Vanity Fair articles from October 2010

Vanity Fair archives from October 2010

America The Angry.(Rupert Murdoch and The New York Times)
October 1, 2010... Byline: GRAYDON CARTER America the Angry It could fairly be said that during the past decade America went from being an essentially optimistic nation to being an essentially pessimistic one, and finally one that seems to be just plain...

The End Of Etiquette?(Mel Gibson, wars, and taxing tanning salons)
October 1, 2010... THE END OF ETIQUETTE? AMERICANS DON'T KNOW WHO EMILY POST WAS, BUT THEY KNOW THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. OH, FOR A WORLD IN WHICH THE REVERSE WERE TRUE! It's probably the height of bad manners even to mention this, but two-thirds of...

The Playwright's The Thing.(Tony Kushner )(Interview)
October 1, 2010... Byline: BY JOHN HEILPERN ILLUSTRATION BY TIM SHEAFFER THE PLAYWRIGHT'S THE THING With a major revival of Angels in America in the works, Tony Kushner talks about gay marriage, procrastination, and his pen fetish My favorite gay Jewish...

Postscript.(Billions over Baghdad)
October 1, 2010... Byline: ADRIENNE GAFFNEY POSTSCRIPT In their October 2007 article, "Billions over Baghdad," Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele reported on how $9 billion worth of Iraq-reconstruction funds seemingly vanished into the ether between April...

Fanfair.(Madonna)(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY HERB RITTS FANFAIR OCTOBER 2010 31 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE WHO'S THAT GIRL? "The first time I [met] Herb was on the set of Desperately Seeking Susan and it's true, he put a pair of underwear on my...

Fanfair.(Persol 714 and Tod's ballerina slipper)(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... FANFAIR Retro Cool 714 Persol sunglasses became de rigueur for cool dudes around the country after Steve McQueen made them famous in the 1968 Thomas Crown Affair. This month Persol will release the 714 model as part of the Steve McQueen...

Sweet Buzz.(Tcho)(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: DAVID FRIEND SWEET BUZZ For a while now dark chocolate has been marketed as a hip vice: even a dollop, they said, could make the heart healthier, the mind more focused. But last year Tcho, the socially conscious boutique...

Everybody's All-American.(Tommy Hilfiger )(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: PUNCH HUTTON Everybody's All-American Tommy Hilfiger launched his career by designing rock-inspired clothes in New York City back in 1985. Twenty-five years later, his label has become synonymous with iconic American fashion. His...

My Dream.(Natalie Massenet)(Interview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: Natalie Massenet MY DREAM Net-a-Porter's founder, Natalie Massenet, sold her company for $533 million earlier this year. She stays on as C.E.O., and in January she will launch Mr. Porter, a luxe global men's-wear online site....

My Stuff.(Dylan Lauren)(Interview)
October 1, 2010... Byline: Dylan Lauren MY STUFF Candy queen Dylan Lauren, owner of Dylan's Candy Bar, has built a staggeringly sweet multi-million-dollar empire. This month, her new book, Dylan's Candy Bar: Unwrap Your Sweet Life full of fun ideas for...

Haute Haven.(Nina Garduno's Free City)(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: LISA EISNER Haute Haven FREE CITY'S NEW BOUTIQUE Ten years ago, inspired by free-spirited enclaves like Tassajara, in Northern California, Christiania, in Copenhagen, and the Earthship Community, in New Mexico, Nina Garduno, a...

Hot Type.(recommended readings)(Recommended readings)
October 1, 2010... Byline: ELISSA SCHAPPELL HOT TYPE Girls, get busy! Sara Marcus's Girls to the Front (Harper) is not only a historical rockument of the revolutionary 90s counterculture Riot Grrrl movement, which birthed the DIY feminist punk scene, but...

Wheels Of Fortune.(Rolls-Royce Ghost and Bentley Mulsanne)
October 1, 2010... Wheels of Fortune ROLLING OUT THE LATEST FROM ROLLS-ROYCE AND BENTLEY The 2011 model year marks the release of a pair of spectacular new vehicles from Rolls-Royce and Bentley. Both of these storied British marques are now owned by German...

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.(Movie review)(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: BRUCE HANDY YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER Woody's Latest Comedy Working in Europe has both revitalized Woody Allen and made him more sour than everfor him, it's all one and the same. His latest, You Will Meet a Tall Dark...

Never Let Me Go.(Movie review)(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: BRUCE HANDY NEVER LET ME GO Mind Games The less you know about Never Let Me Go before you see itassuming, that is, that you will see it, and you shouldthe better off you'll be. Alas, the film's trailer blabs away too many...

Tiny Furniture.
October 1, 2010... Byline: A. M. HOMES TINY FURNITURE Modern Family Matters At 24, writer, director, and actress Lena Dunham is among the newest to wear the triple crown. Tiny Furniture, her artful dramedy, won top awards at the SXSW film festival and...

Private Lives: Vito Schnabel.
October 1, 2010... Byline: BOB COLACELLO PHOTOGRAPH BY BEN HOFFMANN PRIVATE LIVES Vito Schnabel He manages artists ranging from the latest young sensation, Terence Koh, to octogenarian Abstract Expressionist Ron Gorchov, whose career he is credited with...

Flipping Out.(recommended readings)(Brief article)(Recommended readings)
October 1, 2010... Flipping Out FROM CELEBRITY AND FASHION TO TECHNOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE, A COLLECTION OF STUNNING VISUAL BOOKS OUT THIS MONTH Presidential telephone, the White House, Washington, D.C., April 1999. "IT'S THE PRESIDENT CALLING" Todd...

My Kitchen: Alice Waters.(Interview)
October 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY NOAH WEBB MY KITCHEN Alice Waters Proprietor of the award-winning restaurant Chez Panisse, opened in Berkeley, California, in 1971, chef Alice Waters is a pioneer and the foremost advocate of serving fresh and...

Hot Tracks.
October 1, 2010... HOT TRACKS The success of our last record did startle me for a while," says Caleb Followill, who, with his brothers Nathan and Jared and cousin Matthew, make up the Kings of Leon the little garage band from a southern, Pentecostal,...

Gambling Solo.(Brandon Flowers )(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: MARC SPITZ Gambling Solo THE KILLERS FRONT MAN GOES OUT ON HIS OWN Something unexpected happened to the notoriously impressionable Brandon Flowers after a half-decade spent pursuing a big, important career like those of his...

Beauty.
October 1, 2010... BEAUTY Dark Beauty Bad girls have all the fun. And now MAC gives lip service to Disney's darkest dames with limited-edition Venomous Villains mini-collections. For one month, starting September 30, you can make up with colors inspired by...

Hot Looks.
October 1, 2010... Byline: ALANNAH ARGUELLES Hot Looks Lather up with Philosophy's three-in-one Shower for the Cure shampoo, bath, and shower gel, and 100 percent of the proceeds goes toward the Entertainment Industry Foundation's Women's Cancer Research...

Showstopping Color.(Revlon's Gucci Westman Multi-use Palette )(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: OLIVIA STRAND Showstopping Color Revlon global artistic director Gucci Westman used her backstage savvy to create the limited-edition Multi-use Palette for her fall-winter Suede Rhapsody Collection. Taking her cue from Art Deco...

Fairground.
October 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY HANNAH THOMSON FAIRGROUND AROUND THE WORLD, ONE PARTY AT A TIME OCTOBER 2010 FASHIONABLE AFFAIR Jessica Seinfeld and Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a Balenciaga-sponsored private dinner benefiting Baby Buggy, a...

Unanswerable Prayers.( Christopher Hitchens )
October 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY JONAS FREDWALL KARLSSON UNANSWERABLE PRAYERS What's an atheist to think when thousands of believers (including prominent rabbis and priests) are praying for his survival and salvationwhile others believe his cancer...

Barbarians At The Shore.(Boardwalk Empire, Jersey Shore and The Real Housewives of New Jersey )(Television program review)
October 1, 2010... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY ANDRA CARRILHO BARBARIANS AT THE SHORE As home to America's id, New Jersey's pop-culture landscape has mutated, peaking with The Sopranos, then regressing into the Reality TV mud of Real Housewives and Jersey Shore....

It Was Delicious While It Lasted.(Ferran Adria's El Bulli)
October 1, 2010... Byline: BY JAY McINERNEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY GIACOMO BRETZEL IT WAS DELICIOUS WHILE IT LASTED Gastronomes have been trekking to the remote Spanish cove where Ferran AdriA has changed culinary history with his deconstructed martinis, frozen...

With A Little Help From His Friends.
October 1, 2010... Byline: BY DAVID KIRKPATRICK PHOTOGRAPH BY JONAS FREDWALL KARLSSON WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HIS FRIENDS At 19, Sean Parker helped create Napster. At 24, he was founding president of Facebook. At 30, he's the hard-partying, press-shy genius...

Once Upon A Time, At Harvard.(Mark Zuckerberg and Jesse Eisenberg )(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: VANESSA GRIGORIADIS PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANAOIS DISCHINGER ONCE UPON A TIME, AT HARVARD Who invented Facebook? It's one of the great business disputes, brought to the screen this month by director David Fincher and writer-producer Aaron...

The VANITY FAIR: 100.(100 most influential people of the information age)(List)
October 1, 2010... The VANITY FAIR 100 Two years ago, when Facebook recruited its 100-millionth user, a celebratory toga party was thrown by C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg, a classics buff who is prone to spontaneously reciting Homeric verses from memory. Since then...

Vanities: All Is Vanities . . . Nothing Is Fair.(Andrew Garfield )
October 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY EMMA HARDY KRISTA SMITH VANITIES All Is VANITIES . . . Nothing Is Fair OCTOBER 2010 Andrew Garfield AGE: 27. PROVENANCE: Los Angeles and Surrey, England. ELITE WEB: Before he snatched the lead in the next...

My Botany Diary.(Russell Crowe )(Interview)
October 1, 2010... Byline: AS TOLD TO CRAIG BROWN My Botany Diary Russell Crowe ANEMONE, Anemone vitifolia: This little fella has a sharp, musky smell, reminiscent of good, strong ale. Whenever I can get away, I love to throw myself headlong into the...

In Character.(Ken Jeong)(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: WRITTEN, DIRECTED, AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY HOWARD SCHATZ IN CHARACTER ... STARRING KEN JEONG You're the new longboarder on the secret beach with the famous break, preparing for the onslaught from the territorial locals. You're a...

Late Expectations.(Jimmy Fallon )(Interview)
October 1, 2010... Late Expectations Jimmy Fallon ON HIS TALK-SHOW-HOST PERSONA, TINA FEY, AND THE ROLLING STONES "He's far sexier in the flesh than on celluloidand much taller than expected. And now with the requisite personal trainer and rigid daily diet,...

Adrift...
October 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY NORMAN JEAN ROY STYLED BY JESSICA DIEHL Adrift... How does a dedicated young actress, hailed by the likes of Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, and Meryl Streep, become a tabloid plaything and then a celebrity jailbird, mocked...

A Most Resourceful Fellow.(John Adams )
October 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN HUBA KARENNA GORE SCHIFF A MOST RESOURCEFUL FELLOW At home in the Catskill Mountains of New York, this genial gentleman with a passion for restoring antique cars, taking long walks through the woods, and...

Beware Of Greeks Bearing Bonds.(Company overview)
October 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JONAS FREDWALL KARLSSON Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds As Wall Street hangs on the question "Will Greece default?," MICHAEL LEWIS heads for riot-stricken Athens, and for the mysterious Vatopaidi monastery, which...

Give This Gent A 20.(Benjamin Walker )(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: LESLIE BENNETTS PHOTOGRAPH BY JENNY GAGE AND TOM BETTERTON GIVE THIS GENT A 20 Pontificate all you want about populism in American politics, but 30 seconds after Benjamin Walker seizes the stage in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,...

Two Men And A Newsstand.(Company overview)
October 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY R. MUTT STUDIOS Two Men and a Newsstand In the Great Newspaper War of 2010, the field looks uneven. With The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch can spend whatever it takes (more than $80 million in his first...

The 3-D Stooges.(Jackass 3D)(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: JIM WINDOLF PHOTOGRAPH BY GAVIN BOND THE 3-D STOOGES Jackass 3D stars Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, and Bam Margera channeling the Three Stooges. Ever since the outrageous success of Avatar , Hollywood producers have been pumping...

Sarah Palin The Sound And The Fury.
October 1, 2010... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY EDWARD SOREL PALIN'S PALADINS Erratic behavior and a pattern of lying matter little: "Such falsehoods never damage Palin's credibility with her admirers, because information and ideology are incidental to this...

Glee Whiz.(Dianna Agron )(Brief article)
October 1, 2010... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY PAOLA KUDACKI STYLED BY JESSICA DIEHL BRETT BERK GLEE WHIZ Dianna Agron wants to show us another side, and we shouldn't be surprised that she has one. The 24-year-old Glee starshe plays cheerleader Quinn Fabray, in...

Rafael Nadal.(Interview)
October 1, 2010... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY RISKO RAFAEL NADAL With eight grand slams in his duffel bag, the planet's top-ranked tennis ace warms up for this month's U.S. Open by holding court on selfishness, his hometown, and fellow gladiator Roger Federer...