SIGOURNEY DIVA

After three months up a misty Rwandan mountain with the gorillas, no wonder Sigourney Weaver flipped her wig. She was back in Manhattan to play a Wall Streeter in her new movie. Working Girl (out this month), and she felt like breaking type. The jumping-off point for this photo session with her old collaborator Helmut Newton was a long way from Dian Fossey's African anthropoids—the Berlin decadence of Otto Dix and filmmaker G. W. Pabst. Between them they opened Pandora's box. pulled out a blonde wig bobbed a la Louise Brooks, and swapped mountain mist for cabaret smoke. Helmut Newton recalls. "She wanted to be a blonde. I said, 'What a great idea.' She's intelligent, she's beautiful, physically she's very powerful, a real Valkyrie. And she's fantastic in front of the camera. She said to me. 'I want to look like a genic who came out of a bottle genie you'd never have dreamed of.