Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2016 i Vanity Fair

FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM @VANITYFAIR Behind the scenes of Jennifer Garner’s cover shoot by Patrick Demarchelier. ONLINE FEATURES THE DEED IS DUNNE While the People v. O.J. Simpson mini-series dramatizes the infamous case, delve into the archive of Dominick Dunne’s courtroom dispatches. With a seat at every day of the trial, the V.F. special correspondent was an inimitable chronicler of the crime. Plus: V.F. digital director Michael Hogan interviews Robert Morse, who plays Dunne on the series. SCENES FROM SXSW By JOANNA ROBINSON Hitch a ride with VF.com to Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest, a cultural crossroads of music, tech, and film, which kicks off with Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused “spiritual sequel,” Everybody Wants Some. ELECTION DAZE By T. A. FRANK In the race to the…

With a certain blowhard fanning the flames, the debate over immigration has gotten testy. Unlike Europeans, who are now confronting a combustible immigration crisis, Americans cherish romantic notions of “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” That said, there’s also fear and suspicion. A plurality see illegal immigrants costing the country “more than they contribute.” Most agree that immigrants are coming mainly for jobs— not fleeing persecution or drawn in by Obamacare. As for what their “quintessentially American” first stop should be: the National Mall, in Washington, D.C. Times Square was a close second, though we can’t imagine why. Some—overwhelmingly Republican—want to require all Muslim immigrants to register as Muslim. (Too bad about the First Amendment!) Americans are also unaware that the French designer of the Statue of Liberty used a…

People always ask me why I’m running for president. Well, first I’d like to tell you a little about myself. My daddy was a coal miner. My granddaddy worked in the front office of the coal miners. My greatgranddaddy was the president of U.S. Coal. And my great-greatgranddaddy discovered coal. We’re the American Dream, the Opposite Day version. I’m currently a substitute coal miner. I grew up in a simpler time, in an America where you didn’t instantly download the newest hit single on your phone for a dollar twenty-nine—no, sir, you bought 12 CDs for a penny, with the stipulation that you purchase the 8th CD at the regular club price. That CD was a rip-off, and their selection sucked, but it was a good way to stock up…

More than 100 films screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah, including The Birth of a Nation, the Nat Turner biopic that Fox Searchlight acquired for $17.5 million, the highest price ever paid for a Sundance film. Two of the film’s stars, Armie Hammer and Gabrielle Union, are pictured here, in addition to myriad other top-tier talents who visited the Vanity Fair studio for on-air conversations with the magazine’s West Coast editor, Krista Smith. For more photographs, go to VF.com. Zosia…

Neighbor trouble? In The King and Queen of Malibu (Norton), David K. Randall recounts the mother of all property disputes, over the 17,000-acre California-coastline ranch Frederick H. Rindge left at his death, in 1905. The 30-year saga, complete with alleged arson, presidential appeals, and Supreme Court hearings, pitted Frederick’s widow, May, who sought to preserve the property’s now unthinkable expanse, against all comers, including homesteader Marion Decker, an adversary out of Zane Grey, whose land was virtually engulfed by the Rindges’. May—who died in 1941 with $750 to her name—lost the dispute, but anyone who’s driven along the Pacific Coast Highway won.…

A decade ago, it might have seemed unusual to gather leaders from Silicon Valley, the media, Hollywood, and Wall Street in a single room and ask them to find something meaningful to talk about. Times do change. At Vanity Fair’s second annual New Establishment Summit, held last October in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg, Lena Dunham, Bob Iger, Lee Daniels, Elon Musk, Jonathan Ive, Richard Plepler, and Annie Leibovitz, among many others, seemed to view themselves not as mandarins from disparate worlds nor as avatars of different planets. Instead, during three days of conversation about everything from the future of the cable bundle to the role of venture capital—and, in particular, whether or not we’re in another dreaded tech bubble (consensus: probably)—they seemed to view one another as genuine peers. In…

It was a great achievement when an agreement was reached at the Paris Climate Change Conference, last December, the most complicated and comprehensive climate negotiations ever undertaken. Nearly 200 nations signed on to hold global warming below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to submit their national plans for the world to see and review. The U.S. targeted to reduce emissions 26 percent to 28 percent below its 2005 levels over time. Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoy for climate change from the first days of the Obama administration, deserves a huge chunk of the credit for this success. The architecture of this new climate deal was first discussed at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit, and Stern has pushed for it to be accepted as the basis for a global…

An obsession with inexplicably large television ratings or poll numbers will almost certainly do you in over the long run. Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has bellowed about the size of his every crowd and the ratings of his every television appearance. What he fails to see is that, when it comes to ratings, there are two types: quality ratings and spectacle ratings. Quality ratings are what make a show like Modern Family successful. The popularity of the series is built on a steady, incremental investment by the audience in the writing, the characters, and the plots. Spectacle ratings are like Kardashian sex videos or car crashes on YouTube. They are one-offs—well, maybe not in the case of the sex videos. People watch them, they forward them to their friends, and…

1 GROOVY FEAST CAT FOOD Genuine free-range mouse tenderloin, with marijuana added. Now you’ll actually know why your cat is purring. 2 EL CHAPO-STICK Highly emollient marijuana lip balm that busts your lips out of the squalid Mexican prison that is chronic dryness. 3 THE CANNABUS Public transport that runs exclusively on marijuana. “Hey, good fumes, man! Do you stop at 34th?” 4 REAL MARY JANES Those little girls’ dress shoes, now made with “patent pot leather.” Catholic boys looking down at them will be too stoned to see reflections! 5 DISASSOCIATED JOY DISHWASHING LIQUID This green liquid soap is packed with marijuana extract. You’ll be content to wash dishes for hours! 6 100 PERCENT MARIJUANA YULE LOG Endless televised loop of a burning log made entirely of cannabis. Your…

‘I really wanted the hip-hop community to embrace Hamilton because it’s such a love letter to them,” says Lin-Manuel Miranda about the biggest and most original hit musical on Broadway in decades. The Tony Award– winning Miranda wrote the book, music, and lyrics, and stars in the hip-hop musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Now he’s teaming up with the Roots’ Questlove—who executive-produced the show’s Grammy-winning cast album—for The Hamilton Mixtape. Here, Miranda and Questlove talk with Lisa Robinson about plans for that album, which will be out this year and will include cover songs from Hamilton as well as original material inspired by the groundbreaking show. LISA ROBINSON: What is The Hamilton Mixtape? LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA: Originally, that’s what my idea was. To me, Hamilton was a hip-hop artist. He…

Runway Retrospective Oscar de la Renta was a nonpartisan designer. Republicans, Democrats, millennial pop stars, Old Guard socialites, European hostesses, Hollywood actresses, and everyone in between clamored for his designs. The couturier got his start in Madrid in the mid-1950s with Balenciaga, and then worked with Lanvin in Paris. With the encouragement of the late Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, he moved to New York in 1963 and, in 1965, launched his eponymous line. Following de la Renta’s death, in 2014, Vogue’s André Leon Talley, an intimate of the designer’s since the 1970s, began curating a retrospective of his career. This month the exhibition, which includes more than 130 pieces—on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, and other public and private collections— will be unveiled at…

Hong Kong native Vanessa Wang, dressed in J. Mendel, was one of 20 beautifully turned-out young ladies who were presented to international society at the 2015 Bal des Débutantes, in Paris. Each arrived at the Palais de Chaillot fitted in a couture gown and accompanied by a dashing cavalier. Beaming parents, close friends, and the ball’s esteemed supporters—including Le Bal’s creator, Ophélie Renouard— celebrated the debutantes. MAC Cosmetics, hair salon Alexandre de Paris, and jeweler Payal New York lent their support to the fête, which benefited Enfants d’Asie, a charity that promotes education for girls in Southeast Asia, and the Seleni Institute, a nonprofit organization devoted to women’s mental health.…

Now, let me see if I’ve got this straight. Rupert Murdoch has announced (in The Times of London, which he owns) that he intends to marry Jerry Hall, the supermodel who lived for many years with Mick Jagger. Murdoch until 2013 was married to Wendi Deng, a businesswoman best known for once having attacked an activist troublemaker who threw a pie at her then husband during a parliamentary hearing. Two years ago, Deng was rumored to have had an affair with Tony Blair, the former prime minister of Great Britain. And Blair, for most of the first decade of this century, carried on an open—though nonsexual—romance with U.S. president George W. Bush. A commission appointed in 2009 by then prime minister Gordon Brown, and led by a privy councillor and…

About 10 years ago, Texas-born actor Scoot McNairy bid his entire bank account on a charity luncheon with Gary Oldman. Although Oldman vetoed Mc-Nairy’s restaurant choice (a Los Angeles taco shack), the Oscar nominee allowed his modest date to pick his brain. Oldman’s advice must have been substantial, or else McNairy was destined for the marquee, because this lifelong carpenter, 38, has since segued from working as an extra in commercials into dual careers, as a television star—in AMC’s critically acclaimed Halt and Catch Fire—and as an accomplished character actor. In the last four years alone, McNairy has co-starred in 12 films, including Oscar-winning best pictures Argo and Twelve Years a Slave. Next, McNairy appears in his biggest project yet—Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, due in theaters March 25.…

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being inside and watching really bad weather outside … and, if it’s after 5:30 p.m., with a glass of Chardonnay in hand. What is your greatest fear? A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough. Which living person do you most admire? Malala Yousafzai, Martina Navratilova, Misty Copeland, and Hillary Clinton. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Overall I’d have to say my earnestness. What is your favorite journey? The 1995 trip my son Eli and I took to the Fourth World Conference on Women, in Beijing, was life-altering, but I’m going to say one of the hut trips in Aspen in the middle of winter with…

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ “Usually blizzards mean shoots get postponed,” notes Senior Photography Producer Kathryn MacLeod of this month’s V.F. Portrait, by Contributing Photographer Annie Leibovitz, on page 184. “But in this case Annie had the idea several weeks before to shoot [U.S. special envoy for climate change] Todd Stern against an extreme-weather backdrop, and it just so happened that the Capitol was at the epicenter of Winter Storm Jonas.” Leibovitz also shot the “Talk of the Summit” portfolio, on page 126. TODD S. PURDUM As a St. Paul’s School alumnus and the father of a teenager, Contributing Editor Todd S. Purdum was in a unique position to reflect on the rape scandal that shook the Concord, New Hampshire, school last year (“Dangerous Privilege,” on page 202). “It was painful for me…

AGE: 21. PROVENANCE: Los Angeles. BACK TO THE FUTURE: Her parents, actress Lea Thompson and director Howard Deutch, didn’t bring their work home. “I grew up on a pseudo-farm. We had family dinners and chores. I think I’ve seen one of their movies.” THE BUG: Always drawn toward acting and improv, she enrolled at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. “I got the opportunity to make people feel things, and I knew this was what I had to do.” CAMP RICK: After getting her start in teen films, she nabbed the role of Beverly, the opinionated prima donna, in Richard Linklater’s upcoming ode to the 80s, Everybody Wants Some!! “Richard is in love with his job. It was the kind of set people came to on their…

This photo celebrates freedom. I was probably 14 when I first saw the picture, and it has always said to me that we can deal with the changes and challenges of life with the supple yet firm art of syncopation, with feeling, and through the elegance of dance.” Want the backstories behind other unexpected images? Go to VF.com/unexpected. Brought to you by the all-new 2016 Chevrolet Malibu.…

A Wild Rose The wild roses that grew on the cliffs of Granville, France, near Christian Dior’s childhood home, inspired a case study on the resilient flower. Fifteen years of research yielded the new serum Dior Prestige Le Nectar. Today, these roses are grown in the Dior Gardens, in the Loire Valley region of France, and are processed to yield a rose nectar 40 times more concentrated than the original, according to Dior. The golden elixir achieves its anti-aging properties by means of dermis regeneration. ($410; dior.com) —SUNHEE GRINNELL Charlotte’s Beauty Web Luxury shoe-andaccessory line Charlotte Olympia brings its signature retro-glam to makeup lovers this month. Its collaboration with MAC Cosmetics was inspired by pinups and silver-screen sirens and includes bold red lip shades, a shimmery eye pigment, bright nail…

In the span of six months, two beloved franchises born out of the late 1970s are being rebooted for the fans still smitten four decades later. The first pop-culture institution, Star Wars, returned to theaters last Christmas. And the second, Pee-wee Herman, will make a long-awaited comeback in Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, premiering on Netflix this month. But while George Lucas retired from his science-fiction empire, Paul Reubens, the 63-year-old writer, producer, and actor behind Pee-wee’s precocious man-child, wrote round the clock to personally return his character—born in 1977, when Reubens hooked up with the improv troupe the Groundlings—to audiences. (The character became nothing less than an icon of the age of irony when Pee-wee’s Playhouse ruled Saturday mornings, from 1986 to 1990.) In anticipation of Pee-wee’s triumphant return, the Emmy-nominated,…

On August 22, 2015, seven days after his loss at the Spingold, an annual week-long bridge championship held last year at the Chicago Hilton, Boye Brogeland posted a teasing comment to the Web site Bridgewinners.com. “Very soon there will come out mind boggling stuff that would even make a Hollywood movie surreal,” wrote Brogeland, a 43-year-old Norwegian bridge player who is ranked 77th in the world. “It will give us a tremendous momentum to clean the game up, from the bottom to the very top.” He followed this, two days later, with another comment advising players what to do if they have cheaters on their team, and announced that he and his teammates Richie Schwartz, Allan Graves, and Espen Lindqvist were relinquishing all the titles they had won in the…