Something About Meryl

Something About Meryl

January 2010

Since she turned 38, Meryl Streep has been waiting for her career to crater. Instead, at 60, she is more of a box-office powerhouse than ever—and coming off her indelible performance in Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia, she’s being pursued by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin this month in the romantic comedy It’s Complicated. The author talks to the face of a Hollywood revolution, while photographer Brigitte Lacombe provides a montage of Streep throughout her reign.

Teri Hatcher's Desperate Hour

Teri Hatcher's Desperate Hour

September 2006

Teri Hatcher spent Valentine’s Day reading He’s Just Not That into You, but the desolation she felt went far deeper than being dumped by a rakish Mr. Wrong. In an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, the breakout star of Desperate Housewives reveals the abuse she says she’s hidden all her life, the horrific suicide that finally forced her to confront the past, and her determination to turn tragedy into inspiration.

African Dreamer

African Dreamer

May 2007

Whether he's at a New York nightclub or deep in the African wilderness, world-famous photographer and artist Peter Beard is surrounded by drugs, debts, and beautiful women. On the eve of a major retrospective of Beard's work in Paris, Leslie Bennetts finds the man described as "half Tarzan, half Byron" weighing his future at Hog Ranch, his Kenyan Shangri-la.

The Unsinkable Jennifer Aniston

The Unsinkable Jennifer Aniston

September 2005

The whole world watched as her “perfect” marriage fell apart. Only her closest friends knew what really happened. Now, in Jennifer Aniston’s first interview since she split from Brad Pitt, she spills her heart, and some tears, to Vanity Fair, sharing her shock and confusion over Pitt’s liaison with Angelina Jolie, her desire for a family, and her deep, conflicting emotions toward the man she still loves.