Innholdsfortegnelse for Hollywood 2020 i Vanity Fair

A new decade brings new hope—even for Hollywood. It may be pie-in-the-sky, but it’s nice to think that the changing of the calendar could mark an easing of certain tensions within the industry, and maybe the ascension of new trends and talent. Here’s my own little prayer for the near future. The biggest existential quandary currently facing Hollywood is the streaming wars. It began as a conflict between the theater owners and Netflix, which helped kill the video store and then seemed to turn its hungry gaze toward the multiplex. Both sides dug in their heels but were occasionally dragged into compromise. Netflix now gives a few-week theatrical window to its higher-profile releases, while many once-averse filmmakers have been lured over by the platform’s siren song. But nothing was resolved…

And now, for something really wild: THE FAKE CLUB 1743 Cahuenga Blvd. 462-9858 GRAND OPENING Saturday, March 6. 9:00 P.M.–2:00 A.M. Come as you aren’t. Except you could only Fake it for real, Fake it and mean it in the early ’80s. That grand opening happened back in ’82. And yet, because the Fake Club, Hollywood’s most glamorous, beguiling, lowdown, and louche—most secret too—nightspot was a state of mind as much as it was a physical location, the invitation still stands. So you’re on the list, among the chosen, a welcome guest. The Fake Club wants you. As long, of course, as you’re not you when you enter. Club rules. THE POETIC REASON ART STUDENT Paul Fortune Fearon, then 29, left London for Los Angeles in the summer of 1978:…

ON TOP OF BEING AN OSCAR-WINNING actor and a trailblazing documentarian, Lee Grant is a lovely host—quick-witted, warm, and fiercely candid about the obstacles that life and Hollywood continue to throw into the path of women. Grant—who is now in her early 90s—made a sensational film debut opposite Kirk Douglas in 1951’s Detective Story, winning best actress at Cannes, as well as being nominated for an Academy Award. Then the blacklist struck. While giving a eulogy, Grant had suggested that an actor friend’s death had been hastened by the trauma of being questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee. She was largely sidelined between the ages of 24 and 36. Compounding her difficulties was an unhappy relationship with her first husband, blacklisted screenwriter Arnold Manoff, which Grant chronicles in her…

Mark HARRIS “The Great Entertainers,” p. 102 “Interesting second and third acts are what really define stardom,” says the best-selling author of Pictures at a Revolution. “And if you’re as talented as the people on this issue’s cover, it makes sense that the deeper you get into your career, the more subtle and surprising your work will become.” Harris’s third book, a biography of Mike Nichols, will be published in late 2020. He is covering the Oscar race exclusively for Vanity Fair. Joy PRESS “Kenya Barris Levels Up,” p. 122 The V.F. television correspondent, who visited director and producer Kenya Barris on the set of his new show, #blackexcellence, says she never would have guessed that it’s also his first major acting role. “Watching Kenya riff on set with his…

The Talented Mr. Ripley The ne plus ultra adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s beloved thriller, replete with creamy fashion and ice-cold kills AMERICANO 1 oz. Campari1 oz. sweet vermouth1 oz. club soda1 lemon slice Pour Campari and sweet vermouth into a rocks glass filled with ice. Top with club soda and garnish with lemon slice. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off A buddy comedy with a dash of romance, wrapped in a love letter to Chicago and doused in one of film’s great unsung soundtracks FERRARI NAMED DESIRE 1½ oz. bourbon¾ oz. mint and lemon verbena syrup¾ oz. lemon juice4 dashes Angostura bitters1 mint sprig Combine bourbon, syrup, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice, top with bitters, and…

1 Amnesty by Aravind Adiga (Scribner) In this smart twist on a classic whodunit, Danny, undocumented and working as a house cleaner in Sydney after fleeing Sri Lanka, has information about an unsolved murder. He must decide whether to stay silent—or come forward and risk deportation. 2 The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Little, Brown) Spun from real-life events, this lyrical novel charts the aftermath of a fatal storm in a 17th-century Norwegian fishing village: a town almost exclusively composed of women and girls, and the violent witch-burning newcomer hell-bent on their conversion. 3 The Exhibition of Persephone Q by Jessi Jezewska Stevens (FSG) When a slightly aimless young woman living in post-9/11 New York is surprised to see herself in the untitled lead image of her former fiancé’s photography…

Serenity Now Gwyneth Paltrow might be a steadfast supporter, but in Martha Soffer’s world, A-list is for Ayurveda, the Indian system of holistic well-being. This spring, the practitioner’s herbal creams and four-handed massages will take root at the new Surya Spa at the Santa Monica Proper Hotel. In Kelly Wearstler–designed rooms, Soffer will offer a meditative oil treatment called shirodhara and full-body panchakarma detox sessions. “Your skin just starts to glow,” she says of the red-carpet appeal. Technicolor Definition When colorist Alex Brownsell got her start, “bleaching was such a forbidden term,” she recalls of the once-bad rap. Years later, it’s the name of her beloved salon, Bleach London, slated to bring its painterly approach to Los Angeles this spring. Stocked with its in-house range, the space will have just…

I didn’t even have to use the magic word. It was Bill Murray’s idea for me to try on a proton pack. In the middle of an interview on a busy soundstage during shooting last September, Murray signaled to one of the prop masters. “You think you can do me a favor?” he said. “Can you get the heavy pack? And put it on Anthony? Let him wear it for a while. I don’t think he understands exactly what it’s like.” There was a pause. “Seriously?” asked prop master Ben Eadie, the Ghostbusters’ armorer. “Yeah,” Murray said. “Seriously.” Out of respect for spoilers, I can’t tell you what was happening around us or even who else was in the scene. But I can tell you we were in Canada on…

What is your idea of perfect happiness? A sudden summer breeze on a hot afternoon. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Federico García Lorca. Which living person do you most admire? Dr. Pedro Cavadas, a pioneer in face transplants and a specialist in the transplant of severed members. This surgeon from Valencia devotes his summer breaks to travel to Africa and tend to children who have been castrated in tribal conflicts. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Sincerity in its most brutal version. It isn’t always necessary. On what occasion do you lie? The few times I go to a movie premiere, or to a theater opening, in the artists’ dressing rooms. Which living person do you most despise? I don’t despise, I prefer to hate.…

TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT Listening to: Liz Goldwyn’s The Sex Ed. Desert island books: John Steinbeck’s East of Eden and James Salter’s Light Years (2). Vacation spot: My family home in Piemonte, Italy (9). We donated half of it to the Italian National Trust and live in the other half. Plane must-haves: Cashmere blanket and eye set, Tata Harper’s Resurfacing Mask, and Shiva Rose’s Glow Face Balm. HOME Architectural styles: I know this is a contradiction, but I am drawn to both beaux arts and 1930s. And I cannot imagine a world without modern architects such as Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, and Oscar Niemeyer (13). Furniture: Cristina Celestino’s furniture, tiles, carpet, wallpaper, lighting—she’s a renaissance woman. Career idol: Madeleine Castaing (6). Recent addition: Maison C fabrics, adapted…

Officially, Will Smith was on hand to promote his new film Gemini Man, but it’s increasingly hard to tell which is his day job. Smith, the actor and rapper famous for such movies as Hitch, I Am Legend, and Men in Black, was onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, on October 2 in San Francisco, conducting an impromptu Bake-Off between four entrepreneurs to see who would get a cash infusion from Smith’s venture capital fund, Dreamers VC. Of course, since movie stars trying their hand at venture capital is now one of Hollywood’s hottest things, Smith wasn’t the only actor disrupting the Disrupt conference. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was also there talking about HitRecord, an online start-up dedicated to creative collaboration. Maisie Williams, Arya from Game of Thrones, was discussing Daisie, an…

Kenya Barris expects the worst. “I’m always nervous,” he tells me. “I always think I’m going to fail.” It’s late October in Los Angeles. We’re standing on the set of #blackexcellence, the upcoming Netflix comedy series that Barris not only created but also stars in as…Kenya Barris. He zips his navy-and-orange Nike tracksuit jacket over a thick gold chain and gestures around the set. “This,” he says, “is probably going to fail.” Possibly he’s joking. Possibly he’s not. Either way, his résumé suggests that he’s wrong. Barris is the man behind the ABC sitcom Black-ish and its spin-offs Grown-ish and Mixedish and cowriter of the surprise smash movie Girls Trip, which sparked Tiffany Haddish’s ascendancy. He has half a dozen major movie screenplays in the works and at least as…

The gloom filling the Goldman Sachs conference room that Thursday was undeniable. This was supposed to be a celebration. After two decades watching the tech world run laps around Hollywood—and ultimately threaten to devour it—Endeavor Inc. and Ari Emanuel, the perpetual ambition machine who has served as its engine for decades, were about to break into the league of titans with that ultimate corporate bar mitzvah, an IPO—the first agency in Hollywood history to go public. The 7,000-employee media conglomerate forged long ago on the back of a boutique talent agency specializing in TV writers was to become a giant outside its own walled-off industry, backed by the public capital of investors large and small. After 24 years of relentless growth, this was the big event. They would acquire the…