VANITY FAIR

October

CONTENTS

AROUND THE FAIR Judith Martin, Moira Hodgson, Jon Pareles, Bobbie Ann Mason, Michael Lutin, and Ubiquitous let fly 12

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 37

WHEN MEMORY GOES Klaus Barbie: the serpent returns to the bosom of France Francine du Plessix Gray 38

VANITY FAIR NOMINATES Our candidates for fame or infamy 54

CRYING WOLFE The Wolfe in the drawer: the discovery of a lost and last poem Charles Scribner III 60

LOVE OF MANET The flood of the modern: asparagus and a long amour Peter Schjeldahl 62

DIE GRUNEN Germany's Greens get ready for the "hot autumn" Ronald Steel 70

STILL LIVES Jane Russell, Lassie, and other bombshells, from Marvin Heiferman and Diane Keaton Carol Squiers 74

A PASSION OF POETS 82

To PLEASE A SHADOW In memory of. ..W.H. Auden Joseph Brodsky 83

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ARDOR In praise of... poet's prose Susan Sontag 90

IN THE WORKS: ALICE IN WONDERLAND Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! 92

AT THE TOP: LILLIAN GISH AND JEANNE MOREAU An unexpected celebration 94

THE '80S GENERATION Movie stars of tomorrow: second bananas, sleepers, beautiful losers Stephen Schiff 96

AT THE TOP: GEORGE SHULTZ The lights are on but nobody's home Ronald Steel 101

CLOUK: FOUR UNEXPECTED STORIES The first of Cheri Colette 102

AT THE TOP: GERARD DEPARDIEU A French kiss for the roughneck 110

THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE PITCHER Baseball's sweet science is pitcher perfect Charles N ewman 112

GOING OUT IN ... Anchorage mornings, Stockholm nights, and Tuscan afternoons 124

THUMBS UP, THUMBS DOWN Distant early warnings 132

FLASHBACK: THE MAN ABOUT TOWN Stags at bay in the forests of Vanity Fair 141

Photographers and Illustrators

Philip Burke, Langdon Clay, Louise Dahl Wolfe, Frangois Halard, Wolfgang Hoyt, Bill King, Duane Michals, Dominique Nabokov, Denis Piel, Ken Probst, Neil Selkirk, Alex Webb

COVER Susan Sontag by Irving Penn