Vanity Fair articles from April 2008

Vanity Fair archives from April 2008

Notes From Abroad.
April 1, 2008... Byline: --GRAYDON CARTER When I came to New York, most of the city's restaurants were still living in the first half of the last century. If you were flush and a big shot, there was '21' or the handful of serious French restaurants--all of...

Keeping Up With The Indiana Joneses.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... Have faith, George!; what Karl Rove revealed; view from six feet under; Orwellian allies; crowning issues; and more What a thrill to arrive home and find Indiana Jones on the cover of VANITY FAIR [February]! Thank you. It's been 27 years...

Fanfair.(celebrities)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY JULIAN DUFORT 30 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE APRIL 2008 EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES From left: Boyd Gaines, Patti LuPone, and Laura Benanti star in the sensational revival of Arthur Laurents's Gypsy,...

The Cultural Divide: April.(Calendar)
April 1, 2008... Balenciaga's newly opened West Coast flagship introduces gladiator sandals, couture shapes, and a veritable garden of spring prints to the lucky ladies of Los Angeles. (8670 Melrose Avenue) Complete with randy sailors, grass skirts, secret...

Call Of The Wild.(Alex Beard)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... Byline: --A. M. HOMES ALEX BEARD OPENS HIS SOHO STUDIO At 37, Alex Beard is an accomplished artist, an adventurer, and an accidental entrepreneur redefining the New York gallery scene with his SoHo studio, which doubles as an...

Steeped In Time.(Lewis Lapham's 'Lapham's Quarterly')(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Byline: --CULLEN MURPHY Tall, silver-maned, classically attired, Lewis Lapham cuts an increasingly distinctive figure in the world of magazine publishing. He'd fill out a toga with conviction, as befits a patrician scold of a dying...

My Stuff.(Lulu de Kwiatkowski)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... Byline: LULU DE KWIATKOWSKI Textile designer Lulu de Kwiatkowski, 36, has been creating vibrant colored fabrics and hand-printed wall coverings for her eponymous line, Lulu DK, for the past nine years. This spring, a compendium of collages...

Tied And True.(Alexander Olch's necktie collection )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Byline: --JONATHAN KELLY ALEXANDER OLCH'S IVY LEAGUE INSPIRATIONS After completing his undergraduate thesis film, about a fictitious tailor, Alexander Olch gave each member of his crew a personally designed necktie. The ties were so...

The Return Of The Dinner Party.(planning dinner parties )
April 1, 2008... Entertaining at home is back in fashion. Whether you're planning an intimate gathering for six or7 you're a member of a roving supper club, in which members trade off hosting in a sort of round-robin pattern, hospitality and decorum matter....

Rules Of Engagement.(husband-wife relations)(Excerpt)
April 1, 2008... Blanche Ebbutt's Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Wives were first published nearly 100 years ago. Now a reissue of the pocket-size rule books, from A. & C. Black, Ltd., offers both archaic and not-so-dated tips on achieving marital bliss,...

Let Me Entertain You.(Patti LuPone )(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Byline: --DAVID KAUFMAN PATTI LuPONE BRINGS MAMA ROSE TO NEW HEIGHTS E thel Merman. Angela Lansbury. Tyne Daly. Bernadette Peters. The Broadway divas and stars of a certain age who have tackled the domineering Mama Rose in Gypsy would...

Hot Type.
April 1, 2008... Byline: ELISSA SCHAPPELL In Brief, but Fondly Sophie Dahl reminisces about Playing with the Grown-Ups (Doubleday). Simon Doonan cultivates an Eccentric Glamour (Simon & Schuster). John Hodgman prefaces The McSweeney's Joke...

Eyes Wide Shut.('The Life Before Her Eyes')(Movie review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Byline: --GRAHAM FULLER The cataclysm that sunders best friends Diana ( Evan Rachel Wood ) and Maureen ( Eva Amurri ) in The Life Before Her Eyes is a Columbine-like massacre at their high school. But director Vadim Perelman's beautifully...

Night-Table Reading.('The Glory and the Dream,' 'Come Be My Light,' and 'Lush Life')(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... THE PRODUCERS MATTHEW WEINER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, MAD MEN***** The Glory and the Dream, by William Manchester (Bantam). "It's an amazing and completely entertaining social history of the United States, written with a smile and one eye trained...

Heroine Chic.('Good Girl Art')(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Byline: --H. SCOTT JOLLEY In the early 1930s, "good girl art" meant good drawings of beautiful women appearing in comic books, newspaper strips, and pulp magazines. Some were merely cheesecake; many others were endowed with extraordinary...

Saving Face.
April 1, 2008... Byline: --OLIVIA STRAND RADIANT SKIN FROM A HOLISTIC HEALER For almost 20 years, Dr. Nish Joshi has been cleaning up the diets of the world's most professionally beautiful people. His latest goal? To clean up their skin-care regimes....

Hot Looks.(cosmetics and skin care products)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Byline: --LINDSEY KEENAN Double up your anti-aging regimen with Avon's Anew Ultimate Contouring Eye System, which includes a cream and a concentrated elixir.... Chantecaille's Vital Essence with Arbutin is a cool, soothing serum that...

Beauty.
April 1, 2008... CAPTION(S): Circa 1970 Karl Lagerfeld 1973 Chlo launches first fragrance, Chlo 1997 Stella McCartney 2007 Paulo Melim Andersson 2007 Clmence Posy, Anja Rubik, and Chlo Sevigny 2008 Chlo Eau de Parfum

Ready For Your Close-Up.
April 1, 2008... Thierry Mugler, the cult couturier and master nose behind the beloved fragrance Angel, invites women to put their best face forward with the Art of Metamorphosis, his first foray into beauty. The maquillage collection was created with a...

Fairground.(celebrities)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... AROUND THE WORLD, ONE PARTY AT A TIME APRIL 2OO8 LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION Christopher Bailey hosts a preview party in celebration of the opening of the "VANITY FAIR Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008" exhibition at the National...

The Best Of Enemies.
April 1, 2008... Byline: ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN CORBITT Devoid of sentiment and possessed of a laserlike mind, cable-television pioneer John Malone is the secret crush of other media moguls, most of whom he's rolled. Can he now wrest part of...

Beijing's Olympic Makeover.
April 1, 2008... Byline: BY WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE With its grandiose architecture, cowed citizens, and earnest self-improvement efforts--No pushing! No swearing! No irony!--Beijing is determined to be the perfect host. But no amount of pomp and prep work...

VANITY FAIR Nominates Gina Gibney Dance.
April 1, 2008... Byline: HOLLY BRUBACH PHOTOGRAPH BY MARY ELLEN MARK Because they not only make art but take action, bringing the wisdom they've acquired as dancers into the lives of women whose minds and bodies house the memory of domestic violence. ...

Good Evening, Vietnam!(author on his travel to Ho Chi Minh City and Cambodia)(Travel narrative)
April 1, 2008... Byline: BY BRIAN McNALLY PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN STANMEYER After a string of restaurant successes (Odeon, Indochine, 44, etc.) and at least two midlife crises, the author confronted his worst fear--terminal boredom. Trading the...

Krasinski's Coffee Break.(John Krasinski)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Byline: JULIAN SANCTON PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN HUBA It would be easier to envy John Krasinski's success if he weren't so damned humble about it. "At no point in the day do I look at myself and go, 'Yeah. This all makes sense,'" the 28-year-old...

Early Paparazzi.
April 1, 2008... Byline: BY JAMES BENNETT

Robert Frank's Unsentimental Journey.(Interview)
April 1, 2008... Byline: BY CHARLIE LEDUFF PHOTOGRAPH BY EDWARD KEATING Published in 1958, Robert Frank's photographic manifesto, The Americans, torched the national myth, bringing him such comrades as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and--for a controversial...

All Is Vanities . . . Nothing Is Fair: Vanities.(Summer Glau)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... Byline: KRISTA SMITH PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK SELIGER STYLED BY MICHAEL ROBERTS APRIL 2008 Summer Glau AGE: 26. PROVENANCE: San Antonio. YOU KNOW HER AS... Cameron from Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the spin-off of...

Vanities.(Daffy Duck)
April 1, 2008... Byline: --BRUCE McCALL Supplemental Notes to Daffy as a Duck The family name of Duck, an Anglicized version of the German Ente, first appears on old Onkel Othmar's pilot's-license application in May 1915, mere days after the sinking of...

In Character.(Chloe Sevigny)(Brief article)(Photograph)
April 1, 2008... Byline: WRITTEN, DIRECTED, AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY HOWARD SCHATZ . . . STARRING CHLO SEVIGNY You're a hyperkinetic eight-year-old drama queen at her birthday party, hearing that the clown has just arrived. You're a mom at your...

Diary: Rudolph W. Giuliani.(Interview)
April 1, 2008... Byline: --AS TOLD TO CRAIG BROWN LOSERSHIP: LESSONS IN ANTAGONISM, SECURITY, AND IRRELEVANCE. People often ask me about the source of my ideas, my strength, my energy. "What about my courage?," I reply. Sure, they want to know...

Who Says Women Aren't Funny?
April 1, 2008... Byline: STYLED BY MICHAEL ROBERTS AND JESSICA DIEHL The idea that women aren't funny--and which male said that? --seems pretty laughable these days. TV has unleashed a new generation of comediennes, who act, perform stand-up, write, and...

They're Funny That Way.(women comedians)
April 1, 2008... Kristen Wiig Sketch comic, actress. Since making her debut in Saturday Night Live' s 2005-6 season, Wiig has brought an eclectic cast of characters to life with a level of comic verite not seen since Will Ferrell left the show. Indeed,...

The Gaza Bombshell.
April 1, 2008... After failing to anticipate Hamas's victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential...

Bond Ambition.(girls of James Bond movies)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Byline: A. A. GILL PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL ROBERTS There should be a war memorial to fallen Bond Girls. First they fall from the straight and narrow, then they fall for Bond, and finally they fall under a train, or into a great white's lap...

A Claim To Camelot.
April 1, 2008... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY HARRY BENSON What's a V.F. editor to do when a respectable financier, Jack Worthington, who looks a lot like John F. Kennedy, says he believes he may be the murdered president's son, and offers the magazine an...

The 2007: Windfall Report: America's 50 Richest Paydays: Who, What, And How Much.
April 1, 2008... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY DOYLE PARTNERS Stock cash-outs, I.P.O.'s, sales of companies, real-estate deals--PETER NEWCOMB identifies the players whose bottom lines got the highest boost last year SOURCE: V.F. estimates, FactSet Research...

Calvin To The Core.
April 1, 2008... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRUCE WEBER When Calvin Klein sold his business, five years ago, he stepped off a four-decade juggernaut that harnessed obsessive perfectionism to a gut understanding of what the American body wanted. His vision moved...

Sketchbook.
April 1, 2008... Byline: BY ANITA KUNZ

Credits.
April 1, 2008... ON THE COVER Sarah Silverman wears a dress by Alberta Ferretti and a bracelet by Karry'O. Tina Fey wears a dress by J. Mendel and a bracelet by John Hardy. Amy Poehler wears a dress by Vera Wang and bracelets from the Metropolitan Museum...

Julie Andrews.(Interview)
April 1, 2008... Born in interwar Britain, Julie Andrews became a cinematic icon as Mary Poppins and, later, Maria von Trapp. With the forthcoming publication of her memoir, Home , the Oscar winner reflects on family, meadowlarks, and her nose What is your...