Vanity Fair magazine - Julia Roberts cover (April 2012)

Vanity Fair magazine - Julia Roberts cover (April 2012)
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JULIA ROBERTS - Who's the fairest of them all? On a gray day in director Mike Nichols's New York apartment, it's undoubtedly Julia Roberts, returning to the screen this month as the Evil Queen in Mirror Mirror - Tarsem Singh's witty Snow White adaptation. As Sam Kashner follows the free-ranging conversation, Roberts and Nichols discuss the professional spark between them (seen in Closer and Charlie Wilson's War), their lucky breaks, and their durable marriages
8 pages

MATTHEW BRODERICK AND KELLI O'HARA - 2 pages

THE WRATH OF PUTIN - Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia when he dared confront then president Vladimir Putin, criticizing state corruption at a meeting with Putin in February 2003. Arrested that fall, then convicted in two Kafka-esque trials, Khodorkovsky has been imprisoned ever since, the once powerful oligarch now an invisible hero for the growing opposition to Putin's tyranny. From Moscow, as elections approach and demonstrators spill into the streets, Masha Gessen chronicles the clash of two titans, each of whom has badly underestimated the other
10 pages

CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI - 2 pages

THE WASHINGTON POST - Despite The Washington Post's history of swashbuckling journalism, its business strategy has been deeply conservative. Can the heirs to Kay Graham and Ben Bradlee's legacy - Graham's son Don, the chairman and C.E.O.; her granddaughter Katharine Weymouth, the publisher; and executive editor Marcus Brauchli - save the Post from a lack of vision? Sarah Ellison follows the money, the management battles, and the missed opportunities at a great American newspaper
9 pages

THE SOPRANOS - Since that controversial last episode of The Sopranos, in June 2007, the cast and crew have never spoken so candidly about the show that changed both their lives and the showbiz landscape. With creator David Chase leading the way, Sam Kashner gets a behind-the-scenes history of a national obsession as James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, and other Sopranos insiders talk about their years as a family, the trauma when someone got whacked, and making their peace with the finale
15 pages

ANGELA LANSBURY - 2 pages

RACHEL MADDOW - 1 page