VF Hive editor Jon Kelly begins his conversation with Graydon asking how he got his start at Vanity Fair. They discuss Carter's early days at Spy magazine and The New York Observer, and the initial offer from S.I. Newhouse to come to Vanity Fair.
Carter describes the challenges he faced in the first two years at the magazine, and how he worked to align with the staff.
He reveals the techniques he used to reinvent the magazine, despite the lack of any real plan out the outset. Carter also talks about the origins of Vanity's Fair's famous Oscar parties, as well as the magazine's iconic Hollywood issue. He describes how the parties grew over the years, and how they and the Hollywood issue became embedded in the culture.
Jill and Carlo continue the discussion on vaccine hesitancy, plus the latest on several violent police encounters and why Major Biden is headed to doggy rehab.
Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua have pulled production of their runaway slave drama “Emancipation” from Georgia over the state’s recently enacted law restricting voting access.
La Soufriere volcano has fired an enormous amount of ash and hot gas in the biggest explosive eruption yet since volcanic activity began on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent late last week.
Zahi Hawass says that archaeologists found brick houses, artifacts, and tools from pharaonic times at the site of the 3,000-year-old lost city.
The White House won't surge vaccines to Michigan as it sees the worst outbreak in the country, a police shooting in Minneapolis, an historic win at the Masters, and more.
Cheddar senior reporter Michelle Castillo visited the world’s first NFT art gallery Superchief Gallery NFT
For the first time in at least a year, Hollywood is celebrating its first clear-cut box office success of the COVID era.
DMX, the raspy-voiced hip-hop artist who produced the songs “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” and “Party Up (Up in Here)" and who rapped with a trademark delivery that was often paired with growls, barks and “What!” as an ad-lib, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 50.
Prince Philip, the irascible and tough-minded husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wife in a role that both defined and constricted his life, has died, Buckingham Palace said Friday. He was 99.
Jill and Carlo are discussing President Biden's action on gun violence, which comes during a particularly fraught week of shootings in America. Plus, overnight developments on the Amazon union drive in Alabama, and Carlo's pet theory on anti-maskers.
