Vanity Fair articles from January 2008

Vanity Fair archives from January 2008

The Golden Suicides; When Theresa Duncan, 40, took her own life on July 10, followed a week later by her boyfriend, Jeremy Blake, 35, their friends were stunned and the press was fascinated: what had destroyed this glamorous couple, stars of New York's multi-media art world, still madly in love after 12 years.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Nancy Jo Sales On a rainy October night in Washington, D.C., the friends and family of Jeremy Blake gathered for a private memorial service at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Blake, an art-world star acclaimed for his lush and moody...

A Legend with Legs.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Sam Kashner Fourteen years ago, Angie Dickinson did the unthinkable: she walked off the television program This Is Your Life, leaving its host, Ralph Edwards, and a collection of Dickinson's family and celebrity and hometown...

England Made Them; Meet Garech Browne, the Guinness heir whose father raised pigs in their drawing room.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Christopher Hitchens You might well think that it is easy to write about eccentric English people. "An embarrassment of riches" is a phrase that leaps to mind. After all, "England is the paradise," as George Santayana wrote, "of...

Mia Farrow; From her early days on Peyton Place and her haunting performance in Rosemary's Baby, Mia Farrow has lived a life not unfamiliar with romance and horror.(Interview)
January 1, 2008... What is your idea of perfect happiness? A world community governed with responsibility, compassion, and respect. What is your current state of mind? Galvanized. What or who is the greatest love of your life? James Agee....

The Abominable No-Man and Mr. 9/11.(on George W. Bush and Rudy Giuliani)
January 1, 2008... Byline: Graydon Carter Our good president has been making his political rounds with pronounced zest in what appears to be a valiant effort to prove he is still relevant. One day he is Bush the Adventurer-the man who blundered into...

Eulogy for a Soldier.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... Anyone who does not pause to reconsider his position, be it for or against, on the Iraq war after reading "A Death in the Family" [by Christopher Hitchens, November] is not human. Finally, a tribute to a soldier that is not a thinly disguised...

The Cultural Divide January.(Calendar)
January 1, 2008... 17 David Mamet wags his finger at American politics in his new comedy, November, premiering at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre on January 17. Nathan Lane stars as a familiarly beleaguered incumbent, President Charles Smith, in the...

Striking Oil, Striking Blood.(There Will Be Blood)(Movie review)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Byline: Bruce Handy What with its price tickling $100 a barrel at press time, and the U.S. allegedly not waging war for it all over the Middle East, there couldn't be a better time to make a movie out of Oil!, Upton Sinclair's muckraking...

Amped-Up Art.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Michael Hogan Plenty of artists use rock 'n' roll for inspiration, but only Todd DiCiurcio gets onstage and gives bands the bowl-of-fruit treatment while they perform. "I start when they start playing, and I end when they end,"...

Beginner's Pluck.(Beginner's Greek)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Byline: Elissa Schappell While the title of James Collins's comedy of manners, Beginner's Greek, might cause Jane Austen to raise an eyebrow, were she to crack it she'd discover a debut novel worthy of her own book club. Like Austen,...

THE GREAT ESCAPE.(Malibu Beach Inn)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Byline: Matt Tyrnauer David Geffen has pushed through a lot of tough projects in his time, but perhaps none tougher than his new, 47-room luxury hotel on Malibu's Carbon Beach. Between local building codes, semi-annual wildfires, and the...

NEW YORK.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Namehere What Miuccia Prada's intimate dinner party at the Carlyle hotel honors Francesco Vezzoli's Performa 07 commission, at the Guggenheim. Who Maureen Dowd, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Salman Rushdie,...

NEW YORK.
January 1, 2008... What One of France's most celebrated decorators, Jacques Grange, is honored at the French Embassy's Cultural Services building. Who Zac Posen, Richard Meier, Steven Roth, Leon Black, Simon Doonan, Fabiola Beracasa, and more.

The Year of Governing Dangerously; Many thought Eliot Spitzer was the guy who could clean up Albany-until he went to war with almost every politician, of either party, in New York State.
January 1, 2008... Byline: David Margolick It was Inauguration Day-Day One, the day everything was supposed to change. The strains of "Fanfare for the Common Man" dissolved into the chilly Albany air, and Governor Eliot Spitzer, Princeton '81, Harvard Law...

Vanity Fair Nominates Viva Glam.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Elissa Schappell In 1994, MAC's founders, makeup artists Frank Toskan and Frank Angelo, decided to enlist in the war against AIDS. Their vision: to market a lipstick from which 100 percent of the proceeds would go directly to...

Jurnee Smollett.(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Byline: Krista Smith AGE: 21. PROVENANCE: New York-born, but with lots of time logged in L.A. as a member of a peripatetic acting family. POTENTIAL OSCAR BAIT AS... Samantha, a star of the Wiley (Texas) College debate team in Denzel...

The Vanities Dare.
January 1, 2008... ONE-POINT DARES 1. After your child has finished itemizing everything he or she wants for Christmas,press a dollar into Santa's hand and say, "For your trouble." 2. Tell a mother and child waiting behind you that Santa's throne is made of...

Alternate-Reality Gift Guide.
January 1, 2008... THE CRITERION COLLECTION AN ONGOING SERIES OF IMPORTANT CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY FILMS PRESENTS HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: THE BOX SET (2006, 2007) Kenny Ortega SYNOPSIS A serendipitous pas de deux at a New Year's Eve ski-trip karaoke contest...

Heigl's Anatomy; Katherine Heigl calls Knocked Up, the movie that made her a big-screen star, "a little sexist.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Leslie Bennetts As dusk falls over the carpet of lights spread out below her windows, Katherine Heigl stands in the doorway of her house in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, smoking a cigarette and contemplating the spectacular...

A Tale of Two Giulianis; On the back of 9/11, Rudy Giuliani refashioned himself as a national hero, a top presidential candidate-and, through his consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, became a very wealthy man.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Michael Shnayerson On a late-spring day in 2001, Rudy Giuliani's divorce lawyer stood on the steps of the New York State Supreme Court Building and told reporters the shocking truth. His client, the mayor of the city-beleaguered by...

Into the Valley of Death; A strategic passage wanted by the Taliban and al-Qaeda, Afghanistan's Korengal Valley is among the deadliest pieces of terrain in the world for U.S. forces.
January 1, 2008... Byline: Sebastian Junger The 20 men of Second Platoon move through the village single file, keeping behind trees and stone houses and going down on one knee from time to time to cover the next man down the line. The locals know what is...

Trouble in Paradise; Settled in 1790 by mutineers from the storied H.M.S. Bounty, Pitcairn Island is one of the British Empire's most isolated remnants, a mystical hunk of rock that was largely ignored until 1996.
January 1, 2008... Byline: William Prochnau, Laura Parker The venerable Privy Council sits behind the usual barricades of modern life on prime London real estate at No. 9 Downing Street. The court's power has faded from its colonial heights, when one of its...