VANITY FAIR

MAY

Vol. 46, No. 3

1983

CONTENTS

VANITY FAIR NOTES 12

FANFARE

STEP RIGHT UP Moira Hodgson 37

CHEERS Roy Blount, Jr. 38

THE PROMISCUOUS SELF Walker Percy 48

THE CENSOR, THE ANGEL AND THE AX John Leonard 54

MORE LIVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS Howard Moss 58

MAILER IN EGYPT Walter Clemons 60

BOBOLINKA’S NEIGHBOR Diana Trilling 66

CUISINE DE BONNE HEURE Moira Hodgson 74

DAVID HOCKNEY’S PHOTO GRAPHICS 76

COMING TO TERMS WITH CHINA Jonathan Spence 82

THE ULTIMATE HOTEL Roy Strickland and James Sanders 86

PROFOUNDLY PRACTICAL JOKES Peter Schjeldahl 88

THE NINTH DEADLY ART Betty Comden and Adolph Green 94

GLENN GOULD: PRIVATE IN PUBLIC

THE MUSIC ITSELF Edward W. Said 96

THE FILTERED WORLD Tim Page 96

HIGH TECH AND HIGH TONE Stephen Schiff 102

THE EL WESTERN Thomas McGuane 106

THE CAT IN THE HAT Luc Sante 132

GYPSY SOUL Gary Giddins 136

FLASHBACK 1928 141

ILLUSTRATORS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS

Julian Allen, Mar tine Barrat, Glen Baxter, Philip Burke, Ray Fisher,Mick Haggerty, James Hamilton, Stephen Kelemen, Bill King, Brigitte Lacombe, Annie Leibovitz, David Levine, Helmut Newton, Alice Springs,Randy Stevens, Larry Williams

COVER ILLUSTRATION Mick Haggerty