Vanity Fair articles from January 2007

Vanity Fair archives from January 2007

Don't Ask ... Don't E-mail; When Mark Foley's sexually explicit instant messages to former congressional pages were leaked in September, plenty of people helped him toward self-immolation, not least the G.O.P. leadership.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Gail Sheehy, Judy Bachrach Everyone knew Mark Foley was gay. Everyone. And everyone who had a stake in his success-party, press, parents, staff, supporters, and pages-conspired for their own purposes to keep the closet half closed....

Ruthless With Scissors; Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs's memoir of a shattered childhood, has spent more than two years on the New York Times best-seller list, spawned a Hollywood movie, and earned him literary stardom.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Buzz Bissinger In the summer of 2002, when Theresa Turcotte found out that Augusten Burroughs had written a book that was already a best-seller, she was happy for him. They had grown up together as teenagers in western...

Royal Treatment.(Peter Morgan)(Interview)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Tamasin Day-lewis If Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker are nominated for Oscars this season for their respective roles in The Queen and The Last King of Scotland, they will be thanking the same screenwriter: the dazzlingly talented...

Cinderella in Sneakers; She's the kind of actress who gets thrown a surprise birthday party by Robert De Niro, loves killing time with the grips-and can't wait for the next Harry Potter book.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Jim Windolf Dakota Fanning picked the place. A little Mexican restaurant called Casa Vega, on Ventura Boulevard, in the San Fernando Valley. The waiters wore black bow ties. The light was dim. A few people were drinking at the bar,...

Prisoner of Key West; How Peter Halmos's $16 million yacht ended up marooned on Key West tidal flats makes for a gripping tale.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Bryan Burrough From the docks on the north side of Key West, a few blocks from the honky-tonks of Duval Street, Man of War Harbor sparkles blue and pale green, its deep channels etched in navy, the flats a shimmering swath of...

The Esquire Decade; During a decade of war, assassination, and racial fear, Esquire editor Harold T. P. Hayes and his talented staff brought a revolutionary barrage of literary and visual firepower to America's newsstands.(Harold Thomas Pace Hayes)(Company overview)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Frank Digiacomo Along with the heat, the summer of 1963 brought a palpable tension to the so-called United States. The May images of black demonstrators terrorized by fire hoses and police dogs in Birmingham still resonated on June...

Norman Mailer; Over a career that has spanned six decades, Norman Mailer has been a literary force to be reckoned with-from The Naked and the Dead, in 1948, to his notable presence in New Journalism, to his current and most controversial feat, The Castle in the Forest.(Interview)
January 1, 2007... What is your idea of perfect happiness? Let the next 35 responses offer their clues. A fool draws a road map to his magic city. What is your greatest fear? That I will never meet Michiko Kakutani and so not be able to tell her...

One Day in November.(Iraq war, presidential advisors pass the buck)(Editorial)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Graydon Carter On the Friday before the midterm elections, we posted on vanityfair.com an abbreviated version of "Neo Culpa," the story by contributing editor David Rose that appears in this issue on page 82. Rose's report details...

Hell and Haditha.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... William Langewiesche's "Rules of Engagement" [November] illustrates, perhaps unwittingly, a profound truth about the American way of war since World War II. The habit of empire building requires boots on the ground, and the Marines have done an...

The Cultural Divide January.
January 1, 2007... 11 Honorary chair Carolyne Roehm kicks off the 31st Annual American Red Cross Designers' Show House with an opening talk about design in the renowned Ann Norton House and Sculpture Gardens, in West Palm Beach. Interior designers and landscape...

Hot Type.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Elissa Schappell Yikes! Richard A. Clarke's nail-biter suspense novel Breakpoint (Putnam) irrefutably proves that there is nothing like being America's pre-eminent counterterrorism expert to goose up your book with real terror. ...

THE 60S, STONED.(Prime Green)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Elissa Schappell Hard-hitting, hard-living novelist Robert Stone, patron saint of drunks and drifters, turns to memoir in Prime Green, flashing back to his post-navy stint on the front lines of the 60s counterculture, bombing...

Travel.(Naples, Italy)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Matt Tyrnauer There is nothing more beautiful than the Bay of Naples under a full moon. There are few places more squalid than Scampia, the Naples slum, where Camorra gangs control the streets. Naples, Italy's third-largest city,...

Special Alert: Horoscope U.S.A. A planetary configuration not seen since 1776 is coming our way, heralding chaos, revolution, and rebirth.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Michael Lutin All alone and more paranoid by the day, President George Bush is getting it from all sides. He can't trust anybody-not even his mother. His detractors blame him for the state of the world. Some say the end is near....

Why Women Aren't Funny; What makes the female so much deadlier than the male.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Christopher Hitchens Be your gender what it may, you will certainly have heard the following from a female friend who is enumerating the charms of a new (male) squeeze: "He's really quite cute, and he's kind to my friends, and he...

Courage, Katie! Savaged by the media, her ratings anemic, Katie Couric has stuck to her cozy, chirpy guns.
January 1, 2007... Byline: James Wolcott When the going gets tough, the media get ugly, and when the media get ugly, the going gets tougher. Every word and deed is micro-analyzed and every motive impugned. Such was the embattled condition Katie Couric found...

Race Against Terror; As Greece prepared to host the 2004 Olympics, a terrorist group called November 17 held Athens in its violent grip.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Nicholas Gage On December 23, 1975, Richard S. Welch, the C.I.A.'s Athens station chief, and his wife, Cristina, left a Christmas party at the American ambassador's sprawling residence, near the U.S. Embassy. Their driver steered...

Alice Braga.(Brief article)(Biography)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Krista Smith AGE: 23. PROVENANCE: So Paulo, Brazil. YOU MIGHT KNOW HER FROM: City of God, Fernando Meirelles's 2002 film set in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, in which Braga, radiant and raven-maned, stood out from the Scorsese-esque...

Dick Cheney's Google Searches.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: David Friend triglyceride onion rings cholesterol HDL good cholesterol HDL fried onion rings HDL freedom fries osama bin laden pakistan osama panama osama yucatan Google Maps: tora bora Google...

Neo Culpa; Please don't call them "architects of the war": Richard (Prince of Darkness) Perle, David (Axis of Evil) Frum, Kenneth (Cakewalk) Adelman, and other elite neoconservatives who pushed for the invasion of Iraq are beside themselves at the result.
January 1, 2007... Byline: David Rose I About That Cakewalk... I remember sitting with Richard Perle in his suite at London's Grosvenor House hotel and receiving a private lecture on the importance of securing victory in Iraq. "Iraq is a very good...

Girls Gotta Dream! In the audience on opening night, neophyte movie director Bill Condon was blown away by the staging and the message of Dreamgirls, Michael Bennett's 1981 musical, based on the story of the Supremes.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Peter Biskind Watching Dreamgirls-the-movie, slated for release December 25, is like stepping onto a bullet train and seeing the world outside the windows pass by in a breathless blur, one that doesn't end until the film's last...