Vanity Fair articles from October 2005

Vanity Fair archives from October 2005

Mixed About Martha; Readers debate the plight of the domestic diva; James Wolcott for president.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2005... Your "Big Post-Prison Interview" with Martha Stewart, in the August issue, lived up to the "big" designation ["The Prisoner of Bedford"]. Matt Tyrnauer provided excellent reporting on the chain of events that led to the verdict and sentencing,...

Hot Type.(Bibliography)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Elissa Schappell Oh! You pretty things! Robert Hofler exposes dirty-dealing agent Henry Willson, famed for turning gay beefcake into teen-pinup-boy gold. Not only was he The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson (Carroll & Graf), he also...

French Sensation.(Nothing Serious)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Elissa Schappell Anais Nin once said, "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Nothing Serious, the new novel by Justine Levy, daughter of the flamboyant French moralist and political philosopher Bernard-Henri...

Jet-Set Chic.(Georgina Brandolini)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Emily Poenisch If froufrou finery or sexpot glam doesn't float your fashion boat, Georgina Brandolini is a name to know and love. Valentino's muse and ambassador of two decades and a director at Pierre Balmain during the tenure of...

UNION'S DUE.
October 1, 2005... Byline: David Kamp The temptation is to label any New York restaurant that has hung around for 20 years a "dowager." Yet there's nothing dowager-like about the bright, shiny Union Square Cafe, which celebrates two decades of culinary...

Interior Motives.(Jed Johnson: Opulent Restraint)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Kevin Sessums "He just was what he was: a slim, silent beauty in perfectly pressed jeans and neatly checked shirts, as handsome and intriguing as the young Gary Cooper, a sweet, innocent faun among the tigresses and hyenas," writes...

Class Act.(William Haines)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Betsy Bloomingdale With Burt Boyar When I was a young girl I was invited to dinner at Jack Warner's house, which William Haines had designed. I thought longingly, If I can ever have a house that looks anything like this... Later,...

Just Curious.(The Journey That Saved Curious George)(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Anne Fulenwider The adventures of Curious George have been etched in the memories of generations of children, but until now, the details of his very first journey-taken on the backs of his creators-have remained a secret. In June...

Frieze Art Fair.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Edward Helmore Once upon a time, art fairs were where the business of art took place and places that artists, not wishing to appear to be too interested in money, tended to avoid. But now that we're as excited by the deal as the...

Lap of Luxury.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Christine Muhlke Thirty-two-year-old Stacey Lapidus, a former accessories editor at Vanity Fair, is launching an eponymous line of festive, fearless bags and beribboned rhinestone jewelry-available at such stores as New York's...

1970s Flashback.(The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane! American Films of the 1970s)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Byline: John Brodie Ron Hogan's new film-history book, The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane! American Films of the 1970s (Bulfinch), should be required reading for directors and others who would, for example, dare mess with a classic that...

Sundance Film Festival Darling The Squid and the Whale.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Bruce Handy Hoping to impress a girl in his high-school chemistry class, Walt Berkman, who seems to have borrowed his pickup technique from old Jules Feiffer cartoons, recommends The Metamorphosis. "It's very Kafka-esque," he says...

The Real Deal.(Good Night, and Good Luck)(Movie Review)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Bruce Handy Good Night. And, Good Luck is an absorbing but sometimes dry film about Edward R. Murrow, the saint of CBS News, and his famous See It Now broadcast dissecting Joe McCarthy's smear tactics at the peak of the senator's...

BUY THE HOTEL; FORGET ABOUT STEALING A BATHROBE.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Victoria Mather Once, you got the T-shirt. Now you get the telescope, the bed, the apple-martini cocktail rimmer, the Jacuzzi, and the woodchip pillow. From Telluride to Tokyo you can buy the contents of your hotel. This is the...

Mayan Madness.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Lisa Eisner A couple of times a year I beat a path to the historic Mayan Theater, in downtown L.A., for the cult stage spectacular Lucha VaVoom, a madcap, crazy mix of Mexican wrestling, comedy, and vintage burlesque. I love, love,...

GIRLS GONE SINGING.(One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds - Lost and Found)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Aaron Gell With its chiming harmonies, sun-through-the-clouds sonic reveries, and pink-slippered emotional landscape, the girl-group sound of the early 60s was as innocent as rock 'n' roll has ever dared be. Maybe too...

Funny Business.(Masters of American Comics)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: A. M. Homes They are the underdogs of the art world, kings of the funnies, masters of the scratchy pen-and-ink drawing and the word balloon. Comic-strip artists and graphic novelists specialize in pranks and pratfalls, futuristic...

In Full Bloom.(Olivia Chantecaille)(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Eve Epstein To go or not to go into the family business is a question that's plagued young people for centuries. But when "It girl" and former model Olivia Chantecaille was approached eight years ago by her mother, Sylvie, with the...

PLAYING FOOTSIE.(Bastien Gonzalez)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Dany Levy The beauty industry traffics in treatments head to toe, but one must admit: the head gets a lot more attention than the toe. When it comes to finding someone to pay serious attention to your feet, you're lucky if you can...

Tru Grit; Two upcoming movies-"Capote" and "Have You Heard?".(Truman Capote)(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2005... Byline: James Wolcott Literary fame has led to many a crash landing. The tailspin can come early or late in life; be swift and steep, or slow and arcing, like a long fly ball dying on the warning track. Even those writers hammy and shrewd...

Scandal By The Book; In high-alert London, the author has a fistful of party invitations, a surprise meeting with Lord Conrad Black, and champagne with Lady Colin Campbell, whose novel upset Lily Safra so much that the powerful widow forced the book's publisher to pulp it.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Dominick Dunne I've just returned from London, which is quite a different city from the one I visited four months ago, when I spent a week at Claridge's celebrating the end of the lawsuit brought against me by former congressman...

Bye, Bye, Broadsheet; Britain is witnessing what may be the last big newspaper war-and it's about size, not just circulation.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Wolff I am looking at an altogether new newspaper (quite an oxymoron) due to reach newsstands in Britain in the earliest days of autumn. It's demure, pretty, reticent-an odd note because just as I'm looking at the new...

A Matter of Life and Death; It was cancer-a brutally sudden death sentence: the doctors told the author she had probably less than six months.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Marjorie Williams The beast first showed its face benignly, in the late-June warmth of a California swimming pool, and it would take me more than a year to know it for what it was. Willie and I were lolling happily in the sunny...

The New Establishment 2005; The 50 Most Powerful Leaders of the Information Age A new generation grabbed the No.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Alan Deutschman, Richard Siklos, Heather Halberstadt, John Brodie, , , , Duff Mcdonald, Craig Offman, Richard Rushfield 1 SERGEY BRIN President, Technology, Google Inc. LARRY PAGE President, Products,...

NEW ESTABLISHMENT STUDIO HEADS:.(movie studios)
October 1, 2005... 1. JIM GIANOPULOS and TOM ROTHMAN co-chairmen, Fox Filmed Entertainment After a summer that included Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Fantastic Four, and Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith, there is enough lucre flowing out of this...

THE TALENT AGENCIES:.
October 1, 2005... 1.Creative Artists Agency Leagues beyond the competition. Captured Will Ferrell from UTA. Has the biggest female stars: Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Cameron Diaz, and Julia Roberts. 2.United Talent Agency Cornered the...

MOGULS IN THE RUNNING.
October 1, 2005... Dr. Dre founder and C.E.O., Aftermath Entertainment Brian Grazer and Ron Howard co-founders and co-chairmen, Imagine Entertainment Allen Grubman senior partner, Grubman Indursky & Schindler Mark Hurd...

Melissa George.(Brief Article)(Biography)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Krista Smith AGE AND OCCUPATION: 29, actress. PROVENANCE: Perth, Australia. RUNAWAY SUCCESS: Catch up with George in this month's Derailed, opposite Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston. END OF A CA-REAR: A competitive roller skater...

Bob Saget goes very blue.(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Byline: George Wayne Once the patriarch on TV's Full House and the corny host of America's Funniest Home Videos, Bob Saget-now fully cleansed of his G-rated costume and equipped with a dirty mouth that would humble George Carlin-is having...

The Pro Football Snob's Dictionary Vol. 2; Don't understand why your favorite receiver is out for the season with a "stinger" or "strained hip flexor"? Unsure as to which teams played in the Greatest Game Ever Played.(Glossary)
October 1, 2005... Byline: David Kamp, Peter Richmond All-Madden Team. Idiosyncratic roster of a season's best players as devised by America's bus-traveling, advertiser-friendly exemplar of reg'lar-guy pigskin jollity, John Madden, and announced in a TV...

The Inescapable Paris; Paris Hilton has transfixed the nation, to the point where she made $7 million last year, hears paparazzi cameras clicking even when they're not there, and has Camille Paglia weighing in on her cultural significance.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Krista Smith Gay Pride weekend in Los Angeles is under way, and a massive crowd has gathered to celebrate all things gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender. Early on Sunday morning, a sun-soaked Santa Monica Boulevard is already...

The Austrian Connection.(Franz Welser-Most)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Jeremy Eichler You know the classic image: a silver-haired conductor on a podium, his arms outstretched as if parting the orchestral sea, his face in rapture as if basking in the sound that he alone can deliver from the heavens....

Wild About Harry's; London society is up in arms over a threat to civilization as they know it: the civilization embodied in Mark Birley's exclusive clubs-Annabel's, Harry's Bar, Mark's Club, George, and the Bath & Racquets-which the ailing 75-year-old perfectionist wants to hand over to his son Robin and daughter, India Jane.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Vicky Ward The Wellington Hospital, in St. John's Wood, North London, is a bleak, ugly building with an interior to match. The walls are gray, and on a gloomy day in late July the coffee machine in the basement cafeteria works only...

Kid Crosby.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Brett Forrest The last year the Stanley Cup sat on the shelf was 1919, when an influenza epidemic wiped out the playoffs. There is under the weather, and then there is laid low, which is pro hockey's posture as the N.H.L. opens...

The House That Estee Built; When Estee Lauder died last year at age 97, she left a hole in the power fabric of New York, a $10 billion beauty empire (including Clinique, MAC, and, now, Tom Ford's new line), and a close-knit dynasty to carry on her dream.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Bob Colacello Governor Pataki declared her "one of the giants not just of this great city but of the world." Mayor Bloomberg compared her to the inventor of the telegraph, Samuel Morse. Marvin Traub, the former head of...

"Absolutely Excessive!"; Things were eating at Oracle C.E.O. Larry Ellison.(Company Profile)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Matthew Symonds Larry Ellison, the founding C.E.O. of Oracle, the world's second-biggest software firm after Microsoft, is in the Spanish city of Valencia, the host of the next America's Cup. His presence makes an impact. As one...

Donald Sutherland; Possessing a penchant for the odd, Donald Sutherland has portrayed a crack army surgeon, a space cowboy, and the slimy professor who stole Boon's girlfriend in "Animal House".(Interview)
October 1, 2005... What is your idea of perfect happiness? A peace-pursuing government I can support. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Dr. Norman Bethune. Which living person do you most admire? Arundhati Roy. What is...

Roman Holiday.(Roman Polanski)(Editorial)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Graydon Carter Why should Dominick have all the fun? On a London morning in mid-July, a week and a half after the transit bombings, I found myself in Courtroom No. 13 of the Royal Courts of Justice as Vanity Fair defended itself in...