THE Power & THE Glamour - A HOLLYWOOF PORTFOLIO

As the strike dust settles and America reacquaints itself with the box office (thank you, Barbenheimer), VANITY FAIR spotlights LA's most influential characters, the players keeping the town running

When the STARS ALIGN

For our 30th ANNUAL HOLLYWOOD ISSUE, we tapped 11 stars making the most of a transformative era by taking chances and taking charge. Here's a peek at what happens when some of the industry's most vibrant talents let loose

AI STAR Is Born

How artificial intelligence is already changing filmmaking

Netflix Can CHILL

Two years after a stock crash that destabilized the industry and inspired endless schadenfreude, the streamer’s reputation—and finances—have bounced back

The One-Body Problem

Bryan Johnson has spent millions on his twin quests for eternal life and a younger penis. And that's just the stuff you've read about. Other aspects of his mortal life tell a tale far more strange

Forever Simone

The greatest gymnast of all time opens up about life as a newlywed, her recovery from Tokyo, and what's ahead including Paris, peut-être

MARISKA HARGITAY

The star of Law & Order: SVU, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, on sharks, tap dancing, and making time stand still

Late Bloomer

Thirty years ago, after David Letterman decamped to CBS, NBC made a historic decision-to give Late Night to a nobody. An oral history of CONAN O'BRIEN's tumultuous (and hilarious) first year

TICKET TO RIDE

SIXTY YEARS AGO, HISTORY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL ROCK BAND TOOK THE WORLD BY STORM DURING THEIR FIRST-EVER TRIP TO THE US. AS A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER, I WAS WITH THEM FOR THE HARD DAYS AND UPROARIOUS NIGHTS

THRONE OF GAMES

Wordle. Connections. Spelling Bee. Ye olde crossword. THE NEW YORK TIMES is home to the most popular brainteasers online-and that fandom is key to the paper's bottom line. Meet the mischievous masterminds stumping the solvers and running the show

BARBARIANS at the GLADES

Palm Beach, long a sleepy bastion for the leisurely elite, is straining under the weight of an influx of MAGAS with money, COVID exiles, and Gen X newbies. And don't even get them started on West Palm

PRETTY Boys

This Oscar season has redefined the himbo

THE FOG of War

How can we trust the images we see from the Israel-Hamas conflict?

BOHEMIAN Rhapsody

At a jewel box of a hotel in Mexico City, lush pleasures come in an exquisite package

Speak MEMORY

Two authors consider resilience in memoirs of mourning one a divorce, the other a dear friend's death

Salon CULTURE

A Met exhibition on the impact of the Harlem Renaissance illuminates a link between beauty pioneer Madam C.J. Walker and contemporary art

Cult Classics

Prada Beauty looks to the future while mining the house codes.

Open BOOK

On stage and screen, RENEÉ RAPP plays a queen bee. In real life, she's more a Janis Ian type

The Ascendant

Jesmyn Ward, double national book award winner and best-selling author, returns to fiction with the haunting, beautiful Let Us Descend

Shades of stardom

Sandra Hüller is in two riveting films this awards season, the moral thriller Anatomy of a Fall and the Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest. The German actor isn't after the spotlight-but she may not have a choice

Case Study

Lipstick tubes have taken on outsize personas, from status objects to conversation pieces

A House Divided

Amid calls for a union, star-vs.-star showdowns, and lots and lots of drinking, some Real Housewives are facing their demons

Greta Gerwig – The Great

With Barbie, Greta Gerwig injected billions into the box office and joy back into Hollywood. If she has her way and there's every reason to think she will-she'll be doing the same thing for the next 40 years

The Frenchie Revolution

Money, murder, fur. Welcome to the war over America's most popular dog

When Sunset's Not Selling

With its power creatives on strike, a hefty new mansion tax, and insurers fleeing, LA's fanciest properties are at a standstill

OUTFOXED

Rupert Murdoch dumping Tucker Carlson wasn’t about one thing. It was everything

SPEECH Bubble

Bari Weiss peers into Hollywood’s soul as she puts cultural controversies on the stage By Emily Jane Fox

INDEPENDENT Streak

With two wildly different movies in the Oscar race, producer Christine Vachon is an iconoclast who’s become an icon

Hip-Hop's Renaissance Man

He was a graffiti-art pioneer, denizen of CBGB, friend of Basquiat, collaborator with Blondie, and host of the show that helped turn hip-hop global. On the 40th anniversary of Wild Style, the cult film that made him famous, FAB FIVE FREDDY takes stock

The Streisand Effect

At home with the legend, talking music, movies, and her revealing new memoir, My Name Is Barbra