VANITY FAIR

No 424

December 1995

Features

THE 1995 HALL OF FAME In an extraordinary 42-page portfolio, Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, David LaChapelle, and other top photographers present Vanity Fair's 1995 Hall of Fame, capturing the prime-time players of television history: Milton Berle, Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke, the casts of Dallas and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the gumshoes, the gunslingers, the moms, and more. Matthew Tymauer channel-surfs five decades.....225

THE FLOWER AND THE GLORY Robert Isabell, who makes the parties perfect for the international A-list, concocted his most extravagant magic for the wedding of the decade—the marriage of Alexandra Miller to Alexandre von Furstenberg. From the flower market to his villa, Jennet Conant shadows the florist turned impresario of choice for Bronfmans, Steinbergs, and Kennedys. Photographs by Eric Boman..........266

ON THE ROAD, AGAIN With a Beat revival at hand, and Francis Ford Coppola planning to film Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Annie Leibovitz and Joyce Johnson pay tribute to the surviving greats of a cultural revolution........272

WHEN HUBERT MET AUDREY In Sabrina, Audrey Hepburn swept the world off its feet with her elegance, her charm—and her costumes. As the man who made them, Hubert de Givenchy, steps down as the dean of couture, and Paramount releases a remake of the movie, Amy Fine Collins travels to Paris to share Givenchy's memories of his close friend and muse.........278

CASINO MAN Nigel Parry and Helen Morris spotlight director Martin Scorsese, who places his bets with Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone, the stars of his new movie, Casino........288

Columns

CULTURAL ELITE Visiting Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller in the wake of Peter Cook's death, Christopher Hitchens finds out how Beyond the Fringe's Fab Four broke the mold of satire, setting the stage for comic acts from Monty Python to Saturday Night Live...........92

THE END OF THE HUSTLE Ann Louise Bardach goes behind the bars of L.A. County prison for the inside scoop on the conclusion of the notorious Hanson-Hawkins-Boggs murder caper and the tragically mixed motives of the team that almost pulled it off............132

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FLASHBACK Fifty years after the American-born Lady Astor resigned her seat in the House of Commons, Toby Young rekindles her fiery presence......156

JET COMPULSION Private jets have become the 90s status symbol and the favorite topic of cocktail-party one-upmanship among Hollywood players and C.E.O.'s. Maureen Orth enters the world of $30 million, James Bond-inspired dream machines that make flying first-class seem, well, rather pedestrian.......158

CATCHING FISHBURNE With the steamy jungles of Apocalypse Now and the mean streets of Boyz N the Hood behind him, Laurence Fishbume takes on Shakespeare, playing Othello to Kenneth Branagh's Iago. Leslie Bennetts gets a startling glimpse of his explosive talent. Photographs by Ruven Afanador...........172

GALA FORCE Jonathan Becker spotlights the new powers behind the annual Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute ball— Anna Wintour, Clarissa Bronfman, and Annette de la Renta— as Laura Jacobs hails their couture club..........182

OJ/S LIFE SENTENCE As the champagne stops flowing chez O.J., Dominick Dunne gives his verdict on the verdict and considers the dubious future of a free man who has no place to go.........184

Vanities

NATALIE PORTMAN'S HEAT Tricky's treat; Dale Chihuly's art of glass; the O.J. Emmys; George Wayne sizes up model Bridget Hall; True Lies IV—Christmas deceit.........203

Et Cetera

EDITOR'S LETTER: Well Dunne............ 38

CONTRIBUTORS............54

LETTERS: Washington's ways.............70

CREDITS.............297

PLANETARIUM: It's black holes and heresy, Sagittarius.......300

SOCIAL STUDY: Yoko Ono exhibits her Proust Questionnaire............. 302

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