The Demise of Roger Ailes; the Man Hollywood Trusted; Barry Jenkins’s Blue Notes

A special delivery from the Vanity Fair Archive View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks November 06, 2021 Dive into these long reads this weekend, handpicked from the Vanity Fair Archive.   A Matter of Life and Death It was cancer—a brutally sudden death sentence: The doctors told Marjorie Williams she had probably less than six months. For a 43-year-old woman with two young children and a full life, that prognosis was devastating, but also, in unexpected ways, liberating. And so began more than three years of horror, hope, and grace as she learned to live, and even laugh, on borrowed time. R E A D  M O R E »     Roger, Over and Out! For 20 years, Roger Ailes did as he pleased at Fox News. Then former anchor Gretchen Carlson sued him for sexual harassment—and suddenly Rupert Murdoch, who'd long had his back, wasn't there. For both men, it was the end of an era. R E A D  M O R E »     California Dreamgirl In 2007, Michelle Phillips—the last of the Mamas and the Papas—gave Sheila Weller the real story of her stormy marriage to the group's leader, John Phillips; her very brief marriage to Dennis Hopper; her liaisons with Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty; and the tangled emotions that bound four musicians—Michelle, John, Denny, and Cass Elliot—for life. R E A D  M O R E »     Blue Notes Earlier this year, as Moonlight director Barry Jenkins turned Colson Whitehead's award-winning novel The Underground Railroad into a TV series, he unraveled his own story. R E A D  M O R E »     The Man Hollywood Trusted As longtime aide-de-camp to studio mogul Jack Warner, Richard Gully became the favored ally and companion of Golden Age Hollywood's elite. Before his death, he broke decades of discreet silence about legends including Hepburn and Tracy, JFK, Bugsy Siegel, Aly Khan, and Cary Grant. R E A D  M O R E » Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. Sign Up Now     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.