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the rich
Graydon Carter Wields a Pink Pencil When Filling Out His Seating Chart
Caricature-coiffed Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter co-owns two restaurants where Manhattan's most insufferable douchebags go to get their "look at me" on. Each day these establishments field "thousands" of table requests and Graydon alone decides where the arses will park. More »
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Comment by BookishLookish: My dinner date with an ex-boyfriend who became a famous actor is coming up. We share the same July birthday,... 5 Responses | Other threads
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michael wolff
Politico Is Revolutionary, Says Man Who Should Just Be Writing About His Affair
Michael Wolff, internet shouty guy and writer-for-magazines, was supposed to write a juicy tell-all for Vanity Fair about his scandalous affair with an intern! Instead he's apparently been working on a piece about fucking Politico? More »
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By PareeneComment by GORDONGARTRELLE: Sweet "Virginia offices," Politico! more » | Other threads
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negropedia brown
Page 91: The Solution to the Case of the World White Web
The President himself looked at Vanity Fair's Blogopticon and wondered if one of his two selves was getting the short end of the internet stick. And Negropedia Brown has cracked the case! More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by Foster Kamer: So where does (A) The Root and (B) The Real fall on that Matrix? Please approximate. 3 Responses | Other threads
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negropedia brown
Negropedia Brown: The Case of the World White Web
Negropedia Brown was pedaling furiously on his bike. He needed to return to his bodega office in fast order. His last case resulted in picketing, "Hell no, the negro must go!" the surly crowd chanted. More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by iswiftny2000: "Technology Gap". It's well known in my community that there is an ever widening gap of the one's that know... 2 Responses | Other threads
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media
Why Can't Gisele Sell Magazines?
If Gisele Bundchen covers can't sell magazines, what is it that you people really want? This may be Michelle Obama's fault. More »
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Comment by ChanRasit: I'll tell you why. Because she's a MODEL... They're typically uneducated and pretty uninteresting, having led charmed lives solely due... 4 Responses | Other threads
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WTAN
WTAN: Will the Blogosphere Let Negroes Make Love?
Look at the image. It's the cover of "TAN Magazine"! It existed in 1955. Guess who's excited about this? Me, cause I'm TAN. Also: ethnic love in Hollywood, and midget sex? Still relevant issues! More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by BookishLookish: The beautiful Dorothy D. goes on and on. 7 Responses | Other threads
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summer
Vanity Fair Can Offer You Nothing
Ha, Vanity Fair just put out their NYC summer guide, but hey—don't ask them for a reservation at Monkey Bar! Owned by Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter! Because they can't get you one! Eh? Their guide also features errors: More »
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Comment by MrInBetween: It's as if the tiny boozy gremlin living inside Graydon Carter's chins can suddenly write! 1 Responses | Other threads
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michael wolff
Today In Michael Wolff
Michael Wolff has a habit of surreptitiously offering meta-commentary on his own untidy life via his Newser columns. Today's headline: "Here's Why I Like Silvio Berlusconi." At this point we have to assume he's just fucking with us. More »
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By John CookComment by Wrapitup: Michael Wolff has the focused, knowing smirk of the man who can blow himself, and do it incredibly well. 6 Responses | Other threads
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print is dead
Graydon Carter's Fool-Proof Plan to Save Newspapers
Newspapers have been having problems, and whatnot. Why have they not asked Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's advice sooner? Despite this error, Carter has deigned to stop having amazing sex for a few minutes to tell you how to save newspapers: More »
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Comment by Vic_Damocles: Sounds like GC has been spending a little too much time in the Conde bunker. The Times, like a lot... 3 Responses | Other threads
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insolvency
Will Annie Leibovitz Be Forced Into Bankruptcy?
Über-photographer Annie Leibovitz was forced to mortgage the rights to all her photographs last year in exchange for $15 million, and she's been the target of multiple creditor lawsuits for not paying bills. Now a source tells Gawker that one of them is preparing to force her into bankruptcy. More »
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By John CookComment by Pope John Peeps II: How on earth could she have gotten this bad? She's the single most recognized name in photography. What the hell... 20 Responses | Other threads
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high society
The Only Person Who Could Get Away With Forgetting Graydon Carter's Name
So, the trial of the dastardly family member accused of swindling old NYC high society queen Brooke Astor is underway, and guess who took the stand yesterday? Our old friend, Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter! He had a sad tale to tell (with a silver lining!): More »
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Comment by Tattertotter: Healthy people joking about Alzheimer's among themselves is really not OK, but hey in the world of snark, nothing is... 7 Responses | Other threads
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battery's up
Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
Up there in the sky, look at that cloud, is that a silver lining we see? Sure the 'conomy's in the shitter, but let's focus on the positive. New York might be livable again! More »
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Comment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: i kind of always thought all the bklyn love was overcompensating for not being in manhattan 7 Responses | Other threads
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kids today
What Do Rich Kids Want to Do With Themselves, These Days?
Vanity Fair asked that pressing question, and they all want to GIVE BACK and BE CREATIVE ARTISTS, even though artists are all leeches, obv. More »
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By PareeneComment by Mount_Prion: Heirheads? Sorry! It's almost the end of the week, I'm running on fumes. 8 Responses | Other threads
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The Secretary Speaks
Bernie Madoff: Typical Massage-Getting Jerk Boss
Bernie Madoff was "irresistible to women." Really? Yes, his secretary says! See Bernie: you were mean to your secretary and now she's telling Vanity Fair all about your happy ending(?) massages. Always happens. More »
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Comment by scroll_lock: So he inflated his assets and produced big returns for the masseuses? Eww. 7 Responses | Other threads
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kennedys
Vanity Fair Explains Why Caroline Quit the Senate Race
According to a source close to the Kennedys, Caroline Kennedy stopped her race for Hillary Clinton's seat because her daughter Rose told her, "Mom, you are above this." Right. More »
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By PareeneComment by stanhalen: The New York Senate seat is old news People. The Infighting among the Kennedy Family For "Dead Man Walking" Ted's... 12 Responses | Other threads
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scandal
Michael Wolff Offers Odd Meta Analysis of Eliot Spitzer's Public Rehabilitation
Michael Wolff, whose affair with a 28-year-old Vanity Fair intern and subsequent divorce were publicized all over the place, is just thinkin' about Eliot Spitzer, today. More »
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By PareeneComment by czecher: In fairness... the editor of Vanity Fair having an affair with an intern isn't really on the same level as... 2 Responses | Other threads
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parties
No Hitchens Party At This Year's White House Correspondents' Dinner
It is a sad day, in DC: Chris Hitchens' canceled his White House Correspondents' Dinner party. Sort of. Vanity Fair just merged it with the overcrowed Bloomberg gala. More »
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By PareeneComment by Disco-Johnson: In other news, no noms for Gawker sites in this years webbys [www.webbyawards.com] 3 Responses | Other threads
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bravery
Ivy League Manhattanite Travels to Brooklyn, Somehow Survives
Kate Ahlborn—Harvard '07, Upper East Sider, Vanity Fair writer—ventured into Brooklyn, where dirty people live, for a weird Brooklyny art show, and wrote about it. May she never fucking return.
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Comment by Richard Lawson: I hope she wrote a daring piece for the Crimson called "My Journey to Jamaica Plain" or something. 26 Responses | Other threads
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corrections
Graydon Carter Denies Report He's 'An Amazing Fuck'
A more cocksure man might have played along, but Graydon Carter's tenure atop Vanity Fair has apparently taught him the danger of hype and high expectations, so he's denied a flattering sex story. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Muscato: It's not really germane to anything, I know, but until this moment and this photograph, I had never realize how... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Fucks
Graydon Carter: 'An Amazing Fuck'
What sort of fucker is Vanity Fair's George Washingtonesque editor Graydon Carter? An amazing one, according to a man who once stayed in a hotel room directly under his, listening: More »
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Comment by markscottmusic: That isn't fun. I was in Nashville recording a few years back. The folks in the hotel room next to... 14 Responses | Other threads
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affairs
Michael Wolff's Blonde Problem
At first gossip is shameful, then it becomes linkbait. Media gadfly Michael Wolff starts his daily jotting for Newser.com today: "What do men in their fifties and sixties know about girls in their twenties?" More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by blogissuchanuglyword: Women in their twenties have a similar problem with men in the 40's to 80's. We're especially uninterested in you... 47 Responses | Other threads
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yahoo
Vanity Fair contributor is reportedly working on an epic feature about Yahoo.
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Bohemian Grove
The Piss-Poor Secrets of the Bohemian Grove
Is there any mystique left to Bohemian Grove, the industrialists' clubhouse among the redwoods north of San Francisco? A 61-year-old Vanity Fair writer snuck in, joining a tradition almost as old as the Grove. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by skahammer: Am I the only person in history to have seen Harry Shearer's BG satire, Teddy Bears' Picnic? It's a movie with... 2 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Worried You Think They're Gay
Ryan Seacrest's executive producer feared seeming fey, CNET's Natali Del Conte feared losing marbles, and Bob Woodruff feared he wouldn't be popular on Twitter. And if you read Twitter all day, you'd be afraid too: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by QueSera: Bob Woodruff is unintentionally hilarious. 1 Responses | Other threads
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violence
Hitch's Epic Battle
So. Chris Hitchens got beat up in Beirut by a bunch of thugs because he defaced a billboard of a maybe-Syrian nationalist political party. He is really, really proud of this fact. More »
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By PareeneComment by Mr. Bar: Anyone see him on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday? Ass and a half! And a total dick towards Mos... 6 Responses | Other threads
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dynasties
Most Humiliating Moments in Vanity Fair's Arthur Sulzberger Profile
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. cancelled plans to cooperate with Mark Bowden's profile of him for Vanity Fair. Didn't matter: Bowden's piece is embarrassing enough as a write-around.
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By Ryan TateComment by Tweezergal: I haven't read the piece yet, but if this is ALL there is to the embarrassing tidbits, who cares? Are... 9 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Twitter, the Whiner's Best Friend!
Want to complain about someone? Media people who love to whine, from L.A. to Austin to Washington, all turn to Twitter to air their beefs. Gripes from a Ryan Seacrest wordsmith and others today: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by MyNameIsChris: Am I missing something? Is GM owned by Twitter these days? Or are we just out of Stewart VS. Cramer? 5 Responses | Other threads
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field guide
Victoria Floethe, the New Media Ingénue
A staff writer at Michael Wolff's Newser, Victoria Floethe, is rumored to be having an affair with her boss. Who knew there were any media jobs still worth sleeping your way into? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by FormerEnglishMajor: Hmmm. So her means of support is sleeping with older men. That would make her... ? 7 Responses | Other threads
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parties
This Year's Vanity Fair Party Is for Graydon Carter and His Closest 1,000 Friends
Despite editor Graydon Carter's earlier claims of a smaller Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday night, the event permit filed with the CIty of West Hollywood, which CityFile dug up, says they're expecting a thousand people. More » -
oscars
'Vanity Fair' Party Rises From The Dead, Looking Thinner
Hollywood may never fully recover from the WGA-strike-plagued awards season of 2008, marred by trophy presentations on Veoh, a potluck Governor's Ball, and—most shocking of all—the complete cancellation of the Vanity Fair party. More » -
fameballs
Barack Obama: Bigger Than Jesus
Former Clinton White House mouthpiece Dee Dee Myers just called Barack Obama "the most famous living person in the history of the world." Whatever! What about, like, The Pope? Or Tom Cruise! More »
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By PareeneComment by Pepé Le Douche: One of my all time favorite books (yes I am a douche AND a geek) is Michael Hart's "100: A... 15 Responses | Other threads
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restaurants
New Waverly Inn Reservation Strategy: Walk In, Ask for a Table
Danger Graydon Carter, your oh-so-exclusive Waverly Inn brand is slipping. The West Village paparazzi-magnet restaurant just seated a blogger. Who walked in off the street. More »
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Comment by TedSez: Laura Rohrman is the granddaughter of Dale Messick, creator of the comic strip "Brenda Starr: Reporter." So I say that... 5 Responses | Other threads
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television
Graydon Carter Thinks 'Menstrual Cycle' Is a Dirty Word
Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter was on the Early Show today sharing insider Hollywood tales. Graydon, why did Cleopatra have to schedule shots around Liz Taylor's menstrual cycle? "Ah...umbittyhumbittydahbahdoowelllllll..." I see. Click to watch.
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Comment by Truculent: I LOST MY STAR! I'm compressed. The shame!! 20 Responses | Other threads
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waverly inn
Graydon Carter Controls His Neighbors Like So Many Puppets
SCANDAL: George Washington doppelganger Graydon Carter is reportedly wooing his West Village neighborhood critics by giving them reservations at his Waverly Inn and putting their pictures in his Vanity Fair. Yes, and? More »
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Comment by Nic Fit: Deni, who owned Save the Robots in the old days, famously bribed all the neighbors with free drinks until they... 10 Responses | Other threads
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mo' problems
Annie Leibovitz Looking Like a Deadbeat
This past summer we asked if famed photographer Annie Leibovitz was a deadbeat. Now we have an answer. She owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills, two lawsuits claim. More »
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Comment by Bring It On: Annie Leibovitz hires unpaid interns from Harvard College each year and according to those interns is supposed to be a... 19 Responses | Other threads
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the rich
Hey, Rich People, Start Spending Your Money!
Last month, we noted that acting poor is all the rage among the rich. Sort of like reducing your carbon footprint was the big thing last year. Vanity Fair's Michael Shnayerson brings us more obnoxious examples of the wealthy complaining about how poor they are now. For instance, the laidoff Lehman executive who is cutting her maid's rather than sell her handbags or the ghastly idea of flying commercial. More »
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Comment by flossy: A $15 bottle of wine is considered decadent in my household (of one). 29 Responses | Other threads
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tina fey
Tina Fey Is Funny, But Also Kind Of Mean
Last night's 30 Rock seemed a bit familiar, didn't it? It felt like something we'd read was just being basically reiterated to us, with a lot more jokes. The episode took place mostly at Liz's 20 year high school reunion, and we came to see that she was an acidic loner at her suburban Philadelphia school, with extra weight and big silly eyebrows. Where have we heard this tale before? Oh! Yes! Of course! In the cover story on creator/star Tina Fey for this month's Vanity Fair! Snide. But, y'know, funny. More »
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Comment by bringmemyTofu: I don't know why (maybe it has been going on for years) but the night before Thanksgiving is the new... 12 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
No Economic Downturn Can Stop Vanity Fair (Except the One That Did)
New York City was lucky enough today to play host to a fancy panel discussion featuring the world's three fanciest magazine editors: Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter, Vogue's Anna Wintour, and The New Yorker's David Remnick. And Joe Nocera of the Times uncouthly "lashed out at the editors and asked how each of the them could be so sanguine about the future." Pish posh! Graydon Carter is convinced his invincible publication will weather this economic storm as it always has: More »
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things we actually like
Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
Forget cover girl Tina Fey and her scary scar story. The most interesting tale in this month's Vanity Fair is that of Christian Gerhartsreiter aka Christopher Chichester aka Christopher Crowe aka Clark Rockefeller. He's the mystery fellow who was arrested this summer after kidnapping his daughter, Snooks, whom he lost custody of during his messy divorce. Though he's a nefarious conman, he's also a brilliant one, with a fascinating story, as detailed by VF's Mark Seal. And we're kind of obsessed with it. It's a crazy, crazy thing. More »
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tina fey
Tina Fey Trades The Secret Of The Scar For A Solo 'Vanity Fair' Cover
Every so often, Vanity Fair will consent to putting a television star on their hallowed cover, but there's typically an implicit bargain that actor has to make to earn it. Think back to Teri Hatcher, who grabbed VF's top spot only after revealing how childhood sexual abuse led to fantasies of suicide (which the magazine teased on its cover with some disconcertingly unclad pictures of the star, because of course). Now, Vanity Fair has placed Tina Fey on the cover — an utterly justified spot, to be sure — and has finally nudged the actress and her husband to reveal something Fey always said she wouldn't: just how she got that famous facial scar.
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