Contributors

Contributing editor Kim Masters and Nancy Griffin, deputy editor at Premiere, are co-authors of Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood, due out from Simon & Schuster next month and excerpted in this issue.

Contributing editor David Kamp profiled actress Helen Hunt in last month's Vanity Fair.

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Contributing editor Jennet Conant says that her interview with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman was "like old home week. We found ourselves catching up on our children and joking about how many times we've seen The Lion King."

World-renowned pianist and bandleader Peter Duchin and his orchestra have played every type of event from White House parties to a 50thanniversary celebration at which the married couple were the only guests. Duchin's memoir, Ghost of a Chance, written with Charles Michener, is excerpted in this issue and will be published next month by Random House.

Jacob Weisberg is the national political columnist for New York magazine and a contributing editor to The New Republic. His book, In Defense of Government, has just been published by Scribner.

Special correspondent Dominick Dunne is working on a new novel, Another City, Not My Own, set in Los Angeles during the Simpson trial. The CBS mini-series based on his last novel, A Season in Purgatory, aired in May.

"It may seem Mouna Al-Rashid has come out of nowhere," says special correspondent Bob Colacello of the socially ambitious beauty who recently parted from her billionaire Saudi husband. "But she told me she spent all those years in Riyadh reading magazines like Vogue and W, memorizing the names and faces of everyone she wanted to meet."