Innholdsfortegnelse for Holiday 2017/2018 i Vanity Fair

EXPERIENCE Natural Gas Makes the Season Bright Glimmering lights and a warm turkey in the oven are some of the things we look forward to most during the holidays. Natural gas and oil fuel the traditions that make this season special. Learn how industry innovations help bring modern life more efficiently to you at PowerPastImpossible.org. EVENT Vanity Fair and John Hardy's Night of Legends Vanity Fairand John Hardy co-hosted a dinner honoring Julianne Moore and toasting the brand's new "Made for Legends" platform, which also features Adwoa Aboah. The exclusive dinner, held at New York hotspot Le Coucou, celebrated Julianne Moore, along with visionaries and innovators creating modern-day legacies today, including: Zadie Smith, Julie Taymor, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Gucci Westman, Martha Stewart, Jenna Lyons, and many more. The…

A few months ago a loopy meme that careened around the dark regions of the Internet speculated that a photograph taken on the South Lawn of the White House proves that Melania Trump had been replaced by a body double. (If only it had been referring to her husband.) This conspiracy theory, like so many, was, of course, nuts. We actually do have a real First Lady. She’s the one who has adopted her own version of “blue steel”: that steely, slit-eyed, purse-lipped set of the face. You may have noticed that her husband has also appropriated the look, in order, no doubt, to show that he is a man of parts. Trump didn’t have that look when he was younger, and I suspect that he was inspired by watching…

In the spring of 2014, I was having dinner with Judd Apatow at an Italian restaurant around the corner from the Comedy Cellar, in New York, and he was telling me about this movie Trainwreck that he was about to direct (in which he would cast me) and he said, “The good thing is I’ll be in New York, so I can do stand-up every night after the shoot,” and I thought, I don’t think he understands how stand-up works. In fairness to Judd, he did understand how it worked. As a high-school student in 1980s Long Island he would make cold calls and get well-known comedians like Garry Shandling and Jerry Seinfeld to appear on his school’s radio station. By the time he was 19 he was doing stand-up…

At the foot of a sweeping staircase in a stately Bel Air mansion, Greta Gerwig leaned in to adjust Jordan Peele’s bow tie as a camera shutter snapped. Gerwig’s sparkling gown and Peele’s velvet dinner jacket were all in line with the era of classic cinema the photo shoot was meant to evoke. That she, a 34-year-old actress turned director from Sacramento, and he, a 38-year-old bi-racial actor turned director from the Upper West Side, would have been scarce in that age—as they still are today—wasn’t lost on the pair. “This is the greatest party we never went to,” Gerwig said between shots. In an industry where women directors and directors of color are still shockingly rare, Gerwig and Peele have broken through and made two of this year’s best-reviewed…

Launched in 1913, Vanity Fair would go on that celebrated the culture of “the smart set.” Its Jazz Age issues bore dazzling covers from the most influential illustrators of the day, including William Bolin, A. H. Fish, to become the sophisticated, witty magazine John Held Jr., and Frank X. Leyendecker. Now five of those classic covers have been re-created as elegant puzzles, evoking a charmed era—gone, but not forgotten. AVAILABLE at NEWYORKPUZZLECOMPANY.COM/COLLECTIONS/VANITY-FAIR…

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Since Carrie Coon’s Tony-nominated Broadway breakthrough, five years ago, as Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the Ohio-bred actress has anchored two prestige television dramas, playing nononsense police chief Gloria Burgle on the latest iteration of FX’s Fargo, and wrenching hearts as Nora Durst, a grief-hardened mother, on HBO’s dystopian epic The Leftovers. Given her bravura performances—Fargo netted her an Emmy nomination this year, in the same category as Nicole Kidman and Jessica Lange—it is not surprising that she was recruited by Steven Spielberg to co-star opposite Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, the upcoming film about The Washington Post’s role in exposing the classified Pentagon Papers, in 1971. (Coon plays reporter Meg Greenfield, with Streep as publisher Kay Graham and Hanks…

Quantum lit: Daniel Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine (Bloomsbury) unpacks the power of our atomic arsenal. David N. Schwartz fissions nuclear pioneer Enrico Fermi, The Last Man Who Knew Everything (Basic Books). V.R. meets I.R.L. in Jaron Lanier’s Dawn of the New Everything (Henry Holt). If the suit fits, read it in Jon Robin Baitz’s play Vicuña (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Neel Mukherjee invents his own India in A State of Freedom (Norton). Jan Morris brings Japan’s Battleship Yamato (Liveright) to the surface. Literature gets the J. M. Coetzee treatment in Late Essays (Viking). Benjamin Taylor collects Susan Sontag’s stories in Debriefing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Fiona Mozley’s forest is foreboding in Elmet (Algonquin). V.F. editor-at-large Cullen Murphy journeys to Cartoon County (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). George Wayne asks ’em all…

SUSAN SARANDON Feud Sarandon’s portrayal of actress Bette Davis—at war with Joan Crawford— earned her rave reviews and an Emmy nomination. DONALD GLOVER Atlanta Glover is creator and star of the comedy series, for which he won outstandingdirecting and -leadactor Emmys. BILLY EICHNER American Horror Story Eichner plays a beekeeper and cult member in the latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology series. JOHN SINGLETON Snowfall The Oscarnominated director (Boyz n the Hood) is co-creator of the FX show, which looks at the crack epidemic in 1980s Los Angeles. JACKIE HOFFMAN Feud The veteran of improv troupe Second City earned a supportingactress Emmy nomination for playing Joan Crawford’s housekeeper, Mamacita. ZAZIE BEETZ Atlanta Beetz plays Vanessa, mother of a child with Earnest, Donald Glover’s character. Up next: a role in…

THE ART OF THE CHASE David Rockefeller and Jean Dubuffet with the artist’s Group of Four Trees on Chase Manhattan Plaza, in N.Y.C., 1972. Opposite, Rockefeller, photographed by Annie Leibovitz in the library of his 65th Street town house, in N.Y.C., in 2014. When David Rockefeller died, last March, at the age of 101, the last living link to the Gilded Age was gone. The world’s eldest billionaire, he was the youngest and last-surviving grandchild of America’s first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller Sr. (1839–1937), one of the original robber barons. While the grandfather’s name became synonymous with capitalism, the grandson’s became synonymous with giving back. “No individual contributed more to the commercial and civic life of New York City, over a longer period of time, than David Rockefeller,” said Michael Bloomberg at his memorial…

CHRIS GARRETT Early in her career Chris Garrett was managing editor of Condé Nast’s Tatler magazine, in London, and twice came to New York as a guest editor at V.F. After moving to New York, she became a talent scout for Condé Nast but was not long in the role when, one morning in 1992, she was asked to meet with Condé Nast chairman S. I. Newhouse, Jr., who had just hired Graydon Carter to be editor of V.F. Si was hugely knowledgeable about movies, and, laughing, he observed, “This is like the scene from The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, where Cyril Cusack tells Richard Burton that it is time for him to come in from the cold.” He added, “We need you on Vanity Fair. Graydon…

AGE: 28. PROVENANCE: London. ROLE MODEL: “My grandmother Helen Horton was an actress; I looked up to her in every way.” UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS: After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, James brought mischief to the manor-born as Lady Rose, on Downton Abbey. “Being cast was life-altering. We were like a family, and it was as good as it looked.” FULL TANK: Since then, she’s played Cinderella for Disney, Shakespeare’s Juliet onstage for Kenneth Branagh, and an American waitress, Debora, for Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver. “I was ready to break loose of the mold and try something different.” WAR ROOM: This holiday season, in Darkest Hour, Joe Wright’s W.W. II biopic, James stars as Elizabeth Layton, the secretary to Winston Churchill, played by Gary Oldman. “I read her…

MARK OF SHAME The former king of political analysts, Mark Halperin has been dethroned due to allegations of … sexual improprieties. Reputations aren’t what they used to be. The bigger they are, the faster they fall. Reputations that lurched upright for dec ades, showered with a confetti of newspaper clippings, festooned with honorary degrees, and fortified with genuine accomplishments, can be brought down today with an inglorious crash in a frenzy of social-media fury, like Frankenstein’s monster given the old village stomp. Two thousand seventeen has hosted a monster mash of bigname demolishings, an extended Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre of problematic men. Disturbing, unsavory rumors had long ghost-dogged the producer Harvey Weinstein, the producer-director Brett Ratner, and the writerdirector James Toback, dark princes whose names became associated by many in…

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being together with the ones I love on a Wednesday afternoon, washing the dishes, taking the garbage to the bin under a gray sky, hearing the distant sounds of children from upstairs, turning around and suddenly looking into the eyes of the one I love. It is the feeling of being alive I’m talking about. And of being in love. What is your greatest fear? That one of my children would die before me. Which living person do you most admire? I found Barack Obama’s dignity as a president remarkable, and even more so when I think about it these days. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Almost all of them. And I’m not even joking. What is the trait…