VANITY FAIR

Contents

July 1985

Volume 48 Number 7

Features

The Blooming of Jeane Kirkpatrick: The former U.N. ambassador talks frankly to Marie Brenner about the personal and political pressures of being in the public eye, her friction with George Shultz, and her new life 30

Art & Exhibitionism: Painter Julian Schnabel lets down his guard for photographer Helmut Newton, and a surprising new image emerges. Text by Pepe Karmel 36

The Night They Stared into the Gazpacho: Marcelle Clements gives some pointers on how to stop a dinner party cold 40

Desperately Seeking Stephanie: When Monaco's problematic princess made plans to model in New York, everybody booked her, but only Vanity Fair got her. John Duka reports on the face that launched a thousand no-show slips 42

The Connecticut Axis: Roth, Miller, Styron—they're all part of the straw-hat circuit of down-home intellectuals. James Atlas offers a view from the farm 46

Striver's Row: David Halberstam follows the wake of amateur rower John Biglow in his race for an Olympic medal 50

Jelly Rolling: The great jazz innovator Ferdinand "Jelly Roll'' Morton is long gone, but George Melly notes that his music is everlasting 54

Dagny's Vineyard: Bob Colacello finds that in one special hideaway on Martha's Vineyard dishabille is chic 58

Faces of Marguerite Duras: Michel Toumier in praise of a reborn literary lioness 64

Sontag on Mapplethorpe: Susan Sontag, authority—and subject—focuses on the startling portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe 68

A Lesson in Traveling Light: New fiction by a new talent, Deborah Eisenberg 74

Out to Lunch: Wolfgang Puck dishes the berries with Stephen Schiff 100

Columns

Mixed Media: James Wolcott corrals Clint Eastwood 10

The Mind's Eye: Tristan Vox centers on Frank Sinatra 13

Vintage Point: Joel L. Fleishman gets soaked by restaurant wine lists 15

Vanities

Race to the Hamptons. . . Dominick Dunne's Truman Capote impression. . . Interesting developments in D.C.. . .Uncle Sam lam.. .Philip Johnson's coffee table. . .Cancer: claws too. . .Table talk. . .Great Danes. . .Flashback to Amelia Earhart 17

Arts Fair

Festival: L.A. looks to the future. . .Spotlight: No more "Art on the Beach''. . .Theater: Charles Ludlam's baroque bedlam. . .Television: The Kramden honeymoon isn't over. . .Visual art: Dedicated dealing in a changing neighborhood. . .Movies: Cocoon's life-force. . .Spotlight: Levine's designs. . . Books: NailingCarpenter's Gothic. . .More hot type. . .Night-table reading 80

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