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Photographer David Barry says that novelist Pat Conroy "is the most gentle southern gentleman I've ever met."

"For me, Constantine of Greece is the royal's royal," says special correspondent Bob Colacello, who interviewed the former monarch in London, Switzerland, and New York. "He seems to be at every royal event from Queen Silvia's birthday party in

Sweden to the recent wedding in Seville of his niece Princess Elena of Spain." Colacello has long covered European aristocracy for Vanity Fair, including Gloria von Thum und Taxis (whom he dubbed "Princess TNT"), Francesca Thyssen Habsburg, and Ira von Furstenberg.

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Contributing editor Leslie Bennetts, who profiles Nicole Kidman for this month's cover story, finds that "interviewing movie stars can be like pulling teeth. Kidman was a delightful surprise: relaxed, natural, and a lot of fun."

Special correspondent Dominick Dunne has spent six months exploring the people and the issues surrounding the O. J. Simpson murder trial.

David Seidner, whose portraits of the Miller sisters appeared in the June issue, photographs Bianca Jagger this month as part of a series in which he re-creates the lighting conditions and atmosphere of 17th-, 18th-, and 19thcentury Northern European painting studios. Seidner has edited, art-directed, and written the introduction for Lisa Fonssagrives: Fashion Photographs of Three Decades, due out from Schirmer/Mosel this fall, which will showcase one of the world's great fashion models through the work of such legends as her husband, Penn, Horst, and Louise Dahl-Wolfe.