Terry O’Neill’s Hollywood

Faye Dunaway, Laurence Olivier, and Jodie Foster are only a few of the Oscar winners to have shined through the photographerl’s lens.

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Bob Harig’s Birdies And Bogeys

Any pro that doesn’t bring his A-game to the Jack Nicklaus-hosted Honda Classic this week will likely be slamming the trunk on Friday afternoon. If you’re looking for birdies at PGA National, they’ll be few and far between, writes ESPN.com’s Bob Harig.

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Larry Fink’s $12 Trillion Shadow

As co-founder and C.E.O. of the world’s largest asset-management firm, BlackRock, Larry Fink invests more than $3 trillion—and services another $9 trillion—for a client list that includes Fannie Mae, A.I.G., and the New York Fed. Suzanna Andrews tackles the question: Could one man be too big to fail?

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Excerpt of The Overnight Socialite

Bridie Clark, author of Because She Can, is out this month with another sparkly tale of the glories and pitfalls of young Manhattan. The Overnight Socialite tells the story of Lucy Jo Ellis, an aspiring fashion designer battling it out in the trenches with the rest of New York’s ambitious twentysomethings. Beleaguered at work and no longer so starry-eyed, Lucy Jo is considering heading back to the Midwest. Enter Wyatt Hayes, a well-born and newly single PhD student, who decides to prove that anyone can breathe that rarefied Park Avenue air—and makes Lucy Jo his hypothesis.

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November 2009: Bruce Weber on Robert Pattinson

As Twilight’ s reluctant bloodsucker, Vanity Fair’ s December cover star has made teenage girls (and their mothers) swoon. To accompany Evgenia Peretz’s profile, which addresses Pattinson’s relationship with co-star Kristen Stewart and Hollywood’s doubts about casting him as Edward Cullen, VF.com presents the third of five slide shows featuring outtakes from his epic session with photographer Bruce Weber.

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Michael Hogan spotlights Vampire Weekend

The indie rockers of Vampire Weekend slyly riff on their prepster image for a second album, Contra.

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James Wolcott on Reality Television

Amid the smoldering wreckage of the popular culture, the author blames Reality TV, which has not only ruined network values, destroyed the classic documentary, and debased the art of bad acting, but also fomented class warfare, antisocial behavior, and murder.

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December 2009: Bruce Weber on Robert Pattinson

As Twilight’ s reluctant bloodsucker, Vanity Fair’ s December cover star has made teenage girls (and their mothers) swoon. To accompany Evgenia Peretz’s profile, which addresses Pattinson’s relationship with co-star Kristen Stewart and Hollywood’s doubts about casting him as Edward Cullen, VF.com presents the first of four slide shows featuring outtakes from his epic session with photographer Bruce Weber.

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Todd Gray’s Michael Jackson Photos

A photographer reminisces about his exclusive portraits of the future King of Pop, taken between 1974 and 1984.

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Todd Gray on Michael Jackson

After landing an assignment shooting the Jackson 5, the author was told that Michael Jackson wanted him to be his personal photographer. The result: a trove of images, taken between 1974 and 1984, that reveal the future King of Pop’s quiet, soulful side.

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