PLAYMATE: Carmen Berg

COVER: Sandy Greenberg

PICTORIALS: Beach Party - 20 pages; Meet Ellen Stohl

INTERVIEW: Wade Boggs

20Q: Garry Shandling

FEATURES: Beach Party cover & 20 page pictorial and article; article on how John Gotti got off, by Peter McCabe, The Godfather Walks; Profile of Little Richard by John Waters; fiction by Harry Turtledove, The Weather's Fineand Frederick Barthelme, Restraint; Special Report on AIDS by David Black

PAGES: 178