Vanity Fair magazine - Marilyn Monroe cover (June 2012)

Vanity Fair magazine - Marilyn Monroe cover (June 2012)
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MARILYN MONROE - It was the assignment of an ambitious young photographer's dreams: capturing Hollywood's sexiest star for Look magazine in 1960. The chemistry with Marilyn Monroe seemed promising, and their professional relationship deepened when he photographed her on the set of her final, never finished movie, Something's Got To Give. As the 50th anniversary of her death approaches, Lawrence Schiller, in an adaptation from his memoir of those sessions, recalls monroe's mix of vulnerability and cold calculation as she guided his camera toward the ultimate revelation and their tense encounter the day before she died
13 pages

BROOKLYN DECKER - 1 page

LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS - In 2002, as the bid deadline loomed, almost everyone agreed: It was a terrible idea for London to host the 2012 Olympics. Now, on the eve of the Games, British taxpayers face costs that could well exceed £11 billion and surveillance that includes drones, while a scandal-ridden International Olympic Committee, which laid down the rules, reaps huge profits. Michael Joseph Gross reports on the mix of pride, politics, and opportunism behind the glory
9 pages

SIR PAUL SMITH - 2 pages

WHITNEY HOUSTON - While the glory of her voice propelled Whitney Houston into the pop stratosphere, her demons kept dragging her down, a powerful undertow of drugs and toxic relationships. But early this year, with new music, a new man, and a new movie - Sparkle, due out this summer - she seemed to be resurfacing. Following her death in a Beverly Hilton bathtub, Mark Seal investigates Houston's final days: the prayers and the parties, the Hollywood con artist on thescene, and the message she left behind
10 pages

NITA AMBANI - The wife of India's richest man, Nita Ambani has built a model township, an elite school, and a Premier League cricket team. But all anyone wants to talk about is her house: the 27-story, 570-foot-tall, 400,000-square-foot Xanadu that few have entered but that has all Mumbai buzzing. Discussing her home for the first time, Nita Ambani talks with James Reginato
7 pages

BORIS JOHNSON - 1 page