Vanity Fair 1992 - Abstracts

Vanity Fair 1992
TitleSubjectAuthors
A cool Mellon. (Paul Mellon's biography 'Reflections in a Silver Spoon: A Memoir')General interestMartin Filler
Air Elvis: guzzling " cinnamon decaf," playing Seat-O, and orange bowling on Bill Clinton's plane. (anecdotes from the campaign airplane of Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton)General interestBen Train
A marriage in trouble. (damage to the Louvre painting "Marriage at Cana")General interestThomas Hoving
A new Jay dawning. (author Jay McInerney)General interestMichael Shnayerson
Ann Humphry's final exit. (suicide of Derek Humphry's second wife)General interestCal McCrystal
Basquiat case. (debate over the worth of the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat)General interestDavid D'Arcy
B.C.C.I.'s deadly secrets. (Bank of Credit and Commerce International money-laundering scandal)General interestAlan Friedman
Bill Evans's twilight zone. (demise of advertising's Clio Awards)General interestTrip Gabriel
Binoche, by gosh! (actress Juliette Binoche)General interestJulie Kavanagh, Nick Briggs
Biosphere and loathing: an investigation into the bad rap on Ed Bass's strange obsession - is Biosphere 2 for real, or a brave new boondoggle? (flaws and failures of his self-sustaining human environment project)General interestL. Ron Hubbard
Blood on the Charles. (continuing conflicts between traditionalists and radicals at Harvard Law School)General interestPeter Collier
Candy can. (actress Candice Bergen) (Cover Story)General interestRoger Rosenblatt
Carrie knows best: L.A.'s latest diet diva has stars and moguls brown-bagging it to Le Dome. (dietician to the stars Carrie Latt Wiatt)General interestDan Greenburg
Catch Fraser. (motion picture actor Brendan Fraser)General interestKiki Mason
Check (ani)mated! (Walt Disney's new animated film' Aladdin')General interestHenry Alford
Chronicle of a death foretold. (murder of journalist Manuel de Dios Unanue)General interestAndrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn
Cool as ice. (former ice skating champion Katarina Witt)General interestMichael Caruso
Dame Sybil Thorndike. (British actress) (Flashback: Vanity Fair, October, 1934) (Illustration)General interestCecil Walter Hardy Beaton
Death in the fast lane. (excerpt from biography about the murder of poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini)General interestBarth David Schwartz
Demi's body language. (actress Demi Moore)General interestAnnie Leibovitz, Jennet Conant
Desperately seeking Susan: journalist Susan Crosland left Baltimore to take British politics and society by storm. (new novel by the widow of Anthony Crosland, 'Dangerous Games')General interestAuberon Waugh
Dull poets society. (London, England's Garrick Club refuses to admit women members)General interestCraig Brown
Earl and Lyndon: an imaginary conversation. (Earl Warren; Lyndon Johnson)General interestNorman Mailer
Earth angel. (the late actress Marlene Dietrich) ('extract' from forthcoming biography)General interestSteven Bach
Elsa Maxwell. (society hostess and party reveler) (Flashback: Vanity Fair, May 1934) (Illustration)General interestCecil Walter Hardy Beaton
Exit Prospero. (death of movie director Tony Richardson)General interestKathleen Tynan
Expatriate games. (author James Hamilton-Paterson)General interestLuke Jennings
Eyre apparent. (head of Britain's Royal National Theatre, Richard Eyre)General interestJulie Kavanaugh
Falling in love again. (new book about the late actress Marlene Dietrich)General interestGarson Kanin
Footfalls in the crypt. (reaction to Oliver Stone's movie 'JFK')General interestNorman Mailer
Gertrude Lawrence. (Flashback: 'Vanity Fair', September, 1929) (Illustration)General interest 
Ginzan poses: kissing air and exchanging business cards with Tokyo's elite, a closed, Society-within-a-closed-society.General interestLuisita Lopez Torregrosa
God save the Queen! (the enduring success of Queen Elizabeth II's reign over the United Kingdom)General interestRobert K. Massie
Happy Jack. (motion picture actor Jack Nicholson) (Cover Story)General interestNancy Collins
Hello, Emmylou. (country singer Emmylou Harris)General interestJohn Richardson
High notes. (six new opera singers for the Metropolitan Opera's 1992-93 season) (Illustration)General interestRupert Christiansen, Firooz Zahedi
Hot type: a V.F. pick of spring books. (brief recommendations)General interest 
How Nixon came in from the cold. (the revitalization of former President Richard Nixon's political career)General interestMichael R. Beschloss
How they broke the bank. (Bank of Credit and Commerce International money laundering scandal investigation)General interestMarie Brenner
Inauguration Day. (satiric illustration of the end of Herbert Hoover's administration) (Flashback: Vanity Fair, March, 1933) (Illustration)General interestCovarrubias
Jesse Owens. (Olympic champion) (Flashback: Vanity Fair, September, 1935) (Illustration)General interestNelson
John Barrymore. (stage actor) (Flashback: Vanity Fair, August, 1925) (Illustration)General interestAbbe
Just call him Steve. (Time Warner Inc. chairman Steve Ross)General interestRichard M. Clurman
Keith rolls on. (rock musician Keith Richards)General interestBrian Appleyard
Kissinger's web. (Walter Isaacson's new book about Henry Kissinger)General interestWalter Isaacson
Kostiff living. (nightclub owner Gerlinda Kostiff) (Illustration)General interestTyler Brule
Kramer vs Kramer. (ACT-UP founder and author Larry Kramer)General interestMichael Shnayerson
Lithe spirit. (ballerina Darcey Bussell) (Illustration)General interestJulie Kavanagh
Liz's AIDS odyssey. (actress Elizabeth Taylor's work for AIDS disease research, education and services) (Interview) (Cover Story)General interestNancy Collins
Madonna in wonderland. (rock singer's new book 'Sex') (Cover Story)General interestMaureen Orth, Steven Meisel
Magnificent obsession. (demise of real estate giant Olympia and York)General interestAnthony Bianco
Marital whoas: a tart tale of English couples stirs talk of a new Jane Austen. (British novelist Angela Huth)General interestKathleen Tynan
Me Tarzan. You Lane. (motion picture actors Diane Lane and Christopher Lambert)General interestBruce Handy
Miss Juliette. (motion picture actress Juliette Lewis)General interestJim Rasenberger
Moll of Kintyre. (photographer Linda McCartney)General interestZoe Heller
Mr. Roberts goes to Washington. (film, 'Bob Roberts')General interestChristopher Buckley
Musee muse. (Katell le Bourhis, new director of Musee des Arts de la Mode, Paris, France)General interestJean Nathan
Nina Totenberg: queen of the leaks. (journalist)General interestAnn Louise Bardach
Not necessarily the news. (Gordon Sauter, new president of Fox News)General interestTad Friend
On the trail of Medellin's drug lord. (Pablo Escobar Gaviria)General interestAndrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn
Original Cindy. (model Cindy Crawford)General interestStephen Fried
Painted desert. (artist Susan Rothenberg moves to New Mexico)General interestMartin Filler
Pas de deux. (marriage of New York City Ballet artistic director Peter Martins to prima ballerina Darci Kistler) (Illustration)General interestAnnie Leibovitz, Larry Kaplan
Perot's final days: paranoia and second-guessing, electronic passkeys, shredders - not a recipe for a happy presidential campaign. (the demise of unannounced presidential candidate H. Ross Perot's campaign)General interestMarie Brenner
Phantoms at the opera. ('The Ghosts of Versailles') (Illustration)General interestTerrence McNally
Pola Negri. (1920s ballet dancer and actress) (Flashback: Vanity Fair, August, 1921) (Illustration)General interest 
Quayle force. (Marilyn Quayle's new novel about Cuba)General interestElise O'Shaughnessy
Radio waves. (movie producer Lauren Shuler-Donner)General interestKiki Mason
She got a kick from champagne; when the ubiquitous, frothy, and, yes, beloved Bubbles Rothermere died in August, London lost one of this century's last true eccentrics - and a Lady to boot. (Viscountess Rothermere)General interestFrancis Wheen
Sigmund Freud and Jean Harlow. (illustration by Miguel Covarrubias) (Flashback: Vanity Fair, May, 1935) (Illustration)General interest 
Single white Narcissus. (romance novel jacket cover model and "writer" Fabio) (Interview)General interestGeorge Wayne
Smart Tartt. (author Donna Tartt)General interestJames Kaplan
Spike's pique? (film director Spike Lee)General interestElvis Mitchell
Stirred not shaken: Jason Epstein on the art of mixing a perfect martini.General interestJason Epstein
Studio system. (salute to the Actors Studio)General interestJoanne Kaufman
The Annette effect. (actress Annette Bening) (Cover Story)General interestJoan Juliet Buck
The Caine scrutiny. (actor Michael Caine's autobiography)General interestLynn Barber
The emigre muse. (the late designer and socialite Tatiana Iacovleff du Plessix Liberman)General interestJoan Juliet Buck
The greatest Tori ever told. (television actress Tori Spelling) (Interview)General interestGeorge Wayne
The Hello! curse. (British magazine that caters to celebrities)General interestFrancis Wheen
The house from hell: Herb Ross and Lee Radziwill thought they'd bought a peaceable kingdom in the Hamptons; then came the horror next door. (Alice Lawrence's concrete house-building project in front of the Ross home)General interestDeborah Mitchell
The iceman goeth: now that "Nick the Knife" Nicholas has been sacked, can Jerry Levin and the ailing Steve Ross really save Time Warner? (Nicholas J. Nicholas Jr., former president and co-CEO)General interestRichard M. Clurman
The king who saved his country. (Spanish King Juan Carlos I)General interestT.D. Allman
The life of Riley. (New York Knicks basketball coach Pat Riley)General interestKen Auletta
The master's final piece: after more than two decades of warming that wing chair, Alistair Cooke says his last, lockjawed "good night." (Masterpiece Theatre host retires)General interestJohn Walsh
The new sexperts. (sexologists Mark Schwartz and Lori Galperin)General interestStephen Fried
The offbeat goes on: featuring the work of two counterculture California artists. (Robbie Conal and George Herms)General interestKyle Roderick, Richard Merkin
The rise of the desert rat. (architect Antoine Predock)General interestMiriam Horn
The secrets of Midas. (Stavros Niarchos)General interestSally Bedell Smith
The steely Helmut. (photographer Helmut Newton's 'Archives de Nuit' exhibit in Paris, France)General interestRupert Everett
The thrilla in Manila: an exclusive election-eve report on the messianic mission, and last hurrah, of Imelda Marcos. (Philippines' presidential campaign) (Interview)General interestLuisita Lopez Torregrosa
The trail of a hustler: how an international manhunt finally brought down John Hawkins, the former Studio 54 party boy who now faces trial in the U.S. for murder one.General interestAnn Louise Bardach
The verdict. (alleged rape victim, Patricia Bowman, in the William Kennedy Smith trial)General interestDominick Dunne
The Virgin king. (sale of Virgin Records by Richard Branson)General interestFred Goodman
Top of the welt, ma. (fashion designer Johnny Talbot)General interestTyler Brule
Tres Joely. (motion picture actress Joely Richardson) (Illustration)General interestMatt Wolf
Type O behavior. (new motion picture 'Dracula')General interestBruce Handy
Watergate. (photography portfolio and current activities of the famous personalities from the 1972 political scandal)General interestAnnie Leibovitz, Susan Mercandetti
We like Mike. (basketball player Michael Jordan) (Illustration)General interestMichael Caruso
What Hillary wants. (wife of presidential candidate Bill Clinton)General interestGail Sheehy
What's it all about, Gorby? (Mikhail Gorbachev)General interestDavid Remnick
Wonder Woman vs. Washington. (actress Lynda Carter)General interestLloyd Grove
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