Vanity Fair (the Magazine)

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Dominick Dunne can be a very good writer when he wants to be. I hate his diary entries, but his book Justice, a collection of his essays, was very good. The title essay about his daughter's death is one of the most moving things I've read in a long time.

[foxfair]

Is there still a thread for the Pellicano deal? Here's the latest VF article in regards to said deal:

Pellicano Scandal

We are gonna have the field day of all field days if this stuff goes public. And it looks like it will (although I am still working through the article!)

[kafka]

Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler slam Vanity Fair's Pellicano article:

Actors Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler are slamming Vanity Fair magazine's expose on Hollywood detective Anthony Pellicano, insisting allegations of their involvement in the scandal are untrue.

The actors, along with Paramount studio head Brad Grey and a representative for the late actor Chris Farley, deny they ever hired the private investigator, as the story alleges.

Cindy Guagenti, who represents both Pitt and Sandler said in a statement, "Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler and the late Chris Farley have never once engaged in the services of Anthony Pellicano, either directly or through a representative."

Guagenti added that the actors were not contacted by the magazine before the story was published.

Pellicano is currently awaiting trial on charges he illegally wiretapped the phones of a number of stars including Sylvester Stallone, Garry Shandling and Keith Carradine. Chris Rock has already been revealed as one alleged client of Pellicano's.

The magazine also claims Michael Jackson, Steve Bing, Stevie Wonder, James Woods and Kevin Costner used Pellicano's services.

ETA: Foxfair, thanks for the link to the actual VF piece. I'm almost done reading it and two things:

1- God, it's long!

2- If even half of it is true, you're right, we will have a field day when the authorities go public and then make their case. I can't wait for the indictment against Bert Fields, especially as it will send Tiny Bonaparte Cruise scurrying for the hills.

[stina]

I live in Norway and have a subscription to VF and my June issue just arrived today. I had really been looking forward to it, because Anderson Cooper is on the cover and I have a slight crush on him.

So boy was I suprised to find that, no, actually Keri Russel is on the cover. The Cooper interview is still in the magazine, but I guess the editors didn't think he'd sell much in Europe.

I get the international edition, but this is the first time I've seen a different cover from the US edition. Usually the only difference is that the price is listed in £ instead of $.

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The Anderson Cooper article was kind of boring. I like him, but it seemed like a rehash of his articles for GQ/his blog.

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I don't know too much about Anderson Cooper other than he used to be on Channel 1 when I was in high school and he's HOT and a Vanderbilt. So I enjoyed that article.

I also started reading the Katrina article one day when I was bored on the train even though I'd thought it would just be a rehash but I was pretty riveted. I was impressed that Vanity Fair actually had a few articles worth reading this month.

[Peggy Lane]

I thought it was a really good issue. The Pellicano stuff was good, I liked the Cooper article (probably because I didn't even know he had a blog), the Katrina article. Dominick Dunne was even readable.

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You know, Mr. Dunne has his good issues and his bad issues.

...one of the two ladies I was having lunch with...

That is what he does. But I want to know---where do he and the ladies that he lunches with put it---the calories from their food? They are all so slim. How many calories does gossiping consume? I gotta start doing that at lunch instead of at my computer. Because computer gossiping doesn't consume any calories. And I can prove that.

...in it Capote told a vile story about her husband, Bill Paley,...

Tell the story, Mr. Dunne. It's like later in your piece, you talk about a gun dealer named Wilson---and the gun never goes off. If there is a gun in the story, the gun must go off. It's like one of Newton's Laws of Motion.

The Kessel story was good.

...shirt pulled over his head, dead from multiple stab wounds....his brother had been murdered two years earlier in Hong Kong...having their young daughter unknowingly serve Robert a strawberry milk shake laced with date-rape-type powder...Nancy bludgeoned him to death...

All righty, now that is telling the story.

As for Pellicano,

...they discovered the wiretap transcripts and the hand grenades and the plastic explosives in his office...

Wow! Hollywood really is a combat zone. And those plastic explosives---are they for plastic surgery?

...my oldest daugher came to me and whisperd, "say the magic word, Mom, say the magic word"...

from Mrs. Pellicano. Why, would she then administer the magic strawberry soda to Daddy? Really, can't you mothers take care of your man mistakes by yourselves? Must you involve your daughters in your spousal murders?

Some chick writer wins the Vanity Fair Essay contest---Huh? How many people entered the contest? Mr. Carter's twelve year old daughter and the winner. No, wait, the daughter would have won if she had entered.

...and I had had enough...

. Me too, after I read your drivel. You can't write and you can't protest.

...But we do have pluck...

Then use it to get rid of your chick lit pretensions.

And now for the Glorious Gloria von Thurn and Taxis! She has aged horribly and now she is bestest friends with the Pope and bestest friends with some Princess Borghese the Boring. She married a gay guy and now she continues in the tradition of fag hag...oh well. And her son goes to college in Scotland. What is it about university aged royals and Scotland? She used to be FUN!

Finally George Wayne gets to interview Ann Coulter---don't pay attention to her, you are just encouraging her!

...Why is Ann Coulter such an angry anorexic termagent?...You ever dabbled in sodomy?...

Well an act of sodomy probably did conceive her.

And then to top off Ann Coulter (in all so many ways), a Mr. Naughton of the NYTimes interviews that truly contemptible get of humanity, Mr. Cheney. Holy moly, grab your shotgun, Elmer Fudd!
Did you know that Mr. Cheney....

...put a live sheep in a colleague's room...

That is very Brokeback Mountain of him. Did he wrestle with his colleague and bake him beans too?

And then we learn about New Orleans that Mr. Cheney helped to destroy. That was probably some kind of joke on his constituents too.

This was good issue, especially if you are into a rage against the power.

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The tall brunette is Linda Fiorentino of Dogma, The Last Seduction and Men in Black Fame.

Nicole looks so pretty on that cover.

[suzyp]

The first person is Linda Fiorentino.

I think the 1999 one is Monica Potter.

I have no clue about the 2000 ones.