Vanity Fair articles from September 2005

Vanity Fair archives from September 2005

Weighing 'Deep Throat'; Mark Felt: American hero or snitch.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2005... Mark Felt is a great man ["I'm the Guy They Called Deep Throat," by John D. O'Connor, July]. He is a true American hero. He stood up for what is right and just in unjust times. Who knows what stunts Richard Nixon would have pulled in the...

Hot Type.(new books)(Bibliography)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Elissa Schappell I offer you the most heart-thumping, blood-stirring new fiction of the season. A sweeping multi-generational mini-series guaranteed to Nielsen through the roof sets souls, tempers, and ambitions aflame in Rick...

Marvelous Maldives.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Victoria Mather My butler's name is Saddam Hussein and he makes a mean Bloody Mary. I am lying on fat pillows in the prow of a full-bellied wooden boat, and ahead, across Tiffany-blue sea, lies a castaway paradise, Reethi Rah, an...

Great Dames.(Eric Boman photographs)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Edward Helmore "Botanically speaking," says photographer Eric Boman, "a dame is on the other end of the scale from the shrinking violet." And he should know: between stints as a fashion, garden, and interiors photographer, Boman...

A Cut Above.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Krista Smith Independent-film pioneer Christine Vachon, 43, knew making movies was her calling when she saw Todd Haynes's experimental 43-minute film, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, depicted with Barbie dolls. "It was so...

Outside Flashback.(The Outsiders: The Complete Novel)(Video Recording Review)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Bruce Handy Having recently re-edited and improved his botched masterpiece Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola now answers no one's prayers by touching up one of the more curious works in his canon: The Outsiders, his faithful...

Alice's Wonderland.(Alice Temperley)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Tamasin Day-lewis "I always made stuff," says designer Alice Temperley. She is sitting upstairs from her Notting Hill studio in the apartment she shares with her husband, Lars von Bennigsen, managing director of Temperley London....

Ghost Show.
September 1, 2005... Byline: A. M. Homes Is it magic or manipulation, paranormal phenomena or phooey? "The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult," which opens at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art later this month, presents images from the 1860s to...

Hot Tracks.(recordings)
September 1, 2005... For his first recording following his marriage to Gwen Stefani and the breakup of his band, Bush, Gavin Rossdale opted not to put out a sappy, sensitive solo disc; instead, Institute is hard, heavy, guitar-based rock. Sheryl Crow's Wildflower...

Holla Back.(hip hop recordings)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Lisa Robinson When the biggest names in hip-hop (in the words of Be Cool) "stop hating, start participating," the results are this month's hottest tracks. Kanye West, utilizing the talents of legendary producer Jon Brion, Jay-Z,...

Like Teen Spirit.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Hogan Rock 'n' roll is fun for all ages, but it's probably more fun when the people onstage aren't eligible for Social Security benefits. By that logic, Los Angeles's the Like is really fun. Although graduating from high...

Innocence and Experience.(Marcel Dzama)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Aaron Gell Part A. A. Milne, part Hieronymus Bosch, Marcel Dzama's delicately rendered miniatures caress the eye with their gentle lines and soothing palette... and then they bite, as their cruel, violent, psychosexual mysteries...

Beauty by Design.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Christine Muhlke Karl isn't the only genius making women beautiful chez Chanel. For 25 years, the house's maquillage dream team has shared both the same business card and the same vision for the future of cosmetics. Dominique...

Organic Beauty.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Punch Hutton The bright, fresh packaging of Grassroots, a new bath-and-body brand debuting this month, is appealing enough to make you want to gather up every product. Wholesome, naturally sourced, and color-free, the line is...

My Red-State Odyssey; From the cliches (NASCAR weekend in Virginia) to the contradictions (Evelyn Waugh's library in Texas), the South still rises to its ideals, its limits, and the occasion.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Christopher Hitchens It isn't recent, this psychic partition between the red and the blue states of our Union. One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan-a quintessential northeastern...

Debbie Does Barnes & Noble; The porn-star memoir is gaining steam, even legitimacy, with Jenna Jameson, Traci Lords, and Christy Canyon among those sharing tales of surviving the XXX life.
September 1, 2005... Byline: James Wolcott As a cultural explorer and literary sleuth, I am always on lookout for exciting developments in the world of letters-for fresh voices with "something to say." No fooling, I am. And I believe I have discovered the...

Did Someone Say Safra? Some cases just don't get cold, and the mysterious death of billionaire Edmond Safra is one.(Obituary)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Dominick Dunne Some crime stories simply refuse to die, even after a trial and a guilty verdict. So it is with the gruesome death of Edmond Safra, the billionaire banker, who was asphyxiated, along with one of his nurses, Vivian...

All Roads Lead to Rove; The revelation that Karl Rove was Time's "double super secret" source for the outing of C.I.A. operative Valerie Plame started the unfolding of a much bigger story: what the White House did to sell the Iraq war.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Wolff There was, all of a sudden, a sense of... quiet. Possibly awe. Possibly panic. Days after it was out, after it was everywhere-my 17-year-old daughter was haughtily criticizing me for not knowing Rove was...

An Inconvenient Patriot; Love of country led Sibel Edmonds to become a translator for the F.B.I. following 9/11.(Biography)
September 1, 2005... Byline: David Rose In Washington, D.C., and its suburbs, December 2, 2001, was fine but cool, the start of the slide into winter after a spell of unseasonable warmth. At 10 o'clock that morning, Sibel and Matthew Edmonds were still in...

L.A. Century.(Los Angeles)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Matt Tyrnauer In his 1995 book, The Los Angeles House, photographer Tim Street-Porter makes a trenchant observation about design in the city he has documented for three decades. "The diverse architectural heritage of L.A. has not...

Vanity Fair Presents the 50 Greatest Films of All Time* *Plus Old School.
September 1, 2005... All About Eve Twentieth Century Fox, 1950 Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter,...

The Recruiters' War; Under increasingly intense pressure to fill their quotas and "make mission," army and Marine recruiters have been enlisting kids who don't meet basic physical, moral, and educational standards.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Bronner Near the western edge of North Carolina, bright-green kudzu vine spills like water down the hillsides of the Great Smoky Mountains. The kudzu seems to close in on the landscape at dusk. That's when Tim Queen likes...

Q'ORIANKA KILCHER.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Krista Smith AGE AND OCCUPATION: 15, actor-singer. PROVENANCE: Hawaii. THE NEW FACE: Discover Kilcher (as Pocahontas) through the eyes of Colin Farrell (as John Smith) in Terrence Malick's The New World this fall....

Going yard with Jesse Metcalfe.(Interview)
September 1, 2005... Byline: George Wayne Millions swoon over Jesse Metcalfe, the sweaty hedge trimmer and paramour of Eva Longoria on Desperate Housewives. Our correspondent was interested in getting to the bottom of some pressing topics with the former model...

The Unsinkable Jennifer Aniston; The whole world watched as her "perfect" marriage fell apart.(Interview)(Biography)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Leslie Bennetts When Jennifer Aniston opens the door to the Malibu bungalow she's been holed up in lately, she gives me a radiant smile and an effusive hello. Then she bursts into tears. We have scarcely sat down in the...

A Weisz Choice.(Rachel Weisz)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Hogan The Constant Gardener, directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and based on the 2000 novel by John le Carre, is that rare film-one with a brain, a heart, and a conscience. Rachel Weisz, best known as the sexy...

Betting the Bank; Eager to seal their $10 billion merger, Morgan Stanley C.E.O. John Mack handed Dean Witter's Philip Purcell the reins of the combined financial behemoth in 1997.
September 1, 2005... Byline: Vicky Ward Though he didn't know it, the beginning of the end for Morgan Stanley chairman and C.E.O. Philip Purcell, 61, came on January 12, 2005, at a memorial service at Riverside Church, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The...

One Glove at a Time.(Dita Von Teese)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Jim Windolf THE mundane reality genre has overtaken not only your television set but the adult-entertainment industry too. Girls are going wild, and their boyfriends, equipped with tiny DVD cameras, are catching them as they do-do...

Two Wild and Crazy Moguls; Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are the twin geek stars of "disruptive technology".(Biography)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Brett Forrest Some people don't like change. Change doesn't much care. But when you're the guys doing the changing, manners still count. Let them down easy. Speak in code, as if a kid were in the room. Refer to the pivotal...

Sentimental Beauty; Capturing the idyll of her English country childhood with humble polka-dot tea towels, flower-print pup tents, and "Bunny's Ear" paint, Cath Kidston has built a growing lifestyle empire.(Biography)
September 1, 2005... Byline: Laura Jacobs The best-selling item is a cotton tea towel, pink with white polka dots. Carnation, the pink is called, after the flower with no pretensions. The polka dots are not too big and not too small, and the space between them...

War of the Worlds; On the eve of World War II, in an America hooked on boxing, came a fight that embodied the greatest conflicts of its day: black against white, democracy against Fascism, Jew against Nazi.(Excerpt)
September 1, 2005... Byline: David Margolick Adapted from Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink, by David Margolick, to be published next month by Alfred A. Knopf; (c) 2005 by the author. On the morning of June 22, 1938,...

Karl Lagerfeld; Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld, who designs for Chanel, Fendi, and his own Lagerfeld Gallery line- in addition to his work as a photographer and book publisher-has a secret: he loves what he does.(Interview)
September 1, 2005... What is your idea of perfect happiness? I am perfectly happy as long as I don't ask myself if I am happy... What is your greatest fear? To lose my health. A boring subject, but life is more fun when you feel great... What...