Features 

WELCOME TO CAMP PENN | 66 
Since landing in Haiti six days after the earthquake, Sean Penn has made himself an indispensable man. Douglas Brinkley reports. Photographs by Jonas Fredwall Karlsson. 

LA DOLCE VIDA | 75 
Kate Powers and Meg Wolitzer spotlight Vendela Vida, whose third novel, The Lovers, is short perfection. 

TWILIGHT’ S BLOOD SISTERS | 76 
While Norman Jean Roy photographs the girl “supernaturals” of the third Twilight movie, Eclipse, Nancy Jo Sales learns what it’s like to run with the vampires.

WHAT’S EATING STEVE COHEN? | 82 
Bryan Burrough gets the press-shy billionaire to unload about his not-so-wonderful life. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz. 

BEAUTY AND DEBRETT’S | 92 
Wayne Maser and Kate Reardon spotlight eight English roses, the flower of Britain’s nobility. 

SOMETHING ABOUT SALLY | 94 
With tongues still wagging about Sally Quinn’s final Washington Post column, Evgenia Peretz finds D.C.’s former queen bee and her husband, Ben Bradlee, in a familial cold war. Photographs by Jonathan Becker. 

WHEN GO-GO MET DAY-GLO | 102 
Pop-art entrepreneur Peter Max thought he had found a lucrative market for his portraits: Wall Street’s 100 top traders. In an excerpt from his new memoir, Randall Lane recalls the mind-bending collision of Art and Commerce. 

STEPHANIE PLAYS THROUGH | 109 
Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton with Krista Smith spotlight Stephanie Szostak, Dinner for Schmucks’ straight woman. 

BOHEMIAN LEGACY | 110 
In 1991, William Lobkowicz abandoned his life as a Boston realtor to reclaim his princely family’s castles and treasures in the Czech Republic—lost first to the Nazis, then to the Soviets. His real challenge, Alex Shoumatoff learns, was just beginning. Photographs by Jonathan Becker. 


Fanfair 

31 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE | 35 
Bright Young Things: Gaia Repossi’s sparkling creations. The Cultural Divide. Must-see summer films; A. M. Homes applauds TheKids Are All Right. Burberry unveils a beautiful collection; My Stuff—design guru Nate Berkus. 


Vanities 

HARDY MAN | 43
Craig Brown unearths “Christopher Hitchens’s” diary; Howard Schatz captures Laurence Fishburne in character.


Columns 

CINEMA PURGATORIO | 50 
Are film critics obsolete? James Wolcott referees a nasty debate. 

HALL OF FAME | 51 
Julian Sancton nominates Veronica Varekova, for working it on behalf of Africa’s wildlife. Portrait by Martin Schoeller. 

BALLET’S LITTLE PRINCE | 52 
Steve Pyke and Laura Jacobs spotlight ballet’s Herman Cornejo. 

SEX AND THE SINGLE MARTYR | 54 
How much are suicidal jihadists spurred by faith and how much by sexual repression? Christopher Hitchens reflects. 

THE “THRILLER” DIARIES | 56 
Nancy Griffin was there, in 1983, as Michael Jackson filmed the “Thriller” video and fought his own monsters. Photographs by Douglas Kirkland. 

CRACK NEGOTIATOR | 64 
Brigitte Lacombe and Jay McInerney spotlight Bill Clegg, hotshot agent turned crackhead turned memoirist. 


ET CETERA 

EDITOR’S LETTER NOT-SO-PRIVATE LIVES | 14

60 MINUTES POLL | 16

CONTRIBUTORS | 20

OUT TO LUNCH MIKE TYSON | 22

LETTERS GRACE NOTES | 24

FAIRGROUND | 28

PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE CHARLIE ROSE | 132 


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Ashley Greene wears a dress by BCBGMaxAzria and a vintage necklace from Doyle & Doyle. Dakota Fanning wears a dress by Emanuel Ungaro and a necklace by Bulgari. Bryce Dallas Howard wears a necklace by Van Cleef & Arpels. Hair products by Sunsilk. Makeup products by Nars. Nail enamel by Deborah Lippmann. Hair by Teddy Charles. Greene’s and Howard’s makeup by Yumi. Fanning’s makeup by Sammy Mourabit. Greene’s manicure by Salena Rice. Fanning’s and Howard’s manicures by Deborah Lippmann. Set design by Andy Henbest. Styled by Jessica Diehl. Photographed exclusively for V.F. by Norman Jean Roy.

“I wanted to give back something more to help struggling people, but I didn’t know how.”
HAITI HERO
Sean Penn at the displaced-persons camp he manages | 66

“These are places from another time. We don’t live in castles anymore,” says William Lobkowicz.
FAMILY HEIRLOOM
An 18th-century painting in the Lobkowiczes’ Nelahozeves Castle | 110