Joni Mitchell: B ack in step, , in a dog-eat-dog wor ld ON THE COVER 152 Ballet's Mikhail Baryshnikov earns bravos from critics for White Nights-the film story of a Russian dancer's defection Cover photograph by Snowdon I Peter Schub Synd. In sets, left: Al Levine / NBC; right: ABC MAIL 6 PICKS & PANS 15 TAKEONE 57 LOOKOUT 118 STAR TRACKS 150 CHATTER 208 - PEOPL EW EE KLY (ISSN 0093-7673) , publish ed week - ly, except two issues combined in one at year-end and occasional special issues, $ 51 - 50 per year U .S and $ 91 per year Canada only, by Time I nc ., 10880 Wilshire Bl vd ., L os Angeles, Calif. 90024 - 4193. Time Inc. principal off ice: Rockefeller Center, N ew Yo r k, N.Y. 100 20- 1393. J. Richard Munr o, President; U.L Uebe lh oer, Treasurer; William M. Guttman, Secre- tar y. Second-c lass postage pa id at Los Angeles, Calif. and at additional mailing off ices. Au t horizeqas second-class mail by the Post Off i ce Dept., Ottawa, Canada an d for payment of postage in cash POST MAS TER: Send address changes to PEOP LE W EEK LY , T ime & Life Building, 541 N. Fairbanks Court, Chicago, Il l. 60611-3333. © 1985 Time Inc. A ll rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is pro- hibited. P EO P CE W EEKL Y is a registered trademark of T i me Incorporated /\ /\ /\ DECEMBER 16 , 1985 VOL 24 , NO 25 93 Tracy Nelson: Holy Moses! Ozzie's grand- daughter! UPFR ONT58 o Margaret Schroeder, wife of the longest living artificial heart recipient, tells of her family's ordeal o Georgia farmer Oscar Lorick was about to be thrown off his land when a masked man galloped to the rescue o NBC sportscaster Ahmad Rashad dishes out a Thanksgiving proposal to Bill Cosby's TV wife, Phylicia Ayers-Allen o Fred Grandy, Love Boat's Gopher Smith, is jumping ship to seek a berth in Congress HER0 74 Shantelle Mccuen, a 2-year- old Coloradan, telephones for help and saves her fallen baby-sitter SCENE 79 ' Religious pilgrims converge on Bethlehem, where Mayor Elias Freij routinely performs political miracles W INNERS84 Some people's lawns have weeds: Yogi Berra's suddenly sprouted 45,000 pounds of potatoes ARTS87 Molissa Fenley goes from Nigeria to dance-world renown in one grand, athletic spring Cher: Live, stay healthy and write a million-dollar book 205 SONG93 IN HER OWN WORDS 169 Joni Mitchell, who shed her In business, says social Woodstock-era past long arbiter Letitia Baldrige, ago, ta kes on today's etiquette is where it's at politics in a new album BODY 177 PAGES 113 Skin specialist Janet Sartin Clan of the Cave Bear has a new wrinkle for au,thor Jean Auel has a wrinkles-no moisturizers mammoth best-seller BIO 181 COUPLES 121 Jim McMullen hunts the Despite false starts, the legendary Florida panther, romance of Billy Moses and not to kill it, but to prove Tracy Nelson is blossoming that it still lives ON THE MOVE 129 TRENDS 193 Unfulfilled by jet-set life, Teddy Ruxpin talks, sings the Vicomtesse Jacqueline and disappears off toy- de Ribes turns to elegant store shelves designing STAGE 194 SPIRIT 137 Mary Martin and Carol Jesuit Brother Rick Curry Channing team up in a catty says the disabled should play called (what else?) share the acting limelight Legends! MAIN STREET 143 STYLE 199 Gerald and Carol Fox Dianne Brill finds instant encounter racism in the fame as New York's Queen City of Brotherly Love of the Nightlife FOOD 147 MONEY205 Catskill duck farmers are Publishers are out shopping the first to produce elegant for big-name, big-money foie gras in America tomes by the likes of Cher, TO THE TOP 161 Elizabeth Taylor and Tina Oprah Winfrey, Chicago's Turner sassiest TV talker, tries for an acting career in · Spielberg's The Color Purple 3