If you have a few minutes to kill, you might be interested in watching “Hail to the Trump,” Vanity Fair’s dark comedy giving us a glimpse of what a Donald Trump presidency might be like. Produced and directed by Condé Nast’s Rachel Samuels and written by longtime Vanity Fair editor Bruce Handy, the shorts are reminiscent of Team America and star marionettes operated by a fellow named Scott Land. The first episode debuted on YouTube on November 9th with the latest installment rolling out this week.
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- 11/24/2015
- by Ricky Fernandes
- SoundOnSight
As part of Vanity Fair's Star Wars issue, Bruce Handy interviewed film scribe Lawrence Kasdan (who has shared writing credits on Star Wars episodes V, VI, and VII). Some of the outtakes were posted Monday afternoon, and scattered throughout were a handful of gems, including how Kasdan first got involved with Star Wars, how he learned that (technically this is a spoiler, so watch out) Darth Vader is Luke's father, and how he has a tendency to hem and haw about revisiting Big Chill characters. The two highlights, however, had to do with The Force Awakens's run time and the fate of Lando Calrissian.On the movie's length: [T]his new movie, first of all, it's turning out really great. J.J. directed it so beautifully, and it's so exhilarating and everything. It's a big movie. It's full of wonderful stuff, incident and character stuff and jokes and effects. One of...
- 5/19/2015
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
Disney developing a new Indiana Jones film at some point is a given, but as of now, we've had nothing but rumors flying around left and right. From Chris Pratt staring as the titular hero to Steven Spielberg even directing the next actor to take up the whip, we've had plenty to chew one, but now we have some official words from the Lucasfilm president herself, Kathleen Kennedy. Vanity Fair's Bruce Handy recently spoke with the woman regarding all things Star Wars: The...
- 5/5/2015
- by Sean Wist
- JoBlo.com
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Anaheim may have played host to the bi-annual Star Wars Celebration a few weeks ago, heralding an array of tidbits relating to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but today is May 4, the one day on the calendar year dedicated to all-things-Star Wars. To mark the occasion, Vanity Fair has published the very first look at Adam Driver’s Sith Lord Kylo Ren sans mask, as well as a peek at Lupita Nyong’o’s character in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming sequel.
Included in the gallery above are images of Nyong’o donning the motion capture suit to render her alien, a space pirate known as Maz Kanata. According to Vf’s report, Maz will be part of a crew who refer to themselves as galactic smugglers; a posse of would-be outlaws scouring across the galaxy not unlike Jabba et al. from the original trilogy. And...
Anaheim may have played host to the bi-annual Star Wars Celebration a few weeks ago, heralding an array of tidbits relating to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but today is May 4, the one day on the calendar year dedicated to all-things-Star Wars. To mark the occasion, Vanity Fair has published the very first look at Adam Driver’s Sith Lord Kylo Ren sans mask, as well as a peek at Lupita Nyong’o’s character in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming sequel.
Included in the gallery above are images of Nyong’o donning the motion capture suit to render her alien, a space pirate known as Maz Kanata. According to Vf’s report, Maz will be part of a crew who refer to themselves as galactic smugglers; a posse of would-be outlaws scouring across the galaxy not unlike Jabba et al. from the original trilogy. And...
- 5/4/2015
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: We all know that tensions rise during those final weeks leading up to the Academy Awards as media outlets decide who’s worthy and who’s not. So this begs the question: with so much money and prestige at stake, is it possible for even major and reputable media outlets to voice any negativel opinions while Oscar campaigning is underway? Especially if they want Academy Award contenders to take out ads and sit for interviews and come to parties? Increasingly, no. It’s well known that The Hollywood Reporter and Variety cravenly promise Oscar hopefuls flattering coverage. But Vanity Fair? Granted, its year-round showbiz coverage has all the heft of a marshmallow. But its Deputy Editor Bruce Handy this Oscar season wrote for the magazine’s website one brief but hardly brutal column dissecting Jessica Chastain‘s body of work. This wasn’t some freelancer: this was the magazine...
- 3/4/2013
- by NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief
- Deadline Hollywood
It's Sunday afternoon — your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations: "Allison Williams on Season Two of Girls, Improv-ing With Lena Dunham, and Being Marnie Michaels—the New Marcia Brady" by Bruce Handy (Vanity Fair): The HBO star has a theory about why middle-aged viewers feel more sympathy toward Girls' characters than people her own age. "Good Will Hunting: An Oral History" by Janelle Nanos (Boston Magazine): Go ahead and travel back in time to a world in which no one had ever heard of Ben Affleck."George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year" by Joel Lovell (New York Times Magazine): A look at the literary heavyweight and his "eye for the absurd and dehumanizing parameters of...
- 1/6/2013
- by Andre Tartar
- Vulture
GQ an oral history of the great sitcom Cheers
/Film first looks inside Darren Aronofsky's Noah's Ark via the great cinematographer Matthew Libatique. They should've filmed this under the pseudonym Snakes on a Boat and surprised us all with a Noah's Ark movie.
Indie Wire talks to the director of Room 237. Is the documentary, a compilation of theories and obsessions surrounding Stanley Kubrick's The Shining a celebration or a critique of film critics? I'm dying to see this even though I'm no expert on The Shining.
NY Post the Self Styled Siren takes on Brian de Palma's Passion, a remake of the french thriller Love Crimes which starred Ludivine Sagnier (interviewed).
Oklahoma is excited about the stars of August: Osage County in their midst (reminder: filming has begun!) There's a few blurry pics of stars (as well as some clear ones) and one of Meryl Streep doesn't...
/Film first looks inside Darren Aronofsky's Noah's Ark via the great cinematographer Matthew Libatique. They should've filmed this under the pseudonym Snakes on a Boat and surprised us all with a Noah's Ark movie.
Indie Wire talks to the director of Room 237. Is the documentary, a compilation of theories and obsessions surrounding Stanley Kubrick's The Shining a celebration or a critique of film critics? I'm dying to see this even though I'm no expert on The Shining.
NY Post the Self Styled Siren takes on Brian de Palma's Passion, a remake of the french thriller Love Crimes which starred Ludivine Sagnier (interviewed).
Oklahoma is excited about the stars of August: Osage County in their midst (reminder: filming has begun!) There's a few blurry pics of stars (as well as some clear ones) and one of Meryl Streep doesn't...
- 9/27/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Set in Miami Beach, in 1959, the new Starz series Magic City is a creation of Mitch Glazer, the screenwriter and occasional V.F. contributor, who, with Magic City, is returning to TV for the first time since a stint at Saturday Night Live in its early days. Bruce Handy talked to him about Miami, memory, and, in keeping with the theme of this month’s V.F. TV issue, the advantages of working in television over movies.
- 4/5/2012
- Vanity Fair
Sad to hear this week of the death of Don Cornelius, whose Soul Train is burned into my adolescent TV memory. From Bruce Handy at Vanity Fair (who opens with a quote from “American Pie”).
I know it’s corny quoting from “American Pie.” But it is February, and like a lot of people, I felt a genuine sense of loss and sadness at the news that Don Cornelius, the creator and host of Soul Train, died of gunshot wounds Wednesday morning in Los Angeles—a possible suicide at the age of 75. The show premiered in Chicago in 1970 and aired nationally for 35 years—the longest-running syndicated series in television history. Pretty much every great soul and R&B artist came out for Cornelius at one time or another, including James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, and Michael Jackson. In the 70s, without Oprah or Bet or Shonda Rhimes or Dick Parsons,...
I know it’s corny quoting from “American Pie.” But it is February, and like a lot of people, I felt a genuine sense of loss and sadness at the news that Don Cornelius, the creator and host of Soul Train, died of gunshot wounds Wednesday morning in Los Angeles—a possible suicide at the age of 75. The show premiered in Chicago in 1970 and aired nationally for 35 years—the longest-running syndicated series in television history. Pretty much every great soul and R&B artist came out for Cornelius at one time or another, including James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, and Michael Jackson. In the 70s, without Oprah or Bet or Shonda Rhimes or Dick Parsons,...
- 2/4/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
When Hugh Hefner opened the first Playboy Club, in 1960, he was selling men the chance to walk into the pages of his magazine. As a 21st-century Playboy Club opens in London, Bruce Handy hears from Hef, his execs, and a hutchful of former Bunnies about the rise and fall (and rise?) of the nightlife empire that spawned an all-American sex symbol.
- 4/22/2011
- Vanity Fair
Click to enlarge. Vanity Fair is proud to offer the exclusive first image of a lost masterwork recently discovered in a cellar of the building formerly occupied by Chasen’s restaurant in West Hollywood, California: Elizabeth Taylor Ascending to Heaven Accompanied by the Angels Michael Jackson and Richard Burton (also known as A Very Special Delivery), artist unknown, date unknown (circa early 21st century). Oil and PaintShop Pro, 48” by 32.” Collection of Hamish Robertson and Bruce Handy. Notes: X-ray analysis of the canvas suggests that the faded figure on the right may be Warren Cowan, Taylor’s longtime publicist, or possibly an incredulous Joan Rivers. Scholars believe the falling pink roses symbolize a new fragrance line Taylor had on the drawing board at the time of her death.
- 3/24/2011
- Vanity Fair
John Barry. Photograph copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts/Corbis. The film composer John Barry died yesterday at the age of 77. I had the privilege of interviewing him a few years ago for a profile, linked below. My sense was of a proud, sometimes prickly, sometimes moody man, with an unquenchable passion for music. As I’m sure every obit will note in its first paragraph, he wrote the best James Bond themes and scores, including those for Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, and Diamonds Are Forever. The thing about those themes, aside from how good they are and how iconic they’ve become, is how surprisingly mutty they are. Barry riffled through the musical larder, pulled out some odd scraps of big-band swing, Broadway, and rock ’n’ roll, and then created something both timeless and so of-its-moment as to be quintessential. Really, is there a more perfect sonic evocation of...
- 1/31/2011
- Vanity Fair
As John Lennon, Aaron Johnson gazes across the universe. Photo courtesy of the Weinstein Company, 2010. Movies Come together October 8, on the eve of what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday, to see Nowhere Boy, director Sam Taylor-Wood’s portrait of the boy who would be Beatle. With a wink at Lennon’s future success (I spy a strawberry field) and an eye for his formative influences (what’s more trouble than one mother?), the filmmakers deliver a movie that V.F.’s Bruce Handy calls “the best biopic ever made.” Even Yoko approves. NowhereBoyMovie.com...
- 10/8/2010
- Vanity Fair
I first stumbled on Mad Men channel surfing through On Demand one idle evening, watched the first episode, and was hooked by its sexiness and considerable style. I was pleased to see that the series featured January Jones—whose performance as a disillusioned young bride in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada moved me to melancholy—and it was sweet to see her once again distractedly smoking cigarettes to stave off ennui. Though I couldn’t quite place him at first, it was equally intriguing to watch Vincent Kartheiser as the obsequious Pete Campbell; a far cry from his heartfelt performance in Larry Clark’s Another Day In Paradise. But, of course, it was Jon Hamm as Don Draper who captivated my attention for being bracingly handsome; the kind of man American culture let get away; and the kind of man Mad Men has winningly resurrected with full intent to deconstruct.
- 8/13/2009
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
Dodgy Roger: John Slattery as Mad Men's great hedonist, Roger Sterling.John Slattery plays the unapologetically sybaritic Roger Sterling, one of two named partners at the Sterling Cooper ad agency and arguably Mad Men’s least conflicted character. Last month, Slattery was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the series’ eventful second season, during which Roger left his wife for Don Draper’s secretary. As it happens, Mrs. Sterling is played by Talia Balsam, Slattery’s wife in real life. We spoke over breakfast in a homey restaurant not far from his apartment in Tribeca. [Read Bruce Handy’s feature story on Mad Men in this month’s issue.] Bruce Handy: Tell me about how you were cast in Mad Men. John Slattery: I read the pilot and thought it was different than most of the stuff that I had been looking at. I was asked to come in and read for the part of Don Draper, which was really the biggest draw.
- 8/13/2009
- Vanity Fair
Sixties Siren: Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway in AMC's Mad MenAs part of my reporting for this month’s V.F. story on Mad Men and creator Matthew Weiner, I had the pleasure of interviewing Janie Bryant, the show’s costume designer. Her eclectic credits include the HBO Western series Deadwood as well as films such as The Hills Have Eyes 2 and the recent remake of The Last House on the Left. I spoke to her in the Mad Men costume department, surrounded by racks and racks of vintage and seemingly vintage clothing. There were Don Draper’s suits! There were Betty Draper’s house dresses! There was the stunning yellow gown with metallic beading that Bobbie Barrett wore when she and Don had that car accident…. We started out with Bryant showing me one of her favorite costumes from the show, a stunning blue dress that she can...
- 8/13/2009
- Vanity Fair
Mad Men’s new season doesn’t start till August 16, but fanatics can bide their time reading Bruce Handy’s September-issue article about the show and his online-exclusive interviews with its cast, creator, and crew. But Vf.com’s coverage doesn’t stop there—here’s some steamy behind-the-scenes video from Annie Leibovitz’s retro-chic photo shoot. Stay tuned for more Q&A’s.
- 8/5/2009
- Vanity Fair
As Don Draper, the central figure in Mad Men, Jon Hamm gives one of the decade’s most iconic performances. Off camera, the actor plays down his matinee idol looks, hiding behind thick stubble, heavy eyeglass frames, and a greasy baseball cap pulled low over his forehead. But he’s a relaxed, easy talker and a man with many interests outside of acting, including mathematics. Preparing my feature on Mad Men in this month’s issue of Vanity Fair, I interviewed Hamm over fish tacos at a restaurant in Los Feliz, not far from the home he shares with his longtime girlfriend, the actress and writer Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein). He talked about waiting tables in Los Angeles, getting cast on Mad Men, and how a handshake with Elisabeth Moss sent lightning bolts of pain shooting through him. (Click here for a behind-the-scenes video of Annie Leibovitz's Bahamas photo...
- 8/5/2009
- Vanity Fair
January Jones is now in her third season on Mad Men playing Betty Draper, the seemingly perfect wife to Don Draper’s seemingly perfect husband. Of course, beneath the well-maintained exterior, everything is not so perfect for Betty, which Jones captures in a carefully calibrated performance that is sometimes underappreciated because of its subtlety—and also, perhaps, because of Jones’s Grace Kelly-ish looks. For my feature story on Mad Men in the current issue of Vanity Fair, we sat down to talk in the living room of her modest home in the Hollywood Hills. With her hair uncurled, and dressed in jeans and a sweater, she could have passed for Betty’s 21st century counterpart. (Click here for a behind-the-scenes video of Annie Leibovitz's Bahamas photo shoot of Jon Hamm and January Jones.) Bruce Handy: What I love about the show is that it’s so rich.
- 8/5/2009
- Vanity Fair
Entering its third season on a fresh wave of Emmy nominations, AMC’s Mad Men is the most stylish—and perhaps best—show on television. Inside its meticulous reconstruction of the precipice that was New York advertising circa 1960, where the men and women of Sterling Cooper smoke, drink, love, and lie, the author learns about the struggle of Mad Men creator (and former Sopranos writer) Matthew Weiner, the casting of Jon Hamm and January Jones as Don and Betty Draper, and the obsession that fuels each episode.
- 8/4/2009
- Vanity Fair
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