Contributors

Director Tim Burton's films include Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and Ed Wood.

As the premier female recording artist on the planet, Madonna has generated sales of more than $1.2 billion since her 1983 debut album, Madonna. In a five-month private diary, she documented her agony and ecstasy during the grueling filming of Evita and the discovery of her impending motherhood.

At age 19, British actress Claire Bloom was chosen by Charlie Chaplin to play the ballerina in his film Limelight, and has since starred on both sides of the Atlantic in works such as Look Back in Anger, Brides head Revisited, and Mighty Aphrodite. Her memoir, Leaving a Doll's House, published by Little, Brown, is excerpted in this issue.

Contributing editor Marjorie Williams wrote about office politics at The New Republic in the August issue of V.F.

Leslie Bennetts's subject this month is adventurer-photographer Peter Beard, who was almost killed by a rampaging elephant in September. "Peter's been called 'the last wild man in Africa,' and for good reason," says contributing editor Bennetts.

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Contributing editor David Kamp wrote about the Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts in the July issue of V.F.

"Talk about a plum assignment," says contributing editor Laura Jacobs of her chance to revisit the 1947 unveiling of Christian Dior's "New Look" collection. "The very first fashion book I owned was Dior in Vogue. I remember its black-and-white houndstooth jacket beckoning through the store window. I had to have it. Which is a very Dior form of desire. Women—the world—had to have Dior."

During contributing editor David Margolick's 13-month tour of duty covering the O. J. Simpson phenomenon for The New York Times, he came to know the subject of his profile this month: the elusive Larry Schiller, Simpson's collaborator on I Want to Tell You. "Larry and I had a bet as to whether O.J. would testify," recalls Margolick. "Larry said he would; I said it would never happen. He ended up taking me to the Grill."