A lobo in Chic Clothing

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

By Maureen Orth•Photograph sa pamamagitan ng Annie Leibovitz
May 2011

Because they are undaunted sa pamamagitan ng 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...

sa pamamagitan ng Julian Sancton August 24, 2009, 5:11 PM

Semi-retired from pagganap 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 minutos 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 sa pamamagitan ng 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 kamakailan 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...

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

By Krista Smith•Photograph sa pamamagitan ng Sam Jones
January 2011

Waiting on a Paramount lot dressed in Salvation Army clothes and a palda 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 pag-ibig 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 sa pamamagitan ng 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 sa pamamagitan ng Annie Leibovitz
April...

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

By Sarah Ball•Photograph sa pamamagitan ng Annie Leibovitz
WEB EXCLUSIVE March 8, 2011

Sing us a song, piano 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 music venue is one of the country’s most hallowed: it was founded in 1961 for the purpose of preserving New Orleans–style...

The original Clash of the Titans, starring Harry Hamlin, doesn’t quite hold up when viewed through adult eyes in the taon 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 sa pamamagitan ng Sam Jones
January 2010

Logan Lerman is dealing with a tanong that comes to successful teenage actors and basketbol prodigies alike: should he go to college or 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...