Vanity Fair Girls

For a brainy model with a hot new cookbook, marriage to a literary superstar creates opportunities—and problems. سب, سب سے اوپر Chef’s Padma Lakshmi now has an empire in the making, but Salman Rushdie won’t be part of it.

by Nancy Jo Sales
December 2007

She walked the red carpet that night with Helen Mirren and Queen Latifah and the ladies of Wisteria Lane. It was the 59th Primetime Emmys, and although she wasn’t there for the reason she’d always envisioned—her acting—it was, she said, “a big fucking deal.”

She could laugh over the fact that she was on a nominated reality show—she hated...

She’s one of the last of Hollywood’s golden-age stars—the girl who چرا لیا, چوری کی Humphrey Bogart’s دل at age 19 and has been grappling with their dual legend ever since. Now 86, Lauren Bacall looks back on a lucky, if often difficult, life as she gives it straight to Matt Tyrnauer, talking about the effect of Bogie’s fame on her and their kids; her very brief engagement to Frank Sinatra; her stormy سیکنڈ union, to Jason Robards; and why she hates the Oscar she received, in 2009.

By Matt Tyrnauer•Photograph سے طرف کی Annie Leibovitz•Styled سے طرف کی Jessica Diehl
March 2011

The apartment is cavernous,...