Vanity Fair articles from September 2004

Vanity Fair archives from September 2004

The Air at Ground Zero.(Editorial)
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Graydon Carter As someone who lives 34 blocks from where the World Trade Center towers once stood, and watched them come down from the corner of Seventh Avenue and 11th Street, I will say this: It didn't take a scientist to know...

Olympic Splash.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Jacqueline Neiss Coordinating the photo shoots for a special portfolio is always a herculean task-especially when they take place in multiple cities over a span of three months. But photographer Bruce Weber and his Olympian...

A Wrestler's Courage.(Kyle Maynard )
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Jacqueline Neiss Bruce Weber photographed 100 athletes for this issue's Olympics portfolio, but the athlete he felt most embodied the courage and spirit of the Games wasn't one of those headed to Athens. Born with a rare...

Martyrs and Murderers.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Anyone hoping for the advance of freedom, democracy, pluralism, and the rule of civilized law in Iraq can only pray that the tribalism reported by Molly Bingham ["Ordinary Warriors," July] is less rampant than we're led to believe....

Dancin' in the Street.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Krista Smith Photographer David LaChapelle first encountered "krumping" when he was directing the music video for the Christina Aguilera hit single "Dirrty." "There were two kids at the shoot. I thought, God, I want to film them."...

True Love.(Movie Review)
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Leslie Bennetts Bruce Weber is in love with dogs, vintage music, glamorous old-fashioned movie stars, and the American way of life, from summer frolics in the surf to Martin Luther King Jr.'s stirring message of love and peace....

Hot Type.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Elissa Schappell In Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants (Miramax), V.F.'s own James Wolcott hounds the celebrity pundits and their right-wing masters who serve the public infotainment and tell them it's news. If you can't run...

Hot Tracks.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Lisa Robinson Strike the posers: this month, reality music returns. Right from the start of Our Shadows Will Remain, Joseph Arthur re-establishes his position as one of our most emotionally revealing and talented...

Cape of Good Hope.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: A. A. Gill If you only knew Cape Town, then the rest of Africa would come as a shock. If you only know the rest of Africa, then Cape Town will be a big, unnerving surprise. Nothing about it feels African. It is the most gracefully...

Things you must do in Cape Town:.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Walk or take the cable car up Table Mountain. The view is jaw-dropping. Go to Groot Constantia- the oldest wine estate and best example of Cape Dutch architecture and furniture. Take a deep breath ...

Waves of Nostalgia.(Smile)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Aaron Gell Pondering what might have been had Brian Wilson's 1967 experimental psychedelic album, Smile, been released head-to-head with the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band rather than wiping out on a tidal wave of...

The Hip Parade.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Edward Helmore Style years, like dog years, exist as multiples of the Cartesian calendar, so fashions that emerged 20 years ago are effectively marking their centennials. Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits, who founded Paper...

Capa's Camelot.(Cornell Capa)
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: David Friend I LIKE IKE... ALL THE WAY WITH L.B.J.... NIXON'S THE ONE. As Tolstoy (or Theodore H. White) might have put it: all presidential campaigns are electrifying in their own way. None, however, was more amped-up by its...

Handled with Care.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: A. M. Homes Proud men, strong men, famous men, men used to being in control of their emotions, of their public images. Sam Taylor-Wood's "Portraits of Sadness," one of two series in her show "Sorrow, Suspension, Ascension," which...

Faithfull Following.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Steven Daly San Francisco theater audiences will this month witness a collaboration between three individualist icons who have in common one enviable quality: dignified bohemian maturity. The American Conservatory Theater's revival...

Charm School.(Manners)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Kristina Stewart The revival of manners and etiquette in a generation too young to recognize the name and starchy dictates of Emily Post, the mother of all things proper, has been jump-started by a spate of books, classes, and...

PRaeT-E-PARTY.(Fete Accompli!: The Ultimate Guide to Creative Entertaining )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Punch Hutton THROWING A FANTASTIC PARTY REQUIRES neither the bank account of an heiress nor an expansive home with gilded interiors and a view. Don't get me wrong, it helps. But thanks to Fete Accompli!: The Ultimate Guide to...

Camp Reunion.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Dany Levy Fiorucci. Jordache. Sergio Valente. Vidal Sassoon. Will the 80s never die? The decade's latest incarnation is the newly resurrected Camp Beverly Hills, the famously neon-intensive clothing line that was kitschy even back...

Scents in the City; Bond No.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Christine Muhlke After 25 years of Manhattan living, France native Laurice Rahme grew tired of hearing that New York smelled. So the perfumer, who brought Annick Goutal and Creed to the U.S., disseminated her own fragrant...

Color Me Khaki; It may have been fought by the Greatest Generation, but the baby-boomers have remade World War II in their own image.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: James Wolcott What is it about World War II that stunts the minds of would-be men? White baby-boomers in the political and pundit class seem especially susceptible to dog-tag nostalgia. The war has wedged so solidly in their heroic...

The Reagan Touch; Ronald Reagan's state funeral threw Washington into celebrity gridlock, but the author kept tabs on everything: Margaret Thatcher's epic hat, the terrorism scare at the rotunda, Nancy Reagan's perfect touch.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Dominick Dunne The flags across the country are no longer flying at half-mast in tribute to the late president Ronald Reagan, but I still find myself telling friends at dinner about his state funeral. During the five days the...

The Boris Show; Imagine William F. Buckley Jr.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Michael Wolff When I show up at the home of the possible prime minister at eight a.m., the door is opened after a long delay by an 11- or 12-year-old girl with clear anxiety on her face. After an embarrassed apology, she races up...

Of War and Presidents; Democrats who fought in Vietnam, such as John Kerry, find their records and allegiance questioned, while Republicans who ducked going (Dick Cheney's deferments, five; John Ashcroft's, seven) pose as macho warriors.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: David Halberstam Who would have thought that almost 30 years after the last Americans left Saigon we would still be arguing in a presidential campaign about who went to Vietnam and how well they served? But that's the nature of...

Sacco and the City; Bungalow 8, Amy Sacco's tiny West Chelsea club, gets jammed with the likes of Mick Jagger, Sean Penn, and Chelsea Clinton.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: By George Gurley There's nothing like walking up to Bungalow 8, getting the nod from the gatekeeper Armin, and being welcomed in by the two big, teddy-bear doormen, Disco and Tae Kwon. You open that bank-vault-like steel door with...

Simpson Spoken Here.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Steven Daly The Simpsons barrels into its 16th season with the show's producers improbably maintaining the same level of hyperdense comedic dazzle that has earned it the most adoring (and picky) mass audience in television history....

The Making of a Sniper; How does a bright, popular, affectionate kid get turned into a killing machine.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: By Donovan Webster The neighborhood isn't one you'll find in a Jamaica tourism brochure. But neither is Waltham Park-a lazy commercial and residential district in Jamaica's capital of Kingston-the kind of place you'd expect to...

Call of the Wide; Between 1950 and 1990, commuters at Grand Central station-including a delighted Edward Steichen-were treated to Kodak's Colorama, a changing 18-by-60-foot transparency billed as "the world's largest photograph.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Bruce Handy Photographs excerpted from Colorama: The World's Largest Photographs, from Kodak and the George Eastman House Collection, to be published in October by the Aperture Foundation, Inc. All individual images (c) by the...

Rashida Jones.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Krista Smith AGE AND OCCUPATION: 28, actor. PROVENANCE: Los Angeles. COLD-BLOODED: Those in the know will recognize Jones- daughter of Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton-from sketches on Chappelle's Show on Comedy...

I Can't Believe a Word I'm Writing.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Douglas Mcgrath December 22, '02 (BORDER OF Afghanistan) This is it. The hunt for Osama bin Laden starts @ 0400 tomorrow. Cause what we're doing here is historical, I will write down everything that happens so I can show it to...

Olympiad XXVIII.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: David Halberstam I still cherish and admire the Olympic Ideal I know it's tarnished these days, in a world of big-money rewards, too much hype, and too much doping, but it's an ideal nonetheless. It still rings true to...

Regally Blonde; While Legally Blonde earned Reese Witherspoon her $15-million-a-movie price tag and countless adoring fans, her dramatic test will be as a hard-to-love redhead: the scheming Becky Sharp in Mira Nair's adaptation of the Thackeray masterpiece Vanity Fair, opening this month.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Leslie Bennetts Her head slathered with evil-looking slime, Reese Witherspoon has spent the afternoon undergoing a dramatic metamorphosis at a Los Angeles beauty salon. "How we suffer for our art," she says with a mischievous grin....

The Monarchy of George II; As a young man he boozes, shirks responsibility, and drives his father to despair.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Niall Ferguson I The King's a bawcock, and a heart of gold, A lad of life, an imp of fame. -Henry V, Act IV, Scene I. American journalists, when they come to assess a president, invariably draw comparisons with...

White Mischief; When Sita White, 43-year-old daughter of the late British industrialist Lord Gordon White, dropped dead in her Santa Monica yoga class last May, her life was in complete disarray.
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: Vicky Ward On May 24, a gloriously sunny Monday afternoon in Los Angeles, a funeral service was held at the St. Monica Catholic church for Ana-Luisa (Sita) White, the 43-year-old daughter of the late Lord Gordon White, flamboyant...

Donald Trump; There's no avoiding Donald Trump this fall-he's got a new book (Think Like a Billionaire), a new magazine (Trump World), and the second season of his hit NBC series, The Apprentice.(Interview)
September 1, 2004... BYLINE: What is your idea of perfect happiness? Good health and being with a great person. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Considering his work and love for New York City, I would say Robert Moses. ...