Vanity Fair articles from September 2006

Vanity Fair archives from September 2006

The Fall of Summer.(congressional sessions)(Editorial)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Graydon Carter Not a whole lot seems to make much sense these days. In July it was reported that the Central Intelligence Agency had quietly disbanded its Osama bin Laden unit-code-named Alec Station-following 10 years of bringing...

Style by the Mile; Following the practiced eye of new hire Michael Roberts, Vanity Fair crisscrossed the globe-from Los Angeles to St.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Michael Hogan So much for taking some time to settle in. Since joining V.F. in April, fashion and style director Michael Roberts has traveled to Los Angeles, London, Milan, Paris, and St. Petersburg while overseeing this month's...

Betrayals of Liberty; Poking holes in Churchill's civil-liberties record; the downside of blow jobs; a submission for Graydon Carter's iEngine idea; B._P._-not-so-jolly green.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... One thing that can be said of Henry Porter's much-needed dissection of Tony Blair is "Better late than never" ("Blair's Big Brother Legacy," July). Porter does have the grace to admit that he, like almost all the British media, should have...

The Grand Palais.(great monuments)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... 15 Built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, the newly renovated Grand Palais, one of Art Nouveau's great monuments, fills the gallery space beneath its vaulted, glass-and-steel ceilings with the unrivaled Louis XIV marquetry of Andre-Charles...

Wine Passport.
September 1, 2006... When in Manhattan, do as the Romans do. At New York's luxurious Union Square Wines & Spirits, oenophiles can experience exclusive eno-machines, made in the Tuscan town of Greve and based on the self-service wine machines in Rome's train...

Fashion Week.
September 1, 2006... 8 From the Bryant Park tents to downtown venues, N.Y.C.'s Fashion Week sizzles as designers such as J. Mendel, Donna Karan, and Calvin Klein debut their spring 2007 collections. (9/8-15.) 18 The Natural History Museum in South Kensington...

Chin Up, Your Majesty.(Emil Otho Hoppe)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... 12 The premier British celebrity photographer of his time, Emil Otto Hoppe photographed King George V and Mussolini, Mary Pickford and Marlene Dietrich. Hoppe captured life in London from 1910 to 1945, a period when the city crept away from its...

Hot Type.(books)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Elissa Schappell After 9/11, Ground Zero was classified as a crime scene and photo taking prohibited. As a result, the crafty Joel Meyerowitz's elegiac Aftermath (Phaidon) is the only comprehensive photographic testament to the...

GILMORE GIRL.(Golden Country )(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Elissa Schappell Jennifer Gilmore's boisterous debut novel, Golden Country (Scribner), offers a World's Fair-like, panoramic view of America from the 1920s to the 1960s, via the intertwined lives of three generations of Jewish...

Hot Tracks.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Lisa Robinson Even if the record industry comes apart at the seams, music will always be in fashion. More than 100 CDs will be released this month alone; here, some of the best of the new line. The Roots, who are the conscience...

The Terrace.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Mitch Glazer Someone once wrote, "Sunset is a flashy, fragile hour in Los Angeles. The city, lost in the crease between ocean and desert, drains of light quickly. It's an unsettled moment, you'd rather wait it out indoors, find...

BACK LINE; Move over, Teddy's HYDE LOUNGE 8029 SUNSET BLVD.(Restaurant review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... WHO GOES: Lindsay, Jessica, Mischa, Cameron, Salma, the Hiltons, Kate Bosworth, Jared Leto, Jamie Foxx, Mike Tyson, David Spade, Spike Lee, Joaquin Phoenix. DESIGN: Crocodile-leather banquettes line both walls, and wooden tables are dotted...

THE GLITTERING BALL.(Ron Galella's Disco Years )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Actress Susan Bottomly (nicknamed International Velvet by Andy Warhol), left, at Cheetah Disco in N.Y.C., in 1987, and Steve Rubell, Halston, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Liza Minnelli at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, also in N.Y.C., in 1978, are two...

STRIKING OIL.
September 1, 2006... Byline: A. M. Homes She is a young artist with provenance-her father is photographer-filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, her grandfather Abstract Expressionist Joop Sanders. At 27, Isca Greenfield-Sanders has already had exhibitions in...

High Kicks; Let's do the whole combination facing away from the mirror.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Susan Kittenplan The musical A Chorus Line opened in 1975, a year when oil prices were insane and America was disillusioned with a lying government and the failures of an ill-conceived war. A show about the stark realities and...

MURDER, MYSTERY, MYTH.(Hollywoodland)(Movie review)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Bruce Handy History records that, circa 1998, Ben Affleck was arguably the coolest guy in America, certainly the coolest guy to have dated Gwyneth Paltrow. More current data shows that in the post-Bennifer, post-Gigli era he has...

Private Lives.(Tracy James and Sloane Tanen)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Krista Smith Tracy James and Sloane Tanen were brought up in "Hollywood, U.S.A.," to quote their father, Ned Tanen, one of that town's most charming and illustrious pioneers. "I started in the mailroom at MCA and ended up running a...

JET AHEAD.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Victoria Mather Traveling-to India, Cambodia, New Zealand, China-has never been more exciting, nor more tortuous. Airports are the eighth circle of hell. Regardless of whether you are flat-bedding in the sharp end of the plane or...

MAKING THE CONNECTION.
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ZAHA HADID.(Zaha Hadid Architects' Z.Car, a teardrop-shaped three-wheeler)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Even some of Zaha Hadid's building designs defy construction, so it will be a challenge to make her Z.Car, a teardrop-shaped three-wheeler, powered by a gas-electric-hydrogen hybrid engine, worthy of the road by the end of the year. Hadid, who...

THE DENVER ART MUSEUM.
September 1, 2006... To be a Famous Architect, you need to be a master self-publicist. It doesn't hurt to have a strong, somewhat crazy, persona, either. This month's case in point: Daniel Libeskind, the "Sprockets" man of high-minded design. He was the smiling...

ALESSI.(Domenico Alessi S.p.A.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Alessi is the ultimate Italian industrial design manufacturer, a family-run enterprise with impeccable production standards. Finally, New York is getting an Alessi flagship store (complete with an espresso bar), designed by Hani Rashid, opening...

AIRSTREAM.(Wallace Merle Byam)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... In 1927, ad man and magazine publisher Wallace Merle Byam began work on the Airstream trailer, hoping to exploit the emerging American passion for the open road. He built the silver bullets using aircraft-construction methods to lessen wind...

IPOD BED.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Matt Tyrnauer Design Mobel, from New Zealand, is introducing what will be a must-have birthday gift for the kids at Beverly Hills High: the Pause bed, which is like a giant Bose iPod dock with two nightstands (with lamps) and a...

Beauty.(Salvatore Ferragamo)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Maria Ricapito The curves of the playful perfume bottle seem inspired by one of Salvatore Ferragamo's innovative shoe designs-a multicolored platform that looks straight out of the psychedelic 60s but was designed decades earlier,...

PRETTY POUT.(Color Design Pout-a-Porter lipstick introduced by Lancome Parfumes et Cie.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Dress your lips with Lancome's new Color Design Pout-a-Porter lipstick, which makes its debut this month in Behnaz red. New York fashion designer Behnaz Sarafpour, whose models wore the shade during her fall 2006 runway collection, collaborated...

Hot Looks.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jessica Flint 1. Shiseido's Bio-Performance system, which exfoliates and moisturizes, gives your skin a youthful glow.... 2. The packaging of Kenzo Parfums' latest fragrance, Kenzoamour, a scent mixing frangipani with cherry...

The Fox Literary Salon; Roll over, Algonquin Round Table.
September 1, 2006... Byline: James Wolcott It's one of the romantic fallacies of literary life that writers must fasten their girdles and go it alone. Cut themselves off from the common traffic of humanity, tie their dreams into a knapsack, and set forth down...

Aaron Spelling's Season Finale; When a Manhattan doctor's town house blows up, the author just happens to be on the scene.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Dominick Dunne On July 10, I happened to be leaving my doctor's office at 60th Street and Madison Avenue shortly after another doctor, just two blocks away in that very classy neighborhood, allegedly blew up his town house in order...

Panic on 43rd Street; By attacking The New York Times for reporting secret anti-terrorism measures, the White House has evoked the government-defying glory days of the "paper of record.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Michael Wolff It's a different, much less awesome New York Times under attack for its decision to publish secret details of how banks are cooperating with the Bush administration to track terrorist finances. In the past, if you...

Baghdad is Burning; Invade a country.
September 1, 2006... Byline: William Langewiesche June 29, 2006 Baghdad We are now more than three years past the fall of Baghdad. It has become obvious to nearly everyone here that the American invasion was an error-a misjudgment not only of the...

The Most Dangerous Job in Gaza; Hamas has killed more Israelis than any other terrorist group.
September 1, 2006... Byline: David Margolick When Palestinian militants from Hamas and two other groups killed two Israeli soldiers and kidnapped a third, Corporal Gilad Shalit, in late June, it seemed like a minor skirmish, at least in the context of Middle...

9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes; How did the Air Force respond on 9/11.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Michael Bronner Tucked in a piney notch in the gentle folds of the Adirondacks' southern skirts-just up from a derelict Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern rail spur-is a 22-year- old aluminum bunker tricked out with antennae tilted...

Heiress vs. Heiress; Tipped off to intimate e-mails, Johnson & Johnson heiress and Hilton sidekick Casey Johnson, 26, accused her aunt, famously private socialite Libet Johnson, 56, of stealing her 38-year-old boyfriend.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Suzanna Andrews Looking back on the whole affair now, Casey Johnson admits there was a moment when she could have just kept her mouth shut; when she could have "taken the high road." She smiles, and glances at the crowd of ladies...

Kate Mara.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Krista Smith WHO: Kate Mara AGE AND OCCUPATION: 23, actor, scion of N.F.L. royalty. PROVENANCE: Bedford, New York. DOUBLE-BARRELED OLD-LINE N.F.L. LINEAGE: On her father's side, she's the granddaughter of beloved New...

True Lies.(weblogs)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Bruce Feirstein Part 1 (SIGNING ON) I'm only going to be online for a few minutes. I'm just going to check my e-mail. I just want to see if anything came in from the office. Discount Viagra. Canadian...

"My Kitchen Is Too Big!".
September 1, 2006... Byline: Nell Scovell "The boat's always leased out when we want to use it." "I am so sick of eating every meal out." "What do you do with old tuxedo shoes? You can't even give them away to charity." "The nanny always messes...

What if ... CELEBRITY Penis-Slips WERE AS COMMON AS CELEBRITY NIPPLE-SLIPS.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Henry Alford WEEK ONE Andy Dick's slip yields brief flash of a heavily dyed merkin. WEEK TWO The Tonight Show summons technician to pixilate Jeremy Piven. WEEK THREE Publicist offers Colin Farrell two words of...

Q&A.(Wilmer Valderrama)(Interview)
September 1, 2006... Byline: George Wayne "It so happened that I was trolling Bungalow 8 one night at an hour that not even Vlad Dracula dare show his fangs, when I overheard Lindsay Lohan's mum saying, 'I really, really like Wilmer.' Five days later I had the...

Vanity Fair Presents The 67th Annual International Best-Dressed List 2006; The votes have been counted, and the truly chic anointed.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Amy Fine Collins The 67th Annual International Best-Dressed List ballots have bounced back to us, and these lively returns constitute nothing short of a manifesto. Roll up the red-carpetbaggers, ban the borrowers, stop the...

2006 Best-Dressed Fashion Originals.(Anna Piaggi and Isabella Blow )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Anna Piaggi OCCUPATION: Fashion journalist. RESIDENCE: Milan. FAVORITE COUTURE PIECE: A small cape embroidered with Basquiat patterns, by Valentino. FAVORITE JEWELRY: A necklace made as a key holder, with photographic tags, by Dolce &...

2006 Best-Dressed Fashion Professionals.
September 1, 2006... Hedi Slimane OCCUPATION: Designer. RESIDENCE: Paris. PERSONAL STYLE: "Nonchalant." STYLE ICONS: The Thin White Duke (David Bowie), Paul Simonon of the Clash, William Burroughs, Baudelaire. SIGNATURE LOOK: "It could be a made-to-measure...

2006 Best-Dressed Couples.
September 1, 2006... Zac & Sheherazade Goldsmith HER OCCUPATION: "Mother of three. The most exhausting occupation you can have." HIS OCCUPATION: Editor, The Ecologist magazine; environmental-policy adviser to Britain's Conservative Party. RESIDENCES: London...

2006 Best-Dressed Hall of Fame.(Queen Rania of Jordan, Charlie Watts, Giancarlo Giammetti, Kate Moss, Connie Wald)
September 1, 2006... Connie Wald OCCUPATION: Hostess. RESIDENCE: Beverly Hills. HUSBAND: The late film producer Jerry Wald. PERSONAL STYLE: "Understated." STYLE ICON: Audrey Hepburn. FAVORITE PIECE OF CLOTHING: "An assortment of Claire McCardell." FAVORITE...

2006 Best-Dressed Men.
September 1, 2006... Lapo Elkann OCCUPATION: Head of brand promotion and special automotive projects, Fiat. RESIDENCES: New York City and Turin, Italy. AGE: 28. PERSONAL STYLE: "Real and natural." STYLE ICON: None. SIGNATURE LOOK: "Mine." FAVORITE TAILOR: "My...

The Silent Beauty; Seemingly too fragile, too real, too natural to survive the cutthroat fashion industry-let alone the vicious tabloid lashing she received last year-Kate Moss has not only become the blue-chip international supermodel but stayed true to herself.
September 1, 2006... Byline: A. A. Gill The British tabloid press, with its gander up, loins girded, helter-skelter, out on a celebrity fatwa, is a terrifying thing. A ululating bellow of vicious ill will and righteous cruelty. It's remorseless and relentless...

Something About Sofia; Born to Hollywood royalty, Sofia Coppola makes it all look so effortless: the Oscar and Golden Globes for her feature film Lost in Translation; the baby on the way with French rocker Thomas Mars; the ultra-hip circle of friends such as Wes Anderson, Zoe Cassavetes, and Marc Jacobs.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Evgenia Peretz If, as they say, Hollywood is a high school, then a new group of cool kids are coloring in their sneakers in the wardrobe closet behind the theater, and their queen bee is Sofia Coppola. There are the directors: her...

The Biel Curve.(Jessica Biel )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jim Windolf At 24, Jessica Biel is taking baby steps out of the perspiration-drenched worlds of action and horror movies and into the powdered milieu of A-list fare, first with her small role in last year's Elizabethtown, Cameron...

Lips Together, Knees Apart; When a movie star joins the faithful's Milan pilgrimage to report on the men's collections for spring and summer of 2007, the clothes are only half the story.(Men's Fashion Week in Milan)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Rupert Everett It is Men's Fashion Week in Milan and there's a heat wave. Breathless and bleary in the polluted haze, "believers" from across the globe wait in lines outside the palazzi of their household gods. It's showtime again....

43 + 41 = 84; Routinely underestimated, he struggles to live up to his father.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Todd Purdum Not quite 60 years ago, the young father who would one day become the 41st president of the United States watched the toddler who would follow him as the 43rd suffer the racking 104-degree fever of tonsillitis and the...

Howard Schultz; In 1971, the first Starbucks opened at the illustrious Pike Place Market, on Seattle's waterfront.
September 1, 2006... What is your idea of perfect happiness? Enjoying the perfect shot of espresso, which many have compared to the nectar of the gods. What is your greatest fear? That I won't help to solve America's health-care crisis and address the...