VANITY FAIR

Volume 54 Number 7

July 1991

Fighting Irish: Hollywood rebel Mickey Rourke has taken his act into the boxing ring—but what’s he trying to prove? Kevin Sessums reports; photographs by Annie Leibovitz 74

Proud Mary: Andrew Macpherson spotlights Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 80

Agnelli—The Rules of the Game: Can Gianni Agnelli, the uncrowned king of Italy, stay ahead of his own game? Sally Bedell Smith reports 82

Patti Dearest: What’s it really like being Nancy Reagan’s daughter? Patti Davis sounds off to Nancy Collins; photographs by Harry Benson 90

The Messiah Complex: Robert I. Friedman reports from Israel on Rabbi Moshe Levinger, the apocalyptic spiritual leader of the West Bank settlers’ movement 94

Viva Priscilla! How did Priscilla Presley become the new Colonel Parker? Kevin Sessums reports; photographs by Firooz Zahedi 100

Stein’s Way: MCA heiress Jean Stein was the ultimate Hollywood princess, but she’s long reigned over her own court in literary New York. By Guy Trebay 104

Who’s Afraid of Vanessa Redgrave? What’s behind the consuming passions of one of the world’s most electrifying actresses? Stephen Schiff reports; photograph by Annie Leibovitz 110

Features

Columns

Editor's Letter: Art and politics 8

Letter from London: Martin Filler on Lord Rothschild, England's premier taste baron . 26

Mixed Media: James Wolcott on why Jay Leno is laughing as fast as he can 48

Books: Joan Juliet Buck on the renaissance of Nina Berberova 54

Business: Leslie Bennetts on the boom and bust of publishing whiz Owen Lipstein .60

Wine: Joel L. Fleishman on the new, sharper Chardonnays 116

Planetarium: Michael Lutin on crabby Cancer 150

Et Cetera

Letters: Readers bite back 16

Fanfair: The bright stuff 67

Flashback: Maurice Chevalier, March 1934 152

Credite 145