Vanity Fair articles from June 2008

Vanity Fair archives from June 2008

Emerging From The Dark Ages.(on American politics)
June 1, 2008... Byline: --GRAYDON CARTER The country is weary of its president and his jeans-wearing, gunslinger style. It's weary of what they perceive as his middlebrow taste, his sometimes inappropriate behavior, and his disdain for anything...

The Humor Gap.
June 1, 2008... Some insight into "men without dicks"; just how much is $3 trillion?; enough China-bashing; and Nancy Dowd trashes Jane Fonda Both the cover photograph and accompanying story, "Who Says Women Aren't Funny?" [by Alessandra Stanley], in the...

V.F. Classic.(The Way They Are)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... In June 1985, VANITY FAIR went to the White House to fox-trot with Nancy and Ronald Reagan, whose fancy footwork could have given Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers a run for their money. Minutes before the presidential pair was set to host a state...

More From The V.F. Mailbag.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2008... Quick: what do these people have in common? Samantha Bee, Joy Behar, Alex Borstein, Kristin Chenoweth, Margaret Cho, Diablo Cody, Mo Collins, Kahane Corn, Diane English, Isla Fisher, Adele Givens, Tamara Jenkins, Marta Kauffman, Jenji Kohan,...

Postscript.(on 'A Claim to Camelot,' and claims as John F. Kennedy's family)
June 1, 2008... Byline: --DAVID FRIEND On the heels of our April story on Jack Worthington--the Canada-based banker who believes he could be the illegitimate son of John F. Kennedy ("A Claim to Camelot")--four readers have approached VANITY FAIR to...

Fanfair.
June 1, 2008... 30 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE JUNE 2008 COME FLY WITH ME Gina Gershon, Kathryn Hahn, and Mary McCormack star as the stewardesses in Boeing-Boeing, which has just opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre. For more, turn to...

June: The Cultural Divide.
June 1, 2008... 26 ALL THAT JAZZ Thousands of artists and millions of fans will descend on Montreal for the 11-day Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, with performances by Leonard Cohen (part of his first tour in 15 years), Chick Corea and Return...

Hot Type.(books)
June 1, 2008... Byline: ELISSA SCHAPPELL Thirty years ago Joy Williams's visionary reimagining of The Changeling (Fairy Tale Review) so shocked critics it was virtually banned. Now reborn, this subversive classic flaunts Williams's preternatural gift for...

Power. Volume. Revolution.
June 1, 2008... Byline: ELISSA SCHAPPELL The last two years have seen a teenage riot of bands taking rock 'n' roll by storm. (You're not getting older--the rockers are just getting younger.) The new spin? A lot of these youth-quakers are female. Sick of...

The Filthy Rich Handbook.
June 1, 2008... Byline: --PUNCH HUTTON "There are people who have money and people who are rich." --Coco Chanel Remember when having a couple million dollars meant something? Neither do we," writes Christopher Tennant in his forthcoming guide to the...

Our Favorite Beachside Eating.
June 1, 2008... Byline: --VICTORIA MATHER and KATHY LETTE, with additional reporting from around the globe. Around the World THE CARIBBEAN ANGUILLA George's So exclusive not even the tide can get in. The open-air restaurant is halfway along...

My Stuff.(Jonathan Adler)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... Byline: JONATHAN ADLER J onathan Adler's contemporary yet whimsical style can be seen in collections of his work ranging from furniture and stationery to objets d'art . He has stores in five cities across the country, is the lead judge on...

Superchad.(Recount)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Byline: --BRUCE HANDY How clever of HBO to make a docudrama about the 2000 Florida presidential election. This time, everybody wins! Republicans will want to see Recount for the (in their view) happy ending; Democrats will want to see it...

The Friendly Skies.
June 1, 2008... Byline: --LESLIE BENNETTS In these parlous times, the best medicine might be a lighter-than-air French bedroom farce that offers "ecstasies of comic exhilaration," as one critic put it after seeing Boeing-Boeing in London. On May 4,...

Beauty And The Beat.
June 1, 2008... Byline: --EMILY POENISCH DARIA DEBUTS HER LANC"ME COLLECTION This month, Daria Werbowy augments her role as a Lancome spokesmodel with the launch of the Daria Collection, available exclusively at Sephora and Lancome boutiques. Inspired...

Warhol Bond.(Andy Warhol Union Square eau de parfum)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Byline: --JESSICA FLINT Fragrance plus jewelry plus art equals Bond No. 9's new Andy Warhol Union Square eau de parfum, the second in what will be a series of 12 Bond No. 9 Warhol scents. It comes packaged in a star-shaped flacon, complete...

Hot Looks.
June 1, 2008... Byline: --LAURA KATZENBERG Drench yourself in the intoxicating, high-impact, and bright-shine shade of fuchsia from Estee Lauder's Bronze Goddess collection. . . . Rev up your nails with celebrity manicurist Deborah Lippmann's...

Get Rescued.(Ji Baek's Rescue Beauty Lounge)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Byline: --LINDSEY KEENAN J i Baek forever changed the notion of the corner manicure shop when she opened her first luxe salon, Rescue Beauty Lounge, in New York's Nolita. Now she's bringing her nail know-how to the comfort of your very own...

Fairground.
June 1, 2008... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAFYDD JONES AROUND THE WORLD, ONE PARTY AT A TIME JUNE 2008 MAKING HIS MARC March 5, 2008 Larry Gagosian hosts a dinner at Mr. Chow in honor of Marc Newson and his latest exhibition, in London. ...

When Democrats Go Post-Al.
June 1, 2008... Byline: PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS BY DARROW The vicious Clinton-versus-Obama rupture at Daily Kos, the most activist site in the liberal blogosphere, reflects a party-wide split. What really rankles, as Democrats tear at one another, is the free...

It's The Adultery, Stupid.(on sex and politics)
June 1, 2008... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY DANIEL ADEL The private follies of middle-aged male politicians are treated as weakness, perversion, corruption--anything but the real issue: human desire. Michael Wolff, currently writing a book on Rupert Murdoch,...

Oil In The Family.
June 1, 2008... Byline: BY ALAN PEPPARD PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANNY TURNER In 1935 oil tycoon H. L. Hunt, known as the richest man in America, created what would become a multi-billion-dollar trust for his descendants. Three generations later, a lawsuit by his...

Scenes From A Marathon.
June 1, 2008... Byline: TODD S. PURDUM PHOTOGRAPHS BY LARRY FINK The road to the White House is the longest of slogs--so long, in Hillary Rodham Clinton's case, that the silent 12-year-old girl who stood by her side in her husband's first quest for the...

Still Life With Boxer.(Wladimir Klitschko)
June 1, 2008... Byline: JULIAN SANCTON PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Staying still doesn't come naturally to boxers, at least not to the good ones. This may be why Wladimir Klitschko looks less than elated to be posing for a photo moments after defeating...

All Is Vanities ... Nothing Is Fair: Vanities.(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Byline: KRISTA SMITH PHOTOGRAPH BY PATRICK DEMARCHELIER JUNE 2008 Meagan Good AGE: 26. PROVENANCE: Panorama City, California. YOU'LL SEE HER SOON... playing alongside Mike Myers and Justin Timberlake in the harebrained comedy The...

The Double Rainbow School.
June 1, 2008... Byline: --TREY ELLIS SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA FROM THE DESK OF Marci Steinmetz-Agnelli, P.A. PRESIDENT SAVE THE DATE: AUCTION, MAY 15th! Dear parents, partners of parents, legal guardians, partners of legal guardians,...

That Was Then And This Is Now.
June 1, 2008... Franklin Pierce*****FORGOTTEN PRESIDENT*****W. Human growth hormone*****CONTROVERSIAL JOCK-BLOOD CONTAMINANT*****Beijing smog McLovin*****IN-DEMAND SUMMER SIDEKICK*****Bill Richardson Apu in The Simpsons*****STOKER OF HINDU...

In Character.
June 1, 2008... Byline: WRITTEN, DIRECTED, AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY HOWARD SCHATZ ... STARRING JOHN GOODMAN You're a geek flirting with a cheerleader, unaware that you don't stand a chance. You're departing the nursing home where your wife resides; it...

Not Just The Boss's Daughter.(Ivanka Trump)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... Ivanka Trump ON HER DAILY BEAUTY RITUALS AND HOW TO AVOID FRENEMIES "Just the sight of this alpha fox peering down at you in her toe-cleavage Stuart Weitzman stiletto heels is enough to make you weak at the knees." "She reminds me of...

Smoke, Drink, Man, Woman.(Mad Men)
June 1, 2008... Byline: JONATHAN KELLY PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM JONES Oh, the good old days, when men could knock back a few martinis at lunch and bed women as compulsively as they smoked Lucky Strikes, while no one furrowed a brow at the office. This...

Miley Knows Best.(Miley Cyrus)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANNIE LEIBOVITZ �[euro]� STYLED BY MICHAEL ROBERTS Between sold-out concerts, multi-platinum records, and a hit TV series, Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus has some serious business riding on her...

Ever Airborne.(Damian Woetzel)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Byline: JACQUES D'AMBOISE PHOTOGRAPH BY BRUCE WEBER It's a professor! No, it's an artist. A Hollywood movie star? No, a New York dancer. He could be a jet pilot. You're getting closer. Damian Woetzel does fly, but his aerials are at Lincoln...

Far From The Gossiping Crowd.
June 1, 2008... Gossip Girl , CW's prime-time drama of love, jealousy, and social one-upmanship among New York City's private-school teens, is a style-setting hit. As Serena van der Woodsen, Blake Lively has some killer outfits--but the Paris couture shows...

James Frey's Morning After.
June 1, 2008... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY TERRY RICHARDSON What's it like to write a mega-selling memoir, then become a household word for "liar"? Was James Frey's A Million Little Pieces an ex-junkie's con job, part of a proud literary tradition, or just the...

Partnership Of The Traveling Bags.
June 1, 2008... Byline: BY MATT TYRNAUER PHOTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE Two years ago, the Pritzker Prize--winning architect Zaha Hadid had a meeting with Karl Lagerfeld in the lobby of the Mercer hotel, in the SoHo district of Manhattan. Lagerfeld, the...

Credits.
June 1, 2008... FASHION PAGES 63 AND 72: Boeing-Boeing costumes designed by Rob Howell. PAGE 113: MEAGAN GOOD'S GUCCI shirt from selected Gucci stores, or call 800-456-7663, or go to gucci.com; MARC JACOBS briefs from Marc Jacobs, L.A., or call...

John Cusack.(Interview)
June 1, 2008... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY RISKO He may be sewn into memory holding a boom box above his head, but John Cusack, 41, will display his gravity in War, Inc ., a political satire he also wrote and produced, which is featured at the Cannes Film...