Vanity Fair articles from July 2003

Vanity Fair archives from July 2003

Teen engines: riding with the kid culture.(Cover Story)
July 1, 2003... Whoa! Forget the keys to the car. These kids have the keys to the pop kingdom. JAMES WOLCOTT and photographer mark seliger hang with kid culture's new power brokers Welcome to the launch party for Teen Vanity Fair. "It's so cool you're...

Bush's brain trust.(George W. Bush, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol, former Pentagon official Richard Perle)
July 1, 2003... Is Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz driving U.S. foreign policy? After 9/11, when George W. Bush needed a worldview, the neoconservatives, led by Wolfowitz, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, and the controversial "prince of darkness"...

Reality kings.(reality television programming gurus Mike Darnell and Mike Fleiss)
July 1, 2003... Between them, Fox V.P. Mike Darnell and Next Entertainment's Mike Fleiss have produced a monster run of reality-TV hits: Who Wants to Marry a Multi-millionaire?, The Bachelor, American Idol, and Joe Millionaire among them. First colleagues, then...

Devastating luxury.(controversy over Hampton's estate of Renco Group's Ira Rennert)
July 1, 2003... Five years after Ira Rennert broke ground in a Hamptons potato field for what is now the largest residential compound in America, his Renco Group empire of notoriously toxic mills and mines is falling apart. Yet he plans to decorate his...

A first-class affair.(Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and the filming of 'The V.I.P.s')
July 1, 2003... Using Terence Rattigan's screenplay about a life-altering delay in the V.I.P. lounge at a fogged-in Heathrow Airport, The V.I.P.s starred Orson Welles, Louis Jourdan, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Margaret Rutherford-and Elizabeth Taylor and Richard...

Lingering shadows.(celebrity trials)(Dominick Dunne's Diary)
July 1, 2003... A mystery woman in the Laci Peterson murder, lunch with Johnnie Cochran, and Alfred Taubman's post-prison battle: as the author makes his monthly report, ripples from cases old and new also include an unexpected letter concerning a juror in the...

Palm Beach's barefoot princess.(fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer)(Interview)
July 1, 2003... Like the little cotton shift (undies optional) that she turned into a fashion must-have, Social Register flower child Lilly Pulitzer epitomized the barefoot pleasures of wealthy Waspdom. At 71, with her madcap colored prints ruling resorts once...

Moneyman.(New York mayor Michael Bloomberg)(Editor's Letter)(Editorial)
July 1, 2003... During the past two decades, more money has probably passed through New York than through any other city in history. And yet, unfathomably, we're on the brink of financial crisis. One in 10 New Yorkers is out of work. Less than two years after...

America's Writing Forces.(Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut)
July 1, 2003... Byline: Matt Tyrnauer The last three lions of the World War II novel, Gore Vidal (Williwaw), Norman Mailer (The Naked and the Dead), and Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five), who are all veterans of that war, have distinguished themselves...

THE LURE OF TIM BURTON.(Big Fish)(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... Byline: Bruce Handy "Heartwarming? An emotional "journey"? An absentee father, an angry son, a deathbed coming-to-terms? Hmmm. Doesn't exactly sound like Tim Burton territory. But then again... giants? A witch? Siamese-twin lounge...

arnold schwarzenegger; Arriving from Austria a champion bodybuilder, Arnold Schwarzenegger parlayed himself from Pumping Iron into Hollywood stardom, a Kennedy marriage, and, now, consideration for the Republican candidacy for governor of California.(Interview)
July 1, 2003... What is your idea of perfect happiness? Spending time with my family-with no phone, no fax, and no meetings. What is your greatest fear? I am petrified of bikini waxing. I had a very bad experience in 1978. Which living...

the battle over botox.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... Byline: Namehere I am writing to you to express my concern regarding the many misstatements made in Ned Zeman's article ["The Botoxed and the Boldfaced," May]. It is unfortunate that Vanity Fair's reporting of this lawsuit is rife with...

Zombie Power.(28 Days Later)(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... Byline: Bruce Handy Production of 28 Days Later began before September 11, before anthrax, before Code Orange, before sars-and it's British to boot. Nevertheless, it's hard not to view this apocalyptic film as a pop response to recent...

COMING ATTRACTIONS.(Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... Byline: Walter Kirn Trailer of the month: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Produced by: Jerry Bruckheimer. Directed by: Gore Verbinski. Starring: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley. Coming to...

Hot Tracks.
July 1, 2003... Byline: Lisa Robinson Be in time with the tunes: let your freak flag fly. Outkast's forthcoming Speakerboxx-The Love Below is a breathtaking, creative work. Bubba Sparxxx releases Deliverance-an album's worth of clever, redneck...

Twin Peak.(Northfork)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Byline: Krista Smith At just 32, identical twins Mark and Michael Polish have completed their critically acclaimed trilogy with Northfork, which Paramount Classics will release this month. Like its predecessors, Twin Falls Idaho (1999) and...

Girls' Club.(Northern State)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Byline: Brian Thomas Gallagher Money, cash, hos. Isn't that what hip-hop is all about? Well, maybe, but thanks to Northern State you can add to the list literary references, feminism, and old-fashioned rocking-the-party. The group-made...

Tribeca lights.(Tribeca Film Festival)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Byline: Krista Smith Although the terrace was filled with smokers, no one dared light a cigarette off any of the 900 votive candles that once again illuminated the steps of the State Supreme Court building in Lower Manhattan for V.F.'s...

Michael Pitt.(Brief Article)(Interview)(Biography)
July 1, 2003... Byline: Krista Smith age and occupation: 22, actor. provenance: West Orange, New Jersey. welcome to the jungle: Pitt struck out on his own at 16 and moved to New York, where he worked as a bike messenger while attending the...

Some Possible Stump-Speech Backdrops for Dubya.(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Byline: Jim Windolf Peace Through War We Have the Weapons- Now Let's Use 'Em What Would Jesus Do? It's Simple. He Would Kick Ass Slicin' Heads America: Getting Its Groove Thang On America: Not a Fraidycat...

Foreign Correspondents.(movie translations)
July 1, 2003... Byline: By Henry Alford nyone who has ever seen an American movie in a foreign country knows the perils that befall the English language when it is translated; consider 1978's Grease, whose Spanish-language version was...

Candace Bushnell on sex and the not-so-single girl.(Interview)
July 1, 2003... Byline: George Wayne Before Sex and the City became an "international sensation," it was a corrosive, bleak newspaper column, its author the epitome of a certain kind of chilly blonde one sees in Manhattan, trolling the late-night canyons...