Vanity Fair articles from July 2005

Vanity Fair archives from July 2005

Kate Moss's Prince Alarming; Not since Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg cut their decadently glamorous swath through 60s London has a rock 'n' roll romance so thoroughly hooked the British press: model Kate Moss has fallen for one of the country's most notorious drug addicts, former Libertines front man Pete Doherty.
July 1, 2005... Byline: Edward Helmore It's ten p.m. at the Boogaloo, and Gerry O'Boyle, the proprietor of this run-down pub in North London, says Kate and Pete-he's referring to Kate Moss, the model, and her boyfriend, Pete Doherty-are on their way....

Ruffled Feathers On Fifth Avenue; Prices for apartments in the 12-floor limestone co-op at 927 Fifth Avenue approach $20 million.
July 1, 2005... Byline: Frank Digiacomo As prestigious Manhattan addresses go, 927 Fifth Avenue would never be mistaken for the pinnacle, but it's not far from the top. Completed in 1917 by Warren & Wetmore, principal architects of Grand Central Terminal,...

Umberto Eco; The author of four best-selling novels, as well as numerous essays, Umberto Eco reigns as Italy's master storyteller by combining complex philosophical themes and page-turning plots.(Interview)
July 1, 2005... What is your idea of perfect happiness? A state of satisfaction that lasts a little more than five minutes. What is your greatest fear? To lose my sense of humor at the moment of my death. Which historical figure do...

The Checks Are in the Mail.(Bush administration, mis-administration)(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... Byline: Graydon Carter Case Study 1: The Bush administration invades Iraq. The result: The loss of tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, the fraying of America's relationships with its allies, and the devaluation...

The Housewives Hot Zone; "The Ladies" disappoint; R.F.K. Jr.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... As a longtime admirer of photographer Mark Seliger, I am appalled at the behavior recounted in "Bed, Burbs, and Beyond," by Ned Zeman (May). It is a disgrace that someone who has produced iconic images of some of the most legendary artists of...

Nashville North.(Humming by the Flowered Vine)(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Hogan Nashville-born singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell may be linked with two of the New York area's most venerable underground-music institutions-she hosts Radio Thrift Shop on the free-form radio station WFMU and is one of...

Explosive Content.(Oh Pure and Radiant Heart )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Byline: Elissa Schappell Lydia Millet is da bomb. Literally. While the 60th anniversary of the Trinity test has seen an awe-inspiring proliferation of books about the atomic experiment, Millet's blackly comic fifth novel, Oh Pure and...

Expert Advice.
July 1, 2005... MARIO BATALI Babbo, Casa Mono, Lupa, New York City *Prosciutto di Parma, 18 years old, thinly sliced *Fresh figs and mascarpone *Bottle of La Mozza Morellino di Scansano *Bitter honey (miele amaro) from...

Iran's Waiting Game; Even under a brutish theocracy, Iranians live as if they are entitled to their heritage of civilization and culture.
July 1, 2005... Byline: Christopher Hitchens Driving down through the desert, from Tehran to the holy city of Qom, I am following the path of so many who have made the pilgrimage before me. They either were seeking an audience with, or a glimpse of,...

Private Jets and Prison Walls; As he traveled between a Dallas wedding, Steve Wynn's Las Vegas resort opening, and a Washington dinner for Nancy Reagan, the author got a chewing-out (and a kiss) from Elizabeth Taylor, an introduction to Teri Hatcher from George Bush Sr.
July 1, 2005... Byline: Dominick Dunne Apart from getting 44 stitches in my back after doctors removed a sizable melanoma I had been ignoring, I've been enjoying a wonderful, carefree month, going to fascinating places and spending time with people who...

The Power Of Rove; For spooked and frustrated liberals, Karl Rove embodies everything evil in American politics.(Biography)
July 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Wolff What do liberals mean when they say "Karl Rove"? Al Gore was out at the Michael Milken-sponsored bigwig conference in Los Angeles (the Milken Institute Global Conference) not long ago, giving Rove singular credit...

Terrence Howard.(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... Byline: Krista Smith AGE AND OCCUPATION: 36, actor. PROVENANCE: Chicago. SUNDANCE HUSTLE: Howard stars this month in Hustle & Flow, which Paramount bought as part of a $16 million package at Sundance earlier this year-a...

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July 1, 2005... Byline: Darryl Brantley The scene is appropriately cinematic for Vanity Fair's annual dinner-hosted with Robert De Niro-celebrating the Tribeca Film Festival. As the sun sets, hundreds of votives light the stairs ascending to the State...

Spellbound; There's Nicole Kidman the actress, who pours her heart into each character, whether it's the adorable enchantress in this month's Bewitched or, her next role, the doomed photographer Diane Arbus.(Biography)
July 1, 2005... Byline: Ingrid Sischy When Nicole Kidman was almost four, her family moved from Hawaii, where her father, Anthony, had been working on his Ph.D. in biochemistry, back home to Australia, to a house in a middle-class suburb of Sydney. Their...

C.S.I. Neverland; Disfigured, deeply in debt, and with a history of drug addiction-at 46, Michael Jackson is also at the end of a criminal trial for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old cancer patient.(Biography)
July 1, 2005... Byline: Maureen Orth Michael Jackson has finally wound up in a courtroom facing charges of pedophilia, a disaster people had warned him for years was coming. In 1993, police in California investigated claims that he had molested a...

"I'm The Guy They Called Deep Throat"; Despite three decades of intense speculation, the identity of "Deep Throat"-the source who leaked key details of Nixon's Watergate cover-up to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein-has never been revealed.
July 1, 2005... Byline: John D. O'connor On a sunny California morning in August 1999, Joan Felt, a busy college Spanish professor and single mother, was completing chores before leaving for class. She stopped when she heard an unexpected knock at the...

Parsed Throat.(Watergate scandal, the insider)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... "Deep Throat"-a phrase derived from the title of the popular porn film at the time-was the code name by which Washington Post insiders referred to Bob Woodward's confidential Watergate source. "Watergate" was the nickname used for the...

Hillary's Way; As Hillary Clinton seeks re-election to the U.S. Senate next year, she is also considered a Democratic front-runner for the presidency in 2008.(excerpt from The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President)(Excerpt)
July 1, 2005... Byline: Edward Klein Excerpted from The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President, by Edward Klein, to be published this month by Sentinel; (c) 2005 by the author. "In the winter of...

The Man in the Latex Suit; The killing in Geneva of Edouard Stern, one of Europe's richest men, stunned the global financial elite.
July 1, 2005... Byline: Bryan Burrough The story out of Switzerland that Tuesday in early March was startling, yet oddly familiar. The financier Edouard Stern, one of Europe's richest men, confidant to any number of French politicians, the man who had...