VANITY FAIR

Volume 53 Number 9

September 1990

Features

Dead Reckoning: Why did convicted murderer Henry Lee Lucas tell the Texas Rangers he'd killed six hundred more people? And if he's innocent, why won't they admit it? Ron Rosenbaum reports; photographs by James Hamilton.190

Rocky Gets Real: Sylvester Stallone has made the fifth and final Rocky, but he's still a contender against his own superhuman image. By Kevin Sessums; photographs by Helmut Newton .198

After the Gold Rush: Donald and Ivana Trump were the perfect metaphor for the eighties boom. But is their reign really finished? Marie Brenner reports.204

Sculpting Eden: Igor Mitoraj has built his Tuscan studio in a sculptor's paradise. By Gini Alhadeff; photographs by Oberto Gili.212

Pinter's Passions: Playwright Harold Pinter is turning sixty and publishing a novel he wrote more than thirty years ago. But in England he now dominates the political stage as much as the theatrical. Stephen Schiff reports; portrait by Snowdon.218

La Dolce Domiziana: Helmut Newton spotlights Domiziana Giordano.222

Mean for Jesus: He's declared a holy war on the N.E.A., but when will Jesse Helms confront a real issue? By Peter J. Boyer.224

Dwight Lightning: Annie Leibovitz spotlights Dwight Yoakam .230

Babe: In an excerpt from her new biography, In All His Glory, Sally Bedell Smith reveals what it cost the fabulous Babe Cushing to be Mrs. William S. Paley. Photographs by Richard Avedon.232

Columns

Editor's Letter: The great pretender.8

Mixed Media: James Wolcott on starlets in search of respect.78

Metropolis: Fredric Dannen on Alexander DiLorenzo Ill, the slumlord of Happy Land. . .89

Letter from Budapest: Kati Marton on Hungary's painful return to life.124

Letter from L.A.: Jesse Kombluth on Wall Street tactics in an elite-school merger.144

Cars: Mark Ginsburg and Bob Weir take a trip in the Porsche Carrera 258

Wine: Joel L. Fleishman on wining at the supermarket.262

Planetarium: Michael Lutin on Virgo-getting.318

Et Cetera

Letters: Readers bite back.24

Fanfair: The bright stuff.165

Vanities: How now, Gurley Brown? .305

Credits... 302