Samuel L. Jackson on His Addiction Battle; Pickleball Sweeps Hollywood; Pence’s 2024 Scheme

Plus: Photographing the Royal Family Over Two Decades View in your browser | Update your preferences A SPECIAL EDITION OF COCKTAIL HOUR October 21, 2021 HOLLYWOOD REWIND How Hitting Bottom Inspired Samuel L. Jackson's Breakthrough Performance By Gavin Edwards As the 1980s came to a close, the future superstar was spending his summers acting in Spike Lee joints—and his nights freebasing cocaine. A new book reveals how he changed his life, and channeled his ordeal into a game-changing performance in Jungle Fever. Read More If someone forwarded you this email, sign up for "Cocktail Hour" here. GOP SCHEMES Mike Pence Is Already Cashing In on His Potential 2024 Run By Tom LoBianco The former veep and his wife are living their best lives: traveling widely, making bank on the speaking circuit, and residing in one of Indiana's toniest suburbs. And in an unlikely trolling of Donald Trump, Pence remains a top contender for the GOP nod. Read More CONTROVERSY Who Was the Netflix Walkout Really For? By Cassie da Costa On the scene with the activists, counterprotesters, reporters—and a handful of actual Netflix employees—drawn together by Dave Chappelle's transphobic jokes. Read More GAME ON Pickleball for All! By Craig Coyne The addictive tennis-Ping-Pong hybrid might be the last thing red and blue Americans—not to mention Leonardo DiCaprio—can agree on. Read More ROYAL WATCH A New Book Celebrates 20 Years Behind the Scenes With the Queen By Katie Nicholl Featuring 150 color photographs, Elizabeth II: A Queen for Our Time captures the monarch at work, home, overseas, and with her family. Read More I'M THE BAD GUY No One Plays the Villain Like Idris Elba By David Canfield The actor reaches menacing new heights in The Harder They Fall. Inside his scariest—and, maybe, most heartbreaking—performance yet. Read More IN PHOTOS Discovering Kali, Southern California's Hidden Photographic Visionary By Matt Tyrnauer A massive new four-volume book makes the case for Joan Archibald, a California party girl turned lawyer's wife who developed prints in her swimming pool, as a major visual artist. Read More This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.