Spiegel Stuff: Keeping Up With the Kennedys; the Heist That Baffled Boston; When Julia Child Fell in Love

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In this week's VF Archive digest, we dig into the Kennedy clan's legacy and scandal, the murderous night that made Phil Spector notorious, and how Trap's Josh Hartnett first confronted every actor's dream—and nightmare.

Plus, a million-dollar art heist and the other love of Julia Child's life.

Legend With a Bullet

When Phil Spector was arrested on suspicion of having murdered former B movie queen Lana Clarkson at his California estate, music-industry people seemed unsurprised. After all, in his reign as the mad genius of rock and roll, Spector had pulled guns on John Lennon, Dee Dee Ramone, and various girlfriends—wasn't it inevitable that somebody would end up dead?

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Bobby's Kids

The children of Robert and Ethel Kennedy carry an enormous burden—some with grace, others with difficulty—which recently has seemed heavier in the wake of Michael's shocking affair with a babysitter, an angry book written by Joe's ex-wife, Sheila Rauch, and reams of unflattering attention in the press. Talking with the Kennedys and family intimates about the legacy of Hickory Hill, womanizing, drugs, and alcohol, Michael Shnayerson encounters the fierce loyalty of a wildly diverse clan, as well as the story behind the babysitter scandal.

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The Making of Josh Hartnett

When 22-year-old Josh Hartnett got a leading role in Michael Bay's $135 million war epic, Pearl Harbor, he also got a truckload of scrutiny—and advice—from Hollywood veterans. With the highest-planned budget ever and a cast that includes Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Alec Baldwin, the movie had blockbuster written all over it. Was this kid ready for the media onslaught? The hordes of screaming teens?

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Stealing Beauty

The FBI was baffled by the costliest art theft in American history—more than $200 million in works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and others taken from Boston's stuffily exclusive Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Boston Herald reporter Tom Mashberg tells how he found himself at the center of attempts to recover the stolen treasures, dealing with a Mayflower-descended master criminal and his friend turned nemesis.

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Our Lady of the Kitchen

The making of the cultural phenomenon that was Julia Child had three key ingredients: a man, a meal, and a TV camera. Laura Jacobs recalls the wartime romance between Julia McWilliams and Paul Child, the bride's life-altering first lunch (sole meunière) in France, and the 1962 television appearance that turned her into a star—and her book Mastering the Art of French Cooking into a bible.

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Saturday, August 24, 2024

Keeping Up With the Kennedys; the Heist That Baffled Boston; When Julia Child Fell in Love

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