Vanity Fair articles from January 2009

Vanity Fair archives from January 2009

VANITY FAIR.
January 1, 2009... No 581 A NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENT! A NEW AMERICAN SWEETHEART! TINA FEY By MAUREEN DOWD Photos by ANNIE LEIBOVITZ "Annie's going to photograph my soul, right?" CAPTION(S): Tina Fey

Never Too Late For Some Final Acts Of Venality.
January 1, 2009... Byline: GRAYDON CARTER Never let it be said that the presidency of George W. Bush was without a mission. And I don't mean that "compassionate conservative" mumbo jumbo or any of the other meaningless banners under which Bush bullied his...

Mrs. Kennedy And The Mona Lisa.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2009... America's finest culture czar; two sides to every crisis; trouble with Baker's Bay; and a nation of fools Margaret Leslie Davis's article "The Two First Ladies" [November] effectively portrayed the layered significance of Jackie Kennedy's...

More From The V.F. Mailbag.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2009... First, an announcement: Is James Wolcott here? One of your readers, Brenda Cibelli of New York City, suggests you "pack your bags and please go live with the Pygmies in Africa!!!" (See us for details.) Fernando Moreno of Madrid thinks...

Fanfair.(Fontainebleau Hotel)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE JANUARY 2009 31 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE LIVING LARGE In the 1950s and 60s, Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel, designed by architect Morris Lapidus, set the benchmark for glamorous,...

January: The Cultural Divide.
January 1, 2009... A GONDOLA RIDE TO SUCCESS The Sundance Film Festival Park City, Utah's annual haven for cinA[c]astes, celebrities, and the snow bunnies who love themturns 25 this winter. AprA[umlaut]s-ski at the Legacy Lodge will kick off this year's...

Night-Table Reading.(Recommended readings)
January 1, 2009... Ray Bradbury AUTHOR, WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS (MORROW) TENDER IS THE NIGHT, BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (SCRIBNER)*****I'm currently rereading Tender Is the Night , by F. Scott Fitzgerald, whom I consider to be the best writer of the 20th...

Hot Tracks.(athletes on music)
January 1, 2009... Byline: LISA ROBINSON When it comes to sports, does music enhance performance? "Music was my accomplice," said Michael Phelps after winning eight gold medals, in Beijing, to the tunes of Lil "Weezy" Wayne and Young Jeezy, but past Phelps...

My Stuff.(textile and bedding business of John Robshaw)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Byline: John Robshaw J ohn Robshaw launched his textile-and-bedding business, in New York City, seven years ago after traveling and honing his craft in China, where he studied traditional block printing, and in India, where he learned to...

A Tricky Character.(Frank Langella portrays president Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Byline: LESLIE BENNETTS REPRISING NIXON FOR THE BIG SCREEN From heartless Lotharios to unctuous vampires, Frank Langella's roles were always given a delectable frisson by the tall-dark-and-handsome sexual magnetism that catapulted him...

Fairground.
January 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY HANNAH THOMSON JANUARY 2009 AROUND THE WORLD, ONE PARTY AT A TIME PICTURE PERFECT, PAGE 46. Burberry's Christopher Bailey hosts a preview party at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in celebration of...

Capitalist Fools.
January 1, 2009... Byline: BY JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DARROW Behind the debate over remaking U.S. financial policy will be a debate over who's to blame. It's crucial to get the history right, writes a Nobel-laureate economist, identifying...

The Out-Of-Towners.
January 1, 2009... Byline: BY A. A. GILL ILLUSTRATIONS BY TIM SHEAFFER When a tour-bus load of would-be Carries, Charlottes, and Samanthas (nope, no Mirandas) go chasing that Sex and the City dream, is it comedy, tragedy, or cultural delusion? Shuttling from...

Mother Justice.
January 1, 2009... Byline: BY CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM PHOTOGRAPHS BY HARRY BENSON When her son was sentenced to 25 years for Brooklyn's 2003 "grid kid" slaying, Doreen Quinn Giuliano was sure he'd been wrongfully convicted. To prove it, she went undercover,...

All Is Vanities ... Nothing Is Fair: Vanities.(Rebecca Hall)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Byline: KRISTA SMITH PHOTOGRAPH BY CARLYNE CERF DE DUDZEELE JANUARY 2009 Rebecca Hall AGE: 26. PROVENANCE: London. YES, SHE WAS THE "VICKY" IN... Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's sensual tale of l'amour fou . "To use a...

Dept. Of Memoir Pitching.
January 1, 2009... Byline: Richard B. Cheney November 5, 2008 This is Cheney. If my attorney released this document to you, you know why I am writing. You had the good judgment not to do that book Angler. The I.R.S. is currently drafting audit letters to...

The Twitter-Ing Classes.(rich people)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Byline: BRUCE FEIRSTEIN THE TWEETS OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS VP_Joe_08 So who's gonna put O. to test? North Korea? Iran? AlQaeda? Maybe a rogue Alaskawhich reminds me of the time in Scranton when Tommy ran awa 8:59 AM Nov 12th ...

What Tina Wants.
January 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANNIE LEIBOVITZ STYLED BY MICHAEL ROBERTS Tina Fey has rules. They've guided the 38-year-old writer-comedian through marriage, motherhood, and a career that went into hyperdrive this fall, when her Sarah Palin...

Profiles In Panic.
January 1, 2009... Byline: ILLUSTRATIONS BY BARRY BLITT With Wall Street hemorrhaging jobs and assets, even many of the wealthiest players are retrenching. Others, like the Lehman Brothers bankers who borrowed against their millions in stock, have lost...

Eloise Sheds A Tear.
January 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY TODD EBERLE Israeli billionaire Isaac Tshuva and his C.E.O. Miki Naftali's plan to put condominiums in the Plaza hotel hit a New York nerve. How dare they mess with the magical home of the Oak Bar, the Palm Court, and...

The Devil At 37,000 Feet.
January 1, 2009... There were so many opportunities for the accident not to happenthe collision between a Legacy 600 private jet and a Boeing 737 carrying 154 people. But on September 29, 2006, high above the Amazon, a long, thin thread of acts and omissions...

The Things Yves Loved.(Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge)(Biography)
January 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY PASCAL CHEVALLIER In February, when Yves Saint Laurent's longtime partner, Pierre BergA[c], joins with Christie's in Paris to auction off the art and objects with which he and Saint Laurent filled the late designer's...

The Man In The Rockefeller Suit.(Company overview)
January 1, 2009... By snatching his seven-year-old daughter from her mother's custody, after a bitter divorce, the man calling himself Clark Rockefeller blew the lid off a lifelong con game, which had culminated with his posing as a scion of the famous dynasty....

Platinum Blonde.(Taylor Swift)(Interview)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY FREDERIKE HELWIG NED ZEMAN When a regular person writes and records a love song referring to a celebrity, it's a little creepy. But when someone like Taylor Swift does itas she did with her 2006 hit single, "Tim...

Mr. And Mrs. Right.(Patricia and William F. Buckley, Jr.)(In memoriam)
January 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD AVEDON They called each other "Ducky." And they died within months of each other, in April 2007 and February 2008, as if William F. Buckley Jr., the famously polysyllabic founder of the modern conservative...

Credits.
January 1, 2009... FASHION COVER: For Tina Fey's TOMMY HILFIGER custom-designed majorette costume, call 917-237-0983, or go to tommy.com; SERGIO ROSSI shoes from Sergio Rossi, N.Y.C., or call 212-956-3303, or go to sergiorossi.com; STEPHEN JONES MILLINERY...

Katie Couric.(Interview)
January 1, 2009... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY RISKO Emmy-winning journalist, cancer-awareness advocate, and Everywoman, Katie Couric has interviewed everyone from Tom Cruise to Kofi Annan, to, most recently, Sarah Palin. Here, the managing editor of the CBS...