Innholdsfortegnelse for Dec-14 i Vanity Fair

1 Anjelica Huston With Watch Me, Anjelica Huston returns to the story of her life, a follow-up to the coming-of-age memoir published last year and adapted in Vanity Fair. For the Academy Award winner, recalling her relationship with Jack Nicholson—in “The Big Fabulous” (page 192)—was more an act of self-revelation. “Memory allows one to re-experience what one felt,” says Huston. “I’m an actress, so being able to plumb the range of human emotions is satisfying.” 2 David Bailey In his five-decade career, David Bailey has photographed everyone from London gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray to Kate Moss. Those photographs, and many others, appeared in an exhibition of his work at London’s National Portrait Gallery earlier this year. When asked about his shoot for “Russell Brand, Seriously” (page 188), Bailey responded,…

At the age of 26, devastated by her mother’s untimely death from lung cancer and reeling from her divorce, Cheryl Strayed embarked on a solo, three-month, 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. Despite being a novice backpacker, with no radio, no phone, no credit cards, and very little money, Strayed survived. The resulting 2012 memoir, Wild, which traces her physical and emotional battles through the Pacific Northwest, landed her on the New York Times best-seller list, where she has been ever since. With this month’s film adaptation of her literary blockbuster—written by Nick Hornby, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, and co-produced by Reese Witherspoon (who stars as Strayed)—her epic journey continues. Twenty years after her initial expedition, the 46-year-old author, who is as warm and fiercely honest in person as…

DIANA BANG AGE: 33. PROVENANCE: Vancouver, British Columbia. LAUGH TRACK: The up-and-coming actress had an accidental introduction to comedy. “I was taking drama classes in high school, and I would do these really serious monologues (or at least I thought they were). Then everyone would be laughing at me, and I would be like, ‘What the hell? You’re supposed to be crying.’ I think I’m kind of clownish, so it was sort of a natural progression.” FUNNY BUSINESS: Bang, who has appeared in several TV movies (Sorority Wars, Miracle in Manhattan), as well as A&E’s cult-favorite series, Bates Motel, has honed her acting chops in a sketch-comedy group, Assaulted Fish, for the past decade. “It’s really cool to be telling my stories and working with a bunch of really funny,…

Growing up surrounded by beauty— between a farm in Scotland and Christmases with their grandparents (the previous Duke of Devonshire and his wife, “Debo”) at the 297-room family seat, Chatsworth— sisters Isabel and Stella Tennant have turned to gilding the objects around them. In 2012, supermodel Stella happened to notice some sample panels with gilded lines on weathered mahogany propped up in her sister’s kitchen and wanted to make them into a lamp. “Before I knew it, she’d had oak bases made by a local carpenter,” recalls Isabel, who studied decorative arts before becoming a gilder. The lamps took shape, as did the sisterly collaboration, Tennant & Tennant, based in their Scottish studio. In September 2014, Isabel and Stella exhibited their first collection, “Gilded Pleasures,” during the London Design Festival.…

Elon Musk arrived in his Model S Tesla before speaking at the inaugural Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, sponsored by Discovery Communications and presented in association with the Aspen Institute. He joined more than 60 game changers at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Francisco, where the packed house included media moguls, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, students, journalists, venture capitalists, and a myriad of innovative thinkers. For more, turn to page 126. VANITY FAIR’S NEW ESTABLISHMENT SUMMIT The Age of Innovation LITERARY LIONS Sir Tom Stoppard and Graydon Carter hosted an intimate dinner in support of the London Library at the Beatrice Inn, in N.Y.C.…

Justin Trudeau has been news since conception. Long before being elected a member of Canada’s parliament— and decades before he rose to his current leadership of the Liberal Party—front pages trumpeted his birth, on Christmas Day 1971. His original crib: 24 Sussex Drive, the official Canadian state residence, in Ottawa. His parents: then prime minister Pierre Trudeau and his flower-child bride, Margaret. Dad was one of the 20th century’s great characters. A schol - ar turned politician, he famously slid down banisters, did pirouettes in the presence of the Queen, and dated Barbra Streisand when he was a bachelor P.M. Mom, meanwhile, was nothing short of capricious: she sewed her own wedding dress, “ran away” with the Rolling Stones, dated Jack Nicholson, hob - nobbed with Andy Warhol, and was…

In October 1912, the Metropolitan Museum of Art established its beloved Arms and Armor Department. Three weeks earlier, the Ottoman Empire had lurched into the First Balkan War. Poignantly, the Met chose to acknowl - edge the elegance of antiquated weaponry against the prelapsarian backdrop of warhorses and bayonets. While the ensuing century has seen two World Wars, regional conflicts large and small, and the introduction of “deterrent” weap - ons of previously unthinkable range and scope, the museum’s collection remains fixed in the comfortably distant past, free from 20thcentury combat’s less human associations. From now until December 2015, the Met is presenting “The Art of Collecting Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions, 2003–2014,” showcasing its most important recent gains from around the world. Significant works include a 17th-century surcoat (jinhaori),…

When Salman Khan sat down to make his first video, 10 years ago, he never had any intention of changing the way my kids learn. Sal, as he likes to be called, was doing a favor for his young cousin, who was struggling with math. A then 28-year-old finance whiz between jobs, he had no experience with either teaching or video. But he wanted to walk her through a few lessons, using an online illustration program and his own, enthusiastic voice. The product was a bite-size few minutes of instruction, with only a simulated blackboard for visuals. A few more cousins and family friends got involved and a handful of lessons became a collection, posted to a public Web site. And that’s when Sal Khan’s family tutorial sparked a worldwide…

Christopher Isherwood’s creation Sally Bowles has passed through as many incarnations as a Hindu goddess, each time retaining her essential attributes—green nails, ratty furs, and those stomach-turning prairie oysters. First there was Jean Ross, the British novelist’s real-life Berlin roommate and literary inspiration. Out of her the writer confected Sally, the heroine of Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a flamboyant vixen with a face “powdered dead white.” In John Van Druten’s 1951 play, I Am a Camera, the quirky chanteuse was channeled by Julie Harris, whom Isherwood decreed “more essentially Sally Bowles than the Sally of my book.” Next, with the release of the 1972 movie musical Cabaret, Liza Minnelli took temporary possession of Sally’s flighty soul. But Sally’s mercurial spirit has since migrated to Molly Ringwald, Brooke Shields, Michelle Williams,…

Every ocean voyage involves risk. This has always been, and will always be. Currently about 100,000 large merchant ships sail the seas. If past patterns hold, during the next 10 years some 25,000 of them will be categorized as insurance casualties. Another 1,600 will be lost—roughly one ship every two and a half days. Some fraud is involved, but most of the losses are real. Though safety is said to be improving, it is evident that the oceans remain wild and will not soon be tamed. In that light one of the greatest seafarers at work today is neither a naval commander nor an old-salt merchant mariner but a certain marine salvage master with a taste for chaos and a genius for im prov i sation. He is a burly…

Last year, the comedian Russell Brand declared on national television in his native Great Britain that he has never voted and doesn’t believe in voting. “It’s not that I’m not voting out of apathy,” he told his inquisitor, Jeremy Paxman of the BBC Two program Newsnight. “I’m not voting,” he said, his voice rising, his balled-up hands suddenly punching the air in time with his words, “out of absolute indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery, deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations now, and which has now reached fever pitch where you have a disenfranchised, disillusioned, despondent underclass that are not being represented by that political system. So voting for it is tacit complicity with that system.” Paxman, a tall, imposing man…

With stunning photography and compelling profiles drawn from the pages of Condé Nast’s most iconic brands—Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, Wired, and more—this special edition brings together the biggest names in movies, music, television, books, and theater in one sparkling collection of A-list stars. Celebrate the breakthroughs and the bold reinventions, the established masters and the new icons, the spot-on trends and the don’t-miss cultural moments—on stage, screen, and page—of 2014. jennifer lawrence OSCAR WINNER, FRANCHISE STAR, PRIVACY CRUSADER, BREATH OF FRESH AIR “I don’t like yes-people. I don’t like lackeys. I don’t like people when they fake-laugh at my jokes.” INTERVIEW: SAM KASHNER PHOTOGRAPH: PATRICK DEMARCHELIER VANITY FAIR pharrell williams RENOWNED WRITER-PRODUCER-PERFORMER-COLLABORATOR, VOICE COACH, “HAPPY” HITMAKER, AMERICA’S MOST POPULAR MUSIC MAN “When I was young, I thought…

As a B-747 pilot with 30 years’ experience flying and administering check rides in “74s,” I commend William Langewiesche’s article about the loss of Air France 447 [“The Human Factor,” October], by far the best piece on the subject published to date. I was a little surprised, however, to note that he appears to find it unremarkable that airlines routinely schedule extended-range flights with only one captain and two or three co-pilots who may have no command experience during their careers (the Air France scenario). This is contrary to the intent of a federal regulation requiring that “a pilot who serves as second in command of an operation that requires three or more pilots must be fully qualified to act as pilot in command of that operation.” DAVID LITHGOW New…

Since his feature-film directorial debut, in 1977 (The Duellists), director and producer Ridley Scott has consistently transported audiences to different worlds, across sweeping tableaux, and, at times, via time travel to centuries past. Breathtaking imagery (Blackhawk Down, Gladiator, Blade Runner) and strong female characters (Sigourney Weaver in Alien, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon in Thelma & Louise) are hallmarks of his multifarious body of work. Scott’s epic biblical adventure, Exodus: Gods and Kings—which recounts the uprising of Moses (Christian Bale) against the powerful Egyptian pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton) as Moses leads more than 600,000 slaves on a harrowing, plague-ridden journey to freedom—will open on December 12. Pictured here is his office at the headquarters of Scott Free Productions, in Soho, London. PUNCH HUTTON…

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Glenn Close joined me for lunch at Lincoln Ristorante, near the Juilliard School, in Manhattan, where she was rehearsing the prestigious new staging of Edward Albee’s celebrated dissection of maimed Wasps, A Delicate Balance. (Opening on Broadway this month, it also stars John Lithgow and Lindsay Duncan.) “How are you?” I asked when she arrived. “I’m well,” she said, looking earnest. “I’m madly trying to learn very complex lines. It’s a good brain exercise—that’s how I look at it. Gets the neural pathways revved up again!” Neural pathways? Glenn Close, the daughter of a doctor, is a born worrier, it seems, and also a sly ironist. Preoccupied with breathing exercises, yoga, and lots of biking, she was building stamina for her most welcome return to the stage since her mesmerizing…

Writing about a magazine by and for old folks poses special probelms. what "I said, ‘it’s awfully loud in this place.‘" "yes, and it’s noisy too." “I’m sorry. I can’t make out a word you’re saying.” “Never mind. What looks good to you on the menu?” “The what?” “The menu! What would you like to eat?” “I can’t read the bloody menu. It’s so fucking dark in here.” “And the print is so small. Menus have gotten smaller lately—the type, I mean. And restaurants have gotten darker. Have you noticed?” “Have I what?” “Oh, never mind. Let’s talk about The Oldie.” “The what? Oh yes, The Oldie. Most boring subject I know. Can’t we talk about something else?” “But The Oldie is why we’re having this lunch. You remember: last…

Every now and then, when he’s spoiling for a fight, Travis Kalanick has a face like a fist. At these times, his eyes crinkle, his nose flares, and his mouth purses just like a clenched hand readying a punch. Even his Marinestyle, salt-and-pepper hair seems to stand on end and bristle, as it were, at whatever the 38-year-old entrepreneur happens to be facing down. And as the C.E.O. of Uber, the five-year-old ride-sharing juggernaut that in June was valued at $18.2 billion by investors, Kalanick has found no shortage of foes. He has directed barbs—in speeches and videos, and on Twitter—especially fervently toward the taxi industry, but also toward city and local regulators across the country (and now the world), his rivals, and sometimes even his own customers when they…

I. Discovery Otis Chandler is a tall, serious, bespectacled man in his mid-30s whose grandfather, also named Otis Chandler, used to own the Los Angeles Times. Chandler grew up in Los Angeles, attended boarding school near Pomona, and then, like his father and grandfather, went to Stanford. Upon graduation he entered the computer field. Because it was the turn of the millennium, that meant working at a start-up: Chandler found a job at Tickle.com, which was an early venture in social networking. At Tickle, Chandler eventually became a proj ect manager, starting a dating site called LoveHappens.com. It did O.K. In 2004, Tickle was acquired by Monster Worldwide, parent company of Monster.com, the huge jobposting site, and about a year and a half later, Chandler left. He started to think…

THE VAN GOGH MYSTERY Alone figure tramps toward a field of golden wheat. He carries a canvas, an easel, a bag of paints, and a pained grimace. He sets up his kit and begins to paint furiously, rushing to capture the scene of the swirling wheat as a storm approaches. Murderous crows attack him. He flails them away. As the wind whips the wheat into a frenzy, he races to add the ominous clouds to his canvas. Then the threatening crows. When he looks up, his eyes bug out with madness. He goes to a tree and scribbles a note: “I am desperate. I see no way out.” Gritting his teeth in torment, he reaches into his pocket. Cut to a long shot of the wheat field churning in the…

Arare thing happened this past August during the Mostly Mozart festival, at Lincoln Center. At the first of two performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, led by Gianandrea Noseda, the music director of Teatro Regio Torino, the audience broke into loud, spontaneous applause after every movement. The bass soloist was the Russian Ildar Abdrazakov, who had starred at the Metropolitan Opera a few months earlier in Borodin’s Prince Igor, which Noseda had also conducted, to major critical acclaim. Asked later about the ecstatic reception of the Beethoven, Noseda said modestly, “I certainly think the audience felt some energy conveyed,” adding, “but audiences everywhere will react the same way if the performance is good.” The charismatic, 50-year-old maestro, who usually travels with his wife, Lucia, is in a position to know. In…

My old life ended and my new life began as I was standing next to a baggage carousel in the customs hall at LAX in March 1973. It was there, at the age of 21, that I parted ways with Bob Richardson, a bold and provocative fashion photographer 24 years older than I, with whom I’d been involved in a tempestuous affair for the past four years. Until this moment we had been sharing an apartment on New York’s Gramercy Park. Had it not been for the presence of my father and his latest wife, Cici, with whom Bob and I had been vacationing in Mexico, I doubt that I would ever have had the final stroke of courage it would take to leave him. I would be staying temporarily…

At a dinner party ages ago, I was talking to Peggy Noonan about the responsibilities the big and the powerful have with regard to the little guy. There are many times, she said, when it’s best if we put the ingrained American instincts for success and domination aside in the interests of something larger. You don’t always have to win, in other words, especially if another person’s pride or well-being is in jeopardy. “A big ship,” she said, “carries a lot of barnacles.” As someone who has been both ship and barnacle, I have found those words instructive and comforting. They go hand in hand with a corny but effective device I have used for years in any number of personal and professional situations: Put yourself in the movie. That…

So, 27 years after Wall Street, is greed good? Yes!, according to a less-than-resounding one in five Americans. Or, to put it another way, No! Greed, we seem to feel, is not good. In fact, judging from this month’s poll, we don’t hold it in high regard at all, maybe because we see it everywhere. For instance, bankers—greed personified, to some people—are barely in the running for greediest professionals. They rank a lowly fourth, behind lobbyists, lawyers, and Hollywood/sports agents. So markedly have we turned our back on acquisitiveness that more of us—especially more Republicans—say that the key to success is not greed but selflessness. One thing on which Republicans and Democrats agree is that politicians are driven mostly by greed. The theory that they’re motivated primarily by good is…

Straight up: Marc Eliot guns down the myth of American Titan (Dey Street) John Wayne—canonized by the right wing, he voted Democratic in his youth, struggled on horseback, and never served in a war. Mikey Cuddihy re-discovers her lost childhood in A Conversation About Happiness (Atlantic). Afrikaner prison guard Christo Brand recalls befriending Mandela (Thomas Dunne). Sound Man (Blue Rider) Glyn Johns recorded many of the classic rock hits. Victoria Tennant spotlights her mum in Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (University of Chicago). The David Foster Wallace Reader (Little, Brown) contains the best of the best. The essays in Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering (Tin House) possess a gritty magnificence. Hermione Lee critiques novelist Penelope Fitzgerald (Knopf). Vincent van Gogh signs his letters Ever Yours (Yale). Gerald Hughes…

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S ME, MY SELFIE, AND I Despite its perils—just ask Anthony Weiner, Geraldo Rivera, or hacking victims such as Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton— the selfie is here to stay, and the author diagnoses a cultural addiction JAMES WOLCOTT elfies: such a cute niblet of a word, and yet I curse the day it was coined—it’s like a decal that won’t come unpeeled. Taking a picture of yourself with outstretched arm seems so innocent and innocuous, but what a pushy, wall-tiling tableau it has become—a plague of “duckfaces” and gang signs and James Franco (the Prince of Pose) staredowns. In my precarious faith in humankind’s evolution, I had conned myself into hoping, wishing, yearning that taking and sharing selfies would be a viral phase in the Facebook millennium, burning itself…

For an actor, there may be no historical role more daunting than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the four and a half decades since his assassination, King has attained a mythic, near-sacred place in the American imagination, akin to that of Washington or Lincoln but without the counterweight of corny Presidents’ Day ads and cameos in films such as Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. King surely earned his stat - ure, but when it comes to art—the non-devotional kind—reverence too often equals boring. Undertaking the challenge of playing King as an actual human being, with attendant flaws as well as strengths, is David Oyelowo, a young British actor best known to Americans as Forest Whitaker’s hotheaded son in Lee Daniels’ The Butler. His new film is Selma, a December…

Sydney, Australia, December 2013 on an early-summer day on Cockatoo Island, a slender woman in a sun hat stands on a dusty film set. With one hand shielding her eyes, she stares intently at a gunmetal sky. She’s waiting for cloud formations to pass. “The parachute keeps landing in the wrong place,” she mutters, half to herself, half to a group clustered around her. “We’re going to do some other takes, waiting for the parachute to land.” In fact, the woman in slim black jeans and mud-caked boots is Angelina Jolie. She’s surrounded by a legion of rugged-looking guys with stubbly beards, also in heavy boots, and wearing shorts—mostly Australians hired to work on the set. Nearby, smoking filterless Camels, are a few dozen actors who at first glance look…

It is rather unusual to come across an artist today who uses the old technique of collage in a new creative way—the first collages were created by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in France in the early 20th century. Jean-Charles de Ravenel, the subject of an exhibition this month at Hollyhock, in Los Angeles, is one such artist, a titled Frenchman who lives in and works out of a studio which literally drips down from a seaside villa on an island in the Bahamas. He has not forgotten that collage found its roots in the European Dada movement as a reaction to the First World War. The method allowed artists such as Hannah Höch to challenge sexist and racial codes in turbulent Weimar Germany, and American artists such as Man…

The surprising appearance of Richard Chamberlain in the New Group’s revival of David Rabe’s savage black comedy Sticks and Bones (opening this month at the Pershing Square Signature Center, Off Broadway) is an inspired coup de théâtre. Rabe’s 1971 Tony Award–winning play—one of his remarkable quartet of Vietnam dramas—goes to the damaged heart of American family values. The blinkered lives of its soap-opera mom, Harriet (Academy Award winner Holly Hunter), and dad, Ozzie (Bill Pullman), are torn apart when their crazed son, David (Ben Schnetzer), a blind Vietnam vet, returns home from the war. Chamberlain, now 80—“No surrender!” he tells us—plays Father Donald, a bigoted priest. “I wouldn’t trust him as my priest,” he says. America’s original TV heartthrob became globally famous in the 1980s, when he played a different…

As the story goes, the American art dealer Betty Parsons, who represented Jackson Pollock, liked to challenge the artists with a question: What’s the difference between cats and dogs? Answer: Cats aren’t afraid for their jobs. In other words, you have to stop trying to please people to be a true artist. As a gallerist, neither did Parsons pander to the audience, then tiny. Women collectors and art dealers, such as Peggy Guggenheim, Eleanor Ward, and Ileana Sonnabend, have often been the ones to challenge viewers, their radar and prescience legendary. Not that they’ve always gotten, as Aretha might say, Respect. That’s changed. As Marian Goodman says, “When I started, we were invisible, but there’s a different level of awareness and respect now.” Annie Leibovitz’s photograph of 14 of today’s…

What is your idea of perfect happiness? A good nap and a full house. What is your greatest fear? That I take this questionnaire too seriously and reveal my crimes and misdemeanors, or I treat this questionnaire too flippantly and bring shame to the House of Proust. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Cap’n Crunch. Which living person do you most admire? Beyoncé/Beyoncé’s hair person. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Stealing from the elderly and then acting real cocky about it. What is the trait you most deplore in others? People who can’t read my mind. What is your greatest extravagance? Baby tuxedos, caviar pajamas, coalpowered private jets. What is your favorite journey? When my hard head takes the high road. What do you…