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Final Hitchens Book to Hit Shelves Next Year

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:26:05 CST

For fans of Christopher Hitchens , one final book. A memoir entitled Mortality will be released in early 2012; it's based on a series of articles the journalist wrote for Vanity Fair describing his battle with esophageal cancer, reports the Guardian . A spokesman noted that the book had been in the...

Gwyneth Goes Topless for Vanity Fair

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:39:47 CDT

Gwyneth Paltrow wears little more than Louis Vuitton jewelry in the latest issue of Vanity Fair , out tomorrow. Paltrow, 38, who also donned fishnets, modeled a necklace, earrings, and rings for the magazine's jewelry calendar, OK! reports. The mother of two has "no trace of any stretch marks," the Daily...

'Balders' Demand Trump's Hair Certificate

Matt Cantor — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:38:05 CDT

The president’s done his part; now it’s Donald Trump’s turn to show us some proof—of the authenticity of his hair. “Balders,” Vanity Fair explains in a challenge to the real estate mogul, are “a small but increasingly vocal group of conspiracy theorists” who’ve “hijacked the news cycle,” and it’s...

Donald Trump's Latest Target: VF Blogger

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:07:06 CDT

Apparently tracking down President Obama's birth certificate and running a reality TV show aren't enough to keep Donald Trump busy, because his penchant for writing nastygrams to writers of less-than-flattering articles about him is getting downright habitual. "We, too, are recent beneficiaries of Trump’s editorial suggestions," writes Vanity Fair blogger...

Most Influential of 2010: Zuck

Evann Gastaldo — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:40:00 CDT

Frighteningly enough, Mark Zuckerberg tops Vanity Fair 's list of this year's most influential people of the Information Age. The top 5 of its 100: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook : His company is valued at around $25 billion, has more than 500 million members, runs 176 billion banner ads a month, and...

Here's Another Error in the Sarah Palin Profile

John Johnson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:47:32 CDT

Ben Smith continues to pick apart the Sarah Palin profile in Vanity Fair that's causing such a fuss. At his Politico blog , he lays out another inaccuracy—an anecdote about Palin using her kids as political props that places Trig at an event he never attended—and calls it "emblematic...

The Secret Wrath of Sarah Palin

Kevin Spak — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:26:46 CDT

Sarah Palin has her folksy, hockey mom image down pat, but Michael Joseph Gross of Vanity Fair spent the spring and summer following her and asking anyone who crossed paths with her about their experience. He found that Palin’s “on-the-record statements about herself amount to a litany of untruths and...

63% of Us Have No Clue Who Emily Post Is

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:44:15 CDT

Our mommas may have raised us right, but they didn't raise us to know who Emily Post is. Some 32% of us have no idea that she's the madam of good manners; 31% think she is either a famed newspaper editor, breakfast cereal inventor, college president, or globe-circling sailor. But...

2010's Best Dressed

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:48:17 CDT

Vanity Fair ’s 2010 International Best Dressed List is out, and it really is international: The top 10 includes three first ladies and a crown princess. Click through it in the gallery, or to see the complete list, which includes Alec Baldwin and Lady Gaga, click here . Or, if you'd...