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BULL SESSION Scorsese and De Niro on the set of Raging Bull 292

FEATURES

IT’S SHOWTIME! | 230

Annie Leibovitz photographs wild and crazy guys Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, plus the nine dolls on V.F.'s cover, as Evgenia Peretz explains why Anna Kendrick, Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, et al. are nobody’s playthings.

FRAME, SET, AND MATCH 240

Would Quentin Tarantino be an Oscar contender without Christoph Waltz? Lee Daniels without Mo’Nique and Gabourey Sidibe? James Cameron without his 3-D stereoscopic camera? Annie Leibovitz re-assembles 11 of the year’s most creative teams.

SWEET BARD OF YOUTH 256

Talking to the late John Hughes’s sons and Brat Pack favorites, David Kamp finds the writer-director was an amalgam of all his now classic characters, from Samantha Baker to Ferris Bueller. Still-life photographs by Dan Winters.

ONCE IN LOVE WITH ALI 264

Four decades after Love Story, looking back at two tumultuous marriages (to Robert Evans and Steve McQueen), Ali MacGraw tells Sheila Weller what Hollywood could never give her. Portrait by Annie Leibovitz.

PACIFICOVERTURE 271

Ben Bradlee and Sam Jones spotlight HBO’s The Pacific.

HOLLYWOOD’S TOP 40 272

If Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen didn’t awe you, try the fact that its director, Michael Bay, pulled in about $125 million last year. Peter Newcomb ranks the paydays of Tyler Perry, Cameron Diaz, and Hollywood’s other highest earners.

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STUDIO HEAD: THE GREATEST STORY NEVER SOLD | 276

Jon Peters, the unschooled hairdresser (and Lothario) who rode Barbra Streisand’s tresses to Hollywood’s executive suite, has got a best-selling memoir in him. But his former ghostwriter, William Stadiem, reveals why it likely will never come out.

THE TIME OF NICK | 283

Francesco Carrozzini and Jim Windolf spotlight 17-year-old Nick Jonas, whose debut solo album stakes a grown-up claim.

COLORING THE KINGDOM | 284

To make the world’s first animated feature, 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney hired an all-female battalion of white-gloved inkers and painters. Patricia Zohn recalls the real-life Cinderellas who found magic in Disney’s dream factory.

LITTLE MISS MIRACLE | 291

Jenny Gage, Tom Betterton, and Krista Smith spotlight Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill, on Broadway in The Miracle Worker.

BRUTAL ATTRACTION: THE MAKING OF RAGING BULL | 292

Thirty years later, Raging Bull may still be Martin Scorsese’s greatest film, but the director resisted making it. Richard Schickel recounts how a relentless Robert De Niro—and Scorsese’s near-death experience—delivered the one-two punch.

MATISSE’S MISSING LINK | 301

John Richardson spotlights Matisse’s Goldfish and Palette, which has a hidden message from the master.

FANFAIR

31 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE | 147

Bright Young Things: Lauren Remington Platt on her family farm. The Cultural Divide. Private Lives: Catherine Monteiro de Barros dresses up the tots. My Stuff—design darling Alexander Wang; Jonathan Kelly dines at the Lion; Lisa Eisner digs into an Umami burger. Colm Toibin is enraptured by Don DeLillo’s new novel. Forecasting red-carpet style. Elissa Schappell’s Hot Type; Night-Table Reading. Lisa Robinson sits down with T Bone Burnett. Meenal Mistry is dazzled by Prince Dimitri’s jewels; Victoria Mather takes in the view from the Hotel Strato. L.A.’s best of beauty.

COLUMNS

JEEVES SPOKEN HERE | 180

Scornful of audiobooks, Christopher Hitchens puts actor Martin Jarvis to the acid test: P. G. Wodehouse’s novels.

ANGEL IN AMERICA | 182

Ruven Afanador and Laura Jacobs spotlight the transatlantic triumph of Spanish dance sensation Angel Corella.

DREAM GIRLS Female Disney touch up studio-lot sign. 1940 | 284

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TOUCH LOVE STORY Ali MacGraw and Robert Evans in 1970 | 264

TOO BIG TO FAIL | 184

For all his personal and professional missteps, Alec Baldwin has become a beloved showbiz institution. The feeling is not entirely mutual, James Wolcott writes.

RINGSIDE AT THE WEB FIGHT | 190

A Facebook I.P.O.? A Twitter eclipse of Google? A resurgence of Big Media? Michael Wolff cuts through the prevailing wisdom about the Internet’s next big thing.

THE SUSPECTS WORE LOUBOUTINS | 198

Nancy Jo Sales gets inside the clique of club-hopping teens who allegedly burglarized Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and other celebrities. Photographs by Susanna Howe.

OUT TO LUNCH | 210

Over a Bloody Mary in Beverly Hills, insult comic Don Rickies tells John Heilpern the best Sinatra story ever.

THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY | 212

Some see Ryan Kavanaugh as Hollywood’s savior, others as a showboat. Frank DiGiacomo looks into the bona fides of Relativity Media’s 35-year-old founder, who says he has the key to box-office profits. Photographs by Gavin Bond.

VANITIES

VIVE LAURENT | 218

Ed Coaster calls in a favor. Nell Scovell hears echoes from actual rich people; Howard Schatz captures Brooke Shields in character. Bruce Feirstein charts the Hollywood decade.

ET CETERA

60 MINUTES POLL | 96

EDITOR’S LETTER | 104

CONTRIBUTORS | 108

BEHIND THE SCENES | 124

LETTERS Prince of Shadows | 130

FAIRGROUND | 173

PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE Luise Rainer | 312

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