People

By Sara C. Medina

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 to do a lot of self- exploration." Bonet was not moved to any self-exploration by the news that the latest Harper's Bazaar had included her on its most beautiful list. (Among the others: Nancy Reagan, Cybill Shepherd, Priscilla Presley and Maria Shriver.) "It's definitely a nice honor," sighs Bonet, "but there are so many beautiful women in the world. I know the truth." Heathcliff Huxtable would be proud of such a level-headed reaction.