Contributors

Special correspondent Bob Colacello, who writes this month about the late Baroness de Rothschild, says, "I only went to one party at the Rothschilds' chateau, Ferrieres. It was in the 1970s, but I can picture the garden as if it were yesterday. Marie-Helene had hired the most attractive young couples, dressed them in exquisite 19th-century costume, and had them rowing around the lake, while the guests, who included everyone from Jacqueline Onassis to Catherine Deneuve, promenaded."

Husband-and-wife journalists Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson met in Plains, Georgia, while covering the Carter candidacy, he for Time, she for the Associated Press. Together they have written The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism, which Walter Cronkite has called "the 'right stuff' of journalism," due out June 5 from Houghton Mifflin and excerpted in this issue.

Contributing editor Christopher Hitchens, who writes about plagiarism this month in his "Fin de Siecle" column, raised literary theft to a new level recently when he autographed almost 200 copies of Primary Colors at Kramerbooks in Washington, D.C. "I signed them all 'Anonymous,' " he reports, "and was very gratified that several people came back into the store and asked why I didn't sign my real name."

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At age 16, senior editor Matthew Tyrnauer was a gofer for Mickey Kantor, the national co-chairman of the 1984 Mondale campaign, and, in 1988, he served as the assistant to Dukakis-campaign manager Susan Estrich, after which he turned to journalism. This month, Tyrnauer follows Bob Dole, Pat Buchanan, and the atmospherics of Campaign '96. Photographer Nigel Parry was struck by the detectives, the Learjets, the clandestine meetings, and the fear he witnessed while taking photographs for Marie Brenner's story on the tobacco industry: "After they found out about our purpose, this hotel in Kentucky would not give us a room in which to shoot Jeffrey Wigand until I threatened to pose him in front of the hotel, with its name in full view. Then they gave us a room."

As contributing editor David Kamp strolled through Beverly Hills with actress Helen Hunt, his subject this month, she revealed that in her pre~Mad About You days she was twice arrested for jaywalking in L.A. "We tried for a third arrest," says Kamp, "but, alas, to no avail."

Susan Kittenplan, an associate editor at V.F., wrote about comedian Nathan Lane in the February issue.

Contributing editor Laura Jacobs has channeled the spirit of Scarlett O'Hara for the May fashion romp staged by Karl Lagerfeld and Andre Leon Talley.