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The Decade in Covers: Pick the Best V.F. Cover of 2002
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Jennifer Connelly on the Septemner 2002 cover of Vanity Fair.Seven years ago, the Bush administration was basking in the fall of the Taliban, and Annie Leibovitz photographed its (over-)confident members for the cover of Vanity Fair. As the aughties give way to the teens, Vf.com asks you to vote for the magazine’s 10 best covers of the decade, one for each year. Today, pick your favorite among the 12 covers of 2002. »
December 2009: Bruce Weber on Robert Pattinson
10 hours ago
As Twilight’s reluctant bloodsucker, Vanity Fair’s December cover star has made teenage girls (and their mothers) swoon. To accompany Evgenia Peretz's profile, which addresses Pattinson's relationship with co-star Kristen Stewart and Hollywood's doubts about casting him as Edward Cullen, Vf.com presents the second of five slide shows featuring outtakes from his epic session with photographer Bruce Weber. »
Which Windsor Is Worshipped as a God? (You Won't Believe the Answer)
14 hours ago
Sarah Ferguson, the daring Duchess of York, raised eyebrows at the Royal Rajasthan Gala last night when she wore a gown with plunging neckline. The evening benefited the Indian Head Injury Foundation, which was founded by Indian royal Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur, after his son, Shivraj Singh of Jodhpur, sustained a massive head injury while playing polo in February 2005 and slipped into a coma that lasted several months. So worthy was the benefit that Princess Michael of Kent took a break from hawking her husband's family heirlooms to make an appearance. »
Annotated Invitations: The Humane Society's Cool vs. Cruel Benefit
15 hours ago
The entirety of the New York City social set seems to have signed on to host tomorrow’s fifth annual Humane Society’s Cool vs. Cruel benefit, which celebrates this year’s winner of the national fur-free fashion-design competition. Should you find yourself needing to break the ice during the cocktail party at the Bowery Hotel, here are some cool—and cruel—topics of conversation. »
Buy It, Steal It, Skip It: Music Releases for the Week of November 10
16 hours ago
Nirvana Live at Reading (Geffen) For almost two decades, Nirvana’s 1992 headlining performance at the Reading Festival in England was the stuff of grunge lore. Scuzzy videos of Cobain cloaked in a hospital gown onstage at Reading made their way from camcorder to YouTube years ago, but now diehards and new fans alike have the chance to watch the performance with color retouching and without some audibly drunk dude to the left of the camcorder. There aren’t 17 different angles to watch from (the footage is from 1992), and there’s no behind-the-scenes interviews. But that’s fine. The beauty in Live at Reading—beyond the music, which rocks—is how it captures Nirvana’s meteoric rise to fame before Cobain’s untimely suicide. Cobain and his wife, Courtney Love, must have been glad to be away from home, where a media hurricane had just erupted thanks to a Vanity Fair »
The Play’s the Thing for Aniston, Ashton, Demi, Brooke, and More
17 hours ago
Too many stars to fit in one frame: Anthony Mackie, Brooke Shields, Jennifer Aniston, David Cross, Liev Schrieber, Naomi Watts, Jeremy Sisto, Emmy Rossum, Julia Stiles, and Gaby Hoffmann are among the cast members taking a curtain call after performing in the 24 Hour Plays. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images. It has been an unusually starry fall on Broadway—Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig in A Steady Rain, Jude Law in Hamlet, and, later this month, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury in A Little Night Music, just to name a few. But rarely has there been such assemblage of big names on one Broadway stage as there was last night at the American Airlines Theater. Among the performers were Jennifer Aniston, David Cross, Billy Crudup, Rosario Dawson, John Krasinski, Ashton Kutcher, Eva Mendes, Demi Moore, Rosie Perez, Sam Rockwell, Liev Schrieber, Brooke Shields, Julia Stiles, Amber Tamblyn, and Naomi Watts. They were »
Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld Curates Artwork, a Party Crowd
19 hours ago
“The Martus Maw” exhibition. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Last night, New York City’s Lower East Side got a strong dose of international glamour at Nicolas Pol’s art exhibition “The Martus Maw,” curated by Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld. Pol, a 32-year-old Parisian artist, is visiting the United States for the first time. What a nice little turnout for him, then: Jean Paul Gaultier, Mary-Kate Olsen (whose boyfriend, Nate Lowman, is a scene-y downtown artist), Tatiana Santo Domingo, Byrdie Bell, Stavros Niarchos, David Lauren, and other prime New York socials showed up to take in the paintings at the old meat market on Essex Street. »
The Importance of Being Imperfect
20 hours ago
Every Tuesday on Vf.com, filmmaker Jamie Johnson offers a glimpse into the secret lives of the super-rich. You’ve got to love London’s mop-headed screwball of a Mayor, Boris Johnson. Americans don’t get to hear about him very often; mainly he appears to us in news stories highlighting his outlandish behavior and laughable political gaffes. A couple of weeks ago, I read something about him chasing a group of young girls, alleged preteen pickpockets, down city streets while brandishing an iron bar. To be fair, reports claim he was merely responding to a mugging he stumbled upon while out riding his bicycle, and the metal bar was an instrument he picked up only after it was dropped by one of the little outlaws, but I think it’s fair to say that this kind of cavalier approach to solving problems is largely absent from American politics. Recently, »
Who Wore What Where Last Night?
22 hours ago
The New York City social scene was busy last night, as party fixtures bounced around from art-exhibition openings to awards ceremonies, to private dinners. Perhaps the warm fall weather inspired revelers to tuck their usual black ensembles away for the evening and infuse their getups with splashes of color. Can you guess who wore these wild outfits where last night? Related: • Who put her hooves in these shoes? »
War Watch: Is Obama Set to Deploy 40,000 Additional Troops?
22 hours ago
• McClatchy reported on Saturday that President Obama is close to a decision on deploying an additional 34,000 troops to Afghanistan, per General Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation. Last night, CBS News said that Obama has settled on a number around 40,000, a claim White House National Security Advisor James Jones denies. • American intelligence intercepted between 10 and 20 messages from Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of gunning down dozens in last week’s Fort Hood shooting, to Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Yemeni cleric with militant sympathies. (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC) • Building indigenous Afghan security forces is an integral part of the counterinsurgency effort. But Americans currently have the odds stacked against them: one of every four or five men quits each year; there is a lack of professional and disciplined leadership; and the American military training center is understaffed. (New York Times) »
Rupert Murdoch: The Internet Does Not Exist
22 hours ago
Rupert continues his war with the Internet. Over the weekend, he told an interviewer (the interviewer, on Sky News Australia, works for him) that as part of his campaign to charge users for reading his content, what he plans to do is to block Google from indexing his newspapers. As of a year ago, Murdoch had never used Google—never once, by himself, run an Internet search—and so it might be reasonable to assume he doesn’t know what’s involved here. It is quite possible he doesn’t realize—and can’t fathom—that removing News Corp.’s newspapers from Google means that, in the largest part of the information market, they would cease to count, cease to be a factor, that their absence would not register as a hole. Nor, it is possible, does he realize that as much as 90% of his traffic comes from Google and other search engines, »
The Decade in Covers: Pick the Best V.F. Cover of 2001
9 November 2009 9:01 PM, PST
Catherine Zeta Jones on the January 2001 cover of Vanity Fair. Eight years ago, Brad Pitt was the six-packin’ star of a plucky little film called Ocean’s Eleven, and Vanity Fair had him covered. As the aughties give way to the teens, Vf.com asks you to vote for the magazine’s 10 best covers of the decade, one for each year. Today, pick your favorite among the 12 covers of 2001. See a slide show of covers after the jump and vote for your favorite. »
The X-Rated Emperor
9 November 2009 9:00 PM, PST
Launching Penthouse in 1965 to subsidize his painting, Bob Guccione turned graphic porn, muckraking journalism, and tabloid headlines into one of the greatest success stories in magazine history, the cornerstone of a multi-million-dollar publishing empire. Then it all came tumbling down. Patricia Bosworth reconnects with the fallen king, who may have lost his fortune, buried his great love, and alienated his family, but who still remains focused on the future. »
Whom Does This Watch Belong to?
9 November 2009 2:03 PM, PST
One social Cinderella didn't go home when the clock struck midnight at last week's Dia Art Foundation fall gala, which took place at the Hispanic Society of America, in New York City. She probably didn't notice the time as she mingled with guests such as actor James Franco, fashion designer Kate Spade and husband Andy Spade, sunglasses designer Jennifer Creel, fashion editor Stefano Tonchi, and Vanity Fair contributing photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Can you guess whose jewelry box this watch came from? »
America's Parole Systems Could Use a Review
9 November 2009 1:49 PM, PST
Whether or not the Supreme Court protects juvenile offenders from life sentences without parole, it’s clear that the Justices recognize that America’s parole systems are in a terrible state. One of the more important questions raised by oral argument Monday in two related Florida sentencing cases is this: Is there really a meaningful difference—a constitutionally-protected difference—between life sentences without parole and life sentences with it? Terrance Graham and Joe Sullivan care about the answer, and you should too. Learning-disabled and the son of crack-addicted parents, Graham was 16 when he violated the terms of his probation and took part in a home burglary. Sullivan was 13, and mentally impaired, when two older accomplices testified that he raped an elderly woman. Graham’s prosecutor asked for 30 years. The judge sentenced him to life without parole. At his age, meanwhile, Sullivan clearly puts the “unusual” in “cruel and unusual punishment. »
Will Prince William and Kate Middleton Stay Together with an Ocean Between Them?
9 November 2009 12:24 PM, PST
Princess Eugenie had herself a bit of a scare this weekend when she got separated from her security detail. Apparently the level-headed princess kept her cool and approached a local policeman, simply explaining, "I'm Princess Eugenie and I've lost my security." Happily, the lost princess was quickly reunited with her bodyguards. The cost of security for Britain's junior royals is a controversial issue. Meanwhile, it looks as if Eugenie's cousin Prince Harry may be hurdling toward a romantic reunion with on-and-off-again flame Chelsy Davy. The couple was snapped together at England's rugby game against the Australian team, where blonde law student Chelsy appeared to be playfully distracting her brooding prince as he watched the Brits lose. »
Mad Men Confronts Heaven and Hull: The Season 3 Finale
9 November 2009 11:49 AM, PST
After what one overwrought reviewer called “the bleakest hour of prime-time television drama I have ever seen” (“So a dark shadow descended over dark lives, and the result last Sunday was one of those shows where, when it ends, you just sit in your chair for a couple of minutes”—I sometimes feel that way watching Jay Leno), Mad Men faced a double hurdle last night in its chug to the finish line. It had to reckon with the mournful residue of J.F.K.’s assassination—the melancholy pall over the holiday season (living-room Christmas trees have seldom looked less festive)—and execute a season finale that would satisfy built-up expectations and generate new, enticing ones. At first Mad Men seemed as if it was going to dig deeper into the coal pit of despond. The first thing we hear is Don coughing in bed in the morning, a »
Prada: The Factory and Beyond
9 November 2009 11:37 AM, PST
Images courtesy of Prada. Dress up your coffee table with Prada, a new, 708-page book that documents the luxury house's wide-ranging creative endeavors. Proving that a fashion label can be about more than just garments, the book, conceived and edited by Miuccia Prada and her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, explores the work that happens within the walls of Prada’s factory—charting how those covetable clothes, handbags, shoes, and accessories get made—to the impact that Prada has had outside its design studio, with influential projects relating to art, architecture, film, and even the America Cup sailing challenge. Now there’s something that rivals a little black Prada dress—this behemoth of a black book. Available at Prada stores and at prada.com. »
At 30, Mr. Chow Keeps Chugging
9 November 2009 10:20 AM, PST
Mr. Chow. From PatrickMcMullan.com. One night last week, if you’d found yourself on the eastern end of 57th Street in Manhattan, become intrigued by a few serious-looking paparazzi at the entrance of Mr. Chow, and bluffed your way past two women with clipboards, you might have been able to figure out what you’d gotten yourself into—the 30th-anniversary party for the restaurant—with just a little deduction. Your first clue could have been the disco-heavy D.J.’ing (Ring My Bell, Electric Avenue) or the period details (pinky rings, unbuttoned shirts, dyed bobs) of more than a few male guests. Or it could have come from a quick architectural scan. Part of Michael Chow’s mini-chain of Chinese restaurants, the 57th Street branch looks like a perfect specimen of splashy late-70s décor. The split-level space is laid out like a compact dance club, designed for drama and people watching. »
The Health Bill Will Pass. Won't it?
9 November 2009 9:25 AM, PST
I think they have it. If they don’t have the votes for the best and purest version of the bill, I think they at least have a fallback position which holds 60 votes. I believe this has to be true because you wouldn’t risk your presidency and place in history and epochal humiliation if you did not have the votes. You would not have brought it down to the wire like this. On the other hand, I could very well be wrong. It is not just the Obama White House, but something about all politicians that, these days, makes them look like amateurs. None of them fill you with confidence. Nobody seems in control. Harry Reid certainly does not seem like Lyndon Johnson, who, as majority leader of the Senate, was never wrong on a vote count. Or, if he was wrong, he had a deal or the muscle »
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