VANITY FAIR

Volume 51 Number 7

July 1988

Features

The Black Pack: Eddie Murphy, his best friend, Arsenio Hall, and their Black Pack are Hollywood's newest megabuck power clique. Gerri Hirshey reports.. 58

The Man Who Is Austria: Kurt Waldheim, current president, former U.N. secretary-general, sometime Nazi, and the uneasy face of Austria's crisis, gives a rare audience to Gregor von Rezzori and Helmut Newton... 64

Screening Mimi: Spotlight on steamy Mimi Rogers... 68

The Haunted Studio: Jackson Pollock's paint-splattered floorboards are now preserved at his Hamptons studio. By Mark Stevens; photographs by Evelyn Hofer... 70

The Prime of Pamela Harriman: Marie Brenner on how the lustrous woman behind a string of illustrious men became the Washington empress of liberal Democratic politics.76

Clurman's March: Spotlight on Time lifer Richard Clurman.84

A Tastemaker's Garden: Christopher Gibbs's painted statues beside the Thames. By Christopher Simon Sykes.86

Life with Father: David Niven's son James G. Niven on Hollywood's most elegant charmer—and the "famous-father syndrome".90

In Search of the Source of AIDS: AS the horror of the "AIDS belt" spreads across the heart of Africa, Alex Shoumatoff reports on its causes and effects, interviewing everyone from the reckless bar girls of Kinshasa to the smugglers of tormented Uganda .94

Columns

Editor's Letter: Foreign affairs.... 8

Letters: Readers bite back..........18

Mixed Media: James Wolcott on Tanner '88..... 22

Movies: Auberon Waugh on A Handful of Dust..... 28

Art: Robert Hughes spins an art-world fable of the relics of the pope of Pop..... 32

Show Business: John P. Davidson on producer Steve Tisch . . . 43

Cars: Mark Ginsburg on Gianfranco Ferre and Chrysler's TC by Maserati . . 106

Fanfair

A Picasso portraitist. . . Dolce and Gabbana s chaste taste. . . Tirelli treasures. . .Stage sights. . .Wolcott's Saints Alive. . . Steinberg-Tisch dish. . .Hoskins's hasenpfeffer. . .Night-table viewing.. .Flashback: Katharine Cornell, 1930... 47