This blockbuster had it all: popular source material (zombies!) and a massive star (Brad Pitt!)... but it seems to have gone so very wrong. At least that's how Vanity Fair chronicles World War Z in its new cover story, bringing to mind the ultimate Hollywood movie disaster.
She has been ubiquitous on newsstands over the past year, but she doesn't necessarily have the magazine sales numbers to justify her presence. Is she overexposed? Not sexy enough? Or is Harry Styles somehow to blame for all of this?
Today in a special Academy Awards edition of celebrity gossip: A look at all the post-Oscar bashes and their fabulous attendees, from Vanity Fair conversations to Britney Spears's new hair. Plus an award-show lobby full of toilet water.
Vanity Fair has been putting caucasian actresses on their New Hollywood cover for years, managing to generate thousands of conversations on the race topic... without really addressing it. Here's how The Hollywood Reporter captured the conversation.
Three days after then-Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for president on January 2, 1960, he invited two Newsweek journalists, bureau chief Ben Bradlee (who would go on to be a legendary editor of the Washington Post) and correspondent James M. Cannon (who would go on to be an aide to Gerald Ford). Lucky for us Cannon brought a tape recorder.
"It is inconceivable (to the entire world) that Mr. Cruise would have difficulty getting a girlfriend," is the best line of what seems to be a very angry letter from The Church to Scientology to Vanity Fair and editor Graydon Carter in regards to the magazine's unflattering exposé.
There's been some of talk as to just how mortifying it would be to be seen while engrossed in the popular "mommy porn," but according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, it's actually low down on the list of embarrassing public reading.
You can't trot Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein through the newsroom of The Washington Post, accompanied by Robert Redford and Ben Bradlee and all documented by Annie Leibovitz, and not expect the whole thing to be documented breathlessly on Twitter.
Maybe Karl Rove was onto something. Or perhaps Obama's "cool" has become an inescapable meme. Regardless, the "adaptation" of David Maraniss' Barack Obama biography in the June issue of Vanity Fair—which details the president's youthful escapades with a college girlfriend—reads like an attack ad... or a passage from Twilight.
Since you weren't invited to last Friday's intellectually-studded memorial for Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair has posted video of the full event online.
Graydon Carter, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, and Sean Penn were all part of today's celebration in honoring one of the sharpest minds and eloquent writers of a generation.
Vanity Fair has released its annual Hollywood cover, and now it's time for the fun though often futile, exercise of determining if the magazine has slighted minority actors and actresses based on their numbers and placement.
Ruthlessly manipulative and downright obsessive, Vanity Fair's profile of Rebekah Brooks certainly isn't doing any favors to Murdoch's "Fantasy Daughter."
Shadowing the Murdoch family would make for terrific reality TV, but since that's never going to happen, the new profile in Vanity Fair might be as close as we can get to understanding the media dynasty.
In the December issue, Vanity Fair profiles Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mark Zuckerberg's fun-to-make-fun-of archnemeses, in an attempt to answer a simple question: Why don't they ever give up?
Plus: A 17,000 word look at how 'The Art of Fielding' became the fall's literary darling
The post-holiday media moves require a scorecard to keep track of
The numbers aren't even up from last year
Plus: "Marauding perps" beat Gavin DeGraw senseless
Not just an icon--Vanity Fair says he's a Hall of Famer
Sendak tells Dave Eggers why he's writing and illustrating his first book in 30 years
A look at the other newsstand flops, including Will Smith on a stallion
A 2003 profile recalls when the financier was a businessman, not a sex offender
After 9/11 the trio drove from New York to Ohio, according to Vanity Fair
The big revelations for Vanity Fair's new profile of the actor
He leads all GOP hopefuls in notes written with a Sharpie
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