnecessary. Similarly unfounded, apparently, is KAL's charge that the Soviets had interfered with the jumbo jet's Inertial Navigation Systems by means of a remote-control radio beacon. On another front, flamboyant San Francisco attorney Melvin Belli, 76, has alleged, in a lawsuit filed against KAL by relatives of more than 50 crash victims, that, according to his sources, the airline routinely offered pilots bonuses to take fuel-saving shortcuts through Soviet airspace. "[Pilot Chun] was so frightened of flying over Russia

"Here we go again," Chun had said to his family, as he set out on the first leg of his fatal trip to the U.S. and back. His plane was shot down in Soviet airspace about two hours f r o m Seoul.

that he was going to quit," says Belli.

The pilot's widow denied these charges totally, and the International Civil Aviation Organization, which has been investigating the "facts and technical aspects" of the flight, has reported no evidence that Korean Air Lines ever took shortcuts to save fuel or for any other reason.

Most aviation experts theorize that Chun and his crew made a one-digit mistake in registering their takeoff point on the liner's computers. An error in locating Anchorage at 139°59.6' West longitude instead of the correct

149°59.6' would have caused the plane's independently powered navigational systems to steer the jet on the fatal path the Russians have claimed it followed.

Yet Chun's fellow KAL pilots find it hard to reconcile their knowledge of the man with this assumption of critical negligence. "He was the most careful man I've ever known," says Ahn Sang Jeon, who flew precisely synchronized formations with him during Chun's salad days as a hot-shot flier on the Korean air force's aerobatics team. Chun was so respected, in fact, that he had served as a backup captain on three of President Chun Doo Hwan's state visits and, ironically, was to have flown the presidential jet to Burma last October—the flight that took 16 top Korean officials to their deaths in a terrorist bomb explosion in Rangoon. Today, in a grassy park on the southern edges of Seoul, Chun Byung In's captain's uniform and a pair of carefully ironed handkerchiefs lie in an otherwise unoccupied tomb—buried there by his widow as a testament to a man of impeccable reputation and habits. •

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MP.T THE TERROR OF THEA-TEAM GOES TO CHURCH AND DOESN'T FOOL AROUND WITH SOME CHICKS • l u g e and bronze and menacing, he looks like an evil genie who has just blasted out of a bottle. His head is a glistening cannonball topped with a warlike ridge of coarse hair. His naked torso ripples with enormous muscles beneath festoons of ponderous gold necklaces. His eyes are locked in an angry glare, and his big ivory teeth grind and glitter. "I'm startin' to get maaaaaaaaad," he growls, "and you don't ever wanna see me maaaaaaaaadV Comic-strip character? Autoerotic fantasy? Oddjob disguised as Shazam? No, all those muscles and bangles adorn (are you ready for this?) a major role model of the rising generation. His moniker is Mr. T, and as the most popular (and violent) character on the most popular (and violent) new show on the prime-time tube—a meathead version of Mission Impossible known as The A-Team and described by one NBC executive as "T-rash"—Mr. T, at 31, is indisputably the show-business Manic of the Year.

"I'm big and black," he brays with glee, "and now I'm becoming rich and black!" A hot new contract pays him close to $1 million a year for The A-Team; for a TV guest shot he swaggers away with more than $45,000; and then there's a bundle coming in from Mr. T dolls and a new Mr. T cartoon series on NBC. Success hasn't spoiled Mr. T. "God did it all!" he bellows. "I don't shout on Sunday and doubt on Monday. The Good Lord is responsible for it all!" If in fact the Good Lord helped, He helped a man who sure helped himself. He was born Lawrence Tureaud and raised in a Chicago ghetto by a God-fearing mother whose husband abandoned her with 12 children and an $87-a-month relief check. (T is a devoted father to his daughter, Lesa, 13, born out of wedlock.) At 22, he set himself up as "Mr. T, the World's Greatest Bodyguard" for a celebrity clientele that included Muhammad AN and Michael Jackson. Salary: $2,000 a day. Fame came in 1980, when Sylvester Stallone signed Mr. T to play Clubber Lang, the brute who knocked Rocky's block off in Rocky III, and with it began a mighty struggle between God and Mammon.

So far God seems to be winning. Mr. T recently gave $10,000 to Chicago's Cosmopolitan Community Church and can often be found in a black ghetto, up to his earrings in young admirers, shouting a sermon on the dangers of drugs and violence and the virtues of hard work and three square prayers a day. Much too busy to examine the contradiction between what he preaches on the street and practices on the screen, Mr. T recently completed an action comedy called D.C. Cab and will soon start shooting a TV movie called The World's Strongest Man. Last week, at the request of the First Lady, he played Santa Claus at a press tour of the White House. Yet he dreams of higher things. "I'm talented and flexible," he says with a faraway expression. "I could play Hamlet, even though I look like King Kong." • Photograph by Tony Korody/Sygma

AN IMPISH AUSSIE DESIGNER AND HIS MAGIC KEEL HAUL AMERICA'S CUP DOWN UNDER AFTER 132 YEARS OF U.S. OWNERSHIP

Ben Lexcen r\her three years of preparation, it all came down to a spectacular comefrom-behind of a few hundred yards.

By that stretch of deep blue water and a margin of 41 seconds, the lovely white-hulled Australia II, whose mystery keel had captured even landlubbers' imaginations, sliced across the finish line on Rhode Island Sound ahead of Liberty, the America's Cup defender, thereby ending the longest winning streak in sports history. After 132 years on U.S. soil, if one can refer to a glass case in the elitist New York Yacht Club that way, the "auld mug" would be going abroad for the first time. Yet the man most responsible for that wasn't even on board Australia II when the sleek upstart crossed the line. Ben Lexcen, its gruff 47-year-old designer, was watching from a tender when his revolutionary boat won the race and, most salts now agree, changed ocean racing forever.

When Australia //was hoisted out of the water five hours after that deciding seventh encounter last September, non-Aussies got their first look at the invention Lexcen had until then kept shrouded in plastic when it wasn't in the ocean. They saw a squat keel that seemed to be upside down and had "winglets" flaring off the bottom.

Looking back on the whole heated summer, during which competitors of several nations fought him on legal ground as well as on the sea, and even sent divers to photograph his keel underwater, Lexcen now says he never doubted the technical supremacy of his creation.

Having been proved on water, Lexcen's winged keel was legally sanctioned, once and for all, last month by the International Yacht Racing Union in London, a decision that sent designers around the world scurrying to their drawing tables. "All the shackles are off, and we're heading into the most interesting period in the history of yacht design," Lexcen says with relish. "It's unlikely that I designed the best boat of its type on the first try."

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The "auld mug" is on exhibit in Perth, but Lexcen's designs for '87 are under wraps.

by syndicate head Alan Bond with cooking up a new 12-meter boat to defend the Cup in January 1987 on the Indian Ocean off Fremantle. Lexcen often works on his assignment for up to three days without sleep.

In the wake of victory, he is forgiving of the often questionable tactics of his

foes. He lays the Americans' legal antics to "the terrible responsibility of defending this bloody relic, like an icon."

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WHERE'S JOHNNY? HOME WATCHING A 'SEMI-LEGEND' SKEWER GUESTS AND BOOST HIS RATINGS

Joan Rivers â&#x20AC;˘abeling her "overrated," one critic smacked Joan Rivers with perhaps the ultimate insult: "Everything she says about herself is true." Elizabeth Taylor, after five years of taking it on the double chins, finally fought back: "The woman looks like a circus clown." And if Jerry Falwell, inexplicably, became a fan this year (he told her he "adores" her), most of the Moral Majority did not. After Rivers said "goddamn" and joked about herpes and AIDS on the Emmy Awards show, NBC received thousands of angry phone calls.

Still, Rivers doesn't take nearly as much as she dishes out. In her late 40s, she has become America's premier comedienne by raising insult to a controversial art form. Arguing "I'm really a very sensitive person; I only go after the ones who are big enough to take it," she abuses everyone: Bo Derek ("so dumb she studies for a Pap test"), Sophia Loren ("an old tramp from

World War I I . . . . I threw a Hershey bar into her dressing room and she laid down") and Willie Nelson ("he wears a Roach Motel around his neck").

Lately Rivers has even begun zapping stars a mere arm's length away on the Tonight Show, where she gives new meaning to the label cutup. She shocked Victoria Principal by insisting Principal was once engaged to Andy Gibb ("I saw that cheesy ring"), questioned the heterosexuality of Boy George and, by hinting that his marriage was in trouble, made Tony (Taxi) Danza look as if he wanted to punch her.

But if she risks driving potential guests away (Taylor and Richard Burton have refused to go on with her), viewers seem to have the opposite reaction. Her shows some nights outrate Carson's, which is why she was recently made his sole substitute (and could eventually succeed him). Her What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most is a hit LP Photograph by Harry Benson

and she is on the road performing before SRO crowds 40 weeks a year.

Rivers' rise signals nothing less than a wholesale change in the public's sense of humor. As she figures it, "I am telling the truth in a very angry age.

People in this country don't like anyone anymore. And I succeed by saying what everyone else is thinking."

For Rivers recognition was a long time coming. She defied her upperclass Jewish parents to "starve" as a Greenwich Village comic before Carson discovered her, announcing on the air in 1965, "You're going to be a star."

Now that she is, Rivers presides over a Beverly Hills "mini-Versailles," home to second husband Edgar Rosenberg, 53, daughter Melissa, 15, and a flock of servants. One of them recently took a call from Rivers' first husband, Bond's clothing store heir James Sanger whom she hasn't seen in more than 20 years. The message? "Tell Joan that I'm proud." â&#x20AC;˘ 49

High School Principal EDUCATION TAKES A CRITICAL BATTERING, BUT THIS MAN RUNS HIS SCHOOL WITH PRIDE l o r defenders of America's embattled public school systems, the news was bad but not unexpected. A report last May by the National Commission on Excellence in Education told them what they already knew: that teachers are poorly trained and underpaid, that courses are all too often undemanding and frivolous, and that schools are pumping out students woefully deficient in language and writing skills. But the situation is not universally grim.

According to a Carnegie Foundation report published last fall, our foundering educational system is beginning to show signs of reform, and a small but encouraging number of high schools are pulling away from the pack in their race to excel. The key in every instance is leadershipâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a principal who won't let his school be less than the best.

A case in point is John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, New York. A concrete fortress housing nearly 5,000 students, of whom half are Hispanic and 30 percent black, Kennedy is the fief of Principal Robert Mastruzzi, a cheerleading extrovert who believes the prerequisite to educational excellence is convincing kids to believe in their school. "Our philosophy is that these kids are entitled to the very best," he says. "I tell the staff the most important thing is not what they know about calculus or physics, but that they convey to each kid that he is important. If kids feel they are in an environment where people care about them, they will come. And once you have control over a student body that wants to be there, it's easy to implement solid educational programs."

Attendance is an obsession with Mastruzzi, and he lures students with whatever incentives he can. Each month homerooms with the best attendance records are rewarded with Big Mac certificates donated by McDonald's. Peer pressure is also employed.

Students who habitually cut classes are assigned guardian angelsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rehabilitated truants who try to steer them 50

back onto the straight and narrow.

"When one kid sees the other kid failing, he gets on his case," explains Mastruzzi, 56, a former physical education instructor. "If a kid feels he is sliding, he has somebody to go to." Attendance at Kennedy averages 80 percent, far above other New York schools with a high proportion of minority students.

Mastruzzi's problems are common to countless urban schools: deteriorating facilities, overcrowded classrooms, uninspired students from troubled families. Kennedy offers a yearlong minischool for potential dropouts and has succeeded in moving most of them back into the mainstream. But the Kennedy neighborhood is infested with gangs, and Mastruzzi doesn't hesitate to crack down when he has to. "If a kid we feel is salvageable gets into trouble, we will bring every resource into play," he says. "But I will not tolerate weapons, drugs, assaults or any bum who cannot conform." He concludes bluntly: "Every kid cannot be saved."

The Bronx-born son of a shoe factory worker, Mastruzzi is a graduate of New York University. He is married to an elementary school teacher and has a 25-year-old daughter. Though he earns a salary of $55,000 after 33 years as a teacher or principal, his school receives less than $40,000 a year for new school expenses, including supplies and equipment. Of necessity, he has become a master of improvisation. "I subscribe to the theory that you cannot run a school effectively without breaking at least one rule a day," he says. "I don't even want to ask whether it's legal to sell soda and pretzels on campus to subsidize the school newspaper. I really don't care because it's in the kids' best interest. But it's sad when kids have to do this kind of thing several months a year to earn money for projects that they are rightfully entitled to." Last year the school's student government raised $74,000 for extracurricular programs at Kennedy.

They could do nothing, however, about raising teacher salaries, which Mastruzzi regards as disgracefully low.

"Good teachers really make a school," he says. "But I ride the subway and see ads: 'Join the Sanitation Department for $19,000.' My beginning teachers aren't making $15,000."

Pinchpenny resources aside, Mastruzzi has concluded after 12 years in the principal's office that it's the intangibles that make Kennedy work. "It's one of the few schools that retains what was fairly common years agoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; tradition and spirit," he says. "I love kids. Their minds are open, and if we

gave them half a chance, we could develop an outstanding adult population 10 years from now. If you're going to have a true democratic society, kids in places like New York City should be entitled to the same education offered in the suburbs. I refuse to have my kids be second-class citizens." â&#x20AC;˘

"Kids come here with a pattern of failure and a sense of frustration," says Robert Mastruzzi of New York's John F. Kennedy High. "I always tell them they're the best.''

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Eddie Murphy IT'S NO JOKE: HE MAKES FOLKS MAD, BUT HE'S GOT IT MADE

eing Eddie Murphy means never having to say you're bored. Earlier in the year he couldn't walk down the street without a bodyguard. For his most recent public appearance—a smashing success, by anyone's standards—even a police guard was not enough. While Murphy was autographing copies of his new album, Eddie Murphy: Comedian (and the back of an occasiona well-filled blouse) in a record store in the posh Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., some 2,000 fans were trying to push their way inside. In their bubbly pubescent eagerness, they managed to push a cop inside—right through a plateglass window. Ah, the heady perks of superstardom!

Enough to give pause, one would think, even to the most immodest of quadruple-threat millionaires (TV, movies, records, concerts). Not Eddie Murphy, who's been through a lot lately. "What kind of a year has it been?" the 22-year-old sassmaster mused recently. "Well, I did two movies—48 Hrs. and Trading Places. I did the Grammys, the Oscars, the Emmys. I did a concert tour. I did a season of Saturday Night Live. I made a five-movie deal with Paramount for $15 m lion. And I formed my own production company." About the only thing he doesn't do is windows—and his fans seem more than willing to take care of that little detail.

This is not to suggest that 1983 was perfect for Murphy. Now that he's one of the bigs, he's starting to hear the digs about the

size of his hat. In a rebuttal of sorts, he invokes the sacred name of Johnny Carson—"Carson said that you don't change, the people around you do. It's true."

Okay. That's his opinion. The facts are: He's black, he's bad, his bankbook is beautiful, he talks dirty—and we just can't get enough of him. What's the story?

According to a theory advanced

by SNL executive producer Dick Ebersol, his eyes have it. Whatever Murphy's doing—beating up a bar full of white trash in 48 Hrs. or, in his raunchy HBO special, dumping on everyone from Stevie Wonder to the ate Elvis Presley—he gets away with it because of the smile that's always dancing in those big browns.

After all, who else would you pay actual money to just to hear him tell you to get f-worded?

Not that he sometimes isn't actually sincere with the get-f-worded expression. In fact, he's about to tell television to get f-worded.

That's right. After this SNL season, no more boob tube. "I'm retirng from TV at 22," he said in a recent interview. "Never again. No weeklies or specials. I may pop up on a talk show now and then. I don't like feeling restricted. There are things I can't do on TV. Back when this show started, if someone told me I had to do something I didn't want to, they would say, f— you, you have to. I don't have to put up with bulls— anymore. I want to do my concerts and albums and moves. I want to do my stuff." He's not bragging. No smile in his eye. He means it. No more bored, never no more. • Photograph by Lynn Goldsmith/LGI ©1983

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OH, TO BE YOUNG AND HOT IN HOLLYWOOD, YET INSTEAD OF ACTING UP THE LEADER OF THE PACK IS BUTTONED-DOWN I he best thing to be in Hollywood these days is one of the boys. In 1983 the new kids in town staged an unexpected coup that threatened the longstanding Redford/Beatty/Reynolds regime. It was a good year for such charter members of the brat pack as Sean Penn and Tom Cruise, but none in that crowd can claim the double whammy of mild-mannered New Yorker Matthew Broderick, just 21. His performance as America's cutest computer nerd made the summer smash WarGames eminently palatable (if not quite plausible). And playing Neil Simon's teenage alter ego in the stage comedy Brighton Beach Memoirs—his Broadway debut—brought him a Tony award. With only a few credits Broderick has already fashioned a distinctive

persona: His characters are shotgun marriages of street smarts and innocence, mischief and morality.

Like his colleagues, Matthew is fulfilling his teenage fantasies while barely out of his teens. For his upcoming film role as an impish thief in the medieval adventure Ladyhawke, he was paid a reported $750,000 and chauffeured around Italy for four months.

But success spoilage hasn't set in. "I'm not gonna go crazy and buy five RollsRoyces," says Matthew. He still lives in his mom's Greenwich Village apartment and dates UCLA coed Valerie O'Brien, who was an extra on WarGames. He's the son of late actor James (Family) Broderick, who died of cancer the day after Matthew began rehearsing for Brighton Beach. That

loss colors the young actor's perspective. Of his newly acquired fortune, he says, "The nice thing about the money is knowing that if anybody in my family gets sick, I can take care of them."

Finished with Ladyhawke, Broderick returns next month to Brighton Beach.

For him the stage has been the thing ever since he appeared in a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. "It was the first thing I felt sort of confident at," he recalls. "I felt—I don't know—I impressed myself." Whether in a school play or Hollywood movie, Matthew has the same concern. "I don't want to embarrass myself in front of people," he says. "I worry about that endlessly." Judging from his work, worrying is just one of the things Broderick does well. D

Barbara McClintock arbara McClintock, 81, studies heredity in corn plants. She does so with a passionate intensity, working seven days a week, often 16 hours at a stretch. On the day last October when she won the Nobel Prize in medicine, studying her beloved maize was all she really wanted to do. But the phone kept ringing, reporters kept pestering.

Finally the reclusive cytogeneticist— even the Nobel Prize committee has called her "a loner"—held a press conference in her Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island lab.

Yes, she said, the prize was a great honor. "But you don't need the public recognition," she added in a whisper. "You just need the respect of your colleagues."

She has had firsthand experience of that need for respect. In fact, when she first published the research that was to win her the Nobel, she was so far ahead of her peers, she recalled, that "they called me crazy. Absolutely mad."

At the time, the early '50s, scientists thought that chromosomes were like strands of pearls, with the genes—the basic units of heredity—fixed permanently in place. McClintock discovered that genes could actually "jump," changing their position and the way they functioned. This breakthrough was accomplished the old-fashioned way: patient crossbreeding and observation. The implications are vast.

Jumping genes might play a role in a variety of diseases, including cancer.

The daughter of a physician, McClintock was born in Hartford, Conn, and raised mostly in Brooklyn and small towns in Massachusetts. She received her Ph.D. in botany from Cornell in 1927 and taught at various colleges until 1941, when she joined the Carnegie Institution's department of genetics in Cold Spring Harbor.

McClintock works alone and lives alone—she has never married—in an apartment that's a short walk from her laboratory. Apparently the late recognition of her work does not bother her.

Of her Nobel she's said, "It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years." • 58

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AFTER SIX DECADES OF RESEARCH, THE SHY DISCOVERER OF BIOLOGY'S 'JUMPING GENES' WINS HER NOBEL

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Harvey Fierstein

I t ' s a Dickensian Christmas this year for American gays, the best of times and the worst of times. The dread disease AIDS continues to ravage the homosexual community. Yet there is a renewed spirit of gay pride and a heightened public awareness of gay problems, thanks in significant measure to a voluble playwright and actor named Harvey Fierstein.

Even by Broadway standards, the sometimes campy, sometimes deadly serious Fierstein, 29, is a creature of surprises. He wrote and for 20 months starred in Torch Song Trilogy, a 3-hour 40-minute art-imitates-life saga about a drag queen's rites of passage to domesticity as the parent of an adopted gay teenager (Fierstein himself worked as a drag queen on his 11-year route from Brooklyn to Broadway). Torch Song won Fierstein two Tony awards last spring, one for best actor and the other for best play. It also paved the way for the next Harvey happening, La Cage aux Folles, a tender Jerry Herman musical directed by Arthur Laurents, which just happens to be about the woes of an aging drag queen and his devoted lover on the Cote d'Azur.

Fierstein wrote the book for the splashy show (based on a Paris play and not, he says, on the hit movie of the same name) and gave La Cage its surprisingly sentimental core. "Critics expected freaktime," says Fierstein.

"They wanted to see bitchy drag queens and ugly people they could sit and laugh at and feel superior to. But that's not the way I see homosexuals."

His more universal and upbeat view of homosexuality is presented to theater audiences as a two-part lesson. "Torch Song deals with the issue of a man who is fighting his homosexuality," explains Harvey. "La Cage goes a hell of a lot further. It expresses the attitude that homosexuality is normal."

Whatever the permutations under discussion, the language is anything but raunchy and is often saccharine enough to bring a few critical slams.

Harvey romps with La Cago aux Folios' lovely chorus, the Cagelles. The only real woman is on the far left.

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"Look, we were writing a 5 million dollar musical," sputters Fierstein.

"We didn't want it to be offensive.

We wanted it to be universal."

Fierstein, who gets two percent of the gross of La Cage (about $9,000 a week) and seven percent of Torch Song (about $8,000 a week), proved that gay is bankable. "Now that Torch Song is the No. 1 straight play on Broadway and La Cage is the No. 1 musical, I hear daily of gay projects being resurrected," says Fierstein.

Someday there may even be a gay sitcom on television. NBC was all set to buy Fierstein's idea for a series about a New York homosexual. But Harvey put off the project for at least a year because of other commitments, including plans to star in the London Torch Song and maybe even the movie. Once the series premieres, Fierstein hopes it will be educational as well as funny. "Many people don't know what a homosexual is," says Harvey.

"They think he's a creature who has sex a lot. They don't even consider that a homosexual has the same sexual problems a heterosexual doesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;impotence, uptightness, performance anxiety, everything except birth control."

By widening awareness, Fjerstein may also accomplish another of his goals: helping gays to adopt children.

"We have love. We have money. If we could adopt kids and give them homes, we could close down every orphanage in America," he says.

Harvey wouldn't mind becoming an adoptive papa himself someday, but he has other priorities. He is enjoying the blush of domestic bliss in his new Brooklyn apartment. His lover of a year, an actor-writer from Texas, lives in Queens. "When we walk down the street holding hands, people look at us," he reports. "Sometimes, I think to myself how much easier it would have been to be straight."

The thought passes quickly, especially now that Fierstein is being touted as the great gay hope. "I'm no dope. I know the glow doesn't last," he says, trying to be philosophical. But isn't it nice to be the toast of Broadway, even for a moment? "I'm not the toast," Harvey demurs. "I'm the jam." â&#x20AC;˘

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THE GRAND BOLD MAN OF ARCHITECTURE COMES FULL CIRCLE, DESIGNING THE DOWNFALL OF HIS OWN GLASS BOX

Philip Johnson His signature glasses—

ernism" because it rejects modernism's glass boxes. he hasn't changed styles With his partner, John Burin 50 years—conceal a gee, 50, Johnson, the guru tiny hearing aid these of the movement, is curdays, and most nights he's rently working on 10 buildin bed by 10. But at 77 Philings, each worth more ip Johnson has lost neither than $100 million. One rethe spunk nor the acerbic sembles a Gothic cathewit that has made him dral, another a Dutch rearchitecture's grand old naissance town hall. man—while remaining its perennial enfant terrible.

Not everyone applauds.

Architects are "just as Some observers label his jealous and small-minded work a "pastiche," and as sopranos," he admits, The AT&T model shows students at the University its "Chippendale" top. and the lecturer in him can of Houston are protesting rarely resist the chance to his plans for their archisound oft. "Hearing an audience retecture building, which even Johnson act," he says, "rouses me more than admits he copied from an 18th-century sex or liquor."

French designer. "What's wrong with copying?" asks Johnson archly. Then Still, Johnson, who was architeche mockingly announces, "I guess I ture's bad boy far longer than he has can't be a great architect. Great archibeen its elder statesman, figures the tects have a recognizable style. But if main reason for the acclaim is that every building I did were the same," he "I have outlived the competition." In adds, "it would be pretty boring." truth, it is ingenuity, not mere longevity, that has made him urban America's Johnson has never been that. The chief form giver. In his eighth decade, son of a wealthy Midwestern lawyer, Johnson stopped building the unhe took seven years to graduate from adorned glass boxes that, since his Harvard, then traveled the world and 1932 exhibition of the International dabbled in fascist politics before beStyle at Manhattan's Museum of Modcoming an architect at 40. Though he ern Art, had defined the 20th century's gradually won prestigious commismost popular architectural form. Callsions, his earliest client was himself. In ing his earlier handiwork "wrong, sim1949 he built, on a32-acre hillside in ply wrong," he turned instead to buildConnecticut, his famous Glass House, ings lavishly decorated with details a simple rectangle in which he still culled from architecture's past. The spends every weekend. Weekdays, he most prominent is his firm's New York lives in a small apartment with a panheadquarters for AT&T, a $200 million, oramic view including AT&T, his Musepink granite-sheathed skyscraper um of Modern Art sculpture garden topped off with a classical broken pedand his most famous "modern" skyiment reminiscent of the top of a Chipscraper (designed with Mies van der pendale highboy.

Rohe), the Seagram Building.

When plans for the building were unIt's not a view he totally enjoys. Like veiled in 1978, one critic called it "the a movie star who winces at seeing himself on-screen, Johnson says, "There's world's tallest grandfather clock." But no worse feeling than seeing my buildnow, as the building nears completion, ings and realizing the mistakes." But it is becoming one of the most admired instead of being regretful, Johnson on the New York skyline. More imporsays, "I just make sure my next buildtant, it has emerged as the symbol of a ing is better." • new architecture labeled "post-mod-

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The architect stands in the oculus of the split pediment that tops AT&T. The opening will function as a steam vent.

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Vanessa Williams A THORNY CROWN GOES WITH THE JOB OF BEING THE FIRST BLACK MISS AMERICA

E v e r y Miss America is an overnight sensation in the way that Hollywood stars seldom are. But no Miss America until the current one, Vanessa Williams, 20, has had quite so brutal a morning after.

The feature-page press corps has a yellowed sheaf of ready questions for new beauty queens: What's your definition of the perfect man? What's your favorite color? But for the first black Miss America, out came the buzz saw quiz. Don't you think American society is racist? Would you consider becoming Jesse Jackson's running mate?

Somewhat stunned, she answered, and felt the heat. Yes, she supported a woman's right to have an abortion.

Down came the Moral Majority. No, she did not feel discriminated against.

Down came her fellow blacks. Taking a breather at home in suburban Millwood, N.Y. four weeks after the pageant, she recalls thinking, " 'How can I win?' I never imagined I'd be that depressed about being Miss America. If I hadn't been home at the time, if my parents hadn't said, 'You made this commitment and you have to go on. . . .' Well, I never would have given it up, but I was hitting rock bottom."

In fact, Vanessa Williams was perceived not simply as Miss America but as an emblem of social change—not Miss America at all, in that sense, but Miss New America, embodiment of a kind of collective national redemption.

Wisely, she objected. "People are reading too much into it," she says.

Photographs by Christopher Little

Her symbolism, however, has cut both ways. One letter writer in California threatened to throw acid in her face because she is black. Armed guards accompanied her when she appeared on TV's Hour Magazine, and during that visit to Los Angeles she was virtually confined to her room.

Every Miss America's life is a frantic tear through hotels and airports to a blur of shopping malls, and except for a pageant-appointed companion she is alone on the road. But Vanessa, despite the added burden of being a symbol and a target, has gone about her appointed rounds (She'll cover 20,000 miles and visit 200 cities, from San Juan to Anchorage) as gamely as any of her predecessors—overbooked, chronically exhausted, with every eyelash and smile line in place. She has been obliged to sing to taped music in the aisles of Higbee's department store in Cleveland and to help demonstrate corsage making at a Corpus Christi grocery store, but she has refrained from coming unglued, at least in public. "There's no way to explain the year," she says. "Even if you say to people how hectic it is, how tiring, they can't comprehend it unless they've actually lived it."

The job isn't quite as dismal as it sounds. She will earn an estimated $130,000 for her appearances, and her special celebrity has brought her more than the usual number of offers for recording contracts, Broadway shows and movies. For the woman whose big-

gest role pre-Miss America was Miss Turnstiles in a high school production of On the Town, it is a heady prospect.

"I think about how all the things I wanted to do in life will happen later," she says. "My life is basically on hold for this year."

In the course of what must pass for her life until next September, she has rubbed shoulders with President Reagan, former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, designers Halston and Calvin Klein and the cast of Happy Days. Says Vanessa: "It's still hard for me to think that Henry Winkler is excited to meet me and wants my autograph." Of course, alas for her, the Fonz is far from alone. When Vanessa tried on a dress at Macy's in Fresno, one woman tried to get a glimpse of her by peeping through the slats of the dressing room door. "You can't sneak her into anywhere," said Midge Stevenson, one of Williams' ever-present traveling companions. "She's always recognized."

But then come the moments—increasingly rare, increasingly precious—when Vanessa Williams becomes merely human again. "Aren't you Miss Universe?" asked a woman who spotted Vanessa at a Los Angeles restaurant. "No," she replied, not stopping to explain. Watching the woman walk away with that perplexed but-I'msure-l-know-you look on her face, Miss America, a redeeming sense of humor still somehow intact, broke into a laugh. • 65

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Richard Chamberlain HE GETS NO AWARDS FROM HIS PEERS, BUT THE PUBLIC HAILS THE KING OF THE MINISERIES I n a year stocked with stinkers like Princess Daisy, The Thorn Birds not only drew the highest rating of any TV miniseries of the '80s but established Richard Chamberlain as the king of the genre. With Centennial (1978) and the smash Shogun (1980) behind him, Chamberlain cinched the title—and hypnotized his fans—with his portrayal of a priest tortured by lust for a comely Australian lass played by Rachel Ward. About 110 million viewers tuned to ABC in March for at least part of the tempestuous 10hour series, and its star was jubilant at reaching such a throng. "I was very hyped up," he recalls. "I felt the energy of all those millions of people watching me on TV." Learning that his work had earned a third Emmy nomination in eight years was another high—albeit a briefer one. Tommy Lee Jones {The Executioner's Song) was to beat out Chamberlain. But he was a good sport, declaring, "Awards—good grief, they're not even the icing, they're a candle on the cake. You can't be in this business for awards." Still, the loss stung. When Jones' name was announced, Chamberlain admits, "it was like preparing for opening night and they decided to cancel the performance. It's like careening into this black pit."

Disappointment aside—with all his Emmy nominations, he has never won—Chamberlain, at 48, has had more hits than misses in his career.

Fame struck at 26, when he became TV's young Dr. Kildare. After five years in the series, he shook off the pretty-boy stigma of that role by moving to England, where he studied drama for three years. Lauded there for his portrayal of Hamlet, he returned to the States in an acclaimed production of Richard II and bolstered his credibility with the general public in movies like The Last Wave.

Television, of course, is still his staple: Last week Chamberlain was set to appear as explorer Dr. Frederick Cook in the two-hour CBS movie Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole. In the course of the six-week shoot, he learned why those two explorers found the Arctic so alluring: "It must have been like walking into God's house," he says.

Now back in his Japanese-style home in Beverly Hills, Chamberlain is weighing more wide-ranging projects: a film, another miniseries, a play and a four-hour television romance. "I've been looking for a good love story," he reports.

A confirmed bachelor, he claims that loneliness is not a problem. "I have a lot of wonderful friends," he says. "This is a very heavily populated time in my life." One of these days, surely, there'll be a welcome newcomer among those friends. Call her Emmy. •

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THANKS TO A THRILLER ALBUM, THE FORMER SMALL FRY OF THE JACKSONS BECOMES THE BIGGEST STAR IN POP MUSIC

Michael Jackson H e fills a stage with catamount grace, whirling through his numbers like a well-seasoned song-and-dance man. And that, of course, is just what 25-year-old Michael Jackson is. A performer since the age of 5, when he began fronting his family's now famous brother act, he has been strutting toward the top of the pop music world for two decades.

This year Jackson arrived. His highoctane Thriller album spawned a record six Top 10 singles and has so far sold more than 20 million LPs worldwide, second only to Saturday Night Fever. While his high-stepping videos to the singles Beat It, Billie Jean and Say Say Say were getting saturation play on MTV, Jackson took the form one step further with a $1.1 million, 14-minute film to accompany his Thriller title song. Starring Jackson and 1980 Playboy playmate Ola Ray as high school sweethearts in a mock monster movie, it played on MTV for several weeks and premiered in movie theaters last month, in time to qualify for a 1984 short-subject Oscar.

Yet for all his public exposure, Jackson remains an intensely private person, reclusive as Garbo. A Jehovah's Witness, he neither smokes nor drinks, is a strict vegetarian and fasts one day each week. "He's so pure it's scary," says Ray. "He's a space person." Echoes Quincy Jones, Jackson's producer: "Sometimes I think Michael is from another planet."

In 1984 he will cross much of this one when he joins his brothers on a major tour. Promoted by hyperverbose boxing entrepreneur Don King and sponsored—to the tune of at least $5 million—by Pepsi-Cola, the tour is slated to begin in May, hit as many as 50 American cities, move on to Europe and make more noise than any invasion since D day. In other words, a tour not unlike the performer himself. Out of this world. • In a match of millionaires, Jackson and Paul McCartney played old-time canny dancers in the video of Say Say Say.

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Rei Kawakubo JAPAN'S STRAVINSKY OF FASHION ROCKS THE WEST WITH HER ATONAL, ASYMMETRIC SAD RAGS I n fashion, it was the year of the Japanese. And no one in that ultrasensitive land, where every stitch can set off an earthquake, rattled more sake cups than Rei Kawakubo—not even her talented compatriots Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto. From Paris to Tokyo her followers are striding about in Kawakubo's mournful, strangely cut garments, black socks and rubber shoes. Rei's critics hold the 41-yearold designer responsible for perpetrating a formless, asexual look. "Her clothes don't touch or mold the body," complains traditionalist French designer Sonia Rykiel. "There's a lack of softness." But Rei's supporters credit her with some of the most startling and influential designs out of Japan today.

"Rei is an original," says Bendel VicePresident Jean Rosenberg. "She is a master of intricate cuts."

Kawakubo, the most radical of the new wave of Japanese designers, pronounces Western skintight garments "quite boring," adding, "I design for women who are beyond that." What sort of woman? "The bag lady of New York," Kawakubo replied fliply when asked by Women's Wear Daily.

Rei's now historic advance on the West took place only two years ago.

Her first show in Paris caused one of the biggest furors since Stravinsky introduced The Rite of Spring. Like Stravinsky, Rei coolly mocked conventions—shredding and poking holes in skirts, tops and dresses. In the U.S., where her clothes still baffle the uninitiated eye, Rei's success is growing rapidly. She now has outposts in nine U.S. cities, with her own boutique in Manhattan's breathlessly fashionable SoHo district.

If Kawakubo is oblique when it comes to discussing her work, the tiny (5'1") designer is positively opaque when it comes to her personal life.

Where did she grow up? "In Tokyo."

What did her parents do? "Nothing special." What kind of clothes interested her as a child? "I don't remember."

And so on.

It Is known that Rei was the only daughter of an educator. She received a fine arts degree from Tokyo's prestigious Keio University in 1964.

She worked as a stylist after graduating, and in 1973 she started her own company, Comme des Garcons (French for Like the Boys). Rei is characteristically vague when it comes to explaining why she chose that name, but what's in a name? Begin with the $30 million plus in sales Comme des Garcons is expected to pull in this year.

Profits, Rei insists, are not foremost in her mind. Maybe; maybe not. One thing is certain. Kawakubo, who is unmarried and lives alone, has clearly dedicated herself to shattering fashion icons. Now that the rest of the world is into holes and tears, Rei is moving on.

At her spring-summer show in Tokyo last month, unsmiling models with a white streak on one cheek marched down the runway in garments dripping with gathers. And while the collection was Rei's most formfitting to date, it was also the most asymmetrical, with uneven hems and sleeves. Once again Kawakubo is upsetting the status quo.

"I am in my own world," says the revolutionary of Japanese fashion. "Any person creating something wants to do better and better. I'm never satisfied.

There's no end." •

In a corner of her stark office in Tokyo, Kawakubo surveys some creations from her latest collection. From left, hooded top ($250) and skirt ($195); crinkled cotton dress ($275) and charcoal black dresses ($325 and $350).

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Konrad Kujau A NAZI-OBSESSED AMATEUR FORGER FAKES THE FUHRER'S DIARIES AND NEARLY FOOLS THE WORLD

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t was almost—but not quite—one of those overnight literary success stories that keeps aspiring authors banging away at their typewriters. For more than three years Konrad Kujau (pronounced coo-yeow), 45, an obscure military relics dealer in Stuttgart, West Germany, obsessively spent his nights laboring over an epic historical work set in the Nazi era—a kind of docudrama written in diary form. After much painstaking research he laboriously wrote his masterpiece longhand.

The work eventually grew to fill 60 bulky imitation leather-bound volumes.

"It was a maddening task," he recalls.

"To write one single page in the diary, I sometimes had to read nine books and dozens of articles."

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forts rewarded. Stern, West Germany's largest weekly newsmagazine, published excerpts from his volumes, attracting unprecedented international attention—and controversy. Kujau was paid about $1 million (estimates vary widely) for his magnum opus, but his success was short-lived. Within weeks of his triumph in Stern, he found himself in a jail cell, accused of fraud.

That charge arose from his somewhat misleading choice of a pen name— Adolf Hitler.

Kujau's bogus Hitler diaries were so skillfully penned that he managed to fool Hugh Trevor-Roper, the eminent Cambridge historian, who declared that "the documents are authentic."

Trevor-Roper's imprimatur sent publishers from around the world—includ-

ing The Sunday Times of London and Paris Match—scurrying to buy reprint rights. Then the bubble burst. West German government officials who tested the diaries' paper, ink and bindings revealed them to be "grotesque, superficial" forgeries.

When his hoax collapsed Kujau surrendered to West German police, claiming that he was merely a middleman who bought the diaries from East Germans and sold them to a top Stern reporter, Gerd Heidemann, 52. After their arrests the two soon fell to squabbling. Kujau changed his story, admitting he wrote the diaries but claiming that Heidemann knew they were forgeries. Perhaps the truth will emerge at Kujau's trial next summer.

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Konrad Kujau 1938, Kujau, once a member of a Communist youth organization, was trained as a blacksmith. He immigrated to West Germany in 1957, working as a window washer and a waiter. A few years later he met Edith Lieblang, who became his common-law wife. Always he had a need to seem grander than he was. He reportedly told friends he really was an artist and a calligrapher. He bought and wore a tuxedo to impress his neighbors. He told others that his brother, in reality an assistant policeman at a railway station, was "a general in the East German army."

Then, in the 1970s, he embarked on a successful career as a dealer in Nazi artifacts. The enterprise allowed Kujau to embellish his local reputation as an eccentric who enjoyed swaggering into Stuttgart nightclubs clad in an SS uniform, regaling acquaintances with "inside" stories of the Hitler circle, and spending thousands of marks on champagne and women. Kujau, in fact, claims he agreed to sell Heidemann the diaries only when the reporter made him an offer he couldn't refuseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the gift of one of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Gbring's ornate outfits, completing Kujau's collection of uniforms worn by top Nazi officials, including Hitler. "He is a passionate collector of military relics, and he is fascinated by the Nazi big shots." says Kujau's lawyer, Kurt Groenewold.

Kujau has made his attorney's work infinitely more difficult by continuing his literary career in his jail cell. First he wrote a series of articles for the sensationalist West German daily Bild (which paid him $45,000), admitting his guilt in the forgery and detailing exactly how he did it. Then he continued writing the diaries, completing the volume that ends with the Fuhrer's 1945 suicide. "The war is lost," Kujau's Hitler scribbles, as Russian troops close in on the Fuhrer's bunker. "I am finished." Those words may now apply to Kujau himself. ! !

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Alice Walker S h e did not even know that Pulitzer Prizes were awarded for fiction. But if Alice Walker was not aware of them, the three-member jury that selected her for the prize was certainly aware of her. Last April they announced that Walker's extraordinary third novel, The Color Purple, had won the award, making her the first black woman novelist ever so honored. A rare success both commercially (over 25 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list) as well as critically (the novel also won the American Book Award), Purple has propelled Walker, 39, into the front rank of American writers. "It places her," said The Nation, "in the company of Faulkner."

The recognition comes only after Alice had toiled 15 years in relative obscurity as an essayist, activist, novelist, editor and poet. "As a culture we are conditioned to name brands," she observes. "I think to many people I could not be a name brand until I was certified by the Pulitzer people. I understand it and I'm not angry at all."

The Color Purple is an imaginative tour de force, a painfully vivid and absorbing rendering of the life of an uneducated black woman named Celie growing up in the rural South after the turn of the century. Celie's story is told entirely through her letters, many of them addressed to God and written in her own language, a lyrical black folk English (see excerpt on page 85). "I had to have a forum that reflected her level of education and sensibilities," Walker says of the unusual style.

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Alice Walker thors like Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison have also broken through the resistance to any writing that might reinforce negative racial stereotypes, Walker focuses even more relentlessly on the sometimes violent sexual conflicts between black men and women.

But she is equally concerned with their strengths. "These are all people who refuse to knuckle under," explains Walker, who has patterned her characters after the people she has known best. Celie, for example, "is the voice of my step-grandmother, Rachel. I tried very hard to record her voice for America because America doesn't really hear Rachel's voice."

Walker's sympathy for the unheard derives from her own troubled girlhood. The eighth child born to Georgia sharecroppers, she was partially blinded when a pellet fired by her brother's BB gun accidentally struck her in the right eye. The physical scar was eventually corrected by surgery, but Walker spent most of her childhood withdrawing from the world because of her disfigurement.

She found her refuge in books and went on to graduate at the top of her high school class, winning a scholarship to Spelman College in Atlanta.

She completed her education at Sarah Lawrence in Bronxville, N.Y., worked briefly as a social worker, then joined the civil rights movement registering voters in Mississippi in 1966. There she met and married a Jewish civil rights law student, Mel Leventhal, and went with him to live in New York City. Of those times Walker says, "My own work was often dismissed by black reviewers because of my 'life-style,' a euphemism for my interracial marriage."

Now divorced, they share custody of their teenage daughter, Rebecca.

After conceiving the idea, Walker tried to start The Color Purple while living in Brooklyn, but couldn't. Her Southern characters "didn't want to be born in New York," she says. "They're not New Yorkers." They're not Californians either, but Walker headed for San Francisco in 1978, and four years later delivered the manuscript to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

"Alice is unique," observes Gloria Steinem, a friend and one of Walker's earliest literary supporters. "Other

people have written about the lives of poor people, but they were always written for an audience of nonpoor people. Alice writes in a way that everyone—including the people about whom she writes—can love and enjoy." Says Walker of her writing: "I just always tried to do what was interesting to me."

One of the groups that intrigue Walker is lesbian writers, because "in their view of the world, men are really secondary. And that's a radical view of life. It's more radical than anything going because it turns the world upside down." Still, she admits, "I just happen to be in love with a man. But I choose women as a group over men, culturally speaking."

Walker shares much of her life with political writer Robert Allen. She lives in an apartment in San Francisco's Japantown. Weekdays are spent meditating, reading and writing—most recently, an essay about her recent trip to China. Weekends, Walker and Allen escape to a Mendocino cottage where Alice gardens. Though she was once chronically depressed over the events in her life, Walker is happier now— partly because of the emotional catharsis her writing provides and because she has simply mellowed with age. An added bonus was the $350,000 that Warner Brothers paid for the movie rights to Purple.

In October, Walker published In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. The

collection of essays, dating back to 1966, provides glimpses into the life of an earlier Walker—the college student who, pregnant and unwed at 21, considered slashing her wrists until someone gave her the money for an abortion. "Some passages embarrassed me," she says. "I wavered from time to time and thought maybe I should delete, change things. The point is," Alice Walker finally decided, "it's my life and I really respect it. If there are flaws, that's the way it was." •

From The Color Purple: Dear God, lam 14 years old. I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me...

Dear God, My mamma dead. She die screaming and cussing. She scream at me.

She cuss at me. I'm big. I can't move fast enough. By time I git back from the well, the water be warm...

Dear God, ... He beat me like he beat the children. Cepthe don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

Inspired by Harlem renaissance styles, Walker and companion Robert Allen raise a toast to clothes of the 1920s.

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FIVE BURIED TREASURES FROM THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE PROVE TO BE THE MOVIE EVENT OF '83

Alfred Hitchcock • l o w like Alfred Hitchcock, that droll master of the macabre, to make his biggest movie splash three years after his death. The portly perpetrator of gooseflesh may have breathed his last at age 80, but he never carried more weight at the box office. First came a homage in the form of a sequel to his classic Psycho. Now, alone among directors, he has two films (Rear Window, Vertigo) in current release and three others (Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Trouble With Harry) lined up backto-back to follow. These pictures, made between 1948 and 1958, have been out of circulation for two decades—not by accident, but according to Hitch's careful plan. Back in 1953 he negotiated a deal with Paramount to produce, direct and eventually own the rights to the five films. Once they had run their course in theaters, Hitchcock would then hoard them to increase their value.

He'll never know how well his plan worked. Rear Window, with James Stewart and an astonishingly sexy Grace Kelly opened this fall for what its distributor, Universal Classics, figured to be a modest run. The gross is already $3.2 million and growing, and the just-released Vertigo, with Stewart and Kim Novak, may surpass it. The industry was stunned by this success, but not Stewart, now 75, who starred in four of the films. "The pictures I made for Hitch don't date," says Stewart. "He made his impact visually, not with words."

Another Hitchcock surprise emerged in the form of Donald Spoto's 1983 Hitchcock biography, The Dark Side of Genius. Spoto's Hitchcock, created from interviews with the director's friends and colleagues, is a figure of uncommon perversity, a man who played cruel practical jokes on actors, whom he called "cattle," and who became pathologi-

cally obsessed with creating the ideal beauty.

The cool, blond elegance that he sought he found in Grace Kelly, the star of three Hitchcock films. When Kelly deserted Hollywood—and by extension Hitchcock—to marry her Prince, the director was devastated, says Spoto. He set about recreating her through such actresses as Kim Novak, Vera (Psycho) Miles and Tippi (Mamie, The Birds) Hedren. Sadly, the Byronic heart of this fat, balding man (he carried an average 300 pounds on his 5'8" frame) could find expression only in his films. By his own admission Hitchcock and Alma, his late wife, had lived chastely for the last 30 years of their 53year marriage. Mamie screenwriter Jay Presson Allen said Hitchcock "would go off and have his fantasy romances, and Alma dealt with it. She didn't understand it, but she dealt with it." The Kelly clones found detachment a bit harder to come by. When Hedren rebuffed an unprecedented (for him) overt sexual advance from her director, he threatened to cancel the film and destroy her career. "I was agonizingly sorry for both of them," said Allen.

Perhaps inadvertently, Spoto's revelations have at last given Hitchcock a kind of romantic image in death that, in life, he could conjure up only onscreen through such actors as Stewart, Cary Grant and Sean Connery. Shirley MacLaine, who made her movie debut in The Trouble With Harry in 1955, seems a little disappointed she didn't know that Hitchcock. "The whole time we shot the film he didn't say one word to me."

Who was the real Hitchcock? No doubt Hitch would have loved keeping us guessing. "Suspense," he said, "is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement." •

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So strong is Beals' on-screen image that few can imagine her everydaypersona: a slim, somewhat reserved college student in sweater and jeans. To those who rave about her beauty, Jennifer says, "People haven't seen me the way I have. You can walk down the street any day and see women who are much better looking than me."

Yeah, sure. With dark brown eyes that can sparkle or pout, smooth olive skin and a big Pepsi smile that sometimes turns sly and lascivious, Beals is that screen rarity, an original. Having modeled since she was 16, she runs her own career without much help

I he movie ads showed her coyly perched with a ripped sweatshirt stretched over one lusciously bare shoulder, and that one image was enough to launch a fashion revolution that sent scissors slashing sweats all over the country. Out of the blue, everyone wanted to look like Yale sophomore Jennifer Beals.

And when they saw Flashdance, the snazzy, improbable film about a Pittsburgh welder who by night turns into a sexual tornado as a bar dancer, everyone wanted to dance like her too.

While you have to give credit to some mean choreography and a catchy disco score, Beals, who just turned 20, made Flashdance one of 1983's topgrossing films. Paramount has also shipped out more than 200,000 home videotapes of the movie. Early on, Jennifer, with rare candor, announced that nearly all her fancy moves belonged to stand-in dancer Marine Jahan (page 98), but the news didn't weaken the effect. The wild, sensuous contortions of Jahan/Beals added the word flash to what people do in discos. No longer content with Travolta moves or slam dancing, nightclubs found something hot in between: the flashdance contest.

By mutual agreement with Paramount, Beals will not star in Flashdance II, already in production. She wants to try something different and is reading scripts for next summer. "I've been offered everything from a contessa to a football player. The only thing they all have in common is that they're very independent," she says.

Meanwhile, she has signed to model the baggy styles of French designers Marithe" and Francois Girbaud, a modified Flashdance look. (After meeting that other Ivy League clotheshorse, Brooke Shields, Jennifer sent her a copy of Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, because it's "necessary reading before you go to Princeton.") So whatever Beals' future movies are, the floppy, flirtatious look will be around for some time, which is okay with its No. 1 model. Says Jennifer, "Every once in a while, a cabbie will blow his horn and say, 'Hey, Flashdance, how's it goin'?'

That's very sweet." Or—as they say in Flashdance—what a feeling. •

from her mom, Jeanne, a Chicago elementary schoolteacher (her father, Alfred, a black supermarket owner, died when Jennifer was 9). "She always reminds me that an education will last a lot longer than a movie," says Jennifer, who these days stays diligently behind the ivied walls. Most classmates take four or five courses; Beals, who earned high marks last semester, signed up for six this term. She and her beau, junior Bob Simonds, share a twobedroom, off-campus apartment where Jennifer cooked a pre-Thanksgiving dinner for eight friends. (It was black tie, not a rip in the crowd.)

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DAZZLING LOOKS AND A RIPPED WARDROBE TURN A DANCING YALIE INTO A FLASHY STAR

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A RANDOM ROLL CALL, WITH APPROPRIATE HONORS, OF THOSE WHO BLEW IT IN THE PAST YEAR

PUBLIC SPECTACLES < T h e Mr. Sensitivity A w a r d : • To former Interior Secretary James Watt, for his uncanny facility for insulting the intelligence of Americans of all stripes. First he banned rock music from a Fourth of July concert because it would attract "the wrong element." (He preferred Wayne Newton to the Beach Boys.) Then he called environmentalists "hard-core left-wing radicals" and compared them to Nazis and Communists.

Then he appointed a commission that he boasted represented "every kind of mix you can have. I have a black. I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple."

Then he quit.

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• To Howard Cosell, who, in a typically elegant turn of phrase, likened the Redskins' wide receiver Alvin Garrett, who is black, to "a little monkey." < T h e Playing the Heavy Award: • To Elizabeth Taylor, who ballooned to 167 pounds during the run of her lamentable stage revival of Private Lives. Under such weight, it was no surprise that the play sank like a rock.

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who's a Presidential candidate once again. > T h e G e t t i n g T o o Big for His Britches A w a r d : • To Herve Villechaize, for demanding a fantastic $2 million from Fantasy Island and getting bumped from the show.

VThe G o l d - p l a t e d Pia Z a d o r a A w a r d : • To Pia Zadora, for her portrayal of the title role in the year's sleaziest movie, The Lonely Lady, and for the distinction of just being herself.

T h e F o w l Ball A w a r d : • To Yankee outfielder Dave Winf ield, whose warm-up toss in Toronto's Exhibition Stadium accidentally hit and killed a seagull. A charge of cruelty to animals was later dropped.

The Davy Jones Award: • To Dennis Conner, sullen skipper of the Liberty, the first U.S. boat to relinquish the America's Cup in 132 years of competition.

A Dolly Parton Training Bra: • To Mariel Hemingway, who got breast implants before appearing as Playmate Dorothy Stratten in Star 80.

T h e H o w Do You Spell Rolaids A w a r d : • To Big Apple Mayor Ed Koch, who collapsed from overeating—downing oneand-a-half orders of spa-

ghettis with garlic and oil, veal chops parmigiana, red and white wine and cappuccino—in a single sitting. "It was," he conceded, "a monster meal."

F r e e IBM C o m p u t e r s t o H e l p Find Profits in High T e c h : • To Texas Instruments, Atari, Mattel and Adam Osborne.

A c o p y of The Peter Lemongello Hype Yourself Handbook: • To Julio Iglesias.

T h e M o o n Unit and Dweezil Zappa Award: • To proud parents Betty and Vernon Daub of La Luz, N.M., for naming their newborn son Zip A-Dee-Doo Daub.

A Harold S t a s s e n Bumper Sticker: • To George McGovern, 95

TOM PETERS AND BOB WATERMAN SEARCHED FOR EXCELLENCE AND CREATED A BUSINESS BIBLE

PHENOMENON OF '83 #%merican business held its Great Revival in 1983. Hallelujahs rang out on Wall Street. Investors flocked down the sawdust trail to brokerage houses. But the most inspiring gospel for American commerce and industry came from two California-based business authors bearing a devotion straight out of Norman Vincent Peale: the power of positive cash flow.

In Search of Excellence, by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman Jr., offers a reassuring vision to Japanophobes chastened by books like Theory Zand The Art of Japanese Management. After 44 printings and 1.3 million hardcover copies in executive hands, Excellence has become the biggest nonaction best-seller since Roots. It has spent nearly every week of the year as No. 1 on the New York Times list and cleared the way for business how-to books to replace the previous can't-miss staples of sex, diet, jogging and Garfield. Perhaps the sweetest revenge of all, Excellence has conquered Japan, selling 325,000 copies in translation in the first six weeks.

The book's success is based on a message that can warm the cockles of any capitalistic heart: "There is good news from America. Good management practice today is not resident only in Japan." Peters and Waterman go on to cite chapter and verse of homegrown triumphs, singling out companies (e.g. IBM, Johnson & Johnson) that have succeeded by listening to workers and customers, encouraging innovation, creativity and action, and keeping bureaucracy and red tape to a minimum. "We didn't find any magic," says Peters. "We don't buy the notion that these companies have better people than other companies. What we learned was that they were beehives of activity. We found a lot of hard-tomanage, sometimes crazy entrepreneurs, but they were allowed to flourish there."

Few success stories in the book can match the nonstop super-salesmanship of the authors themselves. Peters 96

and Waterman have indefatigably crusaded as far as Sweden, Switzerland and Venezuela, lecturing and consulting at fees of up to $20,000 a day. They are popping up before every assemblage imaginable. Peters has recently proselytized to 80 chief executives in Chicago, 600 IBM salesmen in Bermuda, 4,500 city managers in Kansas City and 1,000 bakers in San Francisco. "I haven't spent a full weekend at home since June," Waterman sighs.

Despite all this effort, Waterman • may have to await his reward in a better world. A married father of two who lives south of San Francisco, he is a director of the giant consulting firm McKmsey & Co. Since he did research for the book as a company project, he has earned no royalties so far (but is negotiating a deal). The divorced Peters, on the other hand, left McKinsey in November 1981 and formed his own consulting and publishing companies.

Now about $1.50 from each $19.95 hardcover copy is rendered unto him.

That's a lot of mammon—but until just over a year ago even the authors were of little faith. As Waterman recalls: "On our down days when we were writing, we thought, 'If this gets to hardback and our mothers like it, we'll be lucky.' " Harper & Row cautiously printed only 15,000 copies—and reportedly expected to sell only 6,000.

But then companies like Hewlett-Packard, Bell Labs and IBM began buying books by the truckload. Even Harrah's casinos saw the light and distributed hundreds of copies to top employees.

But the true place of In Search of Excellence in America's business pantheon may soon be ratified by a hotel chain that receives favorable notice in the book's introduction. "I hear a rumor," says Peters, "that Four Seasons may put paperbacks of our book in their 6,575 hotel rooms. We may be the Gideon Bible of Four Seasons."

Nonetheless, there are nonbelievers. Business schools attract a goodly share of barbs in the book, and the current Harvard Business Review returned the favor in a scathing attack

entitled "A Disappointing Search for Excellence." The Review takes the authors to task for using anecdotes and the unsupported testimony of employees, journalists and other nonexperts, rather than academic research. (In-

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We'll save that for our next book." •

Consultants Peters (left) and Waterman exult amid the end results of forests that were felled to provide the makings of their publishing bonanza.

Photograph by Mark Sennet/Shooting Star

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SEQUEL

Sex, Drugs and Pelicans—Take II What happened next: a year-end update on the fates of the famous < Marine Jahan (PEOPLE, May 16) may be 1983's most famous unknown. The movie Flashdance became a $100 million smash largely because of its lusty, pyrotechnic dance scenes, yet the footwork was done not by star Jennifer Beals, but by her body double, Jahan, 25. "I did 99 percent of the dancing and all of the bicycle riding," says Jahan, who received no screen credit.

"Even the scene when she gets water thrown over her is me."

Not surprisingly, Jahan, a French-bom actress now living in Los Angeles, was frustrated at being ignored initially, which the movie's producers ascribed to an oversight. "The critics were saying all this great stuff about the dancing, and no one knew I had done it," she says. Now she believes the delayed recognition may have been a blessing.

"It gave me mystique," she explains.

It also brought her steady employment. Since the film's premiere Jahan has flashdanced her way through commercials for shoes, milk and a Japanese health club, and traveled to Europe to promote the movie. She has also landed her first speaking part— three words—as a stripper in an upcoming Universal movie, Streets of Fire.

When an amorous patron paws her, Jahan looks him in the eye and barks, "Back up, scumbag!"

^ AAlmost a year after Roxanne Pulitzer's divorce from newspaper heir Peter Pulitzer (Jan. 24)—she accused him of drug abuse and incest, he charged her with lesbianism and sleeping with a trumpet—Roxanne is still unhappy with her settlement, which netted her an estimated $115,000. Her lawyer, Marvin Mitchelson, hopes to hear in January concerning an appeal of the ruling that gave Peter custody of the couple's 6year-old twins, Mack and Zack. Meanwhile, Roxanne has moved from the couple's Palm Beach mansion to a nearby two-bedroom apartment. She spends her time visiting with the kids and taking exercise classes. Interested in showbiz, Roxanne got a small break in November when Burt Reynolds hired her as an extra in his upcoming movie, Stick. The pay? A reported $40 a day.

VA year ago the Cambridge Diet (Nov. 15,1982) was living off the fat of the land.

The radical regimen, which requires those who observe it to chow down a supposedly nutritious, low-calorie food supplement that sells for $18 a can, added millions to the bank accounts of the diet's promoters, the Feather family of Monterey, Calif.: dad Jack, mom Eileen and son Vaughan. Said Eileen, 57: "Cambridge is the answer to my prayers."

Additional prayers may soon be in order. Last September Cambridge Plan International filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy laws. The com-

<Things seem to have quieted down in the tumultuous O'Neal clan (Aug. 15).

In May daddy Ryan reportedly knocked out two of son Griffin's teeth during a family fracas. Not long afterward, a troubled Griffin, then 18, entered a private drug and delinquency rehabilitation center in Hawaii.

Now, seven months later, Griffin has returned to Los Angeles, where he is reportedly under a doctor's care. He celebrated Thanksgiving with his father and sister Tatum, 20, at Ryan's Malibu beachhouse.

"He's gained 10 or 15 pounds and his outlook is much more mature," says a friend. "He is doing splendidly," adds Griffin's uncle, Kevin O'Neal. "He's healthy and strong and that's what counts. He and his father are getting along wonderfully. They are extremely close. We are proud of him."

pany sold off its spiffy Monterey headquarters and now operates out of a warehouse. According to the Feathers, copycat competition caused the fiscal fiasco.

But a dozen former Cambridge executives aren't buying that line. On the same day Cambridge was filing for bankruptcy, the 12 filed an $80 million lawsuit accusing the Feathers of fraud, deceit and breach of contract. Because of another suit brought by a group of former salespeople claiming restraint of trade, Eileen and Jack Feather have been barred from leaving the country.

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ALast February masked gunmen invaded an Irish stud farm and drove off with Shergar, one of the world's most valuable thoroughbreds and the prize possession of the Aga Khan (Feb. 28). The next morning the Aga, vacationing in St. Moritz, received and bluntly refused a ransom demand for $2.7 million. The horse, which had been syndicated for $18 million, has not been seen since and is presumed

dead. Although a $500,000 reward is still being offered for his safe return, some insurers have already paid part of a $6.7 million policy on Shergar. Yet the stallion has not vanished without a trace: Before his disappearance, he had impregnated 42 mares. The first of his line to reach the auction block, a still-unnamed yearling colt (above), fetched $480,000 at a County Kildare auction this fall.

V For Samantha Smith, 11, life is "pretty much back to normal" after the media blitz surrounding her exchange of letters with Soviet Communist Party chief Yuri Andropov (May 16) and a subsequent trip to Russia last summer. "It was kind of hectic, but I sort of miss the limelight," says the Manchester, Maine sixth grader. "I liked rushing around and hearing the cameras go click, click."

In retrospect, what did she learn? "That it's a lot harder to get people to think about peace than I thought, even young people," says Samantha. She also discovered that celebrity has its downside. After the Russians shot down the Korean jetliner ("It just shows what can happen when things get out of hand," she says), she watched television coverage of a protest outside the Soviet embassy in Washington. "Someone had a sign saying 'What do you think now, Samantha?' or something like that. I thought that was mean."

Alt was a forbidding evening indeed when San Jose State University professor Scott Rice (April 18) announced the winner of his second annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, whose 10,000 entrants had vied to submit the worst possible opening sentence for a novel. (Honorary Hall of Famer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the Victorian novelist, began The Last Days of Pompeii with the all-toomemorable "It was a dark and stormy night.. .")The winning entry, submitted by Gail Cain of San Francisco, a technical writer for Bank of America (dark and stormy drumroll, please): "The camel died quite suddenly on the second day, as Selina fretted sulkily, and, buffing her already impeccable nailsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not for the first time since the journey beganâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;pondered snidely if this would dissolve into a vignette of minor inconveniences like all the other holidays spent with Basil."

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V After five years of camping out in the sanctuary of the American Embassy in Moscow, Soviet Pentecostal Pyotr Vashchenko (July 18) couldn't believe it when the Soviet bureaucracy finally allowed himâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;together with his wife and 14 children, ranging in age from 9 to 32â&#x20AC;&#x201D;to emigrate to Israel last year. "It is difficult to believe that we are really here, where Jesus was," said Pyotr in Jerusalem. "We have prayed and hoped to come here, but somehow it does not seem real. It is so sudden."

Then, unexpectedly, his life changed again. Only two weeks after arriving, the Vashchenkos learned that though Israel would readily grant them resident status, the road to full citizenship was long and uncertain. Almost overnight the clan packed their bags and headed for the U.S., where church groups and human-rights activists helped some family members settle near Seattle and others to find homes in ALast December MGM/UA halted production of the film / Won't Dance because its star, Kristy McNichol (May 9), was suffering from what they mysteriously labeled a "chemical imbalance." Gossip vultures whispered of drugs, but that, according to Kristy's friends, wasn't the problem. McNichol, they said, was an emotional wreck after being whipsawed by sudden, early success (including two Emmys for her role in TV's Family) followed by failure in her most recent films (The Pirate Movie and White Dog). After a year of rest, says her agent, Kristy "feels and looks good.

She's full of energy." One positive sign: In mid-January, she'll resume filming / Won't Dance.

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Idaho. Of the 16, some have found employment, and all are learning English.

"By doing my best," says daughter Lyuba, 30, now taking courses at the College of Idaho in Caldwell, with an eye toward going to law school, "I will be able to show my appreciation of the people who have helped me."

Alt started as a simple promotional gambit: Allentown, Pa. radio-station owner Harold Fulmer (March 18) offered an $18,000 mobile home to whichever of three contestantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;selected at random from an estimated half-million entriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; could camp out the longest on a billboard advertising his station. Mike MacKay, 31, Ron Kistler, 26, and Dalton Young III, 23, were each provided with a tent, a chemical toilet, a telephone and a summerweight sleeping bag, and happily took their places on Sept. 20, 1982. All went swimmingly for the first few months, but as the winter wore on, sitter sympathizers began to accuse multimillionaire Fulmer of cruelty. The era of good feeling was definitely over when police, acting on an anonymous tip, arrested Young for possession of marijuana, leaving him with nothing to show for his 184 days aloft except a possible jail sentence. (Young was found guilty last August, but is appealing his conviction.)

Finally, after 261 days, Fulmer called it a draw and awarded each remaining sitter a car, a mobile home

and a job. "I don't think I'd want to spend another nine months up there on a billboard, but it was worth it," says Kistler. MacKay, who now runs a Fulmerowned recreational-vehicles park in the Poconos, is jubilant. "I can sit here and watch otters and beavers and bears," he says. "It's been a happy ending."

VCollege basketball star Kevin Ross (Feb. 21) was on full athletic scholarship at Nebraska's Creighton University when he dropped out of school in 1982, complaining that he had been allowed to pass through the educational system without ever learning to read. Hoping to make up for lost time, he enrolled in July 1982 in a private elementary school operated by Chicago's renowned Marva Collins. Being photographed as a 6'9" second-grader made him a national symbol of the hypocrisy of many college athletic programs. Ten months later Ross, who now makes a living lecturing about his experience, completed his high school studies. He plans to enter Chicago's Roosevelt University in January. "I'm really looking forward to college this time," says Ross, 25, who intends to study education. "I'm not going to use any of my bonehead credits from Creighton. I'm going to start all overâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if it takes me 10 or 15 years to get that degree."

A Richard and Deborah Jahnke, the Cheyenne, Wyo. teenagers who collaborated in the shotgun killing of their deranged, abusive father (March 7), were both sentenced to prison but remain free while their convictions are appealed.

Richard is living in a foster home and attending high school in Cheyenne; Deborah is enrolled at a boarding school that specializes in helping troubled children.

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SEQUEL V"Sometimes I think I could have committed an ax murder on the village green and it would not have stirred up as much excitement," says Patricia Hope (Jan. 17), the East Hampton, N.Y. high school teacher who became the focus of a muchpublicized town squabble when she became pregnant out of wedlock. Nineteen townspeople, claiming that Hope, 42, presented a deplorable example to the community's youth, signed a petition demanding the school board sack her. A counterpetition, signed by 469 supporters, demanded she be kept on. The board eventually sided with Hope and authorized a paid sixmonth leave. Her baby, Penelope Leigh Hope, was born on Feb. 5.

"My life has turned around 180 degrees since then," says Hope, who had

been living in a rooming house but now rents a cozy cottage from the parents of one of her students. "I wrote an article for Ladies' Home Journal which ran in October, and that helped a lot of people to understand far better than any attempt on my part to talk to them," she says. "I get stonewalled sometimes when I go into town, and I hear I'm the main subject of conversation at certain bridge tables. But no one has said anything to my face." On school days, Penelope is cared for by a friend while Mom teaches.

Hope also keeps busy managing her lingering celebrity. Although she says she has repeatedly turned down invitations to appear on the Phil Donahue Show, she is selling the TV rights to her story for an NBC-TV movie.

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AThere is good and bad news for pelican lovers. In Southern California, where a sicko cut off the upper beaks of 19 brown pelicans (Feb. 28), attempts have failed to fit the birds with prosthetic replacements.

Vets have abandoned plans to return the animals to the wild and hope to find homes for the survivors. Further up the coast, in Monterey, another 27 pelicans were found maimed this fall. The only good news: After Monterey bird lovers posted a $10,000 reward, tips helped police nab a suspect, a 15year-old boy. >With the voluntary manslaughter conviction of exboyfriend John Sweeney, 28, the book seemed closed on the strangling death of actress Dominique {Poltergeist) Dunne (Oct. 10).

Then came a brief, bitter epilogue. During Sweeney's sentencing hearing, defense attorney Michael Adelson pleaded for leniency, but Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Burton Katz cut him off sharply. "This is a case of murder, pure and simple," said Katz. "I was appalled at the verdict [manslaughter instead of murder]. I don't understand it for the life of me." Some

courtroom observers, including Dunne's family, considered the judge's outburst a hypocritical response to criticism that his mishandling of the case had led to conviction on the lesser charge. "The judge turned completely around," said a disgusted Eleanor Dunne, the victim's mother.

"He stepped on the prosecuting attorney and anything he tried to put forth during the entire trial."

Sweeney was sentenced to six and a half years in prison, but under California law, with time off for good behavior and credit for time already served, he could be released in only two and a half.

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VBernardEpton(Feb. 21) entered Chicago's mayoral race as a political Don Quixote: a Republican candidate in an overwhelmingly Democratic town. Then black Congressman Harold Washington upset Mayor Jane Byrne in the Democratic primary, and Epton suddenly found himself with a real chance to win. That's when his troubles began.

The press, claims Epton, unfairly portrayed him as a racist during the ensuing bitter campaign. (Among other alleged offenses, one of his campaign buttons read EPTON BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE, a slogan he says was devised before Washington's nomination.)

By the time Washington won by 44,700 votes, says Epton, "I was in a rage.

There had been smears by the media and betrayal by friends. I'm sorry I ran because of the friendships I lost." Still smarting, Epton, a millionaire lawyer, says he may never seek public elective office again, though he probably would accept an appointment. In fact, he has one in mind.

"I heard there's a vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission," he says with a vengeful gleam.

"There's nothing the media would hate worse than to have me on the FCC."

ALife has changed little for rocker David Crosby (Aug. 29), 42, since he was sentenced to five years in prison on cocaine and gun-possession charges stemming from a 1982 arrest in a Dallas nightclub. Friends say he is broke, strung out and living in his last asset, a house in Mill Valley, Calif., while his case is on appeal.

At one point he checked into a California drug rehabilitation center but walked out two days later, reportedly when a nurse refused to give him a Valium. Deluged with offers of moral and medical support after the PEOPLE article described his plight ("Some people even turned up on his doorstep," says a source close to the singer), Crosby insists he doesn't have any problem that he can't solve himself, if only people would be good enough to give him some cash. Says a friend, "One day David said that if he had money he would sail away on his boat and make himself quit drugs." Adds the friend, "We had to point out to him that he no longer has a boat."

VMary Ellen Pinkham (March 28), whose Mary Ellen's Help Yourself Diet Plan has been a best-seller since its publication last December, almost let success go to her hips. While touting the book in Europe, she backslid egregiously. "I'm no dope," says Pinkham, 37. "I was eatin', I'll tell ya.

The best. In Italy, pasta.

And in France, of course, all the pastries." And, of course, she gained 15

pounds, necessitating a big second helping of her own advice. Now in fighting trim once again, she is at work on an exercise book, as well as overseeing the marketing of an out-of-the-ordinary breakfast product.

"It's called Mary Ellen's Toastamp," says Pinkham.

"It's like a branding iron.

What you do is brand bread, and it pops out of the toaster with a message on it, like 'Good Morning' or 'Smile.' "

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PUBLIC JOY, PRIVATE SORROW: A TRAGIC YEAR FOR THE MILITARY ENDS IN BITTERSWEET HOMECOMINGS

MARINES '83 I he shivering young girl with long blond hair urgently yanked at her mother's coat sleeve as a cluster of helmeted Marines with M-16s slung over their shoulders filed out of the Trailways bus. "Mom, is that him? Is it, Mom? Mom?" Like hundreds of other relatives who braved the raw temperature and slicing winds with their cameras and little American flags, the mother and daughter were barricaded behind a wall of stiff Marines, the weary returnees' only protection from a stampede of overeager families.

"Yes," the mother nodded, "that's him." The girl jumped up frantically.

"Daddy," she squealed, both arms in the air. "Daaaaaaaaaa-deeeeeee."

There have been other homecomings since the U.S. Marines became peacekeepers in Lebanon 16 months ago, but none quite like the one at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C. on Pearl Harbor Day, when the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit came home. The 24th MAU was in Beirut when terrorists CONTINUED

Ships b e a r i n g h o m e b o u n d t r o o p s d o c k e d a t M o r e h e a d City, N.C. "I didn't k n o w s o m a n y p e o p l e c a r e d , " said o n e M a r i n e .

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When John stepped off the U.S.S. Iwo Jima, "I wanted to kiss the ground," he said. At home, he happily settled for Oebrah.

'It feels like I've been gone a lifetime,' said a teary Marine blew up Marine headquarters, killing 241 menâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;220 of them Marines. That Bloody Sunday was bloodier for the U.S. military than any day since Vietnam in 1968. In the week following the blast 18 more servicemen died in Grenada. For the Marines in particular, 1983 was a year of tragedy and vindication, and on Pearl Harbor Day Camp Lejeune was a swirl of emotions, the joys of reunion tempered by freshly evoked memories of loss.

Everything possible was done to give the Marines a glorious reception.

The Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce handed out 30,000 yellow ribbons, and nearly every marquee in town sported signs reading, "Welcome Home 24th MAU." The city fathers announced plans for a new Marine monument on the outskirts of town and for pear trees to be planted along Lejeune Boulevard to honor the dead. As successive busloads of troops arrived to a rousing welcome from four marching bands, the cheers of family ("There he is! There he is!") swelled above the drone of official valedictories. "My baby, my baby," screamed one mother, rushing into the arms of a man the size of Mr. T. "You know," said Cheryl Windsor, the wife of a returning Marine pilot, "my husband served two years in Vietnam and when he came home people spit on him. This is so refreshing."

And yet the countercurrent of sorrow was strong. It was felt the night before aboard the five transport ships where the Marines spent their last night away from home reading, playing cards, watching a movie {An Officer and a Gentleman). "It was touchy," remembered Lance Cpl. Diedrich Homan. "Everybody was in his own little world." So many of the unit had come home earlier, not to pomp but in a mass cargo of flag-draped coffins. "In some ways it feels like I never left," said one teary-eyed Marine at the festivities in Jacksonville. "In other ways it feels like I've been gone a lifetime."

This is a story about some of the reunions that happened at Camp Lejeune, and some that didn't.

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Schultz told his parents not to worry about him: 'It's not as bad as it sounds' chocolate cake, his favorite. She is one of the lucky wives. "I met one lady at Lejeune that day and asked about her husband," Debrah recalled. "She said, 'He's not coming back.' I didn't know what to say."

By 8:45 a.m. Debrah's hair was in curlers, she had hung a welcomehome sign on the front of her house and had gotten her antsy sons, John III, 6, and Tyson, 31/'2, into new Sundaybest outfits. Earlier in the week she had given herself a permanent and bought at a sale a fetching gray suit to show off her figure, 13 pounds lighter since John had left. "I went all out because I know he takes pride in how I look," she said. Her freezer had long since been stocked with dishes he loves—chili, lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs—and, in an ultimate show of true love, she had cleaned the oven.

"You know it's a big occasion when I do that," she said, laughing.

His absence had been the longest of their seven-year marriage. (At 30, John, a staff sergeant, has been a Marine since 1972.) She passed the time with her children, friends, books, Tupperware parties and answering his 81 letters. During the waiting she became reflective about her husband, more appreciative of him, "even the little pinches when he walked past me." The bombing left an indelible imprint on her. "I could have lost him and that scared me more than anything. Hell couldn't have kept me away if he had been wounded."

The Hendricksons left for the reunion from their house on the base around 10:30 a.m., but it was not until 5:30 p.m. that the bus carrying her husband arrived. Then she spotted him, 6'4" and 30 pounds less of him. Crying, she flew into his arms, saying, "I love you," as their sons grabbed their father's knees. John unlocked her embrace and joked, "Hey, I'm all in one piece." "Don't worry," she said.

"I'm taking inventory when we get home." As the family disappeared into the night, John stopped, threw back his head and inhaled deeply. "Aaaaaah," he said. "American air!"

Dennis and Beverly Schultz watched the happy Lejeune homecoming on television in their house trailer in the cold north woods of Keeseville, N.Y., near the Canadian border. But they did not celebrate. Their son—Lance Cpl.

"Scott was a great kid," says Beverly Schultz, with husband Dennis. "You couldn't ask for a better son."

Scott L. Schultz, 19, a victim of the Bloody Sunday bombing—had already come home. Now he lay beneath ground covered by an early winter snow, and the TV news only brought back the sorrow that had haunted the Schultz family for six weeks.

"He was supposed to call tonight," said Beverly, 39, a pastry cook at a nearby inn. "That hurts."

"We're always thinking about him, but it's worse today," said Dennis, also 39, a disabled laborer.

Dennis opened his wallet and care-

fully removed a piece of folded yellow paper—a homemade Fathers' Day card, with an original poem, that Scott had sent from Beirut. Beverly darted into another room and returned with a gold cross, adorned with a diamond and still mounted in the box it was purchased in. "You don't see many sons at 18 who will send their mother a necklace that cost almost $300," she said. "He sent it for Christmas last year because he wasn't home."

Scott also sent money—$400 a month—to supplement the family budget. Some of it went to buy a bicycle that enables Scott's older brother Dennis, 20, to commute to his job as a dishwasher in a local restaurant. Some bought school clothes for brother, Dale, 13. Some purchased a tank of kerosene for the trailer. The Schultzes were reluctant to use Scott's money for household items, but he insisted.

"You couldn't ask for a better son," said Beverly, wringing her hands on the kitchen tabletop. "He was the best."

During his high school years, however, there was one source of conflict between Scott and his parents. He wanted to join the Marines right after graduation. They wanted him to stay at home, at least for a year. Scott repeatedly begged his parents to sign the papers that would enable him to join the Marines before he reached the legal age of 18. They repeatedly refused.

Finally Dennis gave in to his son's pleas. In July 1982, just a month after his graduation, Scott left Keeseville for Camp Lejeune. He loved it, and he reveled in the rigors of boot camp. In April 1983 he returned home on a furlough— sporting a multicolored cobra tattoo on his right biceps—and informed his family that he was going to Beirut in May. The full impact of his words didn't really hit them. "We knew it was a bad spot," said Beverly, "but not as bad as it turned out."

While Scott was in Beirut, his parents wrote him every day. He replied regularly, closing his letters with the phrase "Take care and God bless." He allowed himself some sentimentality: "I love you all. You give me the power to go on day after day. I am very proud to have you as my family." And he tried to reassure them about the fighting: "You must be getting one hell of a story on the news back home. Well, don't worry about what's going on here. It's not as bad as it sounds."

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In the last letter... he said he was sick of seeing his buddies go by on stretchers Around the middle of October, while his platoon was stationed in sandbaglined bunkers on the southern end of the Beirut airport, Scott was sent to the "BLT building," Marine headquarters, for a rotation in the mess hall. He was there on Bloody Sunday.

Beverly Schultz was so nervous after hearing about the bombing that she burned her hand on the oven that morning and her boss sent her home.

For the next three days Dennis dialed and redialed the special Marine information number but all he ever heard was the frustrating buzz of a busy signal. Then, on Wednesday, they saw three somber Marines marching toward their door.

The news was particularly devastating for Scott's brothers. "The oldest I oneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he's got a speech defect and he's a little handicappedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he said, 'I don't know why it couldn't have been me,' " Dennis recalled. "And the little one went into his room and Armando Ybarra's photo appeared worldw i d e . "Every Marine wants to s e e action," h e s a i d . "I think I've s e e n e n o u g h . "

didn't come out for about two days."

Sitting around their kitchen table on the night of the Camp Lejeune homecoming, the Schultzes wondered about the wisdom of the Marines' mission in Beirut.

"How many guys are they gonna lose?" Beverly wondered.

"In the last letter he wrote, the day before the bombing, he said he was getting sick of seeing his buddies go by on stretchers," Dennis said.

Two years after they signed the papers, the Schultzes were still haunted by their decision to allow Scott to join the Marines. "I didn't want him to

go," Beverly said. "I didn't want to sign the papers," Dennis said, his fingers fidgeting nervously with his son's letters, arranging them into piles, then rearranging them. "But he saw the recruiter in Plattsburgh and he came out to the car, and he said, 'Please, Dad, please.' I said, 'No, Scott, I don't want to.' And he said, 'Please, please.' And I said, 'Well, okay, if that's what you want.' " Dennis Schultz stood up, his eyes brimming with tears, and paced into the living room.

"Scott said this was gonna be the best Christmas we ever had," said Beverly. "Instead, it's gonna be the worst."

After stray artillery rounds ricocheted off the BLT building hours before the attack, Cpl. William Gaines Jr. and his buddy Sgt. Armando Ybarra decided to sleep on the floor as a safety precaution. After the explosion Ybarra Ybarra, wife Angle, 23, and daughter Allyson greeted his buddies. His injuries might force him out of the Marines.

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In the hospital, I said, 'Why me? Why couldn't all three of us have lived? Or died?' "wound up way below the basement," he said at Camp Lejeune. An alert rescuer spotted him underneath a concrete slab. Gaines, who had slept next to him, wound up dead. Hours later Ybarra shrugged off his doctors' whispers about possibly amputating his right leg. "I said, 'I don't care. I'm just glad to be alive.' " One of the first men pulled from the twisted wreckage, Ybarra, 29, was featured on the covers of TIME and Newsweek. His wife, Angela, 23, saw the picture after he called her to let her know he was alright. "If I had seen that picture first," she said, "I would have passed out."

Ybarra, who had received get-well wishes from around the country, deflected suggestions he was a hero. "I was asleep," said the Austin, Texas native and 10-year veteran of the Marines. "Maybe if I had been awake and tried to stop it, we could say I was a hero."

He returned to Lejeune on Nov. 2. He suffered no broken bones, but his right foot and part of his right leg are numb; if his recovery goes well, he will be able to walk unaided in a year. Once at home in Jacksonville, he saw for the first time his youngest daughter, Wendy, 6 months, who was born two weeks after he left for Lebanon. (Daughter Allyson is 2.)

The emotional wounds will also take time to heal. While hospitalized he was visited by Gaines' wife and mother.

The women probed for answers: What had Gaines done the night of the blast?

Was he asleep when it happened? Had he said anything about them? In the end Gaines' wife had said that perhaps her husband's death was simply "God's will." Ybarra must struggle with survivor's guilt. "When I was in the hospital, I said, 'Why me? Why couldn't all three of us have lived? Or died?' " (A third Marine buddy, Cpl. Henry Townsend, asleep on the other side of Gaines, survived as well.)

Ybarra remembered a discussion group held among the wounded. "A counselor asked, 'Do you cry?' Nobody wanted to say anything. Finally, I said, 'Hell, yeah, I do. When I sit back and realize how many friends I lost.' " Sgt. Richard Blankenship told his wife Debbie, 23, that when he got home he wanted a fire going in their new mobile home and the champagne chilled. She 120

had long since purchased his Christmas presents—a set of weights, a hunting knife—and in an hour-long call to Beirut on Richard's birthday (the bill was $127), the two talked about gifts for their son, Richard, 2 Va. When Debbie got lonely, she would glance at the family picture—their first, taken one week before he left.

Four days after the bombing Debbie was told that Richard was missing in action. Four days later—on Halloween—came the final word. "I was in the bedroom and heard car doors slam," she said. From her window, she watched the grim-faced Marine chaplain and a casualty officer head toward

her door. "I just said, 'They're here.' " When he died, Richard was "26 years, one month and six days old."

Against the advice of friends, Debbie and her son turned out for the homecoming at Camp Lejeune. "I feel like the Marines are my family," she said. She especially wanted to greet her husband's best friend, Lance Cpl. Charles Anthony Norfleet, hoping he could help her make sense of her loss.

"I felt like Tony had to talk to me, tell me some things," she said. By day's CONTINUED Ybarra, at h o m e with daughter Wendy, 6 m o n t h s , is m o r e religious n o w . " I f e l t I w a s given a second c h a n c e . "

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His final letter arrived two weeks after his funeral end she was "numb and depressed" but glad she had come. "It was good seeing Tony," she said.

Reminders of her husband's fate are all about her. "They sent over his belongings and his civilian clothes were in there," she said. "He had a Members Only jacket and a polo shirt he had gotten for Christmas. I kept those. Out of everything else, those hurt me the most. That's what he had on in the family picture."

Both grew up in nearby Fayetteville, N.C. Richard, a Marine since 1975, planned to reenlist. But his letters had grown uncharacteristically sentimentalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and ominous. He once wrote her that he wanted Kenny Rogers' Love the World A way played at his funeral, and that he "didn't expect to live to see 26." "I just feel like he knew," Debbie said. "One time I wrote him and said, 'Sometimes I'm afraid that you're not coming home.' He said, 'I know how you feel. I feel the same way. But I just try to shake it off.' " Weeks after his funeral she received a "poetic" letter saying how happy he was after five years of marriage. His last letter, said Debbie through an embarrassed blush, "was so hot it nearly burnt my fingers off."

She was not bitter. "He loved the Marines," she said. "He didn't and I don't understand the killing. Richard said he didn't know why he was there, but that he was a Marine and he had to do what they told him to."

She will receive financial benefits from the Marines (including a $35,000 insurance payment) and from the Marine Beirut Relief Fund organized by Camp Lejeune wives. She plans to stay in Jacksonville ("I feel closer to him here") and may return to school. She spent most of Thanksgiving Day alone at her husband's grave, but she and her son will join her parents in Fayetteville for Christmas.

Debbie intends to keep her husband's memory alive for their son, with scrapbooks of press clippings, mounted ribbons and visits to the cemetery.

"Everybody said not to take him to the grave, that he wouldn't understand," said Debbie. "But I took him out there and told him that's where his daddy is.

I showed him the flowers and the plaque. When we left, he said, 'I love you, Daddy. Bye-bye.' " â&#x20AC;˘

Widowed at 23, a subdued Debbie Blankenship (with son Richard, 2 1 /z) searched out her husband's friends at Lejeune.

Photographs by Christopher Little

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Coming Attractions There's the promise of struttin' on-screen, a bagful of best-sellers, a Prince of a year in song and twins on the tube

SCREEN '84

A Swing Shift recaptures the days of World War II, when American men went to battle and American women went to work. Goldie Hawn stars as a housewife who joins the assembly line while her husband is fighting overseas. Kurt (Silkwood) Russell is the workingman she falls for.

During production he became Goldie's offscreen co-star too. Plagued by problems, including a flood

A Robert Redford has not appeared on-screen for three years, but he hasn't hung up his spikes. Having proved himself as a director his first time out with Ordinary People, he is content merely to star in The Natural, a baseball drama. The movie takes place between 1918 and 1939, and Redford plays a man entering middle age who fulfills his childhood dream of becoming the best in major league baseball. Glenn (The Big Chill) Close is his childhood sweetheart who has raised the son that he doesn't know he fathered in a onenight union. "She's had 15 years to get over him, and then he comes back into her life," says Close. "It's a wonderfully romantic story." In the baseball sequences Redford went to bat for himself, although 124

Yankee bull-pen coach Tony Ferrara was on deck as an adviser. The movie, adapted from Bernard Mal-

amud's acclaimed first novel, was directed by Barry (Diner) Levinson. (Opens in May)

V A bear on a motorcycle is one of the more ordinary characters in The Hotel New Hampshire, Tony Richard-

that wiped out a specially built '40s roller rink in Santa Monica, the movie is now suffering postproduction delays, sparked by Goldie's dissatisfaction with her image. Veteran script doctor Robert {Chinatown) Towne has written a few scenes that director Jonathan {Melvin and Howard) Demme will shoot. "I hope," Demme says, "they will just make us like the movie more."

(March)

son's adaptation of John Irving's1981 best-selling novel. Along with bearprodding Wallace Shawn (far left) and entrepreneur Beau Bridges, this story of an eccentric family and their movable hotel features Jodie Foster, Nastassja Kinski and Rob Lowe. To keep within a relatively modest $6.5 million budget, the movie's scenes in New York, New England and Vienna were all shot in Quebec province. The moviemakers didn't stint on plot—The Hotel New Hampshire has enough for at least two pictures. But in the end, Irving's convolutions were reduced to one not-so-simple question: Can a young weightlifter madly in love with his older sister .ind happiness with a lesbian who hides inside a bear suit? (March)

A With a cast of 200 and a budget of $42 million (and rising), The Cotton Club has already generated more talk in production than most movies do after opening.

Richard Gere and Gregory Hines (above) step out in this lavish re-creation of the Harlem hot spot that was

the place to be during Prohibition. So far, though, most of the attention has gone to the epic-size egos of producer Robert Evans and director Francis Coppola. Their relationship goes way back—Evans headed Paramount when Coppola directed The God-

father—and probably has never been worse. At one point Coppola walked off the set, shutting down production for two and a half days. If the movie sparks half as much tension and passion as the filming, it should be dynamite.

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SCREEN'84 A Rhinestone teams up the two most famous chests in Hollywood. Dolly Parton is a country and Western bar singer who bets her boss that she can turn anyone into a country crooner. Anyone turns out to be Sylvester Stallone, a New York City cabdriver. "This is the most radical image change of my career," trills Stallone, who has three solos in the film. Rhinestone has run into a few snags, including the replacement of director Don Zimmerman with Bob (Porky's) Clark. But Dolly remains buoyant. "Sly is the only person I've ever met that could totally match my energy," Dolly gushes. "We bounce off each other quite well." (June)

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PAGES '84 > After serving up more than 370 books that have sold some 400 million copies worldwide, the Eminence rose of romance is about to publish her first cookbook. No mere meat and potatoes for Britain's Barbara Cartland, 82. The Romance of Food, due in May from Doubleday & Co., is just that: a compendium of aphrodisiacal concoctions such as "Dreams Do Come True," and "Joy of the Gods"—the first, a veal kidney dish, the second, a salade Nigoise.

"There isn't any plant, any leaf that hasn't been an aphrodisiac," says Cartland, whose own chef of 18 years, Nigel Gordon, drew up the lists of ingredients and the directions for carrying out Barbara's recipes.

"I've looked up all the different things," the author says of her libidinous bill of fare, "and told lovely stories about them." Cartland promises that her first effort at a culinary romance will be "quite, quite different" from Fanny Farmer and Julia Child. No doubt.

VBusinesswoman Mary Cunningham, the Harvard MBA who rocketed to the top of the Bendix Corporation four years ago at 29, will spill her own secrets next June in Powerplay: What Really Happened at Bendix (Simon & Schuster). The book focuses on Bendix's rough-and-tumble 1982 takeover attempt of Martin Marietta Corp., which resulted instead in Bendix being taken over by Allied Corp. Cunningham also promises to give her version of her ascendency at Bendix, where her relationship with

VPulitzer prizewinning Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward {All the President's Men, The Brethren) is also venturing into unfamiliar territory with his Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi (June, Simon &

Schuster). Wired offers a portrait of the late comedian and a chilling look at the bizarre show-business culture in which he was immersed. With the help of a full-time research assistant, Woodward (who never met Belushi but shared his hometown of Wheaton, III.) worked for more than a year on the book, interviewing "his doctors, his wife, his brothers, his money managers—everyone from the people Belushi went to high school with to the people he was working with before his death in 1982," according to one Deep Throat. The Watergate ace says he emerged from his latest round of sleuthing with a detailed reconstruction of Belushi's final 19 days—and with quite a few surprises besides.

then-chairman William Agee, 45, uncorked a Niagara of gossip. They married in 1982. Cunningham's memoir will show "what I've learned and what I hope other people can learn from my experiences." Lesson one: It never hurts to befriend the boss. Unless you're a woman.

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SONG '84 > Y o u can teach old electro-pop dance bands new tricks. Thompson Twins—all three of them, none related—are looking to double their fans' dancing pleasure when they release their next album by using real instruments. Not that (from left) England's Joe Leeway, Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie are planning to dump the synthetic keyboards, guitars and percussion that made Side Kicks one of 1983's most danceable LPs. It's just that the Twins want to make music with things you can't also play PacMan on. "There's been a shift toward—dare I say it?—the traditional song," explains Bailey, that old sentimentalist. < T h e legendary Eric Burdon (left) and the Animals hadn't gigged together since the '60s. But the great ones never forget how it's done. In 1983 they toured the States; this spring, hear the live album. > A f t e r a self-imposed exile of more than two years, Foreigner is back in the recording studio—and the onetime CEOs of blatantly commercial "corporate rock" may finally have something more than sales figures on their minds. Lou Gramm and Mick Jones (at left), Dennis Elliott and Rick Wills have a new producer—Trevor Horn, who also produced Sex Pistol Svengali Malcolm McLaren— and some new ideas. Said Jones, "Some of the songs are a bit more innovative than the last album." Well, every little bit helps.

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< l n the movie Purple Rain, a young black musical genius languishes in the Midwest. Despite his humble beginnings, our hero rises like an MX missile to the top of the rock world, where riches, fame—and a beautiful, mysterious woman await. Though Purple Rain, scheduled for an April release, was conceived by Prince, stars Prince and features several songs written and performed by Prince; though the film is, in fact, currently being shot in Minneapolis, the hometown of Prince; though it seems to parallel the sudden rise of its young star, who came strutting onto the rock scene out of nowhere in 1978, a slithering combination of the Marquis de Sade and Jimi Hendrix—still Prince denies the obvious: Purple Rain is autobiographical. Yeah, sure, and the shock-rock king's onetime performing outfit— thigh-high boots, bikini briefs and an oft-doffed raincoat—is now the new Boy Scout uniform. >The Coyote Sisters have joined forces to fulfill a howling need—music for those too young to put away their dancing shoes, but too old to cope with Quiet Riot. "There are a lot of people like us—children of the '60s who still buy records—but they're not buying the Go-Gos," says Renee Eugenie Armand.

With this in mind, recording and composing pros (from left) Leah Kunkel, Marty Gwinn and Armand release their first effort in February.

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TUBE '84 V If last year was the hour of the hunk, '84 may be the time for twins. ABC is developing a series about twins, but it's just one of a pair. NBC has beaten its rival to the one-two punch with Double Trouble, an Embassy Television sitcom scheduled to debut in March. The stars are Jean and Liz Sagal, the 22-yearold twins of the late TV film director Boris (Masada) Sagal. The sisters play the identical teenage daughters of a gym owner (Donnelly Rhodes). In real life, as on the series, twins have special problems. "There's one show about what it's like for twins at birthdays," says Liz. "I always hated people who gave one present for both of us." The young actressesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who moved 2,500 miles apart (New York and Los Angeles) several years agoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; have rarely teamed onscreen. Says Jean, "We had always avoided working together, but we loved it in Grease II." Still, if Double Trouble doesn't work, adds Jean, "We'll go our separate ways."

A India is an in-demand location spot again, thanks to Gandhi's 1983 Oscar sweep, a fact not lost on HBO, which will pair Ben (Chariots of Fire) Cross and Amy (Yentl) Irving as the cross-cultural lovers in The Far Pavilions. Set in 19thcentury colonial India, the six-hour miniseries is based on M.M. Kaye's romantic best-seller. Cross, 35, plays an Englishman raised by an Indian woman. "It's an Errol Flynn-type role," says

Cross, "with sword fighting and swashbuckling. My character is also something of a misfit, and I think I have an affinity for such roles."

In Chariots he was cast as a Jew fighting for acceptance in Christian Cambridge.

Amy Irving, an American, was even more an outsider playing an Indian princess, despite the help of makeup-darkened skin and exotically penciled eyes. There were some complaints from Indian sources, but the exigencies of filming the $12 million production on the desolate plains near Jaipur, with 1,000 extras and 20 elephants, took precedence.

The Indian government even allowed the depiction of an outlawed rite in which a woman throws herself on her husband's funeral pyre.

The cast, which includes Omar Sharif, John Gielgud and Christopher Lee, had to endure the heat and snakes on the set. Unlike the usual Hollywood production, the only sacred cows were the real ones.

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V Of the leading characters in The Four Seasons, only Jack Weston (as the neurotic dentist) is re-creating his role in the CBS sitcom based on the hit 1981 movie. But don't despair. The film's star, Alan Alda (here having his teeth examined

by Weston), will be seen in at least the first episode of the series, debuting in January, so there is life after M*A *S*H. Then Alda will move behind the camera as co-executive producer and co-writer of the series. Says Weston, "Alan has a bead on the relationships of middle-aged couples." Other actors on the show include Tony [Annie Hall) Roberts and Barbara (Hill Street Blues) Babcock.

Alda's real-life daughters, Elizabeth, 23, and Beatrice, 22, who did bits in the film, will have bigger roles on the tube playing aspiring TV writers.

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> There will be a real expert reporting the Olympics for ABC this year. Joining longtime commentator Jim McKay at both the Winter and Summer Games is Donna de Varona, 36, the Gold Medalist in the 400-meter individual medley and a member of the 400-meter freestyle relay team during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

"If people see Jim as Mr. Olympics, maybe they'll see me as Miss Olympics," says de Varona. Adding color commentary on their specific sports from Sarajevo, Yugoslavia this February are five-time Gold Medalist speed skater Eric Heiden and Mike Eruzione, captain of the winning U.S. hockey team in 1980. After L.A., Donna will be toiling as sports assistant to ABC President Roone Arledge.

V In 1979, when Roots coproducers Stan Margulies and David Wolper began a miniseries on American Indians, based on the novel Hanta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill, it seemed like the logical next step. But Indian groups protested the book's "stereotypes." This spring, after Native Americans advised on the script

about the Oglala Lakota tribe in the South Dakota plains, the five-hour miniseries premieres on ABC as The Mystic Warrior. "The new title reflects the emphasis on the religious life of the Indians," says Margulies. Robert {Eating Raoul) Beltran, confronting the mystical white buffalo, below, is one of the many Indian actors in the cast.

A Princess Daisy meets The Group. That's pretty close to a description of Lace, the ABC miniseries based on Shirley Conran's 1982 best-seller about a sex symbol's search for her unknown mother. The daughter, Phoebe (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) Cates, is inadvertently helped by a rich matron, played by Angela (Mame) Lansbury, with Cates,

above. Here's the twist: The mother is one of three finishing-school students: Bess {Jaws 3-D) Armstrong, Brooke (The Dead Zone) Adams and Arielle (Pauline at the Beach) Dombasle.

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I t may be remembered as the Boxer Rebellion of 1983-84. Not satisfied with raiding trousers and shirts from men's closets, women have moved into their drawers. In other words, ladies are— egad—wearing men's underwear.

Calvin Klein and Jockey International are the pioneers of lockerroom lingerie. Jockey, a giant in the men's field, was the first to cross the great divide. Its Jockey for Her line of lace-free panties and unadorned camisoles of 100 percent cotton is now selling in more than 200 department stores across the country. Klein's underwear is more overtly masculine. The collection, with matching tops, includes scanty briefs that look suspiciously like jock straps, thigh-high bikinis and boxer shorts with a fly. The bottoms have you-know-whose name spelled out on elastic waistbands as broad as the boys'.

Both Jockey and Klein have launched strong ad campaigns. Jockey, convinced it's riding a winner, has already spent more than $3 million on its Look Who's Wearing Jockey Now promotion. Klein's campaign, predictably provocative, has raised the wrath of feminists. It features a model, lying, eyes closed, on her back, wearing briefs and an undershirt pushed up to reveal her right breast. "It's sexist advertising," says Florence Rush of Women Against Pornography. Sexist it may be, but Klein, who expects sales to reach $20 million by the end of 1984, isn't changing a thing. "I'm not looking to provoke people," the designer has said. "I'm not trying to sell sex. But there's sex in everything."

Meanwhile, Fernando Sanchez, a leading lingerie designer, has a role reversal of his own in mind. Sanchez's spring collection includes satin tank tops and silk mesh bikinis—for the boys, natch. • In an L.A. health club, steamy models show off the latest barrier-busting tops and bottoms ($4-$ 13) from Jockey and Calvin Klein.

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TRENDS THE HIGH-TECH TEENS OF COMPUTERS ARE HACKING OUT A BRAVE—AND, FRANKLY, BORING—NEW WORLD I he children of the microchip age are growing up. They're teenagers now, sprouting new bodies, beards and bravado, as teens always have. But these kids are different, truly different.

Why? Because they have computers.

The rebels among them—the ones we used to call class clowns, greasers or punks—are hackers today. Hackers delight in breaking into other people's computers over telephone wires, and this year they did a lot of it, making

headlines for snooping in the machines at the Los Alamos nuclear lab, the secretive Rand Corp., the Security Pacific National Bank in L.A. and more. One 19-year-old college student poked his nose into 14 computers through a U.S. Department of Defense network, allegedly doing $200,000 worth of damage before he was arrested last month.

The news made it all sound vaguely exciting, the stuff of which screenplays are made (namely, the movie War-

Games and the TV series Whiz Kids).

But if you think all this is exciting, think again. Hacking is about as adrenaline-producing as balancing a checkbook. These kids were not called nerds for nothing. To break into computers, hackers have to spend hours on telephone lines tediously typing in arcane numbers and letters—codes like "C40810" and passwords like "TESTTEST"—as the big machines blink back statements such as "ILLEGAL CONTINUED

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ADDRESS" and "UNRECOGNIZED HOST." This is their idea of fun?

This is a very dull generation.

These crazed kids of the computer era aren't playing stickball, going on panty raids or marching against wars, the things that used to be fun. They're noodling with their computers, alone, at all hours, staring at TV screens that have no sex or violence.

Not all of the microkids are mischievous hackers, nor are all geniuses. But many are addicted to computers.

There is something magical and alluring about these machines; they do what you tell them to, they challenge you and they can be fascinating. No, they do not seem human—though they do seem smarter than a dog. The idea that a computer could replace a pooch as a boy's best friend is frightening.

Still, it's better that kids are addicted to computers than to drugs.

So what kind of kids are computers raising? And what will the future be like in their hands? Different, in many ways, good and bad, trivial and profound.

For instance: • Computers are logical and consistent. If they don't work, there's always a solution, whether it's complicated or simple. Example: If the computer doesn't print, it may be because you told it to "PFINT"; you'll have to find the typo and you will, if you look hard enough. That's what makes playing with these machines so rewarding: They tell you whether you're right or wrong and, in the end, you're always right. If computers make kids more logical and persistent, so much the better.

The problem is that the world is not such a logical and rational place; anybody in politics or in corporations or in love can tell you that. And you only have to look to Beirut to know that there are not always easy solutions. So the kid who sits inside with his machine is not learning the shadings and subtleties of the world outside.

• Communing with a computer is, like reading in the bathroom, best done alone. A computer addict has little time for people, doesn't get outside much and never gets a good tan.

Computer kids aren't necessarily lonely, though, for they have their machines to play with. These kids may be boring, but they're rarely bored.

• You can make friends—human ones—through a computer, hooking your machine into a nationwide network of machines. To meet people this CONTINUED

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TRENDS way, you type messages back and forth, so you can't see whether your new friend is black or white, pretty or ugly, young or old. Maybe that's for the best. It's harder to discriminate on the computer.

So far, it's mainly men who are involved in computers—more than 90 percent of the members of CompuServe, a computer information network, are male. Still, love bridges all things, even computers. Through CompuServe, a half-dozen couples have met and courted. Some even got married.

• On similar computer networks, you can, today, check the stock market, make airline reservations, order color TV sets, even pay bills. So the computer kids will be deprived of telling one of the world's great lies: "The check's in the mail." They'll have a

new one: "My computer was down."

• Computers, we already know, can make it possible to work at home. That could be more than just convenient. It could change life in America. If workers are freed of time-consuming meetings and long lunches, the economy (if not two-martini restaurants) could boom. And by keeping these kids home—something preachers have been trying to do for years—computers could strengthen the American family.

• Computers demand precision, but that doesn't mean they stunt imagination; you'll find plenty of it in the computer games these kids invent and play. And the computer as a tool can unleash creativity by reducing tedium for writers, designers and artists; a poet, for instance, can change "June" to " m o o n " to "croon" to his heart's

content, without ever having to retype his work.

• But some basic skills are falling by the wayside: long division, multiplication and spelling, to name a vital few.

Computers do those things for you.

• You at least have to know how to type to use a computer. But that skill, too, will fall away as machines get better at listening to the spoken word.

• It's not as if kids without these skills will go without work. There's big money in computers. If The Graduate were made today, the advice whispered to Dustin Hoffman would not be "plastics"; it would be "software."

• A computer stretches time. You can get so engrossed in playing with it that you lose track of hours; a computer can keep you up later than any latenight movie. Unlike a friend or a plumber, a computer is just as happy to play with you or serve you at 2 a.m. as 2 p.m.

• A computer also shrinks time. Unlike the mails, which take days to get something to you, a computer can deliver a message in a twinkling. Because of that, computer people can be very impatient. They call a printer that spits out 35 characters per second slow. If they think that's slow, imagine how patient they'll be waiting for luggage off an airplane.

• You may discover that it's hard to understand what these high-tech teens are talking about today. But that's nothing new; teenagers have always spoken in argot. Instead of saying "far-out" or " c o o l " or "cat's meow," the kids today say "sysgen" and "bdos" and "8088." ' That's really the problem. Nowadays there's no more of a generation gap than there ever was. But there is a tech gap. Computer kids are cultists. Like an est graduate or a Moonie or a Jesus freak, they insist that you can't understand their devotion until you try it yourself.

Who are they kidding? Learn how to work a computer? Adults can't learn that—or at least some don't think they can. Computers are, as satirist songwriter Tom Lehrer once said of New Math, "so simple, so very simple that only a child can do it."

Grownups, many of them, are feeling left behind as computers creep into every corner of their lives, almost taking over the world. But it's not the computers that are taking over the world.

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