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Vintage Sunday Times Magazine October 6th 1996
Cover story – The age of insolence. At 89, Richmal Crompton’s William still gets into scrapes. And Violet Elizabeth thtill thcreams. Cover photograph by Tim O’Sullivan
Philp Norman became a devotee of the William books at the age of nine and still re reads them regularly Nowadays, he says, “Martin Jarvis’s readings are my young daughter’s favourite bedtime tape. I’m usually listening too over the baby alarm He tracks down the grown-up William Brown on page 54
A time to lick – The actress Sandra Bullock in Hollywood, photographed by David LaChapelle. LaChapelle’s dazzling dreamlike photographs appear on page 40. Based in New York, he has been shooting the famous and beautiful since the early 1980s, when he showed his work to Andy Warhol. Have any stars so far escaped his viewfinder? Yes I’d love to do Michael Jackson. But he’s so extraordinary, it would be more interesting to have him doing ordinary things, like brushing his teeth or eating cereal
Zoë H – Zoë Heller’s boyfriend has the birthday blues. So she goes out to paint the town red
Relative Values Ravi Shankar and daughter Anoushka, both sitar players
In cold blood – When James Ellroy was a boy, his mother was strangled to death. Now the bestselling American thriller writer has returned to the scene of the crime
The strife of Brian – If chairing the Tory party is a dirty job, Brian Mawhinney may have found his vocation
Stars of David – People are putty in the hands of David LaChapelle- and completely potty in his photographs. A private view of his new work
The lan Parry Award – The seventh annual competition in honour of the Sunday Times photographer killed in 1989
A Life A Life in the Day of Commander Jonty Powis, the captain of a Trident submarine
80 pages. All of our magazines are first day issues. Lightly read and in good condition for age.
