Spiegel Stuff: A Disturbing Family Affair; Life as Princess Anne; 25 Years of ‘The Sopranos’

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An affair that toppled a champion of Christian morality, a behind-the-scenes look at a show that changed Hollywood, and more in this week's VF Archive digest.

Deadly Devotion

For nearly three decades, the tall, handsome president of Hillsdale College, George Roche III, built his small Michigan school into a conservative bastion, drawing Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, William F. Buckley Jr., and other prominent right-wingers to its campus. Then one fall, Roche's daughter-in-law Lissa claimed that they'd been having an affair for 19 years. Sam Tanenhaus explores her devotion to Roche, the wreckage of a family, and the disturbing reign of an all-too-powerful champion of Christian morality.

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The Family Hour: An Oral History of The Sopranos

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, take a trip down Sopranos memory lane, where the cast and crew speak candidly about the show that changed the showbiz landscape. With creator David Chase leading the way, Sam Kashner gets a behind-the-scenes history of a national obsession as James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, and other insiders talk about their years as a family, the trauma when someone got whacked, and making their peace with the finale.

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A Royal Spark

Infamous for her breezy attitude toward her birthright, Princess Anne is having a new moment in the sun—just when her family needs her the most. The queen's only daughter opens up about family, duty, and a life lived in the Firm.

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The Silencing

When novelist Lacy Crawford was a teenager, her parents sent her off to St. Paul's School, hoping for the best education money could buy. But she was viciously assaulted by two classmates, and then, she writes, her family learned hard truths about the citadels of privilege.

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Day Into Noir

Between the Great Depression and the start of the Cold War, Hollywood went noir, reflecting the worldly, weary, wised-up undercurrent of midcentury America. In classics such as Laura, Sweet Smell of Success, and Double Indemnity, where the shadows of LA and New York pulse with killers, corpses, and perilous romance, failure is not only a logical option but a smart-talking seduction. Exploring the genre's origins, its look, its politics, and its geography, Ann Douglas shows how noir's poignant cynicism took hold—and why it remains embedded in the national psyche today.

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Saturday, January 13, 2024

A Disturbing Family Affair; Life as Princess Anne; 25 Years of ‘The Sopranos’

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