Vanity Fair articles from November 2011

Vanity Fair archives from November 2011

Great Debts And Grand Dreams.
November 1, 2011... Byline: GRAYDON CARTER Great Debts and Grand Dreams 'California and Bust," on page 176, is the fifth and final installment of Michael Lewis's illuminating series on the financial meltdown of the Western democracies (to be gathered in his...

Party People.
November 1, 2011... PARTY PEOPLE AMERICANS CLING TO THEIR POLITICAL STRIPES ON EVERY ISSUE: ASKED TO CHOOSE THEIR PROUDEST ICONIC BRAND, REPUBLICANS RALLY BEHIND FORDWHILE DEMOCRATS CELEBRATE DISNEY. Is it a given that supporters of opposing political parties...

An Editor And A Gentleman.(Robert Loomis )(Interview)
November 1, 2011... Byline: BY JOHN HEILPERN ILLUSTRATION BY TIM SHEAFFER AN EDITOR AND A GENTLEMAN Bob Loomis spent 55 years making great authors greater. Just don't tell them he's retired Robert Loomisnot quite the last of a breed, but close met me for...

Tropicana Thunder.
November 1, 2011... TROPICANA THUNDER Showgirls and rebels; Private Eye in Paris; relocating J.Lo; China's cyber-war; dissecting Deutschland; hindsight is 9/11; and Murdoch's mess I just love Jean Stein's piece ["All Havana Broke Loose," September]! It's...

More From The V.F. Mailbag.(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2011... MORE FROM THE V.F. MAILBAG 'Your font has shrunk." Easy does it there, Karen J. Lincoln, of Atlanta. Some of our best friends still don't know. Part of the fun of running V.F.' s annual Best-Dressed List is hearing right away from our...

My Week With Marilyn.(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2011... Byline: BRUCE HANDY MY WEEK WITH MARILYN SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER AND MARILYN MONROE BEHIND THE SCENES For an actress, My Week with Marilyn is like an excruciatingly difficult platform dive, a win-gold-or-eat-ice figure-skating jump;...

A Dangerous Method.(Movie review)
November 1, 2011... Byline: GRAHAM FULLER A DANGEROUS METHOD DAVID CRONENBERG'S NEW SEDUCTIVE PSYCHODRAMA Here's an infernal Oedipal triangle: in David Cronenberg's coolly perverse A Dangerous Method, the married psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung ( Michael...

Melancholia.(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2011... Byline: BRUCE HANDY MELANCHOLIA LARS VON TRIER'S LATEST: LOOK OUT, EARTH! Set on a lovely Swedish estate where the moonlight always glistens and the lush-yet-alienating grounds were lifted from Last Year at Marienbad, the new...

Hot Tracks.(interview with Florence Welch)(Interview)
November 1, 2011... Byline: FLORENCE WELCH HOT TRACKS 'I think music should be scary," says Florence Welch. "Music is an exorcism." The 25-year-old South London art-school dropout entered the music scene in 2009 with Lungs, the smash-hit debut album from her...

Arethusa Farm.(George Malkemus and Anthony Yurgaitis)
November 1, 2011... Byline: A. M. HOMES PHOTOGRAPHS BY BEN HOFFMANN Arethusa Farm For George Malkemus and Anthony Yurgaitis, the president and vice president, respectively, of Manolo Blahnik USA, what started as a "circumstance"ensuring that the old farm...

Hot Type.
November 1, 2011... Byline: ELISSA SCHAPPELL HOT TYPE In the 70s, baby-boomer apologist Ann Beattie's fiction plumbed the inner lives of her peoplea baffling new breed of American who delighted in thumbing their noses at the Establishment's values. At the...

And Bunga For All!(Mamma Mia! Berlusconi's Italy Explained for Posterity and Friends Abroad)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2011... Byline: INGRID SISCHY And Bunga for All! 'I am the Jesus Christ of politics," declared Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's longest-reigning postwar prime ministermodestly, of course. Now comes the outsider's bible: Mamma Mia! Berlusconi's Italy...

My Kitchen.(Mario Batali)
November 1, 2011... Byline: Mario Batali PHOTOGRAPHS BY DEAN KAUFMAN MY KITCHEN Award-winning chef, best-selling author, television personality, and philanthropist Mario Batali's name is synonymous with good taste. His 19 restaurants span the globe from New...

Flipping For Bam.(Brooklyn Academy of Music )(Brief article)
November 1, 2011... Byline: WAYNE LAWSON Flipping for BAM As every true culture vulture in New York can tell you, BAM (known until 1973 as the Brooklyn Academy of Music ) is the only rival of Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera. It's where Edwin Booth...

Best In Show.(Pavilion of Art & Design )(Brief article)
November 1, 2011... Byline: MATT TYRNAUER Best in Show The Pavilion of Art & Design (PAD), the highly esteemed fair for galleries and dealers of mainly late-19th- and 20th-century major works and masterpieces of visual art, objects, and furniture, has...

Night-Table Reading.( Celluloid Skyline, The Art of Fielding, and Madame Bovary)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2011... Night-Table Reading BEN SCHOTT AUTHOR*****The engrossing and deliciously written Celluloid Skyline, by the architect and filmmaker James Sanders. It's a fascinating exploration of how the movies have depicted New York. SCHOTT'S NEW...

Americana Resorts.(Directory)
November 1, 2011... Byline: PUNCH HUTTON AMERICANA RESORTS Revisiting America's historic grand hotels The Point SARANAC LAKE, NEW YORK DATE ESTABLISHED: 1933. HISTORIC DETAIL: The Point was originally Camp Wonundra, the home of William Avery...

Chanel's New Twist.(Chanel No. 19)(Brief article)
November 1, 2011... Byline: LENORA JANE ESTES Chanel's New Twist Paris's star couturiA[umlaut]re translated her avant-garde fashion sense into a famously fragrant form after introducing the world to Chanel No. 5, in 1921. Nearly half a century after launching...

Transporting Nature.
November 1, 2011... Byline: ANTHONY ROTUNNO Transporting Nature In 2005, after recovering from a debilitating spinal-cord injury, Francesco Clark launched his eponymous skin-care line, Clark's Botanicals, a suite of organically based, jasmine-absolute-infused...

Hot Looks.(cosmetics)(Brief article)
November 1, 2011... Hot Looks Fashion an ultra-chic smoky eye with Dior's 3-Couleurs Smoky Eyeshadow Palettes, each with a convenient pop-out mirror. ($48, dior.com) Bid farewell to gluey false eyelashes and say hello to L'OrA[c]al Voluminous False Fiber...

Tom Ford's Compact Collection.
November 1, 2011... Byline: BRAMBLE TRIONFO TOM FORD'S COMPACT COLLECTION Debonair fashion designer Tom Ford introduces Tom Ford Beauty, his premier full-cosmetics collection, this month. Products such as the daily-use Purifying CrA[umlaut]me Cleanser and...

Fairground.
November 1, 2011... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY HANNAH THOMSON FAIRGROUND NOVEMBER 2011 AROUND THE WORLD, ONE PARTY AT A TIME LADIES WHO LUNCH Sisters Claire and Virginie Courtin-Clarins, with Prisca and Jenna Courtin-Clarins, their cousins, celebrate the...

Debt And Dumb.(history of America's finances)
November 1, 2011... Byline: BY SIMON JOHNSON AND JAMES KWAK ILLUSTRATION BY EDWARD SOREL DEBT AND DUMB As a young artillery captain in the Revolutionary War, Alexander Hamilton learned a crucial lesson: Good credit, based on the power to tax, is essential to...

La Mama-Rama!(La MaMa Experimental Theater Club's Ellen Stewart)
November 1, 2011... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY JASON SCHMIDT JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE LA MAMA-RAMA! On Sunday, October 16, Ellen Stewart's La MaMa Experimental Theater Club will turn 50. Performance luminaries, former La MaMa babiesand that's practically...

A Cabaret Of Her Own.(Marisa Berenson: A Life in Pictures )(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2011... Byline: JOHN HEILPERN PHOTOGRAPH BY PAOLO ROVERSI A CABARET OF HER OWN M arisa Berenson: A Life in Pictures (edited by Steven Meisel and published this month by Rizzoli) is a dazzling celebration of the woman described by French Elle...

Vanities: All Is Vanities ... Nothing Is Fair.(Amber Heard )
November 1, 2011... Byline: KRISTA SMITH PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHEW ROLSTON VANITIES All Is VANITIES... Nothing Is Fair NOVEMBER 2011 Amber Heard AGE: 25. PROVENANCE: Austin, Texas. THE NEWEST FACE OF GUESS... made her mark in the action comedies...

Michele Bachmann's: Top Eight Heroes.(Interview)
November 1, 2011... Byline: AS TOLD TO CRAIG BROWN Michele Bachmann's TOP EIGHT HEROES JESUS CHRIST Jesus Christ was born and brought up in Iowa. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. O.K., he may not have been brought up from Iowa. I walked into...

In Character.(Ben Kingsley)(Brief article)
November 1, 2011... Byline: WRITTEN, DIRECTED, AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY HOWARD SCHATZ IN CHARACTER ... STARRING BEN KINGSLEY You're a seven-year-old boy peeking through the cracks of the wooden stalls where all the teenage girls get changed at the beach. ...

Keeping Up Appearances.(Bobbi Brown )(Interview)
November 1, 2011... Keeping Up Appearances Bobbi Brown ON KATE MIDDLETON, THE ROLLING STONES, AND HIP-HOP "To G.W.'s chagrin, Bobbi Brown's pushy P.R. mullah refused to leave the room and sat at the table throughout this entire tA*te-A tA*te." "At the end,...

The Hunter In Johnny Depp.(Interview)
November 1, 2011... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY TERRY RICHARDSON STYLED BY JESSICA DIEHL CONSULTING STYLIST, SAMANTHA McMILLEN The Hunter in Johnny Depp For every Pirates of the Caribbean blockbuster he makes, Johnny Depp has a project with deep personal meaning,...

California And Bust.
November 1, 2011... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ART STREIBER California and Bust The smart money says the U.S. economy will splinter, with some states thriving, some states not, and all eyes are on California as the nightmare scenario. After a hair-raising visit...

It's A Lonesome Old Town.(Vivian Maier: Street Photographer)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2011... Byline: SCOTT TUROW IT'S A LONESOME OLD TOWN It's a romantic idea: the secret artist, an unseen observer who fully registers and refines existence in majestic but unknown works. The notion hints at the great artist we all yearn to believe...

The Woman Who Knew Too Much
November 1, 2011... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY NIGEL PARRY THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH Millions of Americans hoped President Obama would nominate Elizabeth Warren to head the consumer financial watchdog agency she had created. Instead, she was pushed aside. As...

Beltway Boys' Club.(Elizabeth Warren )(Brief article)
November 1, 2011... BELTWAY BOYS' CLUB In her battle to get the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau up and running and to assume its leadership, Elizabeth Warren faced opposition from both sides of the aisle and an army of well-funded business lobbyists All...

Desert Classic.(Other Desert Cities)(Brief article)
November 1, 2011... Byline: WAYNE LAWSON PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK SELIGER DESERT CLASSIC Following its sold-out run at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, at Lincoln Center, this spring, Jon Robin Baitz's wonderful new comedy-drama, Other Desert Cities, opens this month...

Liz Smith.(Interview)
November 1, 2011... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Liz Smith New York's most graceful, literate gossip columnist, Liz Smith has become a philanthropic powerhouse, raising millions with her charm, wit, and Rolodex. NORA EPHRON explains why it's so...

A Six-Decade Roman Holiday.
November 1, 2011... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN BECKER A Six-Decade ROMAN HOLIDAY For decades, Milton Gendel ran in the most rarefied circles of jet-set Rome, charming everyone from British royals to reigning tycoons (Agnelli, Getty, Onassis), his camera...

Maggie Mia!(Margaret Thatcher)(Brief article)
November 1, 2011... Byline: BRUCE HANDY PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIGITTE LACOMBE MAGGIE MIA! Is the world dying for a Margaret Thatcher biopic? Probably no more than it's dying for Harold Wilson or John Major biopics, the dramatic possibilities of the Falklands War...

Love In A Cold Climate.(Courtney Love)(Biography)
November 1, 2011... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JASON BELL LOVE in A COLD CLIMATE Human train wreck or victimized genius? In the case of Courtney Love, the answer may be both, as the 47-year-old rock star wages an obsessive campaign to find out what happened to...

Her Social Interiors.
November 1, 2011... Byline: JAMES REGINATO PHOTOGRAPH BY ERIC BOMAN HER SOCIAL INTERIORS Interior designer Muriel Brandolini's singular, bohemian-aristocratic style has heretofore been shown only to a rarefied fewher own family and her plutocratic clients,...

Three For The Seesaw.(Relatively Speaking)
November 1, 2011... Byline: DOUGLAS McGRATH PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNIE LEIBOVITZ THREE FOR THE SEESAW This fall, the distinctive voices of three giant American authors can be heard under the same roof when a collection of their one-act plays, Relatively Speaking,...

To War In Silk Stockings.
November 1, 2011... To War in Silk Stockings Daughter of aristocratic titan Averell Harriman, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer was born to wealth, beauty, and blueblood values. But when her father plunged into the politics of World War II as President Roosevelt's...

Desmond Tutu.(Interview)
November 1, 2011... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY RISKO DESMOND TUTU This fall, the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu celebrates his 80th birthday and the publication of a new biography, Tutu: Authorized. Here, the Nobel laureate muses on rum-raisin ice cream, crybabies,...