Vanity Fair Magazine

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:42pm on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Dominick Dunne died on August 26, 2009. Michael Hogan wrote the story "Our Man Dominick" in the November 2009 issue of Vanity Fair magazine:

"When Dominick Dunne died in August, he had become what he’d always yearned to be, a bona fide celebrity. The dapper V.F. contributor and novelist was also something more important: a crusader for justice. Surveying Dunne’s life before and after its crucial event—the murder of his daughter, Dominique—the author recalls his epic fall from Hollywood grace, his astounding comeback, and his fearless pursuit of rich and powerful offenders for this magazine, from O. J. Simpson to the Kennedys.

Nobody ever saw Dominick Dunne and wondered, “Is that who I think it is?” You knew right away. The Turnbull & Asser ensembles in Crayola hues, the circular tortoiseshell glasses, the aroma of talcum powder that preceded him by five paces. It was all by design. He wanted you to recognize him. He wanted you to introduce yourself. He wanted you to tell him what you knew.

“He always used to say that people told him things, and they did,” says Betty Prashker, Dominick’s longtime editor at Crown, “and not just the people he was sitting next to at a dinner party, but the waiters who were handing him the food and the butlers who were taking his coat and hat.”"

The full story:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/11/dominick-dunne200911

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 2:10pm on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Yet more political furor involving Sarah Palin, according to Politico from a story on June 30, 2009:

"A hard-hitting piece on Sarah Palin in the new Vanity Fair has touched off a blistering exchange
of insults among high-profile Republicans over last year’s GOP ticket – tearing open fresh wounds about leaks surrounding Palin and revealing for the first time some of the internal wars that paralyzed the campaign in its final days.

Rival factions close to the McCain campaign have been feuding since last fall over Palin, usually waging the battle in the shadows with anonymous quotes. Now, however, some of the most well-known names in Republican politics are going on-the-record with personal attacks and blame-casting."

The full story:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24392.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 2:06pm on Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Graydon Carter was named the editor of Vanity Fair magazine in July 1992, replacing Tina Brown, who left to take the editor job at The New Yorker. Carter began his career at Time Inc., where he worked for five years on Time and Life magazines. He then became the editor of the New York Observer.

Carter was the subject of "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People," a book by former Vanity Fair contributing editor Toby Young. The book was made into a movie in 2008, starring Jeff Bridges.

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:29pm on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

In Vanity Fair magazine on April 28, 2009, Matt Pressman wondered which media web sites will survive:

If there’s one thing media prognosticators can agree on, it’s that print publications are on the way out. The great unanswered question is what the online media of the future will actually look like. Although it has been 13 years since the launch of Slate magazine and NYTimes.com, we are still in the early stages of the evolution of online media, and it remains to be seen which creatures will emerge from the primordial ooze adapted to survive in a harsh new environment. But like the meteor (or whatever the hell it was) that caused a mass extinction 65 million years ago, the economic crisis has winnowed the field and made it possible to create a taxonomy of new-media animals and predict which will be the crocodile and which the brontosaurus."

The full story:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/04/media-darwinism-which-sites-will-survive.html