Vanity Fair articles from July 2006

Vanity Fair archives from July 2006

The Da Vinci Clone? THE DA VINCI CODE author Dan Brown was acquitted of copyright infringement this spring in a high-profile London trial.(Random House Inc. sues Lewis Perdue )
July 1, 2006... Byline: Seth Mnookin Nothing in Christianity is original. -Leigh Teabing in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. On April 11, Lewis Perdue sat on a bench in a gallery on the 17th floor of Manhattan's Thurgood Marshall United States...

Cherchez La Femme.(Museum of Fine Arts's exhibition )
July 1, 2006... Byline: John Richardson A delectable show of American artists working in Paris between 1860 and 1900 opens at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts in June and at New York's Metropolitan Museum in October. It is aglow with major paintings by...

It's Not Easy Being George; Just about everyone loves George Clooney.
July 1, 2006... Byline: James Wolcott What would Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Bernard Goldberg, Sean Hannity, and the bean sprouts at conservative blogs do without liberals to vilify? It'd be like the Spanish...

Stand By Your Land.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Michael Shnayerson If you like snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park and Jet Skis buzzing off national seashores, you're going to love the weighty document by which the U.S. National Park Service (N.P.S.) may soon be...

King of the Road; Ford's new high-performance Mustang, the Shelby GT500, evokes America's muscle-car heyday-as well as the legacy of the man behind three iconic vehicles: the Cobra, the GT350, and the original GT500.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Robert Levine Visiting an auto factory with Carroll Shelby is like walking into a Guitar Center with Eric Clapton. Especially here, at the Detroit-area plant where they turn out the Ford GT500, the new, hand-assembled, $150,000...

Naomie Nice.(Naomie Harris)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Carolyn Bielfeldt Unlike the starlets who become infamous almost as soon as they become famous in Hollywood, whose affairs and problems and rivalries litter the gossip columns and the weekly tabloids, Naomie Harris has quietly...

Greenwich's Outrageous Fortune; For more than a century, Greenwich, Connecticut, has attracted some of the biggest, newest, shiniest fortunes in America.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Nina Munk In the 1920s, Greenwich, Connecticut, was known as "the richest town per capita in the world," and Zalmon Gilbert Simmons was one of the richest men in town. Like other titans of the era, Simmons and his wife, Frances,...

Art Buchwald; For half a century, Art Buchwald has captured the ironies of American life.(Interview)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Namehere What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being healthy. What is your greatest fear? That I won't be healthy. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Mark Twain. Which living person do you most admire?...

The Heart of a 21st-Century Machine.(Editorial)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Graydon Carter This summer will mark my 14th year as the editor of Vanity Fair. I am here thanks to the good graces of my employer, our advertisers, and you, our wonderful readers-You look younger, by the way. Have you lost weight?...

Living Green.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2006... From the outstanding Editor's Letter and Green Portfolio to the brief profile of James Hansen and the articles on coal mining and global warming, the May Green Issue is a knockout! So many people are working hard on behalf of the wilderness and...

ART ON THE GRAND CANAL.
July 1, 2006... Venezia Vision French businessman Francois Pinault unveils his private art collection, which includes works by Mark Rothko, Donald Judd, Damien Hirst, and Jeff Koons, at the Tadao Ando-redesigned 18th-century palace-cum-art gallery Palazzo...

BE FIRST IN LINE.(fashion design )(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Carolina Herrera Fashion's grande dame opens her first West Coast boutique, in Los Angeles, this month. Get a jump start on fall fashion with Herrera's latest collection of beautiful fur-trimmed coats, tweed dresses, and evening gowns in...

THE ART OF DESIGN.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Fashion Rebel Alberto Diaz Korda's iconic photograph of Che Guevara is one of the most reproduced images in history. "Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon," on exhibit at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, examines the leader's life...

MUSIC UNDER THE TENTS.
July 1, 2006... Circus Symphony Love, the latest Cirque du Soleil production, from Sir George Martin and Giles Martin, at the Mirage in Las Vegas, is a three-dimensional evocation of magical Beatles tunes. An international cast of 60, directed by Dominic...

Summer-Play Foray.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Evgenia Peretz In the documentary market, Cuteness plus Contest has emerged as a winning formula-witness the success of Spellbound and Mad Hot Ballroom. Alexandra Shiva's Stagedoor, about a group of kids who attend the famed...

The Live Variety.(A Prairie Home Companion)(Movie review)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Bruce Handy Having never read or listened to Garrison Keillor, having never ever been to Minnesota, having not even loved Fargo as much as everyone else in America, I awaited my screening of Robert Altman's film version of...

American Beauty.(Little Miss Sunshine)(Movie review)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Dan Beers The 2006 Sundance Film Festival darling, Little Miss Sunshine marks the directorial debut of husband-and-wife team Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton. Michael Arndt's script, which follows the dysfunctional Hoover family...

BEAUTY.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Robyn Dutra Today's three top hairstylists, Paul Labrecque, Oscar Blandi, and Frederic Fekkai, are set on fulfilling every woman's wish for signature style-achievable in and out of the salon. Each of these longtime industry...

Hot Looks.(eyeshadows from Elizabeth Arden Co. comes in new packaging)(eyeshadows from Prescriptives)(new fragrance from Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. Erno Laszlo Ltd)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Jessica Flint 1. Celebrate summer with Coeur d' te, a light fragrance from Miller Harris.... 2. Acqua di Parma's Colonia Assoluta Edizione Riviera, a limited-edition fragrance inspired by the Italian Riviera, is the next-best...

Hollywood Justice; Three years after Phil Spector was charged with the murder of B-movie blonde Lana Clarkson, his trial is postponed yet again.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Dominick Dunne Imagine running into a former covert C.I.A. operative on Fifth Avenue. One of the many wonderful things about living in New York is having surprise encounters on the street. It was a beautiful spring day. The...

As American as Apple Pie; Fellatio has a long and storied history, but not until 1972 - with the release of "Deep Throat"- did it come out, so to speak, in polite company.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Christopher Hitchens Is there anything more tragic than the last leave-taking between Humbert Humbert and Dolores Haze (his very own "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins")? They meet in the dreary shack where she has removed...

Rumsfeld and the Generals; It wasn't surprising that a bunch of retired generals (and The New York Times) wanted Donald Rumsfeld's head.(Donald Rumsfeld)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Michael Wolff It was a comic-book-ker-plow-knockout. On April 14, The New York Times dramatically redesigned the grid of its front page to report that a bevy of retired generals were mightily unhappy about how Donald Rumsfeld had...

Blair's Big Brother Legacy; In the guise of fighting terrorism and maintaining public order, Tony Blair's government has quietly and systematically taken power from Parliament and from the British people.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Henry Porter In the shadow of Winston Churchill's statue opposite the House of Commons, a rather odd ritual has developed on Sunday afternoons. A small group of people-mostly young and dressed outlandishly-hold a tea party on the...

That Championship Scandal; Whether a young woman was gang-raped or innocent lacrosse players arrested, the tragedy at Duke on March 14 was the inexorable result of many wild nights and many deaf ears.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Buzz Bissinger We have only one rule here: Don't do anything that's detrimental to yourself. Because if it's detrimental to you, it'll be detrimental to our program and to Duke University. -Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University...

Abigail Breslin.(child actress)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Krista Smith AGE AND OCCUPATION: Nine, actor. PROVENANCE: New York City. HERE COMES THE SUN: Catch Breslin this month in Little Miss Sunshine, starring Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, and a scene-stealing Alan Arkin. The...

Tribeca Film Festival V.F. CAMERA; Vanity Fair and Robert De Niro celebrate the five-year-old festival.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Darryl Brantley A chilly New York evening was no match for film-world firepower at Vanity Fair's fifth annual Tribeca Film Festival kickoff dinner. Ascending the candlelit stairs of the State Supreme Courthouse was a cross section...

The Girl Can't Help It; At 42, Sandra Bullock is full of surprises.(Biography)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Michael Shnayerson Sandra Bullock is standing on a chair in her living room, waving a broom. "Oh, come on," she pleads, looking up. "You can do it!" We are in the sleekly decorated oceanfront house that Bullock shares...

The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed; The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Craig Unger It's a crisp, clear winter morning in Rome. In the neighborhood between the Vatican and the Olympic Stadium, a phalanx of motor scooters is parked outside a graffiti-scarred 10-story apartment building. No. 10 Via...

Breakfast With Superman.(Brandon Routh )(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Jim Windolf Since 1938, when he first appeared in Action Comics No. 1, Superman has been a comforting presence in American pop culture, not only in comic books but also in movie serials, radio shows, cartoons, three prime-time TV...