Vanity Fair articles from November 2009

Vanity Fair archives from November 2009

A Farewell To All That.
November 1, 2009... Byline: GRAYDON CARTER A Farewell to All That In New York City during the week after Labor Day, you could almost feel the door of the 20th century continuing its slow close. Two of the city's legendary restaurants, Tavern on the Green and...

The Ryan And Farrah Show.
November 1, 2009... THE RYAN AND FARRAH SHOW Fawcett stirs, O'Neal agitates; thanks for the memories; Tom Wolfe delights; giving Ruth a pass; the allure of Larry King; and more I was greatly disappointed in Leslie Bennetts's "Beautiful People, Ugly Choices"...

V.F. Classic.
November 1, 2009... V.F. CLASSIC Tim Dexter was just another aimless surfer dude in Southern California with a serious drug problem and a lengthening arrest record. Then he discovered grizzly bears, changed his name to Timothy Treadwell, and devoted his life to...

Postscript.
November 1, 2009... Byline: MATT PRESSMAN POSTSCRIPT In his November 2005 article, "The Man Who Ate Hollywood," Mark Seal reported on the nasty legal battle between the heirs of the larger-than-life wildcatter turned Hollywood mogul Marvin Davis. Davis's...

Fanfair.
November 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN BECKER FANFAIR 30 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE NOVEMBER 2009 Bright Young Things NAME: Laura Jarrett. AGE: 24. SECONDARY SCHOOL: University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. COLLEGE: Amherst; now a...

My Stuff.
November 1, 2009... Byline: Thomas Keller MY STUFF Recipient of the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Restaurateur award, the Culinary Institute of America's Chef of the Year title, and three-star ratings from Michelin for Per Se, in New York City, and the...

Hot Type.
November 1, 2009... Byline: ELISSA SCHAPPELL HOT TYPE SHORTLY, BUT FONDLY William Shawcross bows to The Queen Mother (Knopf). Susan Bartlett Crater and Libby Cameron find comfort in Sister Parish Design (St. Martin's). Bret Morgan communes with Rustic...

Interrogation Tactic.
November 1, 2009... Byline: ELISSA SCHAPPELL Interrogation Tactic You've heard of Padgett Powell, right? Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men ? Edisto ? Southern? Can you picture the rabble-rousing literary offspring of Flannery O'Connor and Donald Barthelme? Does the...

Hot Tracks.
November 1, 2009... Byline: LISA ROBINSON HOT TRACKS C'est si bon. Actress, singer, and femme fatale Charlotte Gainsbourg's forthcoming CD, IRM, was produced by Beck, who years ago said one of his favorite albums was Histoire de Melody Nelson, the...

My Desk.
November 1, 2009... Byline: Desiree Rogers PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTOPHER STURMAN MY DESK In November 2008, Desiree Glapion Rogers was selected by President Obama to serve as the incoming administration's White House social secretary. From her desk in the East...

Death Becomes Him.
November 1, 2009... Byline: AARON GELL Death Becomes Him MoMA CELEBRATES THE DARK ARTISTRY OF TIM BURTON Attention, MoMA visitors: if you detect an increase in the appearance of black nail polish, complicated zippered jackets, pallid foundation makeup, and...

Wired For Better Living.
November 1, 2009... Byline: JOHN MAHONEY WIRED FOR BETTER LIVING ART'S DAILY DOSE Visionaire's new electric calendar, created in collaboration with Smart car, spotlights a different artist each day. Fifty-two luminaries from around the globe, including...

Timeless Beauty.
November 1, 2009... Byline: LAURA JACOBS Timeless Beauty THE ICONIC CARTIER TANK In the beginning it didn't have a name. It was simply the answer to a practical question: How will men who need both hands free tell time? It was, as well, the answer to an...

Beauty.
November 1, 2009... Byline: Alannah Arguelles BEAUTY Bring It Home Cult perfumer FrA[c]dA[c]ric Malle unveils a line of home fragrances this season. Working with expert noses, he was able to create nine realistic scent portraits, including the spicy warmth...

Fairground.
November 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY HANNAH THOMSON FAIRGROUND AROUND THE WORLD, ONE PARTY AT A TIME NOVEMBER 2009 FASHIONABLE ELITE Honorees and friends celebrated the 70th annual International Best-Dressed List at a glamorous luncheon at the...

Rupert To Internet: It's War!
November 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DARROW RUPERT TO INTERNET: IT'S WAR! Rupert Murdoch is going to battle against the Internet, bent on making readers actually pay for online newspaper journalismbeginning with his London Sunday Times. History...

Carrie On Baggage.
November 1, 2009... Byline: LESLIE BENNETTS PHOTOGRAPH BY ART STREIBER CARRIE ON BAGGAGE However to contain the life of Carrie Fisher in a single one-woman show? There's simply too much material. She's already written best-selling novels chronicling her...

Anatomy Of A Siege.
November 1, 2009... Byline: BY MARIE BRENNER PHOTOGRAPHS BY BHARAT SIKKA ANATOMY OF A SIEGE A year ago, terrorists took over the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, India's fabled five-star hotel, in an attack that left 172 dead across the city. As India still...

Bed And Breakthrough.
November 1, 2009... Byline: KRISTA SMITH PHOTOGRAPH BY JULIAN BROAD BED AND BREAKTHROUGH T he Lovely Bones, out next month, will be Peter Jackson's first time behind the camera since King Kong (2005). Adapted by Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens from...

The Proustian Bargain.
November 1, 2009... Byline: BY GRAYDON CARTER ILLUSTRATIONS BY RISKO THE PROUSTIAN BARGAIN Collecting the cream of the magazine's back-page Proust Questionnaire in a new book, V.F.' s editor explains why this celebrated interrogation, which dates back to...

Vanities: All Is Vanities ... Nothing Is Fair.
November 1, 2009... Byline: KRISTA SMITH PHOTOGRAPH BY YU TSAI VANITIES All Is Vanities... Nothing Is Fair NOVEMBER 2009 Lily Rabe AGE: 27. PROVENANCE: A bit of New York City and a bit of Lakeville, Connecticut, where she attended the Hotchkiss...

The Coaster Correspondence.
November 1, 2009... The COASTER Correspondence MORE OF THE VERY EXPENSIVE WORDS OF Edwin John Coaster, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR VANITY FAIR DANA BROWN SENIOR ARTICLES EDITOR September 3, 2009 Dearest Ed: I send you this communiquA[c] by post for...

In Character.
November 1, 2009... Byline: WRITTEN, DIRECTED, AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY HOWARD SCHATZ IN CHARACTER ... STARRING THOMAS HADEN CHURCH You're the head of the Naples Mob, listening to a young lieutenant announce that he's branching off to form his own operation:...

Celebs, Jokes, And Rock 'N' Roll!
November 1, 2009... Celebs, Jokes, and Rock 'n' Roll! Paul Shaffer ON JAMES BROWN, "IT'S RAINING MEN," AND THREE DECADES OF LATE-NIGHT TELEVISION "G.W.'s been blessed these many years to meet and take the measure of some of the most talked-about people on our...

The Passions Of Penelope.
November 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MERT ALAS AND MARCUS PIGGOTT STYLED BY JESSICA DIEHL The PASSIONS of PENELOPE With two new movies Broken Embraces, her fourth film with director Pedro AlmodA[sup.3]var, and Rob Marshall's big-name musical...

Our Man Dominick.
November 1, 2009... OUR MAN DOMINICK When Dominick Dunne died in August, he had become what he'd always yearned to be, a bona fide celebrity. The dapper V.F. contributor and novelist was also something more important: a crusader for justice. Surveying Dunne's...

Circus Maximus.
November 1, 2009... Byline: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS PHOTOGRAPH BY TIM WALKER STYLED BY SARAJANE HOARE CIRCUS MAXIMUS The Cleese-family surname was actually Cheese until 1915, when John Cleese's father joined the wartime British Army and decided to forestall any...

Marc Dreier's Crime Of Destiny.
November 1, 2009... Byline: PORTRAITS BY NIGEL PARRY MARC DREIER'S CRIME OF DESTINY Great things were always expected of Marc Dreier, and he expected them for himself. He needed the hotshot litigating career and a life stuffed with rich men's toys. He needed...

Norman Rockwell's American Dream.(Excerpt)
November 1, 2009... Norman Rockwell's American Dream Judging by the popularity of two traveling retrospectives, and plans for a third exhibition in 2010, America is re-discovering one of its most underappreciated and misunderstood artists: Norman Rockwell. With...

Credits.
November 1, 2009... CREDITS ON THE COVER FASHION COVER: PenA[c]lope Cruz's DOLCE & GABBANA dress from selected Dolce & Gabbana boutiques, or call 877-70-DGUSA, or go to dolcegabbana.it; CHOPARD bracelet from Chopard, London, or call...

Martha Stewart.
November 1, 2009... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY RISKO MARTHA STEWART The domestic-goddess-cum-business-guru has spent decades building her multi-million-dollar company while advising audiences on how to flambA[c] the perfect Baked Alaska. Here, the author of this...

Wal-Mart Nation?
November 1, 2009... WAL-MART NATION? SOAKING THE RICH, TAX CREDITS FOR LIPOSUCTION, AND OTHER WEIGHTY MATTERS: 60 MINUTES AND VANITY FAIR TEAM UP FOR A NEW MONTHLY NATIONAL SURVEY In this month's pollthe first in a serieswe note that the populists are out in...