VANITY FAIR

N° 427 March 1996

Features

BOSNIA'S GROUND ZERO The Serb death camps have cast a long shadow, with U.S. troops in Bosnia and a war-crimes tribunal convening in the Hague. In an excerpt from his new book, Love Thy Neighbor, Peter Maass meets some of the worst torturers of the 20th century and hears the desperate whispers of their skeletal prisoners.....145

FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE BARNYARD As the 50th-anniversary edition of George Orwell's allegorical classic is published, illustrator Ralph Steadman goes hog-wild for Animal Farm.....152

SHARON'S BACK IN TOWN With her ice pick and leg-crossing antics behind her and a remake of the classic Diabolique on the horizon, Sharon Stone is turning from nude scenes to tweed suits, literature, and political consciousness. Roaming the pottery studios and trendy trattorias of L.A., where her Oscar-caliber performance in Casino has made her the toast of the industry, Stone gives Lloyd Grove an earful of survival tips. Photographs by Michel Comte.....154

HARMED LIVES Struck down by prostate cancer, powerhouse editor and best-selling author Michael Korda has written Man-to-Man, an extraordinary account of his ordeal— and of his marriage. Michael Shnayerson reports on the private drama of one of publishing's most glamorous figures. Photographs by Jonathan Becker......162

CEZANNE OF DESIRE The first full Cezanne retrospective in 60 years, which drew enormous crowds in Paris, will move from London to Philadelphia this summer. Probing the origins of Paul Cezanne's genius, Amy Fine Collins examines his relationships with Emile Zola and Camille Pissarro, the mystery of his childhood, and his anguished life of denial.....168

CARRE DIAZ Michael Musto and Eika Aoshima spotlight Cameron Diaz, the model turned actress whose debut opposite Jim Carrey in The Mask has led to four promising new films this year.....180

ANYTHING WENT Studio 54 was the greatest club in the world, the pleasure dome of one-name celebrities such as Andy, Cher, and Bianca, a frenzied whirl of decadence, drugs, sex, and more sex. As the 20th anniversary of its opening approaches, Bob Colacello remembers the brief, dazzling disco reign of Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager— and how the music suddenly stopped....182

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Columns

FIN DE SIECLE Have we no shame? Christopher Hitchens is acutely embarrassed by the barefaced, unapologetic culture of Tonya Harding, Leona Helmsley, and Clinton's underwear.....68

LINCOLN MEMORIAL Marking the final curtain of New York City Ballet co-founder Lincoln Kirstein, David Daniel finds the dance has lost one of its greatest, most erudite patrons.....74

VESCO'S LAST GAMBLE Robert Vesco, for 23 years America's most infamous fugitive, has finally been trapped in Havana by the very man who once sheltered him—Fidel Castro. Ending their long silence, Vesco's family and business associates divulge to Ann Louise Bardach the strange tale of the notorious financier's ties to the Nixon administration, a Wall Street scandal, and the drug world.....76

CHOO-CHOO BABY As Louis Stettner's Leica shots of a glorious 1950s Penn. Station go on exhibit in Manhattan this spring, David Kamp tracks the Brooklyn-born, Paris-based photographer....106

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE... Hollywood's power players are taking refuge at smoke-easy cigar parlors as they wait for the next industry tremor. Kim Masters surveys the changing landscape, from Disney's double Michaels to the city that DreamWorks built.....110

CHERRY ON TOP David Daniel unmasks Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones, who opens this month in Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana. Photograph by Gasper Tringale....122

Vanities

THE TRUTH ABOUT BEN CHAPLIN Pamela Anderson—beyond surf and dearth; A. M. Homes's own Alice in Wonderland; the titillating art of Brigid Berlin...127

Et Cetera

EDITOR'S LETTER: Bosnian nightmare ..... 26

CONTRIBUTORS....... 32

LETTERS: Big-boomer theory...... 54

PLANETARIUM: Life is kind of spooky, Pisces..... 206

CREDITS...... 211

SOCIAL STUDY: Julia Child whips up a Proust Questionnaire. . . 212