Vanity Fair Magazine

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 12:17pm on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Woods Bares All, Or At Least Most, On Vanity Fair Cover

WWD Media reported on January 5, 2010:

"Yet another view of Tiger Woods emerges — perhaps the side his multitude of mistresses are more familiar with — on the February cover of Vanity Fair, which shows the much-maligned golfer wearing nothing but a hat while lifting weights.

Of the growing list of regrets Woods would like to take back, posing semi-nude for Annie Leibovitz back in January 2006 is perhaps one of them."

The full story:
http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/memo-pad-tiger-woods-bares-all-kelly-cutrone-by-the-book-2404040

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 5:29pm on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

December 16, 2009 -- Vanity Fair wonders whether putting Stephen Colbert on its cover would sell more magazines than, say, Jon Stewart:

"Colbert covers sell quite well, according to data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. He boosted Wired’s newsstand sales by 38 percent, Esquire’s by 17 percent, Newsweek’s by 16 percent (according to unaudited numbers), and GQ’s by 6 percent. New York’s sales of its Colbert-fronted issue were about average, and Rolling Stone has not yet reported the numbers for its August 14, 2009 issue, with Colbert on the cover.

A solo Jon Stewart, on the other hand, hasn’t been as much of a draw on the newsstand. His July 2001 turn on the cover of Esquire sold 15 percent fewer copies than the July 2000 issue. When Rolling Stone put him on its October 28, 2004 cover, sales were 10 percent lower than the average 2004 issue."

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