Contributors

Leslie Bennetts says of her cover subject, "Although he's been a movie star for many years, Richard Gere is refreshingly unpretentious. He doesn't take himself or his career too seriously, and he seems to have a healthy perspective on the vicissitudes of fame."

Eric Boman says of his photograph of yesteryear's supermodels, "The funny thing about this picture is that when I came to New York in '78 and started out as a fashion photographer, these were the kind of girls it was really difficult for me to get. At the time it would have made me weak at the knees to have them all together. And they're even more fabulous now. The quality that made them stars in the first place doesn't just go away."

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Jay Cocks, a contributor to Time, was a film reviewer there for eight years. He co-wrote, with Martin Scorsese, the screenplay for the recently released film version of The Age of Innocence.

Christopher Hitchens's book For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports is out from Verso. He lives in Washington, D.C.

George Kalogerakis, who writes the "Hype & Glory" column in "Vanities," is a contributor to Vogue.

Michael Lutin'sChildhood Rising: The Astrology of Your Mother, Your Father, and You is just out in paperback from Dell. His latest musical, What God Says Goes!, is playing in Los Angeles and Boston this winter.

Douglas McGrath, a columnist for The New Republic, collaborated with Woody Allen on the screenplay of Allen's next movie.

William Norwich is Vogue's editorat-large.

Christopher Simon Sykes, the photographer, has recently completed two books: Great Houses of England and Wales (Calmann & King), which will be out this fall in the U.K., and Living with Books (Carol Southern Books/ Crown), on private libraries, to be published next year.

Jacob Weisberg, a senior editor of The New Republic and a V.F. contributing editor, says of his subject, "Ted Koppel is perhaps the most visible and least understood personality on TV, and I wanted to find the man behind the monitor."