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Vintage Sunday Times magazine September 12th 1993
John Cornwell got to know the American author Tobias Wolff over hamburgers in an Oxford transport cafe back in 1969. A Cambridge don, journalist, novelist and investigative crime writer, Cornwell’s latest novel, Strange Gods, is published by Simon & Schuster.
Carol Sarler is a regular contributor to The Magazine, a columnist on The People, and earlier this year received a commendation in the Features Writer of the Year category at the British Press Awards. This week she interviews Lia Williams, star of the film Dirty Weekend
Wolff at the door – The American writer Tobias Wolff should at last become a big name in Britain with the release of This Boy’s Life, a film based on his boyhood memoir. John Cornwell reports. Photograph: Andrew Eccles
Beating about the Bush – The petite chanteuse Kate Bush has a new album. Chrissy Iley found it hard to get her to talk about it. Portrait: Anthony Crickmay
Carry on posing The performance artist Leigh Bowery is best known as a master of bizarre disguises. Contrarily in his most recent incarnation he poses in the nude for Lucian Freud. Report by Nilgin Yusuf. Photographs: Fergus Greer
Debi Mazar – Madonna’s former make-up artist has found a new face in films. Report by Linda O’Keefe. Photographs: Michel Haddi
Cover story Much ado about Lia – Hailed for her “feminist’ role in David Mamet’s play Oleanna, Lia Williams is wishing she had never agreed to star in Michael Winner’s film Dirty Weekend. Carol Sarler reports. Photographs: Alistair Morrison and Terry O’Neill
The photographer Fergus Greer, ex-Irish Guards, met Leigh Bowery four years ago and has taken a numerous pictures of him since. “We are like chalk and cheese, says Greer. I’m very straight, I suppose, while Leigh is pretty wild. But I find him very stimulating”
64 pages. All our magazines are the original first day copies. The photographs shown are the copy that is for sale. Used and lightly read in good condition for age. There is some creasing on the cover of this magazine
