VANITY FAIR

April

Contents

Volume 50

Number 4

1987

Features

Riding High—Dennis Hopper Bikes Back: Hollywood's legendary easy rider tells Ron Rosenbaum how he got himself out of the straitjacket and back into the box office. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz.......... 76

The Art of Living: Gallery owner Robert Miller lives with one wife, three children, two poodles, a parrot, and a wide-ranging collection of art. By Steven M. L. Aronson; photographs by Jerry L. Thompson............ 84

Melanie Makes Thirty: Stephen Schiff spotlights movie actress Melanie Griffith, whose body has no double.............. 90

Black Comedy: The horrifying and hilarious lives and deaths of playwright Joe Orton and his lover-murderer, Kenneth Halliwell. Extracts from Orton's unexpurgated diaries, introduced by biographer John Lahr............ 92

The Flame in Spain! Seville bedecks itself for the feria, an annual festival of flamencoing duchesses and crackling bullfighters. Text by Aline, Countess of Romanones; style by Andre Leon Talley; photographs by Snowdon............ 100

Nunn's Story: How come director Trevor Nunn of the Royal Shakespeare Company has a string of smash Broadway musicals? By Michael Billington............ 110

The Whole Robert Dole: Gail Sheehy profiles Senator Robert Dole, whose battle against war injuries has equipped him for the fray............ 112

Out to Lunch: Hal Rubenstein frets over Ann Magnuson's fiber content.............. 150

Columns

Editor's Letter: Wild cards............. 8

Letters: Readers bite back.............. 22

Mixed Media: James Wolcott pulps Jacqueline Susann.......... 26

Movies: Stephen Schiff on the Coen brothers' second feature.............. 32

Cars: Mark Ginsburg tests the Testarossa with Donald Sutherland............ 41

Book Marks: James Atlas on Bantam's hot new fiction............... 49

Travel: Alain Elkann's homage to the new Catalonia.............. 52

Flashback:Vanity Fair, November 1926. High diva Rosa Ponselle............. 74

Vanities

Nance 'n' Nan duet right.. .Society exposed. . .Moroccan nights with Regine. . .Tiffany's touch of glass. . .Flora Fraser's family affairs. . . Sally Beauman fulfills her Destiny. . .John Waters's divine calling. . .Hebe heralds Paris. . . Putting on Aries. . . Table-hopping with John Kennedy.......... 61

Arts Fair

Keeping up with James Earl Jones. . .Laura Dean's twist. . .Pop goes Lichtenstein's easel. . .On Fugard. . .A perennial Biennial curator. . .Short Schiff on Street Smart. . .Joyeux Noel Coward. . .Walter Kendrick's story of smut.. .Tanning's salon. . .Altered Tate. . .Night-table reading............ 123