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Kell on Earth: For Whom the Kell Tolls

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We were so busy buying bread and toilet paper for the impending snowstorm that we missed Kell on Earth last night. Luckily fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern was there during the filming, so she filled us on what happened. More »

02/09/10

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By Brian Moylan

#excerpts

An Illiterate Hairdresser Goes to Hollywood

In their March issue, Vanity Fair has a fascinating article about producer Jon Peters, an illiterate hairdresser turned major Hollywood player (and ex Mr. Streisand), written by the woulda-been ghost writer of his memoirs, William Stadiem. Crazy Tinsel tales abound. More »

02/04/10

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By Richard Lawson

#fairgame

Handicapping the Vanity Fair 'New Hollywood' Cover Girls

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Vanity Fair is out today with the cover for its annual Hollywood issue full of young, female acting talent for the "next decade." Let's crystal-ball gaze: in ten years which will be opening pictures and which will be pitching Proactiv? More »

02/01/10

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By Brian Moylan

#sad

Christopher Hitchens Is Disappointed In Gore Vidal

In what Spencer Ackerman accurately calls "the best case of un-self-conscious projection on the internet at the moment," Christopher Hitchens has written a Vanity Fair piece on how 9/11 made Gore Vidal go crazy. More »

01/12/10

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By Pareene

#thegiftofgiving

The Most Important Thing at Sundance: The Swag

You silly goose, the celebs don't freeze their asses off in Utah for the movies, it's for the free crap. Parkas, jewelry, electronics, ski goggles, and Muscle Milk Light for everybody (famous)! Yippee! [Image via Getty]

01/08/10

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By Brian Moylan

#shutuptwitter

Twinternet Tweaks Out over Vanity Fair Twilebrity Story

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When Vanessa Grigoriadis's Vanity Fair story about female power Twitter users she deemed "Twilebrities" went online the other day, the women in the story freaked out about it. So did their friends. What's the big deal? More »

01/08/10

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By Doree Shafrir

JohnDoe 12/21/09

Vanity Fair tries to quietly bury worst piece of journalism ever.

Remember this little piece of cultural slumming?

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Well, I tried to find the article to show to a friend today and it seems that it has completely disappeared from the VF site. Oh Graydon, if only covering up your sins was that easy.

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Click here to read Emergency at <em>Vanity Fair</em>!

Emergency at Vanity Fair!

A tipster emailed the Vanity Fair customer service department this week because his magazine stopped being delivered. He received an alarming response! More »

12/10/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#beforetheywerestars

Childhood Friend: Graydon Carter Was Once Just a Little Canadian Punk

Before Graydon Carter was the editor of Vanity Fair who jets to Bermuda while his magazine's staff is laid off, he was just a young Canadian with a penchant for ice-skating and an out-sized ego. So says a childhood friend! More »

11/17/09

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By Adrian Chen

#cuteoverload

Jim Windolf skewers Cute Culture: "It privileges the inner child, who, necessarily, has awful taste."

11/05/09

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#levisjohnstonwatch

Levi Johnston: Sad, Sorry, Suing for Custody of His Son, and Still Maybe Keeping Very Big Secrets

UK Guardian reporter Ed Pilkington went to Anchorage to interview the 19 year-old babydaddy of Tripp Palin, Levi Johnston. There's audio, and some fairly interesting insight from Johnston on the Palin family and his Vanity Fair article, which was "retaliation." More »

10/31/09

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By Foster Kamer

#rumormonger

Click here to read Laid-Off <em>Vanity Fair</em> Staffers Can Clean Graydon Carter's Stockroom

Laid-Off Vanity Fair Staffers Can Clean Graydon Carter's Stockroom

Graydon Carter—the George Washington of Vanity Fair—was (allegedly) on a jet to Bermuda when layoffs hit the magazine last week. That's okay! Graydon (allegedly) has a very generous way of making it up to the layoff victims. More »

10/30/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#condenast

Graydon Carter Jets to Bermuda While Layoffs Hit Vanity Fair?

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Amid all of the carnage at Conde Nast this month, rumors 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 »

10/23/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#layoffs

Newhouse Socialite Snared in Condé Nast Cuts

They say blood is thicker than water, but you nick both when cutting to the bone. And so it is that Self magazine has laid off Stephanie Newhouse, granddaughter-in-law to one of the Newhouse brothers who built Condé Nast. More »

10/16/09

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By Ryan Tate

#opencaption

'See? Me and Diana, Like Twins'

[Vanity Fair editor Todd S. Purdum tries really hard to agree that Tina Brown looks just like Princess Di when the two toured the "Diana: A Celebration" exhibit in Philadelphia yesterday. Image via Getty]

10/14/09

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By Brian Moylan

#sadthings

Levi Johnston's Online Mind, With Little Comment

These here are two of Levi Johnston's most recent tweets. This guy has a distasteful advertising deal, has "written" for Vanity Fair and is far more famous that you or we will ever be. God bless America.

10/07/09

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By Andrew Belonsky

#moneymatters

Once Rich, Swindler Marc Dreier Now Sells Piss Poor Excuses

We're taught to shoot for the stars, to be ambitious. Well screw that, because, as swindler Marc Dreier demonstrates, no matter how hard you try to be the best, someone will always be better. More »

10/04/09

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By Andrew Belonsky

#brightideas

That's What She Said

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 »

09/10/09

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By John Cook

#wasillaalaska

Why Sarah Palin Needs Levi Johnston

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 »

09/03/09

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By Brian Moylan

#gayicon

Levi Johnston Is Actually Going to Strip Down for Playgirl

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You know how in Vanity Fair's behind-the-scenes video burgeoning gay icon Levi Johnston jokes with his manager about posing for Playgirl? Well, Gawker's learned it's not a joke. We've confirmed it's actually going to happen. But don't get too excited. More »

09/02/09

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By Brian Moylan

#powerplayers

Breaking Down The New Establishment, 2009

Vanity Fair's annual "New Establishment" list is out—the highly subjective guide to the 100 most important people in Graydon Carter's world. We bring you the highlights, below. More »

09/01/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

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