Actress Kathy Bates shares her favorite books to read in O, The Oprah Magazine's Bookshelf, January 2003 issue

Chef Cary Neff of the Miraval spa in Arizona serves up the secret ingredients to a healthy, high-energy life, as seen in O, the Oprah Magazine, January 2003.

Three extraordinary actresses, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, get together with Oprah for a revelatory conversation about making movies, children, getting older, their "raging insecurity," and their transcendent film, The Hours.

When Lynn Snowden Picket was graduating from seventh grade, her husband was in diapers. But that was then, and this (life with a gorgeous, healthy, appreciative, sexually fired-up man) is now.

Actor Evan Handler was diagnosed by the hospital staff with acute leukemia - and extreme pushiness. He believes his aggressive, persistent style saved his life. Surviving, Cynthia Gorney discovers, isn't about being voted most popular patient.