Vanity Fair articles from June 2006

Vanity Fair archives from June 2006

Another Feitelberg Against the War; What, if anything, is on the minds of young America.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Deirdre Sullivan There is this clip that theaters have been showing before a lot of movies in recent days. I want to shoot the projectionist as soon as I hear the first chords of the indie-rock soundtrack. The clip features a band...

The Conversion of Gloria TNT; Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis's wild jet-setting ended in 1990, when her husband died, leaving her deep in debt.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Bob Colacello One of the high points of last summer's Venice Biennale was Tino Sehgal's performance-art piece at the German Pavilion, where every 10 minutes actors dressed as security guards would suddenly start hopping around and...

Elsa Pataky.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... AGE AND OCCUPATION: 29, actress. PROVENANCE: Madrid, Spain. ASERPIENTES EN UN AEROPLANO! Having appeared on countless magazine covers and in 13 movies (including the critically acclaimed Ninette), the actress is as big as stars come in her...

She'd Rather Be Right.(Ann Coulter)(Interview)
June 1, 2006... Byline: George Wayne A former legal writer, Ann Coulter first made her righteous mark on 24-hour news culture back in the mid-90s. The author and pundit, who many consider to be Michael Moore's noisy foil off to the right, is back this...

A Face Only a President Could Love; Dick Cheney's public image has hardened into a grim caricature that longtime friends and colleagues don't recognize: when did the whiz kid with the lopsided smile who ran Ford's White House turn into the secretive, merciless, Machiavellian figure in the news today.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Todd Purdum He reigns, in the popular liberal imagination, as the Lord Voldemort of the world stage: he whose location must not be named, a dark, didactic, unyielding presence who shoots first and asks questions later, and who...

Waltzing Jacinda.(Jacinda Barrett)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Jim Windolf For the last 20 years, at a top-secret laboratory deep in the Australian outback, a team of scientists has been turning out actors and actresses. An early product, Paul Hogan, shot to fame with Crocodile Dundee, but his...

Nicole Weighs In; Emerging from Paris Hilton's shadow, Nicole Richie is busy one-upping her former best friend and Simple Life co-star, from the best-seller list to the style pages, to a debut album in the works.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Leslie Bennetts As intricate as the layers of an onion, the day's agenda is a triumph of media selfexploitation. Swathed in sumptuous gowns by Chanel, Missoni, and Halston, 24-year-old Nicole Richie is being photographed for a new...

Dubai's the Limit; In the Persian Gulf, on a not particularly oil-rich piece of desert about the size of Rhode Island, sits the Capitalist Dream on Steroids: Dubai.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Nick Tosches Yes, you may be tired and even a little bit drunk, but, no, your eyes are not playing tricks on you. The big roadside sign you just sped past said what you thought it said: SORRY FOR INCONVENIENCE- BINLADIN...

WATCH REPORT; The brands, the news, and the season's most-talked-about timepieces.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Nick Foulkes ASPREY The Bond Street luxury-goods house joins the tourbillon set with a limited-edition timepiece that uses the Parmigiani tourbillon. BLANCPAIN With the enjoyment of fine tobacco products becoming ever more...

Ron Howard; His aw-shucks, affable nature as a child actor won over audiences, but it is his undeniable talent as a director and producer that has made Ron Howard a mainstay in Hollywood.(Interview)
June 1, 2006... What is your idea of perfect happiness? I don't believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Lenny Wilkins. A long...

On Time.(design of watches)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Design is at the heart of modern horology and finds its inspiration in the strangest of places: the cockpit of a fighter aircraft, the rap lyrics of urban America, and the polo fields of the British Raj, to cite a few. Design dictates what a...

Watch Closely.(I.W.C.'s Gerald Genta-designed Jumbo Ingenieur of 1976 )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... I.W.C.'s Gerald Genta-designed Jumbo Ingenieur of 1976 was a cult watch. So I.W.C. enthusiasts were delighted last year when the Schaffhausen marque launched the Ingenieur Automatic, a reworked edition of this 1970s classic-which was itself a...

Timeless Pieces; This year, a number of watches mark important anniversaries, even celebrate decades of classic status.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Nick Foulkes Watch design is an interesting lens through which to view human development. Man's relationship with time is complex. In the developed world, time is the last great luxury. And yet, as well as being a luxury, time is...

The Dick You Don't Know.(Editorial)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Graydon Carter Inasmuch as the vice president of the United States has granted access to Vanity Fair's new national editor, Todd Purdum, it would seem churlish to make comment on this page about the administration's myriad mishaps....

Fall of a Fixer.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2006... David Margolick's portrait of Jack Abramoff is the most honest depiction of the "fat cat in the hat" that I have read to date ["Washington's Invisible Man," April]. It's too easy to cast him as the heartless villain, and Margolick fairly...

FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY.
June 1, 2006... Following in the footsteps of photography giant Ansel Adams, Jim McHugh tackles the storied medium of Polaroid with support from the fading brand in his exhibition "On the Sunny Side of the Street: Polaroid Images from Los Angeles." (ArcLight...

DANCING & ROMANCING.
June 1, 2006... Eric McCormack stars in Neil LaBute's new play, Some Girl(s), as a former man-about-town who rendezvouses with a few old flames-played by Fran Drescher and Maura Tierney-before walking down the aisle. (Opens June 8 at the Lucille Lortel...

LIGHT, ART, AND MOVEMENT.
June 1, 2006... Sketches of Frank Gehry, the Sydney Pollack-directed documentary, admires the mind and building process of the master architect-from abstract drawings to three-dimensional models, to finished buildings of titanium and glass, concrete and steel,...

TAKE NOTE.
June 1, 2006... West Hollywood's mile-long row of high-end fashion boutiques, design showrooms, art galleries, and restaurants band together on June 3 for the ninth annual Art & Design Walk, a swanky event that benefits the Help Group, a nonprofit organization...

SEASIDE THEATER.
June 1, 2006... This summer, the Bay Street Theatre, in Sag Harbor, New York, celebrates its 15th season with the classic rock musical The Who's Tommy, by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff; Quartet, by Ronald Harwood; the world premiere of Viva la Vida!, by Diane...

Hot Type.(new books)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Elissa Schappell As they say in Bush country, "That dog don't hunt... " In Watchdogs of Democracy? (Scribner), Helen Thomas, once the leader of the Washington-press-corps pack, points out the failures of today's lapdogs-I mean,...

GIRL POWER.(Kiki Strike in Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Elissa Schappell If Harry Potter lived in New York City, he'd have a mad crush on 14-year-old Kiki Strike, the heroine of Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City (Bloomsbury) and the next literary idol of the tween-to-infinity set....

Hot Tracks.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Lisa Robinson Summertime-and musicians get greedy. From now through Labor Day, more than 1,000 musical acts compete for your money, your time, and your ability to withstand sweltering heat, questionable personal-hygiene facilities,...

International Social Calendar.
June 1, 2006... Summer 2006 June 17-18, Le Mans, France Steve McQueen immortalized 24 Heures du Mans, the world's most famous sports-car endurance race, in the 1971 film Le Mans. First held in 1923, the race features some 50 teams of three...

International Man of Luxury.(Bottega Veneta Inc.'s Tomas Maier)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Evgenia Peretz To Tomas Maier, creative director of the luxury-accessories-and-clothing line Bottega Veneta, swimsuit maestro, and all-around purveyor of high-end cool, there is nothing more pointless than a big, shiny logo. "Some...

Greetings from Sunny Aspen Colorado.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Punch Hutton Every winter, Aspen, Colorado (population 6,000), long celebrated as a skiing wonderland, becomes a powdery white playground full of shiny black status symbols: black-diamond ski runs, American Express "black" cards,...

Mayflower Retreat.
June 1, 2006... Byline: A. M. Homes Imagine being transported to a kind of heaven on earth and surrendering yourself to an all-inclusive indulgence for body, mind, and spirit where the people running the show really can do it better than you could do it...

LAPS OF LUXURY.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Victoria Mather Privacy is the leitmotif of modern travel. Swim naked under a starlit sky in a pool twinkling with fiber-optic lights, or in one that might start in your sitting room and end in your own walled garden, or over...

Sophie's Choice.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Eve Epstein Where beauty is concerned, Sophie Albou has designs on the world. The Parisian founder and designer of clothing line Paul & Joe, whose unique fusion of femininity and modernity is a fashionista favorite, most recently...

Greenwich Murder Time.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Dominick Dunne At the River Tavern, in Chester, Connecticut, one of the two ladies I was having lunch with told me a fascinating story about Truman Capote, who has become a more popular subject of conversation than ever since...

Talk of the Town; It looks as if the wiretapping investigation consuming L.A. may bring down some of the town's top names.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Bryan Burrough, John Connolly Back before everything went wrong, before they discovered the wiretap transcripts and the hand grenades and the plastic explosives in his office, before he spent more than two years in federal prison,...

Youth Movement; Until recently the idea of embarking on a career in the Swiss watchmaking industry seemed about as realistic as becoming a professional yodeler.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Nick Foulkes "Fifteen years ago, my youngest guy was about 50," one watch boss told me recently. "Now the majority of my people are under 35. Watchmaking today has reopened its doors to young people." The stereotypical image...