Vanity Fair articles from May 2009

Vanity Fair archives from May 2009

CSI: Wall Street.
May 1, 2009... Byline: GRAYDON CARTER Washington was slower than most to sense the growing outrage in this country over the institutions that brought the world's economic system to its knees. The capital, as the bumper sticker says, just wasn't paying...

Washington Is Not The New Hollywood.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2009... Cover judgments; shaking up is hard to do; tales from a screening with Sinatra of The Godfather; the incomparable John Woolf; and more I always look forward to adding VANITY FAIR' s annual Hollywood Issue [March] to my collection, which...

V.F. Classic.
May 1, 2009... The saga of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, known as Dr. Death, engrossed America for much of the 1990s. In VANITY FAIR' s May 1991 issue, Ron Rosenbaum reported on the trial that resulted from Kevorkian's first assisted suicide, when he hooked up Janet...

More From The V.F. Mailbag.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2009... 'I'm so totally awed to stand in your e-mail presence! I know how busy you must be managing VANITY FAIR, so I'll keep this shorI mean, BRIEF..." Yes, there's more mail for Little Graydon. (Or should we henceforth think of him as Brief...

Postscript.
May 1, 2009... Byline: MATT PRESSMAN In her March 2007 article, "Taking on GuantA namo," Marie Brenner reported on the efforts of Charles Swift, a lawyer with the navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps, to defend not only his clientOsama bin Laden's...

Fanfair.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY PAUL COX MAY 2009 31 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE SPRING AWAKENING A gift from Japan in 1912, the thousands of cherry trees surrounding Washington, D.C.'s Tidal Basin, celebrated at the annual...

May: The Cultural Divide.
May 1, 2009... Mod Pod The Aptera 2e, the most aerodynamic car on the market (technically, it's a motorcycle), goes from 0 to 60 in less than 10 seconds on a motor powered by a lithium-ion battery. The two-seater, with trim, flooring, and seating made...

Hot Type.(books)
May 1, 2009... Byline: ELISSA SCHAPPELL A virtuoso feat of reporting, Dave Cullen's Columbine (Twelve) gets inside the heads of the teen killers whose apocalyptic slaughter traumatized a nation. First serialized in Playboy (wouldn't Dickens have loved...

Hot Tracks.
May 1, 2009... Byline: LISA ROBINSON How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill. ALBERT EINSTEIN This month marks the 50th anniversary of Island Records, the extraordinary independent record label...

My Stuff.
May 1, 2009... Byline: Jenna Lyons Jenna Lyons, J. Crew's creative director, has transformed the company's image by infusing preppy basics with retro glamour and fashion-forward design. She has also launched their granny-chic jewelry line and seasonal...

Village People.(Garber Hardware)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Byline: JONATHAN KELLY GARBER HARDWARE CELEBRATES 125 YEARS Once upon a time, long before the invasion of Marc Jacobs's boutiques and Richard Meier's sleek towers, Manhattan's West Village was the province of horse-drawn carriages,...

Deep Freeze.(Dustin Yellin's "Dust in the Brain Attic")(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Byline: AARON GELL DUSTIN YELLIN'S CUBES OF FANCY Sculptor Dustin Yellin, 33, whose new exhibition, "Dust in the Brain Attic," opens April 23 at New York's Robert Miller Gallery, spends months creating each piece"drawing in space" on...

Night Table Reading.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2009... DAVID GREGORY MODERATOR, NBC'S MEET THE PRESS LORDS OF FINANCE: THE BANKERS WHO BROKE THE WORLD, BY LIAQUAT AHAMED (PENGUIN PRESS) "It's about the leading central bankers around the world during the Depression. I find the...

The Fight Stuff.(Mike Tyson)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Byline: BRUCE HANDY MIKE TYSON IMMORTALIZED As a portrait of a self-destructive fighter struggling with what might charitably be called "anger issues," the new documentary Tyson can't help but put one in mind of Raging Bull, though...

Soap And Glory.(Beekman 1802)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Byline: MEENAL MISTRY GOAT'S-MILK SUDS The founders of Beekman 1802, Dr. Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, have created something of a squeaky-clean sensation with their goat's-milk soap bars, handmade with milk from their...

Hot Looks.
May 1, 2009... Honoring its roots in Athens's first homeopathic pharmacy, Korres offers Materia Herba Anti-Ageing Eye Cream, with its infusion of herbs and green tea. For a good cause, protect your skin with Kiehl's Superbly Restorative Argan Body...

Fairground.(81st annual Academy Awards)
May 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY DAFYDD JONES AROUND THE WORLD, ONE PARTY AT A TIME MAY 2OO9 AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER This year's VANITY FAIR Oscar party, celebrating the 81st annual Academy Awards, was an intimate and glamorous evening....

To Boldly Star.(Chris Pine)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Byline: KRISTA SMITH PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK SELIGER It's been a while since Hollywood had a bona fide homegrown movie star: they tend to come from places like Missouri or Kentucky, not Studio City. But here's Chris Pine, 28 years old, native to...

The Buckley Identity.(Christopher Buckley)
May 1, 2009... Byline: BY JOHN HEILPERN Over soufflA[c]s at Swifty's, best-selling satirist Christopher Buckley conjures up the subjects of his new memoir, Losing Mum and Pup, his legendary parents Christopher Buckley, the well-known satirist and...

The Man Who Ate The G.O.P.
May 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DARROW In an ailing radio industry, with a graying audience and a pro-government landscape, Rush Limbaugh should be shuffling off into irrelevancy. Instead, his ever more outrageous attacks have everyone...

Reif Larsen's Map Quest.
May 1, 2009... Byline: EVGENIA PERETZ PHOTOGRAPH BY GASPER TRINGALE Recession? What recession? At a time when most of the book industry began creeping into hibernation, 29-year-old Reif Larsen had 10 publishers vying for his debut novel, The Selected...

Diary Heather Mills.
May 1, 2009... Byline: AS TOLD TO CRAIG BROWN My good friend Nelson Mandela once said to me, "Heather, you're so loving, so compassionate, so caring. Everyone says it. How can I learn to be even half so compassionate as you?" I told him it's not...

In Character.(Terrence Howard)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Byline: WRITTEN, DIRECTED, AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY HOWARD SCHATZ . . . STARRING TERRENCE HOWARD You're an African-American lawyer at a benefit dinner, sitting across from a businessman who has launched into the "Your people! So talented!...

A Taste Of Candy.(Candy Spelling's Stories from Candyland)(Interview)
May 1, 2009... Candy Spelling ON MEETING AARON, COLLECTING FABERGA EGGS, AND SPEAKING WITH TORI "G.W. loved making her laugh, 'cause the way she laughs made me laugh even harder! We were two fabulous hags cackling like hyenas. It was truly wonderful."...

... And God Created Gisele.(Gisele Bundchen)
May 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARIO TESTINO acents STYLED BY SARAJANE HOARE How does the world's most successful supermodeldarling of the cameras, advertisers, and tabloids, and worth an estimated $150 millionmake her life even more fabulous? By...

High C In High-Def.
May 1, 2009... Byline: DAMIAN FOWLER PHOTOGRAPH BY WAYNE MASER STYLED BY SARAJANE HOARE Opera is ready for its close-up, Mr. DeMille. Or, rather, Mr. Gelb, for Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb is responsible for bringing this high art to the...

The Inheritance.(Company overview)
May 1, 2009... With a doomsday clock ticking for newspapers as we know them, no one has more at stake than fourth-generation New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., who is scrambling to keep his family's prized asset alive. Some see him as a...

The Thrill Room.(Four Seasons Restaurant)
May 1, 2009... Byline: MATT TYRNAUER PHOTOGRAPH BY TODD EBERLE The ground floor of the Seagram Building, on Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets in Manhattan, was originally slated to be a Cadillac showroom. But Mies van der Rohe, the architect,...

Bohemian Tragedy.
May 1, 2009... Byline: PORTRAIT BY KAREN KUEHN Members of the ultra-exclusive Bohemian Club2,500 of America's richest, most conservative men, including Henry Kissinger, George H. W. Bush, and a passel of Bechtels, Basses, and Rockefellersare known to...

There Will Be Beauty.(A.A. Gill)
May 1, 2009... A fancy-dress ball on the deck of the Titanic ? Or a firm bet on the future of civilization? A. A. GILL argues that amid gloom and disaster the couture collections may be more vital than ever, as MICHAEL ROBERTS photographs Emily Blunt ( The...

Credits.
May 1, 2009... ON THE COVER FASHION COVER: For Gisele BA1/4ndchen's ROBERTO CAVALLI dress, go to robertocavalli.com; for TIFFANY & CO. ring and bracelet, call 800-526-0649. PAGE 10: BA1/4ndchen's TOM FORD jacket from Bergdorf Goodman and Tom Ford,...

Jane Fonda.(Interview)
May 1, 2009... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY RISKO With the curtain about to fall on her first Broadway appearance in nearly five decades, the star of MoisA[c]s Kaufman's 33 Variations pauses to reflect on her unscripted life What is your idea of perfect...