Vanity Fair articles from October 2004

Vanity Fair archives from October 2004

A Fine Romance.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: It was with election-season fervor that I tore into "Ronnie & Nancy" [by Bob Colacello, August]. Thank you, Vanity Fair, for letting me forget for a while my rancor and disdain for Reagan the politician and allowing me to wallow in...

Romantic Revolutionary.(The Motorcycle Diaries)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Anderson Tepper The Motorcycle Diaries is about the early, transformative journey of one of the 20th century's most iconic revolutionaries. Brazilian director Walter Salles (Central Station) weaves a powerful narrative not so much...

Holy Matrimony.(Sideways)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Eve Epstein Alexander Payne's new movie, Sideways, follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), a divorced failed novelist and wine enthusiast, on what he hopes will be a week of genteel bonding in Santa Barbara wine country with...

Second Chances.(P.S.)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Aaron Gell Nobody plays disappointed women like Laura Linney, cinematic patron saint of aggrieved good girls everywhere. She always seems so weighted down, so conscientious, so sad, her lovely face forever clouded with concern, her...

Hot Tracks.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Lisa Robinson From the voting booth to the D.J. booth, from the D.N.C. to the R.N.C., vote for the CD of your choice. After 17 years fronting No Doubt, shining star Gwen Stefani steps out with her solo debut of sexy,...

Hot Type.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Elissa Schappell Imagine, wanting to be smarter! In his inspired and inspiring quest to become The Know It All (Simon & Schuster), NPR contributor A. J. Jacobs sets as his impossible task reading the entire Encyclopaedia...

Driving Privileges.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: John Brodie The dozen TV, music, and finance executives who make up the Hollywood Car Club never have to suffer Valet Shame-that uniquely Angeleno affliction where one has to skulk into the inferior of two vehicles after a business...

City Room.
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Lisa Robinson These days, people come to New York to not be able to do the things they already can't do at home. Smoking bans, dancing bans, midnight closings of places that used to be up all night, chain restaurants, and brand-new...

Material Possessions.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Katie Sharer When Michael Sheldon, a former Merrill Lynch investment banker, sold his used amplifier for $4,000 on eBay, he was hooked. So hooked that he founded the Greenwich, Connecticut-based DropShop-a one-stop destination...

A Royal Secret.(The Lost Prince)(Brief Article)(Television Program Review)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Henry Alford If the image of a chubby English prince-a chubby English prince for whom the Emperor of Germany is "Cousin Bill," the King of Greece is "Papa's uncle," and Nicholas II is "cousin Nicky the tsar"-does not scream...

Truffle in Paradise.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Doug Stumpf For skiers it's February in Saint-Moritz. For sun worshippers and social climbers it's Christmas on St. Barts. But for food- and wine-lovers the ultimate destination has lately become October and November in the...

Formula Ford.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Helen Schulman Here's a fact that escaped the 9/11 commission: on the afternoon of the attacks 42 women called the New York Yves Saint Laurent store to order the label's peasant blouse, that fall's must-have fashion item. What that...

Bella Donna.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Marion Rosenfeld Designer, entrepreneur, spiritual practitioner, extoller of the shoulder, friend of Barbra's. These are but a few highlights of Donna Karan's glistening past two decades. As the most prominent woman in the...

Classic Direction.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: A. M. Homes A woman wearing no perfume has no future," said French poet Paul Valery. Coco Chanel went further, explaining the power of her signature scents-"It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate fashion accessory. It heralds...

Magical Marmont.
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Steve Garbarino In 1939 movie mogul Harry Cohn instructed William Holden and Glenn Ford, "If you must get in trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont." All of Hollywood-past and present-seems to have done its best to honor the...

Love of Art.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Christine Muhlke Shu Uemura is looking particularly animated these days. To celebrate the 44th birthday of the Japanese cosmetics company's original product, the famed Cleansing Oil, 75-year-old founder and creator Shu Uemura went...

RUMMY ON THE ROCKS; As he presided, steely-eyed and tough-minded, over the Afghanistan war, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld turned Pentagon briefings into must-swoon TV.(Biography)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: James Wolcott It's sad when a sex symbol sags. Especially in our nation's capital, where sex appeal is almost a non sequitur-so scarce a commodity that it's often portioned out to one man or woman per administration, while...

After the Fall; Attending the sentencings of Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic- and remembering his own, misleading first encounter with Martha-the author predicts a comeback for the domestic-arts tycoon, with a second act in L.A. for her ex-broker.(Biography)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Dominick Dunne In August 2, I attended the party to celebrate the publication of American Soldier, the memoir of General Tommy Franks, hosted by V.F.'s Graydon Carter and Judith Regan, head of Regan Books. It wasn't the usual New...

WHAT IF BUSH WINS? With the president wounded (and Dick Cheney snarling), the Democrats are acting as if his re-election were unthinkable.
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Michael Wolff What if Bush wins? Seriously. It isn't just that Democrats are feeling so confident or that they have come so far from Bush fatalism ("George Bush seems as unbeatable as any unbeatable incumbent has ever been.......

VANITY FAIR NOMINATES DARFUR MOBILIZERS.
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Jacques Menasche Because they gathered the evidence, then sounded the alarm, alerting the world to the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's remote Darfur region, where a nomadic Arab militia, the Janjaweed, has reportedly killed some...

American Communion; Johnny Cash thought his recording career was over.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: David Kamp The last song that Johnny Cash ever wrote is called "Like the 309." Like the first single he ever recorded, "Hey Porter," from 1955, it's a train song. Cash loved trains-he made two concept albums about them in the early...

R.E.M.'s Solar Power.(Around the Sun)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Mario Batali For all the ups and downs of the record business, R.E.M. has, since their very first LP, Murmur, in 1983, managed to define postpunk alternative music. Even with the deck chairs' being prepared on the Titanic of the...

Express to the Future; Cutting-edge technology allows Tom Hanks to act inside a child's body.
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: By Peter Biskind It's a drag getting old, and no more so than for movie stars and their fans. For actresses, it means they're out of work at 30. Actors have a good 10 or 20 years more, but then it's usually the boneyard for them as...

The New Establishment 2004.
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: -by Alan Deutschman, Richard Siklos, Heather Fink, John Brodie, Duff Mcdonald, Craig Offman, And Richard Rushfield. 1 H. LEE SCOTT JR. President and C.E.O., Wal-mart Stores, Inc. DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC: Nearly...

NEW ESTABLISHMENT STUDIO HEADS: A RANKING.
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: 1BARRY MEYER AND ALAN HORN chairman and C.E.O.; president and C.O.O.; Warner Bros. *Warner is the champion of the "tent pole" production, taking big risks and betting big budgets on big paydays-a strategy that has mostly...

MOGULS IN THE RUNNING.
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: JIM BERKUS chairman, United Talent Agency GORDON CRAWFORD senior vice president, Capital Research and Management DR. DRE producer, composer, performer; founder and C.E.O., Aftermath...

Renee Olstead.(Brief Article)(Biography)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Krista Smith AGE AND OCCUPATION: 15; singer, actor. PROVENANCE: Kingwood, Texas. THE NEIL SEDAKA? Olstead's jazzy, eponymous debut album has earned critical praise from all corners, with no less than Neil Sedaka...

THE PRO FOOTBALL SNOB'S DICTIONARY VOL.1; Puzzled by your friends' fretful discussions of "torn A.C.L.'s" and "cap-room problems"? Clueless about the storied Ice Bowl and the violent reign of Big Daddy Lipscomb.
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Compiled By David Kamp And Peter Richmond, David Kamp A.C.L. Abbreviation for anterior cruciate ligament, a strand of tissue that connects the thighbone to the shinbone via the center of the knee; invariably, some counted-on impact...

Rule of Law.(Interview)(Biography)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Krista Smith With six movies opening by year's end, Jude Law is showing his phenomenal range: art-house Jude (I [Love] Huckabees), action Jude (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), screen-idol Jude (The Aviator), romantic Jude...

The Path to Florida; As the Florida recount ate away at George W. Bush's margin of victory (1,784 votes ...327 ...154 ... ), the machinery of political power sprang to life.
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: David Margolick, Evgenia Peretz, Michael Shnayerson Shortly after the presidential vote in November 2000, two law clerks at the United States Supreme Court were joking about the photo finish in Florida. Wouldn't it be funny, one...

Beautiful Dreamer; Don't hate Gisele Bundchen because she's beautiful, 24 years old, and a multi-millionaire who dates Leonardo DiCaprio.(Biography)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Suzanna Andrews The sky is a stonewashed blue, the sun scorching, and the waves are pounding on the shore as Gisele Bundchen makes her way out onto the jagged rocks of an old jetty off Georgica Beach, in the Hamptons. Though she's...

One Painter, Two Lives; Building on centuries-old principles to create a new aesthetic, Caio Fonseca's paintings mirror the contradictions of his career.(Biography)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Daniel Kunitz "Thurgood Marshall Community Center and Resource Facility. This is Cindy speaking. How may I redirect your call?" says the man on the phone. I've called no such place, and I've not misdialed. The man speaking is...

The Diana Mysteries; Seven years after Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed's fatal car crash in Paris, and a million rumors later, Britain's royal coroner is calling on Scotland Yard to explore evidence that has led many (especially Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed) to suspect the monarchy and the secret service of murder.
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Tom Sancton Commandant Jean-Claude Mules is indignant. After 23 years as a detective with the famous Brigade Criminelle in Paris, he was put out to pasture two years ago, at age 55, without so much as a merci. But that's not what...

Barbara Walters; Barbara Walters has interviewed so many statesmen and stars over the course of her career that her name is an entry in The American Heritage Dictionary.(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: What is your idea of perfect happiness? A fireplace, a book, and a snowy day, with no possibility of getting into the office. What is your greatest fear? Heights. Which living person do you most admire? ...

Big Job Losses in the Bush League.(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... BYLINE: Graydon Carter The administration's tax cuts, which have generated the biggest deficits in U.S. history, were, President Bush declared, guaranteed to boost employment. They did anything but. During the Clinton administration 22...