VANITY FAIR

Volume 56 Number 10

October 1993

Special Anniversary Portfolio_

Vanity Fair Celebrates: 10 years of riot, revolution, and excess.197

Features

The Crown Julia: After a two-year silence, Julia Roberts talks it all out with Kevin Sessums. Photographs by Herb Ritts.234

Sarajevo the Besieged: Annie Leibovitz takes her camera to the epicenter of Bosnia's endless war. Text by David Rieff.242

Dominick Dunne's Courtroom Notebook: Los Angeles has been riveted by the murder trial of the Menendez brothers; Dominick Dunne is there. Photograph by Wayne Maser.252

Lend Me Two Tenors: Helmut Newton spotlights Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo as they open the Metropolitan Opera's fall season.258

Oh So Sao! Is Sao Schlumberger's over-the-top Paris apartment a triumph of design, or has the art collector gone too far? Bob Colacello gets an eyeful. Photographs by Eric Boman.260

The Flaming Fifties: A new generation of women is making 50 fabulous. Gail Sheehy explores the transformation.270

Becoming a Legend: In an excerpt from their new biography, Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins chart the rocky beginning of Alex Liberman's dazzling career. Portraits by Annie Leibovitz.274

Columns

Cultural Elite: Christopher Hitchens is awed—and terrified— by Martha Stewart's multimedia empire.80

Paper Lions: Edward Klein watches the ink run red as press lords Mort Zuckerman and Rupert Murdoch go tabloid to tabloid.90

China's Red Princes: A privileged cadre is taking control of the world's fastest-growing economy; Andrew and Leslie Cockbum investigate.108

He'll Always Have Elaine's: In 1971, literary wunderkind Willie Morris was forced into exile. Michael Shnayerson reports on Morris's comeback .130

Shadow of the Sevso Treasure: As the trial opens, David D'Arcy traces an international scheme to sell a multimillion-dollar cache of Roman silver.150

Hollywood's Last Angry Man: From M*A*S*H and Nashville to The Player, Robert Altman has been filmmaking's top iconoclast. Zoe Heller finds out what else Altman has in store.170

Vanities

Montana matrimony; Hype & Glory; Robert Burke plays cops and robots; George Wayne Czechs out Ivana; 80s versus 90s; and much more.183

Et Cetera

Editor's Letter: Party of the decade .8

Contributors.26

Letters: In the line of fire.40

Credits.315

Planetarium: Libra, scaling the heights.318

Social Study: After directing The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese gets wise . . 320