Seinfeld: Yeah. I don’t watch the N.B.A. now, because I don’t want to read that much.
Fallon: That’s why I stopped going to see Maroon 5. Same exact thing. It’s too much.
Seinfeld: Yeah. It’s a lot of reading.
Fallon: Bieber, the same thing. It’s just too many tattoos. But I’m figuring it out now, and I think, Uh, well, how punk rock can we get?
Find out what really happened when Facebook bought Instagram for a cool billion. Plus, how Game of Thrones stalled negotiations (Mark Zuckerberg is an avid fan). Kara Swisher reports.
Photograph by Jonas Fredwall Karlsson
Ireland Basinger Baldwin—daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger—poses for Patrick Demarchelier in our Junue 2013 issue. Watch behind-the-scenes video from her shoot here.
Preview our sprawling report on billionaire Steve Cohen’s insider-trading investigation. Plus, a downloadable Melvillean wallpaper!
Illustration by André Carrilho
Brad’s Big Bet | Brad Pitt on the cover of Vanity Fair’s June 2013 Issue
Inside Brad Pitt’s attempt to build an action franchise with the zombie epic World War Z. But with a ballooning budget, story issues, and onset drama, will the film be dead on arrival?
That the show asked us to view the tragedy through the prism of two ad executives arguing about how sad to be within their Madison Avenue office was actually perfect. What a relief that the series did not take an unearned or clunky turn away from the upper-middle-class white world that is 98 percent of its focus. How easy would it have been to use Dr. King’s death to precipitate a Very Special Race Relations Episode? Sorry to pick on Aaron Sorkin once again, but one of the worst things ever on television was Studio 60’s jazzy tribute to Hurricane Katrina. Did a predominantly black band play “O Holy Night” in front of a projected image of a black hand holding a white hand? You’re goddamn right they did.
That Golden Steady Roar | Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby
Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark
See photos from inside our White House Correspondants’ Dinner post-game bash, co-hosted with Bloomberg at the the Kalorama residence of the French ambassador.
See photos of Conan O’Brien, Katy Perry, Sofía Vergara, and more here.
Audrey Hepburn photographed by Wallace Seawell, 1959
Elizabeth Debicki photographed by Ellen von Unwerth for Vanity Fair, May 2013
Marilyn Monroe
