Vanity Fair magazine - Alec Baldwin cover (August 2012)

Vanity Fair magazine - Alec Baldwin cover (August 2012)
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ALEC BALDWIN - 9 pages

WHERE THE MONEY LIVES - For all Mitt Romney's touting of his business record, when it comes to his own money the Republican nominee is remarkably shy about disclosing numbers and investments. Nicholas Shaxson delves into the murky world of offshore finance, revealing loopholes that allow the very wealthy to skirt tax laws, and investigating just how much of Romney's fortune (with $30 million in Bain Capital funds in the Cayman Islands alone?) looks pretty strange for a presidential candidate
7½ pages

MARIE COLVIN - By the time Marie Colvin got herself smuggled into Syria last winter, to report on the slaughter for the London Sunday Times, she was a legend, for her style (the eye patch, the La Perla bra under the flak jacket) as well as her courageous dispatches championing the innocent victims of war. It would be her last story. Marie Brenner reveals the price Colvin paid for the work she couldn't give up
12 pages

RACHEL WEISZ - 4 pages

MICROSOFT - Once upon a time, Microsoft dominated the tech industry; indeed, it was the wealthiest corporation in the world. But since 2000, as Apple, Google, and Facebook whizzed by, it has fallen flat in every arena it entered: e-books, music, search, social networking, etc, etc. Talking to former and current Microsoft executives, Kurt Eichenwald finds the fingers pointing at C.E.O. Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates's successor, as the man who led them astray
8½ pages

ELLSWORTH KELLY - 2 pages

CATHY RIGBY - 1 page

LIFE BEGINS AT 8:30 - Mayfair's hot new club Loulou's is not just a haven for elite Londoners. It's also Robin Birley's £30 million tribute to his father's nightlife legacy. A.A. Gill attends the exclusive christening
14 pages