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Observes news of the week on motherhood. Julia Roberts denied reports that she and Lyle Lovett were expecting; Vanna White confirms her pregnancy; Settlement of a suit by `Diff'rent Strokes' star Gary Coleman against his parents, W.G. and Edmonia Sue Coleman; The seminar `Recovering from Dysfunctional Families' to be hosted by Patti Davis; Fugitive Katherine Ann Power's therapist Linda Carroll; Details.

Looks behind all the titillation as uncovered cover girls are popping up everywhere--not just on Playboy. Women who have appeared topless in noncheesecake magazines this year; Comment by `Entertainment Weekly' editor James Seymore.

Pictures newlyweds Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett with Lovett clan at their June 27, 1993 wedding in Marion, Indiana. Details.

Pictures members of the Canadian semipro Richmond Hill Kick soccer team in a photo for an Adidas advertisement that was iced from the new Canadian edition of `Sports Illustrated.'

Recounts the special New York television concert, `Duets,' featuring Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, Elton John, P.M. Dawn, Rod Stewart, Bonnie Raitt, Gloria Estefan, Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro for the benefit of Gay Men's Health Crisis. During a vigorous rendition of `This Old Heart of Mine' Aretha came dangerously close to overflowing her low-cut beaded bustier.

Reports that Monica Seles, the world's top ranked women's tennis player, was stabbed in the back between games at the Citizen Cup tournament in Hamburg last week by a deranged spectator who lunged out of the stands and plunged a nine-inch knife in her back. Seles will recover and will probably return to her game sometime after the French Open. Her German attacker wanted Steffi Graf to become No. 1 again.

Announces Prince is retiring from recording to explore less conventional approaches to music. He plans to release CD's from his backlog of 500 unreleased musical tracks and pursue work in the theater, movies, interactive media, and his chain of nightclubs.

States that `Hustler' publisher Larry Flynt was planning to feature the wholesome Kathie Lee Gifford, five months pregnant, on the cover of his third issue of `Maternity Fashion & Beauty.' Gifford, unaware of Flynt's role when she signed on, is squirming to get out of the deal. Her comments on publisher Flynt.

Says that during the filming of `The Firm,' in which actress Karina Lombard plays a beach-blanket siren who seduces Tom Cruise, Cruise's wife, Nicole Kidman, flew to location with Lombard and `was on the set the whole time, watching, watching, watching.' Comments on Lombard's `Wide Sargasso Sea,' with Nathaniel Parker.

Pictures Don Calhoun, 23, who was picked to take a three-quarters court shot for $1 million during a Chicago Bulls game last week. In a promo stunt for Coke and a restaurant chain, Calhoun shot nothing but net. He plans to use the cash for college.

Discusses Johnny Depp's role in `Benny & Joon,' the story of a schizophrenic painter and her brother who are seduced by Depp, playing a quasi-autistic boy.

Discusses the rise to stardom of Tracy Lawrence, 25, after he caught four bullets while playing human shield to protect a friend from a holdup. Recovered enough to record second album, `Alibis'; True to country's new sobriety.

Pictures Marla Maples and Brigitte Nielsen, two recent celebrity women who have discovered the PR pregnancy. Marla owes her condition to Donald Trump; Nielsen's to race-car driver Raul Mayer Ortolani; More.

Discusses the lack of baseball players endorsing products. Of more than 600 major-league players there is only one with a national endorsement contract for a product other than sporting gear, Nolan Ryan for Advil pain reliever. Baseball in a charisma slump; Baseball's increasingly tenuous hold on popular imagination; More.

Reports that Jonathan Demme directed `Philadelphia,' due in the fall. Starring Tom Hanks as a gay lawyer fired from his law firm for having AIDS.

Reports that Sting, the self-righteous singer and rain-forest commando, is acquiring a sense of humor. New album `Ten Summoner's Tales'; Touring with the Grateful Dead.

Reports that spritely Olympic figure-skating champ Kristi Yamaguchi has decided to eschew more gold medals for just plain more gold. Will turn her triple jumps for `Discover Card Stars on Ice'; Won't compete in next February's Winter Games.

Discusses the child custody battle between Mia Farrow and Woody Allen. How they portrayed each other in court; Help needed for kids.

Reports that this year, Canada's principal export to the United States is Snow, a white reggae singer whose bubbly hit single `Informer' has topped American pop charts for three weeks. Snow, ne Darren O'Brien, 23, grew up in Toronto's housing projects. Jail time served.

Reports that last week, after five years and two kids, millionaire comedian Eddie Murphy and model Nicole Mitchell exchanged rings amid a sea of glittering celebrities, disco lights and satin bunting at New York's Plaza hotel. Who the guests were; James Brown crashed the party in the swankiest limo.

States that last week Barbara Walters interviewed pathologist Jack Kevorkian, otherwise known as Dr. Death. Helped 15 seriously ill people take their own lives; Walters tried on the mask his patients use to euthanize themselves; This was deleted from the broadcast; Picture of her with the mask on is featured.

Discusses the new release `Rob & Fab,' by Fabrice Morvan and Robert Pilatus, otherwise known as Milli Vanilli. Past lip-syncers; Want to prove that they really can sing.

Offers a look at the lawsuit in progress between Main Line and actress Kim Bassinger. Her oral agreement for the movie `Boxing Helena'; Claims she backed off on her oral agreement because of too much nudity; Details.

Describes some of the recent film projects involving actress Barbara Hershey. Details of her recent marriage to painter Stephen Douglas; Overview of some of the roles she has assumed; Discussion of her performance in the motion picture `The Public Eye.'

Reports that more than 100,000 eavesdroppers paid a premium last week to listen to a taped phone conversation that Britain's tabloids insist is between Princess Diana and a suitor named `James.' Speculation about when the alleged phone conversation took place.

Describes the wedding ceremony which united British rock performer Sting and actress Trudie Styler. Setting in the ninth-century church of St. Andrew's in rural Wiltshire, England; Clothing worn by the bride and groom; How the couple rode to the reception on a white horse.