VANITY FAIR

Volume 51 Number 8

August 1988

Features

Sigourney Wild: Down in the jungle, Sigourney Weaver has left behind the special effects to portray Dian Fossey, the renowned primatologist murdered in Africa. By Jesse Kombluth; photographs by Annie Leibovitz.106

The Last Days of the Shah: While the Ayatollah held the American hostages, five governments and eight top medical teams clashed over the dying body of the deposed ruler of Iran. William Shawcross reports. 112

Dudley Has Moore Fun: Glenys Roberts, a friend from beyond Dudley Moore's fringe days, finds the actor with a new movie, a new wife, and a new contentment. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz. 126

Degas's Ladies of the Night: John Richardson explores the darker impulses of the great Impressionist Edgar Degas, subject of this fall's big show in New York. 130

The First Lady of Atlanta: Anne Cox Chambers, media empress and probably the richest woman in America, will be queen of the Democratic convention, and maybe even its kingmaker. By Lloyd Grove.136

The Naked Braga: Sonia Braga, Maja movie star. 140

Girl of My Dreams: The traumas of his first adult love. Philip Roth recalls an episode from his life as a man.142

Cannes Cancan: Helmut Newton chronicles the film-festival cabaret. 148

Columns

Editor's Letter: Death of an emperor 8

Letters: Readers bite back 16

Mixed Media: James Wolcott on Burt Reynolds and his full-circle career 32

Postscript: Jesse Kornbluth on Wall Street's revenge on an insider-trading whistle-blower 46

Art: Anthony Haden-Guest on how painter Sandro Chia was "de-accessioned" 68

Wine: Joel L. Fleishman on the best Burgundies 154

Cars: Mark Ginsburg, Belmondofils, and Peugeot's 405 Mi 16 157

Fanfair

Jane Amsterdam, Posttaste.. .Gutsy Gehry.. .The bosses daughters. . . Hat tricks with heads of class... A baby grand model. . .Joan Allen, Tuckered in. . .Screen gems in Queens.. . The Elwes brothers' druthers... Beach-blanket reading.. .Flashback: Clara Bow, 1930.91