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Dear Vanity Fair: Please Stop Putting Dead People On Your Cover
6:51AM Brian Moylan | Vanity Fair is supposed to be a “cultural catalyst”, a “magazine that provokes and drives the popular dialogue”. Then why does it dedicate so many covers to dead ladies? Who’s buying these issues? And why is it getting worse? More »
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Kate Gosselin’s Dry Spell And Other Things You Can’t Un-Know
11:34PM Maureen OConnor | Eight kids takes a toll. Elin Nordegren flees to Sweden and wants to stay there. Heather Locklear’s hit and run, Cuban Gooding Jr’s boozy ramble, Naomi Campbell’s blood diamond. Thursday’s gossip roundup is too busy to get nasty. More »
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The Vanity Fair Tribeca Film Festival Gala: A Virtual Party Report
6:13AM Brian Moylan | We were too busy watching all our favourite shows simultaneously on TV last night to attend the fancy soiree Vanity Fair threw for the opening of the Tribeca Film Festival. Luckily fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern was there in our stead. More »
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Why George Clooney Was Mean At The Oscars, And Other Mysteries
3:12AM Brian Moylan | It’s because his secret stash of booze ran dry. Sandra Bullock wins worst actress, Mo’Nique and Oprah clash, Farah Fawcett is forgotten, terrorists hate Hollywood, Tom Cruise gets in a wreck. Today’s gossip has a champagne hangover. More »
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Graydon Carter: Not So Special Any More?
1:34AM Hamilton Nolan | Amid all of the carnage at Conde Nast this month, rumours were floating that Si Newhouse was sheltering his three most precious magazines: the New Yorker, Vogue and Vanity Fair. Well, the part about Vanity Fair, at least, was wrong. More »
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That’s What She Said
3:37AM John Cook | Vanity Fair contributing editor and Graydon Carter pal Fran Lebowitz has some words of advice for a certain similarly named colleague. Annie Leibovitz, your ears are burning. More »
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Why Sarah Palin Needs Levi Johnston
1:38AM Brian Moylan | The PR push for Johnston’s article in Vanity Fair started yesterday and people are already hating America’s babydaddy and rooting for Sarah Palin. But her reality-television-turned-politics spectacle was getting stale and nothing reinvigorates an aging soap like a good rivalry. More »
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The Indignities At Conde Nast Are Simply Out Of Control
1:08PM the cajun boy | While the dreaded McKinsey recommendations are still weeks away, Conde Nast is in full cost-cutting mode. Examples: Vanity Fair editor, Graydon Carter, is now lunching in the cafeteria with commoners and the free Fiji water will soon be replaced by tap water. Yeah. More »
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NYT Profiles Annie Leibovitz’s Financial Problems And Enablers
9:30AM Foster Kamer | You know the Times‘ Styles section was eventually going to pitch in on the fiscal trials and tribulations of Annie Leibovitz. They delivered, filing a quote-happy roundup on the matter, starring Tina Brown and Graydon Carter, defending their friend. More »
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