Graydon Carter

• Pete Hammond delivers the scoop on a "high profile kick-off to Paramount's 'Shutter Island' Oscar campaign." As Pete reports, "American Cinematheque will present a retrospective of the film collaborations of Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese at...

Angelenos got a glimpse into “The World of Gloria Vanderbilt” at the Ralph Lauren boutique on Robertson Boulevard on Wednesday, when Kelly Meyer, right, co-hosted a celebration of Wendy Goodman’s new book about the world-famous heiress,...

The 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar party at the Sunset Tower was loaded with stars. Colin Firth, Melissa Leo, Natalie Portman, Taylor Swift, Madonna, Tom Hanks, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber were a few on the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party guest list....

When Donald Trump wants to hit a writer where it hurts, he casts aspersion on storytelling ability and word usage, boasting of his own bestsellers....

Skipping the coffee. Before atoning. Polanski arrested. Director Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland will likely bring the fugitive director back to the United States, which he fled in 1978 rather than face the music for unlawful sex with a minor.........

Rumored wedding bells for Bar Refaeli and Leonardo DiCaprio may ring true or false, but these are already being muffled by controversy. Supermodel Bar Refaeli is one of Israel's most successful "exports." But with fame comes responsibility -- and now........

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...

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...

VANITY FAIR'S cancellation of its legendary Oscar party dramatically changes the landscape of Hollywood's most glamorous evening for the first time in years. When editor Graydon Carter threw his first Academy Awards viewing and post-party at Morton's...

"The Journals of John Cheever" edited by Robert Gottlieb (Vintage) "Good Friday. I neither fast nor make any observations of this somber time. I roam from the post office to the church, unsober. The central altar is dark, but on the left the priest has...

Founded in 1856, London's National Portrait Gallery is a place where the people in the pictures, not the pictures themselves, are what count. The museum's website explains: "The National Portrait Gallery was established with the criteria that the...

Simon Pegg's latest stumbling lunge into Hollywood is How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, which has him playing a Brit celebrity journalist who sells his soul to join the beautiful people at the other end of the red carpet. Edgy as a butter knife and...