VANITY FAIR

DECEMBER 1998 N9 460

Features

THE 1998 HALL OF FAME | 235

Annie Leibovitz and a team of top photographers present Vanity Fair's annual Hall of Fame, starring Mark McGwire, Monica Lewinsky, and 18 others who broke records, rules, and new ground. James Wolcott has the play-by-play.

HORRORS! A REMAKE! | 256

Gus Van Sant and Christopher Doyle conjure up a photographic preview of Van Sant's resurrection of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho— a project, writes Evgenia Peretz, that has cineasts in shock.

A STAR'S WARS | 262

With his upcoming role as the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's Star Wars prequel, Ewan McGregor, Britain's brightest rising star, makes the leap from local hero to global celebrity. Must we say good-bye to the simple lad from CriefF? Zoe Heller finds out. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz.

DRIVING MR. PICASSO | 268

As Christie's sells off a cache of ceramics and drawings that Picasso gave his chauffeur, John Richardson locates the exquisite traces of a rueful, aging Lothario.

BALANCHINE'S DREAM | 270

On the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet, Robert Gottlieb recounts the turbulent saga of the century's greatest choreographer, George Balanchine, who turned the capital of the world into the capital of dance.

Columns

DECODING THE STARR REPORT | 116

Beneath the twisted pornography of the six-volume Starr report, Renata Adler discerns a hidden plot: the independent counsel's scandalous disregard for both the facts and the law.

IT'S NOT THE SIN. IT'S THE CYNICISM | 138

The false piety, the creative uses for his professional workspace, the long-suffering wife—to Christopher Hitchens, Bill Clinton resembles nothing more than a Jim Bakker for liberal saps.

POP GOES CAVIEZEL | 151

Herb Ritts zooms in on actor Jim Caviezel, who, finds Ned Zeman, is the hidden gem of Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

HOW GREEN WAS MY WOODY | 152

In his most recent film, Celebrity, Woody Allen bemoans the onset of a cultural malaise. But what really has turned sour, James Wolcott argues, is the auteur's own morale.

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DECEMBER 1998

PARIS BELONGS TO BRASSAI | 164

As a retrospective marking the centennial of Brassafs birth tours the United States, Vicki Goldberg recalls the pioneering photographer who brought a dark tenderness to the City of Light.

AVANT GUARDIANS | 182

Bob Colacello introduces Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin, whose two-year-old SoHo gallery is giving the jaded New York art world a fresh infusion of passion and controversy.

THE COMPANY HE KEPT | 184

Until his death last month, Roddy McDowall made his simple Studio City bungalow into a cozy haven for some of Hollywood's biggest names. Dominick Dunne shares his memories of this incomparable entertainer and friend.

DALI'S DEMON BRIDE | 190

A new biography of Salvador Dali prompts John Richardson to chronicle the stunning decadence of the Surrealist master's wife, Gala Devulina, who made Dali into a megalomaniac star—and then reduced him to an impoverished bag of bones.

THE RUNAWAY GENIUS | 202

This month's opening of The Thin Red Line, based on James Jones's war epic, marks a true Hollywood event—the first Terrence Mahck movie in 20 years. Now a battle is raging over who deserves credit for bringing the director back. Peter Biskind reports.

Vanities

CRUZ CONTROL | 223

Brazilian director Walter Salles brings in the New New Wave; Becky Sharp for the 90s: a revised, 150th-anniversary edition of Thackeray's Vanity Fair; restaurateur Drew Nieporent prepares his speed dial.

Et Cetera

EDITOR'S LETTER: The president and the prosecutor | 80

CONTRIBUTORS | 94

LETTERS: Les Ms. | 102

CREDITS 300

PLANETARIUM: Count your blessings, Sagittarius | 302

PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE: Tony Bennett | 304

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