Vanity Fair articles from September 2003

Vanity Fair archives from September 2003

To be young and royal.(photoessay on young members of the world's monarchies, including those whose countries have converted to democracies)(Illustration)(Cover Story)
September 1, 2003... A Special 57-Page Portfolio Revolutions have swept the Continent. Wars have changed borders. Democracy prevails. Yet, at the start of their second millennium, Europe's monarchies still play a vital role. On the following pages, meet the new...

Roll over, Bilbao!.(Walt Disney Concert Hall may trump Guggenheim Bilbao as architect Frank Gehry's greatest triumph)(photoessay)
September 1, 2003... If Frank Gehry's most famous building is the Guggenheim Bilbao, the $274 million Walt Disney Concert Hall, opening this fall as home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, may be his greatest achievement. Begun before the museum, the project collapsed...

The divided prince.(Great Britain's Prince William)(Cover Story)
September 1, 2003... At 21, Britain's Prince William seems to have shouldered both his father's destiny and his mother's myth: dutiful Will Wales, swotting away at St. Andrews, is also the charismatic hope of a battered dynasty-and of many a highborn beauty. But his...

Star of Jordan.(Queen Rania)
September 1, 2003... Part executive, part soccer mom, and 100 percent supermodel-gorgeous, Jordan's Queen Rania has become an international star. As her power and influence grow, the world's youngest queen is becoming a leader throughout the Arab world-and beyond By...

The oddest couple.(the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, and his marriage to Wallis Simpson)
September 1, 2003... With January's revelation that Wallis Simpson, who cost Edward VIII the throne, may already have cheated on him before his abdication, a hornet's nest of rumors about the couple's sexuality took on new significance. From all the evidence, it...

Bulgaria's elected king.(Simeon II elected prime minister)
September 1, 2003... The first man ever to hold simultaneously the titles of king and prime minister, Simeon II of Bulgaria was elected to lead his country in 2001-after 50 years of exile. At 66, he is struggling, like his people, with the realities of democracy and...

Sale of the wild.(Dept. of Interior Secretary Gale Norton, natural resource policy and environmental issues)
September 1, 2003... Department of the Interior employees are horrified by how Secretary Gale Norton and her powerful deputy, J. Steven Griles, have allowed industry to exploit America's wilderness. Probing stealthy bureaucratic maneuvers and Griles's ties to coal,...

Masters of photography: Edward Steichen.(photoessay on Vanity Fair's principal photographer from 1923 to 1936)(Illustration)
September 1, 2003... for 14 glorious years, from 1923 to 1936, Edward Steichen was Vanity Fair's principal photographer, creating boldly modern portraits that became instant cultural classics, on the 20th anniversary of v.f.'s rebirth, david friend returns to the...

The war at home.(George W. Bush, environmental policy, and foreign relations)(Editor's Letter)(Editorial)
September 1, 2003... Forget the obfuscations and the deceits that took this country into Iraq. Forget the aftermath: a war seemingly without end, one that is costing the country a billion dollars and the lives of three American soldiers every week. There is another...

Send in the Crowns.
September 1, 2003... The year spent preparing this special issue has been a getting-to-know-you opportunity for V.F.'s photographers and staff and Europe's royals. Mario Testino was already friendly with Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, but he was introduced to...

the far-right stuff; The neoconservatives' big stick; first-class fireworks with Liz and Dick; Teen Vanity Fair: awesome or totally whack.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2003... It seems incredible that, for all their vaunted intellectual firepower, the neocons shaping our foreign policy ["Bush's Brain Trust," by Sam Tanenhaus, July] failed to recognize that mistrust of U.S. motives runs so deep in the Muslim world...

In a Lonely Place.( Lost in Translation)(Movie Review)
September 1, 2003... Byline: Bruce Handy In The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola captured the fecund dreaminess of a midwestern suburb, circa 1978, with a sureness of style and tone remarkable for a first-time director, even one whose father delivered three or...

Homecoming Scene.(Pieces of April)(Movie Review)
September 1, 2003... Byline: Bruce Handy Pieces of April won acclaim this year at Sundance and, amazingly, has continued to generate good buzz (unlike some prize Sundance blooms that subsequently fade, leaving behind only a faint stink of What were they...

COMING ATTRACTIONS.(Wonderland)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Byline: Walter Kirn Trailer of the month: Wonderland. Directed by: James Cox. Starring: Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Lisa Kudrow, Josh Lucas. Coming to a theater near you: September 26. The naked facts: John Holmes was a Hollywood porn...

Hot Type.
September 1, 2003... Byline: Elissa Schappell Not on the president's fall reading list: A liberal media bias? Bush is a compassionate conservative? Ha! Those are just two of the Big Lies (Thomas Dunne) Joe Conason exposes in his terrifically smart attack on...

Photo-Surrealism.(Philip-Lorca diCorcia )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Byline: A. M. Homes The photographs of Philip-Lorca diCorcia are melancholic hybrids, archetypes of experience captured with a cinematic blast of light that lingers between Hopper and Hollywood. His often imitated ...

MUST SEE.(Lois and Richard Rosenthal found Uptown Arts in Cincinnati; Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art)
September 1, 2003... Byline: A. M. Homes Theirs is a plainspoken sophistication that calls no attention to itself, and yet for years Cincinnati natives Lois and Richard Rosenthal have quietly been making an indelible mark on the cultural landscape. In 1999 the...

Hot Tracks.
September 1, 2003... Byline: Lisa Robinson Hats off to those who know their own strengths. On Reality, David Bowie's great new songs are modern versions of David Bowie's great old songs-including a fantastic, reworked cover of Jonathan Richman's "Pablo...

A Broadway Revival.(Biltmore reopens)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Byline: Edward Helmore For an actor, the opening of a new theater on Broadway is as exciting "as being a chef and someone giving you another oven," says Robert Sean Leonard. The theater of which the award-winning actor speaks is not just...

Dark Diary.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Byline: Henry Alford In days of yore, sailors and their wives kept diaries of every day they were separated from one another. So when her husband falls into a coma, Misty Wilmot, the heroine of Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk's new novel...

Down Mexico Way.(Mexico City)
September 1, 2003... Byline: William Georgiades Mexico City is chaos giving way to culture-all of the excitement of civilization without the constrictions of an Establishment. Politicians, art collectors, C.E.O.'s of television stations, and ...

Lever to Heaven.(Lever House)
September 1, 2003... Byline: Matt Tyrnauer The Seagram Building has always had the Four Seasons, but Lever House never had a restaurant, except for a third-floor employee cafeteria, which was shuttered in 1997. This month the score is evened. The first glass...

Foot Fetish.(Where'd You Get Those? New York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Byline: John Brodie For anyone who thinks that a sneaker is just a sneaker, consider Jam Master Jay's pallbearers tricked out in matching white Adidases as they escorted the fallen rap star to his final reward last fall. "We started in the...

Shooting Stars.(Pat York)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Byline: Kevin Sessums It's so sad that people aspire to it," says photographer Pat York of celebrity. Her keen eye for the subject will be honored this month in a retrospective at the Galleries of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...

The Beats Go On.(Beat Hotel)(Hotel Review)
September 1, 2003... Byline: Steve Garbarino In 1957, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso moved into a nameless hotel in Paris's Latin Quarter. Corso dubbed it "the Beat Hotel," and up until its demolition in 1963 it was a landing pad for...

Punk-Rock Girl.(Coral Fang)(Sound Recording Review)
September 1, 2003... Byline: Edward Helmore Anyone over 25 who doesn't have excess energy might want to get a good night's sleep before cranking up the Distillers, an extremely noisy foursome fashioned from without by a darkly decorous punk-rock aesthetic, and...

Sir Mix-a-Lot.(Here Comes the Fuzz)(Sound Recording Review)
September 1, 2003... Byline: Michael Hogan Everybody knows that the Ronsons are Manhattan's most aggressively self-actualizing family-imagine the Royal Tenenbaums on Ritalin-so it's tempting to view eldest son Mark Ronson as a dabbling dilettante instead...

Posh Spices.(celebrity perfumes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Byline: David Colman The first royal to bestow a blessing-that is, a royal warrant-on a perfumer was France's Catherine I (nee de Medici), who got the monks at Santa Maria Novella to cook up a brew for her. Some 450 years later, the royal...

Romola Garai.(Brief Article)(Biography)
September 1, 2003... Byline: Namehere age and occupation: 20, actor. provenance: Wiltshire County, England. chick lit: Garai-named for the heroine of Romola, George Eliot's 1862 novel-was 16 when a casting agent spotted her and gave her a role in a BBC...

Joe Scarborough, loud and proud.(Interview)
September 1, 2003... Byline: George Wayne The television-talk-show landscape is a battleground, where crashing and burning is the rule, not the exception. The latest contender: telegenic former Florida Republican congressman Joe Scarborough (his G.O.P....

The War on Terror: Neal Pollack Reports.
September 1, 2003... Byline: Neal Pollack Since september 13, 2001, i've been on a streak, at four dollars a word, never before seen in American journalism. First, I uncovered the truth behind the Pakistani intelligence service's inability to find the...

The case for kings; Call monarchy an anachronism, a privilege, or a duty: what the future kings and queens of England, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Belgium know is that it's bloody hard work.
September 1, 2003... Byline: Prince Michael Of Greece My father was Greek, my mother French; my grandfather was Danish, my grandmother Russian, and my other grandmother half Spanish. Each of them was a member of the royal family of his or her respective...

diane von furstenberg; Men are driven to distraction by Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dresses, which like their creator seemed to be in every photograph of the jet set at play in the 70s.(Brief Article)(Interview)
September 1, 2003... What is your idea of perfect happiness? Hiking in the woods. Which living person do you most admire? The Dalai Lama. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Too impulsive. What is your greatest extravagance?...