VANITY FAIR

Volume 57 Number 6

June 1994

Features

Tom Terrific: Tom Hanks earned an Oscar for Philadelphia and may contend for another as the star of this summer's Forrest Gump. As he flexes his new leading-man muscle, Hanks tells Kevin Sessums what it's like to be big. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz. . 98

Pinning Down Hillary: In a candid interview with Leslie Bennetts, Mrs. Clinton addresses the Whitewater whispers, her health-care clout, and her relationship with the media. Illustration by Robert Risko. 104

GrandMedee: Pascal Chevallier spotlights the go-for-Baroque spectacle of William Christie's opera ensemble. 110

Wild Bill Koch: Black sheep of a wealthy, warring oil family, William Koch has the America's Cup and some big ambitions. Bryan Burrough watches him make waves. Photographs by Harry Benson. 114

Young Glory: Kennedy, MTV's alternative-rock V.J. and resident Republican, vents to Lloyd Grove and poses for Kate Garner 122

Slobo and Dr. Mira: In Belgrade, Bella Stumbo meets with President Slobodan Milosevic and his mysterious and powerful wife, Mira, and gets a picture of a city brimming with black-market millionaires and swaggering warriors. 126

Haute Coco: Forty years after she was reviled by Paris couture circles as a Nazi collaborator, Coco Chanel remains the pre-eminent fashion icon of the century. Amy Fine Collins recounts her rise, fall, and remarkable comeback. 132

Columns

California Dreamin': Gail Sheehy goes west, where Kathleen Brown is in the thick of California's gubernatorial race, running in the name of her father. 38

Live Mike: Joan Juliet Buck Finds director Mike Nichols once again quickening the sexual pulse of America, with his new movie, Wolf. 70

Vanities

Julie Delpy goesWhite; Hype & Glory—Julie Burchill on Steinem's wandering I; Versace's good book; Eames revival; V.F. in Hollywood—O starry night!; Viscount Linley's craft. 85

Et Cetera

Editor s Letter: Women on the verge. 8

Contributors. 20

Letters: Beasty boy. 32

Credits. 166

Flashback: George Cukor. 168

Planetarium: See you on the dark side of the moon, Gemini. . . . 172

Social Study: Vendela writes a (super)model Proust Questionnaire 174