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Inside Bunny Mellon’s Estate
Photographer Jonathan Becker gains rare access to Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon’s exquisite Virginia estate.

Bunny Mellon’s Secret Garden
Like her late billionaire husband, Paul, Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon has always put a premium on privacy, even as some of the world’s most public people—including John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth, and Prince Charles—flocked to her exquisite Virginia estate. With an unprecedented interview (and amid two scandals), the redoubtable Mellon, who turns 100 this month, shares with the author her precious horticultural legacy, fruit of a lifelong passion for gardening.

To The Mansion Born
Over banana-cream pie, Hugh Hefner discusses heartbreak, Miss December, and his part in the sexual revolution.

The City of Warring Angels
Bob Colacello reports on the power shifts of L.A.’s art world, while landing Dennis Hopper’s final interview. Photographs by Jonathan Becker.

Aristocrats and Demons
Members of the aristocratic de Védrines family turned over their lives, fortune, and ancestral château to a shadowy “grand master.”

Valentino’s New York Revival
Jonathan Becker shoots the fashion legend in his Fifth Avenue aerie.

Spies Like Everyone
Surely the Russians aren’t the only ones conducting espionage while disguised as boring old suburbanites. Power your paranoid fantasies with Bruce Feirstein’s top-secret field guide.

Angelina in a Centerfold!
From Brigitte Bardot to Catherine Deneuve, to Eva Green, we present the most irresistible offerings of Gallic cinema.

Angelina the Conqueror
Angelina Jolie isn’t interested in normal—whether it’s the size of her bed, the creation of her family, or her latest role.

Amanpour All Seasons
Madeleine Albright and Bruce Weber spotlight Christiane Amanpour as she takes the helm of ABC’s This Week.

A Girls’ Guide to Saudi Arabia
Maureen Dowd vacations in Saudi Arabia and, despite the Kingdom’s new tourism push, finds quite a clash of cultures.

Marja’s Hearts and Minds
Traveling to the site of a recent U.S.-led offensive, Micah Garen photographs the soldiers, elders, farmers, and, yes, robots whose actions will decide the outcome in Afghanistan.

My Desk: Matthew Weiner
The Mad Men creator and executive producer invites Vanity Fair into his office.

Ten Cars That Look Like Adorable Animals
Key among a vehicle’s affection-inducing features is its appearance. Particularly if it resembles a winsome, bewitching, and/or cuddly little (or enormous) critter, as the cars in this slide show decidedly do.

Mad Men’s Spurious Comic-Strip Origins Revealed!
Thumbing through funny-page archives, Bruce Handy stumbles on an obscure 1960s serial by the legendary Frank Thorne, featuring a prototypical Don and Betty.

Grizzly Women
As the midterm elections approach, Sarah Palin is backing a group of female candidates she calls her “Mama Grizzlies.” Could their “mom awakening” undo Obama’s agenda?

Swift Current
Mark Summers traces the sketchy path from a peerless wit to a “Fearless” starlet.

The Vanities Openers
Every month, the first page of the magazine’s Vanities section features an up-and-coming actor with a hotly anticipated project in the pipeline. Catch up with the latest crop of Vanities “openers.”

The Shooting at the Gare du Nord
Read an excerpt from Paul Spicer’s new novel about a scandalous American abroad.

Proust Questionnaire: Betty White
How can you be back if you never went away? National treasure Betty White, the Golden Girl with the timeless comic panache, is the hottest thing in showbiz—and she’s only 88.