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November 21, 2019
The Oscars are just 80 days away. Fortunately the Little Gold Men awards team at V.F. has been on the case since the fall festivals. And they've distilled all their hard-earned knowledge into one easily digestible list of 20 must-see movies, so you can see at a glance which films, directors, and actors are the likeliest bets for which awards. Scroll through for a crash course in this year's ever evolving Oscar race.
Adam Neumann reimagined the millennial workplace as a capitalist kibbutz, and so dazzled Wall Street that his company was valued at $47 billion. He spent lavishly, and pressed forward even as "the narrative of the unicorn was ending," says an executive. Now, after the collapse, he's said to talk of himself as a martyr.
Data exclusive to Vanity Fair shows impeachment could be a losing issue for Democrats hoping to recruit Independents in 2020. "Lots of people who don't like Trump who are still prepared to vote for him," says one political science expert.
The Big Little Lies star joined this week's Little Gold Men podcast to look back at her standout year, her Moulin Rouge! experience, and much more.
Petras's boundless ambition has taken her from rural Germany to L.A. to a world tour for her album, Clarity, performing for sold-out crowds. The recognition is "great. It's so amazing," she said. "But I'm never satisfied. I always want to get bigger."
In The Year of Magical Thinking, the 2005 best seller, Joan Didion dissected the trauma of losing her husband, John Gregory Dunne. With Blue Nights, published in 2011, she agonizingly explored the heavier blow that followed: the death of their daughter, Quintana Roo. Christopher Hitchens contemplates a tragic achievement.
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