VANITY FAIR

Volume 54 Number 12

December 1991

Features

The 1991 Hall of Fame: An Annie Leibovitz portfolio of the men and women who became the faces of the Persian Gulf War.181

La Belle Bette: Why Bette Midler, now producing her own new movie, For the Boys, always did it her way. By Kevin Sessums; photographs by Firooz Zahedi.202

Pop Eye: Mark Stevens spotlights Stuart Davis.208

Marietta Tree—Serious Money: Marie Brenner reports how Marietta Tree, New York's doyenne of diplomacy, used the good life for her good works.210

Sister Carr6: Steven Meisel spotlights Carre Otis.222

Unholy Alliances: The Catholic Church has been rocked by the rising incidence of sex abuse in the priesthood. But is it confronting, or eluding, the problem? Leslie Bennetts reports.224

Head over Heels: Ben Brantley previews Pedro Almoddvar's new movie .230

Red Star Falling: Gail Sheehy reports from Moscow on how an increasingly deluded Mikhail Gorbachev allowed himself to be trapped by the inept hard-liners behind the putsch.234

The Bold Soprano: Helmut Newton focuses on June Anderson.240

Famous Seamus: His Irish charm and verse have brought Seamus Heaney the adulation often afforded to rock stars—but very rarely to poets. By Craig Raine; photograph by David Barry.244

Something Like a Dame: Annie Leibovitz spotlights Dame Edna Everage.248

Columns

Editor's Letter: Mondo Marietta.8

Investigation: Ron Rosenbaum on the disquieting death of a journalist.80

Mixed Media: James Wolcott on the wild life and times of Sam Peckinpah.106

Books into Film: Michael Shnayerson on Peter Matthiessen's most ambitious project.... 114

Postscript: Roxane Witke on the triumphs and turmoils of Mao's infamous widow.134

Hollywood: Kevin Sessums on the rise of Columbia Pictures' Mark Canton.154

Wine: Joel L. Fleishman on holiday shopping for wine lovers.252

Planetarium: Michael Lutin on Sagittarius's blows and arrows.302

Et Cetera

Letters: Readers bite back.38

Fanfair: The bright stuff.167

Flashback: Jean Cocteau, July 1935.304

Credits.298

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