Vanity Fair articles from June 2007

Vanity Fair archives from June 2007

Crazy for Rudy; Many New York political pros believe Rudy Giuliani-former mayor, hero of 9/11, and now presidential candidate-is, quite literally, nuts.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Michael Wolff There's no politician more fun to write about than Rudy Giuliani. He's your political show of shows-driven to ever greater public outlandishness by a do-anything compulsion always to be at the center of attention. At...

Mystery Teen.(Emma Roberts)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Evgenia Peretz After hanging out on the set of Ocean's Twelve with Aunt Julia (Roberts) and, more important, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt, what girl wouldn't dream of becoming an actress? But, as 16-year-old Emma Roberts tells it, this...

Mrs. Trollope's America; Frances Trollope, mother of the celebrated novelist, left England for the United States in 1827.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Kipling Buis In 1827, an Englishwoman named Frances Trollope-mother of the now more famous novelist Anthony Trollope-migrated to the United States, which was already billing itself as the land of opportunity. After various attempts...

Vanity Fair Nominates Tara Guber.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Deepak Chopra, M.d. While schools in Western countries teach children almost everything about the world and nothing about themselves, wisdom traditions from the time of Socrates to the great Eastern traditions have maintained that...

If You Knew Sushi.(tuna market)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Nick Tosches It looks like a samurai sword, and it's almost as long as he is tall. His hands are on the hilt. He raises and steadies the blade. Two apprentices help to guide it. Twelve years ago, when it was new, this knife was...

Fairy-Tale Comeback.(Gelsey Kirkland)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Laura Jacobs Rudi, Suzanne, Peter, Misha, Twyla, Merce, and Mr. B, not to mention Liza with a Z-the 70s boom in American dance did not want for stars who were artists. None, however, burned with the intensity of American Ballet...

Free Willis; It's been almost two decades since Die Hard blasted into the action-movie stratosphere, kicking off a billion-dollar-plus franchise and launching Bruce Willis into big-screen orbit.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Peter Biskind When Die Hard opened, on July 15, 1988, in the last year of the Ronald Reagan presidency, the New York Times critic Caryn James, who might have been expected to be above such ostensibly bottom-feeding amusements, gave...

Family Album.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Lisa Robinson "I'm not interested in my kids having to filter through other people's ideas of me or my work," says Patti Smith. "I always wanted them to know me and to love and trust me as Mom." The poet and musician who sparked...

diller@gehry.nyc; The swooping, white glass wonder that has risen alongside the Hudson River is the meeting of two notoriously strong-willed minds.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Paul Goldberger In his long career as an entertainment and media executive, Barry Diller has become known as someone who invariably gets his way, but he had to make a few compromises when he became an architectural client. Diller...

Profile with Pedigree.(Mamie Gummer )(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Amy Fine Collins In Evening, Focus Features' elegiac adaptation of Susan Minot's best-selling, time-telescoping novel, Hugh Dancy (portraying a doomed 50s New England blueblood) confides to co-star Claire Danes, "I fully intend to...

The Sack of Washington; Comparisons of America and Rome are everywhere these days, whether deploring an over-extended military, social decadence, or illegal immigration.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Cullen Murphy Excerpted from Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, by Cullen Murphy, to be published this month by Houghton Mifflin; (c) 2007 by the author. President and emperor, America and Rome: the...

The Silvers Age.(Robert Silvers of The New York Review of Books)
June 1, 2007... Byline: John Richardson "The most brilliant editor of a magazine ever to have worked in this country": Jason Epstein's assessment is shared by virtually all of us who have been published by Robert Silvers in The New York Review of Books....

Planet Yoga; With more than 16 million Americans practicing their Sun Salutations (or collapsing thankfully into Corpse Pose), yoga is a bona fide, coast-to-coast craze.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Amy Fine Collins When both your best friend from college in Ohio and your husband's old classmate in California have left their professions to teach it; when your daughter's Manhattan-private-school curriculum now requires it,...

New York.
June 1, 2007... What N.R.D.C.'s Forces for Nature Ninth Annual Gala. When March 7, 2007. Who Amanda Burden, Glenn Close, Mickey Drexler, John Hayes, Andy Lack, Doug Morris, Bob Pittman, Diane Sawyer, Barry Sternlicht, and many more. ...

David Steinberg; Throughout his comedic journey-from guest-hosting for Johnny Carson to directing episodes of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm-David Steinberg has tried just about anything for a laugh.(Interview)
June 1, 2007... What is your idea of perfect happiness? An all-Yiddish-speaking Canada. What is your greatest fear? Pork. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Moses, who proved that it's all about who you know. Which...

Murder on Denial.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Graydon Carter Imagine this: The world's premier military and economic superpower (let's call it Country A) gins up a war against a faraway opponent (Country B) after it refuses to kowtow to Country A's wishes. Country B, it should...

All the Presidents' Men; Juxtaposing presidential staffs and mobsters; cover flak; A. A. Gill, racist.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2007... Looking at the picture of the denizens of the executive branch in the Gerald Ford administration on pages 216 and 217 of the April issue, it struck me once again how good leadership brings out the best in people ["Yes, Mr. President!," by Todd...

The Cultural Divide June.(Brief article)(Calendar)
June 1, 2007... Artistic Vision The next edition of the deluxe fashion-and-art album Visionaire, out this month, comes packaged in sleek, sculptural cubes, each containing three giant double-sided puzzles designed using the work of six artists, including...

MAGNUM OPUS.(Magnum Photos)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Byline: David Friend The end of the last World War ushered in a period of promise, and four friends-all key figures in photojournalism, all touched by war's ravages-decided to form a photo cooperative, one that would become the most...

Art for All Seasons.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Edward Helmore Of the many good reasons to dine at the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan's historic Seagram Building, art is often overlooked by its clientele of power-lunchers. No longer. Private dealer Andrew Terner and Alex...

Hot Type.(books)(List)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Elissa Schappell June, glorious June! A new day is dawning in America. In Richistan (Crown), Robert Frank charts the surprisingly volatile power of the burgeoning American multi-millionaires, blue-collar workers turned...

In the Air.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Elissa Schappell This month, two of America's most psychologically astute and darkly comic fiction writers publish novels about the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. On the surface Don DeLillo's Falling Man and Helen...

Hot Tracks.(musicians' life on film)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Lisa Robinson In its long-playing gamble for pre-written stories, Hollywood has hit the jackpot with the world of music. While Lenny Kravitz will not portray Jimi Hendrix, as was rumored, and there still is no confirmation about...

POP FAVORITE.
June 1, 2007... Byline: A. M. Homes I'd like to teach the world to... drink Coke, and in fact they do. With more than a billion servings of Coca-Cola products consumed globally each day, Coke is perhaps the world's most recognizable brand, and now it's a...

Love, Actually.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Bruce Handy Lady Chatterley, Pascale Ferran's adaptation (in French) of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and Knocked Up share an unusual frankness regarding love scenes. Depicting lovers who can enjoy themselves and each other despite...

Home Sweet Hotel.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Victoria Mather Just when you thought luxury in hotels could not get any more luxurious, there is a whole new definition of glamour: the town house with a hotel attached. It is the ultimate in intimate. In 1996, Tim and Kit...

Londonistan Calling; The London neighborhood of the author's youth, Finsbury Park, is now one of the breeding grounds for a new phenomenon: the British jihadist.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Christopher Hitchens They say that the past is another country, but let me tell you that it's much more unsettling to find that the present has become another country, too. In my lost youth I lived in Finsbury Park, a shabby area...

The YouTube Election; The "Vote Different" anti-Hillary ad, Newt Gingrich's Spanish apology, Mitt Romney's trail of flip-flops-this is the mouse-click mayhem of the 2008 campaign, in which anyone can join.
June 1, 2007... Byline: James Wolcott The presidential epic is poised to become a quaint relic, like the concept album and the comic operetta. Those who love words and lots of them will miss its dramatic heaves and reverses, mourn the loss of its...