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Thursday,
November 1,
8:15 P.M. EST
IN CONVERSATION
Performance-art
high priestess Marina
Abramovic discusses
her controversial
body of work with
British curator Sir
Norman Rosenthal
tonight at New Yorks
92nd Street Y.
Monday,
November 5
LITTLE GOAT Top
Chef winner and
co-owner of Chicagos
cool-crowd hangout
Girl & the Goat
Stephanie Izard opens
her second Windy
City restaurant today,
serving updated
American classics
such as beef-cheek
stroganoff in a retro-
diner setting.
Tuesday,
November 6
THE ART OF MEN
(I PREFER MINE
AL DENTE) Emmy
and Golden Globe
winner Kirstie Alley
releases her first
memoira hilarious,
self-deprecating
tell-all revealing the
truth behind her star-
studded sex life.
Friday,
November 16
LINCOLN Daniel
Day-Lewis stars as
the nations sixteenth
president in Steven
Spielbergs election-
season-appropriate
Civil War epic.
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Friday, November 2
LOVE BITES An indie coming-of-age romance
horror flick featuring pop icon Kylie Minogue
might seem like a genre clash, but somehow
Jack & Diane, which opens today, makes a story
about two teenage lesbiansplayed by breakout
stars Juno Temple and Elvis granddaughter Riley
Keoughwhose love transforms one of them into
a ferocious monster, obsessively watchable.
Saturday, November 17
TRASH TALK Since 1973, Brooklyn-based artist Martha
Rosler has been turning junk, including discarded
Barbie dolls and cast-off sweatshirts, into treasures
with her ongoing traveling art installation, The Meta-
Monumental Garage Sale. Today she brings it to NYCs
MoMA, where visitors can comb through donated items,
haggle prices with Rosler, and go home with the goods.
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Tuesday, November 20
POSE OFF In her coffee-table-ready retrospective,
Kate: The Kate Moss Book (Rizzoli), the iconic model
pulls from her personal archives (and photographers
collections, too) and offers 400 images by Juergen Teller,
Corinne Day, Terry Richardson, and more to chart her rise
from fresh-faced 90s waif to full-on industry legend.
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PUFFER PIECE
Giambattista Vallis latest
Moncler Gamme Rouge
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director Luchino Visconti,
whose 106th birthday
would be today. Silvana
Manganos aprs-ski
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film Le Streghe inspired
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Monday, November 5
LEISURE CLASS The fourth volume
in Abrams Slim Aarons series captures
the photographers decades-long love
affair with Italy. Featuring everyone from
aristocrats to film stars, this gorgeous
book is a must for any stylish coffee table.
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Wednesday,
November 7
MOD SQUAD Narciso
Rodriguez is bringing
his signature brand
of minimalism to
Kohls this fall. The
affordable (all items
$150 or under), of-the-
moment color-block
dresses, separates,
and outerwear will kick
off Design Nation, the
mass retailers new
designer-collaboration
program. kohls.com
Thursday, November 1
HUNTER-GATHERER The thought of
impending winter snowstorms just got
a lot more bearable, thanks to Hunters
ultrachic collaboration with J. Mendel. The
classic wellies, available in either black or
white, are all dressed up with fur trim.
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IN CHARACTER Following last years
collab with Lady Gaga, Barneys New York
has partnered with Disney for an Electric
Holiday with animated shorts featuring
Disney characters decked out in the
seasons hottest looks, and customized
goodies, like DVFs take on Mickey Mouse.
barneys.com
Friday, November 23
BLING RING 90210 residents can
breathe a sigh of relief: Rodeo Drives Dior
boutique is reopening after a renovation.
To mark the occasion, the house has
issued a limited-edition accessories
collection, including jewels, sunglasses,
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Dont miss Valentino:
Master of Couture at
Londons Somerset
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50-plus-year career.
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will be Julia Roberts
black-and-white
Oscars gown (styled
by our own Joe Zee)
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Kennedys (second)
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ELLE FASHION: THE LOOK, TRENDS,
AND ACCESSORIES
The weather is frightful, but the seasons
florals, embroidered add-ons, designer
separates, and funky furs are delightful
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From the new body ideal to the most
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WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD
Sarah Jessica Parker, Cate Blanchett,
Octavia Spencer, Uma Thurman, Emma
Watson, Susan Sarandon, Kristen Wiig,
Elle Fanning, and Shirley MacLaine
FASHION
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A TO ZEE: WORTH THE WAIT
ELLE Creative Director Joe Zee and Joel
McHale swap notes on superfan fashion
114
TALK DIRTY TO ME
Online retailer Nasty Gal sells risqu
clothes girls cant get enough of.
By MAGGIE BULLOCK
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OH TO BE YOUNG
New literature suggests people in their
twenties are more confused than ever.
AMANDA FITZSIMONS agrees?
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THE GIFT
The product of an unconventional
upbringing, KATHA POLLITT explores the
symbolic power of a single purchase
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L.A. WOMAN
Viet-Nu Nguyen is the antiminimalist art
insider. By VRONIQUE HYLAND
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EAST SIDE STORY
Elkin designers (and sisters) Brit and Kara
Smith tap into the new L.A. bohemia.
By VRONIQUE HYLAND
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CITY OF ANGELS
Is there something in the water? AMANDA
FITZSIMONS on the Cali-girl style evolution
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WORKBOOK: OFF SCRIPT
Writer-producer Mara Brock Akil
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anything but textbook. By ALLISON P. DAVIS
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ELLE FASHION NEWS
Simones Katie Nehra makes varsity
Pierre Cardins new shelter tomeIsabella
Rossellini for Bulgariand more!
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PLAYTIME
Matthew Edelstein puts the fun back in
fashion. By VRONIQUE HYLAND
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RAW POWER
With eco-friendly line 321, Loomstate is
becoming a new kind of fashion hybrid.
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PRISM BREAK
The seasons best furs are bright, bold,
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Prop styling by Juliet Jernigan at CLM. To get her makeup
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ELLE INTELLIGENCE
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history of women in comedyELLEs
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At the start of Flight Behavior (Harper),
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available to the second sex circa 2012 are those we feature in
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Wiig, Uma Thurman, Cate Blanchett, and Emma Watsonwell
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The article on Katy opened my eyes in many
ways, but what I loved most was how real she
seems. Having grown up amid such heavy
religion and a less-than-wealthy family, she
still stayed focused on her passion and drove
herself to success. Shes grown up a lot, and
hopefully shell continue to do so as she opens
her arms to new opinions while still never
letting go of her values. Shes a true role model
and a great inspiration. I cant wait for her next
album!Jessica, via e-mail
You fierce firework! Love your
transformations! The many faces of beauty,
talent, and amazing grace.Cindy, ELLE.com

I love this new look and am so looking
forward to the new music. She is such
a heartbreaker for me, so beautiful it is
painful.Andrea, via ELLEs Facebook page
All I can say is Russell, eat your heart out.
Damn, Katy!Kate, via e-mail
Alas, we didnt win everyone over entirely:
I just wanted to say that my husband was
even more excited than I was when he saw
[Septembers] cover with Katy Perry. We saw
her concert last year and hes still raving about
it, but we were both sad to see the quote I
cant be the candy queen forever. While we
understand that she needs to grow and move
on, shell always hold a spot in our candy
hearts.Milinda Mueller, Milwaukee
And one reader, well, we may have entranced
a bit too much:
Katy Perry is a goddess. I am going to build
an altar and sacrifice my wife on it in her
honor.reflexshun, Huffingtonpost.com
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n our September cover story, Girl on Fire, Katy Perry confessed, I cant be the candy queen
forever. Rather than lament that foreshadowing, many ELLE readers and Perry fans came out
in support of the singer as she seemingly enters a new, mature phase of lifeprofessionally and
personally:
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Yes, yes, Beyonc is her
sister, but ELLE readers love
Solange Knowles entirely
in her own right: Shes
cool, shes beautiful, shes
down-to-earth, and, as our
September ELLE Living
story, Brooklyns Finest,
showcased, shes got killer
style from head to home.
Now, thats how a home
should look. It fits her
personality with all the flair
and colors. Im sure her guests
are comfortable enough to take
off their shoes and let their hair
down when they are over.
DaiShanell, Necolebitchie.com
Solange is really living the
hipster life. It looks stylish and
amazing, yet so hackneyed at
the same time.Gigi Young,
Fashionbombdaily.com
Solange is the queen of color-
blocking :)
Breeangel3, Necolebitchie.com
If I were a single gal in
NY, I would decorate along
these lines, throw on some
jazz music, put out the wine,
and invite friends over to
entertain.
Dinasty, Missjia.com
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n her September advice column, E. Jean Carroll was enlisted by reader
The Great Gatsby for help in finding the perfect girlwith a few caveats.
Beyond out-of-this world intelligent and ambitious and extremely inde-
pendent, he also required a woman who is sexually adventurous, multi-
orgasmic through vaginal sex, has small breasts, and plays tennis very
well, helicopter skis, and is dying to learn how to kiteboard. E., God bless
her, met him (turns out hes one of the richest men in New York), grilled
him, and then outlined how to get this dream woman via a team of hired
consultants who would find her the same way they would find the perfect
employee. And yet, was it all for naught? Below, an excerpt from an e-mail
sent to E. from Yangyang Cheng, a 22-year-old PhD student working on
the Large Hadron Collider. (Out-of-this world intelligence? Check.)
DEAR E. JEAN:
Im still not fully convinced that the list is not
a parody. If so, its a brilliant one! If not, I
too applaud the gentlemans brutal honesty
and feel he should run for public office, given
his lofty ideals. (And wealth. We all know
how much that matters.) Origin aside, I see
in this list the potential rival to the Proust
Questionnaire and would love if it were filled
out by women worldwide. To keep it honest,
I compared my own credentials to the items
listed and got a good laugh out of it with my
pals. Id like to share it with you below:
Ambitious and extremely independent
with eclectic and diverse interests
When I was eight, I stared at a map of the
world and told my mom I would found a
new League of Nations to replace the United
Nations. When I was nine, I wanted to run
for president of the United States but was
devastated when my dad told me I couldnt,
since I was born in China.
Not needy, high-maintenance, jealous, or
requiring constant attention
My mom used to shave me bald every summer
when I was a kid. Now she blames me for not
being girly enough, even though I have shoulder-
length hair. Sorry, Mom. You raised a tomboy.
On the Pill
I do not pop pills.
5'7"6'1"
6' and I always wear heels.
Very thin (but not because shes starving
herself or has food issuesI want
someone who will be thin her entire life)
I wear size 25 jeans.
Small breasts
32B. And I wear sports bras on a daily basis.
Gorgeous (symmetrical face and features)
The only person who told me I was gorgeous
as a kid was my dad, who usually phrased
it as my baby girl is gorgeous because she
looks just like me. My face and features
are symmetrical within a margin of error.
(I may have a healing pimple on my right
cheek at the moment that does not have its
counterpart on the left.) I have been asked to
model by industry professionals multiple times.
Strangers regularly stop me on the street to tell
me Im beautiful; the first time it happened, I
asked that individual what hed just smoked.
Atheist, agnostic, or not religious
I identify with the principal ideas of the New
Atheism movement. I am, to a certain extent,
disappointed by its poor polemics.
Happy!
I have a joyful personality and find amusement
and pleasure constantly. My laughter has
been such a signature that my colleague once
suggested making a recording of it and playing
it at the entrance of our research building.
Healthy!
I think so.
Plays tennis very well, helicopter skis,
and is dying to learn how to kiteboard
I took one semester of tennis, as a college
requirement. During one class the instructor
observed me playing and commented, You
are the worst tennis player Ive seen in my
entire teaching career. I responded, Of course
you have seen worse. You saw me last week.
I will need to google helicopter skiing and
kiteboarding.
Speaks French perfectly
I speak three lines of French perfectly: bonjour,
bon apptit, and bon voyage.
Plays video games
That comes with being a physics nerd.
Well, thats it for the list. Though I may fail
miserably by the gentlemans criteria, thanks
very much for your patience through my silly
answers. Also, thank you for the great writing
and advice. I look forward to so many more to
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When I fell in love with Barack more than
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and a devoted father. I knew he shared my
determination to make a difference in other
peoples lives. But I never dreamed that hed one
day be president, and I know that he didnt either.
But four years agoagainst all oddsI joined
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help him keep moving forward.
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Here are five reasons to vote for Barack
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1. Hes fighting for equal pay for women. Barack
was raised by a single mom who struggled to
pay the bills, and by a grandmother
who worked hard at her job but hit
a glass ceiling and watched men she
actually trained climb the career
ladder ahead of her. As the father of
two girls, he wants to make sure that
all our daughters grow up with the
same opportunities as our sons and
are treated fairly in the workplace.
Thats why the first bill he signed
as president was the Lilly Ledbetter
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cancer screenings without a co-
pay. And theyll no longer be able
to make us pay more for health
insurance just because were women.
3. Hes putting affordable education
within reach. When Barack and I
were first married, our combined
monthly student loan payments
were higher than our mortgage.
So he understands what its like
to be saddled with student debt,
and he believes that education
should not be a luxury reserved for
the privileged few. Thats why he
doubled funding for Pell grants, fought hard
to stop student loan interest rates from rising,
and worked to raise the standards in our K12
schools so our students are prepared for college.
4. He understands why womens economic success is
important. Barack understands that womens
success in this economy is more than just a
womens issueits a crucial economic issue for
our nation. More and more women are now
breadwinners for their familiesso it is all the
more important that we have a president who
ensures that we have the good jobs we deserve
and get the fair pay weve earned.
5. He believes everyone deserves a fair shot. Barack
has never lost sight of the fundamental
American promise that no matter who you
are or how you started out, you can make a
better life for yourself and your family if youre
willing to work for it. Barack wants to preserve
that American dream for the next generation.
And whether its investing in education or
ensuring that regular folks dont pay a higher
tax rate than millionaires and billionaires,
Barack is fighting to make sure that everyone
in this country has a shot at success.
So before you cast your ballot, I want you to
ask yourself, Whos looking out for me? Whos
thinking about my family? And I want you
to know that the man I have loved for more
than two decadesthe man who has worked
so hard for so long to move this country
forwardis looking out for you every day.
While the 2008 presidential
election saw the highest
percentage of voter turnout
since 1968and the most voters
under age 30 since 1972
around one in four Americans
eligible to vote still arent
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Nonpartisan websites such as
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Many states allow early voting,
or you can vote absentee.
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Tweet your opinions and check
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are doing in the run-up to the
election.
GET THERE
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groups, and schools provide
transportation to and from poll
centers. Bring along a current
and valid photo ID if you have
one, in case your right to vote is
questioned.
GET JUSTICE
Contact the U.S. Election
Assistance Commission at
Eac.gov if you witness voter
fraud, if you or others are denied
the right to vote, or if you feel
threatened or intimidated while
exercising that right.
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NAME: Janice Min
PROVENANCE: Littleton, CO, and Atlanta
NOW: Los Angeles
PROFESSION: Editorial Director, The
Hollywood Reporter
THIS MONTH: The Hollywood Power List
(page 252). Its interesting to think about what
defines power. Money, title, and position in the
C suite are usually what men look to. Women
dont necessarily equate power and influence
in the same waysour tastes and opinions can
be shaped in ways we dont know but would
agree matter.
BONA FIDES: BA, history, and MA,
journalism, Columbia University; has written
for The New York Times, Slate, and The Daily
Beast
READING: My iPhone, sadly.
MOMENT OF ZEN: Playing tennis. Its an
hour where you cant be distracted by anything
or anyone.
OFF DUTY: I have a new baby and two young
sons at home. Usually my free time is spent
putting Parmesan cheese on pasta.
WORDS TO LIVE BY: Good things dont
come to you if you just wish for themyou
have to actually try to make them happen.
TRADE SECRET: My key to a celebrity
interview is to ask mundane questions about
their life and routine. Details about what
they read or even watch on TV are usually
illuminating.
NAME: Thomas Whiteside
PROVENANCE: St. Louis
NOW: New York City
PROFESSION: Photographer
THIS MONTH: Shot Octavia Spencer, Uma
Thurman, Elle Fanning, and Shirley MacLaine
for ELLEs 2012 Women in Hollywood
portfolio (page 334), as well as Prism Break
(page 354). My most memorable moment was
sitting on Shirleys lap for a personal portrait
with her. She told me it was the only way I
could get a picture with her.
TRAVEL BUG: Novelty makes me happiest.
I feel most content when Im in a foreign
country, unable to communicate easily, seeing
landscapes that Ive never seen before.
MESSAGE TO YOUNGER SELF: Looks
arent really that important.
TECHY OBSESSION: Instagram. Follow me!
Im competing with my friend to see who can
get more followers. Im lagging. Help!
DVR READY: Downton Abbey, season three
FAN FAVORITE: I just saw Vicky Cristina
Barcelona for the tenth time. Penlope Cruzs
character is hysterical. I watch that movie just
to see her.
MY DREAM DAY WITH: A young Marlon
Brando. Id like to find out if he was really
bisexual.
NAME: Arianne Cohen
PROVENANCE: Delmar, NY
NOW: New York City and Portland, OR
PROFESSION: Writer
THIS MONTH: Walking on Sunshine (page
302). On ayahuasca, I realized how much of
my childhood is stored away in my memory
details I hadnt thought about in decades, like
the way my third-grade classroom smelled, or
how my arms felt during three hours of swim
practice. Its all just sitting there in my brain,
waiting to be lit up.
BONA FIDES: BA, womens studies, Harvard
University; has written for The Guardian and
The New York Times; author of The Tall Book:
A Celebration of Life From on High and The Sex
Diaries Project: What Were Saying About What
Were Doing
READING: Swimming Studies, by Leanne
Shapton. I was a competitive swimmer for 15
years; this is a must read.
OFF DUTY: I work with a tall-clothing
company, Long Tall Sally. Its a fun way to
get away from my laptopit involves photo
shoots, piles of gorgeous clothes, and talking to
tall women around the world.
MESSAGE TO YOUNGER SELF: Youre
never going to like beer. And thats okay.
MOMENT OF ZEN: I run every 48 hours. It
keeps me healthy and sane.
FANFAVORITE: The Princess Bride. Its like a
memory of a fantasy that never happened.
NAME: Dyan Neary
PROVENANCE: Brooklyn
NOW: Tallahassee, FL
PROFESSION: Writer and journalist
THIS MONTH: The Drug War (page 326)
BONA FIDES: BA, journalism, New York
University; pursuing an MFA in creative
writing at Florida State University; has written
for The New York Times
CHILDHOOD LANDMARK: I used to go
to this old amusement park called Nellie Bly
with my parents. When I got older, I looked
into who she was, and it turns out she was a
pioneering female investigative journalist. Now
shes kind of my hero.
FILM BUFF: When I was a documentary
filmmaker, I snuck my video camera into
a womans prison in Quito, Ecuador, and
produced a film called El crcel de mujeres, about
children under five living in prison with their
mothers.
FIRST BRUSH WITH FAME: Kurt
Vonnegut. At 21, I saw him outside the United
Nations, and I started to tell him that Id been
reading his books since high school. He turned
it around and asked me all about myself. I told
him I had a radio show, so he handed me this
satirical sermon that hed read the night before
at St. Marks Church and said, Here, you can
have this. Go broadcast it somewhere. So
I did.
WORDS TO LIVE BY: Theres never
anything to fear as long as my aim is to be
helpful.
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NAME: Stacey Battat
PROVENANCE: Trumbull, CT
NOW: New York City
PROFESSION: Costume designer and stylist
THIS MONTH: Styled Sarah Jessica Parker for
ELLEs 2012 Women in Hollywood portfolio
(page 334). There are very few women who
have worked continuously in Hollywood for
as long as Sarah Jessica Parker. She is an icon.
I was hoping the clothes would portray that
regalness.
BONA FIDES: BA, sociology, Hunter College;
work has appeared in i-D, GQ, and Vanity Fair,
and in the films Somewhere, Broken English, and
the upcoming The Bling Ring
DREAM COLLABORATION: Tomas
Alfredson, the director of the original Let the
Right One In. I heard he waited a year until he
found the actress to play Eli. Its that kind of
dedication that produces perfect movies.
READING: Everything Beautiful Began After, by
Simon Van Booy
MOMENT OF ZEN: A bath with lots of
bubbles.
FAN FAVORITE: The Bad and the Beautiful.
The costumes are so glamorous, and even
though all of the characters are badly behaved,
its hard not to like them.
MY DREAMDAY WITH: Ernest
Hemingway. Id like to take him fishing. Hed
have to bait the hookbut Im sure he wouldnt
mind.
NAME: Eric Guillemain
PROVENANCE: Rabat, Morocco; and
Picardie, France
NOW: New York City
PROFESSION: Photographer
THIS MONTH: French Open (page 378).
We started looking at a picture of Serge
Gainsbourg with Jane Birkin to get cool vibes.
Seeing Carven designer Guillaume Henry
meeting actress Kaya Scodelario was like
watching characters from some French new-
wave movie.
BONA FIDES: Work has appeared in Interview,
Numro, and Vanity Fair
READY TO ROCK: I dropped out of the
Sorbonne to go on the road with my band,
Venice. I remember playing a packed venue in
Morocco. The day after, I met girls in the street
who proposed! I felt like a Beatle.
DREAM SUBJECT: Bruce Springsteen. He
was like the father I didnt have at home. He
gave me confidence and balance and shaped
my idea of heroism in everyday life.
RECENT INSPIRATION: Regina Spektors
music. Shes the ideal strong, clever, intelligent
woman. Listening to her, full of emotion, you
feel she is right by your side in the room.
PERSONAL MANTRA: Dont muddy the
water to make it seem deep.
MY DREAM DAY WITH: I have simple
dreams, just me on a beach with Marilyn
Monroe.
NAME: Rachel Abramowitz
PROVENANCE: My parents were in the
Foreign Service, and Ive lived all over the
world. Thailand was my favorite.
NOW: Los Angeles
PROFESSION: Television writer and journalist
THIS MONTH: The Players (page 372).
Its a generational change, but young women
screenwriters feel more optimistic than maybe
the generation before. They know their stories
are valuable. There is a determination and a
perseverance and a confidence that is their
birthright, which I find inspiring.
BONA FIDES: BA, history, Yale University;
has written for The New York Times Magazine,
Self, and The Los Angeles Times; author of Is That
a Gun in Your Pocket?: Womens Experience of
Power in Hollywood
CELEB ENCOUNTER: Nora Ephron. She
was one of my first interviews. She told me that
when you are a female screenwriter, you have
to show your work to people who share your
truth. If youre Nora Ephron, you dont show
your stuff to Michael Bay. You realize there is a
place for your work in the worldyou just have
to find like-minded individuals.
READING: State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett
CANT WAIT TO SEE: Life of Pi
TRADE SECRET: Give undivided and
nonjudgmental attention. I spent a whole day
with Mel Gibson at the height of his fame. I was
so intimidated, I didnt speak the whole time.
Afterward, he told the publicist that he loved
me. I dont know why; I didnt say anything.
But I think it was that undivided attention. It
works every time.
NAME: Barbara Grogan
PROVENANCE: Allendale, NJ
NOW: Bergenfield, NJ, with husband and two
toddlers, Billy and Lily
PROFESSION: ELLE Photo Director. I
commission photographers and stylists,
conceptualize shoots, problem-solve, and wear
many hats.
FIRST-DAY JITTERS: My first day on the
job was the Kristen Wiig shoot. She is very
cool. Shes wearing shorts under her sweater, in
case you were wondering!
BONA FIDES: BFA, photography, Parsons
School of Design; has worked for Harpers
Bazaar and Vitals Man
CELEB ENCOUNTER: Bill Murray. My
bangs were in my eyes (as usual), and he
offered me his on-set groomer to give me a
haircut! Instant love!
READING: Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
MOMENT OF ZEN: Cooking
FAN FAVORITE: Winona Ryder. Shes
always been my style role model.
OFF DUTY: I play duck-duck-goose with my
kids, go to parks, look at art, make lists.
MY DREAM DAY WITH: Prince. Wed
karaoke.Allison P. Davis
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workall designed before shed actually
visited. After finishing those pieces, I just
felt this need to see everything firsthand,
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technique and decorative adornment in
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pieces, so I was excited to experience it all
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drives through the Atlas Mountains.
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out of control there. I go to Cafe Mogador
in Brooklyn to satiate my newly developed
craving) and the occasional cat wrangling
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markets in the world, she couldnt ignore
retail rushes: Those markets, especially
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were so exciting. The food, the jewelry, the
rugs! To be in the thick of it and watch it all
being made and then go directly to sale
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bought was an extra duffel bag to carry
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Wellesley hotel has taken over: The six-floor,
36-room townhouse, originally a legend-
hosting jazz venue, has been restored as an
art-deco retreat with My Fair Lady embassy
ball glamour, thanks to Fox Linton (the de-
sign firm behind the citys award-winning
Dorchester Spa). That, and a top-floor suite
with unobstructed views of Hyde Park, might
make those Londons first six-star hotel
rumblings a reality after all. From $625 per
night, thewellesley.co.uk.JULIE VADNAL
STAY: In the Atlas Mountains, where Love
and Nelson roomed at Kasbah Tamadot
(kasbahtamadot.virgin.com), one of Sir Rich-
ard Bransons Virgin retreats. Im a junkie
for beauty rituals, and the hammam,
which is a traditional bathhouse, at the
hotel was incredible, she says; the couple
also lodged at desert oasis Dar Ahlam
(relaischateaux.com), a nineteenth-century
casbah whose name, appropriately, trans-
lates to House of Dreams.
SHOP: At Bouriad Karim (2, Blvd Fatima
Zahra), a stylish boutique in Marrakech
that makes and sells candles, leather
goods, eveningwear, and made-to-order
djellaba robes. Ive actually seen some
of their stuff in Calypso St. Barth at home
in New York, Love says. Their dresses
are gorgeous. I loved them so much that
I bought one in white and one in peach.
DO: Ride horses along the Dades River
outside Ouarzazate before grabbing lunch
at one of the eateries lining the banks; get
your architecture on at Marrakechs Ben
Youssef Madrasaa former Islamic col-
lege reopened in 1982 as a historic site,
complete with a courtyard ornately con-
structed of cedar, marble, and stucco
and the Saadian Tombs. Take a day trip
to Tiznit, about an hour south of Agadir.
Their souk was more manageable, and
they had incredible jewelry, says Love.
Kind of like a smaller, more relaxed Mar-
rakech. Think of being in Williamsburg
instead of Manhattan!
EAT: For dining options outside their ho-
tels, Love and Nelson tried food stands for
quick bites on the go. Im vegetarian, and
Matthew is vegan, so we ate a lot of ex-
traordinary vegetable couscous. I couldnt
get enough of it. Also the fruit, especially
the figs, and the pastries. The pastries!
There were mounds and mounds of them
in every market. I cant begin to tell you
what they all wereother than absolutely
delicious.
LOVES MOROCCAN MUSTS
INTO AFRICA (14) The Kasbah Tamadot (15) Love on horseback by the Dades River (16) One of her many
rug purchases (17) A room at Kasbah Tamadot (18) A slipper shop in the souk in Marrakech: I
bought so many pairs, she says, and every one of my friends has had a baby, so I got some for
them, too! (19) One of the pastry shops Love frequented (20) Every hotel has a couple of house
cats, and Id always befriend them, she says (2124) A necklace, two Berber rings, and a scarf
Love bought at the markets in Tiznit
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I dont do lines; I dont believe in
them. Fashion folks just arent about
linesnot the kind you wait in, at
least. On a recent trip to Disneyland,
I even paid extra for a front-of-line
pass. Yes, Im that guy. Though this wasnt
always the case. Back in high school, I ac-
tually loved waiting for something I was
excited about. The anticipation was a part
of the overall event, not a nuisance.
In the early 80s, on a mission to score
tickets to a Culture Club concert in To-
ronto, I did the official campout, waiting
all night inside a mall for my local Ticket-
master to open. There I was, at 3 A.M., with
my equally fanatical friend and a sleeping
bag, dressed in my best Karma Chame-
leon getup: fedora, black overcoat, skinny
black pants, fingerless gloves, andyes
eyeliner. I was in my teens, and Boy
George was my Bieber. It was the perfect
prequel to the concert: I was sixth in line,
and my seat ended up being great. Today,
Boyand his lookmay no longer be in
the spotlight, but those die-hard lines have
yet to die down.
Take, for instance, the hot and heavy
anticipation of the upcoming movie ad-
aptation of Fifty Shades of Grey. Hollywood
is buzzing about who will be cast in the
filmIan Somerhalder as Christian? or
Chris Hemsworth?!and the superfans
will surely be ready to pounce when it fi-
nally opens. Lets face it: Fan favorites like
Twilight and even Star Wars before it have
induced more fevered frenzies than the
rare Manolo Blahnik sample sale. So in
celebration of our annual Women in Hol-
lywood Issue, were breaking down the
superfan look for movies, concerts, reality-
TV competitions, and all the other hotly
awaited events that women are willing to
line up for.
To outfit the fandom kingdom, I invited
Joel McHale, host of ELLEs star-studded
Women in Hollywood event for the sec-
ond year in a row, to a funny-guy-versus-
fashion-guy line dance. The comic, who
plays Jeff Winger on NBCs Community
and is the dapper host of E!s The Soup,
follows Hollywood with his own obses-
sive eyeand he always tells it like it is.
So how do you play the fangirl part to the
hilt? While Joels tastes skew more Comic-
Con, mine, of course, lean more toward
couture. Check out both takes and decide
which might land you the more fun wait.
WORTH
THE WAIT
What should you wear in line for your favorite movie
franchise, TV-show tryout, or iPhone stakeout?
Creative Director Joe Zee and funnyman Joel
McHale devise ensembles for superfans of all stripes
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OF GREY
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JOELS TAKE: The boots and raincoat not only
say Seattle, where the books take place, but
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THE HUNGER
GAMES:
CATCHING FIRE
JOES TAKE: Heat up the line like a citizen of
the Capitol in this glitzy Stella McCartney
dress and OMO Norma Kamali headdress.
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so she can know where the people
are who want to kill her. And inside
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AUDITIONS
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THE TWILIGHT
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JOES TAKE: I love a couture werewolf
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APPLE STORE
JOES TAKE: An early-morning line may
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JOELS TAKE: She thinks shell blend in perfectly
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BARNEYS
WAREHOUSE SALE
JOES TAKE: Shopping sample sales is
about strategy: comfortable shoes you
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LINE7
LADY GAGA
TICKETS
JOES TAKE: Since theres no way to outdo
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shes inside the concert to reveal her
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ium that is not quite as sordid as its name suggestsheld an
In stagram contest. It asked fans to declare their devotion by
creatively interpreting the companys slogan, Nasty Gals do
it better. From all over the country, N-A-S-T-Ys poured in, spelled
out in nail art, Scrabble letters, sidewalk chalk, and studs on the
back of a jacket. Kitchens were raided for edible art supplies:
Skittles and candy hearts and alphabet soup. The words were
baked into the tops of pies and arranged in strands of spaghetti
on a plate of Bolognese. There was even, somewhat alarmingly,
a photo of a Nasty Gal tattoo (frighteningly real, one staffer
recalled, though its authenticity was never entirely determined).
Perhaps most surprising, a number of devotees eschewed In-
stagram in favor of the U.S. Postal Service. Scrawled in marker,
sprinkled with stickers, this old-school fan mailcollected in a
bin in the companys computer-crowded downtown L.A. head-
quartersseemed steeped in a sort of 70s nostalgia, as if The
Virgin Suicides Lisbon sisters had decided to express their love
for a digital-age phenom using construction paper and Elmers.
Nasty Gal sells streetwear that falls on the more risqu end of
the H&M and Topshop spectrumcutaway bodysuits, cropped
moto jackets, 90s-style bustiers, and the best-selling Slasher
shredded jean short (in the tradition of Rihanna or, depending on
your frame of reference, Tawny Kitaen), all mostly priced under
$100. But the site also promulgates an ethos: a blithe, sexy spirit
that feels 100 percent Californian in its riffs on surf, skate, and
music-festival cultures and its emphasis on the fearless and enthu-
siastic display of ones body. First-time visitors to the site may
click on a pair of, say, high-waisted black leggings with gaping
holes skipping down each thigh (engineered to showcase a region
that most of womankind has been conditioned to conceal at all
costs) and wonder, Who on earth would wear this? But the reason
Nasty Gal gets the kind of fan mail usually reserved for Twihards
is that the brand fundamentally gets why a girl would want to not
just toe the border of good taste but kick her way through it. This
emotional connectionperpetuated minute to minute on Insta-
gram, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebookflows upstream as well as
down. Nasty loves its girls, and girlsat last count, 400,000 visi-
tors per monthlove their Nasty.
Increasingly, though, its not just gals who are idolizing the
companys face and founder, 28-year-old Sophia Amoruso. With
minimal advertising and, until last year, no outside investment,
Amoruso turned a vintage stall that she founded on eBay with a
couple hundred bucks in 2006 into a 150-employee empire sell-
ing a vast mix of vintage and contemporary clothes. As of this
fall, Nasty also boasts an in-house label, Nasty Gal Collection; a
range of denim (including its inaugural high-waisted style, known
as the Kink); andin the ultimate example of media aging back-
warda print magazine, Super Nasty. When Inc.com published
its 2012 ranking of the fastest-growing online brands, Nasty Gal
came in number 11 of 5,000 and was the number-one retailer
in the pack. In 2008, the companys revenue was $222,000; by
2011, it was $22.9 million. Thats 10,315 percent growth, says
Nicole Guarascio, the West
Coast trend director of fashion
forecasting company Stylesite,
with something approaching
awe in her voice. Its exponen-
tial. And its ongoing: Nasty
Gals earnings are projected to
multiply by more than 500 per-
cent in 2012, up to $128 million.
In the world of fast fashion,
of course, thats still small po-
tatoes. Urban Outfitters and
H&M are projecting 2012
earnings of $2.77 billion and
$2.75 billion, respectively. But
Nasty Gal is succeeding in the
very niche where many brick-
and-mortar monoliths falter. In
the age of social media, if a brands communiqus dont seem
authentic, its almost worse than not doing it at all, says Guar-
ascio. For the Gen-Y consumer born between roughly 1980 and
2000also known as Millennials, Generation We, Generation
Next, the Net Generation, and, according to Wikipedia, some-
thing called Echo Boomersthe whole culture is about trans-
parency and honesty, and identifying with real individuals that
you relate to. Amoruso doesnt have to hire some consultant to
help her find the right aspirational-yet-down-to-earth voice that
would resonate with her customers. She just is one. So if you were
sitting in the blond-wood boardroom of H&Mnope, still not
sold onlineyoud be watching Amoruso closely.
Still, on the kind of scorching New York summer morning
that seems to liquefy all ambition, not to mention eye makeup,
Amoruso picks at a croissant with her fingers and declares, in
the opening salvo of this interview, that shes not really a career
person. It echoes the statement made by her outfit: the two-inch
sliver of midriff visible between her cropped black tank and a
cognac-color, knee-length, 70s suede skirt; the choppy bob; the
teal glitter nail polish, which coincidentally matches the rough
tattoo of a cross on her finger.
Amoruso radiates the kind of cool that should be intimidating,
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except for the fact that she insists on be-
ing anything but. This persona extends to
the grinning, bedheaded models on her
site, who display her wares with a kind
of carefree, loose-limbed sex appeal, as if
they just tumbled in from Coachella and
decided to take some pictures for the fun
of it. The mood on Nasty Gal is surpris-
ingly un-nasty. In this all-girls club, ev-
eryone is welcome to join. Bitchy is not
on-brand.
The original motivation for Nasty Gal
was merely to get Amoruso out of having
to work for anyone elsewhich is not to
say she didnt want to work. Having sold
shoes, worked in photo labs, checked
student IDs at an art school, and, for a
week at least, scrubbed ring-around-the-
collar off of mens shirts at a dry cleaner,
she was living in San Francisco and in
between jobs, she says, when I thought,
Whoa, Im going to try to sell stuff on eBay,
like every other girl who tries to do that
around that age.
Nasty Gal Vintage started as a one-
woman operation: Amoruso scoured
Goodwill, then styled and photographed her finds on a cadre
of friends and girls scouted on MySpace. Throughout the first
year, her models posed in front of her aunts blue garage door.
Amoruso then wrote up the items on eBay and sold, packed, and
shipped them, one by one. The secret was in the styling: Instead
of presenting the pieces nostalgically, she remixed vintage from
disparate eras in a modern way, quickly learning the rules of
perceived value. You cannot put a plain blouse, no matter
how beautiful, on eBay and have people duke it out, she says.
Everything had to be really crazy or avant-garde or designer
or beautiful. Bidding wars ensued. For one crazy neon kids
sweater with a hole in the armpit and a starting bid of $9.99, I
did not tell anybody this thing was worth $500but some girl
had to have it, and thats what it sold for.
The company name she borrowed from the hypersexual 1975
album by Betty Davisnot to be confused with Bettethe snarl-
ing 70s punk-funk paragon and wife of Miles. Davis was beyond
merely sexy or strong; she was defiant, uncompromising, an
original badass. Clearly, a logical patron saint for a retail venture.
Initially, it was like, if I can survive with a name like thisthats
funny, Amoruso says. I wasnt trying to be a CEO. Now that
she is one, she seems to appreciate the moniker even more. It
provides a sort of psychological moat around the brand.
If you can accept the name, its like youve passed the first
step, says Amoruso. In the era of peer-ents, in which teenag-
ers and their mothers often shop at the same stores, Nasty Gal
feels like its for actual youthsnot just the young at heart. And
these days, a dress that can make Mom shudder has a certain
kind of cachet. Plus I think its pretty obvious to our customers
that some big corporation isnt behind something that was named
as, like, flippantly as this business.
By 2008, NastyGal.com had left eBay, becoming its own on-
line destination and beginning a breathtaking expansion; 2011
was a big year: Amoruso and a core team of a dozen OG Nas-
ties relocated from San Francisco to downtown L.A., and the
company got its first boost of outside financingunique in an
industry in which most ventures are financed to the hilt from the
word go, and in which many are founded for the sole purpose of
one day being sold off to the highest bidder. London-based Index
Ventures (which also funds part of Net-a-Porter and the British
fast-fashion phenom Asos) invested $9 million for less than 10
percent of the business, with Amoruso retaining control. [Six
years ago] if youd said, Do you want to have 150 employees and
spend your days in conference rooms, Id have said, Oh, that
sucks, says Amoruso. But when I was editing every photo, I
was like, How can I find someone to help me not do this day-to-
day stuff so I can keep growing the business? Today, the busi-
ness kind of has a mind of its own, she says. I feel like its humble
servant in a lot of weird ways. I put myself where it needs me.
T
he it in Nasty Gals do it better presumably refers to dress-
ing, taste, coolnessbut also, unavoidably, sex. Whether you
are currently a college-age intern or you work with them, you
will recognize Nasty Gal wares as the uniform of a pantsless
generation, for whom the acronym NSFW does not extend to the
question What should I wear today?
That doesnt mean that all 3,000-odd items for sale on Nasty
Gal at any given moment are revealing. But even with the sites
most buttoned-up blouse, a certain sultriness pervades. Ask
Amoruso about the complexities of selling very sexy clothes to
very young womenthe companys sweet spot is ages 18 to 24,
but surely little sisters armed with Moms credit card are on board
tooand she fiddles uncomfortably with the heavy bronze collar
that circles her neck. She trusts her clientele to have the kind of
Kate Mossesque knack for contrast and context that can render
any look more hipster than Hustler. You can wear dresses that we
sell and look like a Kardashian, she says. Or you can look really
awesome and cool. And its true: On the site, stretchy micro-
minis have a certain youthful, non-Snooki verve when paired with
combat boots and friendship bracelets; a red lip does look alterna-
girl sexy, a tad defiant, as long as its worn with scrubbed cheeks.
For the women whove mastered this artful balance, a certain
be-who-I-wanna-be feminism could be said to underlie this kind
of dressing. In these clothes, a girl effectively opts out of compro-
mising, of being correct or politefrom the neck down, at
least and lays claim to her own sexuality. Are bum-skimming
shredded jean shorts todays Helen Gurley Brown fishnets?
Amoruso knows she has benefited from her feminist fore-
bears, but she finds the existing terminology too preachy for her
liking. I hate the word empowerment. Its so tampon-y, or what-
ever, she says. However, when her company finally did reach
a focus-group level of critical mass, she learned that her young
clientele, thankfully, does not. These girls were using this word,
you know? They were like, Nasty Gal makes me feel really con-
fident, like I can do anything. Like were dressing them to live
out their dreams. Even though were selling revealing things that
someone may interpret the wrong way or may not be able to pull
off, the overarching feeling is, I dont have to be a wallflower, or
Im expressing something inside me.
When Amoruso was 17, she wasnt very Nasty: She wore all-
black, didnt shave her legs, refused to let a guy open the door
for her. As a kid, I used to read teen magazines, all these horror
stories about, say, getting your first period. Theyd make you
think its the worst thing in the world to be a girl, its so terrify-
ing. This boy dumped meoh God, what do I do? she says.
Nasty-ness is the opposite of that kind of fear. Its a full-circle
kind of thing: Its fun to be a girl, to wear makeup, to show a little
skin, she says. I think its just about owning yourself. Within
her company, the oft-repeated mantra is that Nasty Gals arent
sexy for someone elsetheyre sexy for themselves. And if the
bandage dress fits, why would you not wear it? If thats the way
you feel (and dress), its a safe bet that plenty of people arent
going to get itwhether those people are your date, your dad,
or your boss. But Nasty Gal will.
MS. NASTY This isnt a
bunch of guys in suits
hiring someone to
tell them what girls
want, says founder
Amoruso.
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everal years ago, graduate students in Stanfords psychology
department hit upon a prime spot to observe humans in the
throes of high-pressure decision making: the grocery store.
Posing as reps for a gourmet jam, they offered a range of fla-
vors for shoppers to choose among: six in the first experiment
(among them, black cherry, kiwi, and lemon curd), 24 in the sec-
ond. And then they tallied sales. On the day with six flavors, 30
percent of shoppers walked away with a new jar of jam; on the
day with four times that, a mere 3 percent did. The results dem-
onstrated what the researchers dubbed choice overload: When
faced with too many options, the brain becomes overwhelmed
and, like a computer with too many windows open, freezes.
Its perhaps no big coincidence that the jam experiment, as
its become known in the psych world, has made
its way into both The Defining Decade and Twenty-
something: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?two
in a wavelet of books released this year about
lifes third decade. The twenties are a period
in which big choices are traditionally made
career, partner, lifestyleand, despite the sput-
tering economy, this generation (its economically
privileged members, at least) has more jams to
pick from than its predecessors.
The pool of potential mates is no longer limited
to the local barwe can select among the 1.8 mil-
lion eligibles on Match.com. If we cant find a ca-
reer that suits us, we can plot a start-up. And just
like the shoppers in the experiment, millennials
like me (Im 27) arent dashing toward the check-
out line either. The five milestones sociologists
use to classify someone as an adultfinishing
education, declaring financial independence, get-
ting married, having a child, leaving homehad
been reached by 77 percent of women in 1960.
Today, less than half of twentysomething women
are adults, by the academic definition. The pun-
dits are calling us Peter and Priscilla Pans and
Kidultsshould we be worried?
The trope of the twenties as a decade for soul-
searching is actually a recent development. A cen-
tury ago, the choices of what to do and who to
marry (and one did marry) were much narrower.
It wasnt until the rise of the Pill, free love, and
feminism, among other social upheavals, that the
modern young adultfree to search for a true
calling and a soul mateemerged. And almost
immediately it became apparent that all this free-
dom could be too much of a good thing: In 1968,
a year after Dustin Hoffmans Benjamin Brad-
dock floated aimlessly in his parents backyard
swimming pool in The Graduate, developmen-
tal psychologist Erik H. Erikson used the term
quarter-life crisis to describe one of the eight
existential dilemmas he believed marked the hu-
man life span. According to Erikson, after leaving
the structured world of academia, be it high school or college,
with their neatly packaged semester-long intervals and clear-cut
objectives (get good grades, graduate), the individual becomes
overwhelmed, feels lost, and enters a state of free-fall.
But by todays standards, Ben had it easy. Thanks to the later
and later age of marriage (this generation will spend more time
single than any before it), as well as globalization and changes
in corporate culture (one in three twentysomethings will change
residences this year; millennials will hold, on average, seven jobs
by the time they turn 30), young people live a far more transient,
uncertain existence than their parents did. And weighing all the
newly expanded options is only half the battle: The economy,
crippling student loan debt, and skyrocketing rents in major cit-
ies are gaping potholes on the road to adulthood.
This may explain why Eriksons quarter-life
crisis has gone from obscure (especially com-
pared with its attention-grabbing counterpart,
midlife crisis) to buzzworthy, spawning proj-
ects like QuarterLife, an NBC Web series focused
on a group of friends in their twenties ( la the
late-80s TV phenomenon Thirtysomething). Jour-
nalist Alexandra Robbins was one of the first to
bring what she calls QLC into the mainstream,
with her 2001 best-seller Quarterlife Crisis and its
follow-up, Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis. Oh
sure, people were skeptical at first, she tells me.
Bryant Gumbel called us whiny.
I, for one, definitely wish for some better way
to understand, not to mention negotiate, this time
in my life. When I was growing up, my boomer
mom drilled into me that I should spend my
twenties trying a variety of professional and per-
sonal pathsshe did, she said, and was happy for
it. While I never took her advice to an extreme
Ive had jobs in the same industry and have lived
in the same city since graduationin the back
of my mind Ive always assumed I had plenty of
time to change my mind. Then it hit me earlier
this year: By the time my mother was my age,
shed already been married for four years, fin-
ished graduate school, settled into her second
(and lifelong) career, andwhat really blows my
mindhad a mortgage on a house. Meanwhile,
Im still on my parents cell phone plan, and my
dad does my income taxes. How did I miss the
part about growing up overnight?
Among my friends, the variation in adultitude
is as wide as its been since middle school: Some
seem prematurely middle-aged (spending Satur-
day night painting their walls sage green, before
turning in at ten oclock); others seem hope-
less cases of arrested development (one woman
I know has had a string of part-time jobs since
graduation and no plans to stop living with her
parents). Theres not this lock-step road to ma-
OH TO BE YOUNG...
And filled with angst about whether you should start acting like an adult or use your twenties
for grand adventure. Twenty-seven-year-old Amanda FitzSimons checks out a spate of new
books that offer guidance about navigating so-called emerging adulthood
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turity there was 60 years ago, says Stephanie Coontz, a professor
of family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash-
ington. All stages in life, not just ones twenties, are becoming
more and more ambiguous. To wit, Ive found myself wrapping
a Jonathan Adler peacock-shape lollipop holder for a friends
bridal shower in my parents living room, where Im temporarily
living with barely a lollipop to my name, let alone a holder for it.
Enter the work of developmental psychologist Jeffrey Arnett,
who, in what is arguably the most radical concept to rock the
developmental psychology world in decades, essentially argues
that my peers and I shouldnt sweat our slow march to adulthood.
Arnett posits that the period between ages 18 and 29 should be
recognized as a distinct developmental stage called emerging
adulthood (sandwiched between adolescence and full-blown
adulthood), during which the fits and starts of self-exploration
should not only be expected but often encouraged. Arnetts
theory is bolstered by recent findings that our prefrontal cortex,
the part of our brain responsible for planning, prioritizing, and
controlling impulses, isnt fully formed until our late twenties. (If
the idea that a stage of our lives could be so distinct yet somehow
have gone unnoticed sounds suspect, consider the fact that ado-
lescence wasnt formally recognized until 1904.)
Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?, written by
Robin Marantz Henig and her 28-year-old daughter, Samantha,
leans heavily on Arnetts research. The authors approach the
concept of emerging adulthood from the perspective of jour-
nalists (theyre both writers for The New York Times), with count-
less sociological stats and psychological studies, as well as from
the vantage point of mother and daughter. (One of the books
most memorable moments is when Robin tells Samantha, whos
had a disappointing first date, that shes too old to be waiting for
a man to make her feel glowy. Oh shitwhat did I just say?
Robin quickly chides herself.)
Without question, the book makes some solid arguments for
delaying adulthood: A woman who has her first child at 26 will
earn 72 percent less than a woman who does so at 34. Those who
marry before 25 are more likely to divorce. Twentysomethings
who move back in with their parents are seven times less likely
to fall under the poverty line while under their parents roof. I
wanted it to be reassuring to readers, Robin says. A lot of my
friends said they found it comforting to know other people were
having the same struggles, seconds Samantha. As I read it, I
knew what the two were talking about. Phew, I dont have to be
an adult, I thought. Im an emerging adult.
Its the same sense of relief I got from Emma Koenigs book,
F*CK! Im In My Twenties. Koenig, a 24-year-old actress (and, inci-
dentally, the sister of Vampire Weekend front man Ezra Koenig),
began a Tumblr of the same name last year, which, in addition
to leading to a book deal, has inspired a potential TV show. Her
book echoes the themes of Arnetts workthe foolishness of ex-
pecting twentysomethings to be fully formed adultsthough her
portrait is more cartoon than analysis. I just put it on my Face-
book one day, and it got 40 likes in an hour, recalls Koenig.
Fuck is an interjection that can mean many things, and thats
how I feel about being in my twenties. Im not sure if Im sup-
posed to be happy about it or frustrated by it.
Meg Jay, a psychologist in private practice and an instructor at
the University of Virginia, gives a cold shower to all the happy
talk about gliiiiding into adulthood. The very title of her book, The
Defining Decade, is chilling. With the exception of Mark Zucker-
berg and the Instagram guys, I cant think of a single contempo-
rary who wants to believe that their twenties will set the tone for
the rest of their lives. That aversion doesnt surprise Jay. I know
people in their twenties will see that title and think, Thats the last
thing I want to hear right now.
Jay doesnt so much disagree with Arnetts conception of
how people developshe relies on much of the same informa-
tion he does, such as the science showing that the brain keeps
maturing until around 30. She just thinks that his message can
easily be taken the wrong way. I know what young adults are
doing. Theyre hearing this and thinking [the twenties] is time
to waste. Jays book is filled with examples of clients whove
put off adulthood: One almost-30-year-old delayed taking the
LSAT during her twenties, though she claimed she wanted to
be a lawyer someday, as opposed to a professional bartender.
Another went from one-night stand to one-night stand without
looking for a serious partner, though she insisted she wanted to
get married. And then they get to 35 and feel like theyve been
cheated or conned, Jay says.
The more I talked to her, the more her sort of tough-love ap-
proach grew on me. It may be scary, but its also bracing to hear
that what you do now will make a lasting impact on your future.
Jay rattles off reasons why ones twenties are so crucial: Two
thirds of lifetime wage growth occurs within the first 10 years
of a career; a womans fertility peaks in her late twenties. (The
Henigs also talk frankly about biology; on the Times Mother-
lode blog, they had a debate about whether Samantha should
freeze her eggs.)
Its not that Jay eschews exploration. Shes quick to point out
that she didnt get married until her thirties, and her first job after
college was driving vans for Outward Bound, which she admits
may not have been on her how-to-become-a-psychologist check-
list but gave her the chance to learn how people react in challeng-
ing situations. Its one thing to have a life come together at 30,
she says. Its quite another to start building a life at 30.
Ultimately, what Jay and the Henigs all advocate is what Ill
call strategic searching, or searching with an end goal in mind.
On the one hand, it sounds sensible; on the other, almost oxy-
moronic. How can you sincerely throw yourself into testing al-
ternative ways of living if youre always shooting for a certain
outcome? Im reminded of Steve Jobs studying calligraphy at
Reed College, which ultimatelybut wholly unexpectedlyin-
formed the brilliant fonts for Apple. You cant connect the dots
looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward,
Jobs told graduates in his famous 2005 Stanford commencement
speech. That perhaps sums up whats so difficult about navigat-
ing your twenties: No matter how informed your decisions, youll
only be able to connect the dots in hindsight. And whatever you
choose will inevitably require tweaking. Coontz thinks back to
the end of The Graduate, when Ben, having just coaxed the girl of
his dreams from the altar and run ecstatically into the future with
her, looks off into the distance, stunned, as if to say, What the hell
do I do next? I can well imagine him saying to himself, Maybe
plastics arent such a bad idea after all.
Jay argues that the twenties are crucial: Two thirds of
lifetime wage growth occurs in the first 10 years of a career,
and the brain is still malleable in the third decade.
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therapist once told me, You never really had your mother,
but she was wrong. My mother may have been an alco holic
well, no maybe about it; she died of cirrhosis at only 54, when
I was 29. She didnt teach me the things mothers back then
were supposed to, like how to cook (how could she when she
could hardly bake a potato herself?) or clean or behave on a date.
I dont remember her helping me with my homework or read-
ing to me at bedtime. But she loved me, she was proud of me, she
wanted me to be happy, and she wanted me to be myself. Since she
died, from decade to decade, apartment to apartment, drawer to
drawer, Ive saved one gift she gave me to remind myself of that.
My mother was a beautiful woman who loved beautiful clothes.
She had a whole bureau dedicated to her collection of cashmere
sweaters in rich, soft colorsbutter yellow, forest green, peri-
winkleand her two closets were full of treasures: Viyella dress-
ing gowns (what other mother had more than one bathrobe?);
Lilly Pulitzer shiftdresses; straight skirts made of good wool, fully
lined and bearing labels from elegant department stores that no
longer existMartins, Peck & Peck, Bonwit Teller. My father
loved to see my mother dressed up, but the money she spent on
clothes drove him wild with rage. I used to hear him shouting in
their bedroom when my mothers college friend Hope, who was a
buyer at Altmans, would send over outfits on approval.
I wasnt sure which side of their money quarrel to be on. I idol-
ized my father, the Communist lawyer with his parade of impe-
cunious clientsthe Fair Play for Cuba committee, the dissidents
from the painters union, the mentally ill woman trying to get
back her son from the social workers. But my mother worked
too, even in the 1950s. Whats more, by the time I was 9 or 10,
she was outearning my father. She sold brownstones in Brooklyn
Heights, where we lived, which was just beginning its gentrifica-
tion. She didnt like the job muchshed wanted to be in journal-
ism, a field virtually closed to women back then. But she was
proud of her success. Im a real estate salesman, shed saynot
a saleswoman, a salesman. Still, nobody told her that she was
noble or heroic, which was the family myth about my fatheror
maybe just the myth my mother and I believed in.
In a way, my parents had a secular version of an old-style Jewish
marriage. Instead of the wife peddling goods from a pushcart to
support the husband, the Talmudic scholar, my mother, the capi-
talist, supported my father, the Communist, though the rewards
of being the breadwinner didnt apply to her. She still had to run
the house, do the shopping, cook the food. Obviously, my father
was the important one, in her eyes and also in mine. He was the
person who thought about the big things, like civil liberties and
Stalin, and who looked so elegant in his seersucker suit. Still, as
I got older, I wondered, Shouldnt my mother be allowed to have
some fun with the money that she worked so hard to earn?
Because of these conflicts, I had trouble with the idea of spend-
ing money on myself when I became a teenager. I knew that if I
asked for something, my mother would give it to me. But what if
my parents couldnt afford it, like the clothes sent over by Hope?
THE GIFT
From her Communist father, Katha Pollitt learned that materialism was an opiate of the masses.
Yet her mother appreciated beautiful clothesindeed, beautiful things. Decades later, Pollitt finds
thwarted ambition, desire, and a mothers love stitched into a lace blouse
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ter all, did Communists get their bedrooms redecorated with a
canopy bed, an antique secretary desk, and unicorn-print wallpa-
per, which was something my mother had arranged for me with
a decorator friend of hers, despite the inevitable fights with my
father? I want. Her. To have. That desk, I can still hear her in-
sisting, emphasizing every word. And I have it to this day, in my
study, catty-corner to my real desk. Poor fragile, lovely thing
how could I ever give it away?
When my bedroom was finished, it was all too much. It felt
obscurely shameful, a mark of privilege, of being spoiled and
overprotected, befitting the princess in whose lap the unicorn
rested its head. The truth was, I loved girly thingsmy Villager
shirtwaist printed with tiny flowers, my cousin Wendys lavender
bedroom (more tiny flowers), even the unicorn wallpaperbut I
could see that they led in the wrong direction. Rosa Luxemburg
was just a name to me, but whatever she had done to become
a world-historical personage, I knew she hadnt done it wearing
dresses printed with little flowers.
By the time I was in high school, my mother had retreated into
drinking, my father was keeping her company, and I was a rag-
ing adolescent. My idea of fashion was to wear the same turtle-
neck for a week. So I dont know how my mother and I came to
be shopping together, and in Manhattan, too, at a clothing store
filled with high-end bohemia. She saw me hesitating over a very
expensive lace Mexican blouse, picking it up, putting it down,
walking away, coming back. It cost what seemed like the earth to
memaybe $50.
Do you like it, Darling? my mother asked. Its gorgeous,
I said. It was a costume for the unicorn wallpaper princess, with
alternating panels of cloth and lace, a scoop neck with lace stand-
ing up all around it, puffy elbow-length sleeves, and tiny mother-
of-pearl buttons down the back. But its so expensive.
You should always get the things you really want, she said,
and she picked it up, marched to the cash register, and bought it.
The odd thing is that I wore the blouse only once or twice.
It was too fancy for high school and much too virginal for col-
lege, and anyway, like so many things we fall in love with at the
store, it didnt fit right. In the mysterious way of clothes, even
without my wearing it, even as it sat in one drawer after an-
other, it somehow acquired holes and stains. To me it represents
my mothers unrealized potential in life. Selling real estate had
never been the plan: She was too unworldly and gentle for all
that undercutting and competition and stress. She told me once
that she had started drinking in order to deal with the anxiety
of meeting with clients. Sometimes I think she would have been
happy just sitting in the big yellow chair in the living room and
listening to Bach, drinking coffee and clipping articles from The
New York Times, going to the occasional peace demonstration,
meeting her friends or my father for lunch on Montague Street.
In a way, she, not I, was the real unicorn princess, only instead
of being sheltered from the world by a canopy bed, she had to
do battle with it every day.
But the blouse represents something happier, too, and that is
my mothers love. She wanted to do wonderful things for me, and
sometimes she didnot just over-the-top projects like the uni-
corn bedroom but real things that helped me become myself. She
never told me that I had to get married or have children, or gave
me little life lessons about how to play dumb and lose gracefully
to please boys. Instead, she read my poems, and when I fell in
love with Latin in eighth grade and decided I wanted to learn an-
cient Greek, too, she found a classics major at Brooklyn College
to tutor me. She wanted to be close to me, but her drinking got in
the way, and most of the time I wouldnt let her be close, because
I didnt want to end up like her. Not always, though. When I was
13, we went to Manhattan to see The Lovers of Teruel, a surrealist
French dance film, at the Paris Theatre, and ended up staying for
three showings, we loved it so muchor was it I alone who loved
it so much, and she stayed for me? Sometimes on school holidays,
I would meet her for hot turkey sandwiches at Sakeles, and some-
thing about our just being out of the house together, like a regu-
lar mother and daughter, would almost make my heart stop with
happiness at the freedom and intimacy and fun of it. Sometimes
I would come home after a sleepover at a friends house where
there had been some family tsuris and I would feel such a sense
of peace just to sit with her and my father in the garden, having
a cookout like normal people, talking about normal things like
school or what a bastard President Johnson was. Im trying to say:
There were moments that shone through.
If I hadnt kept that blouse, how would I remember them?
Adapted from What My Mother Gave Me, edited by Elizabeth
Benedict (Algonquin Books, Spring 2013)
My mother saw me hesitating over the blouse. Do you like it, Darling? she
asked. Its gorgeous, I said. You should always get the things you really
want, she repliedand she marched to the cash register and bought it.
TIES THAT BIND The author
with her parents
jasmine collection
Bloomingdales
ELLE INSIDER L.A. STYLE
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iet-Nu Nguyen is a born collector. If
her array of figurines depicting ev-
erything from sushi to giraffes to
a Hawaiian-leid President Obama
didnt tip you off, then the art pieces strewn
around her 1961 Richard Neutra home
and her closet, bursting with vintage trea-
suresshould make it abundantly clear.
Having spent the past five and a half years
as the curator of the 1,500-plus-piece Ovitz
Family Collection, Nguyen, 33, is well-
suited to the business of acquisition. For
Creative Artists Agency cofounder Michael
Ovitz, shes netted pieces from Sterling
Ruby and Isa Genzken; currently shes at
work on a project for the collection by con-
ceptual pioneer Carol Bove.
When the up-and-coming player
on L.A.s art scene isnt making high-
profile deals, shes disproving the idea that
women in the art
worldto say noth-
ing of intellectuals of
all stripesare rel-
egated to shapeless,
all-black silhouettes.
Ive always had an
eclectic wardrobe, she says. And I like
having that sort of confusion on a certain
level; I dont like being able to pin down
my style. Im just sort of all over the place.
The same goes for her art collection, which
tends toward the outr: a pie-pan sculpture
by Sara Greenberger Rafferty adorns one
wall, and an iridescent Mark Flood paint-
ing hangs in her office.
A decade ago, Nguyen, whod received
an undergraduate degree in urban stud-
ies from Brown University, was pursuing
a masters in design studies at Harvards
Graduate School of Design when she no-
ticed that the female architects would
always dress like men. It was sad to me
that these progressive thinkers, who were
obviously aesthetically minded, felt the
need to just blend in fashionwise. I think
I really started to have fun with clothes
around that time. She spent her study
breaks wandering the aisles of Riccardi,
acquiring Comme des Garons at slashed
prices. Postgraduation, she headed for the
West Coast and worked as an assistant di-
rector at the now-shuttered Sandroni Rey
gallery. Though her surroundings might
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romper; (left)
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By Vronique Hyland
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have changed, her style didnt. L.A. is
certainly more casual, she says. I can
get away with wearing ratty T-shirts and
jeans, but I probably would dress the same
wherever I lived.
Combing through her overstuffed
closet, she pulls out plenty by the afore-
mentioned names, but also vintage Guy
Laroche, Hanae Mori, Emanuel Ungaro,
and Ossie Clark, mixed with newer
pieces from Marni and Proenza Schouler.
Of a rainbow-hued 80s Emanuel Ungaro
dress, she notes: Its bright and slightly
garish, and I feel like a sassy secretary ev-
ery time I wear it. A pinup-style Louis
Fraud 50s romper was her first purchase
from C. Madeleines, the North Miami
Beach emporium. I make a trip there
every Art Basel Miami Beach. (When
doing her L.A.
rounds, she always
checks out Decades
and Resurrection.)
Another treasured
find? A vintage
Herms shirt with a
Kreayshawn-worthy
pattern that she nabbed for $40 at a thrift
store in Basalt, Colorado. At the same
spot, she scored aquarium-print Versace
jeans. They were about six sizes too
big. Luckily, I have an amazing tailor.
(Murats in Beverly Hills.) Offsetting all
the feminine looks on display is a pair of
Nike Dunks emblazoned with fluorescent
basketballs and a thought bubble that
reads, Slow down, Im tired!
Despite this evidence, she insists, I
wouldnt consider myself a collector of any-
thing other than napkins and eye glasses. I
dont have that sort of obsessive mind-set.
That said, Ive always really loved one-of-
a-kind pieces, so vintage [clothing] makes
a lot of sense for me.
Even Nguyens style icons exist outside
the norm. Rather than cite Kate Moss, she
points to art-world examples: Mr and Mrs
Clark and Percy, David Hockneys 197071
painting of Celia Birtwell; bespectacled
gallerist Marian Goodman; and Julian
Schnabel: The man wears his pajamas to
formal events! Im a total homebody, so
the thought of donning sleepwear out and
about sounds pretty heavenly.
ART STAR (Clockwise
from top left) The
homes entrance;
lounging in her
living room/library;
her shoe and jewelry
stashes; posing in the
backyard and the
dining room; her
figurine collection;
an objet dart
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D
o you know where the peach chiffon dress is? The one with
the ruffles? Elkin designer Kara Smith asks the clerk at
Flounce, a vintage emporium in L.A.s Echo Park bursting
with Esther Williamsesque swimsuits and Ladies of the
Canyon dresses. Informed its been sold, she deflates. Luckily,
she comes across a white nightie that equally strikes her fancy.
Across the room, her sister and codesigner, Brit, is trying on a
sweeping maxidress. Brit gets away with wearing the really
beautiful gowns here. She can wear them on the street with beat-
up boots to go get coffee, and she just gets away with it. Me? I
would look like a train wreck, Kara says, laughing.
Flounce is one of the local stops the sisters frequent to cull ideas
for their line, a favorite of L.A.s musician set. We
dont really ever feel comfortable on the West Side or
in a polished place, Brit says. Instead, they thumb
through paperbacks at used-book mecca Stories and
sketch over brunch at Little Doms. One night we
could be sipping champagne at an art gallery, and
the next night we could be [wearing] Converse in the
alley of a punk show, says Brit, somehow manag-
ing to sound sincere rather than hipsterish. That
dichotomy fuels their designs, which range from
tough (a wraparound leather dress) to prim (a profes-
sorial tweed blazer).
Elkin is tapping into a specific vein of L.A. cul-
ture: Like Laurel Canyon in the 70s, L.A.s East
Side is this weird little artists community where
you always run into each other, Brit says. The Elkin
caveKaras garage turned studiohas become a
clubhouse of sorts for that community, with musician
pals like Jenny Lewis and Z Berg always dropping by.
For holiday, Elkin is debuting a capsule collection inspired by
another friend, Girls actress Zosia Mamet (with an assist from
Mamets half-sister, Clara, star of ABC sitcom The Neighbors).
The five pieces (four dresses and a jacket) are an homage to the
70s New York of Patti Smiths memoir Just Kidsthe Mamets are
New Yorkbred theater scions, daughters of playwright David
but the collection also has its heart firmly in Los Angeles.
Settling into the cave, where their grandmothers wasp-waisted
prom dress hangs on the wall, I learn that the Pasadena-bred sis-
ters couldnt be more different. Brit, 29, reads Hemingway and
favors the mournful country-folk of Kitty Wells, while Kara, 31,
devours true-crime books and hip-hop. BlackBerry snaps of their
dogs reveal that Kara has a black chihuahua; Brit, a 100-pound
albino bulldog. But theyre on the same page
when it comes to design; they are already
at work on spring 2013. Past seasons have
drawn from frontier-era brothels and Gothic
romance; this time, per Kara, Were do-
ing kind of a [ John] Fante, 30s L.A., under
the sea, mermaid, bondagey, weird thing.
Sounds like all that digging has paid off.
EAST SIDE
STORY
Fresh off a capsule collection with Girls star Zosia Mamet,
Elkin designers Brit and Kara Smith take ELLE on an inspiring
tour of L.A.s bohemian scene. By Vronique Hyland
SISTER, SISTER (Above left)
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(below left) scenes
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length sheets of platinum hair, sun-kissed
glow, pearly white smile, pink oversize
shades, and kicky teal one-piece. Bar-
bies got a golden tan now, crooned its
Beach Boys rip-off jingle. Sunny surfer
long hair. With that, the Barbie of yore,
with her pursed lips and shellacked updo,
sud denly seemed sickly, stuck-up, and
miserable.
Forty years later, were still captivated
by that paradigm of the consummate care-
free California girl. Last year when Katy
Perry was looking for a chart-topping
summer anthem, she turned her artistic
gaze towardwhat else?California girls
(or, rather, gurls). Of course, todays incar-
nations look slightly less, well, Barbie-ish:
Lauren Conrad, Jennifer Aniston, Kate
Hudson, Cameron Diaz. But while the
2.0 version may have left her Day-Glo
leisurewear (and Day-Glo tan) behind
in favor of a more understated uniform
of J Brand cutoffs, white American Ap-
parel tees, and laid-back aviators, she still
has that unmistakable Im-having-more-
Deep down, do we wish we all could be California girls? In honor
of our nineteenth Women in Hollywood Issue, we take a look
at the evolution of the citys style. By Amanda FitzSimons
1 A 1984 ad for iconic L.A. brand North Beach Leather
2 Bette Midler (1988) 3 Gwyneth Paltrow (2012)
4 Lara Flynn Boyle (2003) 5 Julie Christie and Goldie
Hawn in Shampoo (1975) 6 Farrah Fawcett (1976) 7 Jodie
Foster (1992) 8 Lauren Conrad (2011) 9 Cher and Bob
Mackie (1974) 10 Kim Basinger (1990) 11 Scarlett
Johansson (2006) 12 Barbra Streisand (1969)
13 Lindsay Lohan (2007) 14 Demi Moore (1989)
15 Malibu Barbie (2002) 16 Shannen Doherty (1993)
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no other city have managed to pull off
quite as skillfully. As Perry declared,
You could travel the world/ But nothing
comes close.
Cynical New Yorkers never tire of mak-
ing fun of L.A.Dorothy Parker once
called it 72 suburbs in search of a city;
Woody Allen said the burgs only cultural
advantage was the ability to turn right on
a red light. Even when Andy Warhol set
out to pay the city a compliment, the re-
sult was more of a jab: Everyone here is
plastic, the pop artist offered, but I love
plastic. Yes, L.A. has Daisy Dukes and
bikinis on lock (and whats wrong with
that, anyway?), but thats hardly the only
look its residents have mastered. The city
of 3.8 million is home to a vast range of
distinct style tribesmany of which de-
veloped there before reaching critical
mass across the country. (E.g., Fergie
arguably put the cornrows and gold door-
knocker earrings, inspired by L.A.s chola
street culture, onto a global platform.) In
L.A., theres this wonderful dichotomy
of style, says Cameron Silver, owner
of Melrose vintage shop Decades, an
Oscars-night treasure trove, whose book
Decades: A Century of Fashion was released
this fall. Were a city thats perfected
dressing up and dressing down.
In L.A., fashion, like everything else,
is dictated by Hollywood. Although offi-
cially founded in 1835, the city didnt get
booming until the rise of the talkies in
the 1920s. As a result, its denizens dont
have that old-money thing like they do in
the East Coastor even in San Francisco,
with its newspaper families and railroad
families, says Bay Area native Katy Ro-
driguez, who moved to L.A. from New
York 12 years ago to open a West Coast
outpost of her vintage boutique, Resurrec-
tion. Cher Horowitz perhaps said it best
when she bragged in the opening montage
of Clueless: Isnt my house classic? The
1 Goldie Hawn in Foul Play (1978) 2 Charlies Angels (1976) 3 Rachel Bilson (2009) 4 Jennifer Aniston (2009)
5 Joan Didion (circa 1977)
1 Meg Ryan and Val Kilmer in The Doors (1991) 2 Ali MacGraw and Robert Evans (1970) 3 Nicole Richie (2009) 4 Nina van
Pallandt in The Long Goodbye (1973) 5 Drew Barrymore (2010) 6 Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (2010) 7 Joni Mitchell (1968)
1 Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) 2 Sharon Tate in Valley of the Dolls (1967) 3 Heidi Montag (2011)
4 Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino in Romy and Micheles High School Reunion (1997) 5 Blake Lively (2012)
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(A line, incidentally, written by New York
City native Amy Heckerling.)
Thanks to erratic shooting schedules
with ample downtime between projects,
L.A. has never been a jacket-and-tie kind
of town. Its the only place where you go to
a yoga class at noon on a weekday and its
full, says costume designer and stylist Sta-
cey Battat, who dreamed up costumes for
Sophia Coppolas L.A.based Bling Ring,
out next year. The act of not dressing up can
be its own marker of status. Theres this
Im so fabulous I can wear a Juicy sweatsuit
to the Ivy and still get a table thing, says
Silver.
As for the red carpet, for a few glori-
ous decades, cult of personality was its
driving force; think of Barbra in her see-
through Arnold Scaasi pajamas at the
1969 Oscars; Kim Basinger in her Vic-
tor/Victoria-esque white satin dress (she
designed it herself) in 1990; or just about
every Bob Mackie concoction Cher ever
put on. That all changed in 1990, when
Jodie Foster announced an alliance with
Armani, putting her future fashion mo-
ments in the houses ever-correct hands.
(Yes, stars had had relationships with
design houses in the pastAudrey Hep-
burn with Givenchy, for examplebut
this was the first of the pared-down,
modern variety.) Others began to follow
Fosters suit, and by the late 90s, the celeb-
rity stylist was a Hollywood institution.
While the missteps became fewer and
fewer, fashion became a lot safer, says
Silver. Today, dressing in Los Angeles is
calculated even when youre going to the
supermarket.
No one does an ode to L.A. style bet-
ter than Hollywood itself; picture Goldie
Hawn in a disco-ready backless black
sequined gown in Shampoo (1975) or the
chicly under stated Nina van Pallandt in
The Long Goodbye (She definitely had that
Malibu thing going on, says Rodriguez).
Next year well have Battats Bling Ring
to add to the canon: Based on the real-
life story of a pack of criminal teens who
stole clothes from celebrities like Paris
and Lindsay, it depicts a specific (rabidly
overaccessorized) moment in fashion his-
tory when celebrity journalism reached
fever pitch. Not our proudest, says Silver.
The citys easy-target lampoonability
aside, maybe the Woody Allens and Dor-
othy Parkers among us are just jealous. Af-
ter all, Malibu Barbie, with her elevator-
equipped dream house, pink Corvette,
and backyard pool, represented youth,
good looks, and unburdened optimism.
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Lets face it: Looking effortless can be lots
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Stamped-leather apron vest, $925, wool pants, $490, printed leather boots, $895, all,
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Whether on boots, belts, or
bags, long laces give a look the
kind of outlaw vibe youll want
to wear to shreds
1. One-of-a-kind sterling silver and
brass necklace with silk and vintage
Japanese beads, ALYSS A NORTON,
$550, visit alyssanorton.com |
2. Leather bag, BRIAN ATWOOD,
$2,325, at Brian Atwood, NYC |
3. Zebra opal and diamond
earrings, KIMBERLY MCDONALD,
price on request, visit kimberly
mcdonald.com | 4. Python belt,
SALVATORE FERRAGAMO, $2,050, call
800- 628-8916 | 5. Leather, python,
and lizard sandal, REED KRAKOFF,
$1,195, call 877-733-3525 |
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jacket, $2,450, crochet skirt, price
on request, python bag, $2,200,
python belt, price on request,
python boots, price on request,
all, SALVATORE FERRAGAMO, at
Salvatore Ferragamo boutiques
nationwide. Enamel needlepoint
earrings, A PEACE TREATY, $90,
visit apeacetreaty.com. Pyrite bead
bracelet, SYDNEY EVAN, $750, visit
sydneyevan.com
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GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI, price
on request, collection at Bergdorf
Goodman, NYC | 2. Sapphire and
amethyst earrings, M.C.L BY MATTHEW
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mcldesign.net | 3. Leather wedge,
TORY BURCH, $375, collection at
select Nordstrom stores nationwide |
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$1,990 each, collection at Stanley
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Caddis silk jacket, $2,590, satin
blouse, $2,185, satin trousers, $2,265,
leather open-toe boots, $1,950, all,
GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI, collection
at select Barneys New York stores
nationwide. Leather waist-tie belt,
LINEA PELLE COLLECTION, $187, visit
lineapelle.com. Jade bead bracelets
with diamonds, SYDNEY EVAN, $1,190
each, visit sydneyevan.com. Carved
horn-shape bracelet, A PEACE TREATY,
$200, visit apeacetreaty.com
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jbrandjeans.com
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CHANEL
1. Silk twill blouse, $595, scarf, $190, both, SPORTMAX, call 212-674-
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DAVID WEBB, price on request, visit davidwebb.com | 3. Checkered belt,
GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI, $1,335, collection at Bergdorf Goodman,
NYC | 4. Woven-leather wedge with chain-link detail, SERGIO ROSSI,
$1,340, call 305-864-3643 | 5. Lambskin bag, CHANEL, price on request,
call 800-550-0005 | Model at left wears: Embroidered silk jacket, price
on request, silk shirt, $1,578, cotton pants, $1,900, all, BALMAIN, visit
balmain.com. Woven belt, $1,180, lace oxfords, $1,595, both, GIVENCHY
BY RICCARDO TISCI, collection at Barneys New York. Brass and enamel
earrings, A PEACE TREATY, $160, visit apeacetreaty.com. Leather knot
bracelet, BALENCIAGA BY NICOLAS GHESQUIRE, price on request, call
212-206-0872. Padlock ring, EDDIE BORGO, $350, visit harveynichols
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1. Silk twill blouse, $
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3. Silk-blend pants, ELIZABETH AND JAMES, $365, collection at select Neiman Marcus stores nationwide | 4. Ring lizard shoulder bag,
MARCHESA, $3,995, collection at Jimmys, Brooklyn | 5. Jeweled belt, GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI, $4,550, collection at Bergdorf Goodman,
NYC | 6. Elastic wedge sandal, DONNA KARAN NEW YORK, $1,195, call 800-231- 0884 | Model at left wears: Jacquard coat, $3,695, panne velvet
pants, $3,495, leather belt, $295, all, MICHAEL KORS, call 866-709-KORS. Cotton-blend top, THE ROW, price on request, visit therow.com
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and leather pump, NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD, $825, call 646-559-5239 | 3. Silk scarf, LOUIS
VUITTON, $780, call 866-VUITTON | 4. Printed fabric bag, VALENTINO GARAVANI, price on
request, visit valentino.com | 5. Resin bracelets, SONIA RYKIEL, $365 each, collection at Kirna
Zabte, NYC | Model at right wears: Jacquard jacket, price on request, skirt, $510, cotton-
blend dress, $435, lace-up boots, price on request, all, KENZO, visit kenzo.com. Sunglasses,
MOSLEY TRIBES, $220, at Oliver Peoples, NYC. Diamond, pearl, and African bead charm
bracelets, THE WOODS FINE JEWELRY, $4,400 each, at Vermillion, Raleigh, NC. Leather bag,
ALEXANDER WANG, $925, at Alexander Wang, NYC
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$3,080, coated-raffia visor, $1,800, all, LOUIS VUITTON,
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Leather bag, MARC JACOBS,
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Leather iPad case, MARC JACOBS,
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Calfskin ankle boot, GIVENCHY BY RICCARDO TISCI,
$1,950, collection at Barneys New York
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In Louis Vuittons new Voyage dans les Temps high-jewelry collection,
the shape of things to come is nothing short of spectacular
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already racked up too many frequent-
flier points to count, is now setting its
sights on its longest journey yet with a
sleek range of fine jewelry titled Voyage
dans les Temps (translation: time travel).
Set in motion by Louis Vuitton Joaillerie
artistic director Lorenz Bumer, the five-
suite collection will have pride of place at
the brands first watch and jewelry store
and its High Jewelry Atelierat Paris 23,
Place Vendme.
On one bracelet, Bumer offers a fresh
take on the houses stylized four-point
flower motif with an ombr arrangement
of stones that achieves a futuristic fade.
And the collections crown jewel (pardon
the pun), dubbed La Galaxie Monogram,
is a white diamond and royal blue enamel
choker anchored by a 2.56-carat star-
cut diamond. At first glance it looks like
just another showstopping nineteenth-
century estate piece, but with the flick of
a clasp, it can be unhinged to form a pair
of ultramodern cuffs. For the travel-ready
LV woman, even fine jewelry has to multi-
task.Naomi Rougeau
Pink gold necklace
with Akoya pearls,
diamond beads,
and brown and
white diamonds,
LOUIS VUITTON, price
on request, call
866-VUITTON
Above: Pink gold ring with brown and white diamonds,
LOUIS VUITTON, price on request, visit louisvuitton.com.
Below: White gold bracelet with marquise- and
brilliant-cut diamonds and ceramic powder,
LOUIS VUITTON, price on request, call 866-VUITTON
White gold and rose-cut diamond
brooch, LOUIS VUITTON, price on
request, at select Louis Vuitton
stores nationwide
Left: White gold
bracelet with
enamel, red spinels,
pink sapphires,
and diamonds,
LOUIS VUITTON,
price on request,
at select Louis
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nationwide. Right:
White gold and
diamond earring
with spinel drop,
LOUIS VUITTON, price
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THE
CHANGEUP
From time-honored timepieces to ironic
add-ons, this season brands are reinventing
their trademarks to tempt us anew
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Diamond cluster necklace with yellow sapphire drop
set in platinum and yellow gold, HARRY WINSTON,
price on request, call 800-988-4110
SWISS MISS
Its been more than a century since Eugne
Blum and his wife, Alice Lvy, launched
Ebel in the Alps-adjacent La Chaux-de-
Fonds. Now the brands new Onde collection,
inspired by the serene rippling effect of water,
updates the watchmakers clean aesthetic
with subtle details (a face in tigereye or lapis;
a rose gold body dotted with diamonds) and
reasserts two tenets: A beautiful watch never
goes out of style, and timing is everything.
COSTUME DRAMA
When Kate Hudson clasped the Isadora around her
neck in 2003s How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, audiences
and Matthew McConaugheymarveled at its perfection.
Nearly a decade later, as lead sponsor of the Victoria
and Albert Museums Hollywood Costume exhibition
in London, Harry Winston re-creates its scene-stealing
diamond wreath with a whopping yellow sapphire drop.
Go ahead, ladies, frost yourselves!
Rose gold watch
with lapis lazuli
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WORKBOOK ELLE FASHION
OFF SCRIPT
T HE WOMAN: Mara Brock Akil, 42, Los Angeles
T HE JOB: Cofounder, with her husband, Salim, of TV and film pro-
duction company Akil Productions. She created BETs ratings-busting
comedy The Game and, most recently, coproduced the big-screen
musical-diva-drama reboot Sparkle, which she wrote and Salim di-
rected. From their office loft in L.A.s neo-boho Venice, the writer-
producer splits her day among Skyping with her Atlanta-based show
staff, liaising with executives, and meeting potential talent for upcom-
ing projects. These days, though, she spends most of her time in the
writers room, perfecting the script for her upcoming hour-long BET
drama, Being Mary Jane, starring Gabrielle Union.
T HE UNI F ORM: Akil favors simplicity with some kick, pairing low-
key basics such as Rag & Bone boots, Mother jeans, and Steven Alan
button-downs with stop-and-stare items like a Balenciaga leather vest
or an Alexander McQueen tuxedo blazer.
T HE CHAL L E NGE : Strike the perfect balance between professionalism
and relaxed cool by melding falls most office-friendly separates.
Allison P. Davis
An L.A.-based writer and producer amplifies
office basics in falls relaxed-chic workwear
Left: Cropped leather jacket, Burberry
Prorsum, $2,595, visit burberry
.com. Double-face rayon and viscose
dress, Alexander Wang, $695, at
Alexander Wang, NYC. Woven handbag,
Stella McCartney, $1,325, visit
stellamccartney.com. Suede sandals,
Gucci, $750, at select Gucci boutiques
nationwide. Her own jewelry. Right: Silk
blouse, Gucci, $695, visit gucci.com.
Suede handbag, Burberry Prorsum,
$2,195, visit burberry.com. Her own
pantsuit, shoes, and jewelry
Cotton seersucker blazer,
Burberry Prorsum, $1,595, visit
burberry.com. Cotton T-shirt,
Kain Label, $90, collection at
net-a-porter.com. Silk shorts, 3.1
Phillip Lim, $395, at 3.1 Phillip
Lim, NYC. Suede pumps, Jimmy
Choo, $795, at select Jimmy
Choo boutiques nationwide. Her
own jewelry
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Gjelina in L.A.s
Venice. When its
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project, I up my
fashion game to show
confidence. TIP For
work, balance the
proportion of shorts
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blazer and a closed-
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for what you wear
when its time to
look powerful and
confident: Shazam!
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con sheath with a
thick-heeled sandal
and a structured
leather jacket.
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tone. Try mauve,
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$220, visit nicolemiller.com
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sandal, Stuart Weitzman, $375,
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Bebe, $50, visit 2bstores.com
1. Hand-engraved gold ring, Zo Chicco,
$1,276, visit zoechicco.com
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collection at Sam and Lilli, Houston. Viscose jersey
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Designer Chris Benz is not one
to shy away from color (as his
own rainbow-hued tresses
boldly attest), so when it came
to accessorizing his resort looks,
he collaborated with Aspen-
based line The Woods on outsize
jewelry in punchy shadesjust
the thing to top off his tropical
ensembles. chris-benz.com
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LOS ANGELES
California architect Barbara
Bestor, author of the influential
book Bohemian Modern, whose
thumbprint can be seen all
over L.A., has designed a line of
giftware for the collective SoLA
that ranges from iPhone cases
to glasswareall inspired by the
city she loves. solaltd.com
LOS ANGELES
Actress/artist turned fashion
designer Katie Nehra is known
for the tough biker jackets she
creates for her contemporary
label, Simone. Now Nehra
is adding monogrammable
varsity jackets (albeit shrunken,
fashion-forward versions) to the
mix. simonecollection.com
CANNES
The days of his legendary parties
may be long over, but you can
still take a peek into Pierre
Cardins mod south of France
residence, Le Palais Bulles,
thanks to a new tome by Jean-
Pascal Hesse. assouline.com
NEW YORK
Whether or not you catch any
waves, youll attract plenty of
glances in Cynthia Rowleys
psychedelic paneled wet
suit. The designer and avid
boarder has found the perfect
way to channel the surf-chic
fashion craze of the moment.
cynthiarowley.com
WE HEARStyle icon Isabella Rossellini lends a talented, if quirky, hand to Bulgari this fall with an elegant
range of handbags, lined with drawings of the animals featured in her award-winning Green Porno films.// eBays
got your holiday shopping needs covered with an affordable (all items $50$100) range of clothing, accessories, and
housewares designed by Chris Benz, Jonathan Adler, and others. // Bottled water just got a lot chicer: Diane von
Furstenberg joins the likes of Jean Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix in collaborating with Evian.
SYDNEY
Having gained countless
industry accolades for his
vivid prints and streamlined
aesthetic, Aussie designer
Josh Goot has finally added
his first-ever resort collection.
joshgoot.com
LONDON
Stop by gallerist David
Zwirners new Annabelle
Selldorfrevamped outpost
in Mayfair (Zwirners first
European location) to view the
inaugural exhibition, featuring
the paintings of contemporary
artist Luc Tuymans (above,
his self-portrait Me, 2011).
davidzwirner.com
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inspire fashion revelations, but when
Matthew Edelstein glimpsed Chris-
tie Brinkleys blink-and-youll-miss-it
cameo as The Girl in the Ferrari in the
1983 favorite National Lampoons Vacation,
the designer had what you might call an
aha moment.
The supermodel was wearing a little
white dress, Edelstein recalls raptly.
Its belted, and its just this American
[look]. That was the starting point, actu-
ally, for this dress, the 37-year-old says,
pointing out a smocklike white frock thats
a dead ringer for Brinkleys. Behind him,
mood boards papered with pictures of
late-70s and early-80s post-punkers the
Au Pairs and old-school hip-hop trio De
La Soul attest to the designers pop culture
obsession. Being a visually inclined per-
son, you have all these influences rattling
around in your brain from your entire life,
from your career and from your child-
hood, he says. But I take all these refer-
ences and ideas from the past and try to
make them [reflective] of this time.
Growing up in Bellingham, Washing-
ton, Edelstein always envisioned himself
becoming a designer: The only thing
you know when you grow up in a small
town and you want to be in fashion is to
be a fashion designer. So I always thought
that was going to be my path. But as it
turned out, the path was a bit more
peripatetic than that. After studying
fashion design at Parsons in New
York City, he realized that the tra-
ditional approach to designwith
its focus on patternmaking and cutting
was absolutely not the right fit. The way
that I approach fashion involves thinking
about things in a different way, drawing
from entertainment and street style in the
same manner a stylist would. He ended up
switching to the schools design marketing
program; stints as a fashion editor at W,
Harpers Bazaar, and Details and as a stylist
at J.Crew, working under CEO and mar-
keting whiz Mickey
Drexler, followed.
After 14 years in
the industry, Edel-
stein came down
with an acute case of
fashion fatigue. He
had seen so many over-the-top creations
parading down the runway that he be-
came drawn to the idea of making clothes
that can exist in the real world rather than
these fashion flights of fancy, he says. I
dont want to make an art piece. I want to
do a cool shirt in a new way.
When designing the uniform-inspired
Friends & Associates debut collection for
resort (Im always thinking, Why cant
women have a uniform of their own?),
Edelstein piled on the references. After
researching cheerleader skirts, military
garb, Girl Scout attire, and even judo
suits, I threw it into a blender and tossed
it all together [and] gave it new propor-
tions and fun colors. The result: an in-
nocently flirtatious mix of peppy rah-rah
skirts, folded trapunto-sleeve jumpsuits
with contrasting pockets, and zippy ath-
letic shorts, accessorized with flower-
bedecked baseball capsa thoroughly
adult take on play clothes, or, perhaps,
a chicer version of Garanimals. (In fact,
when I tell him that the late-80s vibe of
the collection reminds me of something,
he quips, Its our childhoodthats prob-
ably what it reminds you of.)
The 80-piece lineup will be sold on his
website, Friendshop.us. At $100 to $300,
each piece in the collection rings in at a
contemporary price point: In my opin-
ion, [the pieces] are the kind of thing you
should want to buy a few of. Like yummy
candy or fruit. That sense of playfulness
even extends to the collections name: I
wanted it to be a little bit of a funny take
on a law or an accounting firm nameits
Friends for fun, and Associates because we
mean business!
PLAYTIME
Optimists, take note: The brand-new line Friends & Associates is
bringing cheerful back. By Vronique Hyland
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ogan Gregory is sporting a tattered flannel shirt: not fash-
ion tattereddelicately roughed up with a cheese-grater-
like implement on some factory floor in the interest of getting
that weathered lookbut destroyed. Its basically two sleeves
held together by some thread. Still, in the context of East Hamp-
tons Springs Farmers Market, the turquoise-and-black hank of
fabric qualifies as formal. The 34-year-old designer of Rogan
and Loomstate is there, with chef (and former model) Caitlyn
Levin, to gather armfuls of produce for a raw-food party he and
his business partner, Scott Mackinlay-Hahn, 32, are throwing for
an eclectic group of like-minded friends. The mood is as casual as
their attire, though theyre hoping the pouring rain lets up.
Tonight theyll be celebrating the sustainable-clothing
companys latest ecological venturethe 321 line of reversible
basicsand its collaboration with the nonprofit Azuero Earth
Project, which promotes biodiversity in Panama. (For resort,
the label emblazoned three organic cotton and Tencel T-shirts
with the organizations monkey logo; the proceeds will benefit
the project.) The setting: a stunning house belonging to the char-
itys cofounder Edwina von Gal, a landscape designer who has
worked with Frank Gehry and Maya Lin
and who counts Calvin Klein and Larry
Gagosian as personal clients. Gregory met
Von Gal not through the typical fashion
channels, but rather through his sister, Tre-
maine, a primatologist who works in Pan-
ama. The project immediately appealed to
Gregorys philanthropic instincts. Edwina
understands the ecological, scientific stuff
required to preserve what exists down in
the Azuero, the designer says. But I really
connect with her on the aesthetic things,
too. They have something else in common:
Gregory has been coming to nearby Mon-
tauk for the past 15 years, and Von Gal jetti-
soned her Manhattan apartment nine years
ago in favor of Hamptons living. Her digs
provided the backdrop for Loomstates re-
sort lookbook shoot, with models sunning themselves on the deck.
Theres a saying in the landscape industry, Von Gal says.
RAW POWER
Loomstates Rogan Gregory welcomes the eco-chic
crowd for a sustainable Hamptons fete.
By Vronique Hyland
GREAT OUTDOORS (Top) The
group on Von Gals
deck; her East
Hampton home;
(bottom) Gregory by
the fireplace;
heading out on a
clam dig; Shelby
Meade and Murphy
chat with Mackinlay-
Hahn; Levin at the
farmers market;
(above) a Loomstate
bag for resort
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Sleep, creep, leap. When you first plant
a job, the first year nothing seems to
happen. The second year you see some
growth. And then the third year it ex-
plodes. It would seem the eight-year-old
brand is in the midst of such a transforma-
tion: Though it has enjoyed popularity
among the eco-cognoscenti for some time,
Loomstate is now booming. In addition to
launching the 321 line, it has added bags
for resort and partnered with Chipotle on
eco-friendly uniforms.
Nevertheless, Gregory and Mackinlay-
Hahn certainly arent playing the parts
of high-powered fashion insiders. In fact,
theyre headed out on Von Gals miniscule
motorboat to dive for clams (tonights hors
doeuvre of choice), with the help of a rake.
Gregorys dog, Chancho, comes along for
the ride, wearing a canine-size life vest.
By 4 P.M. the mollusks have been neatly
arranged on a tray, and the guests begin
arriving. Model and longtime Loomstate
supporter Carolyn Murphy kicks off her
three-inch Lanvin wedges on the wooden
deck and wanders around barefoot, chat-
ting with Peter Glatzer, a film producer
and cofounder of SHFT, a digital-media
platform that focuses on sustainability.
(Appropriately enough, Murphy says, her
daughter, Dylan, is at home making kale
chips.) While guests snack on fresh veg-
gies and toss tennis balls for Chancho,
Mackinlay-Hahn has them go around in
a circle, first-day-of-school style, to talk
about their green activism. The group has
plenty of ecological bona fides, whether
they be building eco-friendly structures
(Rushmeyers interior designer Rob
McKinley) or buying sustainable goods
(Amazon fashion consultant Julie Gilhart).
As Mackinlay-Hahn puts it, The peo-
ple who are here are relevant in some way,
in terms of style and food and design. [Its
not] like the food conversation is over here
and the green fashion thing is over there.
And, befitting the theme, each guest is sent
home with some very atypical fashion-
event loot: a bunch of radishes, a clutch of
asparagus, orwhy not?some kale for
the road.
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (Top)
Scenes from the
party; (center) raw
treats on the menu;
(bottom) the living
room, a Loomstate
T-shirt for Azuero
Earth Project, Levin
on the deck, an image
from Loomstate 321s
resort lookbook, shot
at Von Gals home
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REED KRAKOFF
EDITORS PICKS DITORS PICK
Krakoff, a seasoned
collector whose home
boasts a trio of Franois-
Xavier and Claude
Lalanne sheep sculptures
and museum-worthy
Joris Laarman furniture,
frequently looks to
galleries for inspiration.
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blue expanse of abstract
expressionist Robert
Motherwells Open
series caught his eye, as
did the stripes of painter
Sean Scully. Add to
that a few streetwise
influences traffic-cone
orange; the gleam of a
bicycle chainand you
get wearable art: color-
block paillettes and high-
shine accessories.
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Leather shorts, REED KRAKOFF,
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Wool blazer, REED KRAKOFF,
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Raffia skirt, REED KRAKOFF,
$1,590, call 877-733-3525
Leather sandal, REED KRAKOFF,
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Leather hobo bag,
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call 877-733-3525
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skirt, REED
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EDITORS PICKS
BALMAIN
BALMAIN
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BALMAIN
In his fourth collection
for Balmain, Olivier
Rousteing took the
67-year-old French
house to 80s-era Miami,
reveling in pastel-tinted
Americanaflashy-
grilled Caddies and deco
beachfront architecture
to turn out sorbet-hued
suiting, pieceworked
leathers, jeweled belts,
and zipper details sure
to make his customer the
hottest thing on Ocean
Drive. His white cotton-
and-silk halterdress, with
its abbreviated hemline,
will put the spotlight on
any modern-day Marilyn.
MIAMI
RHAPSODY
Cotton and silk
dress, BALMAIN,
$4,800, collection
at Maxfield, L.A.
Printed cotton jeans,
BALMAIN, $2,050,
collection at Neiman
Marcus stores nationwide
Viscose shirt, BALMAIN,
$1,400, collection at Barneys
New York stores nationwide.
Cotton denim jacket, BALMAIN,
$2,400, collection at
bergdorfgoodman.com
Leather belt, BALMAIN, $1,900,
collection at Maxfield, L.A.
Lambskin dress, BALMAIN, price on request,
collection at Bergdorf Goodman, NYC.
Metallic leather belt, BALMAIN, $850,
collection at Barneys New York
Silk pants, BALMAIN,
$2,400 each, collection
at Neiman Marcus
stores nationwide
Silk dress, BALMAIN, price
on request, collection at
Barneys New York
Left: Striped linen and cotton
jacket, BALMAIN, $3,800,
collection at Bergdorf
Goodman, NYC. Above:
Leather clutch, BALMAIN,
barneys.com
Printed sweater, BALMAIN, $580,
collection at Maxfield, L.A.
Viscose skirt, BALMAIN, $830,
collection at barneys.com
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MARC JACOBS
MARC JACOBS
MARC JACOBS SS
EDITORS PICKS
NEON DREAM
Not unlike his
chameleonesque muse
and friend Cindy
Sherman, Jacobs can
always find his own wry
take on a pop-culture
moment. In addition to
Shermans 20032004
clown seriesequal
parts endearing and
terrifyingthe designer
delved into Sgt. Pepper
era psychedelia in a
fun-house palette of tinted
roses. In gleefully garish
checkerboard patterns (on
cashmere) and field-of-
flowers prints (on satin),
these clothes may look
lighthearted, but they feel
totally luxe.
Lurex jacquard pants,
MARC JACOBS, $850,
visit marcjacobs.com
Satin crepe dress,
MARC JACOBS, $2,800,
at Marc Jacobs, NYC
Neoprene, rubber, and leather loafer, MARC
JACOBS, $995, visit marcjacobs.com
Cotton poplin skirt,
MARC JACOBS, $595,
at Marc Jacobs, NYC
Double-face wool coat,
MARC JACOBS, $2,800,
visit marcjacobs.com
Sequined dress, MARC
JACOBS, $3,900, at
Marc Jacobs, NYC
Cashmere polo shirts,
both, MARC JACOBS,
prices on request, call
212-343-1490
Leather handbag, MARC
JACOBS, $2,495, collection
at net-a-porter.com
Above: Satin crepe
dress, MARC JACOBS,
$995, at Marc
Jacobs, NYC. Right:
Crepe pants, MARC
JACOBS, $795, visit
marcjacobs.com
Sunglasses, MARC JACOBS, price on
request, visit marcjacobs.com
Sequined tweed jacket, MARC
JACOBS, $1,800, at Marc
Jacobs, NYC
Canvas clutch, MARC JACOBS,
price on request, similar styles
at Marc Jacobs, NYC
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Michaels Jewelers, 12 Connecticut Locations - Michaelsjewelers.com | Michael C. Fina, New York, NY - Michaelcfina.com | Jewelry Creations Inc., Dover, NH - Jewelrycreationsinc.com
Gerald Peters Goldmine, Staten Island, NY - Geraldpetersinc.com | Sachs Jewelers, Shrewsbury, MA - Sachsjewelers.com | Carters Fine Jewelry, Danvers, MA - Cartersdiamonds.com
EDITORS PICKS
AKRIS
ELLE SHOPS RESORT
AKRIS
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Ever the minimalist,
Akris designer Albert
Kriemler takes his
design dictum to the
high seas with slinky
silks featuring close-up
shots of sparkling water
ripples and reflections.
Every season, Kriemler
chooses a favorite image
to render as a print; for
resort, it is Louis Tinayres
1910 painting of Prince
Albert I of Monaco
helming his yacht, as
seen on Kriemlers tunic
and tailored shorts. The
message is clear: For a
certain kind of woman,
the resort lifestyle is alive
and kicking. All aboard!
OPEN WATER
AKRIS
Silk georgette tunic
and tank top, AKRIS,
$1,350, collection
at Neiman Marcus
stores nationwide
Hand-crocheted knit coat,
AKRIS, $2,450, collection
at Neiman Marcus stores
nationwide
Wool jacket, AKRIS,
$3,990, collection
at Neiman Marcus
stores nationwide
Printed silk
shorts, AKRIS,
$895, collection
at Neiman Marcus
stores nationwide
Above: Double-face
cotton skirt, AKRIS,
$1,460, at Akris
boutiques nationwide.
Left: Silk microfiber
parka, AKRIS, $2,990,
collection at Saks
Fifth Avenue stores
nationwide
Wool pants, AKRIS,
$995, collection
at Neiman Marcus
stores nationwide
Leather jacket,
AKRIS, $3,990,
collection
at Neiman
Marcus stores
nationwide
Horsehair bag,
AKRIS, $4,400,
visit akris.ch
Ostrich handbag, AKRIS,
$4,400, visit akris.ch
Printed silk tunic,
AKRIS, $1,460,
collection at
Neiman Marcus
stores nationwide
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Marnis Consuelo
Castiglioni, at the helm of
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the kind of ideas magpie
whose references never
read as overtly literal.
For resort, she translated
the western-meetsTimes
Square look of 1969s
Midnight Cowboy into a
fringe-free play on 70s
sportswear through the
Marni art-school filter:
Color-theory patchworks,
fluttery embroidery, and
mixed-print pleats will
thrill her loyal smart-girl
fans. Castiglioni swapped
Jon Voights cowboy hat
for abstract floral jewelry
and high-shine heeled
loafers. (Kneesocks
optional.)
RIDING HIGH
MARNI
Leather jacket, MARNI, $3,280, at
Marni boutiques nationwide
Embroidered silk shirt, MARNI,
$1,090, collection at net-a-
porter.com
Embroidered cotton coat,
MARNI, $2,500, collection
at neimanmarcus.com Embroidered leather
necklace, MARNI, $880,
visit marni.com
Cotton dress, MARNI, $1,260,
collection at Saks Fifth
Avenue stores nationwide
Wool cardigan, MARNI,
$860, collection at
Saks Fifth Avenue
stores nationwide
Patent leather pump,
MARNI, $810, at Marni
Leather handbag,
MARNI, $1,760, collection
at Nordstrom stores
nationwide
Drop earrings, MARNI,
$530, visit marni.com
Wool cardigan, MARNI,
neimanmarcus.com
Left: Printed cotton shirt, MARNI,
$740, collection at Neiman Marcus
stores nationwide. Below: Printed
silk skirt, MARNI, $1,900, collection at
neimanmarcus.com
Wool trousers, MARNI,
$930, at Marni boutiques
nationwide
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MICHAEL KORS
ELLE SHOPS RESORT
MICHAEL KORS
For the latest stop on
the Kors womans
jet-set world tour, the
designer whisked away
his rotating cast of real
and imagined royals
on a crystal-studded,
ikat-printed yacht trip
on the shimmering blue
Bosporus. Zeroing in on
the relaxed glamour of
Italian socialite Bianca
Brandolini dAddas
minidress-and-sandals
style, the designer served
up jeweled flats, cropped
leather shiftdresses, and
cashmere teesjust
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final destination, exotic
Istanbul.
BYZANTINE
NIGHTS
Gold-tone bib
necklace, MICHAEL
KORS, $495, at
select Michael Kors
stores nationwide
Cracked-leather hobo, MICHAEL
KORS, $995, call 866-709-KORS
Python sandals,
MICHAEL KORS, $1,545,
at select Michael Kors
stores nationwide
Metallic jacquard pants,
MICHAEL KORS, $1,195, visit
michaelkors.com
Pebbled brocade jacket,
MICHAEL KORS, price on
request, at select Michael
Kors stores nationwide
Satin charmeuse
pants, MICHAEL KORS,
$795, at select
Michael Kors stores
nationwide
Crystal-beaded gold-tone
bracelets, MICHAEL KORS, $395
each, call 866-709-KORS
Satin charmeuse pullover, MICHAEL
KORS, $695, visit michaelkors.com
Leather shiftdress, $3,995, gold
chain belt, $425, both, MICHAEL
KORS, at select Michael Kors
stores nationwide
Left: Python belt, MICHAEL KORS, $850,
call 866-709-KORS. Right: Cotton utility
jacket, MICHAEL KORS, $1,495, at select
Michael Kors stores nationwide
Above: Stretch cotton shorts, MICHAEL
KORS, $695, visit michaelkors.com.
Below: Gold-studded leather clutch,
$795, sapphire-studded python clutch,
$1,495, both, MICHAEL KORS, at select
Michael Kors stores nationwide
Crystal-embellished
python clutch,
MICHAEL KORS, $1,395,
call 866-709-KORS
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EDITORS PICKS
VERA WANG
A figure skater in her
youth, Wang has designed
custom costumes for the
likes of Nancy Kerrigan
and Michelle Kwan, and
knows her way around
body-conscious femininity
on and off the rink. For
resort, she combined her
love of lace (explored for
years in her flight-of-fancy
bridal collections) with a
palette borrowed from the
recent exhibition of John
Chamberlain sculptures at
New Yorks Guggenheim
Museum and the airy,
warm-weather mood of
Barbadosturning out
enough ruching, tulle, and
high-shine detail to bring
out the performer in any
woman.
BLADE RUNNER
VERA WANG
Wool cardigan, VERA WANG COLLECTION,
price on request, at Vera Wang, NYC
Lace coat, VERA WANG
COLLECTION, $1,450,
call 212-382-2184
Wool pants with
lace paneling,
VERA WANG
COLLECTION, $595,
collection at Saks
Fifth Avenue, NYC
Ruched jersey
top, VERA WANG
COLLECTION,
$495, at Vera
Wang, NYC
Cotton poplin dress,
VERA WANG COLLECTION,
$750, at Vera Wang,
West Hollywood
Silk faille dress, VERA
WANG COLLECTION, $895,
at Vera Wang, NYC
Draped charmeuse dress,
VERA WANG COLLECTION,
price on request, call 212-
382-2184
Tulle dress, VERA WANG COLLECTION,
$1,595, call 212-382-2184
Left: Lace dress,
VERA WANG
COLLECTION, price
on request, at
Vera Wang, NYC.
Below: Chiffon
asymmetrical
top, VERA WANG
COLLECTION, $450,
collection at
Neiman Marcus,
Beverly Hills
Lace skirt, VERA WANG
COLLECTION, $950, call
212-382-2184
Ruched cotton
skirt, VERA WANG
COLLECTION,
$595,
collection
at Neiman
Marcus,
Beverly Hills
Stretch cotton
tank top, VERA
WANG COLLECTION,
$895, at select
Saks Fifth Avenue
stores nationwide
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arly in Robert Zemeckis new movie, Flight,
viewers are engulfed by the most brilliantly
executed air catastrophe to grace a film
screen in many years. It lasts a bit longer
than 12 minutes, each one scarier than the last.
What makes the sequence such a standout isnt
the usual souped-up action extravaganza but its
opposite: impeccable realism, all the more fright-
ening for making you feel like youre right there.
It helps that Denzel Washington is as well. He
stars as Whip, a pilot so good at his job that hes
a well-tended legend, complete with supermacho
nickname, impenetrable aviator glasses, and a
smooth way with the ladies. He has something
else, too, that only a few people know about: a
massive addiction to booze and coke. Before the
plane takes off, we see him knock back some
orange juice spiked with three little bottles of
vodka. Thats not much more than a couple of
generous screwdrivers at a Sunday brunch, but if
hes found out, hell be at risk of losing his license
and going to prison.
For all its breathtaking momentsand there
are plenty throughoutFlight isnt an action
film; its a character study of a gifted man who
cant stop playing Russian roulette with his life.
Who hasnt known someone like thatelusive,
charismatic, and so self-absorbed it amounts to
blindness? Playing Whip, Washington is in top
form, and hes never less than gripping. Hes also
not alone. Before the airplane sequence, theres a
chaotic scene in which a woman furiously fends
off the advances of her skeevy landlord. Shes a
photographeror at least she still has her expensive equipment.
Once the creeps gone, we see how stunning she is, and were
shocked, too, to behold this beautiful woman with a hideous little
hole in the crook of her arm. Like Whip, Nicole (Kelly Reilly) has
the kind of habit that can kill people. After she barely survives an
overdose, they meet in the hospital when each of them sneaks out
to the stairwell for a forbidden smoke.
The Oscar-winning Zemeckis has garnered high honors for
films that are thumpingly obvious (exhibit A: Forrest Gump), but
he has also made charmers such as Cast Away and the Back to the
Future franchise. Flight could easily have been an example of a
burgeoning genre, the come-clean sobriety movie, or its roman-
ticized down-and-dirty opposite, like Barfly. But by zeroing in on
Whips masked but growing panic, the movie goes deeper than
any particular craving, whether for heroin or thousand-dollar
shoes. The root of any addiction is located in a hole much bigger
than the one in Nicoles arm and almost too deep to fathom. Its
to Zemeckis credit that he doesnt try to tell us how these two
people got that way; he just lets us watch them struggle with it.
We never know how somebody might commit suicidewhether
suddenly or in slow motion. When they retreat to the small farm
Whip has inherited, he shows Nicole a home movie featuring a
boisterous little boy playing ball with his doting grandpa. Nicole
tells Whip how much she misses her mother, who taught her
everything she needed to know and died too soon.
Im fond of Cast Away, but Flight may be Zemeckis most
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Crowd-pleasing director Robert Zemeckis
delivers a dark and deft portrait of self-
sabotageand Denzel Washington takes
us all the way there. Karen Durbin reviews
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nuanced film. Theres a tragedy at the center of its story, but
theres humor, as well. That illicit encounter at the hospital
includes a third partya sardonic young bald guy with inoper-
able cancer who bums a cigarette and cracks irresistible jokes
about death. Its a small scenewe see him only oncebut it
makes the film feel rich and unpredictable, like life itself (if were
lucky). The movie is seeded with such moments, as when, before
her OD, Nicole rushes to see a friend, a director of porn mov-
ies whos good for a dime bag but then piously tells her not to
shoot it up. Then he tries to talk her into doing a movie, insisting
that his next flick is upscale. I want you to play Desdemona,
he says, and her incredulous eye roll is almost as funny as the
notion of a porn Othello. But Flights best joke is embodied by
Whips longtime drug dealer, played by a ponytailed John Goodman with equal parts evil incarnate and,
judging by his ponchos, superannuated 70s hippie. When he enters the frame, the Rolling Stones Sym-
pathy for the Devil blares from his earbuds and fills the soundtrack. Its both funny and scary, but the
song that says it all isnt in the movie, although the movie brings it to mind. In Randy Newmans Guilty,
a man serenades his fed-up lover: You know, you know how it is with me, baby/ You know, you know I
just cant stand myself/ It takes a whole lot of medicine/ For me to pretend that Im somebody else.
I
mpudent. Subversive. Violent. Hilari-
ous. That would be Martin McDonaghs
new comedy, Seven Psychopaths. Asked
if hes the eighth, he laughingly denies
it from his East End London bache-
lor pad with the Thames rolling past
his windows. Its a serene setting for a
playwright-filmmaker who splashes about
in the macabre as if it were his Jacuzzi.
McDonagh, a strapping, silver-haired
42, calls Psychopaths partly a send-up of
Hollywood. It opens with a shot of the
famous sign accompanied by a country
song wailing about death. Moments later,
a Tarantino-esque pair of jabbering, self-
satisfied young hit men get blown away.
Theres plenty more of that to come, with a cast of
gangsters, killers, and lethal loons played by, among
others, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christo-
pher Walken, and Tom Waits; their straight man is
Colin Farrell, a stymied screenwriter who cant get
further than his titleSeven Psychopathsand ends
up inviting two of them to collaborate on the script.
Its a movie that comments on movies,
McDonagh says. I always think about how to
subvert stories and explore something. In Bruges [Mc-
Donaghs Oscar-nominated 2008 debut] explored
the idea of a person whos decent but has done a hor-
rible thing. So it sets up a hit-man story while simul-
taneously subverting it. This one sets up a violent,
screwball Hollywood movie but raises questions like
Does there have to be all this violence?
McDonagh has mostly set his vivid, mayhem-
rich plays in his ancestral Ireland, but he was born
in London. He started writing at 16 and was 24
when his first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, was
staged, and, like all the
plays that have come
after, it won awards and
acclaim on both sides
of the Atlantic. Still, he
insists that he prefers to
make moviesyou have
more control, he says,
and I grew up loving
them, and plays were just too expensive [to see].
McDonagh isnt afraid to skewer himself. At
one point, Walken turns to Farrell and says sternly,
Your women are terrible. They hardly say any-
thing, and theyre always being shot or beaten
up. Thats right, except for a lovely performance
by Linda Bright Clay as Walkens ailing wife. But
McDonagh says proudly that the film hes writ-
ing now has a feminist streak. Shes a very strong
woman, he says of this central character, adding
triumphantly, and shes in her midfifties.K.D. F
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WITHIN
WORLDS
Hugh Grant, Halle Berry, Tom
Hanks, Susan Sarandon, the
Jims Broadbent and Sturgess,
and Matrix villain Hugo
Weaving shape-shift through
multiple roles in Cloud Atlas,
the bold dazzler that Tom
Tykwer and the Wachowski
sibs have made from David
Mitchells acclaimed novel
about the stories we need to
shape our liveswhereas the
movie is a brain-bending
cinematic cornucopia inviting
us to spot the stars.
HES GOTTA
HAVE IT
With indispensably pitch-
perfect performances by John
Hawkes as a wry poet trapped
in an iron lung who longs to be
relieved of his virginity, Helen
Hunt as the expert
therapist-surrogate who
comes to his aid, and William
H. Macy as the enlightened
priest and friend who blesses
the enterprise, writer-director
Ben Lewin gives us in The
Sessions what weve all been
waiting for: an utterly
wonderful movie about sex.
THE HITS KEEP
COMING
Adapted and directed by
Andrew Dominik, Killing Them
Softly is a rare treat that
elevates the gangster genre
instead of wallowing in it.
Mingling wit, gore, a great
ensemble cast, and
exhilarating dialogue, this
tough-guy entertainment
keeps us entrancedand
never more than when James
Gandolfinis burned-out hit
man confides in Brad Pitts
velvet-voiced gentleman killer,
a guy who likes to keep his
work classy.K.D.
TRUST US
MOVIES
INTO THE CRAZY
In the sophomore effort by the stylish, edgy director Martin McDonagh, a star-studded
cast lights up a spoofy shaggy-dog story involving a hapless L.A. screenwriter, a bunch
of his psychotic pals, and a shih tzu that they shouldnt have messed with
DOG DAYS Farrell,
Walken, and
Rockwell; McDonagh
and Farrell (below)
DR. FEELGOOD Reilly
hitting the
road;
Goodman
delivering
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efore Tina, Ellen, and Aubrey, there were Elaine, Lily, and
Joanwomen who, despite an overwhelming cultural con-
viction that a pair of X chromosomes and a funny bone were
mutually exclusive, felt compelled to make people laugh. Yet
in 2007, 50 years after the late, great Phyllis Diller first brought
down the house, Christopher Hitchens infamously took to the
pages of Vanity Fair to pronounce that even with the whole male
world at their mercy, women, on the whole, are not funny. Beat.
Cue laugh track. Cut to: We Killed: The
Rise of Women in American Comedy (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux), Yael Kohens com-
prehensive oral history of 152 players who
pioneered, propelled, and witnessed the
rise of women in todays comedy scene.
Part show business chronicle and part un-
abashed (read: drugs, digs, and dirt) con-
fessional, its further proof that women, and
the men who heed their talent, will have the
last laugh. Below, what we learned about
some of our favorite comic trailblazers.
THEY KNOW FASHION
Dillerthe spitfire with the contagious cacklewould hit the
stage dressed, as one talent agent says, like she was wearing
rags, in an attempt to hide her fetching figure. She then gave her
opening act fashion tips while headlining New Yorks Bon Soir in
1960. The opener? An 18-year-old Barbra Streisand.
THEY KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS
The Mary Tyler Moore Shows brash Rhoda was first envisioned as
a plump, insecure sidekick. But as the 70s womens movement
flared, she changed with it. Rhoda started getting more self-
esteem, and she stopped putting herself down, says show writer
Treva Silverman. I was responding to it through my work.
THEY KNOW THAT (SEX) LIFE IS A STAGE
Single-gal-in-the-city prototype Elayne Boosler, who dated both
Robin Williams and Andy Kaufman, understood the plight of the
urban female. On sex: Men want you to scream, Youre the best,
while swearing youve never done this with anyone before.
THEY KNOW HOW TO STAND UP TO THE MAN
At Elaines, New Yorks now-shuttered celebrity enclave, Woody
Allen refused to socialize with the other patrons, including the
original cast of Saturday Night Live, says former staff writer Marilyn
Suzanne Miller. And Gilda [Radner], in her usual way of just get-
ting a message through her heart of what was wrong and having
some completely unusual way of expressing it, just turned around
to Woody and punched him in the stomach.
E
ven casual theatergoers
think they know Annie: that
saccharine comic-strip musi-
cal starring an orphan who
wont shut up about tomor-
row. Even Thomas Meehan,
who wrote Annies book, was
disap pointed when he was of-
fered the job in 1972. I wanted
to work on a West Side Story or
My Fair Lady, he says, not
some cartoony thing.
But the show eventually
created by Meehan and his col-
laboratorscomposer Charles
Strouse and lyricist Martin
Charninis actually a well-
oiled musical theater machine,
perfectly structured, emotion-
ally satisfying, and far more
political than your memory
may indicate. In fact, when the
thirty-fifth-anniversary revival
opens this month on Broadway
two days after the election, the-
atergoers may be surprised to
discover a flat-out indictment of
fat-cat greed and governmental
disdain for the poor. Its not just
about Annie finding a father,
but about the country finding
a heart; one of the many char-
acters who sings Tomorrow
during the proceedings is FDR.
Annie didnt start out that
way. Harold Grays comic strip,
which debuted in 1924, was
populist but pro-capitalist (An-
nies savior is Oliver Warbucks)
and, soon enough, rabidly
antiNew Deal. But Meehan
took almost nothing from the
original, and with his collabo-
ratorsall liberal Democrats
dismayed by the Republican
White Housereset the story
in a Dickensian Depression
world of apple peddlers, home-
less ragamuffins, and pop-up
Hoovervilles. For a villain,
Meehan invented the orphan-
age director Mrs. Hannigan,
based on his own mother on
rainy days in summer; she is
so comically rageful that she
seems like Nixon in drag.
The mix of political bite and
personal uplift did not strike
most producers in 1972 as com-
mercial, and it wasnt until 1977,
when Mike Nichols came on
board, that Annie finally made
it to Broadway. By then, Nixon
had left the Oval Office in dis-
grace, but audiences still lapped
up the allegory; the show ran
for 2,377 performances and
won a raft of Tonys, including
one for Meehan. (Hes won
two more since, for The Produc-
ers and Hairspray.) And though
there have been times when
he never wanted to hear that
tune again, Meehan is looking
forward to seeing how Tomor-
row registers in a political era
that, with its 99-percenters, Oc-
cupy Wall Streeters, and stark
economic choices, looks sur-
prisingly like, well, yesterday.
FUNNY
BUSINESS
BLUE CHIP
A history of women in comedywho hit the mic
in the 60s, upstaged the Hollywood boys club in
the 70s, and rule the airwaves todayunearths
more than laughs. By Justine Harman
After 35 years, Annies school of hard knocks
still packs some surprisingly salient economic
commentary. By Jesse Green
OCCUPY EASY STREET The
original 1977 Broadway
production of Annie
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usannah Cahalan defines her unforgettable memoir, Brain on Fire: My Month
of Madness (Free Press), at the outset as a journalists inquiry into that deep-
est part of the selfpersonality, memory, identityin an attempt to pick up
and understand the pieces left behind. The bizarre and confounding illness
that beset the 24-year-old New York Post reporter in early 2009 so ravaged her
mentally and physically that she became unrecognizable to coworkers, family,
friends, andmost devastat-
inglyherself.
Cahalan remembers vir-
tually nothing about the
month she spent hospital-
ized at the peak of her ill-
ness, suffer ing hallucinations,
psychosis, pro found cogni-
tive impair ment, catatonia,
and epileptic-type fits that
only worsened as her team of
doctors scrambled unsuccess-
fully to correctly identify and
arrest her ailment. Though
I had been gradually losing
more and more of myself over
the past few weeks, the break
between my consciousness
and my physical body was
now finally fully complete. In
essence, I was gone.
With her situation deterio-
rating daily, Cahalan at last
was diagnosed by two neu-
rologists, whom she fondly
credits as her own brilliant
and selfless Drs. House, with
a rare and deadly type of
autoimmune encephalitis that was con-
firmed by a brain biopsy Cahalan under-
wentwhich she describes in all of its
Frankenstein-like glory and gore. After
her pre-op shaving, she writes, I sat on
the bed unfazed with my head wrapped
in a towel, as if I had just received a spa
treatment.
It has been more than three years
since Cahalan first displayed the flu-
like symptoms that heralded her terrifying descent into a harrowing illness.
She is considered recoveredBut, she writes, with every
memory I recapture, I know there are hundreds, thousands
even, that I cannot conjure up. No matter how many doctors I
speak with, no matter how many interviews I conduct or how
many notebooks I scavenge, there will be many experiences,
bits of my life that have vanished.
Small wonder that she dedicates this miracle of a book to
those without a diagnosis.
THE ELLES
LETTRES
READERS
PRIZE
2013
15 ELLE readers vote for
their favorite of three
new books we lovein
our first round for the
coming year, plot-driven
literary novels
1. THE ART
FORGER
B. A. SHAPIRO
(ALGONQUIN)
If Bridget Joness Diary
and The Da Vinci Code
had a love child, this
would be it, one reader
enthused about this
literary thriller spun
from a real-life art heist
at Bostons Gardner
Museum. Others found
young artist Claire Roth
a dubious heroine and
the plotinvolving the
forgery of a Degas
paintingcontrived, but
almost everyone had a
good time with it.
2. AMERICAN
GHOST
JANIS OWENS
(SCRIBNER)
The truth about a 1930s
racial crime in north
Florida threatens the
romance between a
preachers daughter
and an inquisitive Miami
grad student. Readers
gave Owens kudos for
style and gravitas, even
when they viewed the
past and present as only
tenuously linked here.
3. LIFE AMONG
GIANTS
BILL ROORBACH
(ALGONQUIN)
Some readers loved the
meandering sweep of
this saga about a
wealthy Connecticut
sister and brother who
witness their parents
murder but unravel the
truth behind it only
years later; others didnt
have the patience for
the authors off-angle
handling of his odd
collection of characters.
For this months readers comments, go to elle.com/readersprize.
e-mail eagerreader@elle.com
BODY-SLAMMED
A reporter pieces together the horrendous,
bewildering illness she enduredone now
suspected to be responsible for countless cases
of possession throughout history. By Lisa Shea
Cahalan
For details on becoming a Readers Prize juror,
EMPIRE OF
THE SON
On November 14, Lulu
Gainsbourg releases
From Gainsbourg to Lulu,
a tribute to his legendary
late father, Serge, with
help from the likes of
Marianne Faithfull, Rufus
Wainwright, and Iggy
Pop.ALLISON P. DAVIS
Why this tribute now? My
father played the piano to
me when I was a baby. The
day he passed away, I was
five. I spent all afternoon
on the piano, even though
I didnt know how to play. I
called my mom over and
played things hed played
to me. I never had the
chance to show him this
gift. How did you choose
your collaborators?
Johnny Depp was the first
person I talked to. He and
Vanessa [Paradis] chose
Ballade de Melodie
Nelson. They had named
their daughter after it.
Scarlett Johansson is a
modern-day Brigitte
Bardot; she was exactly
who I wanted for Bonnie
and Clyde. How did you
make the album yours?
I wrote one song, Fresh
News From the Stars. My
mom used to say the
shiniest star in the sky
was my father. I wanted to
show him my universe.
My first serious blackout
marked the line between
sanity and insanity. Though
I would have moments of
lucidity over the coming
weeks, I would never again
be the same person.
BOOGIE-WOOGIE BB
The infant Gainsbourg
with his father, Serge
From time to time the holidays can weigh
you down. Personally, I like to keep it light.
Which is why this season, Im choosing
palladium jewelry. Palladium jewelry is
todays lightweight, pure and naturally white
precious metal thats easy on the eyes
and skin. Giving really is the greatest gift, but
I have to admit, receiving is a close second.
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usan Lindley, the narrator of Lydia Millets
eighth novel, Magnificence (Norton), lives in L.A.
and works in real estate. Shes an adulterer
the ambitious, sporting kind, for whom infidel-
ity is more thrill seeking than marital rebuke. Like
many of Millets characters (Magnificence completes
a loose trilogy comprising 2008s How the Dead
Dream and 2011s critically acclaimed Ghost Lights),
Susan doesnt seem like the type to want to save
the worldor even to look much beyond her own
desires. But when her husband dies, suddenly and
brutally, a short time after he happens to uncover
one of her affairs, she blames herself. Then fate
intervenes again, and she inherits a rambling old
mansion in Pasa dena with wild, sprawling gardens
and rooms crowded with her late uncles museum-
worthy taxidermy collection: hawks caught in mid-
flight, a marlin, an arctic fox, horned beasts, lions,
tigers, a Kodiak bear standing upright and fero-
cious in the corner, beside a coat stand.
Susan doesnt feel especially at ease alone in
the house with predators, spending her days sur-
rounded by dust and fur, by remnants of fierce-
nessremnants of what had once been the world.
But shes relieved to have the distraction, and soon
the house begins to fill up with various lost souls:
Susans daughters friends, a heartbroken lawyer, a
coterie of elderly
ladies who show
up for a book-
club meeting and
never leaveun-
til this accidental
commune assumes an air of permanence and con-
tentment, the happy captivity of precious things, a
menagerie of the extinct and the vulnerable.
Most novels situate us in a familiar physical uni-
verse so we can focus our attention on the mysteries
of its characters inner lives. Magnificence is suffused
with emotional complexity, butas has often been
the case in Millets workits central mysteries abide
in the natural world. In a self-consciously modern
age, were expected to understand our feelingsits
biology that eludes us, our own bodies changing,
fading, disappearing. This surprising, elemental,
funny, shrewd, and affecting
book isnt so much concerned
with redemption (how can one
redeem whats gone for good?)
as with evoking a new kind of
innocence: a world saved not by
perfect people but by uswho-
ever we are, what ever weve
been.
O
liver Sacks knows from hal-
lucination. The best- selling
author (Awakenings, The Man
Who Mistook His Wife for a
Hat), besides being a practicing
neuro logist for half a century,
has caught a ghostly waft of ko-
sher wine in his onetime fam ily
home, been led down a moun-
tain by a life voice after suffer-
ing an injury, and tested a labs
worth of psychedelic drugs. He is singularly quali-
fied to enlighten us on what, as he explains in the
15 chapters in Hallucinations (Knopf), are often not
psychiatric or paranormal but merely neurological
eventstestaments to the brains demiurgic powers.
When the brain is released from the constraints
of reality, Sacks writes, it can generate any sound,
image, or smell in its repertoire, sometimes in com-
plex and impossible combinations. Mixing case
histories, personal anecdotes, and literary allusions,
he illustrates how trauma, blindness, epilepsy,
migraines, drugs, or simply REM sleep can trigger
that release, generating spectral visions, presences,
smells, and voiceseven phantom cell-phone rings.
As always, Sacks explores humanistic questions:
One must wonder to what extent hallucinatory
experiences have given rise to our art, folklore,
and even religion, he muses, citing Dostoevskys
ecstatic seizures. But like others who write
about medicine and culture (Anne Fadiman, Atul
Gawande), and like any good physician, Sacks at-
tends to human experiencehow hallucinations in-
sist on their own reality, unmooring us, while knowl-
edge empowers us to re- rationalize
the world. As a patient wrote to
Sacks of her sleep-paralysis diag-
nosis, It is like letting go ofa
mystical, almost magical view of
the world. This sweeping explica-
tion of the brains faculties reveals
it as equally wondrous.
LIFE
,
INTERRUPTED
In a rousing finish to an admired cycle of
novels, Lydia Millet gives us a believable
heroine for our time. By Julia Holmes
Sacks
Millet
TRUST
US
BOOKS
CRAZY WISDOM
The 183rd Imperial
Edition of The Onion
Book of Known
Knowledge (Little,
Brown), from the editors
of Americas satiric
newspaper of record,
is an encyclopedic fun
house of information
and illustrations
teeming with hundreds
of entries covering
everything from the
letter A to Zibby the
cartoon squirrel.
HIP HERSTORY
My Awesome Place
(Topside Press) dives
headlong into New
Yorks scruffy-glam
1990s East Village arts
scene, where blue-
collar-born Cheryl Burke
found cult fame as writer-
performer Cheryl B.
Writes Burkewho died
last year at age 38 from
complications of
Hodgkins lymphoma
I was the girl in the
crooked heels, boasting
cleavage inappropriate
for sunrise while smiling
smugly to myself, as if I
had accomplished some
great act of subversion.
Call it self-invention.
TOP OF THE POPS
UK critic Dylan Jones
The Biographical
Dictionary of Popular
Music (Picador) offers
engagingly personal
sketches of more than
350 artists, from living
legends A Tribe Called
Quest and David Bowie
to long-gone greats Nat
King Cole and Billie
Holiday, to instant icons
Lady Gaga and Iggy Pop,
along with loads of
other musical
wunderkinder and
one-off acts.L.S.
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ndrew Solomon spent 10 years interviewing more than 250 families, from which he
generated 40,000 pages of transcripts and fashioned the 700-page tome Far From the
Tree (Scribner). But even those numbers dont do justice to his wild ambition. The books
massive middle chaptersDeaf, Dwarfs, Down Syndrome, Autism, Schizo-
phrenia, Disability, Prodigies, Rape, Crime, and Transgenderseek to stretch
our empathy where it might shrink; they are preceded by one titled Son, in which Solo-
mon recounts his torment as a gay kid in the 70s, including outlandish therapies through
which he sought to alter his sexual orientation. And the book ends with Father, which
recounts how Solomon and his husband began raising their own son. The books over-
arching theme is what Solomon calls horizontal identitya minority or Other status that
people do not share with their parents. Far From the Tree is fundamentally about the bonds
and burdens of family, and its a huge valentine to those who embrace the challenge of
raising children who are in some way not what they had hoped for.Virginia Vitzthum
How did your own experiences inform this book?
If someone had been able to tell me at 10 or 12, Someday,
youll be married to a guy, youll have kids, youll go every-
where together, I could have been saved so much agony.
Aligning gay people with those who are coping with these more
severe conditions is a remarkable gesture.
Im going to take a lot of flak for saying being gay is
like being disabled. In a way, its the anti thesis of what
gay people have been fighting for. But in another way,
noits the essence of what weve been fighting for. If we
want to achieve a just society, we have to look at com-
monalities and not all fight for our little bit of territory.
How did you pick the 10 groups you studied?
Where you come from, who you are socially, what body
youre born with, whats going on in your mindI
wanted to pull all these polarities together, and these 10
represented a constellation of conditions. If I was writing
about dwarfs, I didnt need to write about gigantism.
You distill a lot of science and technology in the book, yet its a very heartfelt work. What was it
like combining these characteristics?
With a lot of these conditions, people feel that they have to choose between the politics of
liberation and self-actualization movements, on the one hand, and the medical model,
on the other. The tension between these is so interesting, and you cant make reasonable
decisions without both. I wanted to translate between the two.
Were there times when being empathetic became difficult, when you found yourself resisting?
Sure. Experiencing your difference as an identity is very empowering, but I dont believe
its always accurate or honest. If youre deaf and dont want a cochlear implant and want
to be part of a signing culture, terrific. But if someone else is deaf and wants a cochlear
implant and to engage with the hearing world, dont try to pressure them not to. Identity
politics can be really aggressive.
You write about offering to set up a dwarf on a date. Do you worry about crossing journalistic lines?
People opened up their lives to me with no gain for themselves, so if I could do some-
thing kind for them, I wanted to. One transgender family had their child taken away
from them, and I helped them get a lawyer. A dwarf told me she was lonely, and Id just
talked to another dwarf who told me he was looking for someone. I dont
buy that disengagement is the best way to study a subject. Boundaries are
not my big strength. Of everyone I interviewed for this book, there are a
handful of people I think of as real friends, and there are many others I
have affection for. I have this fantasy of a party where I invite everyone,
and wed say, Here we all are.
GENE GENIES
The author of The Noonday Demon, a landmark work
on depression, returns with an even more profound
inquiry: What does it mean to be born different?
Solomon
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ELLE INTELLIGENCE WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD
THE POWER LIST
In Entertainment Town, USA, everyone is angling
for power. But actually getting it (and hanging on to
it) is all about relationships. Its the most connected
insidersfrom party throwers to tweet-happy
comedienneswho wield the real influence. Who
better to give us a tour of the showbiz power grid
than The Hollywood Reporter editorial director
Janice Min?
C HE L S E A HA ND L E R
The Bad-Girl CEO
J UD D A PAT OW
The Man
The Chelsea Lately host ranked on 2012s
Time 100 list of inuencers, champi-
oned late-night TV with women 18
to 34, and dominated the New York
Times best-seller list (again) with
Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me.
Meanwhile, Handlers writer
and roundtable regular, Sarah
Colonna, saw her rst book,
Life as I Blow It, debut at No. 5 on
the best-seller list and get a TV
show deal with NBC.
The Bridesmaids producer contin-
ues to serve up girl power. Girls,
which he executive-produced
for HBO, was the cultural phe-
nomenon of the year and cata-
pulted actress-writer-producer-
director Lena Dunham from
indie darling to the unofficial
ambassador for generation
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The Wild Card
A NNE HAT HAWAY
The Fresh Maker
E MMA S T O NE
Ms. Versatile
ME RY L S T R E E P
The Perennial
The Notebook star pulled on heartstrings
again in this years The Vow, which made
$125 million domestically and more than $196
million globally. But next shell play against
type, opposite Noomi Rapace in Brian De
Palmas racy thriller Passion.
The worlds most nominated actress won her
third Oscar this year for The Iron Lady, but
continues to mix up her roles: After crowd-
pleaser Hope Springs, shell star opposite
Julia Roberts in August: Osage County.
With two more Hunger Games installments
in the works, Lawrence is one in-demand
actressand a flush one (shell earn close to
$10 million for Catching Fire). But the once-
indie star is still making time to boost smaller
vehicles, too, such as David O. Russells
upcoming Silver Linings Playbook.
The Twilight and Snow White and the
Huntsman star earned nearly $35 million
last year alone. That said, only time will tell if
her summer tabloid scandal will diminish the
22-year-olds box-office mojo.
A longtime studio sure bet as the lovable
everygirl, Hathaway has recently revealed a
talent for updating classic roles: Her turn as
an edgy Catwoman was a high note in The
Dark Knight Rises, and shell put her spin on
Fantine in this winters Les Miserables.
After proving a natural anchor for rom-coms
(Crazy, Stupid, Love), dramas (The Help), and
now a superfranchise (The Amazing Spider-
Man), Stone has become a go-to lead across
genres. Next up, Warner Bros. is banking on
her to help fill seats for its Gangster Squad.
THE
SCREEN STARS
THE REIGNING
DIRECTOR
THE NEW-BLOOD
PRODUCER
THE GENEROSITY
MAGNET
K AT HRY N B I G E L OW
Academy Awards hawks are holding their
breath for Bigelows follow-up to 2009s
Oscar sweeper The Hurt Locker. The Osama
bin Laden epic Zero Dark Thirty scored
her access to top secret CIA documents.
ME GA N E L L I S O N
At 26, the daughter of Oracle tech tycoon
Larry Ellison has already gambled
over $100 million on indie films, this year
financing Paul Thomas Andersons
Scientology movie, The Master, and
Bigelows Zero Dark Thirty.
As the president and CEO of the
Entertainment Industry Foundation,
Paulsen has helped raise $700 million to
invest in nonprofits and research groups.
L I S A PAUL S E N
COLONNA
DUNHAM
J E NNI F E R L AWR E NC E
The Girl on Fire
R A C HE L M C A DA MS
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McGrath, wife of Hollywood
multihyphenate J. J. Abrams, may not
be a household name, but shes become
a political, philanthropic, and social
dynamo in showbiz circles. How, you ask?
1. SHE SUPPORTS WOMEN IN POLITICS
McGrath, with Abrams, regularly rallies
support for new political talent such as
California Attorney General Kamala
Harris and Massachusetts Democratic
Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.
McGrath also serves on the board of the
Childrens Defense Fund.
2. SHE KNOWS HOW TO PAIR UP
McGrath and Abrams keep the company
of the industrys most established
power couples: CAA ultra-agent
Kevin Huvane and former agent
Ruth-Ann Huvane; Diane von
Furstenberg and media mogul Barry
Diller; DreamWorks Animation CEO
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Marilyn
Katzenberg; Sony Corporation of
America CEO Michael Lynton and
Jamie Lynton; Universal Studios
president and COO Ron Meyer and
Kelly Meyer, a founder of the Womens
Cancer Research Fund.
3. SHE DRAWS NEW BLOOD
McGrath and Abrams events frequently
bring in Hollywoods new guard,
including Scarlett Johansson, Mindy
Kaling, and Olivia Munn.
NI C O L E AVA NT
The Ambassador
Before serving two years as U.S.
ambassador to the Bahamas, she helped
kindle $21 million for Obamas 2008
campaign. Now she and her husband,
Netflix chief content officer Ted
Sarandos, are again rallying Hollywood
luminaries for Obamas reelection, which
could lead to her being named his official
DCL.A. liaison.
MA R G E RY TA BA NK I N
The Grande Dame
The political adviser to the stars and
West Coast sounding board for DCs
most influential (Nancy Pelosi meets
with her when in town) has helped raise
more than $500 million in support
of the environment, civil rights, and
womens issues as executive director of
both Barbra Streisands and Steven
Spielbergs foundations.
MI NDY K A L I NG & Z O O E Y D E S C HA NE L
This fall, Fox is banking on Kalings
Twitter influence (her following is now
1.9 million strong) to make her new show,
The Mindy Project, a hit. It worked with
New Girls Deschanel, whose tweets
promoting her show now reach 3 million
followers. Kaling and Deschanel share
an RT circle that also includes Lena
Dunham and adorable Twitter It Girl
Maude Apatow.
@ZooeyDeschanel:
Loved hanging out
with @mindykaling
today at the fox
upfronts. Its nice
doing business with
your pals!
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CONNECTOR IN CHIEF
THE BICOASTAL
POLITICOS
THE PRIME-TIME
TWEETERS
POLITICOS
DESCHANEL KALING
MCGRATH
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The Studio Superheroine
Its been another banner year for the
cochairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment
and chairman of its Motion Picture Group:
Buddy-cop comedy 21 Jump Street and The
Amazing Spider-Man raked in $202 million
and upward of $735 million, respectively,
worldwide; and Sony just acquired the red-hot
distribution rights to Kathryn Bigelows Zero
Dark Thirty.
K AT HL E E N K E NNE DY
The Chosen One
As George Lucas segues into retirement,
this year Kennedy was trusted to co-helm
the multi-billion-dollar Lucasfilm, Ltd. (Who
wouldnt trust a producer whose rsum spans
from the Bourne, Jurassic Park, and Indiana
Jones franchises to indies such as The Diving
Bell and the Butterfly and Persepolis?)
S TA C E Y S NI D E R
The Dream Girl
Six years into her reign as Steven Spielbergs
right-hand woman and CEO of DreamWorks
Studios, Snider remains one of the most
sought-after businesswomen in Hollywood.
Her alma mater, Universal Pictures, recently
tried to woo her back to head Universal
Studios, but Snider is staying putfor now.
DAWN HUD S O N
The Academy Brass
Formerly head of Film Independent (producer
of the Independent Spirit Awards), the CEO
of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences was hired to bring indie-studio elbow
grease to the venerable institution.
NI NA TA S S L E R
The Network Muscle
With Tassler as its entertainment president,
CBS boasts 12 of the 15 most-watched scripted
shows, including Emmy perennial The Good
Wife and 2011s No. 1 comedy, 2 Broke Girls.
NA NCY D UB UC
The Subculture Queen
The president and general manager of the
Lifetime and History channels has struck gold
by zeroing in on quirky subcultures with Dance
Moms, Pawn Stars, and Swamp People.
L I S A B E R G E R
The Reality-Tv Matriarch
The mastermind behind the Kardashians
superstardom, E! entertainment programming
president Berger revisited famous-family
matters this year with Mrs. Eastwood &
Company and Married to Jonas, the networks
most-watched pilot in years.
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studio and then became
the chairman and CEO of
Paramount Pictures in 1992.
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execs and producers
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The Agent
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talent agency CAA, ace hobnobber
Nguyen curates the firms
contemporary art collection and
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creatives, from architect Rem
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buzzed-about artists such as painter
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and Kate Winslet among the eight-figure stars
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body skin cures. A board-
certified dermatologist and
psychiatrist (one of just two in
the country), shes as comfort-
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she is backstage with Steven
Tyler (He was first impressed
with my handshake, and then
he found out Im a drummer),
so it makes sense that the New
Yorker is equally popular with
UES socialites and downtown
party girls.
A few of your patients told me
that youre a bit of a psychic, that
you always know what theyve
been up to.
I can tell when someone hasnt
been getting enough sleep, or if
shes been around secondhand
smoke. It could be the dullness
of her skin, acne, or more lines
and wrinkles. A lot of women in
their twenties, theyre burning
the candle at both ends. Theyre
partying really hard. They
come to me to undo the dam-
age, asking for Botox and fill-
ers when they dont need them.
They just need to get more sleep
and stop smoking. Theyll see a
difference in a week.
Is there any reason to use Botox in
your twenties?
If youve got a line thats fa-
milialsomething your mom
had, like between your eye-
browsand its already etch-
ing itself in, we can cure you of
it, and you wont need Botox
there after a few years. We use
just a teeny bit; we call it baby
Botox.
When I think about stress causing
my breakouts, I get more stressed-
out. How long does it take for a
meltdown to show up on my face?
Youll see it the next day, while
low-level stress will show on
your skin in about a week.
What can I do to minimize
the damage?
Any activity that decreases
cortisol and the other stress
molecules. Yoga and massage
work, but not for everyone. For
example, yoga hurts my joints.
And topical acne medications,
over-the-counter ones with
benzoyl peroxide or salicylic
acid or prescription retinoids,
can also help.
I read in your book, The Mind-
Beauty Connection (Free Press), that
humming can help skin repair itself.
Yes, humming releases nitric
acid, which speeds healing. I
think it also increases your en-
dorphins. And humming can
help with pain, more than a
stress ball. During procedures,
youll see patients gripping
stress balls, their shoulders all
hunched. But when those same
patients try singing or hum-
ming, they totally relax.
I also read that you use three
fresh towels every morning.
Im not high-maintenance,
I promise! But I have a body
towel, a dedicated hair towel,
and a separate face towel.
When I was a teenager and
had bad acne, my dermatolo-
gist said, Never get your hair
oil on your face, ever!
You used to be cynical about eye
creams. Has teaming up with
Chanel changed that?
I was a real skeptic because
I tried, like, 50 of them, and
most dont do what they say
they do. First of all, it should
never irritate the skin around
the eye, the most sensitive skin
on the body. Number two, it
has to be extremely moistur-
izing. Number three, it has to
address fine lines. There arent
that many out there that do all
three. I love Chanel Sublimage
because it works. And regular
Vaseline is a good alternative
for people who cant afford
Sublimage or just want the
very basic.
Any other supermarket
beauty secrets?
Applying safflower oil topi-
cally can boost your skins
stores of linoleic acid, a natural
moisturizer. Only two oils are
primarily linoleic acidolive
and safflowerbut the prob-
lem with olive oil is you smell
like a salad.
Is there a placebo effect with
pricey creams?
Theres a huge psychological
component to a purchase, be
it a lipstick, a bag, whatever
it is. Theres something about
spending money on ourselves
that is a huge self-esteem
booster. Patients say, Do you
think its worth it? I ask if they
like it, how it makes them feel.
And they love that cream; it
has a special significance for
them. And I think thats real.
Real enough to make a
physiological improvement in skin?
Yes, definitely.
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he Library of the Italian Academy at
Columbia University is precisely as
you might expect: small, chandeliered,
and brimming with intriguing-looking
leather-bound books. Rivaling the perva-
sive scent of scholarship one evening this
summer, however, was that of fragrance.
This was the launch event for the Academy
of Perfumery and Aromatics, New Yorks
mini branch of the French perfume mu-
seum LOsmothque, a Versailles-based
whiff-obsessives mecca that houses the
worlds largest collection of archival eaux.
As a curator uncorked the sweet, grassy Le
Trfle Incarnat from 1896, my pen ran out
of ink, interrupting my sniffing-and-note-
scribbling reverie long enough for me to
look up and notice something surprising:
Almost everyone else in the room was
male. In addition to the helpful man seated
to my righta handsome, leather-jacket-
clad, silver-skull-ring-wearing hipster who
told me he worked for NASA and loaned
me a ballpointthere was a whole host
of very dudey dudes (baseball caps, plaid
shirts, office-casual suits) huffing the likes
of Guerlains romantic Mitsouko with un-
disguised zeal. Interesting, I thought to my-
self and stole the guys pen.
What I observed that night, it turns out,
is just the tip of the iceberg. Thanks to the
proliferation of fragrance-freak-geared
website forums (Fragrantica, Now Smell
This, Basenotes, etc.), theres been a tre-
mendous increase in opinionated, super-
sophisticated scent enthusiaststhe type
who rhapsodize about oakmoss, share
memories of their first-ever whiff of Op-
ium, and weigh the merits of the latest
niche eau to flare the blogospheres collec-
tive nostrils. And within that newly pow-
erful group, the most rapidly growing
demographic is male. While the highly
regarded Basenotes, launched in 2000 by
Londoner Grant Osborne, laid the ground-
work (the sites guy-dominated male fra-
grance discussion currently has more
than one million posts, whereas the female
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GOODSMELLAS
There are guys who collect cars, cigars, and trading cards. And
then there are those who hoardperfume? April Long meets
the new scent aficionados
board has only some 317,000), countless
others have taken up the mantle. A quick
Google search will bring up everything
from Fragrance Bros (tagline: Helping en-
tertain and educate our brothers and sis-
ters about the wonderful world of smelling
AWESOME) to Whiffguy.blogspot.com,
the work of a self-proclaimed Average
Guy Fragrance Enthusiast who gives every
scent he reviews a word-association list (for
Dolce & Gabbana Homme Light Blue: Lip
balm. Receipts. Crosswalks. Antipasti. Pen-
cil lead. Suede). And thats before you even
get to the legions of Y-chromosome-bearing
YouTube perfume reviewers.
When we first opened our store six
years ago, it was predominantly women
coming in and befriending us, says Fran co
Wright, who cofounded Luckyscenta
niche-fragrance hot spot that exists both
online and as a brick-and-mortar boutique
in Los Angeleswith his former graphic-
design-studio partner Adam Eastwood.
Now thats completely changed. Proba-
bly 60 percent of our regulars are males.
Theyre the ones who are hanging out and
socializing at the store. Some come in al-
most every day.
If Luckyscent is the L.A. clubhouse for
odor-savvy guys, its East Coast counter-
part is MiN New Yorka welcoming SoHo
scent store that, with its dark wood shelv-
ing, tufted leather sofas, and carefully se-
lected vintage curios, has the atmosphere
of an early-twentieth-century-apothecary-
meets-gentlemans-smoking-den. And its
here, a few months after my revelation at
Columbia, that I meet up with a group
of male perfume aficionados who have
nicknamed themselves the Good smellas.
Ranging in age from roughly 25 to 60,
theyre predominantly straight (most are
married) and look, well, pretty ordinary:
They could be truck drivers, businessmen,
or bankers. Among them are Carlos J.
Powell, a bespectacled middle-aged fellow
who runs a Facebook group called Peace
Love Perfume, where members fever-
ishly post their SOTM, SOTA, and SOTE
(scents of the morning, afternoon, and eve-
ning, respectively); Andrew Buck, a suit-
and-tie-wearing business consultant who
writes a blog called Scentrist in his spare
time; Eddie Libassi, aka Frunkinator, a
young, tattooed guy in a black T-shirt who
helms a popular YouTube channel dedi-
cated to testosterone-charged fragrance
reviews, sometimes dispatched from be-
hind the wheel of his car (these are tagged
Frunk in Motion); and IT specialist Rich
Scardaville, a self-described regular fra-
grance fan who tests perfumes every night
before he goes to bed to determine which
hell wear the next day to work. Ill put
on five, six, seven things up and down my
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arm, he says, and my poor girlfriend will
want to go to sleep in the other room be-
cause theres this cloud around me. Shes al-
ways like, Just pick one already!
The Goodsmellas congregate at MiN on
a regular basis not just for samples, which
cute-couple co-owners Chad Murawczyk
and Mindy Yang distribute readily, but for
the community it provides. Some of them
share splits (one buys the bottle, then de-
cants samples for the others); they compare
notes, literally, on their collections (most
own between 150 and 250 full bottles of
perfume, plus several hundred samples)
and storage solutions (Scardaville keeps
his in a hardware bench with alphabeti-
cally labeled drawers; Libassi stockpiles
his favorites in a wine cooler with modified
shelving). They discuss which eaux are
most work-appropriate, consider whether
or not its too girly to wear florals (consen-
sus: Its not), and debate the viability of
having a signature scent. Theres no such
thing, Buck says. There are times when
you want something light and citrusy and
times when you want a deep wood. Noth-
ing fits every occasion. Youre not going
to wear a dress loafer to go out running.
Sometimes theyll all have a drink or go
out to dinner together, but mostly they just
wander around the store and inhale.
We can talk to each other, because we
have this shared value system, Murawc-
zyk says. Were all in completely differ-
ent lines of work, so we have nothing to do
with each other on a nine-to-five basis, but
in this world, we have an interconnect.
For many of the men in the MiN crowd,
the appeal of fragrance is rooted in their
childhood (I remember seeing bottles on
my fathers dresser, Fragrant Moments
blogger Barney Bishop says, and figur-
ing, All right, thats what manhood is all
about) or arose as the result of some acci-
dental discovery. Scardaville, for example,
fell for By Kilians Incense Oud after be-
ing randomly spritzed by a saleswoman in
Bergdorf Goodman. While I was walk-
ing around the store I was just amazed
at how this fragrance developed and
changed on my skin and became a part
of me, he says. When I found out how
much it cost, I almost dropped dead, but
Ive never regretted buying it.
Goodsmella Mike Devines story is
more dramatic. A police-officer first re-
sponder on September 11, he gradually lost
his sense of smell during months of clean-
up at Ground Zero. I dont know exactly
what caused it, and I didnt particularly
care at the time, he says. What mattered
was living through the experience. It was
two and a half years before he began to de-
tect odors again. The first thing was con-
crete dust at a construction site, he says.
It was welcome to a certain degree, but
all I could really smell were the sinister
smells that took me back to a dark place.
So I started to seek out beautiful-smelling
things to counteract all that negativity.
Devine began with candles and air fresh-
eners, then moved on to fragrances, which
he now uses to build what he calls habit
trails, or new scent memories, by care-
fully selecting a perfume to accom pany a
specific happy episode. Like, I went on
a cruise to the Bahamas and the only fra-
grance I wore was Acqua di Parma so that
every moment of every day was filled with
that smell, he says. Now a couple years
later I can go back to that bottle and the
memories are still there. Its a very cool
game to play.
The connection between scent and
memory is well-known (thank you, Proust),
but neurologist Alan Hirsch, MD, director
of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Re-
search Foundation in Chi cago, says that
theres also a close correlation between
what you smell and the way you feel. The
reason scent is so intricately related to hap-
piness is because the part of the brain that
smells, or the olfactory lobe, is actually
part of the limbic system, or the emotional
brain, he says. If you see a picture of a
horse, first you identify what it is, and then
you figure out whether or not you like it,
but with smell its the exact opposite. You
smell something and immediately react
to it, and then you figure out whether its
a rose or a lilac or whatever. Smell is the
quickest way to change someones mood
or behavior, because it happens totally in-
dependently of thought. The scent of lav-
ender, for example, has a calming effect,
while vanilla, oddly, that smell of inno-
cence and baking, has been found to be
sexually arousing. Jasmine, according to
three separate studiesthe first on mice,
the second two on humans, including base-
ball playerscan have as profound a calm-
ing effect as Valium and can dramatically
improve hand-eye coordination.
The sharp delight of smelling some-
thing glorious lasts only a few seconds be-
fore the nose gets accustomed to the scent,
so it becomes a bit like chasing a ghost
and this thrill-of-the-hunt aspect seems to
be in keeping with the way male fragrance
fanatics are hardwired. As Murawczyk
says, The quest is to find something that
feels like its lighting up a new part of your
brain. Most of the Goodsmellas started
their collections with widely popular eaux
such as Acqua di Gi, then gradually be-
gan to explore the niche realm looking for
more off-the-map olfactory experiences.
I started out just going into department
stores and smelling fragrances, says Li-
bassi, but when I got to the point when I
could walk along the wall in Sephora and
go, That smells like almond, that smells
like rose then I was like, Wheres the
next wall? (Although he wouldnt rule
out something just because its main-
stream: A good juice is a good juice.)
After a while, Buck says, you start
looking for something that smacks you in
the face and makes you think, Wow, Ive
never thought of that combination of notes
before. You might be like, This isnt for
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me, but its fascinating.
Fragrance is intrinsically associated
with sex and attraction, and one can as-
sume that the average male scent spritzer
isnt putting the stuff on merely to de-
light his nose alone: A recent 22-minute
dispatch titled How to Get More Com-
pliments With Your Fragrance, from
YouTube fragrance reviewer DracDoc,
garnered more than 2,100 views. Still, most
hard-core juice junkies maintain that they
wear and collect perfumes primarily for
themselves. In fact, most of the Goodsmel-
las say their girlfriends and wives, while
tolerant, dont share their passion for scent
(It stinks, says Libassi, seemingly oblivi-
ous to his pun). They do, however, like it
when women indulgetop picks among
the group include Herms Un Jardin Sur
Le Toit, Frederic Malle Carnal Flower, By
Kilian Liaisons Dangeureuses, and Stella
by Stella McCartney. When my girl-
friend wears Amouage Memoir Woman,
Im just mesmerized, Scardaville says. I
could follow her around all day long.
While none of the Goodsmellas object
to anointing themselves with fragrances
marketed toward the opposite sex (Powell
says he gets most attention from women
at work when wearing Diors heady ori-
ental Hypnotic Poison), they are drawn
to more traditionally masculine elements.
Of the all-time favorites they name
including Creed Spice and Wood, Xerjoff
Richwood, Tom Ford Black Violet, and
By Kilian Back To Blacknearly all fea-
ture warm patchouli, tobacco, musk, and
woody notes. Lucky scents Eastwood says
that dirty, smoky oud and leather tend
to be popular with his stores male cli-
entele: Theyre interested in those fra-
grances that are a little bit bolder, richer,
and more complex.
In general, Eastwood says, male fra-
grance devotees can be a little more in-
tense than their female counterparts. We
have guys who call us the second they read
about a new fragrance, asking if we can
overnight it to them right away or want-
ing a preview. Does the leather note last
all the way through? How strong is the sil-
lage? Whats the dry-down?
Men like to be connoisseurs, Wright
adds. So when they get into fragrance, its
like they get into cars or music. Theres a
lot of interest in the ingredients. Just like
men are obsessed with small-batch bour-
bon, they could just as easily be obsessed
with a certain specific note in a fragrance
and who the perfumer was.
Buck compares the commitment of a
perfume collector to that of an oenophile:
Both are pleasure-seeking hobbies, and
neither of them are cheap. We might be
spending $300 on a bottle, he says, but
at least it lasts longer than wine, where you
might spend the same amount and then
drink it in a night. Says Devine, without
a hint of regret: I think my fragrance col-
lection is worth more than my car.
A decade ago, collecting fragrances
might not have been deemed a particular ly
manly pursuit, but times have changed.
Roughly 50 percent of men now buy their
own scents (as opposed to having them
pressed upon them by significant others);
between January and October 2011, the
mens fine-fragrance category grew faster
than womens (with sales increasing 12 per-
cent and 9 percent, respectively); and the
explosion of the niche-perfumery market
has offered myriad ways for Goodsmella
types to get nerdy. Wright attributes the
fact that guys seem to be willing to drop
more cash on smelling good to the same
shift in twenty-first-century culture thats
made seeing dudes drinking $12 artisanal
cocktails as common as spotting those
quaffing PBR, or the same gender-blind
appreciation of the finer things that has
made Brad Pitt the first male face of Cha-
nel No. 5. Not all guys we sell fragrance
to are fascinated with the minor details,
he says. There are a lot of regular guys
who come in looking for a scent who just
dont want to wear the mass-market stuff.
Its like, as you grow older you get more
discerning about your wardrobeI think
that thats seeping into the mentality of
guys when it comes to fragrance. The guy
whos moving away from Levis and start-
ing to get into hard-core indie jeans from
Japan is probably also getting into edgier
fragrance brands like Comme des Gar-
ons or Escentric Molecules.
One thing that guys understand is an
upgrade, Murawczyk says. That makes
sense to them. I think any guy with a sense
of self is trying to figure out different cat-
egories in which he can improve him-
self, or hone his identity through what he
consumes and what he surrounds himself
with, and fragrance is one of those things.
He gestures to the clientele currently mill-
ing around MiNa couple spraying scent
strips and waving them under each others
noses; a mother struggling to keep her tod-
dler from capsizing a display table; and a
few men carefully scrutinizing shiny fla-
cons and venturing cautious sniffs.
Perfume is having a real moment
across the board, but this giant awakening
is happening with men in particular be-
cause women have understood the power
and seduction of fragrance for a lot longer,
Murawczyk continues. But, you know, we
get it. Its not about using the fragrance to
get the girl or using the fragrance to land
the jobits just life enriching. And when
you figure that out, its like seeing color.
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innocuous enoughas small as a travel toothpaste, with a
happy little yellow sunburst over the logo: CARAC. Still, I had
been actively avoiding it for six months, since my dermatolo-
gist prescribed it with a warning: Using it wouldnt be pretty.
I work, I have a kid, I have to go out into the world and cant
afford to look like a leperthese were the excuses Id summoned
to delay the inevitable. But given my history of skin cancer (I had
three basal cell carcinomas surgically removed from my face in
2011 alone), my doctor said I absolutely had to apply fluorouracil,
or 5-FU, a topical chemotherapy treatment that targets precan-
cerous cells. The medicine would reduce the likelihood of future
surgeries, she said. It could also save my life.
So, I finally cracked open the tube. I knew from the Internet
how bad the coming weeks would be. A 37-year-old Indianapolis
woman posted a video blog of her experience with 5-FU. My
face, she announced, has officially melted off. Another user
said hed stopped two-thirds of the way through the nightly
21-day treatment because he couldnt bear the pain, while yet an-
other explained his appearance like this: I told them Id won the
bobbing for french fries competition.
Fluorouracil first got traction in the late 90s, after the Ameri-
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Amy Wallaces skin-cancer history made her a
prime candidate for a new cream to prevent the
disease. The only wrinkle? It made her look as
though shed been sandpapered
can Academy of Dermatology filed a much-publicized lawsuit to
protest Florida Blue Cross and Blue Shields refusal to cover its
use for actinic keratoses, those flat, scaly growths caused by too
much sun exposure. The AAD did a study that found that AKs
were in essence squamous cell carcinomas waiting to happen
(since then, research has shown AKs can develop into basal cell
cancers as well) and concluded that early treatment was essential
to prevent them from progressing into invasive skin cancers.
As I approached the midcentury mark, I didnt have a lot of
visible AKswhich made me an unusual Carac user. In prescrib-
ing it, my dermatologist was being aggressive because of my fair
skin and recent history: the skin-cancer surgeries that had left 23
stitches on my left cheek and upper lip.
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United
States, and its incidence is growing. According to a 2005 study
in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the number of
women under age 40 diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma has
more than doubled in 30 years, while cases of squamous cell car-
cinoma among women under 40 increased almost 700 percent.
Basal cell carcinomas are very rarely life threatening, but they can
do a lot of damage. Last year, when the tiny, dry-seeming spot on
my left cheek, which I noticed immediately, turned out to be just the
tip of the iceberg (its removal left me with a two-inch scar), I asked a
nurse what happened to people who ignore warning signs. She had
a sobering answer, recalling a man who lost an eye to skin cancer.
Squamous cell carcinomas, meanwhile, while not necessarily
life threatening, can be fatal if left untreated. Same with mela-
noma, which can metastasize, spreading cancer through the body.
The good news, of course, is that almost all forms of skin cancer
are highly treatable if caught early.
The Carac took almost a week to kick in, but once it got roll-
ing, it wasnt subtle. At first my skin was dry and red and itchy,
and I had occasional dull headaches (a side effect). Next my face
started to swell, then crack and peel. Friends asked if what I was
undergoing was the equivalent of a hard-core peel. It certainly
looked like one. Except for this: Because the medicine reacts to
precancerous cells (the ones growing a tad faster than normal),
my T-zone was toast, and I had angry red stripes on my cheek-
boneslike war paintbut other parts of my face were clear.
Every night after I applied the vile stuff, my skin would sting
wildly. It felt like a terrible sunburn, and as it worsened I was
aware that the sensation was familiar. By re-creating the worst
burns of my life, the medicine prompted memoriesthe child-
hood camping trip to the Florida Panhandle when I burned so
badly I had to wear clothes in the ocean, the ski vacation I took
as a teenager when rays reflecting off the snow made me blister.
Mostly I hunkered down in my house, soothing my skin with
Aquaphor and losing myself in old episodes of Breaking Bad. But
when I went out, I was surprised how quickly my self-consciousness
faded. Carac had turned me from a competitor in Los Angeles
merciless beauty wars to a mere spectator, which wasnt all bad.
People looked at me with fleeting concern but just as quickly
looked away. It was the same feeling Id had years before, when I
swam laps while eight months pregnant. Fellow swimmersboth
men and womengazed at me with fascination (I was awesome in
my hugeness) but without a trace of lust or envy. Here again, I was
off the grid, on hiatusinvisible. I didnt want to stay that way for-
ever, but prettiness is such a weird part of the human puzzle, and its
value ebbs with time. To go without it, utterly, opens an aging girls
eyes. I was looking ugly to extend my chances of existing at all.
For weeks after the treatment I stayed pink, but my skin was far
smoother and fresher than before. At my follow-up visit, my doctor
mentioned a new medicine that works similarly to Carac but requires
only two or three applications. Its called Picato, and around the time
youre reading this, Ill be slathering it on my arms and chest.
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For 2012s best big-night hair, these mix masters paid tribute to
Old Hollywood while pulling inspiration from fall runways.
By Julie Schott
OLD HOLLYWOOD FALL 12 RUNWAY RED CARPET CHEAT SHEET
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Bouncy waves pushed over
one shoulder la Blake Lively
offer a modern update on the
Brigitte Bardot (by way of
Veronica Lake) original. At
Versace Couture, stylist Guido
Palau prepped damp hair with
Redken Full Effect 04, then
gave strands a rough blow-dry
before wrapping sections
around a medium curling iron
and pinning to set. Shake out,
then blast with a blow-dryer
for a full-volume finish.
If hair extensions scream
high-maintenance diva, then a
pixie cut conveys the opposite:
carefree cool with loads of
confidence. Going ultrashort is
often coupled with an equally
extreme dye job: Think of
Michelle Williams platinum
blond rendition and Anne
Hathaways deep brunette.
The key is to avoid overstyling.
Skip the blow-dryer and
smooth with a boar-bristle
brush while damp.
Reigning queen of the quick
change, Cher has worn her
hair in countless ways, but
pin-straight, middle-parted
strands set her on the path to
superstardom. The precision
of the center part is the key,
Redken stylist Palau says.
The look is strongest when
the line is clean and perfectly
centered. Mila Kunis kept the
style wearable with height at
the crown and a bit of modern
movement.
No longer reserved for
princesses and brides, the new
toned-down tiara does best
when nestled into an unfussy
updo like Kirsten Dunsts. The
key to making decorative
pieces work is to keep the
styling simple and the texture
natural, says Palau, who
recommends pulling hair into
a low pony and twisting into a
chignon before adding the
adornment.
Brigitte Bardot
Jean Seberg
Cher
Elizabeth Taylor
Versace
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or thousands of years, odes to the fe-
male form celebrated the grace of a
delicate ankle, a swanlike neck, a hol-
low clavicle. There was no mention of
six-pack abs in the love sonnets of Shake-
speare. Lunges and isometric deltoid reps
were nowhere in Cleopatras beauty rou-
tine. In the late 1980s, though, Hollywood
changed that feminine ideal; hard bod-
ies became the norm, and a decade later,
actresses were expected not only to keep
superfit but also to offer up their cardio-
to-strength-training ratios as interview
fodder. Lately, however, Hollywood has
seen a resolute, if quiet, rejection of that
pervasive my-body-is-my-brand ethos.
For an ever-growing group of young
stars, their bodies seem almost an after-
thought: elegantly shaped, yes, but neither
aggressively honed nor flashily exhib-
ited. In this club are sprites like Carey
Mulligan and Emma Stone; paper-thin
women like Rooney Mara, Taylor Swift,
Alexa Chung, Zoe Saldana, and Mia
Wasikowska; and normal girls like
Kristen Stewart, Zo Kravitz, Jennifer
Lawrence, Solange Knowles, Michelle
Williams, and Zooey
Deschanel. The
trend isnt about
Hollywood accept-
ing curves or larger
sizes. These women
still have the sort of thin, sample-size fig-
ures that are far from the American every-
womans. Theyre movie stars, after all.
Instead, the difference lies in an air of ef-
fortlessness, in the refusal to seem to work
as hard as the preceding generationeven
if they actually are. I work out with a
trainer who once asked: Who do you
want to look like? Carey Mulligan has
said. I said: I dont want to look like an
actressI want to look like a person. Nor-
mal people dont go to the gym six times
a week. When asked about her workout
routine this spring, Emma Stone replied,
I havent worked out for a month and Im
proud if it! Running is bad for your knees,
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bumthat they would like to define them.
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than acquiring one with a trainer.
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course, a reaction to what came before, and
were in the midst of pirouetting from one
extreme to another. The aughts were an era
of body-con, starting with Britney Spears
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hour and a half, five days a week, but what
I get out of it is relative to what I put into
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pany dont play some version of the gym
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place at the multiplex for biceps-wielding
bombshells. But right now, the aspiration is
leaning toward the effortless.
The shift could be linked to the rise of
indie culture. Stewart, for instance, is the
face of one of the worlds most successful
franchises. Yet she toils to cultivate the air
of the outsider, showing up at premieres
in sneakers and scowling like a goth teen
forced to attend the prom. Williamsburg,
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of cool has shifted. In those circles, trying
too hard is frowned upon, and anyway,
layers and loose clothing are encouraged
no matter how defined the body beneath.
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comes from a deeper place in the Ameri-
can psyche. Conspicuous consumption
is no longer hipat least not compared
to the retail gluttony of Mischa Barton,
Lindsay Lohan, and the like during their
tabloid heyday, when five- and six-figure
shopping sprees were a frequent report
and that restraint bleeds into all areas of
spending and self-presentation.
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be even more unattainable than its gym-
created forebear. The hard-bodied look of
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achieve perfection. Or if it doesnt come that
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terrified of Madonnas arms, which began
to transform into veiny ropes around the
time Madge could see 50 looming? And we
all remember how impossibly slim Jessica
Simpson whittled down to for The Dukes of
Hazzard. For Simpson, size 0 did turn out to
be impossibleor at least not sustainable. It
just wasnt what her body was wired for.
Hollywoods new culture of restraint,
though refreshing in many ways, under-
scores some inequalitiesit was ever thus.
Youth and genes are things you cant pur-
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with the ability to look beautiful without
visibly appearing to try at it, are the ones
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Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress in Monacoan an-
nual medical meet-up where doctors share new techniques
and possible breakthroughsrecalled him as a man attended
by a retinue of Megan Fox look-alikes. There was the blond
Megan Fox, the Indian Megan Fox, she marveled afterward,
each more beautiful than the last. As it happens, Foxin par-
ticular, her small, defined, perfectly proportionate proboscisis
one of Kanodias most-requested models.
Kanodia, the king of the Hollywood nose job, went to Monaco
to deliver a talk titled The Beverly Hills Challenge: Treating Stars
and Starlets. That challenge, in essence, is an aesthetic shell game:
How do you tweak a face that has been memorized by the masses
so that, as Kanodia puts it, the camera continues to like them, but
the human eye cant spot the difference? Its a question of enhanc-
ing a painting without imparting my own characteristics on it, he
says. Its like restoring a Rembrandt. After the work is done, its
still a Rembrandt, not a Kanodia. In Kanodias analogies, some-
times God is Rembrandt and sometimes the surgeon is. Paying for
his work is the difference between a $2 painting you buy at Kmart
and a $20 million painting you get at Sothebys. Its not the paint;
its not the brush, he says. The difference is the artist.
Parisian surgeon Jean-Louis Sebagh, MD, regarded in Europe as
the ne plus ultra of plastics, offers up a no less grandiose endorse-
ment. Of Kanodias work with injectibleslike most other plastic
surgeons, the minute Botox, Restylane, and Juvderm opened up
the possibility of sculpting faces with no downtime and in 15-minute
sessions, Kanodia started using themSebagh opines, I believe he
may be the only cosmetic doctor practicing in the United States
who is able to perform this procedure properly. Of course, in ad-
dition to the actual technique, there is the personal touch and aes-
thetic vision that cannot be taught, but which he also has.
For patients who have to have the bestand have no qualms
about paying for itKanodia is one of very few doctors at the top
of a very short list. Hes on the record as having fixed Cameron
Diazs nose after she broke it surfing. He is so frequently credited
with Ashley Simpsons 2006 rhinoplasty that he doesnt bother
denying itthough he doesnt confirm it, either. Online specula-
tors also debate whether Blake Lively, Scarlett Johansson, Ashley
Tisdale, and, yes, Ms. Fox have spent time in his office, whether
for surgery or even-subtler pick-me-ups.
Its not easy to be a beauty Houdini in a post-Housewives world,
in which every tabloid readerand casting directoris on the
lookout for telltale signs of intervention. Since the first Botox
backlash began several years ago, platypus lips, ski-slope noses,
freeze-frame foreheads, and expressions of permanent surprise
(with their sad reek of desperation and poor decision making) have
become a bigger career risk for an actor than the human foibles
theyre intended to correct. Picture an overinjected star or one with
an evident face-lift, and then try to remember the last time you saw
her in a (good) movie. If you think that indicates some kind of new-
found acceptance, some progressive forgiveness of age or imper-
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again. The work is still getting done. Its just getting done better.
For anyone who pores over the pages of Us Weekly thinking,
Did she or didnt she?and who hasnt fallen down that rabbit
hole?spend an hour in Kanodias office and you will laugh at
your own navet. Directors, producers, hairstylists: They all send
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their actresses Kanodias way. Hell review
movie footage before consulting with, say,
the 45-year-old whose next role is that of
a 38-year-old lawyer (youngerbut just
enough) or the gorgeous 22-year-old whose
upper lip happens to thin a bit too much
when she smiles. But his real niche may
be the actors who come to him when their
contracts specify that they should not alter
their faces in any way. In those cases, the
tweak must make a woman subtly prettier,
fresherwithout even tipping off the cin-
ematographer who is framing her close-up.
In his office, Kanodia, a youthful 65-
year-old with dark, combed-back curls, on-
trend gray Nikes with red laces, and a loose
linen shirt, is concentrating on the face of a
patient who wasnt supposed to be a patient.
Shes in town from Tbilisi, Georgia, to pro-
vide moral support for her aunt, who looks
more like her sister and who is shopping
around for a nose job. While shes here,
though, why not get a little lip? the niece
suggests. Why not, indeed? Lips are like
hummingbirds, says Kanodia, sliding the
needle into each side of her upper lip, then
once into the middle. Theyre very light.
They have to move when you talk. Add too
much, and theyre too heavy. Prick, prick,
prick, and hes done. The mouth that was,
to my eye, already naturally full and sym-
metrical, on a face that looks like that of a
young Bianca Jagger, is now just a bit more
pillowy. But it is not overblown or bruised
or even uncomfortableand, presently,
it curves into a satisfied smile. Ooh, she
coos. I have lips now. Including the few
seconds it took to make the decision, she
has altered her face in less time than it
would take to change her neon-coral toe-
nail polish. And with less than half of a cc,
Kanodia says, stepping back to admire.
This is Kanodias point of difference:
He works small. Botox he delivers via a
hair-thin, 32-gauge needlethe smallest he
can find, imported from France to deliver,
with minimal pain, a supercontrolled, mi-
cro amount of the neurotoxin. Likewise, he
prides himself on using the absolute mini-
mum amounts of fillera drop here, a drop
therefor an enhancement you cant put
your finger on. His rhinoplasty technique
is also distinctly less-is-more. Rather than
cutting the nose at its base and peeling the
skin back to expose its bone-and-cartilage
undercarriage, he prefers a closed tech-
nique, in which multiple incisions are made
inside the nostril. The procedure is a bit like
working underneath a sleeve; theres some
mystery to it. Patients love that its not all
that goryKanodia is fond of saying
its less bloody than a finger cut (though
when I observed his OR, this proved to
be a slight exaggeration). But critics of
closed rhinoplasty say its limitingwith-
out opening the nose all the way, you can
only do so much. Kanodia would argue
thats exactly the point. Thats one of my
debates with other rhinoplasty surgeons,
he says. Please do not change the nose.
But walking out of a doctors office with,
for example, less than half a cc of Juvderm
at a cost of $500 to $800 isnt for everyone.
Kanodia can afford to reject the women who
want more, more, more, he says. Every
week, I turn down about 20 lips. He also
rarely takes on the lucrative and surprisingly
common work known as revision rhino-
plasty, aka do-overs, on procedures that either
went awry or simply didnt go far enough. I
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USE YOUR ILLUSION Above, two of Kanodias signature subtle nose jobs. He may work on celebrity faces,
but dont bother telling him Ill have what shes having. Most patients who demand a specific
stars nose are turned away. If you want to look like yourself, says Kanodia, Im your guy. C
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watched him politely but firmly turn down
one woman who came in looking for what
would have been her second or third nose
job. (Perplexingly, it was her engorged lips
that seemed most in need of medical inter-
vention. She never mentioned those.) I
could do her nose and probably make it a
little better, but it would never be great,
Kanodia said afterward. Then shed go
around telling people I did it, and theyd
think thats what my work looks like.
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anodia has a favorite joke: When I go
to medical conferences and show slides
of my before and afters, all the other
doctors say, Raj, why do all the pretty
girls go to you? His subjects titter politely
when they hear this, but its true: Women
would pay top dollar to look like Kanodias
befores. In one three-hour stretch, I sat by
in shock as stunner after stunner perched on
the fleur-de-lis-upholstered chairs in his of-
fice and asked him to fix something. The
journalism major with the Texas tan and
the lustrous Pantene-commercial ponytail;
the ex-model law student who looked like
a curvier Carolyn Bessette; the Cali high
schooler who is surely the subject of football-
team reveries. In most cases, you had to
stare hard to discern the flaw in question.
They also didnt appear to be terribly
insecure or cowed by body dysmorphia.
No, these were self-assured women who
probably turn heads everywhere they go
the kind of girls who cant help but know
they look good. Many of their complaints
didnt even sound like complaints: I really
like my nose, but. This is Kanodias fa-
vorite kind of work. To use another of his
axioms: God knew what He was doing,
but He didnt finish the job.
Sometimes, though, you have to wonder:
Maybe God just hasnt finished the job yet.
Kanodias average age for nose jobs is 17 to
25, but he starts as young as 14. At that age,
I referred to my own nose as the upside-
down strawberry. But by 20, Id grown into
it. More importantly, Id grown up. Yes, my
nose became slightly less producelike, but
my mind also became engaged in things be-
yond my own face. Shouldnt these girls be
given the same opportunity? Once upon a
time, I could have entertained that thought
process, Kanodia says. But now what
Ive seen is the change in the persons per-
sonality, the confidence it instillsits life-
changing. As he sees it, if something that is
plaguing you can be fixed, why wait? This
nose, which is at the center of the human
face, becomes a focal point of insecurity, he
says. Then its the right time to rectify it.
For this, Kanodias patients fly in from
all over the country, as well as from Rus-
sia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and
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in this country is $4,200. Kanodias go for
$15,000 to $18,000, down slightly from the
low-$20s figure he was able to charge for
some cases circa 2007. If not the most ex-
pensive, he says, his procedure is in the
top percentile. For the client who flies in
with her entourage from Russia or the Mid-
dle East, pays to park her private plane for
a week at LAX, and rents out a presidential
suite at the Four Seasons for her recovery,
it becomes a million-dollar operation,
Kanodia says with a chuckle. My fee is the
least of it. Some women have told him hes
a bargain, in factthat he really should be
charging more. Post-op thank-you gifts
say, a $10,000 Lalique vaseare common.
And there seems to be no shortage of
these price-is-no-object patients (or perhaps
patrons is a better word). When one gal-pal of
a Russian oligarch splurged on a girls week-
end, she brought a private jet full of friends
to see Kanodia. During their individual
consultations, each girl comes in the room
and says, I dont want to look like her, he
says, meaning whichever of her friends
had just left. And then the next one comes
in and says the same thing. At least three
Saudi princesses, in varying pre- and post-
op phases, graced Kanodias office in the
two days I was there. (You can spot them, I
learned, by the slightly incongruous gentle-
man in their wake. This would be the private
doctor assigned to travel with each family.)
For the right price, some royals (Kanodia is
not saying which ones) can get the doctor to
come to them, and some have been known
to rent out entire hospital wings to have him
attend to their clans. On one such occasion,
Kanodia, his anesthesia nurse, and another
cosmetic surgeon, specializing in below-the-
neck work, were flown in to work on a sul-
tans family but encountered a glitch upon
landing at the airport. Kanodia had to stall
in the security line, attempting to explain
why he had arrived with five suit cases full
of surgical instruments, until an emissary
swooped in and ushered him through.
There, he says, he was brought in to meet
with a queen, who was seeking a third-try
nose jobbut that wasnt all. The woman
threw open her robe, grabbed his hand, and
placed it over her rock-hard implant, de-
manding to know his opinion. Originally,
I was told I wasnt even supposed to speak to
her, says Kanodia, and I knew the cam-
eras were watching. He extracted his hand,
exited, and called in the breast man.
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t dinner among the olive trees in
the West Hollywood rooftop gar-
den of members-only Soho House,
Kanodia extracts a small plastic bag-
gie from his pants pocket. It holds three
fresh cubes of ginger. With the help of
four full-time gardeners, Kanodia spends
hours each week planting and pruning
the lush, expansive hillside behind his
antiques-crowded California Mediterra-
nean manse. In gated Bel Air, he lives one
house up the hill from Nancy Reagan and
one down from what was until recently
the home of Elizabeth Taylor. He re cently
purchased a second property, across the
street, where he plans to construct a mod-
ernist fortress with parking for 30.
The ginger, he hands to the waiterthis
being L.A., the guy is only momentarily
thrownfor a round of Moscow Mules; he
prefers the real thing to the standard sweet-
ened syrup. Also from the garden: four
small, hot green chili peppers, which he dips
in olive oil and munches instead of bread.
This place is near to Kanodias heart
because it has a sweeping, movieworthy
view of downtown L.A., the town he loves,
and also because it overlooks the site of
the office building where he got his start
in 1979, working as a fellow for one of the
original Doc Hollywoods. Morey Parkes,
MD, nip-tucked some of the most famous
faces of the silver screen including, many
believe, the nose of Marilyn Monroe.
Sitting here must also serve as a poignant
reminder of how far hes come. Kanodia
grew up the eldest boy of six children in
Calcutta, where he remembers riding the
bus past Mother Teresas mission. Even in
his middle-class family, you only saw doc-
tors for life-threatening situations, Kano-
dia says, and there was no such thing as
elective, let alone cosmetic, surgery. But
even as a child, he was obsessed, enam-
ored with beauty, stopping to really stare
at a flower or analyze a face; as early as six,
he was infatuated with the most beautiful
girl in his class. (I thought, I have to get in
on that, he says.) His authoritarian father
was a self-made businessman who had run
away from his village to eventually become
the chairman and CEO of the largest insur-
ance agency in India. In their household,
there was no time for games; education was
everything. It was drilled into my head,
he says. Nobody comes in second in the
Kanodia household. By 16, perhaps plot-
ting his escape, he was regularly going to
the U.S. cultural center in Calcutta to read
about America. The same year, the Beatles
came to town, seeking enlightenment with
the sitar player Ravi Shankarand bring-
ing with them enough Western glamour to
intoxicate a long-haired would-be Calcutta
hippie. All those things came into the
same path, Kanodia says. A, I have to go
to America. B, I have to be a doctor. And
C, I have to be in the beauty business.
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crew on a lap of the Soho House bar. The
place is crowded with lanky girls in leather
leggings, and muscular, John Varvatosclad
men wearing oversize watches. They all
seem to know each other, and many of them
know Kanodia. In the low lightdeftly
engineered to encourage discreet canoo-
dling, power brokering, and combinations
thereofits hard to tell natural beauty from
that which is more assisted. Its even harder
to discern young from old, or, perhaps,
young from not-as-young. The authentically
nubile are easy enough to spot, but above
the age of, say, 28, everyone dresses alike,
talks alike, looks a little bit alike. Kanodia
himself is probably one of the clubs elder
statesmen, but in his loose shirt and lace-
less sneakers, who could know?
A colleague of Kanodias whispers to me
that hes the only plastic surgeon to have
been invited to become a member of Soho
House. Running into your plastic surgeon
on a Saturday night can be so awkward.
But no one here seems to fear being found
out. Kanodia doesnt need to approach
his clientsTheyre the ones who always
come up to me, he says, just about the
time a curvaceous girl with bottle-red hair
swoops in, arms outstretched. He embraces
her warmly before shes swept back into
the crowd. I had no idea who she was at
first, he says, a little sheepishly. A Russian
girl. I guess I did her nose last month. The
redhead sidles up to a friend at the bar, and
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was different. A moment earlier,
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empty sidewalk near my house in Port-
land, Oregon, not recognizing her until she
touched me. Her body language seemed
remade, lighter yet more deliberate. Oh!
she laughed. Im just back from Peru. Its
probably the ayahuasca.
Ah, ayahuasca. I had overachieving
friends across the country who regularly
attended ceremonies where they imbibed
the hallucinogenand gushed about the
experience as transcendent, life-altering,
mind-blowing. Purported by self-described
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cure what ails you emotionally, spiritually,
and, to some extent, physically, ayahuasca
is the yoga of drugs: Mushrooms and acid
might open your eyes, but this heals. Or so
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Explanations of how the magic worked
were uniformly vague: Youd drink a few
ounces of ayahuasca and sit all night with
a shaman whod lead you into the spirit
universe and, voil, youd come out feel-
ing shiny and new. I was dubious, until my
glowing friend and a writer acquaintance
separately attended monthlong retreats in
Peru, drinking the elixir nightly in one of the
jungle lodges that are part of the countrys
booming ayahuasca-tourist industry. Each
emerged in a state Id best describe as one of
enlightenment. It wasnt that theyd reached
some universal plane of understanding but
rather that they emanated a clarity of being;
a calm, loose openness. I wanted that.
My friends gently counseled that the
experience could be unpleasant. Because
ayahuasca induces hallucinations, my fears
could chase me, snarling and aggressive.
Also, Id likely vomit, possibly a lot, which
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sion to see my version of God.
I had ample time to ponder this deal
because I had to ask around for a year, in
ayahuasca circles on both coasts, before
landing myself in a ceremony. Though the
drug has gotten lots of buzzit made cam-
eos in Weeds and the recent film Wander-
lustayahuasca is illegal, its use under the
radar. With their concentration of artistic
souls and cash, New York City and Hol-
lywood are obvious places for shamans to
build followings, and a handful of celebs
in both citiesamong them Oliver Stone,
Tori Amos, and Stinghave extolled aya-
huascas virtues. Paul Simon even wrote a
song about it (Spirit Voices).
An e-mail from the shamans assistant
a week before my scheduled ceremony
advised me to come up with intentions,
in order to guard against getting lost in the
minds rabbit holes. Unsure what inten-
tions were exactly, I approached the task
like therapy, arriving at the appointed yoga
studio at 8 P.M. with a scribbled to-do list:
Figure out career, deal with ex issues, and
address eatingthe mild, shape-shifting
eating disorder that has plagued me in
every conceivable way (overeating, not eat-
ing, purging, overexercising, etc.), always
disguised by deadlines and diets, never
quite rising to crisis level. Entering my thir-
ties, I was frankly surprised I still wasnt
free of food angst. Its exhausting.
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the shaman, an imposing fortysomething
who said his medicine name was Metsa,
asked us to state our intentions. The group
included a computer programmer, a non-
profit consultant, a middle-school coun-
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come only from a drug: ayahuasca, which devotees claim offers
life-changing self-awareness, clarity, and insight. But first, you
must get violently ill. Arianne Cohen takes the trip of her life
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my age. It turns out that an Amazonian
ceremony is precisely what youd imag-
ine. People sitting in a dark circle around a
flame? Check. Shaman smoking tobacco?
Check. Burning sage? Check. All that
seemed out of place were the four Fiji water
bottles filled with the brown, sludgy aya-
huasca. Purge buckets were handed out
ominously.
The ceremonial space is enclosed and,
if you believe in this sort of thing, sacred:
What happens there stays there, wrapped
in the ritual. Its like a cross between an
intensive church group and a marathon-
training club that makes you puke.
Theres a hush over proceedings, every-
one is grappling with vulnerabilities, and
you instantly bond.
Pharmacologically speaking, ayahuasca
combines two jungle plants that mix
DMTa hallucinogen that induces pow-
erful visionary states and psychospiritual
epiphanieswith monoamine oxidase in-
hibitors (MAOIs), the pre-SSRI antidepres-
sants. DMT is typically inactive orally be-
cause the monoamine oxidase in your gut
neutralizes it. The MAOI prevents that.
As mind-altering substances go, its
relatively safe. The median lethal dose is
roughly 20 times a ceremonial dose, says
Robert Gable, PhD, a psychology profes-
sor emeritus at Claremont Graduate Uni-
versity who specializes in risk assessments
of drugs. In 2007, he published an exten-
sive safety evaluation in the journal Addic-
tion, reviewing 80 published studies of aya-
huasca, as well as studies involving DMT
and MAOIs. Drug researchers contextual-
ize toxicity by comparing substances: 10
times a serving of alcohol can be lethal; 15
times a dose of cocaine or ecstasy; 20 times
codeine; 1,000 times marijuana. Compar-
ing ayahuasca to codeine would be right
in terms of safety, he says. Its safer than
alcohol, but not as safe as marijuana.
The greatest risk, Gable said, is serotonin
syndromea cardiac condition of spiking
heart rate and blood pressureusually in-
stigated by mixing high doses of ayahuasca
with other medications, particularly anti-
depressants like SSRIs or St. Johns wort.
People who take such drugs should not
drink ayahuasca, and Gable also suggests
that those with strong paranoid tenden-
cies or extreme anxiety avoid ayahuasca
because it alters perceptions of reality.
And no one, really, is immune from
having a harrowing ride on ayahuasca.
On a travel website, one guy who tried it
in Ecuador called the experience hell on
earth. I began to lose track of who I was;
I couldnt form abstract thoughts; I turned
into an animal looking for survival....It
entered my mind that maybe I was dead,
and that if I wasnt, maybe I should be.
Another user, on a drug site called Blue-
light, summed up his trip this way: I can
literally say I know what it feels like to be
insane now.
In general, Gable says, nonregulated
drugs come with two main risks: not
knowing what, exactly, is in that powder or
beverage and potentially injuring yourself
while high. Both, he claims, are attenuated
in ceremonies with established shamans or
at ayahuasca centers.
Ayahuasca has been used by indig-
enous Amazonian cultures for centuries.
In 1993, a group of multidisciplinary re-
searchers, including ethnopharmacologist
Dennis J. McKenna, PhD, and Charles
Grob, MD, a professor of psychiatry and
biobehavioral science at UCLAs medical
school, studied a Brazilian church that uses
the drug as a twice-a-month sacrament. It
was kind of a shotgun studyno one had
collected human data on ayahuasca in
controlled conditions, so we didnt know
what we were fishing for, says McKenna.
They tracked everything from pupil dila-
tion to body temperature and published
the results in a half dozen medical jour-
nals over the next six years. Blood sam-
pling of 13 longtime users and 10 controls
found that users have elevated serotonin
transporters in the brain for two to four
weeks following ceremonies, which may
indicate an increase in the neurotrans-
mitter. Low levels of transporters are as-
sociated with alcoholism, depression, and
anxiety disorders. I find it fascinating
that ayahuasca may actually reverse this
long-term biochemistry, by affecting the
brains bioplasticity, McKenna says.
The researchers also conducted psycho-
logical evaluations of 15 church members
chosen at random and 15 control subjects.
In an article in The Journal of Medical and
Nervous Disease, they reported surprise at
both the exceptionally healthy psychologi-
cal profiles of the regular users and their
backgrounds: Five had prior alcoholism;
two, depressive disorders; and three, anxi-
ety disordersand all were in remission.
(Among the controls, just three had similar
conditions, two active.) Though the find-
ings are far from definitive, McKenna,
whos a cofounder of the Heffter Research
Institute, which funds studies on medical
uses for hallucinogens, says the former
addicts told similar stories about how the
drug kick-started their recoveries. The
first few ayahuasca experiences were pretty
roughpretty scary, pretty terrifying. But
a lesson presented as to the direction their
lives were going. It was often a redemptive
vision, sometimes involving Christ. I think
catharsis is an apt word to describe what
ayahuasca and other psychedelics do. The
person has a strong emotional reaction,
and a kind of spiritual renewal.
Grob puts it this way: The ripple effects
of a powerful, mystical experience can re-
verberate for the rest of an individuals life
span.
Although very little controlled research
of ayahuascas therapeutic effects has been
undertaken since the 1993 work, a New
Mexicobased church with Brazilian
roots went to the Supreme Court in 2006
seeking protection for its ayahuasca use
under the Religious Freedom Restoration
Act and, to make their case, presented
1,000-plus pages of observational reports
attesting to the safety and efficacy of the
drug. (The court ruled in the churchs
favor.) Grob speculates that, in addition
to acting on the central nervous system,
the hallucinogen affects our so-called gut
instinctswhat some call our second, pri-
mal brain. It seems to be activating neu-
rological receptors in the gastrointestinal
system, which is filled with serotonergic
innervation, and may be involved with
very deep and primal levels of conscious-
ness. Further formal research isnt likely
forthcoming, however, because its diffi-
cult to investigate a substance that cant
be produced syntheticallyunlike, say,
psilocybinand is mostly illegal. (To
acquire religious protection, individual
shamans would have to petition the
courts like the New Mexico church did.)

F
or 40 minutes after drinking the foul-
tasting liquid, nothing happened. We
sat silently in the dark. Then my pulse
quickened, and my eyes clicked into cat
vision, able to see into the adjacent dark
room. My head and chest warmed until
my fingers felt cool on my eyelids. Around
me, people began to purge. Ayahuasque-
ros (the Spanish name for the ceremonial
leaders) see the vomiting as removing spir-
I could feel the energies of the men in the group gently roaring at me
from across the circle. In an instant, I threw away 30 years of thinking
that gender differences were more nurture than nature.
itual blockages and toxins from unhealthy
diets and lifestyles, leaving a clean slate for
healing.
An hour after drinking, I was still sober-
minded, but Id become all senses: I could
feel the energies of the men in the group
gently roaring at me from across the circle.
In an instant, I threw away 30 years of
considering gender differences more nur-
ture than naturewhat was coming off
these guys seemed innate, emanating from
their cores. With this new sixth sense, the
women were vibrating on a whole different
frequency, a fluttering of warmth and quiet
light, a clich incarnate.
And then a swirl of color exploded in
my forehead and removed me from the
room. Everywhere I looked, eyes open or
closed, I saw reddish-pink demons bar-
ing their teeth at me, as if to block my
entrance. I was wildly synesthetic: Colors
crossed with feelings and thoughts, with
red-pink being the overwhelming wave.
The vomiting came violently, into the pro-
vided bucket. I lay on my stomach, clutch-
ing my pillow, before getting sick again.
And again. I was thirsty and nauseated
and couldnt hold either thought, repeat-
edly failing to make the leap from feeling
in mouth to thirst to I should reach for
my water.
At one point, I opened my eyes to note
that Id just spent 10 minutes with my
forehead on the rim of my bucket, breath-
ing into it. This was, hands down, the
most unpleasant hour of my life thus far.
I collapsed back onto my mat. The one
thought I could muster was, Arianne, this
is the worst idea youve ever had.
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inging. The shaman was singing, a
barrel-chested, haunting minor-key
melody at full volume for more than
four hours, sometimes whispery, some-
times guttural, sometimes aggressive; his
assistant chimed in with harmony. I later
asked the woman next to me about it. Oh
he wasnt doing it. Hes channeling it.
There is a wide range in shaman qual-
ity. Id heard of beloved Yoda-like figures
as well as opportunistic healers who sleep
with vulnerable women. It is equally hit-
or-miss on Perus tourism circuit. Metsa
was an attractive six-footer with short
brown hair and sparkling saucer eyes.
With no context, I would have pegged
him as a Russian former footballer. He is
actually French: After drugging through
his mid-twenties, he got sober but, still
floundering, he decided to take a friends
recommendation to visit Perus Takiwasi
Rehabilitation Center, led by a French
doctor researching traditional plants and
addiction.
In his first ceremony, Metsa and his
shaman quickly concluded that he was a
seer. As he told me, most sitters spend
five hours immersed in their own minds;
Metsa said he could drink ayahuasca, look
at a person, and see a visionhe describes
it as a 3-D image of shapes and dark areas
and dots and color representing physical,
emotional, and spiritual pathologies. He
spent the next decade apprenticing with
local shamans in vegetalismo, the physical
and spiritual pharmacology of plants, em-
barking on fasts and diets and ayahuasca
ceremonies, and learning to summon spir-
its by singing.
The shamans job description is comical
in scope: He is the ringmaster for 16 people
on a strong hallucinogen, some of whom
are rookies, many confronting their deep-
est, darkest stuff. My group included three
addicts and two child-abuse survivors. As
you can imagine, it would be easy for the
addicts in the corner to fall into a funk or
for everyone to just lose it. Metsas role was
to remove negative energies and redirect
positive ones.
After a while, I gave myself a little talk-
ing-to. Arianne, you can feel sorry and
sick, or you can pull it together. I flipped
over onto my back, tried to ignore the
nausea, and let my mind float. The pink
cleared, and I saw myself as a white Pills-
bury Doughboystyle blob floating down
my street. Reaching out to stop me were
the inconsequential tiffs and difficult peo-
ple in my life, each spraying colorful fields
of their particular crazy. My blob wanted
an unobstructed roadway. A voice in my
head said, Your baggage is totally un-useful,
Arianne. Seriously.
This is how I learned that ayahuasca
talks. With a slight Valley Girl accent.
Interesting. This hadnt occurred to me as
a possibility. My blob kept moving. Just give
em the space to be their crazy selves.
The next three hours were like a tumul-
tuous dream, with an internal magic wand
that I waved over my soul, pausing each
time I felt a soft spot. Imagine scrolling
through, say, all your ex-partners and stop-
My eating issues did not arise until the sixth
sitting, when I was the sickest Id ever been: an
hour of screaming nausea overlaid with
lightning-speed mental images.
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ping each time you feel a twinge to address
the source. I floated nonchronologically
and nonlinearly from one scene to the next.
Giggling babies to pretty bikes to cherry
trees. Sometimes I asked myself, What are
you not dealing with? and flew there.
I also had an uncanny ability to perceive
precisely what the people in my life wanted.
I just thought of them, and, ding, I knew.
Mom just wants appreciation. Give it to her.
This was great. Surveying my life sans
ego, the solutions to various problems
became immediately apparent. Many of
our troubles are not, actually, complicated.
Youre going to act or not. Whats compli-
cated are your emotional attachments and
obligations and others feelings.
I was scaling the ayahuasca learning
curve. Sometimes it talked, or showed me
things; other times I sensed the presence
of others, what some consider the spirits
of the natural world (plants, tress, rocks) or
loved ones past and present. If an answer
to what was bedeviling me wasnt imme-
diately apparent, I floated for a while. And
then I swan dived into a delicious make-out
dream, with fantastical tongues intertwined
in sparkly energy. It was like 10 years of
therapygood therapyin a single night.
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he final hour felt like coming up
from a fever, and thenboom!I was
back. It was 4 A.M. The group chatted
quietly over tea: One woman told me
shed dreamed up three new business
ideas. Another guy spent the night doing
whats called ancestral healing, letting
go of emotional patterns repeated over the
generations. Another woman described
her night as shattering, simply saying,
I sorted a lot of emotional garbage and
moved on. I went home and typed two
pages of epiphanies, all immediately ac-
tionable: the next three projects I should
work on, a food plan of three meals plus
all the fruit I want, an exercise plan, tactics
to deal with the difficult people in my life.
The next day I awoke and kept typing.
The insights just kept rolling in. By after-
noon I felt exhausted, like when you and
your boyfriend have gone back and forth
so much about your relationship that you
just cant say another word. That weekend,
my dreams were long-tailed and vivid, as
if my mind had been sprinkled with sur-
round sound and Technicolor fairy dust.
Two weeks later I was walking home
when I realized I wasnt sad. For my whole
life, all my thoughts have been tinged with
melancholy. My natural wiring is a light
blue that can easily drop into gray. Walk-
ing along, I wasnt giddy or happy. I just
felt as though my thoughts were flowing
freely. My chest felt light. And in the weeks
and months that followed, I could just do
my work; the usual cycle of procrastina-
tion and this paragraph is awful had
disappeared.
Ive since drunk ayahuasca seven times,
and frankly Im baffled that our govern-
ment bothers to criminalize drugs at all,
especially one that can be so astonishingly
helpful. The only commonality among the
ceremonies Ive attended has been a mag-
netic pull toward the issues I need to deal
with (whether I want to or not), followed
by revelations about how to proceed. One
time, I wandered into rescripting and
reliving all of my awful breakups. Rather
than following my usual MO of acting like
a clingy mess in denial, I made observa-
tions like, This isnt working for either of
us. I really love you, and this is hard for me,
and I need help. Carrying the emotional
memory of these cleaner splits has helped
me move on; I no longer wince when I
think about my past relationships. I mostly
dont think about them.
My eating issues did not arise until the
sixth sitting, when I was the sickest Id
been: an hour of screaming nausea over-
laid with lightning-speed mental images
(Neon door! Cars! Barking dogs! Blind-
ing flashing lights!) and pink lava slinking
along the walls and up my body to drown
me. Through the haze of illness, it seemed
as though I was vomiting up 20 years of
body hate. It felt deeply buried, down near
my hips, and as if I needed to be physically
shaken to loosen it up, which was exactly
what was happening.
I slept most of the next day, and when I
awoke I felt absolutely clear. Which is not
to be confused with empty. I could eas-
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aware of what my body wantedfood,
exercise, sleep, etc. In the weeks that fol-
lowed, I continued to listen to my bodys
signals, one of which, one day while I was
working, was to go buy a snack. While I
was waiting in line at a nearby health-food
store, a woman from my yoga class came
in. She looked at me quizzically. You look
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hen L.A.s discerning (i.e., Ugg-free) fashion types need a
fresh style perspective, they go to Satine, the West Third
Street boutique that former real estate lawyer and Italian
Polimoda fashion-school grad Jeannie Lee opened nine
years ago. Her idea was to cater to the citys mixing Chanel
bags with vintage rock tees and ripped Levis set. Since then,
her boutique has expanded to Venice, too, becoming a must-
shop-stop for A.L.C. tops, Jenni Kayne frocks, Alexander Wang
minidresses, and Alaa pumps.
If Lee is Satines mastermind, then Kelly Sawyer Patricof is
its musea Vancouver-raised former Elite model who splits her
time between acting as creative director for Satines private-label
clothing line and gathering new and gently used baby gear for
her charity, Baby2Baby, which provides strollers, diapers, and
clothing to needy moms. Six years ago, she and her husband, Ja-
mie Patricof (the indie-film producer behind Blue Valentine and
next years The Place Beyond the Pines), remodeled their three-
bedroom home in Hollywood (where they now reside with their
two daughters, Riley, six, and Sawyer, four) to mimic his parents
Greycroft estate in East Hampton, New York.
But its in the lush, English gardenevoking backyard where
Sawyer Patricof does most of her entertaininglike the baby
shower she threw for her best friend, Jessica Alba, with whom
she first bonded over being miserable and pregnant while their
husbands ate sushi and drank sake one night at dinner. Tonight
she has arranged a poolside dinner for 25 or so Satine loyalists,
including Alba, Nicole Richie and husband Joel Madden, Ra-
chel Zoe (Satine stocks her line) and hus-
band Rodger Berman, WhoWhatWear
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Anthony Mackie, and rapper Nas, Jamies
friend from his days at Rap Sheet magazine.
Nas is coming, so thats exciting, Saw-
yer Patricof says energetically a few hours
before cocktail time, ready to accept the
challenge of adding him to her carefully arranged seating plan.
I might have to put him between Jamie and me so my friends
dont get in a fight over who gets to sit next to him!
The art of L.A. entertaining, after all, is to seem laid-back
while making sure every detail is thoroughly planned. And if
theres one thing Sawyer Patricof is particular aboutother than
the white roses, floating orchids, and hanging amaranth that
she selected at the flower market a few days earlier, as well as
the perfect if Isabel Marant made a tablecloth lace linens she
sourced to complement the vintage lace ones she already owns
its where her guests sit. Couples are always separated, and she
spends hours, if not days, handwriting and laying out place cards.
GARDEN SECRETS (Above,
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arrive; the backyard
at sunset; grape
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Shes only half joking when she calls
her four-day seating-chart obsession for
tonights party a little psychotic. At her
2003 St. Barts nuptials, one particularly
love-struck guest made the mistake of mov-
ing her card next to that of her crush. Saw-
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I was like, Are you serious? I spent, like,
three weeks coming up with this plan!
But what Sawyer Patricof describes as her hyper-Virgo,
detail-oriented self is also what makes her such a charming
hostess, her magnetic pull so strong that Hollywoods whos who
happily ditch the nightclub of the moment to groove to Jay-Z on
her back porch, beyond the reach of paparazzi flashes (though
theres always Instagram). Her party-planning precision, along
with her impeccable eye, is what led Lee two years ago to ap-
point her the creative director of Satines label, a collection of
cool-girl gear that this fall includes pink boxy blazer-vests, lace-
paneled cocktail dresses, and leather leggings. You know how
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John Krasinskis character on The Of-
fice, that, for the first few seasons of
the show, at least, spoke to a very spe-
cific kind of millennial melancholythe
romantic soul-sickness of the too-smart,
too-sensitive office drone. Jim was a sign
of intelligent life in a desert of podunk pro-
cess management, a flicker of smart-ass
hope for the future of humanity, the last
stand of the lovable, low-expectations beta
male. Part of what made Jim so appeal-
ingaside from, you know, the whole per-
fect-boyfriend thingwas that he wasnt a
striver. The promise of his unexploited po-
tential could only be glimpsed obliquely,
in tiny gestures and deadpan asides. If not
necessarily destined for better things, then
he was at least made for a better world.
There was humor, but also heartbreak, in
his sense of resignation.
Its tempting to conflate the character
with the guy who plays him. But while Jim
and Burt, Krasinskis character in Away
We Go, are studies in good-natured alien-
ationBurt and his equally sensitive preg-
nant girlfriend, Verona (Maya Rudolph),
are trying to find a place to raise their child
that wont offend their finely honed, slightly
rarefied sensibilitiesin person Krasinski
comes across as someone whos at home
anywhere, likes everyone, and jumps into
life feetfirst. For instance: Did you know
he filmed the glimpses of Scranton, Penn-
sylvania, in the opening-credit sequence
for The Office? In 2005, he was so excited
to have the job that he set off on a research
mission, shot some footage, and picked up
some local business cards for show runner
Greg Daniels, just in case.
It was my minuscule version of Daniel
Day-Lewis becoming a cobbler, he says.
Im going to take three hours and drive
from New York City to Scranton and just
immerse myselffor lunchtime!
Krasinski meets me in the garden of
L.A.s Chateau Marmont, looking fresh
and crisp despite the heat. Even though
I arrive a few minutes before he does, he
has already secured a shady corner table.
Friendly, boyishly handsome, and infec-
tiously enthusiastic, he emanates, at 33,
something like genuine happiness. I mean
happy as in happy childhood, happy mar-
riage, congenitally happy, felicitous align-
ment of the stars at birth. Theres an air
about him like a cloudless sky. Hes also
and, honestly, theres no better way to put
thisincredibly nice, and so self-effacing
and unassuming that its easy to forget
hes just come off of cowriting a movie
with Matt Damon (with early assistance
from Dave Eggers, who also cowrote Away
We Go), which he also stars in and pro-
duced. That film, Promised Land, directed
He won our hearts as The Offices winsome slacker, but it
turns out John Krasinski has ambition to spare. Cowriting
a Gus Van Santdirected feature film? Thats just the
beginning. By Carina Chocano
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its ninth and final season, and as Krasinski appears as a husband
in crisis in Nobody Walks, cowritten by the prolific Lena Dunham
and her fellow wunderkind, indie director Ry Russo-Young. For
Krasinski, who once asked an exec at NBC (the nicest guy) if he
could have a DVD of The Office to show his mom in case the pro-
gram didnt make it to air, the feeling is disorienting. He likens it to
being on a precipice, getting ready to jump.
With the show coming to a close, my identity of being that
character is going to be over. Basically Ill be relying on what Ive
built and what I am and who Im trying to be, he says. So theres
a total terrifying fear there. Theres also the terrifying fear of writ-
ing something and being like, This is actually who I am and who
Ive always wanted to beI hope you guys accept that. Thats
terrifying. Now Im talking to you like Im on a couch. Lets talk
for an hour about how terrified I am of life.
Recurring allusions to terror notwithstanding, you get the sense
that Krasinski leads a charmed life. He and his wife of two years,
Emily Blunt, are one of those rare Hollywood couples who seem
to be as humble and genuine as they are talented. Rosemarie De-
Witt, who costars with Krasinski in both Promised Land and Nobody
Walksand who previously worked with Blunt in Your Sisters Sis-
tersays she felt like she knew Krasinski before she met him be-
cause obviously [he and Blunt are] madly in love and talk about
each other a lot. Krasinski says Blunt has been his favorite actress
since foreverlong before they met four years ago at a restaurant
where she was having dinner with a mutual friend. Asked if hed
ever like to work with her, Krasinski says, Shes really busy. She
intimidates the hell out of me. Shes really good, shes really honest.
Id be nervous to work with her, but I would love it.
Promised Land is Krasinskis second script, after his adaptation,
which he also directed, of the David Foster Wallace compendium
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. The 2009 film, which got mixed
reviews, is about a graduate student who, after being dumped by
her boyfriend, interviews a series of men to find out what goes on
in their heads. It was an ambitious project for a first-time director,
particularly one who was not yet 30.
I remember thinking about the huge difference between per-
forming for people and having the responsibility of telling a story
and affecting people, Krasinski says. He spent all of the money
he made from The Office pilot on the rights to the book. Still, he
says, he considers Promised Land to be his first original script, the
first time Ive felt that these were my ideas and my words.
I think that the moviegoing public hasnt even seen the tip of
the iceberg in terms of what John can do, Damon says. Hes got
a whole range. Hes just so good at comedy that I think he gets put
there a lot. But I think he can do anything.
Promised Land stars Damon as Steve Butler, a natural-gas sales-
man who with his partner Sue (Frances McDormand) offers cash-
strapped farmers in disenfranchised rural communities money in
exchange for drilling rights to their land. His belief that he is help-
ing peoplethat hes one of the good guysis shaken when an
environmental activist named Dustin Noble (Krasinski) shows
up in town, pictures of dead cows in tow.
The film has been described as being antifracking (referring to
hydraulic fracturing, the controversial method of extracting natural
gas from the ground), but it feels more like a movie about the ethi-
cal choices people makeone that refrains from providing easy an-
swers and underscores the complexity of issues too often reduced to
black-and-white terms. Krasinski says he was interested in making
a movie about American identity. He wanted to explore the loss of
a sense of community and a sense of trust in one another.
Krasinski grew up hearing stories about his dads upbringing
in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, a steel-mill town near Pitts-
burgh. In those stories, life seemed not only simpler but also de-
fined by a sense of communal pride that doesnt exist anymore.
Promised Land really captures the humanness of the small
town, DeWitt says. It really feels like a throwback to the good-
ness and sweetness of Jimmy Stewart movies, where we were as
Americans and where weve come, and how do we get back to it.
When Krasinski first told Damon about his idea one night over
dinner, Damon was immediately drawn to it. The only other
person Ive ever written with is Ben [Affleck], Damon says. I
had never sat down and written a script since Good Will Hunting.
And it was just so fun. I just found it to be exactly like writing with
Ben. Ideas wouldnt totally form until we got together, and when
we got together things would happen really fast.
The movie was supposed to be Damons directorial debut, but,
overwhelmed by work, he had to bow out as director. It was a
hard discussion to have, Krasinski says. But he said, We should
get someone great for this, and because it was my first script at
this level, I said, That sounds greatbut it will never happen.
The next morning, I e-mailed Gus the script, literally, from
the runway, says Damon. I was going down to Florida for the
holidays. I was really depressed and sitting on the plane. And they
were about to tell us to turn our phones off, and I e-mailed Gus.
I go, Are you busy? By the time we landed in Florida, hed read
it, and he wanted to do it. So that was our one rocky moment, fol-
lowed by the biggest high that we had in the whole thingthe re-
alization that Gus Van Sant wanted to direct it.
To me, that was all that needed to happen, Krasinski says. If
nothing had happened from that point on, Id have been thrilled.
Van Sant recalls Krasinskis dedication to the project. He was
always around, he says. He was there every day, and he was
very concerned with every moment of what was going on. He did
a very good job of being part of it, and still, to this day, hes very
attentive to the project, which is great.
He was up every night all night doing rewrites, DeWitt says.
He kind of never stops. Hes a machine. And his excitement
about it, his genuine enthusiasm about making it the best that it
can be, is so infectious. Youll see him first thing in the morning
and hes just giddy with the new scenes. Hell pull you into his
trailer and be like, Let me show you the stuff were working on,
youre gonna love it, its so incredible!
Both Promised Land and Nobody Walks are departures for Kra-
sinski, who has so far appeared in comedies such as George
Clooneys Leatherheads, Nancy Meyers Its Complicated, and the
Ginnifer Goodwin/Kate Hudson vehicle Something Borrowed. In
Nobody Walks, he plays a husband who finds himself irresistibly
drawn to a sexy young houseguest (Olivia Thirlby). DeWitt de-
scribes his character in Nobody Walks as a man in crisis, a man
under the influence, so to speak. Hes grappling with trying to do
the right thing and grappling with the boundaries of marriage, so
its a very adult role for John.
I wanted to write a story about American identity, about the loss of a
sense of community, a sense of trust in one another, and the idea of,
what would you be willing to give up, at what price?
ELLE MAN
Aside from the chance to work with
Dunham and Russo-Young, Krasinski was
attracted to the role of a guy in a tough
moral spot. I think that whether youre
married or not, in any relationship theres
always the terror that youre going to screw
something up, Krasinski says. Ive made
a lot of mistakes in my life. And Im really
sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as
huge ones. I know Ill never be put in the
position of making the adulterous mistake,
but there are mistakes along the way that
are as complicated, that get blown out of
proportion because youre not willing to
admit that youve made them.
K
rasinski grew up in Newton, Mas-
sachusetts. His father was a GP, his
mother a nurse at a nutritional re-
search center at Tufts University.
Hes the youngestand, at 6'3", the
shortestof three brothers, all of
whom played basketball in high school.
The brothers are close, and absurdly suc-
cessful. (Kevin is an orthopedic surgeon
in North Carolina; Paul is the CEO of a
tech company.)
At the end of his senior year in high
school, Krasinskis classmate B. J. Novak
(who plays Ryan Howard on The Office and
also writes for the series) approached him
about being in a satirical comedy show.
I was like, Why would you think I
could act? Krasinski recalls. Weirdly,
I think that was the first vote of confi-
dence anyone had ever given me artisti-
cally, and because I hadnt thought about
it, there was no downsideno fear, no ex-
pectation.
Krasinski taught English in Costa Rica
for a semester before heading to Brown
University, where his brother was the cap-
tain of the basketball team. He found him-
self at the gym one January, and after
about three seconds I was like, Nope! Too
big, too good. On his way back across
campus, he came across a flyer for an im-
prov comedy group. As with most of his
successes, Krasinski describes being asked
to join as an unexpected lucky break. Be-
ing part of a group of artistic people made
college a completely mind-altering expe-
rience. When I say that, people always
ask me what drugs I did, he says. I didnt
do any! But he did go from having never
seen an independent film, or heard mu-
sic that wasnt on the radio, to consuming
massive doses of culture. I had my brain
ripped open, he says. I was so voracious
for this information.
An English major with a concentration
in playwriting, Krasinski had intended to
become an English teacher. Asked what
inspired that goal, he pauses, then says it
was probably Dead Poets Society.
Which shows how easily manipulated
I was. Thats my calling because I saw
it in a movie and a bunch of kids stood
on a desk? he says, laughing. But thats
really what I wanted to do. Instead, he
did his last semester at the Eugene ONeill
Theater Center in Connecticut, com-
pletely immersing himself in the theatri-
cal world. After graduation, his parents
picked him up, and 20 minutes away from
campus he announced that he wanted to
move to New York to try to become an
actor. His mother gave her blessing, as long
as he promised to cut bait within two or
three years if he couldnt support himself
doing it.
He landed some commercials and bit
parts, did a lot of theater, got fired from
seven bartending jobs (the concept of
muddling was alien to him), and al-
most two years to the day after making the
promise, he called his mom to say he was
out. There were just about four weeks left
in the year, and she said, Well, just finish it
out. And three weeks later I got The Office.
I wouldnt have auditioned had my mom
not said just give it one more try, he says.
So I feel like I owe her 10 percent.
I ask if the fact that he had no expec-
tations going in had anything to do with
landing the part. In a very real way, he
says. Which reminds him that he also has
to thank Ed Harris for talking about ap-
proaching auditions without expectations
on an episode of Inside the Actors Studio.
Krasinskis takeaway from Harris in-
terview was this: The minute you think,
Im going to pay my rent, or get a girl-
friend, or become famousyoure in
trouble. The day after watching Harris
interview, he walked into an audition,
didnt thank the casting director for seeing
him, and booked a pilot. So I guess I owe
Ed Harris 10 percent, too. This money is
going fast.
Our shady spot in the garden is getting
sunnier, so we move to another table in the
center of the garden. He tells me about his
plans to turn his obsession with the Cha-
teau (though he seems like the least Cha-
teau person in the business, he lives up
the street and comes here way too often)
into a miniseries about the history of Hol-
lywood, using the hotel as a lens. His col-
laborator on that project is Aaron Sorkin,
whom he met in this very spot one night at
dinner, when the legendary TV writer ap-
proached him to say hed watched every
episode of The Office four times.
For now, though, Krasinski is just
excited to see what comes next. I think
this movie is a defining moment, he says.
Its sort of my declaration of who I am
and what I want to be.
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been cut off two weeks earlier; shed fallen
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again to write, then waitressing.
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news, via an e-mail from her friend and
cowriter, Benh Zeitlin, the films pro-
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together enough money to get her phone
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rewrote) the film, helped cast it, worked
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she posted an ad on the crowd-funding
website Indiegogo.com. She had $875 in
hand and had arranged for a place to stay;
she needed another $669, and she offered
everything from a hug ($10) to photos of
sunsets from France ($25) to homemade
gelato ($100). Within four hours, she had
the money for her ticket.
In January, the movie that Alibar
cowrote, Beasts of the Southern Wild, had
won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance
Film Festival in Utah; at Cannes in May,
where it was given a 15-minute standing
ovation, it scored the Camra dOr prize
for best first feature. Beasts went on to
garner ecstatic critical reviews upon its
June release and became a surprise indie
summer visitor at multiplexes across
Americathe little art-house movie that
could. In August, Oprah Winfrey raved
about the film on her Super Soul Sunday
television program; it had been recom-
mended to her by President Obama.
I
t hasnt really sunk in yet, Alibar says.
Thats probably for the best. I have to
do stuff and walk around. She laughs
a wild, ferocious sound of gleethen
catches herself and lowers her voice an
octave, until it achieves an immensely self-
important mockumentary timbre.
I have to be able to walk around!
Alibar is 5'6", brown-eyed, size-2
tiny, beautiful (notwithstanding her self-
description as having a flat face, kind of
big frog hands), and as fit as an otter. Now
she poses on red carpets, pays an agent to
sort through writing offers, runs three miles
six days a week, and practices yoga almost
every day. Mostly I do Iyengar, she says.
I like anything thats hard enough to make
me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my
limit and broken down a little bit.
She likes Dolly Parton, Tony Kushner,
Flannery OConnor, and horror movies.
Shes an excellent baker and a middling
cook. Her meals tend to taste like garlic
and end up on the raw side. (She suspects
it has something to do with understand-
ing the concept of restrictionshe says
directors tend to be good cooks, writers
good bakers.) Shes working on an auto-
biographical play about growing up in
a Pente costal Southern Baptist commu-
nity with an atheist father and also on
a Southern-comedy action- adventure
movie about a troop of Georgia Brownies.
Her plays have been produced in South
Africa, France, and the UK. She lives
with her Brazilian film-editor boyfriend,
whom she met on the set of Beasts of the
Southern Wild and who was the captain of
his countrys national rugby team and also
happens to be a trained chef (he made the
gelato that helped fund her trip to Cannes).
Yeah, he went to cooking school. He
mentioned that to me, just offhand once,
and I was like, What?!? Its like having
your own live-in chef. Its like being a Park
Avenue socialite!
Alibar talks fast, in multiple octaves,
and gesticulates with her hands (theyre
really not froglike) to great effect. In a span
of 45 minutes, following a photo shoot in
which she jumps, does headstands, adopts
Tebows, and grins with what looks like
authen tic delight, she will reference Keanu
Reeves, Dumbo the elephant, Odysseus,
God, and backwoods killers.
The first story she remembers writing
involved a gigantic dumb dog. I was in
third grade. Odysseus and his men, sailing
homeward from the Trojan War, crash on
this island, and theres a giant dog, and hes
really sweet, and he plays with them, but
he doesnt know how big he is. He slurps a
couple of them to death. Then they make
sails out of the dogs dandruff and escape.
It was gross. I didnt think it was gross at the
time. I thought it was sort of real. Because
our dog at home had so much dandruff, I
thought, If you had a lot of that stuff.
The wild laughter again, then the faux
Important Television Announcer voice:
One writers beginnings!
A
libar grew up on the Florida pan-
handle, near the Georgia border.
Her father, Baya M. Harrison III, is
a criminal defense attorneylike
Atticus Finch, but with a lot more ax
murderers, she says. Her maternal
grandmother, Alice, was a news paper
columnist, and her mother, Barbara, is an
artist. She created her last name by com-
bining their names and legally adopted it
the day she turned 18, right after she got
off her waitressing shift at the Village Inn
on the Apalachee Parkway. (I wasnt the
best waitress in the world, but I was cheer-
ful and worked hard, she told a reporter
from the Tallahassee Democrat. Most of the
customers were stoned, anyway, and only
there for the all-you-can-eat pancakes. But
I loved hearing them talk. I grew up sort
of isolated in the countryso it was excit-
ing being around that many people.)
My grandmother and mom showed
me how to be an artist, how to be a
woman, Alibar says. They both had
families, these very happy lives, and they
were both committed to their art, and it
never seemed like a mystery to me how
they did it. My grandmother had six
kidsone died as an infantand she
was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an
education. And my mom grew up poor.
And they both worked so hard and cul-
tivated so much of their own happiness.
I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not
like armor, but like a magic feather. Like
Dumbos magic feather.
Her mother encouraged Lucy to follow
her imagination. Her grandmother told
Lucy how talented she was. Her father was
more complicated.
Ever since I was a little kid, he would
say [to Lucy and her two brothers], All
right, men, youre out in the woods, and
he would go through a scenarioAll
right, men, youre walkin along the road,
and someone pulls up and jumps out of a
car and points a gun at you, tells you to get
in the car.
Her face collapses, contorts, reassem-
bles itself; its remarkably elastic. Her
voice drops a few registers, takes on a
deep-fried, honey-soaked twanglittle ole
Southern gal as Big Daddy. What do you
do, Boss? What do you do? Boss, you dont
get in that car. You get in that car, youre
dead, Boss! You take your chance and die
on the road, Boss!
Alibar sits back, curls her legs under-
neath her. My father couldnt really
express himself with words all the time.
In her juvenile writing, Greek warriors
gave way to men with muskets. I would
write ghost stories that never ended up
anywhere. A girl goes into a house, and
there are a bunch of dead Confederate
soldiers trying to tell her something
but I never could figure out what they
were saying.
She moved on to more naturalistic
characters and settings, and when she
was 14 she won a playwriting competition
and got to attend Young Playwrights Inc.
in Manhattan. There, she met a Jewish
kid from QueensBenh Zeitlin, the son
of folklorists. I remember there were
a lot of drunks being existential in his
stuff, and I wrote about a lot of Southern
kidsand we became instant friends and
made this immediate, wonderful artis tic
connection.
She came to New York City again in
2001 to study playwriting at New York
University. She had never tasted Chinese
food. She didnt have much money, but
she had her writing, and her family, and
her tight group of theater friends. Then,
when she was in her early twenties, her
father had quadruple-bypass heart sur-
gery and a stroke, and she thought he
was going to die. She realized that de-
spite all the quizzes about what to do if
a man with a gun stopped you and told
you to get into his car in the woods, she
had never really heard fromor talked
toher father about love.
So she wrote Juicy and Delicious, the
one-act play that inspired Beasts. It was
about a boy named Hushpuppy confront-
ing the illness and death of his father,
a man capable of enormous love but
apparently incapable of putting that love
into words.
She made Hushpuppy a boy instead
of a girl because her feelings about the
plays subject were so raw. She conjured a
place where ancient beasts were rampant,
lemons flew through the air, and feral chil-
dren ate cat food.
And then her old pal Zeitlin saw the
play and told her he wanted to turn it into
a film. And then they got support from
Sundance. The 11-year-old boy became a
six-year-old girl (played by the incandes-
cent Quvenzhan Wallis), Hushpuppy
and her father became black, the ancient
beasts became the movies signature fan-
tastical aurochs, and Georgia turned
into an impoverished Mississippi River
Delta community in Louisiana.
P
eople have responded to Beasts as a tale
about environ mental degradation, or
race, or political anarchy. And all thats
fine with Alibarthough none of it is
what she intended with Juicy and Delicious.
Im just telling a story, she says. Its
about a little girl and her father. I just want
people to engage. Because everybody has
a dad, and everybody loses that dad, on
some level.
Alibar says writing the play helped her
understand her fatherand her feelings
for himbetter. Watching the film she
helped create, she says, helped her under-
stand him even more.
When I saw Dwight Henrys perfor-
mance on the screen [as Hushpuppys
father], I for the first time really got
his terror, even when hes at his worst
moments, when hes angry. I got that
its because hes so afraid of leaving his
child defenseless in the world. I love my
father, and thats why I wrote this, and
I really needed that to come through. I
really needed his whole humanness to
come through.
To listen to Alibar talk about her work
is to watch someone wholly engaged in the
process of learning through doing, exploring
through expressing, finding novel insights
emerging out of those already gotten down
on paper. Its an exhilarating experience.
This alchemy of ideas also seems to
inspire in Alibar a sense of mystery, even
a sensibility of mysticism. My dad doesnt
like religion much, she observes, but
I grew up very close to the Baptist tradi-
tion. God isnt this distant thing. God is
right here with you all the time. Hes your
buddy, and you can talk about everything.
And writing this play and working on the
film, seeing it, I felt Gods presence. I just
had more of a sense of my place in the
whole scope of everything.
To Alibars immense relief and delight,
her father loved the movie. He called me
and said, This was the best day of my life.
You stole a lot of my lines, but thats all
right. That Benh Zeitlin, hes a genius,
Boss! Hes a genius!
Alibar quit her day jobs last January.
She writes full-time now.
When she feels distracted or is strug-
gling, she goes for a run. Or to yoga. Or
she bakes. Then she returns to her work.
When its going well, she says, It feels
likeif I understood more about physics,
I could talk about the theory of relativity
but Im in my own world. I dont even see
the keyboard. Its like Keanu Reeves in The
Matrix, when he says, I wish I could see
what my hands are doing. Its like heaven.
I dont want to go on vacation. I dont want
to buy clothes. I dont want to do anything.
I just want to write.
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was 29 when I got married, and I did not expect to be happy
in my marriage. Now, 11 years later, my wife and I are one of
the happiest couples I know of. A lot of this has to do with wit-
nessing friends commit adultery. Although the outward details
of my life are bound to differ from every other life, my emotional
life is probably not so unusual. I am ordinary in most ways. I am
ordinary in my fears and ordinary in my lusts. Although I could
have made other decisions, my decisions, too, are ordinary.
I believed I wouldnt have a happy marriage because I didnt
think I would have a happy life. My mother is mentally ill, and
growing up with her had left me with shame and fear and anxiety.
I remember once, when I was a child, my mother slapping me
repeatedly during a family wedding. As her hand landed on my
ear, my nose, my lips, I was conscious of all the people watching,
and I felt embarrassed for her. I felt literally like two people, one
feeling my own torment and one feeling pain for her.
One result of growing up in a family like mine is you lose hope;
you dont think good things will happen to you. I proposed to my
wife because I thought she wanted me to. I was going away for
business, and she said she wanted a ring. Several years later, she
told me that I had misinterpreted her, that when she had asked
me to buy her a ring, she had meant only that the city I was visit-
ing was famous for garnet jewelry and she wouldve liked to have
some. This part of my story is just a variation of the clich of a
man proposing because he has been given an ultimatum.
When you have a marriage that begins this way and you have
a personality like mine, there are bound to be problems. Often, in
the early years of my marriage, I felt indifferent toward my wife. I
once told her, I sometimes think I dont love you. We were sitting
at our glass-topped dinner table. My wife looked at me over the
rim of her eyeglasses. After a moment, she said, I know you do.
How do you know? I asked.
I see how you light up when I come into a room. Until she
told me this, I hadnt known I smiled when I saw her.
Around this time, the first of my friends confessed his adultery.
We were standing in the back of a darkened hall, watching some-
one give a speech. Tom* had a glass of wine in his hand, and he
had come from another reception and appeared pretty buzzed.
As we chatted, Tom offhandedly mentioned that he was seeing a
woman on the side. She was younger than he was and engaged. I
asked him where exactly they had sex. He said she worked in the
hotel business and so had access to rooms.
For several weeks afterward, whenever Tom and I met, we
would talk about this woman. I began building a fantasy of her
in which she looked like a movie star. I googled her to try to find
a picture. Imagining this woman, I started to find my own wife
less attractive. My wife has very light hair on her legs. She usually
shaves her legs to just above her knees. Suddenly, I started being
annoyed that she didnt shave all the way up her thighs.
It was a while before I saw Toms wife, Lauren, after he disclosed
his affair to me. Lauren has pale skin that she makes even whiter
with makeup. It gives her a Kabuki appearance. Lauren, Tom, my
wife, Christine, and I sat in a booth at a restaurant, and all through
the meal Lauren was unpleasant. Among other things, she scolded
Tom for going to the bathroom too many times. Usually I find Lau-
ren annoying. That night, though, every time I looked at her, I felt
sad. She was wearing a shawl, and this made her appear shrunken.
She did not know that her husband was cheating, yet to me she
looked like someone who was ill and suffering.
When my wife and I left and were walking down a sidewalk, I
A PRIVATE
MATTER
Some 30 percent of married men cheat. And for those who dont, as one man confesses,
the culture of adultery still wreaks havoc with their relationships. Anonymous
*Names have been changed
put my arm around her. It is hard after you have known some-
one for a while to see her afresh. Sometimes when I have done
something that hurts my wife so much she cries, I can suddenly
see her with new eyes, suddenly see her without preconceptions.
That night, having seen Lauren being harmed, I was able to look
at Christine as if she were a stranger. I could see her as someone
who could be hurt, someone wanting to be happy. I lifted my
wifes hand to my lips and kissed it. I love you, I said.
The image of Lauren in the booth that night, wrapped in a
shawl, her face ashen, has become a touchstone. I think of her,
and a rush of protective love for my wife floods into me. What
happened that night was not just that the door into adultery
got heavier, but that I began to understand how much I loved
my wife.
O
ne of the things women dont realize is that most married
men live in a culture of adultery. We see it all around us.
We have friends who have cheated on their wives. We
have been on business trips where we went to strip clubs
and our colleagues went into the back for hand jobs or
more. We dont tell our wives, of course. A lot of hus-
bands still operate with the idea that what gets revealed
among men stays among men. Part of this is based on boyhood
ideas of not snitching. Part of it, however, is based on a more
cynical motive: If we were to tell our wives, they would begin
watching us more closely, and as most of us married men keep
in mind the possibility that one day we too will have an affair,
to tell our wives would be to diminish this chance.
You might believe that your husband or your father or your
boyfriend doesnt think this way. Researchers say that one of
the strongest predictors of men who cheat and men who dont is
opportunity. This suggests that most men at least toy with com-
mitting adultery. Social scientists estimate that about 30 percent
of married men cheat on their wives. To get a feel for what this
number means, imagine that 30 percent of married men shop-
lift. A world in which this were true would feel crazy.
Even if a man is committed to remaining faithful, he is af-
fected by the adultery he sees around him. In his head, adultery
becomes a secret passage out of the marriage. Promiscuity takes
on the allure of adventure, of a life not lived. When we are fight-
ing with our wives, the prospect of adultery can come to us.
When there are sexual problems, the fact that we know men
who are having lots of sex outside their marriage makes these
problems bother us more. The knowledge of other peoples un-
faithfulness is one reason fights with our spouses can sometimes
spiral out of control. As we fight, we become unhappy, and we
think about the options that we are not exercising. So we blame
our wives not just for what we are fighting about but also for our
choice to not cheat.
A
lthough my love for my wife had become more real to me,
as had my recognition that I didnt want to be without her,
I still felt not just envy when I heard of friends affairs but
like a wimp for not making passes.
My friend Will, who married young, had been with his wife
for 17 years when we got to know each other. Wills wife has
emotional problems. She has tried to commit suicide in front of
her children by drinking bleach and by climbing out the win-
dow of their apartment. Because Will was so unhappy in his
marriage, he went out every night, and when he would tell me
about his secret life, it sounded glamorous. The many women
he slept with, the world that can open up when a woman tells
you her storyall this appeared part of a richer life than the
one I was leading. But then Wills wife learned of his affairs and
threw him out. Suddenly, he went from living in a large, beauti-
ful apartment to living in two rooms with bedbugs and having a
neighbor who fed her cats in the buildings communal hallway.
Most of Wills money vanished. The first time I met him after he
was forced to leave home, I took him to a grocery store to buy
him food. He was in his midforties, and his furniture included a
futon and milk crates. He said that he couldnt sleep, worrying
that his children would hate him. He said that his wife had told
his parents what he had done.
My friends misery was my great good fortune. I talked to
him every day, and I heard his problems, heard how lonely he
now got on Friday and Saturday nights. While I still envied Will
for his many sexual partners, I could see that there were real
consequences to cheating.
But what made me realize most poignantly that promiscuity
is not some grand adventure came from seeing friends enter the
world of commercial sex. My experience has been that com-
mercial sex becomes more common as men get older and their
lives get busy and disposable income is greater. Its appeal is that
by sleeping with different women, men can delude themselves
into thinking they are as charismatic as James Bond. One of my
friends is a Greek Orthodox priest, another installs telephones,
one works in the city morgue, one works in advertising, several
are in construction, several others are editors, investment bank-
ers, real-estate agents, actors, musicians. Only four havent gone
to brothels or massage parlors that offer a little something extra at
some point while married. Recently a friend told me about how
one night, as he was going in for a massage, he saw an incoming
call from his wife on his cell phone and sent it to voice mail. Later,
when he left the establishment, he listened to the message. It was
his little boy, calling to say good night.
Another friend told me about going into a brothel he had
been to before and being asked by a new security guard to take
out his penis. The guard didnt recognize my friend, and under-
cover cops posing as clients supposedly arent willing to do this.
My friend unzipped.
I was once traveling for work and a sales representative took
my boss and me to a brothel. My boss is a good guy, friendly,
cheerful. He has a son with Down syndrome with whom he is
madly in love, and he is also very respectful of how important
his wife is in taking care of their child. And yet, there we were:
in a room with a row of swimsuit-clad Russian women lined up
on a sofa. All of them were watching a television that was bolted
to the ceiling. The sales rep and my boss went into rooms in
back. I stayed in front. I had come along because I hadnt known
exactly where we were going, and the main reason I didnt par-
ticipate was because I was scared of letting anyone at work have
something over me. The other two men, who were drunk, their
pupils dilated, didnt notice that I remained up front.
There was a rawness to being in the brothel that somehow sep-
arated lust from all the other illusions that had clothed itif only
I were with this woman, Id be different; the problem is my wife
and not me. Seeing the drunk men and the women in swimsuits
was like seeing these illusions as a sort of insanity.
When sad or worried, I still periodically find myself thinking
that if I were with someone else, my life would be better. This lie
can come in a sly way. I see a young woman walking down the
sidewalk and then I think about being young and then I fanta-
size about being with the young woman, and then Im suddenly a
young man. I confuse the fantasy of being young with being with
this woman.
But I am getting better at catching myself. I can see my mind
moving into delusions, and I am able to reel it back. Also, I find
that the years of being married have made me happier. Some-
times when Im waiting for my wife in a restaurant and I mistake
a woman for her, I get excited and realize Im smiling.
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ichelle David never pictured herself as a nurse. She was
squeamish about needles and couldnt stand the sight of
blood. When she learned, in 2005, that she was pregnant
with a second child, she was a dancer for the NBAs Phila-
delphia 76ers. She loved the job and hoped to return to it. But by
the time her son, Lyam, turned one, David had left her dancing
career behind and enrolled in nursing school. As a new student,
she was already familiar with some of the medical procedures
being taughtsuch as how to insert a nasogastric feeding tube:
Shed learned them to care for Lyam.
At six weeks, Lyam was barely eating. One night, his breath-
ing became severely labored. David rushed him to Philadel-
phias St. Christophers Hospital for Children, where doctors
told her he was going into cardiac arrest. Hed been born with
holes in his heart and would need two open-heart surgeries im-
mediately. Before the first could be scheduled, Lyam started
vomiting blood, and his organs began to shut down. Unable
to breathe on his own, he was placed on a ventilator for four
months. When he was finally stable, he underwent both of the
surgeries in less than a month.
After the second, it was bad,
because he had drainage tubes,
David, 31, told me. It was just
he looked so bad. I wasnt pre-
pared for that. David had been
matter-of-fact, even upbeat,
as shed described her sons
medical history, but she
now was overcome
by emotion. Im
sorry, she said,
covering her face with her hand. Tears rolled down her cheeks.
It just really stinks that hes going to have to go through it again.
David was referring to the open-heart surgery that Lyam will
need within the next three years to fix yet another anomaly
all of which were caused by the boys in utero exposure to the
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) Paxil, a Philadel-
phia jury ruled in October 2009.
Davids doctor had prescribed Paxil for the mild anxiety she
suffered after the death of a close friend. When she became preg-
nant a year later, she asked both him and her ob-gyn about the
drug. Neither doctor was concerned, which isnt surprising: Paxil
was one of the most-prescribed antidepressants at the time, and
a number of psychiatrists were delivering nationwide talks for
their fellow physicians endorsing the safety and efficacy of the
drug during pregnancy.
But in December 2005, two months after Lyam was born, the
FDA asked Paxils manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, to change
the drugs pregnancy-use classification from Category C (ani-
mal reproduction studies have shown an adverse effect on the fe-
tus, and the benefits from the use of the drug in pregnant women
may be acceptable despite its potential risks) to Category D
(positive evidence of human fetal risk). The move came fol-
lowing the early results of two studies showing that women who
took paroxetine (Paxils generic name) during the first trimester
were one and a half to two times more likely to have a baby with
a heart defectin most cases, atrial or ventricular septal defects
like Lyams. The FDA issued a public health advisory to doctors
and clinics about Paxil and the danger of congenital heart defects.
The jury that ruled in Davids favor also found that Glaxo-
SmithKline had negligently failed to warn her doctor about
the increased risk of such problems and awarded David $2.5
million in compensation. It was the first and only SSRI case to
ever reach verdict, though Glaxo has since settled more than
$1 billion worth of claims out of court. Davids attorney, Sean
Tracey, says that there are many more cases pending against
Paxil and other SSRI makersthis summer alone, 19 suits
were filed against Zoloftor awaiting settlement.
Tracey first learned about Paxil-related birth defects in
2006, when another lawyer walked into his office with a client
named Lisa Collins, whose son, Chase, was born with part of
his heart missing. Like David, Collins did not suffer from major
depression or anxiety; she was prescribed Paxil for occasional
claustrophobia. When Collins became pregnant, her family
doctor assured her that it was perfectly safe to continue tak-
ing the drug. But just two weeks after he was delivered,
Chase needed open-heart surgery. The strokes he suf-
fered after the procedure left him with brain damage.
GlaxoSmithKline reached a confidential settlement
with Collins in 2008.
Despite cases like Lyams and Chases, the de-
bate about the use of SSRIs during pregnancy
is far from over. And the number of pregnant
women taking SSRIs is as high as its ever
been.
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but are pregnant women with milder conditions needlessly endangering
their infants by taking antidepressants? Dyan Neary reports
THE DRUG WAR
Given the number of things women are told to avoid during
pregnancyalcohol, aspirin, unpasteurized cheese, and sushi,
to name just a fewit may seem surprising that antidepressants
arent verboten too. But in recent years, doctors have become
as concerned about the impact of depression on the mother and
child as they are about the harm SSRIs might do to the fetus.
An estimated 3 percent of pregnant women suffer from major
depression, giving them a lifetime suicide risk 20 times higher
than average. The women I see say, Nothing gets me excited.
I dont want to go out of the house, I cant get my stuff done at
work, my boss has noticed, offers Kara Driscoll, MD, a psy-
chiatrist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago who
specializes in treating depressed expectant mothers. You can
have a severe episode of depression without being suicidal. Its
just the symptoms are really quite profound. (Those symptoms
include lethargy, an inability to focus, feeling hopeless or guilt-
ridden, eating or sleeping too much or not enough, and crying
often.)
Perhaps most worrisome, the heaviest predictor of post-
partum depression, which afflicts an estimated 13 percent of
new mothers, is depression during pregnancy. (And expectant
mothers with a history of major depression who go off their
meds during pregnancy are five times more likely to relapse,
according to a 2006 study in The Journal of the American Medical
Association.) Postpartum depression can leave women unable to
care for their babies or form an adequate emotional attachment
with them, causing lags in language, behavior, and intellectual
development. A tiny fraction of cases manifest in a dangerous
illness called postpartum psychosis, marked by auditory hal-
lucinations, alienation from others, and urges to harm oneself
or ones baby.
Against that backdrop, Driscoll believes that all pregnant
women should be screened for depression, as is the practice at
Northwestern. Twice during pregnancy, our OBs administer a
screening scale. So no matter whatwhether youre talking about
symptoms of depression or nottheyre going to go ahead and
ask you about them. Because weve found women have symp-
toms who havent been assessed, who are not being treated.
Gideon Koren, MD, a Canadian toxicologist and pediatri-
cian who runs Torontos Motherisk, the worlds largest research
and counseling center for expectant mothers, is, if anything, a
stronger advocate for screening. An avuncular figure with gold-
rimmed glasses and white hair, he boasts that Motherisks re-
search influences much of the counseling in the United States.
His counselors use a standard 10-question survey (called the
Edin burgh Postnatal Depression Scale) with any expectant
mother who calls or walks into the office. A lot of women dont
feel good, and they dont know its because of depression, he
says. The condition is seriously underdiagnosed.
When a woman scores a 13 or higher, shes referred to a psy-
chiatrist and will likely be encouraged to start a regimen of anti-
depressants. If a woman scores between 10 and 13, Koren says,
you still have to tell the physician that shes borderline and she
should be followed up. Shes almost there.
I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things
As much as I always could
Not quite so much now
Definitely not so much now
Not at all
I have looked forward with enjoyment to things
As much as I ever did
Rather less than I used to
Definitely less than I used to
Hardly at all
I have been anxious or worried for no good reason
No, not at all
Hardly ever
Yes, sometimes
Yes, very often
Things have been getting on top of me
Yes, most of the time I havent been able to cope at all
Yes, sometimes I havent been coping as well as usual
No, most of the time I have coped quite well
No, I have been coping as well as ever
I have felt sad or miserable
Yes, most of the time
Yes, quite often
Not very often
No, not at all
Those are my answers to several questions from the Edinburgh
Postnatal Depression Scale test, based on how I felt during the first
trimester of my pregnancy. The baby was unplanned, and sud-
denly I was stressed about how I was going to support her and
get myself into an apartment more appropriate for a childnot
to mention that for the first three months I was vomiting nonstop.
Given the situation, its probably foreseeable that Id score as high
as a 10, which, by Korens standards, would have resulted in a let-
ter to my doctor and possibly a prescription for an antidepressant.
Thats despite the fact that Ive never been diagnosed with a mood
disorder, and by the time I entered my second trimester, my more
troubling answers would have changed for the better. The thing
about screening is, the more you screen, the more you find, said
Barbara Mintzes, PhD, an expert on pharmaceutical policy at the
University of British Columbia. So its not necessarily a good rec-
ommendation to screen healthy people, because you can end up in
a situation where you have a lot of false positives.
According to a 2008 study in the American Journal of Obstetrics
& Gynecology, more than 6 percent of all pregnant women take
SSRIs, a fourfold increase since 1996. While the medical com-
munity is virtually unanimous in the belief that women with
major depression should take medication during pregnancy, the
real, hotter issuethe one that Michelle David says applies to her
caseis whether more moderately depressed or anxious women
A lot of [pregnant] women dont feel good,
and they dont know its because of depression,
says Gideon Koren, MD. The condition
is seriously underdiagnosed.
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should do the same. Its not a small matter: A 2009 Psychiatric Ser-
vices study found that nearly four fifths of antidepressant prescrip-
tions arent written by psychiatrists; another report, published
last year in Health Affairs, found that nearly three quarters of these
prescriptions are written without a psychiatric diagnosis, and, its
authors point out, patients who get mental-health care from gen-
eral medical settings tend to have much less severe psychiatric
problems.
The first point of debate is what harms the fetus more: midlevel
depression and anxiety, or the SSRIs prescribed to treat them.
Talk to a handful of pregnant women these days and youll hear
echoes of this concern: Im so stressed out all the timeam I
hurting my baby? Much of the medical research that tries to
answer the question has focused on which factorSSRIs or
depression/anxietyhas a stronger relationship with low birth
weight and premature birth. Thats because very small and early
babies disproportionately suffer devastating conditions such as
cerebral palsy and blindness, while even less dramatic weight
and gestational deficits have been linked to more subtle neuro-
logical and developmental impairments. And the truth is, when
you sift through the data, its something like a draw: Both SSRIs
and depression are implicated with modest upticks in prema-
turity and low birth weight, although often only among poor
women. (For depression, the physiological mechanism for fetal
harm is theorized to be undue exposure to stress hormones like
cortisol or compromises in immune function; for SSRIs, its the
influence of extra serotonin on the developing brain.) People
have a hard time accepting that sometimes science is in the
process of figuring things out, and I think, frankly, thats where
were at, says Columbia University psychiatry professor Cath-
erine Monk, PhD.
The second issue is whether SSRIs cause, in rare instances,
serious heart disorders like Lyams. No one is arguing that de-
pression is the culprit for heart-wall defects, but some doctors say
antidepressants arent the reason for them either. Over the years
a number of studies have not found a higher incidence of septal
heart defects in SSRI takers, but some of the most recent research
has turned up noteworthy increases. A 2008 report in the Brit-
ish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology found major cardiovascular
anomalies were about five times higher among the infants of
Prozac takers and three times higher among the babies of Paxil
takers. A 2009 study in the British Medical Journal concluded that
children whose mothers took Zoloft were more than three times
as likely to be born missing pieces of their heart walls.
Another worry, because of its severity, is something called
Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (PPHN)
a condition in which oxygen cant be absorbed into the blood-
stream, which afflicted the infants of mothers who took SSRIs
(any SSRI) after their twentieth week at a six-times-higher rate in
a 2006 New England Journal of Medicine report. (Because the num-
bers of serious birth defects are quite small overall, even some-
thing like a sixfold expansion in PPHN means the disease would
occur in six to 12 babies per 1,000, rather than roughly one out of
1,000; the more devastating heart defects are even less common.)
Finally, SSRIs have been implicated in neonatal abstinence syn-
drome, a several-week-long drug withdrawal that may include
tremors, excessive crying, fever, rapid breathing, vomiting, prob-
lems feeding and sleeping, and even seizures.

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erhaps only because its been studied more than the other
SSRIs, Paxils storythe research on its possible fetal effects
and its winding journey through the regulatory systempro-
vides a compelling case for why its hard to confidently weigh
the risks and benefits of taking antidepressants during pregnancy.
It took 12 years for the drug to go from Category B (animal re-
production studies have failed to demonstrate a risk to the fetus)
to Category C to Category D. Every doctor Ive deposed says,
Well, it wasnt Category D when I prescribed it, says Karen
Barth Menzies, an attorney whos sued Glaxo on behalf of preg-
nant women. They get very defensive.
Indeed, Davids family physician testified that Glaxo drug reps
used Paxils Category C rating as a selling point for prescribing
the drug to women in their childbearing years. For its part, Glaxo
insisted throughout much of the trial that it had never marketed
Paxil for use by expectant mothers, though three people inde-
pendently told me theyd seen a video the company has shown to
MDs in which a woman named Mary Beth talks with her doctor
about how helpful Paxil was during her pregnancy. Her newborn
was completely healthy, she says, adding that she plans to have
another child and will take Paxil during that pregnancy, too.
Because pregnant women are excluded from clinical trials of
new drugs for ethical reasons, the FDA relies on drug compa-
nies to conduct animal studies for information about fetal risks.
Some of the first research to assess Paxils impact on rat pups was
conducted in the late 1970s. Investigators divided pregnant ro-
dents into four groups: Three received varying doses of Paxil, the
fourth nothing. Sixty-six percent of the pups born to the rats on
the lowest dose of Paxil died within four days, and that percentage
increased as the dosage did. Only 12 percent of pups born to the
unexposed mothers expired. In an internal memo obtained by
lawyer Tracey, John Baldwin, an employee of Beecham (which
later became Glaxo) who reviewed the studies, stated that it sup-
ports the possibility of embryo lethality. Suzanne Parisian, MD,
a former FDA medical officer, testified at Lyams trial that Glaxo
never did follow-up studies, nor did it alert the FDA about Bald-
wins statements. They should have, she said. But better yet
would have been to address it [with further research].
This was not the only document that suggested Glaxo was
aware of potential problems with Paxil: Tracey uncovered a com-
pany review from 1998 that found an alarmingly high number
of reports of birth defects linked to the drug, and a report showed
Glaxo officials were almost certain that Paxil caused the birth
defects that prompted one woman to abort her fetus. (Internal
e-mails that I obtained reveal that Glaxo has tried to hide other
negative information about Paxil, canceling a long-term panic
disorder study in 2000 because it showed that people who quit
the drug suffered withdrawal. Yes, Virginia, there is a God,
wrote a medical writer whod been assigned to describe the
People have a hard time accepting that sometimes
science is in the process of figuring things out.
Frankly, thats where were at, says Catherine
Monk, PhD.
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ADVICE
ITS WHATS ON THE OUTSIDE
THAT COUNTS
DEAR E. JEAN: Can you tell me who is this
inner goddess whom all ladies apparently
carry inside? Inside where? Im having trouble
finding her! I was never really a girly girl, and
flirting doesnt come naturally to me, so at 27 Im
a total seduction rookie. My experience with men
cant even be characterized as elementary.
I dont expect to become the next Marilyn, but I
want to tap into my inner femme. How do I get
myself to a place where I can enjoy being admired?
Im a successful career woman and I know how to
make goals, and this is my new goal: to exchange
sparkly glances sans panic attacks.
I Just Bow My Head and Flee
MISS FLEE: I have conferred with my inner
goddess. She reports that your inner goddess
is in San Francisco attending a vibrator con-
vention.
Good. With luck, we wont hear from
your Supreme Broad for weeks. Theyre a
boring bunch, these inner goddessesthey
never seem to do anything but whisper:
Hey, girl, lets straddle the sofa! Or, Hey,
girl, lets take a bubble bath!
Anyway, inner goddesses arent inter-
ested in men. Theyre interested in pleasure.
Get that straight, Miss Flee, or youll never
exchange sparkly glances with anything
but chocolate cake. So lets turn our atten-
tion to the deity who actually does enjoy
being admired: your outer goddess.
A simple being, your outer goddess has
no secrets. She swears by the hair, the
makeup, the dress, and nothing but the
dress, so help her God(s). Your outer god-
dess knows that if you brush on a bit of
mascara and shimmy into a flirty frock,
men will deduce (correctly) that you want to
flirt, and if they deduce that you want to flirt,
they will flirt with you.
A mans mind argues, wrote Balzac,
that a woman who knows how to make her-
self so beautiful must have still greater
resources when it comes to lovemaking. All
you have to do is (A) find the dress; (B) don
the dress; (C) attend a shindig wearing the
dress; (D) not run away when a chap is
attracted to you because of the dress;
(E) look into his eyes; (F) smile. It would be
nice if you also laughed at his jokes, but lets
not go completely mad the first night out.
The next week, you will slip into a cock-
tail dress and high, high heels and throw a
Thanksgiving board game party.
P.S. I also recommend that you attend
a seminar at Mama Genas School of
Womanly Arts (mamagenas.com). There, the
magnificent Regena, who answers only to
Celtic gods, will instruct you in a whole new
view of enjoying (i.e., seducing) men.
BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT
TO SEEIN YOUR WALLET
DEAR E. JEAN: Im turning into a real-life
Hannah from Girls. Im 25 and barely working:
retail, two days a week. My parents just
announced that they can no longer support me.
Im one of three children, my mom and dad put us
all through college, and my dad is retiring soon
so I understand.
Meanwhile, my sweet boyfriend is going into
debt trying to keep me in food, clothes, and shel-
ter. Ive been job hunting every day until my eyes
are crossed! Theres nothing available for my
major. And the best retail places arent hiring. I
want to be independent, but at the same time, I
want a small allowance to get me through the
week. How do I ask for money from my parents?
What else can be done for me? Im at a loss.
This Hannah Needs Help
HUNNYBUNCH: Whaddaya got there,
Hannah? An iPhone? A Droid? Either
way, sign up at Squareup.com. Jack Dorsey,
the man who invented Twitter, cocreated
the Square Card Reader so you can set
yourself up in business and process credit
cards. (One of Dorseys friends couldnt sell
his handblown glass because there was no
way for him to take plasticso he and
Dorsey invented a solution to his problem.)
Stop shaking your head, Hannah. In the
next seven days (the time it takes for your
free Card Reader to arrive in the mail) you
will start a business, cease moaning about
the lack of jobs in your major, and begin
majoring in making money.
And youll do it mooching exactly zero
dollars off your parents. Youll build a fan-
tastic website, for free, at Weebly.com;
launch your marketing campaign, for free,
on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and
Tumblr; phone for free, with Gmail call-
ing; and watch your progress, at no charge,
on Google Analytics. Square will take 2.75
percent per credit-card swipebut, hell,
anyone whos not starting her own business
these days looks like a loser. Heres a handy
guide to help you take the first steps:
HOWTO
MAKE IT IN THE WORLD
The Hannah Rules
1. Never waste time looking for a job when
you can invent a job.
2. Never invent a job that does not help
solve one of mankinds problems.
3. Never forget, as you prepare your
Facebook marketing campaign: Women
want to be thinner, and men want to be
taller.
4. Never go with what you love. Go with
what obsesses you.
5. Never worry about failing. You will fail.
Just fail smarter the next day.
6. Never listen to your boyfriend when he
complains that youre working all the
time. Keep working.
7. Never wear black. Wear redhot,
cheeky, dangerous red. People will be less
likely to forget you.
8. Never aim for catchy. Aim for true.
9. Never ask customers what they want
as Steve Jobs said: People dont know
what they want until you show it to them.
Whatever your product or service, Miss
Hannah, I believe 100 percent in your
superb skill at getting money out of people
who cant afford it. Youll be paying your
parents back by Christmas. Good luck,
and let us all know how youre doing!
P.S. Thank you, Seth Godin, for #8.
MOMMY DEAREST.
NO, REALLY
DEAR E. JEAN: My mother is an attractive,
ASK
E.JEAN
Tormented? Driven witless? Whipsawed by confusion?
interesting woman who reads ELLE and The
Economist, dresses fashionably, and main-
tains a petite size 2 frame. Recently, I found out
that my 39-year-old husband (of 14 years) has
been having sex with her when he attends con-
ferences at the resort near where she lives. When
he told me, I was bothered by the fact that it
didnt bother me.
Hes a wonderful manfather to our two
children and a good providerand hes always
taken care of me emotionally, sexually, and
financially. I know I should be upset; I know I
should feel betrayed on so many levels. But I
just dont. He says he enjoys the relationship
with her but will stop if its what I want.
Honestly, if my mother and husband are
happy in their affair, I just cant seem to find
the energy to be angry or jealous. So my question
is: Is this normal? Should I be upset?
No Talent for the Conniption Fit
MY DEAR MISS CONNIPTION: For 20
years, the worlds most attractive idiots,
unrequited lovers, and chafing milksops
(including myself) have babbled in this
column about unconditional love. You
areastoundinglythe first to live it.
Sono. Im not going to advise you to
feel upset. Instead, Im popping open a
bottle of prosecco and raising my glass to
you, Conniption! Youve found what so
many seek: True love, like true joy, comes
when you wish your beloved free, and
when you get out of your own head.
The difficulty, of course, as Henry James
pointed out, is not only to get outyou
must stay out of your own head. So you
wonder if you should feel angry? Bah.
Being human means feeling spiteful, dis-
gusted, sad, ecstatic, bitter, and terrified,
just thinking about changing hairdressers.
Being human also means experiencing
deep, spiritual, liberating feelings of uncon-
ditional loveand a release from anger.
People who say you should be in a rage
dont understand a thing about love. To
love, totally and absolutely, means to want
your loved ones to be free. No need to turn
yourself into a walking Diagnostic and Sta-
tistical Manual of Mental Disorders just
because you question whether not being
angry is normal.
Indeed, what is normal is a man finding
his wifes mother attractive. People just
dont talk about it. In the mid-1980s I
trekked across the Star Mountains in Papua
New Guinea. Due to falling down a 40-foot-
deep sinkhole, tumbling into a 150-foot
ravine, crashing off a vine bridge, getting
lost, running out of food, being attacked by
killer ants, crawling through quicksand, and
twisting my ankle so badly that it swelled up
to the size of a water bucket, I was forced to
stay for a spell in the tranquil Atbalmin vil-
lage of Munbil. And what I saw there!
Beauty, serenity, boredom, and a couple
of mothers-in-law (as elegant as Edith Whar-
ton and both under 4'10") enjoying the
favors of their daughters husbands. It was
accepted. It was the custom of the countryor
at least the custom in this particular paradise.
(Papua New Guinea is so violent that more
than 820 languages are spoken there.) But
were not living in the Star Mountains. If you
ever do get upset, tell your husband to cease.
P.S. My first inkling that you possess a
nirvana-grade freedom from jealousy? You
mentioned a fellow woman wearing a size
2 in your first sentence, then went on to
write two more paragraphsa total of 158
wordswithout slamming her.
THE RING CYCLE
DEAR E. JEAN: I love my man, but
after all my hints and suggestions as to what
kind of engagement ring I want, he went off and
got one thats prettybut not what I want to see
on my hand for a lifetime. I want to change it. Is
that acceptable?
Right Man, Wrong Ring
MISS RIGHT MAN: A lady is permitted
to broach the subject of an ugly ring with the
ring giver upon a single occasion: the fifth
wedding anniversary. It is, of course, cor-
rect to clutch your husband by the hair and
scream a hint when you are giving birth to
your first child, but not absolutely neces-
sary. However, telling the fella who so
tenderly chose the ring that you dont want
to see it on your hand prior to either of those
two milestonesparticularly when he did
get you a pretty ringis hard-hearted,
thoughtless, and in frightfully bad taste.
SUGAR DADDY BLUES
DEAR E. JEAN: My friends are being
fake. They lavish me with complimentsall of
them so phony that I cant believe they think Im
not seeing through it. Why? Because my new
boyfriend is loadedincredibly wealthy. They
ambush us at parties with pitches for their
projects and pleas to invest in their dreams.
One of my friends spotted us at a caf and for 20
minutes nagged us to set up a business meet-
ing. Its getting to the point where Im afraid to
show up anywhere with the guy!
All this makes me feel lonely and kinda sad.
Ive even begun wondering: Is everybody
interested in me only because of my boyfriends
money? Am I supposed to stop making friends?
Or do I simply not introduce my boyfriend to
my friends?
Fake-Friend Magnet
MISS MAGNET, MY KUMQUAT: Now,
now. Dont be so hard on your friends.
I remember the summer when a couple
handsome, clever, and rich, rich, rich
bought the Jumping Horse Ranch and
moved into our small Montana valley. We
all went completely batshit. I mean, we
lost our brains! We threw them dinner
party after dinner party, pitched them
business proposals to start new maga-
zines, let them win at Botticelli, squired
them to the rodeo, and so on. By New
Years wed all simmered down and sim-
ply enjoyed them.
I suspect this is what will happen with
your friends. As you love them for their
excellent qualities and their sinstheir
humor, their kindness, their always being
late, et ceterathey love you for your
quirky self and the fact that you possess a
spankin rich lover-dude.
The problem will sort itself out, trust
Auntie Eeee. Your boyfriend will soon
avoid the friends of yours he doesnt like,
and your fake friends will fade away.
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I thought my Ivy League professor boyfriend was The One because he
reads Madame Bovary in bed. But Ive just caught him with another girl
for the third time. He swears there wont be a fourth. Should I take him
back? I love him madly!
!
Take him back? Are you kidding? Madame Bovary is the most boring
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nineteenth annual Women in Hollywood Issue, wed like to take just a moment to
sincerelyand succinctlyexpress our gratitude for the nine female dramatists fea-
tured in the following pages. With sidesplitting comedic timing (Sarah Jessica Parker
in The First Wives Club), tear-jerking raw emotion (Susan Sarandon in Dead Man Walking),
kick-ass combat moves (Uma Thurman in the Kill Bill films), and jaw-dropping transforma-
tions (Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth), theyve helped us understand our worldand ourselves
a little better. (Indeed, sometimes better than we neededthank you, Kristen Wiig, for that
bathroom scene in Bridesmaids.) We wont go into how many Oscar statues are among them
(okay, four; belated congratulations to The Helps Octavia Spencer)not to mention Golden
Globes, SAGs, and BAFTAs (14, six, and six). Or even Guinness World Records (were look-
ing at you, Emma Watson, highest-grossing female star of the aughts). Well just leave it at
this: Virtually every time someone yelled, Action! these womenand wise-beyond-her-
years woman-to-be, 14-year-old Elle Fanningleft an indelible mark on our life (or, in the
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had a standing-room-only ticket to see Andrea
McArdle in Anniethe late-70s musical phe-
nomenon that had every girl in America belting
out Broadway tunes into her hairbrush. Parker, now
47, had been acting professionally for a few years by
then but wasnt particularly known for her singing or
tap dancing. Her father, she says, casually opined to
her, Oh, you know, youre just not Annie material.
Parker, however, was undaunted. I think to myself,
Well, why not? She scored an audition and won the
role by working really hard and maybe wanting it
for a slightly pure reason, she says.
Since then, like a cultural Zelig, Parker has hop-
scotched from one generation-defining role to
another in a career that has spanned decades and
counting: the wisecracking nerd in the 80s cult-
favorite TV show Square Pegs; the sidekick in the
original Footloose; Lycra-clad 90s babes in films such
as L.A. Story and Honeymoon in Vegas; the mother of
all It Girls, Carrie Bradshaw, in Sex and the City; and
the stressed-out working woman of the aughts in
The Family Stone and I Dont Know How She Does It.
Next up well see her singing her heart out on Glee,
and then playing the ultimate womens iconGlo-
ria Steinemin the upcoming biopic Lovelace, with
Amanda Seyfried.
Sarah Jessica is very glamorous in many ways,
which is an exciting fantasy for many women, says
Douglas McGrath, her I Dont Know How She Does
It director. But unlike some style icons, where its
all cold surface beauty, she has a wonderful hu-
manity that always shows through. Shes beguiling,
enchantingand yet you never forget that shes a
real person.
Ive always called her the star next door, says
Michael Patrick King, who wrote, produced, and di-
rected the Sex and the City series and movies. Shes
sort of like the girl next door, but shes so unique and
special as an actress that shes a star. Theres no one
like her: Smart, sexy, funny, deepshe has it all, and
she had something that made her the It Girl for all
those different moments. You cant really understate
her range.
Indeed, she brings a dancers nimble ease to physi-
cal comedy (her kinetic SanDeE* in L.A. Story more
than held her own against expert pratfaller Steve
Martin), yet can still move an audience in quieter mo-
ments (her uptight character unraveling in The Family
Stone, say, or all those breakups with Big).
Parker also brings range to her life in general,
which these days includes producing (Sex and the
City, Bravos reality competition Work of Art: The Next
Great Artist, and the documentary Pretty Old ); politi-
cal activism (she recently hosted a $40,000-a-plate
Obama fundraiser at her home); a fragrance and
fashion empire (with hit perfume lines Lovely, Covet,
and SJP NYC for Coty; her stint as president and
chief creative officer at Halston Heritage; and her
fondly remembered clothing line, Bitten)oh, and
shes been married for 15 years to Matthew Broder-
ick, with whom she has three children: James Wilkie,
10, and 3-year-old twins, Loretta and Tabitha.
I think its just curiosity, she says about her will-
ingness to take on such a crushing workload. If
somethings exciting and challenging and I can do
it with people I respect and can learn fromwho
would say no? (Director and choreographer Adam
Shankman, one of her best friends, says her secret is:
She does not sleep.)
Shankman says that once he called her at home and
Broderick told him she wasnt there. When he asked
where Parker was, Broderick said, without missing a
beat, Oh, you know, out taking over the world. But,
Shankman points out, Shes not a control freak. And
this is why we love Parker: for being both the hardest
working and the most fun-loving gal in Hollywood.
As her State and Main director, David Mamet, puts it,
She is both a trouper and a pussycat. Can better be
said of anyone? I think not.Rachael Combe
Q Was it painful to be an adolescent in the public eye?
A People had opinions about what I should look like, but
something in me knew that if I fixed that or changed this, it
wouldnt fundamentally change me. I just thought, Thanks
for telling me, and I guess I should pluck my eyebrows, but
the rest of it I dismissed. Q What kind of characters ex-
cite you? A Something I havent done. I dont love the idea
of playing another woman who loves fashion and is slightly
flawed in New York City. I loved Carrie, and I dont want to
do the poor mans version of her. And while those are of-
ten the lucrative things to do, its more reason to look in
the other direction. Q Was there a role that got away
from you? A Recently I saw a clip of Hugh [Grant] and
Andie [MacDowell] in Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Ill
always think, Ahh, I wish Id gotten that part. I auditioned
for it many times. She also did another movie I auditioned
for many times, Groundhog Day, which I loved. And she
was really lovely in both. Q What movies do you go back
to for inspiration? Woody Allens. He was like my broth-
ers: smart, funny, and he looked different. I immediately
related to that and to how he felt as a character: always
a slight outsider looking in but somehow invited into the
conversation. Q Have you ever had to stand up to some-
one who wasnt being helpful? A If someone is saying
things that are mind-numbing, I ask the person to say
less. Or I dont look into their eyes when theyre giving me
notes, because I know theyre trying to put a performance
into my head. I just look at the ground and say, Um-hmm.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER
WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD: ICON
In her decades-long career, Parker has remained the perennial
It Girl, as both a style icon and a true master performer
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SMART PEOPLE, 2008 I loved this
part because, in relation to other
parts Ive played, the character
was unusually withholding and
remote. And I especially loved
acting opposite Dennis [Quaid],
who I believed to be quite
wonderful in the role.
STATE AND MAIN, 2000 I was in a
perfect state of panic the whole
movie, primarily because I was
so intimidated by the idea of
Mamet and so wanted to please
him and get it right.
THE FAMILY STONE, 2005 Just a
completely satisfying and happy
experience both professionally
and personally. I was enchanted
by the cast and our writer-
director [Thomas Bezucha],
and the part was wonderfully
challenging for me.
SEX AND THE CITY, 19982004
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plannedto be on a television
series, for so many years. But I
wouldnt change a thing about
playing Carrie, or about anyone I
was so fortunate to work with. It
was enormous happiness.
ED WOOD, 1994 Sometimes I
think my time with Tim Burton
was something I imagined
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so much. Love Johnny [Depp]
in the role, and I still cant quite
believe I was fortunate enough
to be part of it.
FOOTLOOSE, 1984 I think of it as
an important step in my pursuit
of independence. It was the first
occasion I was alone, without a
guardian. And I loved it. I paid
my bills on time, fell in love, and
came home with some really
important memories and a little
pocket change.
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I
n the beginning, there was the Voice, Cate Blanchetts
resonant pipes and perfect diction ushering millions
of movie fans into the Lord of the Rings trilogy: Dark-
ness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor
grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of a name-
less fear. Now that Blanchett reprises her role next
month as Galadriel in the Rings prequel, The Hobbit: An
Unexpected Journey, maybe its time to get at the secret of
not the Ring, but the Voice. Her attitude is, Whats the
fuss about? Oh, I dont know, she says with a touch
of embarrassment. Its acting. I grew up listening to
radio plays with my grandmother, and I love it when
you conjure a whole world through audio.
Remarkably, Blanchett, in spite of her Australian-
ness and a day job for the past five years as co artistic
director, with husband Andrew Upton, of the Sydney
Theatre Company, has achieved iconic status not only
as the elf queen of Middle-earth but as a regal pres-
ence in another mythical land: Hollywood. In just the
past decade, shes worked with the cream of Ameri-
can auteursMartin Scorsese (The Aviator), David
Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Wes
Anderson (The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou), Todd
Haynes (Im Not There), Steven Soderbergh (The Good
German)and is at this moment shooting films with
both Terrence Malick and Woody Allen.
The Oscar roll call to date: Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Kath-
arine Hepburn in The Aviator, and nominations for
Best Actress (Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
and Best Supporting Actress (Notes on a Scandal and
Im Not There).
No one could sound more surprised by this turn
of events than Blanchett. Im not very experienced
in Hollywood, she says. It was a long time before I
shot in Los Angeles, before I knew what on the lot
even meant. But as soon as Blanchett, a well-regarded
young stage actress in Australia and virtually unknown
outside of it, took to the screen as Queen Elizabeth
I, back in 1998, Hollywood was smitten. There is a
natural grace about Cate that you cant fake or teach,
Peter Jackson, her Rings and Hobbit director, says. The
industry has no problem producing sexy girls on de-
mand, but Blanchett, with that dancers leggy elegance
and distinctively husky voice, has only to appear on
camera for a moment to announce that a real woman
has arrived. I suggest to her that shes a throwback to
those grown-up actresses of an earlier era, and shes a
little startled. (Oh. Wow. Thats nice.) They were ab-
solutely inspirational to me growing up, she explains.
When you look back to the Joan Crawfords and the
Bette Davises and Katharine Hepburns, they were
driving extraordinary film narratives. And they were
never referred to as being in womens pictures. They
werent patted on the head in that way.
Shes incredibly brave, says her friend and fellow
Aussie Hugo Weaving, Elrond the elf king in the Jack-
son movies. She puts herself out there with intelligence
and intuition. We may carry an image of Blanchett as
queen above it all, Galadrielian, but in many of her
best films, shes a woman on the edge, desperately try-
ing to hold it together. In Notes on a Scandal, her hu-
miliated schoolteacher practically hurls her colleague,
played by Dame Judi Dench, through a china cabinet.
And yet in her stage work, she can be incredibly loose
and funny. She enjoys foolishness and horseplay and
mucking around backstage, Weaving says. Together,
they turned Uncle Vanya, a Sydney Theatre Company
production that recently played New York City, into
a rollicking sex farceand Blanchett into a physical
comedienne in the mold of one of her idols, Lucille
Ball. As usual, she declines to take the credit: [Great
actors] throw things at you. You have to try to bat it
back as best you can.Joseph Hooper
Q Youve got a strong marriage, three kids, and an
amazing career. If a younger actress told you she
wanted all those things, what would your words of
wisdom be? A Well, dont try to achieve that by next
Wednesday. The choices dont all present themselves
in one big blob. At every fork in the road, you have to
ask yourself, What are my priorities here? I dont think
Ive necessarily made all the right decisions. Q What is
challenging for actresses in Hollywood these days?
A You dont just want to play a good character, you
want to be in a good film. And those two things dont
always happen now. [The film industry] concentrates
on the womans acting rather than how powerful the
film is. Often, the most interesting film means you die
on page nine. But thats fine. Q Favorite actress?
A I loved watching Bette Davis and Lucille Ball all
through their careers. But my favorite? Liv Ullmann. She
has a core understanding of the subterranean nature
of relationships, and her ability to reveal those is pretty
much without parallel. Q Surreal Hollywood moment?
A I had finished shooting [the fourth] Indiana Jones
with Steven Spielberg and was working on The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button on the same lot. I was in my full
prosthetics [for scenes as the elderly Daisy], and I went
over to the Indiana Jones assistant director and told him
that I was from the Make-A-Wish Foundation and wanted
to meet Mr. Spielberg. He came over and shook my hand
and he was thinking, Why didnt someone warn me that
this mad old woman was going to accost me? I told him
it was me, and he still didnt believe me.
CATE BLANCHETT
A modern Hollywood darling built like an old-school star
and a theater vet who always radiates gravitas to the rafters,
Blanchett is the best of every worldeven Middle-earth
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JOURNEY, 2012 What a rare
treat, to return to Middle-earth
10 years on with the same bunch
of wunderkinder. I fell hopelessly,
irreversibly in love with Ian
McKellen. An elf and a wizardis
that so wrong?
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE,
2009 Working with Liv Ullmann
was like a homecoming; it was
liberating. Her fearless grace and
searing emotional intensity as
an actress is legendary, but as a
director she brings a disarming
honesty and enormous love for
the actors.
GROSS UND KLEIN, 2012 I had
long loved this play, but it was
only through collaborating with
Benedict Andrews again that
we discovered how funny it was.
Crazy dancingber-alienation as
Lotte Kotte searched for a place
to belong. It was an exhausting
but thrilling ride.
IM NOT THERE, 2007 Todd
Haynes is a genuine maverick, as
is Dylan. Nothing was off limits,
and once I stuffed the sock down
my undies, it all seemed to fall
into placeand man, was it wild.
THE AVIATOR, 2004 When Marty
[Scorsese] asked me to play
Katharine Hepburn, I moved
quickly from elation (at the
prospect of working with him) to
profound knee-sweating terror.
In the eyes of her adoring fans, I
feared disappointment loomed.
ELIZABETH, 1998 Meeting
Shekhar and the Working Title
team changed everything for me.
They took a huge risk casting me
as Elizabeth, and for that I will be
forever grateful.
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efore the night Octavia Spencer became a star,
winning an Oscar for her portrayal of Minny
Jackson, the abused wife and maid in The Help,
she had 91 credited characters to her name,
nearly half of which were nameless: Troubled Woman
(The Soloist); Bank Coworker (Drag Me to Hell ); Street-
walker (The Nines); Jurist (Medium); Landlady (Pulse);
Child Welfare Rep (CSI: NY ); Big Customer (Beauty
Shop); Check-In Girl (Spider-Man).
Occasionally she landed a recurring role, like the
lusty Constance Grady in Ugly Betty. But for the most
part, Spencer took whatever she could get, even if it
meant playing Nurse 10 times, the first being her
break in A Time To Kill. Working as a production as-
sistant on the 1996 film, I asked Joel [Schumacher] if
I could read for the role of the woman who started the
riots, Spencer, 40, recalls. He said, No, your face is
too sweet. You can read for Sandys nurse.
But you cant muck with fateanother produc-
tion assistant on the set was Tate Taylor, a fellow
Southerner who became Spencers BFF, longtime
roommate, and, ultimately, the director of The Help.
Ill give you the trash, Taylor says ribaldly, in lieu of
hello. He remembers when they met: I delivered call
sheets to the casting office and Octavia kept trying to
sleep with me. Taylor, whos openly gay, starts laugh-
ing. Im not kiddin! She was laying it on thick. Did
Spencer get her way? Hell no! She got an Academy
Award. Thats the stiff statue she got outta me.
Lush, lovely, loquacious, she was his Minny from
the minute he optioned the book and adapted the
screenplay. Octavia cant cook for shit, or clean
worth a damn, but she had the essence of Minny,
Taylor says. Her eyes, those big eyes, are a gateway
to her emotion. You want to climb into them and see
whats going on. Shes just infinitely watchable. And
her laugh is infectious.
So much so that when Taylor and their friend Me-
lissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) started out in improv in
L.A.s the Groundlings, theyd plant Spencer in the
audience. If a skit wasnt going well and we could get
Octavia laughing, everyone would laugh, McCarthy
says. Wed be in the back and someone would say,
Shes here! And wed be like, Its going to be okay!
It was so great that we all were on the same trajec-
tory and in it at the same time, says Spencer, sound-
ing nostalgic. We scraped by. Tate and I borrowed
the same $500 from each other for years.
Luckily, no one had a backup plan. Octavia knows
her gifts as an actorher physical attributes, her soul,
her heart, those things that are unique to hershe never
plays against that, says James Ponsoldt, who directed
Spencer as a recovering alcoholic in the hotly antici-
pated Smashed. A lot of actors cant quite figure out
what kind of actor they are. They dont seem comfort-
able in their own skin. But Octavia is a fish in water.
What she really wants to do is produce. George
Clooneyyes, Im dropping a nametold me to find
projects, work with the best, Spencer says. She just
optioned Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and
His People. I thought it was time for people to under-
stand where that phrase Dont Drink the Kool-Aid
actually came from. There are so many parts in it. I
dont want to have to carry the weight of anything.
I want to share the load. I want to always be part of an
ensemble. She wants to keep her friends closeold,
new, and those she hasnt met yet.
Its hard to have a casual relationship with Octavia,
says Viola Davis, her costar in The Help. You feel like
your heart is invested, even if you met her for a few min-
utes. Davis remembers shooting the scene when the
riots break out. Minny says, The world has gone crazy,
Aibileen, and were holding each other, Davis recalls.
Im so shy, I always have this boundary issue. But it
felt so natural to hold Octavia. I just wanted to hold her
forever. When does that ever happen in a careeror a
lifetimewhen a person walks into your life and you
know that theyre going to stay?Holly Millea
Q Who inspires you? A Oprah, for one. I was a chubby
teenager, and when I saw Oprah on television, I thought,
Oh my God, I can do thisI can dream this for myself.
Q Have you ever had to stand up to a director? A Early
on I had to stand up to a producerI wont say who, but
hes famous, famous. He dressed me down in a crowded
office. I told him right there in front of a hundred peo-
ple, You dont know me well enough to use that tone.
Im not your wife. Im not your daughter. Keep it profes-
sional! And then I ran to the bathroom and cried like a
baby. But he never addressed me that way again. And he
was known as a yeller. Q Hows your love life? A Im not
married. Lets just say Im open for business. I used to ob-
sess about itI have to keep kissing these frogs to find the
prince. Well, you know what? Im not looking for the prince.
The prince is going to have to come looking for me. Q He
is, as we speak! A I have to tell you, I started freaking out
when, you know, our eggs have an expiration date. And Im
thinkin, Oh my God, my eggs are gonna die on the shelf!
And I thought, Then it will mean the good Lord wants me
to adopt if I get to the point where I cant have kids. Im no
longer worried by the trappings of life. Q Have you ever
had a casting-couch experience? A Well, I wanted some
casting-couch experiences! I gotta tell ya, I wanted to be
on the Ridley Scott movie The Counselor. Look at that cast!
Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender. I literally
walked in to meet with Scott Free Productions and said,
Who do I have to sleep with to be in this movie?
OCTAVIA SPENCER
Ever the emotional center on-screen, shes gone from struggling
to juggling, adding writer-director-producer to her credits
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Diablo because, as both the
films writer and director, shed
always envisioned how each
scene would be played. So when
she was happy with a take, I was
thrilled!
SMASHED, 2012 It was
exhilarating to be a part of an
amazing project with such a
great cast and crew. We all rolled
up our sleeves, did the work, but
really enjoyed the process.
FRUITVALE, 2013 At first I was
convinced that I wouldnt be able
to do this part justice because
I was so angered by the subject
matter and the fact that she was
a real person. Ultimately, arousing
social consciousness outweighed
my aversion, and I signed on.
THE HELP, 2011 Playing Minny
changed my outlook on life. I
realized that it doesnt matter
if the glass is half empty or half
full. What matters is that you
own the glass.
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ree-associate on the subject of Uma Thurman and
the image that likely pops up is of the gorgeous 6' tall
Amazon who achieved film immortality as Quen-
tin Tarantinos muse, with highly stylized perfor-
mances in just three filmsdancing the twist with John
Travolta in Pulp Fiction or mowing her way through
an army of sword-wielding villains in Kill Bill Vols 1
and 2. A nice image, to be sure, but far from the whole
story. Consider Hysterical Blindness, the HBO film she
made with director Mira Nair a decade ago, in which
she played a working-class Jersey girl beset with daddy
issues, a deluded bitch-on-wheels who, miraculously,
you cant help rooting for, so aching is the vulnerabil-
ity Thurman projects on-screen. Or go back almost to
the beginning of her career, to her June Miller, wife of
novelist Henry Miller, in Henry & June. Hiding in plain
sight is a performance of emotional intensity that is as
least as breathtaking as thats films art-porn obsession
with her 20-year-old body. I enjoyed getting to do a
good, strong piece of dramatic acting, Thurman says.
Of course, I struggled to find another role like that. I
still do. Twenty years later, its the same deal.
Contemplating the paradox of a sublimely beautiful
and talented A-lister who struggles to find work that
plays to her greatest strength as a dramatic actress,
you fall back on tabloid headlines: Does Holly wood
Know What to Do With Uma Thurman? I think the
answer to that is no, says director and friend Kather-
ine Dieckmann, who cast her in her low-budget indie
dramedy Motherhood a few years back. Besides being
beautiful, Uma is incredibly smart and fiercely articu-
late, and thats a challenging combination in our cur-
rent movie environment.
Not fitting the mold is in her genes, being the
daughter of Nena Thurman, a former Swedish mod-
el, and Robert Thurman, the first American Tibetan
Buddhist monk turned Columbia professor. Uma has
followed her own idiosyncratic path ever since she
left her New England prep school at 15 and, in the
space of a few years, became a portrait of undraped
cinematic nubility in films such as The Adventures of
Baron Munchausen, Dangerous Liaisons, and Henry &
June, then adding a one-and-a-half-year marriage to
Gary Oldman to this provocative mix. In more recent
years, she admits, she has devoted less energy to her
professional life than to her private onepersonal
growth, family life, all that stuff. In the past decade,
she divorced her second husband, Ethan Hawke, is
raising their two kids in her New York City home, and
is involved with French financier Arpad Busson, the
father of her four-month-old daughter.
The baby has provided an enforced but welcome
midcareer sabbatical. Its a good, contemplative time
to take a look at everything, she says. Thurman feels
caught in a no-womans land, between the little indie
films that she loves and the superhero franchise fare
that she has nothing against but isnt her thing. There
is a whole midrange of dramatic movie that isnt
being made so much anymore, she says. Of course,
it leaves me feeling underrealized. Ive felt pent-up for
a long time. I love to act.
Television is intriguing to her. She did a guest-star
turn in last seasons TV musical series Smash and
walked away with an Emmy nomination. I did that
to get a feel for TV, she says. What is a television
day like?
Playing against expectations, as usual, shes also
made a home for herself in mainstream Hollywood
comedies, starring in such films as The Truth About Cats
& Dogs, The Producers, Prime, and My Super Ex-Girlfriend,
in which she was screwball funny. But however much
she loves comedyonce you have a taste for it, its
hard to stay awayshe feels energy for the serious
dramatic work that, weirdly, has never been the main-
stay of her career. I feel very overdue in the dramatic
department, she says. I think Im actually kind of a
late bloomer. It took me so long to get comfortable in
my body, to find my center of gravity.J.H.
Q What was it like to make yourself into an action
star for Kill Bill? A Id just had my son. Ill never forget
walking onto the set the first day of shooting having had
my costume taken in an inch a week during the training
period and just barely making it to the opening shot with
the bulges tamed. The intensity of doing that movieI
found my feet. I was able to get into the physicality of
the dance scenes in The Producers because of Kill Bill.
Q Growing up, I take it you werent the captain of the
field hockey team. A I was sort of a poetry-reading girl
with big feet. Q What was it like when you were thrown
into those supersexualized roles at such a young age?
A It was something to get through. I was definitely ahead
of myself. Being forced into becoming an early bloomer
kind of makes you a late bloomer. Thats the most precise
but not too obvious way of answering that. Q Surreal
Hollywood moment? A Dancing with John Travolta in
Pulp Fiction. We all have these iconic images of him from
Saturday Night Fever burned into our heads. To not be a
professional dancer and look up and see the most iconic
disco dancer in cinema history staring you in the eyes, that
was cool. Q Youre not keen on the state of Hollywood
films right now. A All you have to do is open the newspaper
to know that Hollywood is focused on large tent-pole
movies; theres not as diversified a slate of movies as
there used to be. It makes it harder for everybody. The
independent world still seems vibrant. And a lot of actors
are going into television. Theres a big push to do that.
UMA THURMAN
Becoming a new mother (for the third time) has given this
savvy stunner a chance to ponder what to conquer next
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PRIME, 2005 As with most
actresses, the dream come true
is to work opposite Meryl Streep.
I loved every minute of it. Having
positive feedback from her
was the only review that ever
mattered to me.
SWEET AND LOWDOWN, 1999 Id
heard so many stories about
what it would be like to work
with Woody Allen. I found him to
be one of the easiest directors
to work for. So precise, a
dream.
KILL BILL VOL. 1, 2003 The
hundred days in my yellow suit
were some of the toughest Ive
ever had to get through and
some that Im most proud of.
Id just had my son, and I was
trying to get back in shape. I was
tremblingI barely made it.
THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS & DOGS,
1996 I always wanted to get into
comedy. And this was a sweet
movie. People liked it; they went
to see it.
PULP FICTION, 1994 I was in my
early twenties, and Id been
in some movies and I guess
I struggled a bunch. Quentin
wanted me to have a great time
on this movie, to fall back in love
with acting. I did. Ill never forget
wishing the shoot would go on.
DANGEROUS LIAISONS, 1988
One of my first filmsan
experience burned into my mind.
A person can spend her whole
career and not have such a great
team to work with again. I wish
Id known that at the time.
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n 2001, a reedy-voiced, frizzy-haired slip of a girl
in a school cloak and tie slid open a train door on
the Hogwarts Express and uttered her opening
line: Has anyone seen a toad? Thus the world met
Emma Watson, who, at nine years old, beat out squil-
lions of other hopefuls for the role of magical Muggle-
born witch Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the
Sorcerers Stone. I just knew, from the moment I read it,
that I was meant to play that role, says Watson, now
22 and having undergone, over the course of the nine
Potter films, a Polyjuice Potionworthy transforma-
tion from that tiny, tenacious Hogwarts newbie into
a gamine, self-possessed, exceptionally charismatic
grown-up. My first impression of her was that she
was so young and successful and beautiful, but had so
much to prove to herself. That gave her a lot of depth,
and also a touch of loneliness, says Stephen Chbosky,
who directed Watsons first major post-Potter role, in
an adaptation of his 1999 best-selling novel, The Perks
of Being a Wallflower, about a group of high school mis-
fits. As Sam, a troubled but tenderhearted teen, she
projects both a surprisingly mature emotional intelli-
gence and a riveting, bursting-from-the-screen energy.
She is one hell of a leading lady, Chbosky says.
While her Potter costars began to take on other
projects before the final chapter of the franchise hit
theaters, Watson chose to hit the books at Brown
University instead. I craved normalcy, she says. I
wanted to have a college experience like other people
my age. Now (with one semester left), shes suddenly
in the curious position of being an on-the-rise starlet
more than a decade after she became world famous,
having landed plum roles in a series of auteur-helmed
films. Next spring, shell appear as tramp-stamped
L.A. luxury-goods thief Nicki in Sofia Coppolas The
Bling Ring, based on the stranger-than-fiction story of
Alexis Neiers, the reality-TV star who burgled Lind-
say Lohans house in 2009. Next, shell play Emma
Watson in metacomedy The End of the World, cowrit-
ten and directed by Seth Rogen, in which a group of
celebsincluding Paul Rudd, Michael Cera, Mindy
Kaling, and Rihannaare attending a party at James
Francos house when the Apocalypse arrives. It was
essentially a stand-up-comedy situation, she says.
So for me, it was like landing on Mars. I was like,
I cant do this, this is mad, but eventually I just kind
of let go. I have no idea where I got half the stuff that
came out of my mouth.
That willingness to pull out the stops has directors
spellbound: Both Chbosky and Coppola praise the
freedom and fluidity with which Watson loses herself
in a scene or a role. (She transformed into the part,
Coppola says. She could switch back and forth be-
tween a posh British accent and a slutty Valley Girl,
just like that. Oh, and I was really impressed by her
hip-hop dancing.) She also has an intrinsic ability to
home in on her characters humanity. When I read
the Bling Ring script, Watson says, I was like, This
is about a superficial, materialistic, attention-seeking
girl. But then I realized she was pursuing things she
believed would make her feel loved. It made me sad.
Watson, who has also established herself as some-
thing of a pixie-chic fashion It Girl with stints mod-
eling for Burberry and Lancme, is currently film-
ing Darren Aronofskys biblical epic Noah alongside
Russell Crowe, and developing her forthcoming role
in Beauty and the Beast with Pans Labyrinth director
Guillermo del Toro. (Hes obsessed with the idea of
creating worlds, she says. Were even going to have
this amazing language that we made up.) But Watson
isnt one to forget where it all began. I put one of the
Potter films on the other night, she says. And it was
amazing to me that I had done all of that. I have to
remind myself every now and then.April Long
Q Youve said that being famous makes you uncom-
fortable. How so? A Im dealing with peoples projections
of me. I dont know when people look at me if they see a
beautiful dress I wore on the red carpet, or all of the magic
and hype of Harry Potter. They very rarely just see who I
am, which is a normal, human 22-year-old girl. Q Have you
had to fight for a part? A Not exactly. But after audition-
ing for Sofia [Coppola], I didnt hear from her for a while.
I thought, Oh my God, I really want this part, so I wrote
her an e-mail being like, Look, I know Im not the obvi-
ous choice, I couldnt be more unlike the girl youd prob-
ably cast in this, and I appreciate that I have a lot of work
to do, but I feel really passionate about this. Please, would
you just consider me? And I got an e-mail back saying,
You already got it. Q Are there certain types of roles
you particularly want to play? A Eventually Id love to
do something where I get to sing, even though it would be
terrifying. Q Do you think youre hitting your stride at
a time when womens roles are getting more diverse?
A Definitely. Thats one of the reasons why it was such an
honor to work with Sofiashe writes such complicated,
interesting female roles. I think theres a shift, thanks to
movies like Bridesmaids and people like Lena Dunham and
Emma Stone. Theres a space for female characters that
are more than two-dimensional, an understanding that we
can be lots of different things at once. We can be funny,
we can be a little fucked-upits not just about being the
martyr or the whore, the smart one or the dumb blond.
EMMA WATSON
WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD: EMERGING ICON
As Harry Potters wand-wielding, scene-stealing, know-it-all
sidekick Hermione Granger, Emma Watson grew up before our
eyes. Now shes working her magic in a series of challenging,
high-profile adult roles. Hogwarts? What Hogwarts?
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THE BLING RING, 2013 I loved
and hated playing Nicki. It was
so liberating on the one hand
and felt so dark and unpleasant
on the other. It was pretty
surreal. We hung out in Paris
Hiltons house for, like, four
days.
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN, 2011
Lucy was such a small part but
such an interesting role. I love
that she said no at the end of the
movie but was still able to show
compassion.
THE PERKS OF BEING A
WALLFLOWER, 2012 Sam goes
through this journey that really
spoke to me. Shes trying to figure
everything out, and that was my
teenage experience, toojust
trying to understand why things
were the way they were.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY
HALLOWS: PARTS 1 AND 2, 2010;
2011 The last two movies were
tough because we shot them
back-to-back. Its nice to know
I can deal with anything I have
thrown at me. I know Im not
easily fazed, which is very
comforting as I continue with
my work.
HARRY POTTER AND THE
SORCERERS STONE, 2001 My
first movie experience. My hair
was amazing. As a conscientious
nine-year-old, I hated looking
nerdy. Now I love getting into
character.
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usan Sarandon has been the standard-bearer of a
welcome movie trend: Actresses no longer have
to watch their careers shrivel at midlife but are
getting a lot of workincluding roman tic leads.
This year alone, Sarandons made 10 movies and has
signed on for at least six in 2013, including one with
her daughter, Eva Amurri Martino. I think of my-
self as a character actor, Sarandon says modestly, so
theyre all supporting roles. Then she corrects her-
self. Well, I have some offers in the pipeline.
No doubt. At 66, Sarandon is a great actor, still
radiat ing on-screen the sexual charisma of Annie,
her baseball groupie in Bull Durham 24 years ago, and
the erotic mystery of her nightly ablutions in Atlantic
City (1980), as her quiet casino worker stands at her
kitchen window, slowly stroking her skin with lemon
juice. Both movies got Oscar nominations. Although
Sarandon had been a major star since 1975s The Rocky
Horror Picture Show and had just starred in The Witches
of Eastwick, at 40 she had to fly from Rome to Los
Angeles on her own dime to pursue the part in Bull
Durham. Costner and I wanted her, but we didnt
have any clout, says the movies writer-director, Ron
Shelton. Susan is very smart and politi cally serious,
but she knew the power of the right dressred and
white stripes and just clingy enough to be Annie.
Ever so politely she dropped in to say a quick hello to
the studio head, then went on her way. Shelton soon
got a call: How about Susan Sarandon?
Bull Durhams success catapulted Sarandon into
the 90s and her two most famous and iconic roles. In
1991, the whole country seemed to be talking about
Ridley Scotts megafeminist saga Thelma & Louise, in
which she and Geena Davis go on the run after Saran-
dons character kills a would-be rapist. A few years
later, she won the best-actress Oscar for playing Sister
Helen Prejean opposite Sean Penns death-row inmate
in Dead Man Walking. Sarandons portrayal of the paci-
fist Prejean is a marvel: At once gentle and relent less,
she makes us feel the power of this woman who can re-
trieve a lost soul and fill it with remorse. Besides her Os-
car, Sarandon has earned four more best- actress nomi-
nationsfor Atlantic City, Thelma & Louise, Lorenzos Oil,
and The Client, along with more than 40 other awards.
Recently, the media got all giddy over the age of
Sarandons romantic and working partner, Jonathan
Bricklin, whos 35. People make him out to be much
younger than he isand me older, she says wryly.
Whats unmistakable is how Sarandon has shaken up
and energized her life and work, as evidenced by her
four vivid roles in this months Warner Bros. tent pole,
Cloud Atlas, directed by Tom Tykwer and Lana and
Andy Wachowski. Sarandon disappeared so thor-
oughly into the role of an Indian man called Yusouf
that she startled her unrecognizable self in the mirror.
The Wachowskis famously avoid commenting on
their work, but they made an exception for Sarandon,
composing a real valentine: Generosity emanates
from Susan like warmth from a fire. As an actress, she
offers everything you could ask for. As friends, weve
shared beautiful conversations about art and love, and
each one has left us feeling enriched.
Its no surprise that Sarandon should inspire such
glowing sentiments; she truly walks the walk. I
think the struggle is to live an authentic life, she says.
Often, being comfortable and courting the illusion
of safety cannot coexist with being authentically who
you are. Anytime I have drastically changed my life
which has happened a number of times and, I hope,
will happen many moreits always been a mixture
of terror and e xhilaration and discovery. But I believe
that being surprised and being somewhere thats
uncomfortable because its unknown is really one of
the main rules to live by.Karen Durbin
Q Ever had a casting-couch experience? A Yes. It was
not successfulfor either of us. I just went into a room,
and a guy practically threw me on the desk. It was my
early days in New York, and it was really disgusting. It
wasnt like I gave it a second thought, it was so badly done.
Q What was one of your best moments in front of the
camera? A Something in the process of filming, not in
hindsight, Id have to say working with Sean [Penn] was re-
ally a highlight. There was no blocking, no props, no make-
up. It was kind of a bare presentation of two souls, and he
was very there for me. All we had to work with was our
connection. And thats what an actor thrives on, and hes
one of the best. So it was really special. QHas any woman
particularly influenced your career? A I would say Van-
essa Redgrave, because I find her courageous both on-
and offscreen, and I believe anything she attempts, even
when shes completely miscast. Q Which roles do you
still have to fight for? A I dont know about them until its
too late, so I dont get a chance. Now things are packaged.
Its not like theyre going to mull over who theyre going to
go to. I havent been in a position where I was even given
the opportunity to fight for something. I dont know how
that works in this stage of the game. Q What made you
want to be an actor? A Honestly, I just fell into it. I was
acting for a number of years before I came to grips with
the fact that this was what I was. I always thought it was
an interesting means to an end, but I never thought of it
as a goal I had set to get to. It found me.
SUSAN SARANDON
She bids fair to be crowned the hardest-working woman in
showbiz as she sashays into her fifth decade of stardomand
her awesome, smoldering, unapologetically sensual screen
presence is still dialed up all the way to 11. Long may she reign!
PHOTOGRAPHED BY AL E X I L UBOMI RSKI STYLED BY K AT E L ANPHE AR
WATCH IT!
DEAD MAN WALKING, 1995 The
most intense love story Ive ever
been a part of. Sean [Penn] and
I had nothing but each other in
one scene after another. He was
so present and generous.
THELMA & LOUISE, 1991 We
had so much fun that summer,
driving all around those
beautiful national and state
parks. We had no idea it would
end up meaning so much to so
many. I thought it was a cowboy
movie with girls and trucks.
LORENZOS OIL, 1992 I found
out I was pregnant during the
shoot, and we finished in my
fifth month. If you look carefully
you can see my silhouette grow
and shrink.
BULL DURHAM, 1988 It restored
my faith in team playing in
moviemaking. Through all the
pressures of a small budget, Kevin
[Costner] protected Ron [Shelton],
Tim [Robbins], and me. Ironically, it
was in the mens locker room that I
was treated with the most respect.
THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, 1987
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was little heat. We were half
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pneumonia, but I am so happy I
did it. Dont dream it. Be it.
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or seven seasons on Saturday Night Live, Kristen
Wiig churned out one hilarious misfit after another,
each throwing back at us those tics and foibles that
wed never cop toand didnt have to, since she
channeled them with such outrageous gusto. Lorne
Michaels, SNLs creator and executive producer, says,
There were few people in the history of the show
Dana Carvey was one, she was anotherthat were just
built for the work when they arrived. But it was Wiigs
spot-on ability to turn a tic, a shrug, or a high-pitched
voice into a fully formed character that made her an in-
stant breakout. An actor always has to go for the truth
in the moment, Michaels says. But with us, it has to
end on a laugh, too. So if youre going to work the truth
in, you have to do it without getting in the way of land-
ing on the laugh. She does that brilliantly.
For the final sketch of Wiigs SNL career, Michaels
and company sent her off with the kind of quasi-
sentimental tribute reserved for such titans of the show
as Will Ferrell and Phil Hartman. Wiig shimmied on-
stage with her cast mates in a peach peplum Lanvin
mini, visibly trying to hold back tears while Arcade
Fire played the Rolling Stones classic Shes a Rain-
bow. In that final hurrah, Wiig became something
more than, in her words, the odd, middle-aged, short-
haired women in turtlenecks shed deliciously in-
habited for so long. This wasnt just the funny girl we
laughed with, but the everygirl we cried with, too.
Like we did in the wild but emotionally hefty Brides-
maids. The Judd Apatowproduced film, which Wiig
starred in and wrote with writing partner Annie Mu-
molo, made more than $287 million worldwide,
earned critical praise (Wiig and Mumolo were nom-
inated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar), and
busted every grim expectation for R-rated, female- led
comedies. When people describe it as a raunchy fe-
male comedy, I think, Aw, well, that wasnt really our
intention, she says. To us, its a movie about female
friendship, getting older, and saying goodbye.
The best barometer of her success, says Michaels,
is that everyone talented wants to work with her, be-
cause they know shes the real thing. It was after Wiig
spun her three-and-a-half-minute bit in Knocked Up into
one of the movies most memorable scenes that Apatow
asked her to pitch her own feature. Shes landed up-
coming roles as Ben Stillers fantasy girl in his passion
project The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; as a spitfire who
upends the life of Robert De Niros aging insult comic
in The Comedian, directed by Sean Penn; and as part of
a 60s-era ensemble (reportedly alongside Paul Rudd)
in Freezing People Is Easy, only the second scripted fea-
ture from legendary documentarian Errol Morris.
If it all sounds a little heady for the 39-year-old
sketch-comedy vet (Wiig came up through L.A.s
Groundlings improv troupe), then maybe you missed
the tragicomic cameos she snuck into her reel
including a bored 80s-era cokehead in All Good Things,
and Jon Hamms increasingly disillusioned wife in the
indie rom-com Friends With Kids. If people know you
for doing one thing, says Wiig, then the curtain goes
up and they expect you to keep doing that thing. I
hope audiences give me a chance to do more.
Not that shes waiting around. At this years Toronto
International Film Festival, Wiig made her debut as
an executive producer with Imogene, in which she stars
as a playwright who stages a suicide attempt to lure
back a man, only to land in the care of her estranged,
equally unhinged mother, played by Annette Bening.
Shes always spontaneous, says Bening. Thats
magical in moviemaking. Because the whole process
the machines, people, and just the amount of stuff going
on around youconspires against that. But even in her
most outrageous characters, theres something inside of
them thats real and simple. Shes so genuine that part of
you aches while part of you laughs. Its funny and insight-
ful, but mostly, its entertaining.Nojan Aminosharei
Q Your farewell from Saturday Night Live was surpris-
ingly emotional. How did you handle it? A I thought I
was going to lose it as soon as I got onstage. But Id cried
so much those last couple of weekson set, at rehearsal,
hiding behind wallsthat my eyes had dried out! Q Brides-
maids success seemed to throw the industry for a
loop. How did you feel about that? A We were so happy,
but at the same time, we were a little disheartened. When
Annie [Mumolo] and I wrote the script, we just wanted to
film something that could bring together the women we
know and show off how funny they are. But are executives
really that hesitant to green-light comedies with women
in them? There are so many actresses out there who peo-
ple would be surprised to find out are really, really funny.
Q Whats the best career advice youve gotten? A Say
no. Q How does it feel to make it big in Hollywood later
in your professional life? A You mean not as a 10-year-
old kid? Q Lets say as a 39-year-old woman. A When
youre an actor, you cant really control when you get that
big job. Im glad Im here when I am. Q Whats the worst
audition youve ever had? A Oh God, where do I start?
There have been many. Its hard to walk into those rooms!
I once auditioned for something that wanted dancers.
Im not one, butI thought I should audition for it anyway?
They asked me to start on the ground and twirl up like a
flame. It was mortifying. I did a slow, very awkward one-
eighty and gently raised my hands up, and they looked at
me with their mouths open. Then it was: Thank you, bye!
KRISTEN WIIG
She was an SNL all-star in the tradition of Gilda, Tina, and Amy.
Now, with several roles opposite screen legends, Wiigs a box-
office-busting Hollywood sweetheart to boot
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WATCH IT!
BRIDESMAIDS, 2011 The famous
bridal-boutique scene came at a
good point in the movie, where
it could let out some of the air
after all the tension had built up.
Each character had her own little
moment to shineand we got to
destroy a beautiful set.
IMOGENE, 2013 When I met with
Annette Bening at the Bowery
Hotel with [directing duo] Shari
Springer Berman and Robert
Pulcini, it was nerve-racking. I just
wanted her to say yes! The scenes
we had together were some of the
best acting moments of my life.
ADVENTURELAND, 2009 Bill
Hader and [director] Greg Mottola
and I all decided on who these
characters were. It was a choice
we made together to play them as
two people who really shouldnt
be running a business, let alone
an amusement park.
KNOCKED UP, 2007 This was
my first time working with Judd
Apatow. He was behind the
monitor, and I was out there
improvising. Hed yell, Were
going to try to do her as bossy.
Now do her as a wallflower! Now
do her as passive-aggressive!
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, 20052012
After seven years, it becomes a
challenge to find new characters.
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hunching your shoulders in the
writers room and saying, I want
to write a lady who stands like
this. Who is she?
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A
seven-year-old girl travels slumped in her baby-
sitters arms, face sooty and sad eyes heavy, be-
ing lugged aimlessly through the crushing
Tijuana desert heat with neither home nor help
in sight. Shes too tired to be scared, but were terrified
for her. The same girl, now age 11 and a willowy 5'7",
ice-skates in slow circles while her father watches with
tenuous and bleary-eyed attention. But we cant take
our eyes off her. At 14, shes a copper-headed beatnik
in October 1962, protesting the bomb that could wipe
out a world shes barely had the chance to see.
Elle Fanning has grown up in movies. In fact, she
says, I cant really remember my life without mov-
ies. Fanning landed her first job at two years old on
the set of I Am Sam, starring her older sister, Dakota,
when the director needed someone to play the char-
acter in a flashback. When I watch it now, its like
looking through old baby photos. She then delivered
a series of her own small but virtuoso performances in
big-screen prestige piecesThe Door in the Floor, Babel,
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. (And in at least one
Smuckers TV spot. I had the best time on that com-
mercial, she says. I ate all those sandwiches.) But
it was her first starring role, at age nine, as a girl with
Tourettes syndrome in Phoebe in Wonderland, that made
critics take notice. Surrounded by indie heavyweights,
including Felicity Huffman and Patricia Clarkson, it
was Fanning who was praised as mesmerizing.
If she channels her charactersgirls struggling as
much with their own adolescence as with their dra-
matic circumstanceswith pitch-perfect authenticity,
its because she was never a typically precocious child
star. I liked that she was a real kid, not a miniature
adult, says Sofia Coppola, who cast Fanning as the
daughter of a half-present celebrity dad in 2010s Some-
where. Coppolas languid art-house style captured both
Fannings natural effervescence (that was really her
playing Guitar Hero) and her formidable wellspring
of emotion (during a pivotal scene in which Fannings
Cleo begins crying in her fathers Ferrari, Coppola
says she was surprised by how the girl was able to be
so emotional for so long filming on a car rig).
Fanning, 14, is in a studio outside London filming
Maleficent, the big-budget Sleeping Beauty tale told
from the perspective of the mother of all fairy-tale vil-
lains, played by Angelina Jolie. The complexities of the
production dont faze Fanning: Theres lots of green
screen, blue screen, every kind of screen you can think
of. You really have to use your imagination. But how
does she feel about her costar? Shes incredible, says
Fanning, barely getting the words out before bursting
into gawky teen-girl laughter. And shes so beautiful.
Super 8 writer-director J. J. Abrams is equally effu-
sive about Fanning, who played a sweet but rebellious
townie hunted by a mysterious otherworldly beast: She
was the most believable, the most intelligent, the most
sophisticated, the easiest to give notes to. Just the right fit
for the part. Pause. The right fit for most parts. (Hear
ye, casting agents.) But Fanningwho begins high
school in Los Angeles this year, and yes, she is nervous
about all that honors bio homeworkwould be the first
to tell you that it all takes keen effort. Before shooting
writer-director Sally Potters upcoming Ginger & Rosa,
in which Fanning plays the anxious teen antinuke pro-
tester, she says, we talked a lot about the script. You
have to talk about the story and the characters and all
the complexities so that you understand them100
percent, for sure, no questions, no doubtsbefore
you start filming. Then you can just go for it, play, and
change things up because you know the character.
Theres a scene in Super 8 in which Fannings
Alice agrees to act in her schoolmates film project.
She floors the film-nerd pack (and us) with a soulful
performance and then snaps them out of it with a self-
conscious Was that good? Here, life doesnt imitate
art: The real girl would never have to ask.N.A.
Q Of all the industry heavyweights youve worked
with, who was the most intimidating? A I was on the
set of Somewhere in Las Vegas when Sofia [Coppola] said,
My dads going to come to the set today! I was like, Oh
my God, Francis Ford Coppolas coming to the set. I was
very nervous to meet him. Now I feel like hes a grandpa
to me. During Twixt [a festival-circuit film Fanning later
shot with Coppola Sr.], I stayed in Napa Valley with him.
We made pasta, and he showed me how to prepare to-
mato sauce. Q Is it hard to have a normal childhood in
Hollywood? A Its no different, really. I make movies the
same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. Im
trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids
are trying to get better at what they want to do. Q Youve
worked with some amazing actresses. What have you
learned from them? A Its all about observing them. And
what Ive seen is how they treat everyone else on set, how
theyre always so polite and so nice. Q Who is your Holly-
wood icon? A I saw The Seven Year Itch at about seven
years old. Its part of what made me really want to be an
actress. That Halloween I was Marilyn Monroe in the white
dress, with the mole. I went to the vintage Levis store
in London yesterday, and they had denim from every
decade. The lady said that the 50s jeans were the ones
Marilyn Monroe used to wearnot the actual jeans, but
the same style. They were high-waisted, and they tapered
at the calf. Im still thinking about them. Maybe Ill get
them for Christmas. Then I can look like Marilyn Monroe.
ELLE FANNING
Shes a globe-trotting, genre-hopping, expectation-defying
screen gemand every directors dream. What more could
Elle Fanning want? To finish her bio homework, for starters
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GINGER & ROSA, 2012 It was
really interesting to hear about
the 60s from [director] Sally
Potter. The film is set around the
Cuban missile crisis. I cant even
imagine what it would be like if
with just one press of a button,
everything could be gone.
SOMEWHERE, 2010 We were in
Milan, in this huge hotel room
where [Soa Coppola] actually
stayed with her dad when she
was young. In those scenes,
we got to order all the room
serviceall the pastries and all
the cereal.
SUPER 8, 2011 We were all
supposed to be looking at the
spaceship blowing away. But we
were actually just looking at hot
pink gaffer tape on a poleand
being all emotional toward this
piece of tape!
PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND, 2009 I
played Phoebe, so this was my
rst big role. [Director] Daniel
Barnz is insanely creative.
Everything around you on set is
strategically placed; it all means
something. I just thought that
was so cool.
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN
BUTTON, 2008 I played Cate
Blanchetts daughter in Babel, and
then a young Cate Blanchett in
this. I got to meet her one time on
set when we were both lming on
the same day. She glowed. Just
glowed. Ill never forget that.
BABEL, 2006 We shot this in
the desert in Tijuana. Adriana
[Barraza] had to carry me through
that heatin heels. And I was a
tall child! I felt so bad. I had to
put all my weight on her, with my
legs dragging in the sand. But she
powered through every time.
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Her own shirt
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STEEL MAGNOLIAS, 1989 Bonded
girlfriends still after 24 years
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n 1977, when 40 was definitely not the new 30, Shir-
ley MacLaine, 43, was anointed as the L-word in the
iconic Blackglama ad campaign: What becomes a
Legend most? Beneath the question stood the an-
swer, swathed in a short mink, kicking an endless silk-
stockinged leg high above her head, laughing, as if to
say, Thanks for the coat, but Im not retiring.
Thirty-five years later the dancer, singer, actress,
author, and activist says, All the stuff Ive done in
my life, and my new identity is: Oh my God, Im on
Downton Abbey! The stuff includes 72 films, for
which she won six Academy Award nominations
(she took home the Oscar for 1983s Terms of Endear-
ment); an Emmy (Gypsy in My Soul ); and winning a
precedent-setting lawsuit against 20th Century Fox
that led to a California Supreme Court ruling that
ended the old-school studio management of stars.
And to think she wanted to be a ballerina. I could
do two pirouettes en pointe and all that, but I was feel-
ing the music and couldnt repress my emotional ex-
pression. My teacher said, Youre more of an actor
than a dancer. On Broadway at 19, MacLaine was
plucked from The Pajama Game and planted in Alfred
Hitchcocks The Trouble With Harry. From there, her
strong suit became naive, pixie-haired, heart-tugging
hookersin Some Came Running, Irma La Douce, Sweet
Charity10 endearing variations on the archetype, in
allprecursors to Julia Roberts Pretty Woman.
The best of the bunch was Billy Wilders classic
The Apartment, with MacLaine as a gamine, elevator-
operating mistress of a company bigwig. Its a movie
from 1960, so theres a stylistic acting thing going
on, but she has this realism thats amazing, says Ben
Stiller, who directed MacLaine as his characters
mother in the upcoming remake of The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty. It reminds me of when you watch Mar-
lon Brando in old movieseverybody else is acting
and hes just, like, totally real and present and very
modern. Shirley had that from a very young age.
After a five-year hiatus in the early 70s, during
which time she joined her brother, the actor War-
ren Beatty, in campaigning for George McGovern
and began writing (ever ahead of the curve) the first
of her 10 best-selling self-exploratory new age books,
the actress was transformed when she returned to the
screen. She transitioned from this wide-eyed, Whats
happening to me? character into this sage, says di-
rector Adam Shankman, a close friend. It was bril-
liant. She outsmarted Hollywood. The Turning Point,
Being There, Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias, and
Postcards From the Edge are Oscar-showered prestige
projects in which MacLaine is the emotional lodestar.
All of her history is there with her, observes Cam-
eron Diaz, MacLaines In Her Shoes costar. You know
what youre going to get with Shirley, in that you dont
know what youre going to get, but you know that
youre going to get what you need. You can depend
on her. How wonderful is that? Shankman speaks
for her huge audience when he says, Shes become a
touchstone for me. Im mad for her, just mad for her!
Someone recently told MacLaine that shes enter-
ing her Jessica Tandy phase. She liked that. Im hav-
ing a great time telling people how old I am, says the
78-year-old. I dont guess there are too many more
walking upright who can work, anyway. I dont com-
plain about a lack of roles, because for my age group, I
get them all. Her favorite? Aurora Greenway, the con-
trolling, loving mother to a rebellious, dying daughter
in Terms of Endearment. Its hard to believe MacLaine
was the last actress the films writer and director, James
L. Brooks, met for the part. I cast her on the spot, he
says. I remember her looking down and saying, This
could be important, this could be something.
Listen, Brooks adds. Its so weird that some-
bodys a legitimately great person, so strange that
someone has lived a unique life and been that talent-
ed in so many different areas, and hasand is hav-
ingone of the legendary acting careers. Where
everybody overstates everything, you canttheres
no way tooverstate her.H.M.
Q You were married for 30 years. A I stayed married so
I wouldnt marry my lovers. That was my strategy. I liked
[the marriage] I had. He was my best friend. He didnt com-
plain. I didnt complain about what he was doing. How can
it get better than that? Q You had on-set romances?
A Oh, come on! I fell in love with every costar except Larry
HarveyI couldnt stand him. Some, we had romance
and some, we didnt. Listen, you sit on a film set getting
to know each other, while the cameraman takes his time,
and its a more intimate experience than sometimes even a
marriage. Q Whos Larry Harvey? A He was some dumb
actor. [Editors note: Laurence Harvey was her costar
in 1961s Two Loves.] Q Is Jack Nicholson sexy in per-
son? A I find him funny and highly intelligent. Do I want to
sleep with him? No. Q Whats sexy? A Mystery. Q What
films have roles you regret turning down? A Breakfast at
Tiffanys and Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore. Q Is it true
you were the inspiration for Ellen Burstyns character in
The Exorcist? A [William Peter] Blatty wrote about some
of the channeling sessions that he and I and my daugh-
ter were having. Wed been interested in this otherworldly
stuff for years, and he went off and wrote The Exorcist.
Q What scares you? A Lightning. It would probably charge
me with an electricity that would make me understand all
truth. Then what would I do with that? A big part of my tal-
ent is my curiosity. Q You believe in reincarnation; youll
definitely come back. A Oh, I might be finished in this
world. Im interested in other worlds, too, remember.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
The secret to being soundly grounded and yet fabulously out
of this world? Infinite talent, a social conscience, and long legs
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BERNIE, 2011 Jack [Black] and
I laughed, drank (no booze), ate
(no calories), and improvised
every day.
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, 1983
Interpreters of the beginning of
Jim Brooks genius
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE,
1990 Meryl, my daughter, my
protective friend, my breath
taker with her talent
SWEET CHARITY, 1969 Leaping
with joy for Bob Fossethe
sixty-fourth take!
THE APARTMENT, 1960 I came in on
my days off to watch Jack [Lemmon]
and Billy Wilder work together.
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both, Bulgari, prices on request.
Aquamarine and diamond ring,
Dior Fine Jewelry, price on
request. Dotted socks, Falke, $24.
Leather boots, Cline, $1,250.
Colored Mongolian-goat-fur jacket,
Emporio Armani, $2,475, at Emporio
Armani boutiques nationwide. Silk shirt
with cotton poplin trim, Altuzarra,
$1,345. Silk georgette dress, Ralph
Lauren Collection, $2,598. Cotton lace
trousers, Stella McCartney, $1,545.
Emerald bead earrings with diamonds,
Bulgari, price on request. Pearl necklace
with carved green onyx pendant and
diamonds, Madhya Farooqui, price on
request. Crystal-trim Ayers snakeskin
bag, Chlo, $4,395. Leather boots,
Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquire,
$1,375. For details, see Shopping Guide.
Hair by Rolando Beauchamp for Bumble and
bumble at The Wall Group; makeup by Kabuki
for DiorShow at Kabukimagic.com; manicure
by Gina Edwards for Chanel at Kate Ryan
Inc.; prop styling by Juliet Jernigan for CLM;
produced on location by Jenny Landey at
JennyLandeyProductions.com; casting by
Anita Bitton at The Establishment; model:
Naty Chabanenko at Women Management NYC;
fashion assistant: Sarah Schussheim
Linen toile blouse, $3,178, pants,
$1,333, both, Chanel, at select
Chanel boutiques nationwide.
Stretch Ponte overcoat,
Altuzarra, $2,849. Sunglasses,
Cline, $350. Silk scarf,
Burberry Prorsum, $325. Rose
gold stud bracelet, Herms,
price on request. 18-karat-gold
watch, gold nail bracelet, both,
Cartier, prices on request.
Calfskin handbag, Derek Lam,
price on request. Alligator ankle
boots, Mauri, $600.
TAKE A BREAK FROM
FRILLY DRESSES AND
FUSSY EXTRAS WITH
THE SEASONS 70s-VIBE
MENSWEAR: SLOUCHY
PANTSUITS, SMART
SADDLE SHOES, AND
BOXY TRENCHES
PHOTOGRAPHED BY K T AUL E TA
STYLED BY K AT E L ANPHE AR
BIG
SIR
Viscose jacket, $2,555, pants,
$1,300, both, Stella McCartney,
at Stella McCartney, NYC. Crepe
de chine blouse, Belstaff, $895.
Cotton gabardine trench coat,
Burberry London, $1,395.
Calfskin belt, Longchamp, $160.
Canvas handbag, Gucci, $1,750.
Rose gold stud bracelet, rose
gold link bracelet, both, Herms,
prices on request. Silver and
gold ring, Gurhan, $525. For
Wool gabardine trench
coat, $2,550, jacket, $2,100,
pants, $690, all, Bottega
Veneta, at Bottega Veneta
boutiques nationwide. Silk
shirt, Equipment, $248.
Sunglasses, Mykita, $472.
Silk scarf, Southpaw
Vintage, price on request.
Leather belt, Linea Pelle
Collection, $165.
Sleeveless felt coat, price on request, chiffon
halter top, $595, stretch pants, $695, all,
Vera Wang Collection, at Vera Wang, West
Hollywood. Python trench coat, price on
request, python whipstitch belt, $1,490,
both, Salvatore Ferragamo. Python-print
viscose-blend turtleneck, Boss Orange,
$125. Oxidized silver necklace, Workhorse,
$343. Rose gold stud bracelet, rose gold link
bracelet, both, Herms, prices on request.
Silver and gold bracelet with ruby accents,
Elizabeth and James, $1,150. Leather
strap watch, Burberry, $1,795. Rose gold
and diamond ring, Meira T, $1,725. Silver
signet ring, Mannin, $375. Silver and gold
ring, Gurhan, $525. Oxidized silver ring,
Workhorse, $136. Leather, linen, and python
clutch, Narciso Rodriguez, $1,700. Water-
snake oxfords, Pierre Hardy, $895. For
Beauty Secret: For a modern, matte finish,
shake Redken Powder Grip 03 into palms
and work through hair, starting at the root, to
create messy-cool volume and texture.
Leather coat, $3,150, cotton-blend
pants, $395, both, Sportmax, at
Sportmax, NYC. Printed duchesse-
satin coat, Valentino, $4,290.
Cotton-blend blazer, Versace,
price on request. Silk scarf, Etro,
$400. Cobra handbag, Reed
Krakoff, $1,990. Alligator ankle
boots, Mauri, $600.
Viscose twill trench coat, $2,495, viscose
trousers, $950, both, Donna Karan New
York, collection at Neiman Marcus stores
nationwide. Silk pajama jacket, 3.1 Phillip
Lim, $750. Linen vest (worn under jacket),
Ralph Lauren Blue Label, $298. Wool-
blend scarf, Diesel Black Gold, $140. Gold
pocket-watch pendant, $4,400, gold locket
pendant, price on request, both, Monica
Rich Kosann. Rose gold stud bracelet,
rose gold link bracelet, both, Herms,
prices on request. Gold ring with diamonds,
Charlotte Bjorlin Delia, $1,050. Rose gold
and diamond ring, Meira T, $1,725. Silver
signet ring, Mannin, $375. Rose gold signet
ring, Zo Chicco, $1,276. Silver and gold
ring, Gurhan, $525. Oxidized silver ring,
Workhorse, $136. Python handbag, Chlo,
$3,795. Water-snake oxfords, Pierre Hardy,
$895. For details, see Shopping Guide.
Cotton twill trench coat, $3,250, sateen stretch-
cotton pants, $495, both, Belstaff, visit belstaff
.com. Silk shirt, Equipment, $228. Straw fedora,
Eugenia Kim, $295. Printed cotton scarf,
Burberry Prorsum, $325. Leather cross-body
bag, Burberry, $1,095. Honey quartz pocket-
watch pendant, Monica Rich Kosann, price
on request. Rose gold stud bracelet, rose gold
link bracelet, both, Herms, prices on request.
18-karat-gold watch, Cartier, price on request.
Citrine and diamond bracelet, Beladora.com,
$3,550. Gold ring with diamonds, Charlotte
Bjorlin Delia, $1,050. Rose gold and diamond
ring, Meira T, $1,725. Silver signet ring, Mannin,
$375. Rose gold signet ring, Zo Chicco, $1,276.
Leather oxfords, Muffys, $120.
Stretch-cotton jacket, $1,390, silk
armure crepe pants, $950, both, Gucci,
at select Gucci stores nationwide. Wool
trench coat, Chlo, $2,595. Sunglasses,
Cline, $350. Printed silk scarf,
Burberry Prorsum, $325. Rose gold
signet ring, Zo Chicco, $1,276. Citrine
and diamond bracelet, Beladora.com,
$3,550. Polished stainless-steel watch,
Tag Heuer, $2,600. Leather fringe bag,
Salvatore Ferragamo, $2,600. For
Hair by Yoichi Tomizawa for Shu Uemura at
Art-dept.com; makeup by Zenia Jaeger for YSL
at The Wall Group; manicure by Kim DAmato for
PritiNYC at Rona Represents; plant styling by
Fox Fodder Farm; produced by Kate Kittredge
at Wildcat NYC; casting by Noah Shelley for
AM Casting (Streeters NY); model: Zuzanna
Stankiewicz at Supreme; fashion assistant:
Kristen Shirley
Rashida Jones wears a
leather top, Calvin Klein
Collection, price on request,
at Calvin Klein Collection,
NYC. Felt hat, Dolce &
Gabbana, $595. Sterling
silver curb chain bracelet,
David Yurman, $950. Yellow
gold and diamond bangle,
Phillips House, $2,695.
Brit Marling wears a jersey
halterdress, Calvin Klein
Collection, $1,295, at Calvin
Klein Collection, NYC.
Nylon-blend socks, Fogal,
$21. Patent leather ats, Dr.
Martens, $130. For details,
see Shopping Guide.
SICK OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL (OR SIMPLY
NO-DIMENSIONAL) FEMALE CHARACTERS,
WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD ARE WRITING
THEIR OWN MOVIES AND GETTING THEM
MADE. RASHIDA JONES, ZOE KAZAN, AND
BRIT MARLING LEAD THE WRITERS
BRIGADE. BY RACHEL ABRAMOWITZ
PHOTOGRAPHED BY BRUNO STAUB STYLED BY K AT E L ANPHE AR
THE
PLAYERS
Zoe Kazan, Marling, and Jones
wear cotton poplin shirts, Calvin
Klein Collection, $550 each, at
Calvin Klein Collection, NYC. For
Kazan wears a knit cross-
back dress, Calvin Klein
Collection, $1,150, at Calvin
Klein Collection, NYC. For
Hair by Marcus Francis at The
Wall Group; makeup by Jeannia
Robinette for Tracey Mattingly;
manicure by Ashlie Johnson
for Chanel at The Wall Group;
shot at the Tower Rooftop at
Siren Studios Hollywood; fashion
assistant: Sarah Schussheim
Z
oe Kazan was walking home from work one night in
Brooklyn when the writer and actress mistook a manne-
quin lying in a pile of trash for a live woman. It scared me.
For some reason, I flashed on Pygmalion, says Kazan, 29.
She went to sleep that night, let her subconscious work on
it, and woke up with the seeds of Ruby Sparks, her subver-
sive feminist take on the classic tale of a man trying to
craft the perfect womanand the first movie Kazan has
written. For a woman, that myth speaks in a different
way, she says. I felt that the experience of being in a re-
lationship and being put on a pedestal is lonely. You feel the love is
not about you, but an idealized you. It feels nothing like love at all.
Kazan is telling a story of the roles that have been available for
women, written largely by men, in film: either on a pedestal, or as
the one-dimensional, paper-thin girlfriend or wife, as newcomer
Brit Marling puts itor at the wrong end of a meat cleaver. Marling
was a recent Georgetown grad struggling to make it as an actress
when she finally landed a role in a horror film and had an existen-
tial crisis. It was one of those torture-porn movies. Just empty, nihil-
ist stuff, she says. I [couldnt] imagine some young girl watching it
and being remotely okay with all the imagery. I thought, Even if Im
broke, I couldnt do that.
So Marling, like Kazan and Rashida Jones, all photographed
here, went off and wrote her own material. Jones, 36, a star of Parks
and Recreation, cowrote and stars in the summers rom-com-busting
Celeste and Jesse Forever. Marling, 30, cowrote and stars in not one but
two sci-fi explorations, Another Earth and Sound of My Voice, and most
recently cowrote and costars with Alexander Skarsgrd in the up-
coming eco-terrorist thriller The East.
All are part of a wave of young women writer-directors reinvigo-
rating roles for women in Hollywood: Lynn Shelton wrote and di-
rected Your Sisters Sister; Jennifer Westfeldt, Friends With Kids; Sarah
Polley, Take This Waltz; and Julie Delpy, 2 Days in New York (a sequel
to her riotous 2 Days in Paris). Beasts of the Southern Wild, possibly the
most sui generis movie in years and starring a six-year-old actress
plucked from the bayou, was based on a play by Lucy Alibar and
cowritten by her and director Benh Zeitlin. And yes, the summer
birthed two daughters of Bridesmaids: the comedies For a Good Time,
Call, about a pair of frenemies who run a phone-sex business,
written by Katie Anne Naylon and Lauren Anne Miller (and star-
ring Miller and Ari Graynor); and Bachelorette, by playwright Les-
lye Headland, which explores the nastiness that can happen when
a group of grown up mean girls reunite for the wedding of the least
popular among them.
These women all seized the tools of production. This is a lot harder
to do than that sentence implies. I had wanted to write for a long
time and had been too intimidated by the process of writing and the
title of writer to actually do it, says Jones. It felt ridiculous to start
a new career in your thirties. Still, she took the plunge, co writing
Celeste and Jesse with her friend Will McCormack. In the film (about
Celeste, who outgrows her husband, Jesse, played by Andy Sam-
berg), Were telling a story of a woman who is clearly not perfect
and may be a little unlikable, Jones says. It doesnt have a Holly-
wood ending.
Jones refused to simply sell the script to companies that wouldnt
let her star in it. I just pictured someone else doing it, and it made
me very sad, [so] I begged everyone I knew to fund Celeste and Jesse.
She knew a lot of peopleher father is mega-record-producer
Quincy Jones, and her mother is The Mod Squad icon Peggy Lipton.
But even so, she had to stump like many an indie aspirant for in-
vestors, and the budget for Celeste and Jesse was less than a million
dollarstiny by Hollywood fanboy-spectacle standards. We used
my clothes, my house, my car, Jones says with a laugh. In Marlings
Sound of My Voice, a tale about an investigation into a cult led by a
woman who claims to be from the future, the filmmakers didnt even
have a professional movie camera. It was shot on a Canon 5D. Its a
[digital single-lens reflex] camera, and it has a video function, says
Marling, who plays the cult leader. I dont think Canon thought
people were going to make a feature film using this camera.
In an environment where a movies earnings at the box office
carry far more weight than if its actually good, and where big-
budget filmmaking remains stubbornly male-oriented, with a focus
on comic book fare or male-topped action adventures that perform
well internationally, these women have to be laudednot just for
their talent, but for their tenacity and their frugality. Each movie on
the above list cost less than $10 million to make, and many were
made for under a million.
The dream may be Juno and Bridesmaidsthe former by stripper
turned screenwriter Diablo Cody, shot for $7.5 million, grossing
$231 million worldwide, and winning Cody an Oscar; the latter
cowritten by Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, grossing $287 mil-
lion, and earning Oscar nominations for Wiig and Mumolo and ac-
tress Melissa McCarthy. But even Kazan, who has been on Broad-
way, has appeared in such movies as Revolutionary Road and Its
Complicated, and is the daughter of successful screenwriters and a
granddaughter of legendary director Elia Kazan, says, Ive been
told no at the beginning of everything Ive ever done.
Ruby Sparks was no exception. When shed finished the first 15
pages of her screenplay, she showed it to her boyfriend, actor Paul
Dano. He asked if I was writing it for us, recalls Kazan, who hadnt
thought about it until that moment. It suddenly seemed totally clear,
and from that point on, we were the only people I wanted to play
these roles. When she and Dano convinced Valerie Faris and Jon-
athan Dayton, who codirected Little Miss Sunshine, to direct Ruby
Sparks, Kazan got what she wanted.
A
ll these new voices are emerging at a time when women auteurs
are definitely having a pop-culture moment.
Book authors J. K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, and Suzanne
Collins have launched Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games,
global juggernauts all. Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift have sent mil-
lions of mostly female fans berserk. In TV (whose audience is dom-
inated by women), the past two years have been good to young
women creators, especially in comedy, where Tina Fey has blazed
a trail. The recent It Girls of the airwaves? Thirty-one-year-old Liz
Meriwether, creator of Foxs New Girl, and 26-year-old Lena Dun-
ham, creator and star of the HBO series Girls.
Whats great about the technological and cultural advances of
the past few years is that women are no longer waiting for the per-
mission of a cabal of multinational corporations (i.e., the studios) to
make their films. The cable channels, and even major networks, are
open to female-oriented stories, and if you can fund your film via
private investors or even a friends-and-family plan, there are vari-
ous film festivals to go forand, increasingly, video on demand.
Says Kazan, Screenwriters like my mother [Robin Swicord, Mem-
oirs of a Geisha] and Nora Ephron and Callie Khouri, the women
who went before, all the way back to Ruth Gordonthey faced a lot
more sexism than weve had to face. Ephron went out of her way
to praise and mentor Dunham, and conjuring one of their lunch
dates is like a window onto the evolution, diversity, and commer-
cial potential of narratives written by women.
That said, weve got a long way to go, baby. According to re-
search done by Martha Lauzen, PhD, a professor at San Diego State
University, women accounted for just 18 percent of the behind-the-
scenes talent (directors, writers, producers, cinematographers, and
editors) on last years 250 domestic top-grossing films. While the
percentage of female writers improved from 10 percent in 2010 to
14 percent a year later, the percentage of female directors (5 per-
cent) dropped to half of what it was in 1998. I appreciate the fact
that there is a trend of the female-centric and of women writing in-
teresting, dynamic parts, Jones says. The more this phenomenon
can not be a trend, and just the new normal the better.
T
his is so great that we are in a mall! exclaims Guillaume
Henry. The 33-year-old Paris-based designer has just walked
into a restaurant inside The Shops at Columbus Circle, a
sleek cluster of stores in the first few floors of Manhattans
megaluxe Time Warner Center skyscraper. Its not exactly the
kind of place where youd find a Contempo Casuals or a Cin-
nabon, but when Henry puts this spin on itmall just sounds so
wrong in a French accentsuddenly this journalist is extremely
embarrassed by her choice of venue.
Then again, coming from Henry, a comment on a places
lack of exclusivity is likely meant as a sincere compliment: In
2009, when Henry took over as creative director of Carven,
a once-leading French couture house that had fallen almost
completely off the fashion map, his first order of business was
severing ties with Frances prestigious Chambre Syndicale de
la Haute Couture, where its not unheard of for members to
spend a week beading the train of a single dress. Henrys new
vision for Carvensporty French schoolgirl basics with just
a hint of irreverence (a kicky Peter Pan collar here, a flirty
peplum there)took off, and, within just a few seasons, the
brand has become a favorite of fashion editors, an in-demand
commodity at department stores, and a hit with celebs such as
Beyonc, Blake Lively, and Kaya Scodelario, alum of the Brit-
ish version of Skins (at left), whose fresh-faced insouciance is
a perfect complement to the clothes. [Carven] is like a great
salad, Henry says. It shouldnt have to be something that
takes nine hours to prepare; it can be just as delicious by get-
ting the best ingredients.
That might seem like a complete departure for a house built
on custom-made designs, but Henrys attitude is very much in
line with the spirit of the original Carven. It was founded in
1945 by Madame Carmen de Tommaso, a Parisian housewife
who was frustrated because she couldnt find clothes to fit her
tiny 5'1" frame. Ready-to-wear as we know it didnt exist, but
Mme Carven, as she was commonly known, found inventive
tactics to make her designs wearable, like using simple cotton
for evening dresses. Carven wasnt born out of fantasy; it was
born out of need, says Henry. Over the following decades, the
house grew into a global success with a best-selling fragrance,
Ma Griffe. But in the late 80s, the brand began to lose its way,
a process that only accelerated after Mme Carven sold the busi-
ness in 1994. (Shes a remarkable 103 today.)
Until, that is, a friend texted Henry, then a designer at Paule
Ka, with a supposedly innocuous question: What did he think
of Carven? He could have asked me whether I liked a movie,
he recalls. I said, Theyre great; I love them, but they should
maybe stop haute couture and do [casual] dresses. Unbe-
knownst to Henry, his friend would show this response to Car-
vens CEO, businessman Henri Sebaoun, and the rest is history.
In person, Henry, who hails from a small village in north-
eastern France, is every inch the consummate Frenchmanthe
dashing 50s film version. Hes got dreamy blue eyes and a scarf
tied chicly around his neck, and he speaks in charmingly ac-
cented English. While Henry insists his upbringing was far
from fashionableAside from my parents, my entire family
are farmershe says it was impossible not to be exposed to
design in a country where haute couture was covered on the
evening news. In France, couture is like wine and cheese, he
says. After graduating from secondary school, Henry studied
at Paris Institut Franais de la Mode and worked at Givenchy,
before eventually landing at Paule Ka.
While most would describe Henrys designs as classically
Gallicone could imagine Franoise Hardy in one of his turtle-
neck minidressesthe designer begs to differ. I have no idea
but apparently there is a Parisian style, he says. Instead, Henry
describes the Carven customer as the girl you want to talk to.
She isnt too intimidating, and you shouldnt be afraid of her.
Carvens fall collection includes cotton poplin button-down
blouses ($390) and long-sleeve violet crepe de chine dresses
($660). Not exactly cheap, but very reasonable compared with
peers like Proenza Schouler and Thakoon, whose separates
often go past the three-figure mark. Sometimes I even think
Carven is too expensive, Henry admits. When Im with the
commercial team, they tell me a dress is $1,000 retail, and Im
superconfused because its so limited in terms of audience. I
dont want to create any frustration.
The only frustration so far, though, seems to be how to get
more of it. When Barneys Co-op opened its Brooklyn outpost
in 2010, Carven was one of the first lines to sell out. During a
speech at a fashion-industry dinner, Natalie Massenet, founder
of Net-a-Porter (one of the first retailers to carry Carven in the
U.S.), compared Henry to a young Yves Saint Laurent.
Though he deflects that kind of praise (I really appreciate it,
but lets wait), Henry clearly has big plans for the future. Al-
ready he has expanded into menswear and eyewear, is opening
his first U.S. boutique, in New York, early next year (there are
ones in Paris, Hong Kong, and Singapore), and says fragrance
plans are in the air. Once you have the concept of the brand in
mind, you should be able to do anything, says Henry. Id like
to create plates, cakes, I dont care. (In fact, Henry already has
the pastry part downhe teamed up with Ladure on a line of
special-edition macarons in 2009.)
But first, says Henry, who after an hour is taking the last bites
of his mall meal, Id like to stop in J.Crew.
FRENCH OPEN
In the three years since he was named creative director of Carven,
Guillaume Henry has revived the sleepy couture house into one of
fashionsand young Hollywoodsmost in-demand ready-to-wear
labels. But according to the designer, hes just getting started.
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THE DRUG WAR
research results. [Glaxo]* cancelled our proj-
ect 1059 (long-term panic disorder study).
Reason: the side effect data analysis was terri-
bly unfavorable to our favorite antidepressant.
And we hate when that happens! Asked for
comment, Glaxo did not respond.
In a switch pharmaceutical companies
have lobbied for, the letter categories will
soon be dropped. Instead of seeing, for exam-
ple, a Category D on Paxils label, doctors will
find a long summary of the medical literature.
Critics of the new system fear that physicians
will be overwhelmed by the mountain of de-
tail and simply wont read the new statements,
but FDA official Lisa Mathis, MD, (who has
since left the FDA) defends the change as a
means to increase the judicious use of medi-
cation.
A
mong those arguing that SSRIs are rela-
tively harmless to unborn childrenand
depression quite perniciousare a fair
number of doctors who are paid by phar-
maceutical companies to act as consultants,
conduct clinical trials, and serve on speakers
bureaus. Drug companies refer to the physi-
cians they tap for such roles as thought lead-
ers or key opinion leaders (KOLs), and the
management of the discourse around a drug
is important enough to the industry that just
under a third of their marketing budgets are
spent on so-called KOLs, according to a 2004
study of the 15 largest pharmaceutical makers.
Such ties between drug companies and
physicians, which have attracted increas-
ing suspicion and criticism in recent years,
also complicate the risk-benefit analysis of
taking an SSRI during pregnancy. JAMA,
for instance, was forced to print a correction
to the study that found a higher depression-
relapse rate among women who stopped tak-
ing antidepressants during pregnancy versus
those who didnt after discovering that seven
of its 13 authors, including lead author Lee S.
Cohen, had failed to disclose that they were
funded in some capacity by the pharmaceuti-
cal industry (including Glaxo and other mak-
ers of SSRIs)in this case, there were more
than 60 unreported conflicts.
When I called the main expert witness for
Glaxo in Lyams case, Anthony Scialli, MD,
to ask him how he saw his connections to the
drug industries, he quickly replied, Well, I
dont have any connections to the drug indus-
tries. I only prescribe generic drugs, which are
not promoted, and I dont meet with drug reps
and I dont read drug advertising and I dont
go to pharmaceutical-company-sponsored
programs. So I suppose I could be influenced,
but it would be kind of hard. Theyd probably
have to put a billboard up outside my apart-
ment.
Scialli runs a popular online database
called Reprotox that health-care providers
can consult to see if a particular substance is
harmful to the fetus. Reprotoxs take on the
impact of SSRIs is unalarmist: While the SSRIs
Paxil, Zoloft, and Prozac are associated with
mild, transient cases of neonatal syndrome,
none affect fetal brain developmentunlike
maternal depression, the site warns. Con-
genital heart defects have been linked to Paxil
and Prozac, Reprotox continues, but incon-
sistently. (Over the years, Scialli testified at
Lyams trial, I have presented to people the
evidence that has been available, and it has
been changing somewhat over the years, but
the evidence has always been inconsistent,
and so over the years I have been able to tell
people that the best evidence shows that Paxil
does not cause birth defects.)
I do consulting for drug companies on
the effects of drugs during pregnancy, he
continued on the phone when I pressed him
about conflicts of interest in medicine. The
drug company is coming to me asking that
question; theyre not coming to me saying,
Would you whitewash our drug? A for-
mer KOL, Scialli is a consultant for dozens of
pharmaceutical makers (No idea, he said,
when asked how many exactly). When I asked
him specifically about SSRIs, he told me he
couldnt talk about it: Because Im involved
in litigation with SSRIs.
Thomas Sadler, PhD, an adjunct professor
at the University of Utah, is far less sanguine
about drug industry clout. In fact, he left the
Teratology Society, the fields professional or-
ganization, over the issue. A former editor of
the societys journal, which front-line doctors
can consult for guidance about so-called tera-
togenic agents (everything from certain pre-
scription drugs to environmental toxins like
mercury), Sadler said drug companies were
relentless in their efforts to inundate the jour-
nal with negative findingsthat is, to publish
studies showing that their products caused
no adverse impacts on pregnancy. A fellow
scientist used to say, How can a society who
goes to bed with the people who make the te-
ratogens actually do teratology? he recalled.
At one meeting in 1998 to determine the
direction of the Teratology Society, Sadler re-
members, a major action point was for the
organization to rid itself of pharmaceutical-
industry connections and become strictly
research oriented. The leaders [at the time]
were people who had closer ties to the drug
companies, he continued. And they didnt
want that. The leaders prevailed, he said.
Sadler became interested in antidepres-
sants in the late 80s through a fellow devel-
opmental biologist, Jean Lauder, PhD, whod
been studying Prozac and the role of sero-
tonin on neurological development. Lo and
behold, we started seeing some abnormalities
in our [mouse] embryos, Sadler said. No one
had ever published or talked about that fact,
so it kind of caught [Eli] Lilly by surprise.
Sadler, with Lauder, was the first to present
findings at a Teratology Society meeting in-
dicating that SSRIs might cause birth defects.
Sadler acknowledges that the absolute risk
of birth defects is small, but he says its a hard
thing, because at some point it starts to add
up. And then you think about 100,000 kids in
a state being born and 1,000 of them having
a heart birth defect, and then you introduce
SSRIs into the mix and youve got 1,500. And
this happens every year, so that in 10 years
there are an additional 5,000 kids with heart
defects that should not have them. When does
it get to mean something? Sadler is refer-
ring to both lethal and nonlethal heart birth
defects, but he has a point: Even if the risk is
tiny for any one individual, for a population
it can add up, especially as more women take
the medication.
So what is an expectant mother to do?
Again, theres really no question that women
with major depression should seriously con-
sider staying on their meds, or starting them
if need be. Pharmacological fixes for milder
cases are the rub, and a womans choice
ultimately depends on whose argument she
decides to credit. Koren says that depression
is a bear of an illness that threatens mother
and child, even when its not classified as ma-
jor. [The mothers] quality of life is very low.
She may not be thinking of taking her life, but
she may be very anxious. Too much has been
made of the risks of SSRIs, he insists. Theres
a lot of quackery in this field. Its a national
sport to scare pregnant women.
Even the Israeli researcher who coau-
thored the study showing a three- and fivefold
higher risk of heart defects among the babies
of women who took Paxil and Prozac seemed
to downplay the dangers to children exposed
to SSRIs. Many heart anomalies can now be
treated, he said after the study was released.
On the other side, Adam C. Urato, MD, a
maternal-fetal specialist at Tufts Medical Cen-
ter in Boston, rails against the ease with which
SSRI prescriptions are handed out to expect-
ant mothers. The conventional wisdom has
been that depression is like diabetes and de-
pressed pregnant women need to stay on their
antidepressants just like pregnant diabetics
need to take their insulin, he wrote in Com-
monHealth. And this counseling gets repeated
on a daily basis in doctors offices around the
globe and in news reports on this topic. The
problem is that it just isnt true.
A particular irony for those opposed to
the proliferation of antidepressant use during
pregnancy: The scientific data seem to dem-
onstrate that SSRIs work to quell major de-
pression but theyre no better than a placebo
in mild to moderate cases.
L
yam is now six years old. He loves the scar
from the drainage tube that he has on his
chest because, as he told David, the three
slits make him look like a shark. Last win-
ter, David texted me to say that Lyam was back
in the hospital for a week because his aorta had
started to collapse and his surgeon had to in-
sert a stent. Doctors have warned her that af-
ter Lyams upcoming open-heart surgery, he
may lose the ability to identify letters and col-
ors, because the total bypass it requires slows
the brain. At his cardiologists office, David
saw the panicked expression on her sons face
as his doctor spoke of surgery. As a mom, even
if your kid just bumps their leg David said,
trailing off as she started to cry again. Id be
terrified if I had to have open-heart surgery.
Lyam may need to have a fourth surgery
around the time he turns 18, but his doc-
tor thinks it will be his last. He will need to
see a cardiologist regularly for the rest of his
life, and he wont be able to play soccer and
contact sports, but otherwise he should live a
normal life.
David still has mild anxiety, but she now re-
lies on meditation to cope with it. She wishes
shed been told about the risks of SSRIs and
believes that stronger warnings are impera-
tive. In terms of a risk versus benefit, I dont
think [Paxil] was effective, she told me. I had
a lot more anxiety after my son was born.
This article was reported in partnership with The
Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute.
*At the time, the drug was manufactured by Glaxos predecessor in interest, SmithKline Beecham.
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nationwide, call 866-VUITTON or visit louisvuitton.com.
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Necklace by Harry Winston, visit harrywinston.com.
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220: Items by Akris, collection at Akris boutiques nationwide,
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at Vera Wang (NYC), call 212-382-2184. Earrings by Anzie,
collection at select Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide,
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Prada, at select Prada boutiques nationwide, visit prada.com.
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necklace, $25,750, by Madyha Farooqui, visit madyhafarooqui
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at select Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide, call 310-
271-4688 or visit tonyduquette.com. Rings by David Webb,
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vancleef-arpels.com. Pendant by Patricia von Musulin, call 212-
206-8345 or visit patriciavonmusulin.com. Page 357: Jacket,
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or visit michaelkors.com. Shorts by Vera Wang Collection, at
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(NYC, Beverly Hills), call 310-858-8006 or visit davidwebb
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Pumps by Manolo Blahnik, collection at Ikram (Chicago), call
312-587-1000. Pages 358359: Turtleneck by Tracy Reese, at
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Prada boutiques nationwide, visit prada.com. Hat by Lola
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Fifth Avenue stores nationwide, call 310-271-4688 or visit
tonyduquette.com. Enamel ring, $24,500, coral ring, $36,000,
by David Webb, at David Webb (NYC, Beverly Hills), call
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call 212-879-9100. Page 360: Vest, $19,800, dress, iPad case,
$5,880, by Fendi, call 212-759-4646. Shirt by Prada, at select
Prada boutiques nationwide, visit prada.com. Skirt by Stella
McCartney, at Stella McCartney (NYC, L.A.), call 212-255-
1556. Earrings, $94,000, ring, $97,000, by Dior Fine Jewelry,
at Dior boutiques nationwide, call 800-929-DIOR. Necklace
by Patricia von Musulin, $7,000, call 212-206-8345 or visit
patriciavonmusulin.com. Brooch by Tony Duquette, $28,000,
at select Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide, call 310-271-
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pamelamann.co.uk. Mules by Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquire,
similar styles at Balenciaga (NYC), call 212-206-0872. Page
361: Jacket by Louis Vuitton, $32,300, call 866-VUITTON or
visit louisvuitton.com. Jacket, pants by Gucci, at select Gucci
stores nationwide, visit gucci.com. Shirt by Prada, at select
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at Herms stores nationwide, call 800-441-4488 or visit
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nationwide, call 800-274-1815 or visit brooksbrothers.com.
Sunglasses by Linda Farrow Luxe, visit lindafarrowgallery
.com. Earrings by Madyha Farooqui, visit madyhafarooqui
.com. Necklace by Van Cleef & Arpels, call 877-VAN-CLEEF
or visit vancleef-arpels.com. Brooches by M.C.L by Matthew
Campbell Laurenza, collection at select Neiman Marcus stores
nationwide, visit mcldesign.net. Shoes by Chanel, at select
Chanel boutiques nationwide, call 800-550-0005. Page 362:
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Bottega Veneta, at Bottega Veneta boutiques nationwide, call
212-371-5511 or visit bottegaveneta.com. Hat by Michael Kors,
at select Michael Kors stores nationwide, call 866-709-KORS.
Earrings by Madyha Farooqui, $19,750, visit madyhafarooqui
.com. Necklace by Van Cleef & Arpels, call 877-VAN-CLEEF
or visit vancleef-arpels.com. Rings by Bulgari, at Bulgari stores
nationwide, call 800-BULGARI or visit bulgari.com. Ring
by Dior Fine Jewelry, $56,000, at Dior boutiques nationwide,
call 800-929-DIOR. Socks by Falke, at The Sock Hop (NYC).
Boots by Cline, collection at Barneys New York. Page 363:
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Neiman Marcus stores nationwide. Dress by Ralph Lauren
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ralphlaurencollection.com. Trousers by Stella McCartney, at
Stella McCartney (NYC, L.A.), call 212-255-1556. Earrings
by Bulgari, at Bulgari stores nationwide, call 800-BULGARI
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nationwide. Boots by Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquire, at
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stores nationwide, call 800-441-4488 or visit hermes.com. Ring
by Gurhan, at select Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide. Page
366: Trench, jacket, pants by Bottega Veneta, call 212-371-5511
or visit bottegaveneta.com. Shirt by Equipment, at Equipment
(NYC), call 646-371-9703. Sunglasses by Mykita, visit mykita
.com. Scarf by Southpaw Vintage, at Southpaw Vintage
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602-0174. Coat, $14,300, belt, $1,490, by Salvatore Ferragamo,
at Salvatore Ferragamo boutiques nationwide, call 800-628-
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by Workhorse, visit workhorsejewelry.com. Bracelets by Herms,
$6,800$7,250, at Herms stores nationwide, call 800-441-
4488 or visit hermes.com. Watch by Burberry, visit burberry
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.com. Ring by Meira T, visit meiratboutique.com. Ring by
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Ring by Gurhan, at Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide. Clutch
by Narciso Rodriguez, at Barneys New York stores. Oxfords by
Pierre Hardy, visit pierrehardy.com. Page 368: Coat, pants by
Sportmax, call 212-674-1817. Coat by Valentino, at Valentino
boutiques nationwide, visit valentino.com. Blazer by Versace, at
select Versace boutiques nationwide, call 888-721-7219. Shawl
by Etro, at select Etro boutiques nationwide, visit etro.com.
Bag by Reed Krakoff, visit reedkrakoff.com. Boots by Mauri,
at Cellini Uomo (NYC), call 212-219-8657. Page 369: Trench,
trousers by Donna Karan New York, at Donna Karan New York
stores nationwide. Jacket by 3.1 Phillip Lim, at Kirna Zabte
(NYC), visit 31philliplim.com. Vest by Ralph Lauren Blue Label,
at select Ralph Lauren stores nationwide, visit ralphlauren
.com. Scarf by Diesel Black Gold, visit diesel.com. Bracelets by
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800-441-4488 or visit hermes.com. Ring by Charlotte Bjorlin
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visit zoechicco.com. Ring by Mannin, call 323-987-5023 or visit
manninfinejewelry.com. Ring by Meira T, visit meiratboutique
.com. Ring by Gurhan, at select Saks Fifth Avenue stores
nationwide. Ring by Workhorse, visit workhorsejewelry.com.
Bag by Chlo, to special order at Chlo boutiques nationwide.
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cartier.com. Bracelet from Beladora.com, call 800-680-9569.
Ring by Charlotte Bjorlin Delia, visit store.charlottebjorlindelia
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Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide. Shoes by Muffys, call
866-524-5050 or visit muffys.com. Page 371: Jacket, pants
by Gucci, visit gucci.com. Coat by Chlo, at Chlo boutiques
nationwide. Sunglasses by Cline, at Cline (NYC). Scarf
by Burberry Prorsum, visit burberry.com. Bag by Salvatore
Ferragamo, at Salvatore Ferragamo boutiques nationwide, call
800-628-8916. Bracelet from Beladora.com, call 800-680-9569.
Watch by Tag Heuer, at Tag Heuer boutiques nationwide, call
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visit zoechicco.com.
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Page 372: Top by Calvin Klein Collection, call 212-292-9000.
Hat by Dolce & Gabbana, at select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques
nationwide, call 877-70-DG-USA or visit dolcegabbana.com.
Bracelet by David Yurman, at David Yurman Townhouse
(NYC), call 212-752-4255. Bangle by Phillips House, at
Elements (Chicago). Page 373: Dress by Calvin Klein Collection,
call 212-292-9000. Socks by Fogal, at Fogal (NYC), visit fogal
.com. Flats by Dr. Martens, visit drmartens.com. Pages 374375:
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The month starts with you rededicating
yourself to health and fitness goals
certainly a good idea before the
holidaysfollowing a particularly
exhausting full moon on October 29th.
For an extra boost of motivation, look
to the solar eclipse on the 13th, which
will also inspire more self-confidence
and optimism. For single Sagittarians,
such positivity will go a long way
toward meeting someone new during
Novembers first week, when Venus
tours your social-friendship sector.
At the same time, Mars in your sign
gives added luster, and starting on the
21st, the Sun lovingly favors you for
four weeks. If coupled, the 28ths full-
moon lunar eclipse will appear in your
opposite sign of Gemini and bring the
need for a decision about your closest
partner. Dont be concerned, though,
for Jupiter is conjoined, so chances are
this will be a time of excitement.
CAPRICORN (Dec 22Jan 19)
Youve worked hard in your career lately,
and with Mercury set to retrograde from
the 6th to the 26th, its time to relax and
have fun instead of trying to advance
projects and initiatives. Focus on romance,
which will surely beckon. This loving and
social trend will intensify at the new-moon
solar eclipse on the 13th, when youll find
yourself in new places among new people,
a few of whom youll definitely want to
know better. And theyll want to know
you, for when Mars moves into Capricorn
on the 16th, youll shine brightly as you
start to notice your life becoming more
gratifying and exciting. Sit back and
observe these changing conditions, since
reflecting will be more beneficial than
reacting. At the lunar eclipse on the 28th,
youll pick up a plum client or coveted
assignment at work that will require a lot
of attention. Focus all youve got there.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20Feb 18)
October 29ths full moon brought with
it a decision about a living situation,
and if youre still dealing with that as
November dawns, know that it will settle
soon. Saturn is now in your professional
sector, meaning youll buckle down with
work responsibilities. By the solar eclipse
on the 13th, youll not only excel with
assignments but also be appropriately
rewarded for your efforts, since Neptune,
going direct on the 11th, will continue
to work to get you what you deserve.
But be wary of offers or contracts, as
Mercury is retrograde from the 6th to
the 26th. In romance, the month will be
quiet until youre gobsmacked by the
lunar eclipse on the 28th. Conjoined with
Jupiter, it will set your true-love house
ablaze, and you may either crystallize
your feelings in a new relationship
or, if you havent been dating, meet
someone with exciting potential. How
rapidly and intensely it all happens will
surprise but also entirely delight you.
PISCES (Feb 19Mar 20)
Mars is still touring your house of
fame and honors, a trend that started
on October 6th and continues until
November 15th. You can get the attention
of VIPs, but you must show your
intent now. Still, mind that Mercury is
ELLE HOROSCOPE
SCORPIO (Oct 23Nov 21)
With Neptune, Mercury, the Sun, and a new-moon eclipse on the
13th all in Scorpio, youll be a formidable force in November, ready
to attack any and all endeavors with gusto. First up will be making a
commitment either in loveyou could move in together or promise
exclusivityor in a professional sense, when you form a partnership
or engage in project-oriented collaborations. As exciting as either
seems, remember, Mercury is retrograde from the 6th to the
26th, so avoid firm agreements until this months two eclipses are
over. The 13ths will open a door to a new opportunity that will light
various areas of your lifeprivate and public. Dont be surprised if
you find yourself setting off in an adventurous new direction. The
second, a lunar full moon on the 28th, may bring generous financial
news, thanks to Jupiters prominence. In romance, Neptune, ruler
of your love house, will go direct on the 11th, bringing some long-
needed oomph to your dating life, and Venus tour of Scorpio on
the 22nd and later meeting with Mars on the 29th will prove that,
yes, you are the sexiest sign of the zodiac.
*YOUR YEAR AHEAD: Youre in a
six-month eclipse cycle that will inspire
personal transformation, but, more
important, Saturn is now in Scorpio for
three years, and, although hell have
much to teach you, you could also reach
your highest achievements. In finances,
youll do extraordinarily well, and if you
need to negotiate any deals, close them
before June 25th, when Jupiter moves
into Cancer and you begin to travel far
and wide. Romantically, Christmastime
glitters, and March 11ths new moon will
be equally blessed. May 9th to 11th could
bring an engagement or wedding, but on
or around November 3, 2013, you can
easily get any desires pushed through,
especially when it comes to marriage.
Mercury may slow things down a bit this month, but
two activeand happyeclipses will maintain a steady
pace toward the holiday season. By Susan Miller
Shailene Woodley
November 15, 1991
retrograde from the 6th to the 26th, so
be eager with discussionsNeptunes
direct turn on the 11th will energize you,
and the eclipse on the 13th sharpens
your communication skillsbut hesitant
to accept offers. Romance improves
dramatically after the 16th, when there
will be less pressure on your career and
more focus on your private life, including
home, fun, love, and friendships. Mars
will enliven your social sector from the
16th to December 24th, and Venus in
Scorpio will bolster your confidence when
it comes to meeting someone new. The
29th is your most exciting day, so circle
it in red. One final note: Keep the 28ths
lunar eclipse on your radar. It will bring
big changes in your home life, the effects
of which youll notice for weeks to come.
ARIES (Mar 21Apr 19)
Money has been a strong focus for you
since the difficult full moon on October
29th, but youll see strong aspects on
the 8th and 9th, when Venus contacts
Jupiter, and at the 13ths new-moon solar
eclipse. Also on your mind: career. Mars
is moving through this sector from the
16th until December 24th, and youll
have better professional opportunities
than any youve seen in the past two
years. Prep your rsum or creative
portfolio immediately. However, hang
back on the 22nd, when Mars is in hard
angle to Uranus. In fact, slow your pace
with everything this month, as Mercury
is retrograde from the 6th to 26th.
With friends and loved ones, listen to
whats actually being said, and when it
comes to expressing yourself, let Venus
at your side guide conversations with
your partner. You have a spectacular
weekend for a romantic getaway at the
24th25th, so dont waste it with conflict.
TAURUS (Apr 20May 20)
The full moon in Taurusheavily active
with Saturnfrom October 29th may
have brought a question of unusual
importance to your attention that, if not
already settled, will still be on your mind
as November starts. If not this matter,
finances will certainly be at the forefront,
but with Mercury retrograde from the
6th to the 26th, dont sign off on any
fiscal decisions. Saturn is now pushing
a relationship into high relief, causing
you to see the state of this union clearly.
A close partner in love, marriage, or
business seems to be either a comforting
rock or a thorn in your side. By the
29th, after a friendly solar eclipse on the
13th, youll know where it stands and
be relieved by the resolution. Romance
for single Taureans will have to wait
until the 29th, when Mars flirts with
Venus, sparking a surge of passion just
in time for the approaching holidays.
GEMINI (May 21June 21)
With Venus in Libra from the 1st to
the 20th, the first three weeks of the
month will brim with romance. Take
note of the 8th and 9theither night
could be one to remember. However,
with Mercury retrograde from the 6th
to the 26th, other areas of your life will
be stop-and-go. Stay focused, because
a plum new project is likely to appear
mere weeks after the friendly solar
eclipse on the 13th. This eclipse will
also emphasize health, so bolster your
fitness and health routines. Cash will
come in this month, but your expenses
will also be high, especially after Mars
enters Capricorn and your house of other
peoples money. By the 27th, though,
Mars and Pluto will work together to
give you clout in any fiscal-related talks.
Finally, at the important lunar eclipse
on the 28th, youll finally receive a long
overdueand very excitinganswer
to a question youve been grappling
with, and a payout could be part of it.
CANCER (June 22July 22)
Youll be in high spirits thanks to the full
moon on October 29th, which may have
heralded a wonderful social affair that
brought a romantic encounter along with
it. Indeed, youre ready for love, and you
may generate more attention this month
than you ever thought possible. First, the
solar eclipse on the 13th will bring
opportunities times three; then, starting
on the 17th, youll have a gold-star
weekend. Next, Venus brings out your
charms after moving into fellow water sign
Scorpio on the 22nd. Finally, on the 29th,
Venus flirts with Mars, whos nestled in
your commitment sector. Despite your
focus on love, youll need to address career
concerns on the 22nd. The 26th, when
Mercury leaves retrograde, looks to be a
much better day for professional progress,
but be prepared at the lunar eclipse on the
28th, when some hidden information
either something youre keeping or being
kept fromwill be made public.
LEO (July 23Aug 22)
October 29th brought developments in
your career, and more, possibly thrilling,
news is due by November 8th. Also,
expect an increase in projects starting on
the 16th, when Mars tours your workaday
sector. Your home will be a big focus now
that Saturn has moved into this area. The
new-moon eclipse on the 13th will help
you continue to see progress in domestic
matters, but if you find your professional
and household lives at odds, know that its
likely due to Mercury in retrograde from
the 6th to the 26th. Mercury will right
itself after this phase, and the eclipse on
the 28th will help you realign priorities
for the better. Romantically, youll enjoy
November, for Mars, the action planet,
will energize your love sector from the
1st to the 17th. Venus will also be in
perfect position to Libra, so travel would
be full of delicious, spontaneous fun.
VIRGO (Aug 23Sept 22)
Mercury, your ruling planet, will be
retrograde from the 6th to the 26th,
so avoid starting any new projects or
signing contracts. Instead, use this
period to review prior affairs, root out
problems, and solve them. At the new-
moon solar eclipse on the 13th, youll
become a virtual sponge, soaking up
information that will help you stay on
track and also make you the go-to for
aid and inspiration. In love, youll have
Mars lighting your house of romance
and fun from the 21st until December
13thall in time for the coming holidays.
Mars will be in a supremely compatible
sign, so you must circulate. By months
end, near the lunar eclipse on the
28th, expect exciting developments
in your career. It could manifest in a
promotion, an offer for a new position,
or an honor or award, ensuring your
reputation reaches new heights.
LIBRA (Sept 23Oct 22)
As you begin November, youll find
yourself nearly obsessed with money
how to manage it, get more of it, and
appropriate it. This is largely due to
the full moon of October 29th, but
after the solar eclipse on the 13th,
youll see a sudden opportunity to
persuade a higher-up for a raise, or to
work on winning a new professional
position. With Mars in Capricorn, you
could also make gains through a real-
estate venture. On a related note, you
may be attempting to improve your
living situation. It could be a move or
just a change in aesthetic, but in any
case, the 28th will be a wonder day
for advancement. All youll do this
month will contribute to the sense of
balance youre creating, with travel
at the center of this endeavor. The
8th and 9th are dazzling days to get
away, thanks to Venus, your ruler,
in a harmonious angle to Jupiter.
At the eclipse on the 28th, you may
be on the road again, more likely
for career, as youll be all business
once Venus moves close to Saturn.
more? For your full astrological forecast from Susan Miller, visit astrologyzone.com. And for your daily horoscope, go to elle.com/horoscopes www. e l l e. c o m 383
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A
ll it took was one quote from the Bible,
Ezekiel 25:17, to turn a journeyman
actor like Samuel L. Jackson into a
global movie star. The film was 1994s
Pulp Fiction, and his Jules was a slick hit
man, the kind of antihero we could all
root for. That year, he was nominated for
a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and from
that point on he seemed to have his pick of
projects. Judging by Jacksons filmography,
he took them all. The result is a Guinness
Book of World Records entry (hes the highest-
grossing actor of all time) and a CV rife
with the good (The Avengers), the bad (The
51st State), and the culty (Snakes on a Plane).
For the variety hes shown on-screen, the
64-year-old actor has kept the home front
remarkably stable: He married his col-
lege sweetheart, actress LaTanya Richard-
son, in 1980, and theyre still at it, having
weathered both his addiction to drugs and
a schedule that requires him to be on loca-
tion nine months out of the yearmost re-
cently for Django Unchained, next months
revenge fantasy that reteams him with
Quentin Tarantino. Here, Jackson talks
marital strife, his famous work ethic, and,
yes, his days as a cheerleader.
ELLE: You were raised by a single mother
in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but spent a
lot of time with your grandfather. What
did he teach you about women?
SAMUEL L. JACKSON: He told me not to
talk back! [Laughs] Theres only one way
to have an argumentand thats if two
people are having it.
ELLE: Has a woman ever made you cry?
SLJ: Tons of them.
ELLE: Really?
SLJ: I guess there was one woman
in particular. I had my major adult
heartbreak when I was about 19 or 20
years old. Id gotten kicked out of school,
and I came to Los Angeles and worked
for the bureau of public assistance. I was
seeing this older womanshe was 33
or 34and at a certain point she told
me she loved me but she had needs I
couldnt meet. I couldnt afford her.
ELLE: She should have waited a few years.
SLJ: Id drive by her house to see if her
car was there. I stood behind palm trees
in the rain listening to James Taylor sing
Ive seen fire and Ive seen rain. It was
pathetic. But success is the best revenge.
ELLE: You were a cheerleader in college.
I assume you did this to meet women?
SLJ: Morehouse was an all-male school.
Spelman was all women. For the guy who
was the cheerleader, all of a sudden it was
like, Youre in charge. I got to pick the
girls. I got to travel to other historically
black colleges; I was hanging out with the
basketball and football teams, meeting
girls. [Laughs] It wasnt about school spirit.
ELLE: You and your wife moved to New
York in 1976 and broke into the theater
scene. Did you hope to conquer the world
together?
SLJ: It was an artistically fertile time,
especially for young black actors. In
college, we thought we were going to be
the black Liz Taylor and Richard Burton.
ELLE: She recently told The New York
Times that the secret to a long marriage
was amnesia. Why did she say that?
SLJ: Because you need to forget some of
the shit you do to each other. If youve
been together as long as weve been
together. We know how to hurt each
other like nobody else can hurt us.
ELLE: You once joked that she puts
herself on the cross, complaining that
she sacrificed her career for you and
motherhood. Is that true?
SLJ: If you ask her, it is.
ELLE: You dont see it that way?
SLJ: No. We moved to California because
she had a TV show, not because I had a
TV show. They shot episodes at CBS in
the Valley. We got a house in Encino so
she could be close to her job. Now, they
only shot three of those motherfuckers.
But once we were in California, shit
broke. And it happened for me. She
constantly says, Why you and not me?
ELLE: Ouf. Its tough for two actors to be
together.
SLJ: Its not that difficult. Ive never taken
a job from her! But people havent seen
enough of what she can do and how
talented she really is.
ELLE: Youve been accused of being a
workaholic. People say workaholics dont
want to be home.
SLJ: No, I like being home. It just so
happens that they dont make movies in
L.A. I go where the jobs are.
ELLE: You struggled with addiction and
got sober in 1990, just before Jungle Fever.
Did you have to make amends to any
women? Was that part of your process?
SLJ: It is for some people. I never made
amends. I didnt do the Steps in that way.
I got sober and decided every day not to
have a drink or use a drug. I didnt need
to go back and clean up everybodys life
that I had fucked over.
ELLE: Youre a big-time golfer, and you do
an iPhone commercial where you tell Siri
to cancel golf because its date night. Do
you schedule date nights?
SLJ: No, but we go to the movies together.
We do things.
ELLE: Youve played some rounds with
Bill Clinton. Can you understand why
women are so hot for him?
SLJ: Listen, I watched him charm my
wife one night. Hed just had [quadruple-
bypass] surgery and we were at a fundraiser
in Hollywood. She asked him how he
was feeling, and he started explaining the
whole procedure to her and how his life had
changed. And he was holding her hand and
kind of rubbing her upper arm. And she
was mesmerized! As soon as he left, I was
like, So, you want to go home with him
now or what? Shes like, He had me. I was
done. I get it now. He just rocked her.
ELLE: You two are friends. What did you
say to him?
SLJ: Theres nothing to say! Other than
Nice to see you.
SAMS TOWN
In Hollywood, only one man can build a rsum this long and a marriage thats
lasted even longer. Samuel L. Jackson teaches Mickey Rapkin a thing or two
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