VANITY FAIR

Volume 55

Number 11

November 1992

Features

Liz's AIDS Odyssey: Of all her passions, Elizabeth Taylor's battle against AIDS is the most intensely personal. Nancy Collins visits "the last star" at home in Bel-Air. Photographs by Firooz Zahedi. 208

Mia's Story: Is Mia Farrow the old woman who lived in a shoe or the sainted mother of 11 ? What at first glance was a true-life Manhattan is now looking more and more like Rashomon. Maureen Orth gives Mia's side of the story. 214

Bathing Beart-y: French star Emmanuelle Beart's next role—maman. Photograph by Pamela Hanson. 220

Riddle of the Scrolls: Ron Rosenbaum reports on the apocalyptic mysteries surrounding the long-dead authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls—and the curse they have cast on the modem scholars who study them. 222

Type O Behavior: Gary Oldman is out for blood in Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Photograph by Helmut Newton 228

Studio System: Lee Strasberg's brooding brood from the Actors Studio reunites for Annie Leibovitz's camera and reminisces for Joanne Kaufman. 230

Thoroughly Modern Whitney: Guess who's in a family way? And, as Lynn Hirschberg discovered, Whitney Houston's marriage to New Jacker Bobby Brown has sent her life in a whole new direction. Photographs by Michel Comte. 240

La Dolce Carla: Bob Colacello finds out that Carla Bruni's a lot more hot (and smart) than sweet. Photographs by Helmut Newton. 244

Black Mischief: According to Conrad Black, the Canadian publishing baron, greed is an underrated emotion. Edward Klein profiles the cantankerous tycoon. Photograph by Snowdon. 250

Spike's Pique? Ready for the Malcolm X maelstrom? Spike Lee and Denzel Washington suit up. 254

Death in the Fast Lane: Italian filmmaker-poet Pier Paolo Pasolini's violent death in a field near Rome remains one of the century's most mysterious murders. In an excerpt from his new biography, Barth David Schwartz explores the sensational events of Pasolini's last night. 256

Columns

Editor's Letter: Names in the game. 14

Cultural Elite: Christopher Hitchens on mobs and snobs. 74

Society: Luisita Lopez Torregrosa mixes with Tokyo's haut monde . . . 94

Art: Jean-Michel Basquiat—apotheosis or hack? David D'Arcy reports 124

Media: Marjorie Williams on William Satire's power 148

Postscript: Francis Wheen on Bubbles Rothermere.. 172

Planetarium: Scorpio rising. 302

Et Cetera

Letters: Cries and whispers. 34

Vanities: Dietrich remembered; Fabio est faboo!; Hello! means good-bye; la femme Parillaud; hot type; the Tabac pack; the drag explosion. 179

Flashback: Inauguration Day, March 1933. 304

Credits. 299