PLAYMATE: Carol Ficatier

COVER: Barbi Benton

PICTORIALS: Barbi Benton - 12-pages; Barely There- models wearing sheer or see-through tops; $ex Stars of '85 features the likes of Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kathleen Turner, Kim Basinger, Prince, Sonia Braga, Joan Collins, Shannon Tweed, Christy Brinkley, Brigitte Neilsen and many more.

INTERVIEW: Bill Cosby

20Q: Huey Lewis

FEATURES: Extensive review and chart of th best dating bars in America; profile of Brooke Shields by O'Connell Drilcoll; fiction A Christmas Fantasyby Paul Theroux, Hitch Your Spaceship to a Star by Donald E. Westlake; sports by Dan Jenkins; article: Quarterly Reports: Read the Prospectus by Andrew Tobias; humorous feature on Late Night with David Letterman; essay by D. Keith Mano, Sexual Passages

PAGES: 292