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Morning Memo: ScarJo's Still an Obama Gal; Graydon Carter's New Bar; Morgan Freeman's Wrecked Marriage

Caroline Bankoff — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:22:34 -0400

Mary-Kate Olsen won't have to talk to the police about Heath Ledger's death after all. [NYDN]

Graydon Carter bought the lease on the Monkey Bar on East 54th Street. One of his partners told the Post, "It's just going to be a little bar in Midtown." Just like the Waverly Inn is a little bar in the West Village! [P6] read more »

Scarlett Johansson is still talking about being friends with Barack Obama on the Internet. [Newsday]

Yikes! Manhattan Men Bare Hairy Knees, Plump Calves

Joe Pompeo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:41:22 -0400

On a sweltering afternoon early last month, Adam Newman, a 25-year-old Park Slope comedian who works for CollegeHumor.com, made a life-changing decision: He took scissors to a pair of brown corduroy pants and fashioned them into shorts.

“It’s getting hot and I’ve made up my mind. This summer, I’m wearing shorts!” Mr. Newman blogged recently. “I’ve always been an exclusively-pants guy, but I’m ready for change. No more sweating under the jeans at the park, I’m letting it breathe this year!” read more »

Mr. Newman is not alone. A growing number of style-conscious men are becoming more comfortable with the idea of showing some leg during the hot summer months.

Lineup for June 4, 2008

Matt Haber — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:41:56 -0400

John Koblin examines Bill Clinton's angry response to Vanity Fair's recent profile of him. "The responses from the former president and his camp are very saddening in their own ways,” according to VF editor Graydon Carter. Plus: Ana Marie Cox joins Radar.

Leon Neyfakh reports from Los Angeles' Book Expo America where Random House's new C.E.O., Markus Dohle said, “I am looking forward to becoming a real New Yorker."

Spencer Morgan talks to Rip Torn about Norman Mailer: “Norman always dressed to the nines... He always had a suit, vest, tie, sometimes a hat. And so behind the lamppost, he turned to me and said, ‘Why you always dressed like a fuckin’ bum! Dress up, put on a nice shirt and tie, and you’ll get more respect.’"

Plus: George Gurley at 40... Eliot Spitzer's new job... and Sex and Our City.

Graydon on Bill's Blowup: 'Saddening ... Characteristic'

John Koblin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:29:18 -0400

On the afternoon of June 2, Wolf Blitzer was talking to Vanity Fair national editor Todd Purdum about his 9,647-word piece about Bill Clinton.

“Some people who work for him now say that he seems to be angry all the time, angry when he gets up in the morning and angry when he goes to bed at night,” Mr. Purdum was saying. read more »

David Granger on Clinton Remarks: It Wasn't Me

John Koblin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:51:41 -0400

During Bill Clinton's spectacular meltdown yesterday--calling Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum a scumbag, sleazy and slimy--he also decided to drag just about everyone into the melee. He said:

"The editor of Esquire-- he sent us an email yesterday and said it was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he'd seen in decades. He said it made him want to go take a shower and he was embarrassed to be a journalist when he read it." read more »

Morning Memo: Johansson Wants Her Makeup; Jacobs Wears Warhol's Wig

Irina Aleksander — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:46:26 -0400

Graydon Carter gets the full Devil Wears Prada treatment in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, a movie based on Toby Young's subtly titled book about his experiences working at Vanity Fair. In the film, the editor-in-chief is played by Jeff Bridges and named Clayton Harding. [P6]

Lydia Hearst says that GG's Michelle Trachtenberg is her BFF while wearing nipple tassels. read more »

How Green Is His Valley? At Vanity Fair's Enviro-Bash, Brokaw Brags of Bison

Irina Aleksander — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:05:14 -0400

On Monday, April 28, in the subterranean auditorium of the New York Public Library, Vanity Fair hosted a cocktail hour and convocation of experts grandly titled “Redesigning the World: A Green Way to the Future.” And environmentally concerned New Yorkers Mary Richardson Kennedy (wife of Robert Kennedy Jr.< read more »

Mag as Hell!

Observer Staff — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:51:15 -0400

Freelance Fizzle! read more »

Where Will Magazines Be Ten Years From Now?

John Koblin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:07:32 -0400

In the next five years in Graydon Carter’s world, you’ll walk onto a plane, or a subway, or a soon-to-be-invented mode of transport, and you’ll tuck a little electronic book under your arm. Inside that little book, which will be very expensive at first but soon will cost $150, there’ll be a series of mylar “pages,” and there will be small buttons off to the side, and once you hit one of them, whoooosh, words and photos from Vanity Fair will suddenly appear. read more »

St. Vincent's Hospital Redevelopment: Won't Someone Think of the Waverly Inn?

Choire Sicha — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:03:05 -0400

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter showed up almost three hours in to this morning's Landmarks Preservation Committee meeting on the proposed St. Vincent's Hospital rebuilding in the West Village.

"I'm against it!" he said. The proposed towers would very nearly cast a shadow over his nearby restaurant, the Waverly Inn, after all. read more »