Vanity Fair articles from June 2005

Vanity Fair archives from June 2005

London Calling (and Dishing); Ah, London in the spring-the glam-packed lobby of Claridge's, the latest royal gossip from Fleet Street's Young Turks, and, to top it all off, Europe's social elite exchanging tidbits and theories (sex crime or Mafia hit.(Column)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Dominick Dunne After rainy New York, the spring weather in London seemed perfect when I arrived on March 16. My spirits were immediately lifted to be in my favorite city in Europe. I went there right after settling the lawsuit...

No Jokes, Please, We're Liberal; How come right-wing pundits are funny, while their left-wing counterparts are stuck in plodding solemnity.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Wolff Why aren't liberals funny? And how come conservative columnist David Brooks, formerly a stylish, witty, sharp-eyed writer, got to be such a plodding, stuffed-shirt prig when he went to work for a liberal publication?...

Faust in Their Class.(musical)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Wayne Lawson What's the difference between cinema and opera? To take just one example, the dashing young romantic hero played by Brad Pitt or Jamie Foxx in the movies is likely to be embodied in the opera house by Ben Heppner or...

He Believed in Miracles; The near-death experience that set John Paul II on the road to the papacy gave him a mystical certainty in God's purpose.(Biography)
June 1, 2005... Byline: John Cornwell While traveling in Italy in the mid-1980s, I stopped at a town called Lanciano, near the Adriatic coast, where I discovered a shrine that even the most devout Catholics might find alarming. In the early Middle Ages, a...

Freddie Highmore.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Krista Smith AGE AND OCCUPATION: 13, actor. PROVENANCE: London. A ROARING START: W. C. Fields famously advised against working with animals or children, but two negatives turned out to be a positive when Highmore caught...

Q&A.(Donny Deutsch of Deutsch Inc.)(Interview)
June 1, 2005... Byline: George Wayne Being the head of one of Madison Avenue's hottest ad agencies didn't satisfy Donny Deutsch, so the chairman and C.E.O. of Deutsch, Inc., went out and landed himself a talk show on CNBC: The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch....

Sex and the Single Mom; Splashed all over the tabloids as the temptress who came between Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie sounds more like a stressed-out single parent than a screen siren.(Interview)(Biography)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Nancy Jo Sales "You know, you're sleeping with your kid all the time and you're like, God, I haven't had sex in months, let alone tempted anyone," says Angelina Jolie. She's sitting cross-legged beside me on an overstuffed couch at...

Wrong Man, Wrong Place; It smelled like conspiracy: a former male escort who was going by a fake name and had somehow obtained White House press passes on a regular basis was covering briefings for an obscure right-wing news outfit, and had even gotten to question the president.(Biography)
June 1, 2005... Byline: David Margolick, Richard Gooding One night last January, in the front room of his small, narrow apartment, in a building on the frayed fringes of gentrified Capitol Hill, Jeff Gannon took out a white tablet and sat down at his desk...

Steve Wynn's Biggest Gamble; Even as Steve Wynn's sight is failing, his vision grows more ambitious.(Wynn Las Vegas Resort and Country Club)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Nina Munk For the past five years, ever since he sold his Mirage Resorts to Kirk Kerkorian for $6.4 billion, Steve Wynn, aged 63, has been planning a comeback. "It took Michelangelo four years to complete the ceiling of the Sistine...

Alpha Broadway.(movie actors in Broadway)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Hogan Everyone knows-or at least suspects-that you don't really have to be able to act to be in the movies. You just follow directions, and the real work gets done in the editing room. That's one reason so many actors who...

Road Trip! Fueled by testosterone, alcohol, and God knows what else, the 200-odd drivers in the sixth annual Gumball 3000 raced their Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Porsches, and other assorted vehicles out of Paris on May 5, 2004, headed for Cannes via Madrid, Marbella, and Casablanca.
June 1, 2005... Byline: George Gurley It's a glorious, cloudless afternoon in Morocco, and just outside Marrakech, cars are flying off the road. First, a Ford Escort Cosworth loses control at 140 miles per hour and tumbles into the desert, then a Ferrari...

Sue Mengers; With a client list that included Ali MacGraw, Gene Hackman, and Barbra Streisand, Sue Mengers, the first superagent, ruled 1970s Hollywood with her brash, no-nonsense style.(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 1, 2005... What is your idea of perfect happiness? To be left alone. What is your greatest fear? Insects. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Golda Meir. Which living person do you most admire? My plumber....

The Forgotten War.(Iraq war)(Editorial)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Graydon Carter Excuse me, but what ever happened to the war in Iraq? You remember it, surely. You must-it's still going on. It is the war that has taken the lives of more than 1,550 U.S. troops and an estimated 20,000 Iraqi...

Star Time.(celebrity party)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Evgenia Peretz Not every photo shoot with actors descends into a Desperate Housewives-style war over who gets the best bathing suit. The group of 29 screen actors now on Broadway gave one stellar performance at Pier 59 Studios for...

The Ultimate Luxury Model.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2005... I was incensed by Kimora Lee Simmons's materialism, her selfish attitude, and her ego ["Unbearable Fabulosity," by Nancy Jo Sales, April]. It makes me sick to think that she has the power, in the form of money, to broadcast her particular brand...

Hot Type.(books)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Elissa Schappell Dysfunction junction, what's your function? Simon Doonan, the creative director at Barneys New York, gets Nasty (Simon & Schuster), shaking the nuts and "glamorous varmints" out of his beloved if slightly twisted...

After Hours.(Specimen Days )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Elissa Schappell "I celebrate myself, / And what I assume you shall assume, / For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you." So sings the quintessentially American poet Walt Whitman, the muse of Michael Cunningham's...

Summer Festivals.(Calendar)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Lisa Robinson Carnival, mud puddle, or drunken spree, the rock festival is a quaint summer ritual that has stubbornly endured for 37 years. Here, from Memorial Day through Labor Day, some of the best: Fresh air guitar: This...

Hellzapoppin'.(Lollapalooza, show)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... In 1991, Perry Farrell created Lollapalooza, the groovy jamboree that lasted seven years with alternative acts such as Jane's Addiction, Ice-T, Ministry, Soundgarden, and Sonic Youth. After last year's cancellation due to poor ticket sales,...

Girls on Film.(American Women)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Ingrid Sischy The title of one of Bryan Adams's biggest hits, "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," could double as the backstory for the rocker's plunge into photography. It all began in 1998, when a dear friend of his was going...

Curtain Call.(Jock Soto, dancer)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Wayne Lawson On June 19 one of the dance world's golden favorites, the inimitable Jock Soto, retires from the stage of the New York City Ballet with a tribute program in which he will dance five principal parts. Chosen for the...

Skate Lords.(Lords of Dogtown)(Movie Review)
June 1, 2005... Byline: John Brodie There's a reason Lords of Dogtown opens with the gang from the Zephyr surf shop riding waves past the gnarled wreckage of an amusement-park pier. "Forget Step into Liquid," says Dogtown director Catherine Hardwicke of...

Dangerous Liaisons.(My Summer of Love)(Movie Review)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Bruce Handy Does the mismatched-summer-lovers movie count as a legitimate genre? One of the most affecting examples in a long time is the almost generically titled My Summer of Love, a film whose sultry eroticism is all the more...

The Girls of Summer.(Twins of TriBeCa)(Washingtonienne)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Henry Alford Summer, with its emphasis on things lively and semi-wanton, cries out for reading material that cossets rather than challenges. Indeed, in the balmy months of 2002, readers across the country cast aside their volumes...

Get out of the Water.(Jaws, movie location)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Byline: John Anderson Thirty years ago on June 20, Jaws, the great white whale (O.K., shark), started scaring people out of the water and into the theaters-$260 million worth of people at last count. The movie made Steven Spielberg a...

Roman Holiday.(Gore Vidal's Caligula)(Audiovisual Review)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Leslie Bennetts It lasts only a couple of minutes, but Gore Vidal's Caligula, artist Francesco Vezzoli's film installation at the Venice Biennale, combines hot actors with the debauchery of the mad Roman emperor while satirizing...

Delusions of Grandeur.(The Paris Letter)(Theater Review)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Edward Helmore Precise use of language, a highly developed moral compass, and the will to challenge convention are estimable qualities in any playwright; in the hands of Jon Robin Baitz they can be deadly. In The Paris Letter, his...

Caution: Women Seething; Why such outrage over Harvard president Larry Summers's hazy musing that women may be innately less gifted at science.
June 1, 2005... Byline: James Wolcott Nothing clears the air and brings the fans alive like a rollicking battle between the sexes. Not the sort of cryptic, glacial psychosexual torture experiments that playwright Neil LaBute perpetrates, which pit...