Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
"I had a picture of a fox hunt, and [Conde Nast owner ] Si [Newhouse] had a question about the saddle we used," says Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter. [NYT via UnBeige]
News Hounds (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
FOX and Friends' Steve Doocy responded this morning to Vanity Fair's photoshopping hall of horrors that tinkered with FOX personalities' images, which in turn was a response to FOX and Friends being caught running doctored photos of two New York Times journalists who had dared write about FOX News in a less than adulatory manner. This was presumably at the behest of the attack dogs in the FOX News...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
• More than 1,000 people in 41 states plus D.C. and Canada have now fallen ill from the Saintpaul strain of salmonella. The good news is that no illnesses have been reported since June 26, so maybe the outbreak is over. [ WSJ ] • Sorry, Tom. Graydon Carter doesn’t like the corporate feel of Colicchio’s Craft on the West Coast, so he’s looking to take Vanity Fair ’s Oscar party to one of the BLT restaurants...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Photo: Getty Images Loopy socialite Arden Wohl was arrested for scrawling "Ralphy Lip shits" in lipstick on Ralph Lauren's store in East Hampton. Graydon Carter is supposedly trying to move his Hollywood Oscar party from Craft to BLT because Craft is out of the way and feels corporate. Young Jeezy hung out at the Gansevoort with a couple of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends. Model Agyness Deyn worked the...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
WE told you Vanity Fair wouldn't be holding its Hollywood Oscar party at Tom Colicchio's out-of-the-way restaurant, Craft, next year, and we were right. Insiders say the magazine is "actively getting out of its contract with Craft. Graydon Carter...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The Hollywood rumor about rivalry between two Condé Nast editors—passed along by former New York Times reporter, Sharon Waxman—sounds incredible. Why would Graydon Carter, the behemoth of Vanity...
Jay Currie (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Vanity Fair writer Christopher Hitchens, more or less on a dare from Editor Graydon Carter, agreed to be waterboarded. You can watch the video here and read Hitchens’ account here. Hitchens’ second go, which is what I think the video is of, lasts, perhaps 15 seconds and half a cup of water. No question, the [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Produced by Graydon Carter and narrated by the actor Johnny Depp, Alex Gibney's documentary "Gonzo" mirrors the journalistic approach of its subject.
Idolator (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Watch as Charlie Rose casually drops Vanity Fair bigwig Graydon Carter and Rolling Stone honcho Jann Wenner, "What's this story that, uh... Conde Nast wants to buy Rolling Stone ?" into a conversation about Hunter S. Thompson . If only Carter had been drinking from his complimentary glass of water at that moment—we would have seen the greatest spit-take ever. Instead, we just see him looking really...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Over at Folio Dylan Stableford picked up on this little exchange at the tail end of a Charlie Rose interview with Graydon Carter and Jann Wenner . Just as they're closing out Charlie slyly asks the two "caricature coifs," "So what's this story that Conde Nast wants to buy Rolling Stone ?" Panic ensues! Just kidding, but the reactions of the guest does seem to suggest there may be something to the...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
newVideoPlayer("/cond_nast_rolling_stone.flv", 506, 423,"");Folio magazine spotted a juicy bit at the very end of a Charlie Rose interview earlier this week with Vanity Fair chief Graydon Carter and...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Uma Thurman is reportedly engaged to financier Arpad Busson. [ NY Daily News ] Those awkward photos of Shawn Avery standing shirtless in a fashion closet at Men's Vogue mysteriously disappear from the magazine's website. [ Radar ] Graydon Carter, Jann Wenner, Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Buffet, Gay Talese and others gathered at the Waverly Inn on Wednesday to celebrate Gonzo , a Carter-produced documentary about...
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Few occasions could conceivably unite Graydon Carter, Jann Wenner and Terry McDonell, or entice them to share top billing as hosts, but remembrance of Hunter S. Thompson did it.
TigerHawk (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
I am in Frankfurt, and by the time you read this I will have been -- Allah forfend -- long asleep. I expect to wake up in the morning and see many comments about this excerpt from the most recent editorial of Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter. I found it profoundly alienating, and reflecting a view of the world, expressed and implied, that I cannot identify with even as I acknowledge that
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson From Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life—his [...]
