VANITY FAIR

Contents

March

Volume 49 Number 3

Features

1986

Lord Big: Old-world publishing potentate George Weidenfeld joins forces with Mrs. Gordon Getty to conquer the New World. Profile by Stephen Schiff 62

Bordeaux Nouveau: Spotlight on Keith Haring, sparkling in France 68

Tough Act: Something about Sean Penn's boozing, brawling, Hollywood-brat act utterly disarms James Wolcott 70

Fashion Royalty: In the sumptuous courts of Paris fashion, Javier Arroyuelo takes the measure of designers Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, and Azzedine Alala 76

Bliss on the Bosporus: Where sultans summered—the villas of the Ottomans photographed by Francois Halard and admired by Gregor von Rezzori 82

Punk Ballerina: Karole Armitage, the priestess of experimental dance, is about to jet6 into the American ballet mainstream with Baryshnikov. Craig Bromberg traces her steps 90

The Invisible Man: Alec Guinness publishes his memoirs this month—yet he remains the man in the ironic mask. A retrospective of portraits by Snowdon; text by Charles Michener 96

Cool for Katz: Alex Katz's chilled, flattened portraits of modem folk are emblematic of the eighties. Mira Stout visits the artist on the eve of his Whitney exhibition 102

How I Grew: An excerpt from Mary McCarthy's work in progress, memories of the birth of the writer's mind 106

Out to Lunch: Patti (Reagan) Davis, the president's daughter, blabs to P. J. Corkery about her just-published novel 136

Vanities

Pei day.. .Delhi takeout.. .Vanity table.. .Getaway to Club Bread... Australia's best-selling boy wonder.. .Norman Mailer on a roll... Sizing up royalty.. .Toupee or not toupee?.. .Pisces: off the hook... Gladiola to be alive... Stretch larks... Right wingding... Favored parties 19

Columns

Editor's Letter: Jewel in the Crowny 8

The Mind's Eye: Leon Wieseltier rends the polyester veil of espionage 40

Book Marks: James Atlas rediscovers the expatriate literary life in Paris 46

Vintage Point: Joel L. Fleishman tastes some Chardonnays 50

Letter from the High Seas: Richard M. Clurman plows the deep with William F. Buckley Jr. 54

Flashback: Editorial shenanigans with V.F.'s first editor, Frank Crowninshield 60

Arts Fair

Theater: Playwright A. R. Gurney's cast system.. .Movies: Woody Allen's winsomeHannah... Television: Art-video revamped... Visual art: Five comic reliefs.. .Music: Pierre Boulez and his computer programme.. .Theater: Watching Ivey grow... Books: Hot type... Night-table reading 116