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As one of the people who maybe helped persuade Donald Trump to run for president by laughing and jeering as Seth Myers and Barack Obama mercilessly roasted him back in 2011, I have mixed feelings about the White House Correspondents' Dinner. On one hand, it's for a good cause, they say, and everyone deserves a night out—even politicians and journalists! On the other, it sometimes feels like the Obama-era excesses that helped sour Americans on overly cozy elites just…continue, forever. Our own Natalie Korach took in this year's fraught festivities, and filed a dispatch full of sharp observations below. Elsewhere, Juilliard makes a move toward affordability, the Gene Hackman saga reaches a sorrowful conclusion, and Kim Kardashian's jewel heist trial is finally under way, nearly a decade later. Read on! |
"I had an indescribable feeling, like my heart was coming out of my chest," Kim Kardashian told French investigators in 2016. "I knew I was going to die." The reality star, then at the height of her cultural ubiquity, had just been robbed at gunpoint in a luxury hotel in Paris, where she was staying during fashion week. Her assailants made off with, according to some estimates, as much as $10 million worth of jewelry. |
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While such a staggering haul might have at first suggested the work of sophisticated professional thieves, an investigation quickly led authorities to a more pedestrian set of suspects, many of them old men in their 60s and 70s. Nearly a decade later, a trial in the case begins this week. One of the sharpest dynamics on display during the proceedings will be the differences between the worlds inhabited by Kardashian and the men accused of the crimes. Vanity Fair France's Hugo Wintrebert revisits the crime—and its consequences. |
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The results determined by the Office of the Medical Investigator in New Mexico shed light on the actor's bleak final days. |
Two reporters from The Atlantic cold called the president. He picked up and had a little chat. |
VF spoke with Cian O'Clery, the creator of Netflix's hit dating series: "We care for the people we're filming." | |
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If you know anything about the Juilliard School, it's probably that it is where some of our greatest artists learned to be great. But that, of course, came at a cost—an exorbitant one. In light of the news that the prestigious institution intends to go entirely tuition-free, we gathered some august alumni for a portrait backstage at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater.
How do the alums feel about future students getting a free ride? Academy Award–winner Jessica Chastain says that removing the barrier of paying tuition is a "great equalizer" for aspiring artists. As the first from her family to attend college, Chastain struggled to afford tuition on top of the hair-raising cost of living in New York City. "I was so stressed out about money," she says. She worked part-time in the library and the student affairs office on her lunch breaks and took out loans—"a lot" of them—to get by. After Chastain received the Robin Williams Scholarship, which covered the last two years of her four-year degree, she could breathe more freely. "Having that cushion was like, Okay, I can finish," she says. If children of wealthy families have a built-in advantage, "then the whole industry is populated with privilege." In her opinion, that doesn't always make for the most vital art: "Those aren't the stories that I necessarily think we should focus on and tell."
In the remainder of Chris Murphy's feature, Danielle Brooks, Grammy-winner Jon Batiste, Laura Linney, and Christine Baranski share their fond memories at the historic conservatory. |
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