PLAYMATE: Petra Verkaik

COVER: Candice Bergen

PICTORIALS: Sex Stars of 1989 including Kim Basinger, Cher, Andie McDowell, Uma Thurman, Shannon Tweed, Erika Eleniak, Madonna, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kimberly Conrad Hefner, LaToya Jackson and others; Lethal Women pictorial of the ladies of wrestling including Luscious Lisa, Magnificent Mimi, Godiva (Dawn Rice), Thinderbolt (Dana Felton), Farmer's Daughter (Trudy Adams), Coal Miner's Daughter (Donna Spangler); Pictorial of Jack Nicholson's ex-lover Karen Mayo-Chandler with an expose of some of Jack's tricks.

INTERVIEW: Candice Bergen

20Q: Patti D'Arbanville

FEATURES: profile of Arsenio Hall; "The Killing Man", a Mike Hammer story by Mickey Spillane; Humor by Dave Barry; fiction by Joyce Carol Oates; opinion by David Mamet.

PAGES: 242