Vanity Fair articles from February 2006

Vanity Fair archives from February 2006

In Plane Sight; In the wake of the Miami airport shooting in December, the Federal Air Marshal Service is under harsher scrutiny than ever.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Richard Gooding When a disturbed Home Depot paint salesman snapped aboard an American Airlines jet at Miami International Airport in early December, two casually dressed men leapt from their seats and into the fray. In those...

Paula Patton.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Krista Smith AGE AND OCCUPATION: 30, actress. PROVENANCE: Los Angeles. FROM MR. SMITH TO WASHINGTON: Patton, whose first role was alongside Will Smith in Hitch, is set to star opposite Denzel Washington in Tony Scott's thriller...

Fantasy Football: My Team.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Holly Brubach First, the coaching staff. Offensive coordinator: Ed Harris, in Radio. Defensive coordinator: Gene Hackman, in The Replacements. Head coach and G.M.: me. The starting lineup: Tom Brady, quarterback. Sterling...

The Greatest American Antihero.(Interview)
February 1, 2006... Byline: George Wayne As the ringmaster on his notorious talk show, Jerry Springer juggled feuding dwarfs and pugilistic transsexuals for 16 years, but it was the unlikely marriage of high art and his show's gutter-low subject matter that...

Confessions of a Teenage Movie Queen; Bulimia, drugs, the hideous battle between her violent convict father and co-manager mother-for two years Lindsay Lohan has been in a tabloid-fodder spiral.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Evgenia Peretz If you think her dad sounds unpleasant, you should meet the paparazzi. There's "Sam the Skulker," a middle-aged Richard Belzer look-alike-only scary. There's the charmer in the Jaguar, who alternates between...

Mr. Fitz Goes to Washington; U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is the scourge of al-Qaeda terrorists, corrupt Chicago political machines, former media tycoon Conrad Black, and-as special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame investigation-the West Wing.
February 1, 2006... Byline: David Margolick For months he was the specter haunting Washington, rarely seen and even more rarely heard, incessantly discussed, psychoanalyzed, anticipated, criticized-and feared. Who, everyone wondered, was this guy Patrick...

Driven By Dynasty; After the death of his fabled grandfather, Gianni Agnelli, Lapo Elkann became the dashing public face of Fiat, while his media-shy brother, John, took over the endangered family empire.(Biography)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Seal It looked like just another overdose in the cocaine-dusted backstreets of Turin, Italy: white male, 28, comatose in a small apartment in the red-light district. The call for an ambulance came at about 9 a.m. on Monday,...

Karenna's World; Karenna Gore Schiff stepped into the spotlight with her father's 2000 run for the White House, making his campaign her cause.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Laura Jacobs The country got its first good look at her while she waited to take the stage. She was sheathed in a sleeveless dress, her blond Breck Girl hair shining to her shoulders. Television viewers saw her take-touchingly-one...

Gawk of the Town.(Nick Denton)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Jim Windolf Nick Denton, the 39-year-old founder of Gawker Media, is "the Rupert Murdoch of the blogosphere," according to pundit-socialite Arianna Huffington. He may not run the world yet, but Denton shares Murdoch's tabloid...

Don Imus's Last Stand? Don Imus's verbal grenades hit the airwaves every morning, drawing millions of listeners and high-profile guests such as Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw, and John McCain.(Interview)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Buzz Bissinger It's Monday morning and I'm in a stretch limousine with Don Imus. "I have this moron from Vanity Fair with me," he says into his cell phone. "He fucked me. Ordinarily I wouldn't take him." I laugh, because...

Camelot's Second Lady; Beautiful, blue-blooded, and fascinated by power, Susan Mary Alsop spent her first marriage as the darling of postwar Paris diplomatic circles.(Biography)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Susan Braudy My mother's interest was power, power, power. -Bill Patten Jr. When Susan Mary Alsop first hosted Jackie and John Kennedy together, on February 14, 1961, the new president, seated on her right, said, "Tell me...

Jay McInerney; After his first novel, the tragicomic Bright Lights, Big City, in 1984, Jay McInerney was hailed as a modern F. Scott Fitzgerald.(Interview)
February 1, 2006... What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being in love. What is your greatest fear? Not being in love. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Pepe Le Pew. Which living person do you most admire? The...

If You Have Nothing to Hide ...(George W. Bush, Dich Cheney)(Editorial)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Graydon Carter The C.E.O. administration, as the George Bush White House liked to call itself when it came into office in 2000-before it became the "Mission Accomplished" administration in 2003-has become the semantic...

Caught Up in the Rapture; What would Jesus think.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... As one of the secular humanists destined to die a gory death in the forthcoming Armageddon, I was prompted by Craig Unger's insightful article "American Rapture" [December] to dust off my Sunday-school-era Bible and reread the book of...

LEAKING THE SECRET ON THE LATEST HOT SPOT, ELBA, ITALY.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Swim, tan, and shop. Napoleon's favored vacation spot, Elba, part of the Tuscan Archipelago, in the Tyrrhenian Sea, is emerging as the destination resort for travelers from around the world. While Europeans have long ferried to the fish-shaped...

BRIT PICKS.(english changes the fashion trends)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... No one does satire better than the English. First came The Chap, the magazine for modern gentlemen who prefer ancient rituals of courtesy and dress and shudder at such things as fast-food corporations and the information superhighway. And now...

APReS-SKI.(Aspen Skiing Co.'s services)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Aspen, the winter-wonderland restaurant and bar in New York City, looks and feels like a ski lodge. There's a bar with Lucite deer heads, a fireplace, a private Gonzo dining room-in honor of Hunter S. Thompson-and a menu packed with dishes such...

Hot Tracks.
February 1, 2006... Byline: Lisa Robinson For an industry that's in a snit over diminishing sales, the music business doesn't make it easy to listen to music. If you can manage to pry open the CD package, listen on your computer without getting attacked by...

UPSIDE BROWN.(services provided by the restaurant)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Victoria Mather When I was a girl, my mother told me that there was only one hotel in London where a lady could respectably stay on her own: Brown's. The Ritz was too ritzy, the Savoy too racy, and you never knew whom you might...

Garden of Ediths.("Grey Gardens")(Movie Review)
February 1, 2006... Byline: A. M. Homes Would you bring my little radio?... I have got to have some professional music," says Edith Bouvier Beale in the 1976 cult-classic documentary Grey Gardens. And now she will, as Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug...

MAKING MAGIC.("The Magic Numbers")(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Edward Helmore In the forests of British musical opportunity, the Magic Numbers are easy to spot: they're like woodland creatures, untroubled and gregarious-not at all like the tense, skinny rockers who have lately been making...

Having a Ball.(performances of aristocracts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Punch Hutton Once upon a time, the 18-year-old daughters of the United Kingdom's aristocracy were presented in the grandest fashion to Her Majesty the Queen in a ceremony that would officially herald the commencement of the...

Virgin Comfort.(Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd.)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Byline: Emily Poenisch With its sassy vibe and cool comfort, Virgin Atlantic Airways has set a standard that's tough to beat. And now, chairman Sir Richard Branson is sweetening the deal for Upper Class passengers and Flying Club Gold...

Through A Lens, Darkly.(Michael Moore's documentary movies)
February 1, 2006... Byline: James Wolcott Every documentarian with integrity to spare should enshrine a Buddha statue of Michael Moore in the editing room, next to the coffee machine. It doesn't matter whether the filmmaker is a fan of Moore's or considers...