Vanity Fair articles from March 2010

Vanity Fair archives from March 2010

Call Us ... Unreliable.(poll on changes to the constitution, athletes as role models, cyber attacks, job qualifications, American writers, awards show, historical events, the future, and popular pharses)
March 1, 2010... CALL US... UNRELIABLE ABOUT OUR PREFERRED PLACE IN HISTORY AND OUR FAITH IN NATIONAL ICONS (THANKS, TIGER) F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed that the mark of a first-class intelligence is the ability to hold in one's mind two...

Bertie Wooster's Day Off.
March 1, 2010... Byline: GRAYDON CARTER Bertie Wooster's Day Off I used to rail against the layers of packaging for DVDs and CDsthat hard-to-break-into clear wrapping and those extra strips of white tape over the edges, to prevent theft. You spend half...

Welcome To Pandorawood.(Annie Leibovitz)
March 1, 2010... Byline: KRISTA SMITH WELCOME TO PANDORAWOOD Annie Leibovitz may not have had the high-tech edge of James Cameron's equipment, but this issue (and her 16th Hollywood cover) contains her own special effects This marks the 16th year that...

Prince Of Shadows.
March 1, 2010... PRINCE OF SHADOWS Erik Prince's war on terror; going out with a big bang; noblesse obliged; who's afraid of Goldman Sachs?; Glee -ful praise; merrily seeking Meryl; Elvis lives; out of the foxhole Thank you for giving Erik Prince a voice...

V.F. Classic.
March 1, 2010... V.F. CLASSIC 'The decision is clear! It is either die or go to my beloved feathered friends." So concluded Bruno Zehnder in 1997, when the restless 51-year-old photographer resolved to make one last voyage to Antarctica to capture on film the...

Fanfair.
March 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN BECKER FANFAIR MARCH 2010 31 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE Bright Young Things NAME: Lauren Remington Platt. AGE: 25. SECONDARY SCHOOL: The Pingry School. COLLEGE: Columbia College, Columbia...

The Cultural Divide.('Federico Fellini: The Films', Vivienne Westwood's wallpaper, 'Manifest Equality' art exhibit, and Gucci and Christie jewelry online appraisal)
March 1, 2010... The CULTURAL DIVIDE Fantastical Fellini The lush and comprehensive new coffee-table book Federico Fellini: The Films, out from Rizzoli this month, coincides with the 50th anniversary of Fellini's triumphant, A1/4ber- sexy La Dolce Vita....

Private Lives: Catherine Monteiro De Barros.(children's clothes by Papo d'Anjo)
March 1, 2010... Byline: JOHN BRODIE PORTRAIT BY CHRISTOPHER STURMAN PRIVATE LIVES Catherine Monteiro de Barros Discovering the Papo d'Anjo catalogue can be a humbling experience for parents who think their children are well dressed and attractive....

My Stuff.(Alexander Wang)(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: Alexander Wang MY STUFF Twenty-five-year-old Alexander Wang's eponymous fashion label has gone from a family project to a $25 million business in just five years. The design darling is a two-time C.F.D.A.-award winner, and his...

Cool Cat.('The Lion' restaurant)(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: JONATHAN KELLY COOL CAT Once upon a time at the Lion, a classic West Village club tucked into a Ninth Street brownstone, Barbra Streisand sang to artists and writers and others who couldn't fathom that life existed north of 14th...

Better Burger.(Umami Burger)(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: LISA EISNER Better Burger L.A. SAVORS A NEW TASTE In L.A., the great hamburger debate continues. The younger crowd swears by In-N-Out. For me, nothing is as good as the Apple Pan. But now there's a new kid in town: Umami...

The Point Man.(Don DeLillo)(Book review)
March 1, 2010... Byline: COLM TAIBAN PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIGITTE LACOMBE The Point Man DON DeLILLO'S NEW NOVEL DEALS WITH A WORLDOUR OWNON THE BRINK OF CATASTROPHE Despite the fact that Point Omega, his new novel, is written in Don DeLillo's hushed...

Red-Carpet Predictions For Oscar Night.
March 1, 2010... Byline: EDITED BY PUNCH HUTTON AND LINDSEY KEENAN Red-Carpet Predictions for Oscar Night Some dresses are like jewelry in themselves. VERA WANG, DESIGNER I see a lot of colora lot of fuchsias, hot pinks, and oranges on the red...

Hot Type.(Recommended readings)
March 1, 2010... Byline: ELISSA SCHAPPELL HOT TYPE Even with best-of-the-year lists still being bitterly debated (the injustice!, the insanity!, the insider trading!), nothing eclipsed the Nobel Prize committee's cheeky Swedes' decision to bestow the...

Night-Table Reading.
March 1, 2010... NIGHT-TABLE READING Oscar Hosts with the Most GOLDIE HAWN CO-HOST, 1975, 1986 REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST BY MARCEL PROUST (VINTAGE)*****"Reading Proust is like taking a trip through the unconscious. It takes one through a stream of...

Essential Reading.
March 1, 2010... ESSENTIAL READING Cunning and witty Cathleen Schine holds on to her title as our modern-day Jane Austen in The Three Weissmanns of Westport (FSG). Self editor Lucy Danziger and Catherine Birndorf appoint The Nine Rooms of Happiness (Voice)....

Hot Tracks.(the music in the motion picture titled Crazy Heart)(Interview)
March 1, 2010... Byline: LISA ROBINSON HOT TRACKS Hangovers and hard times. Pickup bands in low-down dives. These are the themes of Crazy Heart, the poignant movie about a has-been country singer that features an extraordinary performance from Jeff Bridges...

A Cut Above.
March 1, 2010... Byline: MEENAL MISTRY A Cut Above JEWELRY FROM THE GLITTERATI PRINCE To enter the elegant little jewelry salon of Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, high above 57th Street in New York City, is to bask in luxury. A tea service is set out as...

White Wonderland.(Le Strato hotel)(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: VICTORIA MATHER WHITE WONDERLAND The new, 25-room, ski-in, ski-out Le Strato hotel, perched atop the Cospillot slope, in Courchevel, France, is as luxe as alpine ski hotels come. Named after the world's first fiberglass-laminated...

For Camera-Ready Faces And Bodies.(Directory)
March 1, 2010... Byline: BY PUNCH HUTTON For Camera-Ready Faces and Bodies SOME OF OUR FAVORITE L.A. SPOTS THE ULTIMATE SPA EXPERIENCE For body wraps, manicures, massages, and more... KINARA 656 N. ROBERTSON BLVD. WEST HOLLYWOOD ...

Fairground.(cocktail party in honor of Up in the Air at the Monkey )(Jerry Weintraub is honored by Unicef )(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY HANNAH THOMSON FAIRGROUND AROUND THE WORLD, ONE PARTY AT A TIME MARCH 2010 FLYING HIGH, PAGE 176. Graydon Carter and Brad Grey host a cocktail party in honor of Up in the Air at the Monkey Bar in New York...

Jeeves Spoken Here.(novel 'Right Ho, Jeeves' by P. G. Wodehouse)
March 1, 2010... JEEVES SPOKEN HERE Long wary of the very idea of audiobooks, the author has been seduced by the artistry of Martin Jarvis, who reads a canon that includes The Wind in the Willows, A Tale of Two Cities, and (acid test here) the novels of P. G....

Angel In America.(Angel Corella forms Corella Ballet Castilla y Leon)(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: LAURA JACOBS PHOTOGRAPH BY RUVEN AFANADOR ANGEL IN AMERICA Angel Corella didn't want to leave Spain in 1994, but his homeland no longer had a single ballet company, and the 19-year-old Corella, a classical dancer, was bursting to...

Too Big To Fail.(Alec Baldwin)
March 1, 2010... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY ANDRA CARRILHO TOO BIG TO FAIL Comedic genius of 30 Rock, seductive star of It's Complicated, co-host of this year's Academy AwardsAlec Baldwin has come through personal and professional disaster to emerge as...

Ringside At The Web Fight.(websites compete)
March 1, 2010... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTOPH NIEMANN RINGSIDE AT THE WEB FIGHT Everyone's betting on the Internet's next big thing. The author provides a tip sheet on competing theoriesit's the platform (Google, Facebook); it's the machine...

The Suspects Wore Louboutins.(members of Bling Ring wearing designer shoes)
March 1, 2010... Byline: BY NANCY JO SALES PHOTOGRAPHS BY SUSANNA HOWE THE SUSPECTS WORE LOUBOUTINS The most audacious burglary gang in recent Hollywood historyaccused of stealing more than $3 million in clothing and jewelry from Paris Hilton, Lindsay...

The Offending Champion.(Don Rickles)(Interview)
March 1, 2010... Byline: BY JOHN HEILPERN ILLUSTRATION BY TIM SHEAFFER THE OFFENDING CHAMPION At a Beverly Hills hangout, Don Rickles schmoozes about recumbent bikes, Las Vegas wiseguys, and the best Sinatra story ever told My lunch with Don Rickles, at...

The Theory Of Relativity.
March 1, 2010... Byline: BY FRANK DiGIACOMO PHOTOGRAPH BY GAVIN BOND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY At 35, the brash, glamour-loving Ryan Kavanaugh has become one of Hollywood's most powerful players, his Relativity Media claiming $2 billion in revenues in 2009....

Vanities: All Is Vanities ... Nothing Is Fair.(Melanie Laurent)(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: KRISTA SMITH PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHEL COMTE VANITIES All Is VANITIES... Nothing Is Fair MARCH 2010 MA[c]lanie Laurent AGE: 27. PROVENANCE: Paris. SET THE SCREEN AFLAME, LITERALLY, AS... Shosanna, the Franco-Jewish...

The Coaster Correspondence.
March 1, 2010... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY TIM SHEAFFER The COASTER Correspondence MORE OF THE VERY EXPENSIVE WORDS OF Edwin John Coaster, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR VANITY FAIR ADAM KLAPPHOLZ ASSOCIATE TO THE MANAGING EDITOR January 4, 2010 Dear Ed:...

Vanities.(ways to save money)(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: NELL SCOVELL VANITIES "NO MORE WII CONSOLES IN THE KIDS' GOODY BAGSEVERYONE GETS A $10 GIFT CARD FROM DYLAN'S CANDY BAR AND WE'RE DONE." "We're not loaning out the Aspen house in the off-season anymore. The 'walk in the door'...

In Character.(Brooke Shields)(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: WRITTEN, DIRECTED, AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY HOWARD SCHATZ IN CHARACTER ... STARRING BROOKE SHIELDS You're a celebrity guest at a White House state dinner, forced out of desperation to finally confront the creepy "nobody" crasher who...

Downsized Hollywood.
March 1, 2010... DOWNSIZED HOLLYWOOD ADJUSTING TO LIFE IN A FORMERLY GLAMOROUS BUSINESS The Great Recession was but the latest blow to an industry that had already been humbled by format wars, new content platforms, corporate re-structurings, reality...

It's Showtime!(2010 Academy Awards)
March 1, 2010... Byline: EVGENIA PERETZ It's Showtime! Between them, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin have more restless, prickly comic genius than is safe for the Kodak Theatre, where they're co-hosting the 2010 Academy Awards. In the glittering, on-edge...

Frame, Set, And Match.(Hollywood liaisons which sparked 11 compelling movies)
March 1, 2010... FRAME, SET, and MATCH Whether it was the epic romance of Pedro AlmodA[sup.3]var and PenA[c]lope Cruz, the continuing saga of Nora Ephron and Meryl Streep, the otherworldly connection between James Cameron and his Pandoran creations, or the...

Sweet Bard Of Youth.
March 1, 2010... Byline: STILL-LIFE PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAN WINTERS Sweet Bard of Youth After a wildly prolific decade of screenwriting and directing that made him the king of teen comedy, John Hughes receded from the cinematic landscape, his legend preserved...

Once In Love With Ali.(Ali MacGraw)(Interview)
March 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Once in Love with Ali Ali MacGraw gave America a new kind of heroine, married two movie legendsproducer Robert Evans and Steve McQueen, her co-star in The Getaway then skipped out on Hollywood almost...

Pacific Overture.(television program 'The Pacific')(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: BEN BRADLEE PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM JONES PACIFIC OVERTURE I was on the destroyer U.S.S. Philip (DD-498), off Vella Lavella Island, in the Pacific, with a cursed L.S.T. that could go only six knots, and we knew we were about to get...

Hollywood's Top 40.(celebrity incomes)
March 1, 2010... Hollywood's TOP 40 Even in a jittery, cash-starved year, some talent is going to be platinum-plated, recession-proof, and flop-resistant. Interviewing scores of industry experts, PETER NEWCOMB crunches the numbers to rank the 40 top...

Studio Head: The Greatest Story Never Sold.
March 1, 2010... STUDIO HEAD The Greatest Story Never Sold Surely, this tell-all would rock the best-seller lists: Studio Head, the confessions of Jon Peters, the unschooled half-Cherokee hairdresser who went from styling (and wooing) Barbra Streisand to...

The Time Of Nick.(Nick Jonas)(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANCESCO CARROZZINI JIM WINDOLF THE TIME OF NICK Pop-music history is littered with performers who hit it big in their early teens only to end up in obscurity or rehab (or both). With his new album, Who I Am, Nick...

Coloring The Kingdom.
March 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY ART STREIBER Coloring the Kingdom Behind the breakthrough magic of Walt Disney's first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and his other 30s and 40s classics Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi toiled as many as...

Little Miss Miracle.(Abigail Breslin in the remake of 'The Miracle Worker')(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY JENNY GAGE AND TOM BETTERTON KRISTA SMITH LITTLE MISS MIRACLE After a 49-year absence, William Gibson's The Miracle Worker, about the afflicted young Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, is returning to the...

Brutal Attraction: The Making Of Raging Bull.(motion picture)
March 1, 2010... BRUTAL ATTRACTION The Making of Raging Bull Raging Bull began as Robert De Niro's obsession, but the only man he believed could film it, Martin Scorsese, wasn't interesteduntil the director's near-fatal collapse gave him a visceral...

Matisse's Missing Link.(Paul Cezzane's influence on Henri Matisse's painting)(Brief article)
March 1, 2010... Byline: JOHN RICHARDSON MATISSE'S MISSING LINK Astar painting in the Art Institute of Chicago's exhibition "Matisse: Radical Reinvention, 19131917" is Goldfish and Palette, which has long been a favorite with visitors to New York's Museum...

Luise Rainer.(Interview)
March 1, 2010... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY RISKO LUISE RAINER Known as the Viennese Teardrop for her heartbreaking performances in The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth, among other films, the two-time Academy Awardwinning actress reigned as one of...