Contributors

Special correspondent Bob Colacello, who remembers the late Jerry Zipkin in this issue, says that "the happiest I ever saw him was when I gave him the Carter-family Christmas card from 1980, after Reagan was elected. Jerry loved it and said, 'I'm going to send it to you-know-who.'"

"Sandra Bullock is a great physical comedian," says contributing editor Jennet Conant of the subject of this month's cover story. "She claims that she's not exactly poetry in motion, because she's always stumbling down stairs or walking into walls."

Special correspondent Dominick Dunne, America's pre-eminent trial reporter, has himself been mentioned in more than 250 news stories about the Simpson trial.

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Contributing editor Cathy Horyn found that British actor Tim Roth seemed to be most comfortable in bars. "We first met at a piano bar, but that was too noisy, so we went to the bar at Vida, a

hip restaurant in Hollywood. Then we went to a place in a strip mall off Sunset, the name of which he swore me to secrecy on, and later to the Dresden, another piano bar."

Brian Sewell is the art critic of the London Evening Standard.

Best-selling author Janies Spada's new biography, Streisand: Her Life, excerpted in this issue, is the story of a woman he has worshiped since her 1965 television special, My Name Is Barbra. "I think Barbra has a fear of not being perfect," says Spada, "so she makes it impossible for herself to fail." Peter Law ford: The Man Who Kept the Secrets, Spada's account of the exploits of the infamous Kennedy brother-in-law, was excerpted in V.F. in 1991.

Carrie Fisher is the author of Postcards from the Edge, Surrender the Pink, and Delusions of Grandma. She has been cast as Edina in Roseanne's version of the British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.

Peggy Sirota has won numerous accolades for her work, including an editorial award from the American Photography Competition and a Northwest Addy Award for her Nike ad.