VANITY FAIR

N° 431

July 1996

Features

NIGHT & DAY From chess to fashion to photography, Christopher Hitchens walks the Fine line between black and white for a study in contrasts. 72

CAGED HEAT While Cathy Horyn explores his Gothic Hollywood Hills castle, Nicolas Cage reveals how his best-actor Oscar, marriage to Patricia Arquette, and three upcoming action Films—including this month's The Rock—have changed his outlaw ways. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz.74

THE DOOMSDAY MAN From atop a sprawling, tax-exempt empire whose crown jewel is the Christian Coalition, televangelist Pat Robertson wields enormous political power—even as he warns that the world will end in four years. William Prochnau and Laura Parker investigate the prophet motive. Illustration by Philip Burke.82

ROCKIN' ROBIN Herb Ritts and Kevin Sessums spotlight Robin Wright, who has a new Film, Moll Flanders, and a new husband, Sean Penn.88

SKYSCRAPER COUTURE Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, Richard Meier, and other great architects of the age model their landmark buildings as Matthew Tyrnauer compares them with the skyline creators of yesteryear. Portfolio by Josef Astor.90

NATURAL BORN OPPONENTS Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers has been linked to more copycat killings than any other Film. Now, Michael Shnayerson reports, lawyer and best-selling author John Grisham is trying to hold Stone accountable for the slaying of a friend. Photographs by Jonathan Becker ... 98

ALL THAT JAZZ David Kamp lifts a martini to the dapper style of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, whose jazz band is on its fourth-album tour. Portrait by Albert Watson . .106

A SEASON IN PARADISE Judy Bachrach discovers that Film's newest wave swirls around the beauty of Tuscany, as Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Campion, Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler, and Juliette Binoche take to the hills that inspired Shelley. Photographs by Brigitte Lacombe.108

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MANHATTAN '37 From Amelia Earhart's Fifth Avenue flight plan to the city-sanctioned chaos of Mob Day, Bruce McCall paints a wildly improbable picture of late 1930s New York.116

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Truman Capote's 1966 Black and White Ball drew a dazzling and unprecedented mix of the social, fashion, art, literary, political, and Hollywood elites. Three decades later, Amy Fine Collins recalls the masked hysteria surrounding the party of the century.120

Columns

HAVANAS IN CAMELOT With J.F.K.'s humidor fetching more than half a million dollars at the Jackie O auction, William Styron treasures a few shining, smoke-filled presidential moments.32

THE BIRTH OF PUNK In an excerpt from their oral history, Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain debrief Malcolm McLaren, Debbie Harry, and others of the punk vanguard.44

FLASHBACK Richard Merkin remembers when Toots Shor's gin mill was the most exclusive boys' club in town.57

THE RAPE OF THE FROCK Henry Porter turns poetic force on matters of a royal divorce; Queen Elizabeth, Princess Di—none escapes his watchful eye ... 61

Vanities

ANNE HECHE NOW Cocktail Nation; David Seidner—an American in Paris; Scots on the rocks in Trainspotting; George Wayne duets with Burt Bacharach; V.F. Camera goes to Washington ... 65

Et Cetera

EDITOR'S LETTER: Black and white and read all over.14

CONTRIBUTORS.16

LETTERS: Death of a son..24

CREDITS.153

PLANETARIUM: Real life is a fantasy, Cancer.154

SOCIAL STUDY: Quincy Jones produces his Proust Questionnaire. . 156