Vanity Fair (the Magazine)

[Benni]

chatchien said:

My darling, Dominique Dunne, does not grace the January issue of Vanity Fair. Pout (that's me, I'm pouting though perhaps my Mr. Dunne is pouting too. Obviously no one invited him out to lunch. Rich Bitches, Pfooi!)

The Kwiat Diamonds compact for L'Oreal Paris, valued at $10,000, will be included in all Golden Globes nominees' gift bags.

Well, won't it be amusing when Leonardo DiCaprio's movie Blood Diamonds gets nominated for a Golden Globes award. And it will be, because the Golden Globes just loves pretentious films about poor Africans getting skewered by the big bad capitalists who are not Hollywood Capitalists but Oil and Pharmaceutical Capitalists who use and abuse the plight of poor Africans to make money. Blood Diamonds for Blood Diamonds. Yeah, that's like a metaphor or irony or something literary.

Hey, Golden Globes, here is a thought. Why not take all those $10,000 compacts and sell them and use the money to drill wells in drought-striken Africa or save some poor Africans in Dafur or buy some HIV medicine for HIV infected Africans or pay some teacher or build some schools. You can do all that cheap. And you don't have to buy or bring one of those cute Africans home and pretend to raise it as your child. Just some ideas on how to spend your money.


Come back, Mr. Dunne. I miss you.

You don't think Mr. Dunne is sick? Do you? Do you? A Vanity Fair without Mr. Dunne is just like Christmas without presents

Regarding these Golden Globe Goody Bags. I thought they were doing away with them and donating the money to charitable causes. I wish they would publish the names of the Celebrities who accepts them and who doesn't. Would somebody just go to the Golden Globes and watch for me please. Thanks.

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benni said:

You don't think Mr. Dunne is sick? Do you? Do you? A Vanity Fair without Mr. Dunne is just like Christmas without presents

O muse, Polyhymnia, don't let that be!

I think that Mr. Dunne said in the December issue that he had a book to finish and that he was concentrating his energies on that.

ETA: It is Dominic not Dominique. I am having gender confusion issues.

[saintmaybe]

I hope the reason DD isn't in the new issue is that he's finishing the book. I can't wait to read it.

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I read on Gawker about a Buzz Bissinger expose on Augusten Burroughs. Is that in the Dreamgirls issue? I gots to read that.

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Mr. Graydon Carter has another spurt of politics in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. Mr. McCain is in rubber boots to wade through his current moral, political, and ethical morass. Knee deep in the big Muddy, Mr. McCain!

And the new speaker, Miss Pelosi, is pictured with her blankie. Actually, I think that it is supposed to be her shawl, but it just doesn't come across that way in the picture. Miss Pelosi is the Speaker of the House! The third highest (and elected) postion in the US! She could posssibly save US from Them! She is not Rep. Fat Slob, Dennis Hastert, sell-your-children-into-sexual-slavery-and-you'll-thank-me-for-it! Think of her as the anti-Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Mr. Carter.

Ah, the Brits! They know how to do political corruption and scandals properly and with class! Corrupt Politics is always best when it is the politicians (and their hookers) who get screwed. Not US.

Miss Tyra Banks is featured. Miss Banks is many things, but she is not a demure sophisticate like Miss Audrey Hepburn. Miss Banks Looks Good as Holly Golightly in front of Tiffanys, but they should have posed her nude in diamonds and breakfast pastries and bagels with cream cheese. Work it girl! And pass the lox and sausages.

Tom Ford, the master mind of Nude Vanity Fair photocovers (and yes, they did ask the coverlady, Miss Demi Moore, to uncover for this cover but she declined---I know, maybe there is hope for Iraq after all. And there can't really be Global Warning, when Hell has frozen over, can there?) throws a party. And everyone wears clothes.

And this is the third time in a quarter of monthly issues of Vanity Fair, that our patroness saintessa, Crown Princess Marie Chantal of Greece has been prominently mentioned in the magazine. Well call a courtier and kiss my royal ass. Yeah, I don't know what it means either.

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VF used to be such a great read every month, before Graydon Carter went nuts and felt the need to turn the magazine into The Nation. I haven't read it in two years.

[Hamatron]

I've been some of the more recent older issues lately... and they're not good. For instance, did they even talk to Sacha Baron Cohen for that one interview? It was like the author got a hold of a VHS of all of his work, then watched it and critiqued it without ever speaking to another human being about him.

Then there's the massively flat Augusten Burroughs expose, where the author interviews the 'Finches' and proceeds to write up a summation of why they are suing him that could be admissable in court. The whole thing is obviously massively glossing over some things, like the creepy psych doctor and basically making the sisters out to be 100% the victims of Augusten's book. That's fair enough to discuss the pending lawsuit, but since the author isn't their lawyer shouldn't he ponder the grey at least a little bit?

And now, I don't know if I can bring myself to read the Demi Moore issue, because Demi Moore is boring. Why is she on the cover? Because she gave a crazy-bad performance in what I heard was a blah movie? Great.

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Steven Hatfill settles his $10 million libel suit with VF and Reader's Digest.

[satellite]

Any thoughts on the Hollywood issue? I haven't read it yet, but I like the film noir photo spread, and the film noir article looks good.

[Karen]

satellite said:

Any thoughts on the Hollywood issue? I haven't read it yet, but I like the film noir photo spread, and the film noir article looks good.

Can those pics be found online? I've seen a screencap of Dench and Mirren from some "making of" that aired on TV, but nothing else.