Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2017 i Vanity Fair

WALTER ISAACSON Former Time managing editor Walter Isaacson has chronicled the lives of visionaries throughout history in his best-selling biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci (out this month from Simon & Schuster). For “The Soul in the Machine,” on page 110, the epilogue to V.F.’s annual New Establishment, he analyzes today’s disrupters in a meditation on innovation through the ages. “It’s not about the technology,” he writes. “It’s about connecting people to the technology and using the technology to connect humans to other humans.” STEPHANIE MEHTA AND JON KELLY “Everyone on this list is in the business of competing for attention,” says Hive Editor Jon Kelly, who, with Deputy Editor Stephanie Mehta, assembled V.F.’s 2017 New Establishment, the 100-person register of disrupters across every industry, on…

AGE: 23. PROVENANCE: Bi-continental. SCREEN GAB: Daughter of British journalist Graham Boynton, she moved to London from New York when she was five. “I consider myself British through and through, but owe Sabrina the Teenage Witch for when I need my American accent.” BUNNY HOP: At 10, she enrolled in drama class. “I was incredibly lucky. A casting director came to my school to audition girls for Miss Potter, and in that process I realized that I loved, craved, and needed acting.” She got the part. “It was a magical introduction to this world.” CATCH HER: With a dozen films complete, Boynton recently starred as Claire Douglas, J. D. Salinger’s second wife, in IFC’s biopic Rebel in the Rye. “I was familiar with Salinger’s work, but not his reclusive nature.…

TELEVISION SERIES (without husband) Olson is a Real Housewives fanatic, and she does not discriminate between the different franchises. “They’re all competing equally for my attention,” she says, though she admits Atlanta is her favorite at the moment. “It’s fantastic intellectual programming,” she says, wryly. “It challenges the brain.” TELEVISION SERIES (with husband) When husband and Always Sunny co-star Rob McElhenney is around, the couple enjoys watching Game of Thrones, or … U.F.C. fighting. “When it’s fight night, we are so excited,” Olson says, explaining that their interest was sparked when they became friends with a few of the fighters. “We’ll put the kids to bed early, I’ll make dinner, and we’ll sit and watch.” MOVIE While she expresses great affection for Bill Murray (“I don’t think he’s ever made…

The pendulum has swung back pop-ward for Beck Hansen. His new album, Colors, to be released this month, is his most uptempo collection of songs since 2005’s Guero: shiny and hooky, in marked contrast to the more whole-grain, singer-songwriterly sound of his last LP, 2014’s Grammy-winning Morning Phase. Two of Colors’ songs are already in wide circulation—the singles “Dreams” and “Wow,” released in 2015 and 2016, respectively—and much of the previously unheard material is in this same radio-friendly vein, in particular the infectious “I’m So Free,” which features backing vocals by Feist. The album, largely a collaboration with the pop-whisperer and production maestro Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia, Foo Fighters), is “something I’ve wanted to do for a long, long, long time,” Hansen says, but the process of making it proved…

The most popular show on television in the United States right now is America’s Got Talent. If you’ve never seen it (which is hard to imagine), it’s a talent show and talent competition, essentially the same as Major Bowes’ Amateur Hour, a popular show in the early days of television and the program that gave us the useful phrase “amateur hour”—applied as a metaphor for incompetence, although this is nearly the opposite of what the word “amateur,” which simply connotes a love of some activity, originally meant. It is now directed sarcastically at almost anything people do. The winner each year on A.G.T., as it’s called, gets $1 million and a stint headlining at one of the Las Vegas casinos. But the publicity value of being a winner on A.G.T.…

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As we tiptoe up to the one-year anniversary of the election that left more than half the country— and much of the rest of the world— reeling in astonishment and revulsion, it’s difficult not to recoil at the sight of our great leader strutting the world stage, alternately lecturing and hectoring his betters. Donald Trump’s brand of preening narcissism and incompetence is a constant reminder of just how far we’ve fallen. Not only is he the most childish man to have held the nation’s highest office, he may be the most childish man to have held public office in this country ever. You could replace “childish” with all sorts of adjectives—vindictive, erratic, vainglorious, temperamental, and untruthful quickly come to mind—and that declaration would still hold. To be fair, the Trump…

“What’s mine is yours” takes on new meaning with timepieces that look just as good on him as they do on her…

EXPERIENCE The Deuce on IIBO From executive producers David Simon and George Pelecanos of The Wire, the new HBO drama The Deuce chronicles the rise of the pornography industry in early 1970s New York driven by the gradual crackdown on the city's sex trade and politically motivated efforts to clean up Times Square. James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaallead the series's dynamic cast of characters swirling through a liberated world of sex, crime, high times, and sudden violence as the porn business begins its climb to legitimacy and cultural permanence. Catch the newest episodes of The Deuce Sundays at 9 P.M. on HBO. hbo.com/the-deuce EXPERIENCE Alice Gao Born in China and raised in New Jersey, self-taught photographer Alice Gao has now counted NYC as her home for the past eight years.…

“I heard a lot of racist comments from people I grew up with,” says Alabama native, singer/songwriter/guitarist Jason Isbell. “But when I started listening to the music of Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, and the Staple Singers, it taught me that if there’s something wrong with the people making that, then I’d also like that to be wrong with me.” Isbell, 38, a former member of the rock band Drive-By Truckers, went solo in 2007. Since then, he has quit drinking, released six albums, won two Grammys, and had a daughter with his wife, the noted musician Amanda Shires, who also plays in his band, the 400 Unit. Here, he talks with Lisa Robinson about music, politics, and fame. LISA ROBINSON: A song on your latest album (The Nashville Sound) is…

British accents, corseted starlets, tortured artists. Movies that cater to Hollywood’s Anglophilia and high self-regard always have done well at the Oscars—or, as former host Chris Rock called them in his 2016 monologue, “The White People’s Choice Awards.” But over the last two years, after enduring criticism of its all-white slates of acting nominees, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 1,457 new people to join, which could add some 20 percent to its membership rolls and recruit the largest, most demographically diverse classes in its 90-year history. As the most exclusive club in Hollywood has become more inclusive, a question is reverberating through town. “What is an awards movie anymore?” asked one Oscar strategist, who plots a course of screenings, parties, and for-your-consideration ads for a major…

When Vanity Fair created the New Establishment, in 1994, it reflected the shift in power from a genteel Wasp establishment led by East Coast bankers and statesmen to a swashbuckling set of media-age moguls more comfortable in Hollywood than in mahogany-paneled clubs. By the end of the 1990s, as the Internet ushered in a new Information Age, there was another shift: the list began gravitating more to the technologists of Silicon Valley. In its latest evolution, the list is now becoming increasingly populated by a new wave of innovators and rebellious entrepreneurs who are less interested in stewarding great industries than in overturning them. JOBS UNDERSTOOD A PROFOUND PRINCIPLE: BEAUTY MATTERS. For all of their differences, there are a few attributes that distinguish today’s great disrupters and connect them to…

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Warm chocolate cake, a gorgeous fire, and Idris Elba. Also, world peace. Which historical figure do you most identify with? I don’t identify with her, but I highly admire Eleanor Roosevelt. Which living person do you most admire? Obama. He is a man of integrity and nobody seems to have integrity these days. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself ? My ability to make everything about me. What is the trait you most deplore in others? People who feed off of their misery. The whiners and complainers. What is your greatest extravagance? Sleep. What is your favorite journey? The car ride home. On what occasion do you lie? When any pregnant woman asks me if motherhood is easy. It’s too late…

As the president of Planned Parenthood and a passionate promoter of women’s rights, Cecile Richards is one of the most influential women in America. Under her leadership, the organization has more than tripled its number of active supporters, with an inspirational total of more than 10 million. Now, with its future threatened by the Trump administration, Richards has launched a nationwide campaign to rally support for the indispensable care its centers provide. Herewith, a look inside her office in Planned Parenthood’s New York headquarters.…

Dave Eggers draws on his inner animal in Ungrateful Mammals (Abrams). Politics get sketchy via cartoonist Barry Blitt’s eponymous Blitt (Riverhead). Walter Isaacson paints the scientific side of Leonardo da Vinci (Simon & Schuster). Melissa Rivers curates satisfyingly sardonic scribbles with Scott Currie in Joan Rivers Confidential (Abrams). Jonathan Alpeyrie focuses on Syria through The Shattered Lens (Atria), with Stash Luczkiw. The garden has gone to seed in Rosetta S. Elkin’s Tiny Taxonomy (Actar). Government roots are ivy grown in Daniel Golden’s Spy Schools (Henry Holt). Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine (Doubleday) uncovers a 20th-century Ukraine under siege. Anthony DeCurtis digs underground with Lou Reed (Little, Brown). Alexandre de Betak relishes the runway in Betak (Phaidon). She (Abrams) exudes elegance, in a tribute from Kate Spade New York. Garry Wills probes…

It is my dearly beloved hope (yours too, I trust) that it won’t take another presidential election to expel the Desecrator in Chief from the premises, to liberate us from the otiose spectacle of Donald Trump tramping over the Constitution in his golf spikes and exercising his tweeting thumbs at the expense of decency, democracy, and basic spelling (“Somtimes you need protest in order to heel, & we will heel, & be stronger than ever before!”). The frantic tempo of his cruel, petty fits of pique—the pardoning of the sadist sheriff Joe Arpaio, the transgender ban, the decision to end the daca (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program simply to inflict pain and roll back any vestige of the Obama-stamped compassionate policy— and the Agatha Christie elimination of assistant warlocks…

In 2016, Vanity Fair’s annual New Establishment list acknowledged that, these days, everyone is in the technology business—and we gestured at this phenomenon by collapsing what had previously been two lists into one cohesive catalogue of power and influence in the intelligence age. This year, however, it seems that everyone is increasingly in everyone else’s business: Apple is in the car sector (and, more recently, the entertainment industry); Disney is going head-to-head with Netflix in the streaming game; Emerson Collective, the philanthropic organization created by Laurene Powell Jobs, is now a dark horse in media. Jeff Immelt, who transformed General Electric from a light-bulbs-and-fridges company to a tech colossus, nearly became C.E.O. of Uber. This year’s list also foreshadows the coming battles as these various industries, and the titans who…

The night leading to his death, Tim Piaz za spent the early evening trying to shrink two obstacles standing in his way—a bunch of math homework and a pile of laundry. The mechanical-engineering major was tackling them at the apartment he shared with four friends near the State College campus of Penn State University. A good-looking, flamehaired kid, six feet two inches and 205 gym-honed pounds, Tim had been a football player at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, in New Jersey, where he’d also shown an interest in service to others. He’d worked with Hunterdon Outreach, promoting sports for children with special needs, and it was through his school’s Teen Prevention Education Program, which focused on responsible sexual decision-making, that he’d met Kaitlyn Tempalsky, his high-school sweetheart. For a prom-posal…