Confirm or Deny: Graydon Carter Edition
Maureen Dowd: Annie Leibovitz took your passport photo.
Graydon Carter: She took my passport photo.
You were told to sod off by James Bond.
Confirm! One year I invited all the men who played James Bond to the Oscar party. For one reason or another, all but one were either working or unavailable. We got George Lazenby, who had appeared in the pre-Sean Connery era in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service.' I spotted him at the bar by himself. I went over and introduced myself. He just looked straight ahead and then turned and in the sort of fragrant language not generally permitted in a high class newspaper, told me to buzz off.
When you were at Time — and single — you wrote fun tidbits for the 'People' page, and you had a romantic encounter with the young woman who wrote Newsweek's version of the people page, called 'Newsmakers.'
No comment.
The two funniest non-comedians you've ever met are George Clooney and Anderson Cooper.
In both cases, they were so funny that I had to tell them to stop because I thought my trachea would break.
When a New York Times push alert announced the news of your departure from Vanity Fair, multiple friends later told you that seeing your name pop up on their phone, they assumed it was because you died.
Yes, and for some of them, it put a spring in their step.
Anna Wintour should retire.
Absolutely not. I think she can go on for decades.
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