Vanity Fair January 2008

Katherine Heigl, photographed exclusively for V.F. by Norman Jean Roy in Los Angeles.


Features

72. HEIGL’S ANATOMY
It’s been Katherine Heigl’s year: another Grey’s Anatomy season, the big-screen hit Knocked Up, and a new romantic comedy, 27 Dresses, out this month. In a very candid sit-down with Leslie Bennetts, Hollywood’s hottest blonde talks about growing up Mormon, her impending nuptials, and one ratings-booster she didn’t like. Photographs by Norman Jean Roy. Web exclusive: video from the photo session. Also: more Norman Jean Roy photos of Heigl.

78A TALE OF TWO GIULIANIS
His 9/11 leadership may be Rudy Giuliani’s campaign ace, but it also spawned the dubious partnerships and conflicts of interest of his consulting firm, Giuliani Partners. Michael Shnayerson follows the $100 million trail of “America’s Mayor” to a not very presidential conclusion.



84INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH
Pushing back the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan’s strategically crucial Korengal Valley is one of the U.S. Army’s deadliest challenges, measured hilltop by hilltop, ridge by ridge. Sebastian Junger digs in with the men of Second Platoon, whose humor, courage, and camaraderie come under daily fire. Photographs by Tim Hetherington. Web-exclusive video: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington discuss the article. Also: Tim Hetherington’s portraits of soldiers in the Korengal; and more of Hetherington’s Afghanistan photos.

94TROUBLE IN PARADISE
While the story of the mutineers who scuttled the H.M.S. Bounty off a remote South Pacific isle in 1790 has inspired five blockbusters, the saga of their Pitcairn Island descendants is far less romantic. As a 10-year rape investigation ends, William Prochnau and Laura Parker explore why the shocking sexual practices on this tiny British outpost went ignored for centuries.

104THE GOLDEN SUICIDES
The July suicides, one week apart, of inseparable New York multi-media artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake rocked their hip downtown crowd. Nancy Jo Sales discovers that the dazzlingly talented couple’s love for each other was rivaled by a growing fear of the world around them.

110A LEGEND WITH LEGS
After her breakthrough role in Rio Bravo, Angie Dickinson caught the eye of J.F.K., had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and married Burt Bacharach, while putting her stamp on movie and TV history. At 76, the brainy beauty tells almost all to Sam Kashner, including the tragedy of her daughter’s struggle with Asperger’s syndrome. Portrait by Norman Jean Roy.

118ENGLAND MADE THEM
Beneath its buttoned-up surface, England teems with oddball innkeepers, crocodile-riding crackpots, and other Python-esque characters. Christopher Hitchens explains the proud tradition of British eccentricity, as Tim Walker and Sarajane Hoare capture some noted 21st-century examples.

FANFAIR

3731 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE
The Oscar Niemeyer Century

38
The Cultural Divide

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Bruce Handy gushes over There Will Be Blood
Michael Hogan canvasses Brooklyn with artist Todd DiCiurcio
Elissa Schappell takes on Beginner’s Greek

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Matt Tyrnauer checks into the Malibu Beach Inn
My Stuff: Restaurateur John McDonald

Columns

50THE YEAR OF GOVERNING DANGEROUSLY
Eliot Spitzer rode into Albany with a fearsome mandate for change after bringing some of Wall Street’s biggest scofflaws to heel. Now New York’s hot-tempered governor is the one looking sleazy. David Margolick hears from both Spitzer and his growing number of critics.

60LINES IN THE SAND
What would the Middle East look like without politics? Cullen Murphy asks four experts to map its natural divisions, just as T. E. Lawrence tried to do in 1918.

64HALL OF FAME
Elissa Schappell nominates Viva Glam, mac’s provocative, powerful campaign against aids. Photograph by Mark Seliger.

Vanities

67BONNE JURNEE

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The Vanities Dare: A holiday-season department-store special
Alternate-Reality Gift Guide: The Criterion Collection re-releases the High School Musical franchise

Et Cetera

28EDITOR’S LETTER

30CONTRIBUTORS

34LETTERS
Eulogy for a Soldier

47FAIRGROUND
Tête-à-Tête

150CREDITS

152PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE
Mia Farrow

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