VANITY FAIR

Contents

October 1986

Volume 49 Number 10

Features

Dark Inheritance—Part One: Barbara Goldsmith's investigation of the bad blood in the Johnson & Johnson clan unearths the sins of the father, including incest 82

The Intellectual Sex Symbol: Actor Klaus Maria Brandauer is the leader of the Hollywood Bratwurst Pack. Stephen Schiff tracks him down in Salzburg 94

The Lumet Set: Young, gifted, and fun, the two gadabout daughters of Sidney Lumet. Style by Andre Leon Talley, photographs by Perry Ogden 100

The Big Stare: David Byrne is suited to be the new Cocteau, says James Wolcott, who has followed him from the sweat of CBGB 104

The Mystery of Madame X: Why John Singer Sargent's social portrait shocked Paris. A reconstruction by Gloria Vanderbilt 110

Magnificent McGovern: Elizabeth McGovern, spotlit by James Wolcott 112

Together in Carver Country: A literary love story of tragedy and renewal among the loggers. Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher, by Tom Jenks 114

Postmortem Style: P. J. O'Rourke beams up the new furniture from Europe 118

Piaggi Pizazz: The eccentricities of Karl Lagerfeld's muse, by Marian McEvoy 122

Heavy Waits: The raspy balladeer Tom Waits, spotlit by Gerald Marzorati 124

The Rescue: A heart-stopping story by Thomas McGuane, from his new collection, To Skin a Cat126

Out to Lunch: The Whitney Museum's Tom Armstrong has an art attack with Michael Shnayerson 156

Vanities

Galbraith and Schlesinger take the cake. . . The opera habit. . . Sandra Bernhard's surf 'n' turf suburbia. . . A new pair of Rockefellers. . . Embassy-hopping. . . Stretching the truth. .. Tipping the scales 25

Columns

Editor's Letter: A family and a fortune 8

Mixed Media: James Wolcott on post-feminism at the New York Times mag 60

Vintage Point: Joel L. Fleishman joins the wine-aging debate 66

The Mind's Eye: Leon Wieseltier on the rock 'em sock 'em heroes 71

Letter from Washington: Christopher Hitchens interviews "the Moses of the right," Senator Barry Goldwater 76

Flashback:Vanity Fair, December 1934. George Hoyningen-Huene photographs Carole Lombard 80

Arts Fair

To Sid with love.. .A comic chameleon.. .Michael Clark's bad-boy ballet... Aprile showers.. .Shades of Simon Gray.. .Bingo, Domingo.. .Robert Longo's revenge.. .Short Schiff picks.. .Patrick White's muse.. .Conroy's high Tides...Moore's code and Munro's doctrine... Night-table reading 131