I’ve always suspected that Vanity Fair was just a high-class gossip mag – and they may have confirmed my hunch with this one-off, special edition, Vanity Fair: Hollywood Scandal. Available for a limited time only, it ties in with a recent 48 Hours special on CBS in the US, featuring the untimely death of Marilyn Monroe among other infamous real-life dramas.
You can read editor Grayson Carter’s introduction, At the Corner of Hollywood and ‘Noir’, online. Reviewing the magazine, Liz Smith comments, ‘This kind of collection pretty much puts the Lindsay Lohans and Paris Hiltons in their place.’
