Vanity Fair articles from March 2003

Vanity Fair archives from March 2003

The Killing Game; Sights on the Palestinians; Tony Kaye, according to sane people; Qui est Monsieur Levy.(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2003... David Margolick's article "Israel's Payback Principle" [January] justified the high price one must pay for your magazine here in Canada. The ethical questions Margolick raises about the practice of targeted killings are the same ones we should...

Kick the Sky.(Movie Review)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Bruce Handy Not everyone in the world hates America. That's one lesson you can take away from Bend It Like Beckham, a hit British film in which the U.S. shines as a promised land for teenage girls whose fondest wish in life is to...

COMING ATTRACTIONS.(Movie Review)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Walter Kirn Trailer of the month: The Core. Directed by: Jon Amiel. Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank. Coming to a theater near you: March 28. The nitty-gritty: When a supersecret government program to generate targeted...

California Dreaming.(Movie Review)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Chris Mitchell It's best to think of this earnestly adult love story as a 21st-century update of The Graduate. In the second feature from indie director Lisa Cholodenko (High Art), the children of Benjamin Braddock's generation...

Hot Type.(novels)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Elissa Schappell In the season of l'amour, crimes of the heart abound. Steven Millhauser's The King in the Tree (Knopf) is a menage a trois of novellas shaped by erotic love, seduction, and betrayal. Louise Erdrich hits every note...

Hot Tracks.(music)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Lisa Robinson Are you taking over or are you taking orders / Are you going backwards or are you going forwards? -"White Riot," Joe Strummer & Mick Jones. The worse the state of the world, the better the state of the art....

In da House.(television series review)(Television Program Review)
March 1, 2003... Byline: James Wolcott The art of the put-on lives. Ali G is the slyest impostor to peacock into pop fame since the divine Dame Edna. He too has become not just a phenomenon but a comedy franchise, with his own British TV series, Da...

The Best Is Yet to Come.(Peter Cincotti's new album)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Leslie Bennetts Long before he was tall, handsome, and oh-so-debonair in an Armani suit, Peter Cincotti was a pint-size prodigy who discovered the keyboard at three and began performing as a seven-year-old protege of Harry Connick...

Laugh In.(theater review)(Theater Review)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Edward Helmore The British love of lunacy, corny humor, and innuendo, coupled with the more recent acquisition of celebrity infatuation, takes center stage on Broadway this month with the arrival of the vaudevillian comedy The Play...

India Calling.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Henry Alford -- cut and paste the full text below between the (p)and the(/p) --> While its blend of historicism and magic realism brings to mind the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie's 1981...

From Russia, with Love.(soap making)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Evgenia Peretz The first night Alina Roytberg spent at Lev Glazman's house, she opened the bathroom cabinet and screamed. It was crammed with soaps, balms, lotions, and potions, and she demanded to know what his deal was. He calmly...

Living Proof; Instead of marveling at the number of books, articles, and documentaries he produced, some of the author's friends muttered about the quantity of booze he drank.
March 1, 2003... Byline: Christopher Hitchens My heart soared like a hawk when I read the recent study which recommended eating at least a clove of garlic a day. Apparently this treatment, along with plenty of onions, would toughen up my prostate gland. I...

WHAT IF THEY GAVE A WAR AND NOBODY CARED? In view of the national apathy, it's no surprise that most Americans watch the plans for war against Iraq with something like a yawn.
March 1, 2003... Byline: James Wolcott The president responded abruptly when a reporter suggested that war was inevitable. "You said we're headed to war in Iraq. I don't know why you say that," Bush said. "I'm the person who gets to decide, not...

Round Two with the Kennedys; Did the author swear to Dorthy Moxley that he'd "help her get justice for her daughter"? Absolutely.(Robert F. Kennedy)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Dominick Dunne As of this month, I've been writing this diary for two years, and I enjoy doing it, but the stories I report get me into trouble now and then. A few days before Christmas I had a catch-up lunch at Swifty's restaurant...

Cambridge Reds.(Television Program Review)(Television Program Review)
March 1, 2003... The mini-series is not dead-at least not in Great Britain. Cambridge Spies, a new, four-part BBC drama-think James Bond meets Gosford Park-tells of four men who met at Cambridge in the 1930s and went on to serve two masters, the K.G.B. and...

The Camera Wars; Kevin Mazur is the new breed of paparazzo, as popular with Bono and Barbra as he is with the magazines that make his WireImage the top entertainment-photo agency.
March 1, 2003... Byline: Nancy Jo Sales Jon Bon Jovi, a burnished beige all over and swathed in leather, jumped from a limousine to a red carpet and walked, smiling for the paparazzi. Hanging in there all these years, still smiling for the paparazzi, his...

VANITY FAIR NOMINATES JOHN ADAMS.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Because-more than any other American composer working today, he has sifted through the rubble of a century in sound to find a voice that is old yet new, accessible yet knowing, rooted in the past yet free of its imperatives. because for three...

Taking It All Off; Gypsy, the 1959 hit musical, returns to Broadway this month.(Theater Review)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Laura Jacobs It was written in three months of serene inspiration, three men of the theater-Arthur Laurents, book; Jule Styne, music; Stephen Sondheim, lyrics-each at the top of his game. It opened on Broadway, May 21, 1959, to a...

Agnes Bruckner.(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Krista Smith age and occupation: 17, actor. provenance: Los Angeles. from daytime... : Bruckner got her start at the age of 11 on The Bold and the Beautiful. Of the soap, she says, "It was a really good ...

Cannon fire.(Dyan Cannon)(Interview)
March 1, 2003... Byline: George Wayne Dyan Cannon cannot seem to shake her status as a sex symbol: on Ally McBeal, she played a judge not averse to "seeing counsel in her chambers," and on her recent NBC comedy Three Sisters, she played a former Playboy...

Neal Pollack's Having a Baby.
March 1, 2003... Byline: Neal Pollack In the near light of dawn, my infant boy sleeps. I've been watching him for only a couple of minutes, but he's so tender and peaceful that I could watch him for at least a couple more. From this angle, he looks like...

Masters of Photography Annie Leibovitz.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Over the past two decades, A SINGLE name has become synonymous with Vanity Fair's visual brilliance: Annie Leibovitz, WHO has shot 104 covers and countless portraits for the magazine. In this 24-page portfolio, one of a series of...

Saying Farewell to a Friend Herb Ritts 1952-2002.(Obituary)
March 1, 2003... Ask anyone who knew Herb Ritts and the first thing they will say about him is that, in the world of fashion and celebrity photography, he was the exception: never did a nasty word about anyone cross his lips. He just wasn't wired that way....

Ben's Open Road; In private, Ben Affleck is so laid-back-no hovering publicists, no entourage, no forbidden topics- it's hard to believe that he's the $15 million star with the screenwriting Oscar, or that he's engaged to the flashiest beauty in America.(Jennifer Lopez)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Leslie Bennetts This place seems way too quiet to be the red-hot center of a media maelstrom. All afternoon, Ben Affleck has been lounging on a leather sofa at his house in the Hollywood Hills, vigorously chewing Nicorette and...

Cartier-Bresson's Decisive Moment; When Henri Cartier-Bresson picked up a portable Leica some 70 years ago, he jump-started modern photography and produced some of the 20th century's most indelible camera images.
March 1, 2003... Byline: David Friend 'I was never interested in photography," says the godfather of photojournalism. "It's instant drawing, that's all." He is perched in his Paris lair on the Rue de Rivoli with its heaven's-eye command of the Jardin des...

It's a Mad, Mad Miss World; Some people might have thought twice about flying 90 scantily clothed beauty queens into the capital of a predominantly Muslim country during the holy month of Ramadan.
March 1, 2003... Byline: Judy Bachrach It isn't turning out to be the usual sort of beauty contest. Lively Miss Canada, her thick blond hair swept into a ponytail, is startled by the meager hotel accommodations in Calabar, Nigeria, where, deprived of a...

The Talented Mr. Epstein; Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-flying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor financier lives in New York's largest private residence, claims to take only billionaires as clients, and flies celebrities including Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey on his Boeing 727.
March 1, 2003... Byline: Vicky Ward On Manhattan's Upper East Side, home to some of the most expensive real estate on earth, exists the crown jewel of the city's residential town houses. With its 15-foot-high oak door, huge arched windows, and nine floors,...

Winner Lose All; When Volponi, the 43-to-1 long shot, finished first in the 2002 Breeders' Cup Classic last October, it looked as if Derrick Davis held six winning tickets worth $3.1 million.
March 1, 2003... Byline: Bryan Burrough It could have happened anywhere, at the Belmont, the Preakness, or even the Kentucky Derby. But when the histories are written, they will show that it happened instead at the climax of the American Thoroughbred...

For Love Of Aspen; On major holidays, a private plane lands or takes off at the Aspen airport every six minutes.
March 1, 2003... Byline: Mark Seal 'This is the place I dreamed about when I was little," says Kevin Costner, sitting down to chili dogs and a glass of milk in his log house on a huge piece of land right outside Aspen, Colorado. Just in from Los Angeles on...

Bill O'Reilly; It takes guts to appear on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News talk show, where the guests struggle to get a word in edgewise, and the only star is the one behind the anchor desk.(Interview)
March 1, 2003... What is your idea of perfect happiness? Seeing little kids having a great time. What is your greatest fear? Failure. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Robert Kennedy. My mother comes from the Kennedy...

American Master.(photographer Annie Leibovitz)(Editorial)
March 1, 2003... Byline: Graydon Carter I was photographed by Annie Leibovitz twice before I came to Vanity Fair. I was editing Spy at the time and I knew her by reputation-well, I mean, who didn't? She was big-league. Her subjects were, too. I, on the...