VANITY FAIR

August 1984

Contents

Volume 47 Number 8

Features

Candy’s Dynasty: Candy Spelling’s high-gloss life with husband Aaron, producer of TV’s Dynasty et al. A profile by Dominick Dunne 26

The First Mrs. Eliot: Peter Ackroyd penetrates the dark years of T. S. Eliot’s first marriage, and Michael Billington discusses the succes de scandale of Tom and Viv, a play about the unhappy couple 30

Nixon Bites Back:Vanity Fair lunches at Le Cirque and observes Richard Nixon’s table manners ten years after his fall from grace 38

Wired to God: Frank Rose goes to Santa Cruz and environs to interface with high tech’s true believers 40

Their Leading Men: Hollywood’s new heartthrobs take girls in gowns to a matinee idyll. A fashion report by Michael Roberts 46

The Scalpel’s Edge: The frontiersmen of U.S. medicine meet the descendants of the Incas. A journal by writer and surgeon Richard Selzer 56

Happy as a Clam: Mimi Sheraton’s remembrance of a perfect picnic 60

Arbus—Another Angle: Exclusive photographs from Diane Arbus’s magazine work and a cache of her letters on subjects grand and weird 62

Sly in the Saddle: Italian stallion Sylvester Stallone mounts a polo pony while reporter Rex Weiner and photographer Greg Gorman stand by 70

Walkmen: An excerpt from Don DeLillo’s upcoming novel 74

An Artist’s Nature: Duane Michals photographs Robert Motherwell’s garden 78

Impossible Interview: Tracy Young shares her couch with Sigmund Freud 84

Out to Lunch: John Heilpem meets explorer Peter Gimbel over Peking duck 112

Vanities

Sixties pop heads for Broadway... Steve Gianakos draws... Literary lions celebrate themselves... The brash Robert Brennan... Library lions entertain literary lions... Papa Hemingway’s bag... What the stars say about lions in August... Creative insults according to Taki.. .Preppies catch a new wave.. .The networks go Kraftwerk.. .Virginia Madsen takes off.. .Edith Wharton’s social sharks... Pigozzi puts his foot in his eye... Florence King’s gallery of snores...The summer of ’51...Flashback 11

Arts Fair

Helmut Newton...James Wolcott on Peter Bogdanovich’s document of excess... Look-sees around the country with Merce Cunningham, Itzhak Perlman, and Ivo Pogorelich... A stopover at Amazing Graceland...Suzanne Stephens reflects on Pittsburgh’s mirrored towers...Peter Buckley on a video game called Cat on a Hot Tin Roof... Stephen Schiff doing the Cannes-Cannes... And night-table reading with Jerzy Kosinski, Fran Lebowitz, and Milton Friedman 86