VANITY FAIR

August 1986

Contents

Volume 49

Number 8

Features

Imelda in Exile: Dominick Dunne's exclusive Vanity Fair interview with the dragon lady in Honolulu 52

Jumping Jack: As Jack Nicholson goes over the top in Heartburn, Stephen Schiff interviews the rogue actor about his contradictory technique 60

Chez Lartigue: The celebrated French photographer's world of flowers, sunshine, and beautiful women, visited by Joan Juliet Buck 66

Hot Shoulders: France's new siren, Beatrice Dalle, lounges strapless on the Riviera. Style by Andre Leon Talley, photographs by Helmut Newton 74

In Pursuit of Lolita: Gregor von Rezzori's odyssey in search of Nabokov's libidinous nymphet. Photographs by Wim Wenders 78

Inside Dr. Ruth: What makes shrimpy Dr. Ruth Westheimer the First Lady of sex talk? P. J. O'Rourke has some theories 88

The Eternally Fashionable Cecil Beaton: From dressing up at Cambridge to dating Garbo, Beaton preserved his mercurial world. A re-evaluation by John Richardson 92

The Caine Matinee: Able Michael Caine's rise from Cockney lad to the Squire of Hollywood. By Ian Jack 98

Out to Lunch: Designer Jackie Rogers dishes over arugula with Peter Buckley 120

Vanities

Princess Caroline speeds up. . . Hiding out at home. . . Beach reading from Eric Fischl. . .Speckled Peck. . .Brothers in the saddle. . .Publishing's Eden. . .Viennese charmers. . .Leonine lives. . .Lacey Neuhaus's tale of two senators. . .Stretch out in the backseat. . .Zubin Mehta's $6 billion table. . . Party page 19

Columns

Editor's Letter: August personages 8

Mixed Media: James Wolcott keeps Rolling the Stones 42

The Mind's Eye: Leon Wieseltier on automatic writing 44

Letter from Salzburg: Alexis Gregory wants better music, maestri, please 46

Vintage Point: Joel L. Fleishman judges jug wines 48

Flashback:Vanity Fair, March 1935. Myma Loy, Queen of the Movies 50

Arts Fair

Summer reading: Sally Quinn goes under covers in Washington with Regrets Only. . . Ken Kesey comes back to earth with Demon Box. . . Dorothy Herrmann looks beyond the myth in S. J. Perelman: A Life. . . Hot type with Simone Signoret, Mary Hood, and Jerry Shields. . . Night-table reading 102