Contributors

Nancy Collins is a special correspondent for ABC's PrimeTime Live.

David D'Arcy is a New York-based correspondent for The Art Newspaper of London.

Lynn Hirschberg covers Hollywood, the media, and music for V.F. "What was surprising about Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown," she says of her profile this month, "was that they're more similar than you would ever guess. They're the Fred and Ginger of the 90s."

Christopher Hitchens, whose monthly "Cultural Elite" column debuts in this issue, is the author of Prepared for the Worst (Hill and Wang), a collection of essays, and, most recently, of Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

Garson Kanin, author of the play Born Yesterday, has just completed The Contract, a teleplay for NBC.

Edward Klein is writing a screenplay on the life of Ingrid Bergman. He frequently covers the media for V.F.

Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, formerly an editor at The New York Times, traveled to Tokyo last summer to report for V.F. on the little-known world of Japanese high society. "In Japan you always feel there is yet another wall to break through," she says of her piece this month, "but I came away with greater understanding of the country's heart." She is writing a book for W. W. Norton.

Michael Musto writes a nightlife-and-entertainment column for The Village Voice.

Helmut Newton, who has contributed to V.F. since 1983, lives in Monte Carlo. His exhibition of photographs, "Archives de Nuit," opens this month in Paris.

Maureen Orth, who lives in Washington, D.C., wrote last month's cover story on Madonna.

Ron Rosenbaum's latest book, Travels with Dr. Death and Other Unusual Investigations, is out from Viking Penguin.

Francis Wheen writes regularly for the London Independent, the Literary Review, and Private Eye. His most recent book is the biography Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions (Chatto & Windus). He is at work on a book about cats.

Firooz Zahedi will donate all of the profits from his photographs of Elizabeth Taylor, this month's cover subject, to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.