Vanity Fair articles from January 2003

Vanity Fair archives from January 2003

Buenos Diaz.(Cameron Diaz)(Interview)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2003... Cameron Diaz is either very lucky or very smart, but the way she conquered Hollywood has been low on angst and high on laughs. Forget the giggles on the set of Charlie's Angels; Diaz even lightened up the filming of Gangs of New York. BRUCE HANDY...

An inconvenient Iraqi.(Ahmad Chalabi and Iraq-United States relations)
January 1, 2003... Scholarly, charismatic, and wealthy, Ahmad Chalabi could be enjoying the good life; instead, he may be Iraq's next leader. Born to one of Baghdad's most prominent families, which went into exile after the 1958 military takeover, he has been...

Diana's secrets.(Princess Diana and troubles in the British royal family, including Paul Burrell's trial)
January 1, 2003... After the trial of Princess Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, was halted by the Queen, one mystery remained: why was he prosecuted, given all the ugly secrets he knew? In London, DOMINICK DUNNE learns of the vendetta behind Burrell's arrest, the...

Steve Case's last stand.(AOL Time Warner troubles)
January 1, 2003... With the departures of AOL Time Warner C.E.O. Gerald Levin and C.O.O. Robert Pittman, all the anger and hostility consuming the world's most powerful media company is focused on chairman Steve Case. Employees from the Time Warner side blame him...

France's prophet provocateur.(Bernard-Henri Levy)(Interview)
January 1, 2003... Only France could produce a phenomenon like Bernard-Henri Levy, the dashing 54-year-old writer, philosopher, and activist. As celebrated as any rock star, he speaks uncomfortable truths, wields influence in Bosnia, Afghanistan, and the Middle...

Stealing Brando.(performance artists/director Tony Kaye and his mentor, Marlon Brando)(Interview)
January 1, 2003... For most of his 50 years, Tony Kaye has had an obsession with being a mad genius, but any genius he displayed-in his "hype art," in his daring ads for Nike and Volvo, and in his 1998 debut as a film director (American History X)-was overshadowed...

When Park Ave. met pop art.(artist Larry Rivers)
January 1, 2003... Like his art, Larry Rivers's life was always changing and sometimes shocking, a bohemian collage of jazz, women, drugs, and fatherhood that ended last August. His orbit included Andy Warhol, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Willem de Kooning, and,...

Jayne's world.(art collector Jayne Wrightsman)
January 1, 2003... Intensely private and utterly controlled, Jayne Wrightsman inhabits the pinnacle of New York society as one of the late 20th century's greatest art collectors. But even friends know little of her life before she married Charles Wrightsman, who...

Israel's payback principle.(Arab-Jewish conflict)
January 1, 2003... Since late 2000, Israel has changed its covert tactic of "targeted killings," now openly eliminating Palestinians it holds responsible for suicide bombings. The U.S. just assassinated an al-Qaeda leader in Yemen. With the war on terror, the...

Living with fear.(Arab-Israeli relations, Iraqi-American relations)(Editor's Letter)(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... Only hours before I sat down to write this, 11 Israelis were killed and dozens lay wounded in Jerusalem following a suicide bombing on a bus packed with children on their way to school. As horrific as that was, such attacks have become almost...

Keith Richards; The Rolling Stones' indestructible guitarist is rock's ultimate outlaw.(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 1, 2003... What is your idea of perfect happiness? Now. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Me. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Modesty and humility. What is your favorite journey? Life....

NOTES FROM the UNDERGROUND; Rocking in the trenches; Mr.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... I was too young to hit the clubs, but "Rebel Nights" [by Lisa Robinson, November] made me feel as if I were right there in the trenches when Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, and the New York Dolls were saving rock from...

Hot Type.
January 1, 2003... Byline: Elissa Schappell Upon turning 80, Norman Mailer, most fully alive and at the height of his powers when pissing people off, expounds on the pitfalls of early success, the necessity of work habits, and other fine points of the...

HOT TRACKS.
January 1, 2003... Byline: Lisa Robinson Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. -"My Back Pages," Bob Dylan. In with the old, out with the new. Actually new: Lou Reed's fascination with Edgar Allan Poe (whom he...

VANITY FAIR NOMINATES OZONE SLEUTHS.(Joe Farman)(Jon Shanklin)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Byline: John Gillies Because they said the sky was falling, and they were right. because in 1982, Dr. Joe Farman, then director of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, relied on gut instinct rather than technology and took a closer...

Kiera Chaplin.(Brief Article)(Biography)
January 1, 2003... age and occupation: 20; model, actor. provenance: Corsier, Switzerland. not your typical swiss miss: Kiera's grandparents Charlie and Oona Chaplin settled in Switzerland in 1952 during the height of McCarthyism. Growing up, Kiera says,...

Chuck Barris, Gong but not forgotten.(Interview)
January 1, 2003... Byline: George Wayne Television today, which features lots of people willing to do anything to be on-air, owes a good deal to The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show, whose Dr. Frankenstein was Chuck Barris, a colorful...

Action Attraction.(Jennifer Garner)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Byline: Michael Hogan On ABC's Alias, Jennifer Garner plays a gorgeously geeky grad student who secretly moonlights as an ass-kicking agent for the renegade intelligence agency SD-6 and as a mole for the C.I.A. In real life, Garner's a...

Cut to the Chaste.(Down with Love)(Movie Review)
January 1, 2003... Byline: Ned Zeman Back in the 50s and early 60s-back before directors like Abel Ferrara and screenwriters like Joe Eszterhas, back when men were men and women were girls-there was something called subtlety in Hollywood. A virginal blonde...