Vanity Fair Girls

Maureen Orth nominates the Shriver siblings for their public service with a smile.

By Maureen Orth•Photograph द्वारा Annie Leibovitz
May 2011

Because they are undaunted द्वारा having such enormous shoes to fill: Their mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died in 2009, was a hurricane of energy, possessed of fierce faith and will. She founded the Special Olympics and changed the fate of millions of the intellectually disabled worldwide. Their father, Sargent Shriver, equally iconic, who died in January, was the founding director of the Peace Corps, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. He also...

द्वारा Julian Sancton August 24, 2009, 5:11 PM

Semi-retired from अभिनय at the age of 70, George Hamilton is happy being remembered for his suntan, his gleaming teeth, and his reputation as a Hollywood Zelig. His autobiography, Don’t Mind if I Do, released in paperback in May, reveals how he left his modest Arkansas roots to make it as an actor, and how he spun the illusion of a glamorous lifestyle out of whole cloth. This week, a new movie called My One And Only—starring Renée Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, and 17-year-old Logan Lerman as a precocious George coming into his own—dramatizes a chapter...

At last night’s midtown Manhattan press screening of the highly anticipated biopic The Runaways, a diminutive figure in a black hoodie slunk into the front row मिनटों before the lights dimmed. I could just make out a pair of Kohl-rimmed eyes and an inky fringe, but it was the unmistakable slouch that made me wonder: “Is that Kristen Stewart?” I was half-right. It was Joan Jett, the pioneering hard rocker portrayed in the film द्वारा Stewart.

The Runaways tells the story of its namesake band—the all-girl teen band that launched Jett’s career in the 1970s. It tells the age-old tale of sex,...

The Tribeca Film Institute’s annual fall benefit last night in New York City was an all around family affair starring Robert De Niro and his big-screen kids Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, and Kate Beckinsale. The evening started off with the premiere of writer-director Kirk Jones's film Everybody’s Fine, in which De Niro plays a हाल का widower who embarks on an impromptu road trip to connect with his grown children. De Niro introduced the movie, which is a remake of director Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1990 film Stanno Tutti Bene. As he was leaving the stage, Barrymore (on teetering seven-inch...

How does a dedicated young actress, hailed द्वारा the likes of Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, and Meryl Streep, become a tabloid plaything and then a celebrity jailbird, mocked even द्वारा her fellow inmates? Interviewing Lindsay Lohan, the लेखक learns about her frenemy-and-coke-strewn road to self-destruction, the obstacles to a comeback, and the controversial biopic the 24-year-old तारा, स्टार is passionately hoping to make.

By Nancy Jo Sales•Photograph द्वारा Norman Jean Roy•Styled द्वारा Jessica Diehl
October 2010

A week before Lindsay Lohan went to jail, she met me in the rooftop party room of her apartment building...