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Plus: Frank O'Hara's Fatal Finale View in your browser | Update your preferences A SPECIAL EDITION OF COCKTAIL HOUR April 14, 2022 TOUGH ON CRIME? Will NYC's Crime Surge Dent Eric Adams's Teflon? The city's new mayor was elected to fight crime. So far it's not going very well. By Chris Smith Read More If someone forwarded you this email, sign up for "Cocktail Hour" here. TRUE COLORS Warhol + Marilyn = $$$ By Nate Freeman When one of the pop artist's famed portraits of the doomed Hollywood star goes to auction next month, it could fetch up to half a billion dollars. Read More HOLLYWOOD How Nicolas Cage Came to Play Nicolas Cage in the Insane Nicolas Cage Movie By Anthony Breznican The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a wild mindf--k. Director and cowriter Tom Gormican explains how it was born. Read More BREAKING BAD Bad Vegan's Anthony Strangis's Right-Wing Reinvention By Allen Salkin The ex-husband and onetime codefendant of Sarma Melngailis now runs in the same conservative media circles that published nude photos of former congresswoman Katie Hill. Read More THE NEW NASHVILLE Black Women Are Reframing Country Music By Tressie McMillan Cottom Instead of aw-shucks, down-on-their-luck cowboys, behold the rising generation of Black women carving a hallowed space in opry's pantheon. Read More RUSSIA'S CASSANDRA "This Is an Organized Crime Story" By Abigail Tracy Bill Browder, formerly the largest foreign investor in Russia, has been warning about Putin and Russian oligarchs for more than a decade. Now he's center stage in the media frenzy around Russia's war in Ukraine. Read More STRANGER THAN FICTION Frank O'Hara's Fatal Finale "People would be rude and say, 'You were the one that killed the poet Frank O'Hara,'" Ken Ruzicka says. "It wasn't like I was drinking or speeding or doing anything illegal. All of a sudden there's a tragedy." By Kyle Schnitzer 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 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.