VANITY FAIR

Volume 55 Number 10

October 1992

Features

Madonna in Wonderland: Madonna's newest release? Sex. It's a sealed book of her sexual fantasies, with photos by Steven Meisel. Maureen Orth sits down with the star and gingerly thumbs through it.204

His Master's Voice: Yes, it means a lot to George Bush to have Jim Baker on board. Baker, though, is anything but happy. Marjorie Williams finds out why.214

Me Tarzan. You Lane: Diane Lane and Christopher Lambert aren't in every upcoming film, but it suddenly seems that way. Photograph by Firooz Zahedi.218

The Savior of Calumet: To friends he's clever, to enemies he's a braggart. Henryk de Kwiatkowski—the mogul who now owns Calumet Farm—is a riddle, unraveled here by Bob Colacello. Photographs by Helmut Newton.220

Kramer vs. Kramer: Larry Kramer—founder of ACT UP, co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, author of The Normal Heart—delivers a new autobiographical play. Michael Shnayerson reports; photographs by Annie Leibovitz.228

This Side of Paradis: Hot French model and singer Vanessa Paradis is definitely headed this way. Photographs by Ellen von Unwerth.232

Magnificent Obsession: Toronto-based real-estate giant Olympia & York crashed spectacularly this year, toppling the mysterious Reichmann brothers in the process. Anthony Bianco sifts through the rubble.236

River Men: Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, and Tom Skerritt in the screen version of A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean's lyrical fly-fishing classic. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.242

God Save the Queen! It's not easy being Queen, but Elizabeth, after 40 years, makes it look that way. Robert K. Massie reports.244

Columns

Editor's Letter: Missed by a bullet?.8

Politics: Marie Brenner on how the end came in th Ross Perot bunker..74

Mixed Media: James Wolcott on Montana's latest real-man novelists .108

Fashion: Amy Fine Collins on Valentino's Giancarlo Giammetti.122

Feuds: Peter Collier on what murder has meant to Harvard Law School..144

Pop: Zoe Heller on Linda McCartney's look back.166

Planetarium: Michael Lutin on liberating Libras .308

Et Cetera

Letters: Readers bite back.32

Vanities: Van Sauter returns; Air Elvis; Louvre scandal; Garrick Club rules.181

Flashback: John Barrymore, August 1925.310

Credits.292