Vanity Fair articles from April 2006

Vanity Fair archives from April 2006

Hot Type.(The Messiah of Morris Avenue)(My Father Married Your Mother)(My Lives)(Apex Hides the Hurt)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Elissa Schappell He is risen! This Is Spinal Tap star Tony Hendra continues to tap the spiritual in his novel, The Messiah of Morris Avenue (Henry Holt), imagining the Second Coming as a radical young man who defies the idea...

Spy Wonder.(Brandenburg Gate)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Elissa Schappell Henry Porter is a double agent, operating as he does as both Vanity's Fair's dashing British editor and the author of ripping-good literary spy thrillers. The winner of the 2005 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award (one...

Life of Leisure.(Vilebrequin)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Tamasin Day-lewis It's the year of the shrimp or, if you happen to be a crustacean-hater, of the jellyfish. Vilebrequin, makers of the chic-est of swim trunks, creates 60 new prints a season. Big, bold, vibrantly hued flowers,...

Holy Matrimony!(Big Love)(Movie review)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Aaron Gell They call it "the principle"-the doctrine of plural marriage preached by Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, repudiated by the church in 1890, practiced in secret by fundamentalist sects ever since, and if HBO has its way,...

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.(Friends with Money)(Movie review)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Bruce Handy You could describe Friends with Money as a female Big Chill for Generation X, and if you were a marketing executive or a crafter of short movie reviews, you very well might; but doing so would imply a kind of dramatic...

Bound for Glory.(Movie review)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Bruce Handy That was director Mary Harron working up a big sweat on I Shot Andy Warhol as she tried to make a feminist martyr out of real-life nut job Valerie Solanas, the Factory hanger-on who in 1968 did what the film's title...

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?(London dinner parties)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Daisy Prince Two years ago in London, six friends decided to bring together a hodgepodge of international humanity and introduce the Running Dinner Party. "We organized this for our friends so they could benefit from a new group of...

NOT JUST A COUNTRY BOY.(Shooter Jennings)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Lisa Robinson Shooter Jennings, son of the late country-music hero Waylon Jennings and singer Jessi Colter, is more than a little bit hard-core country, more than a little bit honky-tonk rock 'n' roll. He occupies a unique place in...

The Devil Inside.(The Devil and Daniel Johnston)(Movie review)
April 1, 2006... Byline: A. M. Homes The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Jeff Feuerzeig's haunting documentary chronicling the life of folk legend and cult figure Daniel Johnston, leaves the audience mesmerized and terrified-it makes you question everything....

High Loewy.(Raymond Loewy)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... In the middle of the last century, Raymond Loewy-along with his industrial-design peers Henry Dreyfuss and Walter Dorwin Teague-re-invented the aesthetic of American consumer culture. Industrial design was brought into nearly every aspect of...

Altered States.(Arca Pacis Museum, Rome)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The center of Rome has not seen a modern building since the Fascist interventions of the 1930s. That changes this month with the opening of Richard Meier's inspired Ara Pacis Museum, housing the eponymous Altar of Peace, built by Emperor...

SAVANNAH MODERN.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Matt Tyrnauer Savannah, due to years of benign neglect, is among the best-preserved towns in the South, organized around beautiful squares shaded by oaks with Spanish moss. The Telfair Museum of Art sits on two of the squares, and...

Smashing Success.(Dean and Davis Factor of Smashbox Studios)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Christine Muhlke Dean and Davis Factor want to make the world a more beautiful place. After putting Culver City on the fashion and celebrity map with Smashbox Studios-the L.A. facility of choice for photographers such as Steven...

Power Suits; As he waits for American citizenship, the author finds himself involved in two legal actions, helping defend both his adopted country and his native Britain against their own governments.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Christopher Hitchens Because I am a supporter of the armed struggle against the forces of al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Saddam Hussein, I quite often get asked if I have become a Republican in my declining years. Never mind for now the...

Lost in the White House; In contrast to her husband, Laura Bush remains untouched by controversy, her popularity sky-high and her passions hidden.
April 1, 2006... Byline: James Wolcott First Lady Laura Bush has developed a Day-Glo gleam in her eyes that doesn't seem connected to an off switch, a beatific stare that never blinks no matter how much reality gets thrown at it. Less than halfway through...

Gossip Never Dies; Learning of Paris Hilton's latest woes-a $10 million slander suit, harassment charges, and a stash of private videotapes reportedly sold at auction-the author had some advice when he saw the heiress's mother.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Dominick Dunne It amazes me how many people remember the mysterious death in 1965 of Dorothy Kilgallen, the controversial gossip columnist and television personality, which was reported in headlines nationwide as an accidental...

iPod, Therefore I Am; After 30 years as an outsider, Apple founder Steve Jobs is the white-hot center of mass-market media.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Michael Wolff The rise of Steve Jobs in American business life has always been a story about exceptionalism. He's been the alternative. The other. The anti-Gates (with Gates representing the triumph and profitability of hegemony,...

The Man Who Kept King's Secrets; Now 75, Clarence Jones, the galvanizing lawyer who was Martin Luther King Jr.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Douglas Brinkley "The Klan's position in Birmingham was that a dead nigger was a good nigger," an agitated Clarence Jones tells me. "Eugene 'Bull' Connor, [the city's infamous] commissioner of public safety, made it very clear...

Honeymoon Over; George and Jennifer Smith's Royal Caribbean honeymoon cruise ended prematurely last July, the night George vanished.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Bryan Burrough On Monday evening, July 4, 2005, a mammoth, multi-tiered cruise ship, Brilliance of the Seas, weighed anchor and eased out of the harbor at the Greek island of Mykonos, in the Aegean Sea. It was the sixth night of...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Krista Smith AGE AND OCCUPATION: 25, actor. PROVENANCE: Los Angeles. ROCK ON: A lot of hapless screen actors find a second career in sitcoms (cough-Charlie Sheen), but Gordon-Levitt appears to be one of the select few who find...

Around the World with Katty Kay.
April 1, 2006... Byline: George Wayne The daughter of a high-ranking British diplomat, Katty Kay first hit the world-news-reporting scene in 1990, for BBC World Service Radio in Zimbabwe. Now a wife and a mother of three, Kay delivers the news from a cushy...

Teri Hatcher's Desperate Hour; Teri Hatcher spent Valentine's Day reading He's Just Not That into You, but the desolation she felt went far deeper than being dumped by a rakish Mr.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Leslie Bennetts At night on Wisteria Lane, the immaculate houses glow in the dark, their lighted windows warm and welcoming. The pastel-hued facades look as cheerful and innocuous as gaily painted Easter eggs: Lynette's is mint...

Washington's Invisible Man; As the lobbyist who has ignited what might be the biggest government scandal since Watergate, Jack Abramoff became notorious for tossing around money, much of it from the casinos of his Indian-tribe clients, to influence key lawmakers.
April 1, 2006... Byline: David Margolick By now, Jack Abramoff is known in just about every home and Grange hall and shopping mall, every Middlesex village and farm, in America. He's the Washington lobbyist who bought all those senators and...

Fools For Love.(Don't Come Knocking)(Movie review)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Patricia Bosworth "It's a Sam story," full of missed chances and emotions that overwhelm everybody, Jessica Lange told talk-show host Charlie Rose. She was referring to Don't Come Knocking, in which she stars opposite Pulitzer...

Lies and Consequences; Sixteen words That Changed The World With 16 words in his 2003 State of the Union speech-the claim that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium-President Bush not only started a war but triggered a showdown over freedom of the press.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Marie Brenner The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. -George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 28, 2003. What has been the impact of...

What Natalie Knows; Is Natalie Portman in the wrong business.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Evgenia Peretz There are many Hollywood-star things you will never see Natalie Portman do. You will never see her pole-dancing with Kate Moss at Scores, or read obscenities she scrawled about Scarlett Johansson on a bathroom wall....

America's Forgotten War; Four years into a nearly forgotten conflict, the 20,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan are learning to wage war by every possible means.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Sebastian Junger This now, too, is war: an American colonel striding through the market of a mud-walled Afghan town, scanning the produce. There's lots of it-fresh tomatoes, peppers, carrots-which one vegetable seller attributes to...

Shakespeare & Co.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: David Jones Where there's a Will, there's a way. This month, to mark the 442nd anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth, the Royal Shakespeare Company will open its Complete Works Festival in tiny, tidy Stratford-upon-Avon, where...

A Hell of a Fade-Out; Suffering from emphysema, the great British theater critic Kenneth Tynan arrived in Santa Monica in 1976 with his dazzling second wife, Kathleen, their two children, and hopes for a new beginning.(Biography)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Sam Kashner In October of 1976, sun-drenched Santa Monica was about to receive some unlikely guests: the English drama critic Kenneth Tynan, his beautiful wife, Kathleen, and their two children. Tynan, widely regarded as one of the...

Robert Altman; When M*A*S*H opened, in 1970, Robert Altman established himself as an independent, irreverent force in Hollywood.(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... What is your idea of perfect happiness? Screening a new picture in a room full of "virgins." What is your greatest fear? See above answer. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Buffalo Bill. Which living...

Fordgate, Abramoffgate, Godfathergate, Quailgate, and Tessiegate ...(Editorial)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Graydon Carter Yes, yes, I know that some of you would have preferred it if we hadn't included Tom Ford on the cover of the last issue. And some objected to the notion of a man who is dressed sharing a cover with women who aren't....

I Want My I-Man; Imus the Great; flight risks; missing Mississippi; Moore is less; head-hunting; Lindsay channeling Angelina.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... I am a Canadian who has watched and listened to Don Imus for years ["Don Imus's Last Stand?," by Buzz Bissinger, February]. The level of respect he elicits from the likes of Tom Brokaw, Andrea Mitchell, John McCain, and others is evidenced by...