The news has been consistently full of disheartening records of ‘lowest since’ and ‘highest since’ for quite a while.  Unemployment is still rising if not accelerating.   12% of all homes with mortgages are either in default, delinquent, or foreclosure.  Nearly every econ...

  Many of you have by now seen the "naked" Vanity Fair shoot by Annie Liebowitz, featuring the men they're calling Comedy's New Legends: Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, and Jonah Hill. What with the hairless nude suits, the pudge, and the lack of genitalia, they're odd...

On Friday night, Feb. 20, in Los Angeles, Mark, a friendly expert in the art of mixology, tore up a few more bits of oregano at Cecconi’s, a sprawling Italian bistro that sits atop the hallowed Melrose Avenue dirt that was home to longtime industry staple Morton’s. The restaurant, which is owned...

Joining a mass of fellow celebrities, Halle Berry was spotted arriving at the 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at the Sunset Tower Hotel last night. The “Monster’s Ball” babe was joined by her boyfriend/babydaddy Gabriel Aubry and looked stunning in a strapless...

After all the Oscar trophies were handed out at last night’s Academy Awards (actually, some folks didn’t even wait ’til all the awards were handed out … some showed up at the party before the Oscars were even finished), a who’s who of Hollywood A-Listers made their way ...

Long, informative profile on the making of The Godfather. Can you believe I’ve never seen it? Here’s what struck me: Brando got the role, over the objections of almost everyone, by nailing his screen test. Brando emerged from his bedroom in a kimono, with his long blond hair in a ponytai...

Horror-Nachricht von Condé Nast: “Vanity Fair” wird eingestellt. titelt kress.de, aber ehrlich gesagt, abgesehen natürlich von den Einzelschicksalen der Mitarbeiter, kann ich nicht sehen, was daran Horror ist. Vanity Fair in den USA ist eine dicke Zeitschrift, mit vielen tollen, langen...

Hollywood may never fully recover from the WGA-strike-plagued awards season of 2008, marred by trophy presentations on Veoh, a potluck Governor's Ball, and—most shocking of all—the complete cancellation of the Vanity Fair party. It was editor-in-chief Graydon Carter himself who called in...

You can almost see the cum dripping down her leg. It should come as no surprise that JFK and Marlene Dietrich were both total sexaholics, but probably not a lot of people realize they had sex. In the White House. Together. I knew this from having read her daughter Maria Riva's book, but the stor...

One week after Tina Brown launched the Daily Beast back in October, Michael Wolff, the Vanity Fair columnist and the founder of Newser, gave a typically tart assessment of his new competitor. “She’s not a news aggregator, although that is her pretense for doing something Web-like,� he said to ...