VANITY FAIR

June 2000

no. 478

Draping TTIIAA, Driver ... 102

Features

CONVERSATIONS WITH CRUISE At 37, after working with giants such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, and Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise might feel he’s done it all. But as Cruise shares stories from a two-decade careerincluding the Risky Business underwear dance, the evisceration of Cocktail, the painful passion of Eyes Wide Shut, and his latest picture, John Woo’s Mission: Impossible 2—Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe finds that nothing gets this actor more buzzed than movies. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz . 154

SOTHEBY'S UNDER SIEGE In December, when Christie’s C.E.O. Christopher Davidge retired, he left a parting gift: documents indicating that Christie’s and Sotheby’s may have conspired to fix prices. Now an anti-trust prosecutor from Brooklyn has Sotheby’s in his sight, controlling shareholder A1 Taubman is facing cold shoulders, and C.E.O. Dede Brooks has lost her crown. Robert Lacey explores how the art world’s two most venerable auction houses got into such big trouble— and how much worse it could get. 162

LA VIDA LOPEZ Star of the upcoming thriller The Cell, Jennifer Lopez can’t help making headlines—whether it’s with her double-platinum first album, her eye-popping Grammy gown, or her notorious boyfriend, Sean “Puffy” Combs. Evgenia Peretz considers the dazzlingly nonchalant rise of a Latina sensation. Photographs by Steven Meisel. 168

INVISIBLE ENEMIES With billions of dollars lost in recent attacks on the Web sites of everything from Yahoo to The New York Times to the White House, computer hackers have become today’s most alarmingly elusive criminals. Bryan Burrough meets with one of the F.B.I.’s top weapons: a skinny, 21-year-old cyber-Sherlock Holmes named John Vranesevich, who is solving some confounding cases even as he himself becomes a prime target of the shadowy Internet underground. Portraits by Jason Schmidt. 172

GLAMOUR, BY ADRIAN ThroughoutMGM’s heyday, in movies such as The Wizard of Oz, Dinner at Eight, and The Philadelphia Story, Adrian was the man behind the sumptuous shimmer of the studio’s leading ladies—including Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Jean Harlow, and Greta Garbo. Tracing the career of Hollywood’s first great designer, Laura Jacobs recounts how Adrian bestowed an added beauty on his screen goddesses and defined elegance for the women who flocked to see them. 178

ARCHITECT OF DREAMS After completing the most acclaimed building of our time, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Frank Gehry confronted the inevitable question: What next? But viewing the master architect’s recent creations in Berlin and Dusseldorf, the Conde Nast cafeteria in Times Square, and the Experience Music Project, which opens this month in Seattle, Paul Goldberger sees Gehry shaping daring new ideas that could culminate with another Guggenheim triumph, in Lower Manhattan. Photographs by Todd Eberle. 184

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LETTERS FROM JACK Broke, alcoholic, and rootless, Jack Kerouac found in the young writer Joyce Johnson a steadfast, generous heart and a convenient New York crash pad. Chronicling their romance through two years of correspondence and the dizzying publication of Kerouac’s 1957 sensation, On the Road, Johnson, in an excerpt from her forthcoming book, unloads the joy and pain of loving a Beat icon.192

Columns.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY BREATHING From Lions Don’t Need to Roar to Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun, a torrent of management books reflect the turbocharged fantasies of budding executives, while Scott Adams’s best-selling Dilbert books describe the purgatory of cubicle-bound wage apes. To James Wolcott, the contrast underscores why no sane person would want to go to an office.62

CHEER AND LOATHING IN NEW YORK While Rudy Giuliani continues to burnish his image as the ironfisted, unapologetic padrone of New York City, Hillary Clinton is slowly morphing from icy Cleopatra into Mother Goose. Watching the candidates duke it out for the most hotly contested Senate seat in decades, Gail Sheehy cuts through the performances to reveal a political war that’s more about egos than issues.74

OSCAR WILD! Following the longest-ever Academy Awards ceremony, Hollywood legends and hot young stars blew off steam at Vanity Fair’s seventh annual Oscar party. At Mortons, Darryl Brantley navigates the crush of celebrities and little gold men.102

EMBRACEABLE YOU Once considered taboo, hugging is suddenly so hip that even business moguls such as Steve Case and Gerald Levin are locking together in strong, public embraces. Scott Turow wonders whether this sincere gesture of male affection may turn into an empty ritual.112

TOUR DE LANCE Following his battle with cancer, American cyclist Lance Armstrong slipped into an apathetic routine of playing golf and eating burritos. In an excerpt from his new memoir, Armstrong and Sally Jenkins reveal how he finally regained his courage, mended his soul, and turned his grueling 1999 Tour de France ride into the sports victory of the year.116

Vanities

GO, NELLY George Wayne gets down with the original party girl, Helen Gurley Brown; Nan Darien explores extreme sports in San Diego; V.F. Camera: Zegna Sport’s COACH benefit and the Gstaad Squad.143

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Fanfair

30 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE Fashion forward—celebrating photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe; let V.F.’s Calendar Girl tell you what to do in June; Bruce Handy reviews Jesus’ Son; Krista Smith on the Hughes brothers’ documentary, American Pimp; Ned Zeman reviews Ridley Scott’s Gladiator; Walter Kirn on X-Men, the trailer; behind the music—David Kamp on industry insider Bill Flanagan; Christopher Hitchens toasts Sebastian Junger’s journo bar, the Half King; Elissa Schappell’s Hot Type; Ingrid Sischy on Los Angeles art legend Ed Ruscha; the sensitive sounds of Belle and Sebastian; Sopranos star Drea de Matteo rocks out; Lisa Robinson’s Hot Tracks; that 70s show—Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman revisited; where it’s @—Patricia Marx searches for love on-line .225

Et Cetera

EDITOR'S LETTER: Winners’Circle.42

CONTRIBUTORS.44

LETTERS: Of Mice and Mengers.56

CREDITS.223

PLANETARIUM: You made your bed, Gemini.244

PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE: Conan O’Brien.246

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