People: Sep. 1, 1986

What is one of the ten most beautiful women in America doing in the middle of a Louisiana cornfield? Patience, all will be explained. Actress Lisa Bonet is best known as the spunky, spaniel-eyed daughter Denise on The Cosby Show. But this summer Bonet, 18, wanted a change of image. So she made Angel Heart, with Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro. In the movie, due for release next March, she plays a bayou-country fieldworker who has an infant son -- and incidentally is a voodoo priestess. "Not a conventional teenager," allows Bonet, who drew on her Creole roots. "I had...

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