Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2023 i Vanity Fair

1. EDWARD HOPPER & CAPE ANN Elliot Bostwick Davis takes a fresh look at a formative Hopper period; during a 1923 summer visit to Cape Ann, Massachusetts, where the deep blue harbors and idyllic homes put the painter on the path to singularity. (Rizzoli Electa) 2. MYSTERY STREET French photographer Vasantha Yogananthan returns to documentary with a free-flowing depiction of childhood in 2022 New Orleans: wheelies, merry-go-rounds, a hula hoop about to set spin. (Chose Commune) 3. THE BEGINNING This Tina Barney monograph spans 1976 to 1980, highlighting her early work that chronicles American affluence: the tennis lessons, private pools, and wallpapered interiors of vivid seasonal tableaux. (Radius) 4. THE PLEASURE OF SEEING “The main story always was the light,” photographer Joel Meyerowitz tells the writer Lorenzo Braca. Their interviews…

AS RABBI DANIEL LITVAK stepped out of the cab at the airport in Porto one Thursday morning last March, a cluster of plainclothes Portuguese cops swarmed him. His son, Malkiel, watched in shock as more than a dozen men halted traffic, seized bags, and bundled his father into a vehicle, speeding off without explanation. To Malkiel, it looked like a kidnapping. The officers were from a branch of the federal Polícia Judiciária. They drove Litvak three hours south to their headquarters in Lisbon, where they booked him, photographed him, and placed him in a cell for the night, according to Litvak, alongside a man from Pakistan arrested for attempted murder and a local arrested for armed theft. The eventual charges against Litvak included document forgery, influence peddling, and money laundering—and…

THE WHITE LOT US HBO When Daphne (Meghann Fahy) whisks Harper (Aubrey Plaza) off on an unexpected overnight stay in a villa in Noto, the pair hit the shops wearing showstopping looks that costume designer Alex Bovaird describes as fittingly romantic and sexy. “It is Daphne’s little fantasy and she’s always playful,” says Bovaird of the blueand-white striped Prada two-piece Daphne wears once they arrive. The constant tension between them also plays out in what they wear. “Daphne dresses a lot more what somebody with money should wear,” says Bovaird, adding that Harper, in her tastes, is “much cooler than Daphne. And she’s a little bit uptight.” Her vintage Moschino dress, then, is “a perfect little summer holiday retro look, but it’s also very stiff.” Both women wear designer clothes…

AUBREY PLAZA JUST saw the Sopranos finale for the first time, and she’s beside herself. “I’m shook,” she says, having somehow avoided Tony Soprano discourse for 16 years. She coordinated her viewings with her actor friend Jake Johnson, and they’ve been texting about the ambiguous blackout ending ever since: “Yesterday I was like, ‘Oh my God, what do you think happened?’ And he was like, ‘I don’t know but I was crying,’ and I was like, ‘I was crying too.’” Plaza knows how odd all this sounds. “I was like, ‘This is ridiculous, that we’re going through Sopranos finale stuff.’” Plaza finally feasted on the series that birthed prestige television while making the second season of another obsessioninducing show, The White Lotus. She was starring alongside Michael Imperioli, who played…

Julianne ESCOBEDO SHEPHERD “PLAZA SUITE,” P. 96 “This was a terrific excuse to rewatch Aubrey Plaza in everything she’s ever done,” says Escobedo Shepherd, a writer and editor whose forthcoming book, Vaquera, explores growing up Mexican American in Wyoming and the myth of the American West. Molly JONG-FAST “GREENROOM WITH A VIEW,” P. 40 Jong-Fast is the host of the podcast Fast Politics and a special correspondent at VF. She is working on a memoir about her complicated relationship with her mother, the writer Erica Jong, and has multiple dogs and teenage children—all of whom tried to talk to her while she worked on this month’s column. Mark SELIGER “AN IDOL MIND,” P. 42 A longtime VF contributor, Seliger’s forthcoming book, Vanity Fair Oscar Night Sessions: A Decade of Portraits From…

“EVEN AN ORDINARY SECRETARY OR A HOUSWIFE OR A TEENAGER CAN TURN ON A SMALL LIGHT IN A DARK ROOM.”MIEP GIES “...WITHOUT A DOUBT, MIEP IS A STAR-MARKING ROLE FOR BEL POWLEY. SHE DOES A MASTERFUL JOB PORTRAYING AN UNIMAGINABLY BRAVE, THOUGHTFUL, SMART, AND DETERMINED PERSON WHO NEVER BACKED DOWN. POWLEY’S RANGE IS PHENOMENAL, PARTICULARLY WHEN SHE SHOWS MIEP’S FUNNY SIDE.”paste FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES…

THE BEAR Episode 7, “Review” FX There’s ample salt, acid, and heat—but little fat—to be found in The Bear’s frenetic seventh episode, directed by creator Christopher Storer. Executive producer Joanna Calo describes it as a “resting place” for the season’s character arcs, including Sydney and Richie’s fractious dynamic and Carmy’s increasingly “rageful, deep, dark feelings hidden inside,” all exacerbated by a rave review that brings a flood of customers their kitchen can’t handle. But in writing the script, Calo says, it became “this place where everyone exploded.” The propulsive, almost 20-minute one-take result created “this massive feeling of anxiety, which sort of encapsulates the energy that all people working in restaurants feel.” —Savannah Walsh SUCCESSION Episode 3, “Connor’s Wedding” HBO Best not to get married on HBO. In “Connor’s Wedding,” the third…

“I got chills.” A woman I’ll call Theresa was telling me about the early days of the Lost writers room, before the ABC drama premiered in September 2004. She knew in her bones it was special, long before huge ratings confirmed it. The story of plane crash survivors on a surreal tropical island—including Jack, a doctor transporting his late father’s body home, and Locke, a flinty survivalist in a wheelchair—was going to be, she was sure, deeper and wilder and more entertaining than the audience could possibly imagine. “Someone would say, ‘Well, what if Locke walks?’” Theresa remembered. “‘What if the coffin is empty?’ As all that was going down, literally you got chills. We started doing the wave in the room, like, holy shit! I’d never seen anything like…

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being with my husband, David, and the boys. What is your greatest extravagance? Flowers. Which living person do you most despise? How long have you got…? What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My temper. What or who is the greatest love of your life? David, Zachary, and Elijah. When and where were you happiest? Today at home. What is your favorite occupation? Singing. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? A stiff upper lip, which is the cancer of the United Kingdom. On what occasion do you lie? To be kind. What do you dislike most about your appearance? My profile. Which talent would you most like to have? I’d love to be able to paint. Which living person do…

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BUILT FROM THE FIRE by Victor Luckerson This evocative history of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street (site of the 1921 race massacre) and the family behind its newspaper, The Oklahoma Eagle, captures ruin and endurance. (Random House) PAGEBOY by Elliot Page In an intimate memoir, the Juno actor excavates his dovetailing experiences of becoming a public star while, privately, discovering himself as queer and trans. (Flatiron) GEORGE: A MAGPIE MEMOIR by Frieda Hughes An unmoored painter and poet—daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes—details finding “home” with a cheeky and beloved bird. (Avid Reader) YOUNG AND RESTLESS by Mattie Kahn A galvanizing survey of the power of teen girls, from young suffragettes and civil rights advocates to Gen Z’ers fighting for bodily autonomy in post-Roe America. (Viking)…

On THE night of the Oscars in March, Abel Tesfaye had The Larry Sanders Show on in his kitchen. He’s been watching a lot of ’90s TV, he explained in a quick patter as he walked across the tennis court in his Bel-Air backyard: The Ben Stiller Show and then Mr. Show and then, diving further into Bob Odenkirk’s early career, Larry Sanders. “Which has become my favorite TV show now,” he said. “It is fucking brilliant.” He kept picking up steam. “It’s groundbreaking,” Tesfaye went on. “It’s like the birth of that behind-the-scenes meta comedy type, like The Office and Arrested Development and all that, where it feels like it’s blurred between what’s real, what’s not.” It’s an appealing framing device for Tesfaye, and one he’s turned to himself…

THERE’S NO EMMY for best supporting object, but some props are so essential they deserve one. Take the inky black cello owned by the title character of Netflix’s Wednesday (1), which allows Jenna Ortega’s stoic heroine to reveal her inner turmoil. “We wanted to find something that could express her emotional side, because she’s not somebody who’s going to express that,” says co-showrunner Alfred Gough. Mark Scruton, Wednesday’s production designer, says he offered several options to director Tim Burton, who chose an antique wooden one, reflecting the character’s affection for old, battered things. “In the end,” Scruton says, “her character became this slightly eclectic mix of traditional and new.” “Eclectic” would be a very gentle way to describe the workshop occupied by the reclusive filmmaker, named Arthur, that Nick Nolte…

BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, they say, robots will be making our TV shows. At this very moment, the machines are learning: to generate full-length screenplays; to spin up dazzling sets and locations; to deep-fake 3D rotatable stand-ins for your favorite actors; to bust out all-new needle drops of algorithmically regurgitated data sets that more or less amount to Taylor Swift. And all without paying a single fee or residual. So if you thought we were already drowning in “content,” girl, strap in! Soon every teen with a computer can be a showrunner—it’s just a matter of entering the right prompts. They’ve already got infinite Seinfeld running on Twitch. Given that—as an AI chatbot adequately trained in English idioms might put it—the horse has left the barn, it seems there’s nothing…

THE GOLDEN AGE of streaming didn’t always reward the people who actually mined the gold. Back in 2017, around the time that The Handmaid’s Tale emerged as a global hit for Hulu and became the first streaming show ever to win the top drama Emmy, one of its writers, John Herrera, was working a second job. The good news was that he still heard some solid gossip from Hollywood insiders. Or overheard, to be more accurate: They were talking to each other in the back of his Lyft. “There were a couple of instances of driving people to LAX and dropping them off while a billboard for Handmaid’s was staring down at me,” he says. “I know people, myself included, who realistically thought that they’d be renegotiating for multimillion-dollar deals.…