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Readers hoping for more erotic exploits with a certain domineering millionaire and innocent college student will be sorely disappointed. Speaking at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Monday night, "Fifty Shades of Grey" author E.L. James told the New York...

The guest list at Graydon Carter’s famous Vanity Fair Oscar party was as long on A-list celebrities as the telecast itself was short on laughs. The winners in every major category, including Ben Affleck, Daniel Day-Lewis, Christoph Waltz and Ang...

I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections Nora Ephron Alfred A. Knopf: 142 pp., $22.95 It's good to be Nora Ephron. When you're Nora Ephron, you can get Meryl Streep, who once played a fictionalized version of you, to star as Julia Child in your...

After the Oscars, dessert will be served in 3-D at the Governors Ball this year. Spago pastry chef Sherry Yard has created an Austrian chocolate cake that resembles a staircase leading to a giant edible Oscar statuette that is iced in a way that makes...

OF COURSE, there were the drugs. And the drinking. And guns. And more drugs. Given his notorious lifestyle, it can be hard to keep in mind that Hunter S. Thompson was first and foremost a writer, a frontline chronicler of the promise and adventure of...

Hitchens death reactions: A sampling of writers' reactions to the death of public intellectual and Anglo-American citizen Christopher Hitchens....

Cameron Diaz, Emily Blunt, Kimora Lee, Colin and Livia Firth, Gary Oldman and others attend a dinner hosted by Vanity Fair and Ermenegildo Zegna in support of the Green Carpet Challenge and Oxfam America....

Writer Christopher Hitchens, who died in December, will get a fitting tribute from Vanity Fair, where he was a contributing editor, at the magazine's star-studded Oscars party....

Every once in a while, a fire truck will pass by Rudolph Giuliani's window, and the former New York mayor will flash back to that dreadful day when he had to drop everything and rush to ground zero. "It's just hard to hear it and not react," he said in an...

When reporters began to ask last weekend about a bruising profile of Bill Clinton that appears in the July issue of Vanity Fair magazine, the former president's aides struck back with this scathing rebuttal. To: Interested Parties From: Office of...

What are the highest-rated celebrity-owned restaurants? To come up with a list of The Daily Meal's 25 best celebrity-owned restaurants, more than 100 restaurants were considered. Ashton Kutcher, Justin Timberlake, Bill Murray, and Robert De Niro were...

Official Vanity Fair Oscar party photographer Larry Fink captures celebrities behind the scenes with their guard down in his book, "The Vanities: Hollywood Parties, 200-2009" (Schirmer/Mosel, $68)...