#Graydon Carter

[djkerr]

Christine Baranski attends the Bloomingdales x Air Mail Event during New York Ready to Wear Fashion Week. Academy Mansion NYC | September 5, 2024

📷 cred Steve Eichner/WWD via Getty Images

📷 cred David Benthal/BFA.com

[theurbancode]

[ripplefactor]

At Graydon Carter’s flat, Christopher Simon Sykes, The Dakota, New York, 1996 ..

[sock-to-the-third]

Nothing but silence, a soggy, soothing silence.

The Physical Culture Peril by PG Wodehouse

[dbguidebook]

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Darling Bonnie's Collectable ((Art House)) Book Club: 'The Mural At The Waverly Inn'. #Societythings

[zmkccommonplace]

Life is a succession of minor failures; the key is to keep them minor.

Graydon Carter

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

Mis Crawford? No, I don't want an autograph. M’am? I am afraid I am going to ask you to step out of line and come downtown with me.

Is that Graydon Carter behind the store detective?

And Elizabeth Taylor circa National Velvet as the cashier?

Who made this film, John Waters?

[gregdotorg]

'Ah, Have You Seen Cy's Picasso?'

we already know now, but the way Edmund Wilson wrote a 1994 Vanity Fair profile of Cy Twombly to cast uncertainty, if not exactly doubt, on whether the Picasso Twombly copied for his partner Nicola del Roscio in 1988 was the same Picasso copy he called the first painting he ever made—or recalled making, to be at once both more precise and more vague—while hinting at the actuality of their relationship, but keeping Twombly and del Roscio—and Johns and Rauschenberg, for that matter—tastefully in the closet, is quite a period piece.

[world-of-celebs]

Reese Witherspoon attends the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood, California.

[kylieforeverandever]

Kylie Minogue attends the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California.

[silvyysthings]

Your last anon said Airmail is isn't reputable. It is Before Vanity Fair lost it's touch that website was huge. The guy who was creative director - Graydon Carter left Vanity Fair and created Airmail.

This past year I've seen big reporters reference Air Mail articles. I've seen it mentioned on The View this year which is a mainstream tv show. Besides that article in Air Mail got so much attention so it's not like he didn't get attention for his article. Just like the small podcast he did also got a lot of attention.

This is the theme from fans that I don't get. He denied multiple times the SA allegation which was 1 allegation. How often does he need to talk about it?

Besides each time he does talk about it there is potential to get sued so it's risky. When his friend and former lawyer Kent did a podcast this year he said he had to be careful with his words because a lawsuit could still happen. That's why he was so quiet for years. He knows he is innocent and his accuser is spending time on Twitter wishing assault on children. She's not a credible person so why address someone that unhinged if you already did in multiple statments and a large article?

Armie is the rare celebrity who listens to his lawyer and I wish fans understood how easily it is to get sued even if you are telling the truth. Besides, I think an innocent person doesn't need to constantly say they are innocent.

Lastly the cannibal accusation is what lost him his first few roles. His main accuser did the press conference in March. He lost multiple roles and his agency starting in January and February. That is what people remember. So he addressed in it in the podcast.

And denying something like SA isn't some magic bullet that fixes everything. I need fans to understand that. It's naive to think that way. We are wired to believe the negative about people and that's something he understands and is living with. Perhaps fans need to adjust.

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[anonymoushouseplantfan]

I think fmr VF editor Graydon Carter was one of those who had the measure of her when she burst onto the scene as Harry’s girlfriend. The fiasco behind the scenes of her Vanity Fair cover shoot and story must have been hilarious to him, imagine Ken Sunshine on the phone with him weakly threatening the Queen’s wrath on him if he did not make the changes Meghan wanted to the story. No wonder years later he mentioned Harry and Meghan doing everything wrong, he certainly saw it from the beginning.

I hope he dishes on that cover. I bet he has a lot of behind the scenes tea.

It was just a bizarre choice for a future Duchess and it seems the palace knew she was doing it. The photos were weird Diana cosplay and the copy was cringe.

[alchemisoul]

Christopher Hitchens and his wife Carol Blue at a Washington Correspondents Dinner in 1995 (Photo by Dafydd Jones)

"I miss his perfect voice. I heard it day and night, night and day. I miss the first happy trills when he woke; the low octaves of “his morning voice” as he read me snippets from the newspaper that outraged or amused him; the delighted and irritated (mostly irritated) registers as I interrupted him while he read; the jazz-tone riffs of him “talking down the line” to a radio station from the kitchen phone as he cooked lunch; his chirping, high-note greeting when our daughter came home from school; and his last soothing, pianissimo chatterings on retiring late at night.

I miss, as his readers must, his writer’s voice, his voice on the page. I miss the unpublished Hitch: the countless notes he left for me in the entryway, on my pillow, the emails he would send while we sat in different rooms in our apartment or in our place in California and the emails he sent when he was on the road. And I miss his handwritten communiqués: his innumerable letters and postcards (we date back to the time of the epistle) and his faxes, the thrill of receiving Christopher’s instant dispatches as he checked-in from a dicey spot on some other continent.

The first time Christopher went public and wrote about his illness for Vanity Fair, he was ambivalent about it. He was intent on protecting our family’s privacy. He was living the topic and he didn’t want it to become all-encompassing, he didn’t want to be defined by it. He wanted to think and write in a sphere apart from sickness. He had made a pact with his editor and chum, Graydon Carter, that he would write about anything except sports, and he kept that promise. He had often put himself in the frame, but now he was the ultimate subject of the story.

His last, unfinished, fragmentary jottings may seem to trail off, but in fact they were written on his computer in bursts of energy and enthusiasm as he sat in the hospital using his food tray for a desk.

When he was admitted to the hospital for the last time, we thought it would be for a brief stay. He thought – we all thought – he’d have the chance to write the longer book that was forming in his mind. His intellectual curiosity was sparked by genomics and the cutting-edge proton radiation treatments he underwent, and he was encouraged by the prospect that his case could contribute to future medical breakthroughs. He told an editor friend waiting for an article, “Sorry for the delay, I’ll be back home soon.” He told me he couldn’t wait to catch up on all the movies he had missed and to see the King Tut exhibition in Houston, our temporary residence.

The end was unexpected.

At home in Washington, I pull books off the shelves, out of the book towers on the floor, off the stacks of volumes on tables. Inside the back covers are notes written in his hand that he took for reviews and for himself. Piles of his papers and notes lie on surfaces all around the apartment, some of which were taken from his suitcase that I brought back from Houston. At any time I can peruse our library or his notes and rediscover and recover him.

When I do, I hear him, and he has the last word. Time after time, Christopher has the last word."

- From an edited version of Carol Blue’s afterword to Mortality by her husband Christopher Hitchens

[emcgoverns]

elizabeth mcgovern (with michelle dockery) attends an evening with the cast and producers of “downton abbey” hosted by ralph lauren and graydon carter (december 2012) | 📸: craig barritt

[brian-in-finance]

Do you have a Top5 of Caitriona's hairstyles or haircuts?

Thanks for the message, Anon

No.

But I scrolled through Getty Images, stopping after “five,” just for you. In chronological order:

People’s Choice Awards • 7 January 2015 • Los Angeles

Oscar Wilde Awards • 23 February 2017 • Santa Monica

Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter • 26 February 2017 • Los Angeles

Belfast Premiere • 8 November 2021 • Los Angeles

Los Angeles Times “Embracing her passions” story • 22 November 2021 • Duh

You might sense a pattern. 👩🏻🚫💇🏻‍♀️ Brian prefers loose, long hair. I’m interested to hear what anyone else thinks. Do you have a favourite or a Top 5? 😃

Remember… I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair. — Erich von Stroheim

[the-fall-of-armie-hammer]

The article attempts to discredit an accuser with what they claim are subsequent contradictory statements and calls into question whether the incident — which both Hammer and his accuser say happened, though their characterizations differ — could have been physically possible.

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However, a fact-check of the piece conducted by The Fine Print as well as our own reporting, including interviews with four current or former Air Mail employees, reveal that Air Mail published a story about horrific allegations of abuse with only perfunctory efforts to investigate them. Relying primarily on Hammer, sources close to the star, and materials provided by Hammer’s representatives, Air Mail presented a thinly reported, one-sided account of events and then falsely billed it as exhaustive reporting that had exonerated the actor. Many of what the story claims are fresh revelations are, in fact, recycled information that had previously been published on social media accounts dedicated to promoting Hammer’s version of events and criticizing his accusers. “It was a lot,” a source familiar with the story told The Fine Print. “I mean, all of us kind of felt a little ick about it.”

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There was little institutional imperative to attempt to reach out to the story’s subjects — including, most crucially, the women who have publicly accused Hammer of sexual abuse and rape. “Because the turnaround was so fast, it was like a hot potato,” said a source familiar with the story. The fact-checkers instead relied on Kirchick’s interview notes, materials supplied by a publicist for Hammer, and publicly available material. “All the notes that came in were from Armie Hammer, and there were not any interviews done with the women,” said a source familiar with the story. “We did the best we could with what we had been given, and we all felt a bit squeamish about the story, to be honest.” According to a source familiar with the story, there seemed to be a sense of resignation to the whole process: Discussions with Air Mail’s lawyer ended on the fallback position that if the publication were sued, their insurance would cover it.

The result is a story whose sourcing was incredibly one-sided. All of the eight sources identified in the piece are either Hammer or his friends and close contacts, all but one of whom are men: the actor’s “childhood friend,” his “longtime personal trainer,” his “doctor,” a “close friend,” the producer of one of Hammer’s movies, and, for some reason, sex expert Dan Savage. The only named female source is Hammer’s godmother Candace Garvey who is cited (but not quoted) corroborating Hammer’s claim of being sexually abused at age 13.