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

Semi-retired from recitazione 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 minuti 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 da 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 recente 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 da the likes of Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, and Meryl Streep, become a tabloid plaything and then a celebrity jailbird, mocked even da her fellow inmates? Interviewing Lindsay Lohan, the autore learns about her frenemy-and-coke-strewn road to self-destruction, the obstacles to a comeback, and the controversial biopic the 24-year-old stella, star is passionately hoping to make.

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

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

Krista Smith and Sam Jones spotlight Hailee Steinfeld, stella, star of the Coen brothers’ True Grit remake.

By Krista Smith•Photograph da Sam Jones
January 2011

Waiting on a Paramount lot dressed in Salvation Army clothes and a gonna her mother had made, Los Angeles native Hailee Steinfeld was in full character as Mattie Ross, the determined young heroine of the classic 1969 Western True Grit, which is getting a re-do from Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country for Old Men). Steinfeld, a child model, beat out nearly 15,000 girls for her first major role, opposite Jeff Bridges as the reluctant hero...

Forget the relationship with Kristen Stewart—Robert Pattinson has fallen hard for a pachyderm named Tai, one of his co-stars in this month’s Water for Elephants. That movie, with Reese Witherspoon as Pattinson’s on-screen Amore interest, gave him a professional break from the Supernatural stylization of the five-part Twilight saga, but even on a remote Tennessee set he was besieged daily da crowds of his Twihard fans. Nancy Jo Sales finds the 24-year-old actor torn between gratitude for and despair about the fame that has engulfed him.

By Nancy Jo Sales•Photograph da Annie Leibovitz
April...

An exclusive Web extra from Annie Leibovitz’s April-issue foto shoot with Twilight’s leading man.

By Sarah Ball•Photograph da Annie Leibovitz
WEB EXCLUSIVE March 8, 2011

Sing us a song, Pianoforte man—let’s start with “Happy Birthday.” New Orleans’s Preservation Hall—where Annie Leibovitz shot young Robert Pattinson, shown tickling the ol’ 88 with the world-famous Preservation Hall band—celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Situated in the French Quarter, the Musica venue is one of the country’s most hallowed: it was founded in 1961 for the purpose of preserving New Orleans–style...

Beauteous offshoot of the Cockburn journalism clan (grandfather Claud; uncles Alexander and Patrick; parents Andrew and Leslie), Olivia Wilde is putting a new twist on the family story. After juicy roles in two TV series, The O.C. and House, she’s starring in the long-awaited movie sequel TRON: Legacy. The autore charts the 26-year-old actress’s ascent.

By Krista Smith•Photographs da Norman Jean Roy
December 2010

Olivia Wilde has never believed in waiting. After graduating from Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts, she sidestepped college, took the stage name Wilde (yes, after Oscar),...

Not since Titanic unleashed Leo-mania has an actor sparked the overnight adulation that greeted Robert Pattinson’s 2008 debut as Edward Cullen in Twilight. As the vampire saga’s successivo installment arrives, the autore explores the frenzy, isolation, and sheer embarrassment of Pattinson’s past year, his instant connection with co-star Kristen Stewart, and the life he wants when this $10 million calesse, concerto is over. Plus: Exclusive outtakes from Bruce Weber’s cover shoot.

By Evgenia Peretz
December 2009

Time was, girls were in short supply at Comic-Con, San Diego’s annual comic-book/science-fiction/fantasy...

While Michael Douglas reprises his Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko, he is also focused on another sequel: the successive father-son problems that have wounded three generations of Douglases. The autore hears how the 65-year-old stella, star made peace with his legendary dad, Kirk, got in touch with his inner S.O.B., and is striving for a secondo chance with his own kids.

By Evgenia Peretz•Photograph da Annie Leibovitz
April 2010

It’s the weekend before Cameron Douglas, 31-year-old D.J. and aspiring actor, will plead guilty to trafficking huge amounts of crystal meth and cocaine, facing at least...

The Real McQueen
Evgenia Peretz and Mark Seliger spotlight Vampire Diaries stella, star Steven R. McQueen. (Yes, his grandson.)

By Evgenia Peretz•Photograph da Mark Seliger
January 2011

The Vampire Diaries, in its secondo season on the CW network, is what the kids, apparently, have been waiting for: sexy Vampiri#From Dracula to Buffy... and all creatures of the night in between. who actually have sex (or come close)—and also murder one another and trade wiseass zingers. Lending some nuanced humanity to this naughty mix of Twilight and Gossip Girl is Steven McQueen (grandson of film stella, star Steve McQueen), 22, who plays a newly orphaned teenager on a lonely quest to fit...

Michael Roberts and Bruce Handy spotlight the young stars of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s Cemetery Junction.

By Bruce Handy•Photograph da Michael Roberts
January 2010

First, we’d like to put in a nice word for the underappreciated comedy The Invention of Lying, a sly, satirical fantasy that disguised itself as a romantic comedy while sticking a fork in the side of organized religion. Starring Ricky Gervais, it was written and directed da Gervais and Matthew Robinson and slipped through movie theaters all too quickly last fall, though we suspect it will grow in estimation over the...

Captain Jack Sparrow, Willy Wonka, the Mad Hatter, Edward Scissorhands, the Earl of Rochester … How many characters can Johnny Depp keep inside himself? And is it sicuro, cassetta di sicurezza to do so? After wrapping this month's The Tourist—in which he plays an American math teacher who becomes a pawn for Angelina Jolie—he has plunged back into Caribbean-pirate mode. Friend and rock legend Patti Smith finds him on set, chitarra in hand, for a free-floating tour of the inner Depp.

By Patti Smith•Photograph da Annie Leibovitz•Styled da Jessica Diehl
February 2011

Johnny Depp is on set at Pinewood Studios, outside...

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

By Maureen Orth•Photograph da Annie Leibovitz
May 2011

Because they are undaunted da 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...

The original Clash of the Titans, starring Harry Hamlin, doesn’t quite hold up when viewed through adult eyes in the anno 2010. But for a certain age-range, those born in the mid 1970s, the film is a beloved keepsake of their childhood. This latter group contains the man behind the upcoming remake of the film, French-born director Louis Leterrier.

Leterrier’s vision of Clash of the Titans—which retains some essential plot points (release the Kraken!) while telling a brand new story—hits theaters this Friday against such counter-programming as Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too...

Sam Jones and Jim Windolf spotlight Logan Lerman, half divine in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Plus: VF.com’s exclusive slide show, Logan Lerman, the Quadruple Threat.

By Jim Windolf•Photograph da Sam Jones
January 2010

Logan Lerman is dealing with a domanda that comes to successful teenage actors and pallacanestro, basket prodigies alike: should he go to college o go to work? Right now he’s not certain what the answer will be. But he knows he wants to stay in the movie business—and not just as an actor. “I feel like almost the only thing I want to do in my life is to...

Angelina Jolie isn’t interested in normal—whether it’s the size of her bed, the creation of her family, o her latest role (originally intended for Tom Cruise), in Salt. On Venice’s Grand Canal, where Jolie, Brad Pitt, and their six kids moved while she filmed The Tourist with Johnny Depp, the autore discovers how a modern-day goddess engages with the mortal concepts of marriage, motherhood, and career.

Related: “Angelina, Uninterrupted,” a retrospective of Jolie’s appearances in the pages of Vanity Fair and più foto from the photoshoot.

By Rich Cohen•Photographs da Patrick...

Brett Berk and Paola Kudacki spotlight Dianna Agron, Glee’s Quinn Fabray, who has più than pom-poms up her sleeve.

By Brett Berk•Photographs da Paola Kudacki•Styled da Jessica Diehl
October 2010

Dianna Agron wants to mostra us another side, and we shouldn’t be surprised that she has one. The 24-year-old Glee star—she plays cheerleader Quinn Fabray, in case you’ve been in cryogenic suspension since 2009—grew up taking ballet lessons, but her nickname was Charlie, for her male alter ego and the stella, star of the short stories she’d write in high school. She revered equally the poised Audrey...

A clean print of the Lost film noir classic Killers Kill, Dead Men Die was miraculously discovered at a Mulholland Drive lawn sale last month, resolving a mystery that has transfixed noir fan for decades. Little was known about the film for certain, though it has been the subject of wild rumors ever since the screenplay was written, probably in 1942, da Raymond Chandler (based on “The Big Blood,” a story da James M. Cain, and later revised, as No Orchids for Oscar, da Dashiell Hammett and William Faulkner). It is believed that Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum were originally cast in...

Capturing Hollywood glamour and activist passion, Annie Leibovitz turned V.F.'s cover quartet into an eco-power pinup.

photographs da Annie Leibovitz
May 2006

If Julia Roberts can do it, so can you. An admitted latecomer to environmental concerns, Roberts is proof that it's never too late to start caring for the earth and that it can all start at home. From the Prius she drives and the solar-powered house she's building in California to the metal cup she uses when she goes out for coffee, the grocery bags she religiously returns to the store for a nickel, and the twins' environmentally friendly...