15 WHO HAD THEIR 15 MINUTES

By CONTRIBUTORS GINIA BELLAFANTE, RICHARD CORLISS, CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY, PAUL GRAY, BELINDA LUSCOMBE, JOSHUA QUITTNER, RICHARD SCHICKEL, MICHAEL WALSH, STEVE WULF, RICHARD ZOGLIN

ELLEN FEIN AND SHERRIE SCHNEIDER The Rules--aren't single folks wretched enough?

DOMINIQUE MOCEANU At 14, she has one autobiography but no individual Olympic medals

FILI HOUTEMAN How could a daughter of Grace Kelly be cuckolded by a stripper?

IZZY Olympics are over, so he has gone back to wherever it is whatever he is goes

PAT CHOATE Agreed to be Perot's No. 2 even after James ("Why Am I Here?") Stockdale

LOS DEL RIO After years of songs for homesick Spaniards, they do the Macarena

PHYLLIS MACEY She got some attention this year--apparently a first for the first Mrs. Dole

SHERRY ROWLANDS Luckily for Dick Morris, toes can't talk. Unluckily, she could

ANDREW GOLOTA His riot-causing low blows to Riddick Bowe shamed even boxers

RICHARD JEWELL Not a bomber, it turned out--just a bummer for the FBI and NBC

PAIGE GOODMAN She sued to be sole valedictorian. Now there's a serious student

MANDY ALLWOOD She tried to bear a full set of octuplets, paid for by an English tabloid

JEAN HOUSTON She helped Hillary "talk" to Eleanor R. so she could "write" her "book"

JOHNATHAN PREVETTE Kissed a girl and made the teachers cry "Sexual harassment!"

BINTI-JUA Although cradling her own baby at the time, she rescued a junior member of another species (ours) who fell into her cage. Maybe more humans should ape her