On the afternoon of June 2, Wolf Blitzer was talking to Vanity Fair national editor Todd Purdum about his 9,647-word piece about Bill Clinton.
“Some people who work for him now say that he seems to be angry all the time, angry when he gets up in the morning and angry Read More
What do you do if your magazine was embroiled in a possibly manufactured controversy over its allegedly sexualized photos of a minor? If you’re Vanity Fair, you make fun of the whole thing, of course.
VF Daily has posted a sneak peek of the magazine’s July issue featuring Angelina Jolie’s impressive décolletage Read More
Each New Year brings with it the obligatory slate of resolutions. And like some college-level sociological experiment, each New Year also brings with it a slate of stories about what famous people have resolved to either quit—smoking, say—or begin—usually something kind of boring, like marathon training or French classes. True to form, WWD recently called Read More
Lindsay Lohan’s mother, Dina, was partying Tuesday night at the Tropicana Zone in Times Square.
“I’m doing a reality show; if you asked me two years ago, I’d be like, ‘You guys are smoking crack! I’m not doing this!’ But now I realize that I have no choice. I have to fix it for Read More
When Michael Wolff started shopping his biography of Rupert Murdoch, he opted to go with a "high six-figure" offer from Doubleday instead of taking the risk of having his previous publisher, Harper Collins, put out the book. (Mr. Murdoch's News Corp. owns Harper Collins.)
But these days Mr. Wolff has emerged as something of a Read More
MemoPad is reporting that the Bono Vox guest-edited July issue of Vanity Fair, with its theme of Africa, will up the ante on that whole "collect-'em-all" cover trend:
"Sources close to the title said it could publish as many as 20 different covers, all shot by Annie Leibovitz."
Insiders seem to be telling Read More
At today’s luncheon for the American Society of Magazine Editors, on the second floor of The Princeton Club and starring the former editors of Spy magazine, a Q&A session got complicated.
Susan Morrison–a former Spy editor, and so friendly with former co-worker Graydon Carter, and now an editor at the New Yorker–made a wee gibe Read More
Annie Leibovitz, the grand dame of Vogue, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone covers, was the one facing flashbulbs. The other morning she gave a private press tour of her new show at the Brooklyn Museum.
“Walk slowly. Watch your cameras,” she said. Microphone booms swung through the air, nearly knocking the photos off the Read More
