November 23, 2024

AT FAULT?

Jannik Sinner, the Italian tennis wunderkind, has swatted down opponents with ease since reaching his World No. 1 ranking. Now a recent drug test could tarnish his legacy forever …

SURVIVOR, ROGUE-STATE EDITION

Stealing rhino horns and smuggling illegal booze are just some of the things diplomats of North Korea and other countries have resorted to in an attempt to keep their foreign embassies alive …

THE GOD OF THE POD

British former soccer star Gary Lineker reveals how he re-invented himself as a media mogul with a successful podcast empire covering history, politics, entertainment, and, not surprisingly, sports …

ROYAL PAINS

As King, Charles is taking the opposite approach of the late Queen Elizabeth II and giving the cold shoulder to his Jeffrey Epstein–associated brother, Prince Andrew …

WATCHING THE CLOCK

Our watch expert, Nicholas Foulkes, observes that the Richard Mille timepieces seen on the Formula One course shine just as brightly as the Ferraris …

INTERNATIONAL TREASURE

Art dealer Oliver Hoare’s posthumous memoir details the odd cast of characters involved in the thrilling exchange of a priceless 16th-century manuscript …

A KING OF NEW YORK

How Paul Morrissey, who died last month, rose from Yonkers to co-run Andy Warhol’s Factory, manage the Velvet Underground, and keep his relatives entertained all the while …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Jon Hamm talks Mad Men and magic hour in L.A. … The Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth reveals he sold the film rights for $25,000—and will get next to nothing from the new $126 million TV adaptation … when Marlon Brando and Elia Kazan did battle … Who was this week’s biggest Attention Whore?

Issue No. 280

The View from Here Bootlegging, drug dealing, Airbnb-ing. Diplomats abandoned by their countries turn to unusual trades to keep the consular lights burning

By John Beck

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The Rest Is Podcasting Is there anything that former soccer star, now podcaster and media mogul, Gary Lineker can’t do?

By Jonathan Margolis

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The Italian Way

Do Italians do it better? Find out with AIR SUPPLY’s holiday gift guide entirely devoted to items designed, crafted, or inspired by Italians

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Photo: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images (Loren)

Oh, Brother! Queen Elizabeth always preferred the boorish Andrew to the sensitive Charles. Is the King finally getting revenge on his disgraced sibling by cutting him off financially?

By Will Lloyd

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Antonio and Carla Sersale’s Rome

The second-generation proprietors of Le Sirenuse, in Positano, spend the off-season at their home in Rome. Here, the world-class hosts share their secrets for a perfect Roman holiday

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Speed Dials Whether it’s due to their high degree of mechanical engineering, or the sensational amounts of money spent on both, Formula One cars and high-end watches are made for each other

By Nicholas Foulkes

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Walking on the Moon The coolest way to commute! Inner-city composting made easy! A projector with a 120-inch display that you can take anywhere! And more …

By Jonathan Margolis

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The Attention-Whore Index Mark Zuckerberg raps, Whoopi Goldberg spats, and Sarah Palin strikes back

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WEAR Boden We know and love Boden for its kids clothing, but I’ve recently discovered their women’s collection—and it’s a secret I’m almost…

VISIT Prada The Somerset Collection, in Troy, Michigan (on the outskirts of Detroit), is technically a shopping mall. But it’s really more of a style…

LOOK Cafe Gitane Anyone who has spent a serious amount of time in Lower Manhattan over the past 30 years thinks of Cafe Gitane as an old…

READ A Town Without Time From a history of The New York Times to the Mafia and sex in America, the work of Gay Talese knows no bounds…

WATCH Surveilled We all know that our smartphones track us, but do we really know to what extent? Ronan Farrow does. After becoming the target of…

READ The Collaborators The Collaborators is a clever espionage thriller that is steeped in the memory of opposition leader Alexei Navalny…

WEAR Boden We know and love Boden for its kids clothing, but I’ve recently discovered their women’s collection—and it’s a secret I’m almost…

VISIT Prada The Somerset Collection, in Troy, Michigan (on the outskirts of Detroit), is technically a shopping mall. But it’s really more of a style…

LOOK Cafe Gitane Anyone who has spent a serious amount of time in Lower Manhattan over the past 30 years thinks of Cafe Gitane as an old…

READ A Town Without Time From a history of The New York Times to the Mafia and sex in America, the work of Gay Talese knows no bounds…

WATCH Surveilled We all know that our smartphones track us, but do we really know to what extent? Ronan Farrow does. After becoming the target of…

READ The Collaborators The Collaborators is a clever espionage thriller that is steeped in the memory of opposition leader Alexei Navalny…

Unoriginal Sinner Italy’s little-known, highly suspicious history with the same steroids Jannik Sinner tested positive for bodes poorly for the tennis world champion and his massage-table alibi

By Jack Sullivan

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The Ayatollah and the de Kooning The Argo-like story of the top-secret, high-stakes trade of a priceless illustrated manuscript for a modern masterwork

By Aatish Taseer

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The Exploding Archival Inevitable Paul Morrissey—overseer of Andy Warhol’s Factory, manager of the Velvet Underground, and cult director—saved everything. AIR MAIL takes an exclusive look

By David Kamp

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A series of photo-booth self-portraits of Paul Morrissey, taken at the Factory, circa 1967.

Morrissey’s handwritten draft of a flyer for “Andy Warhol’s Underground New York,” a 1966 performance of the Velvet Underground and Nico at Rutgers University.

Color photos by Morrissey—the only ones known to exist—of the E.P.I. players at a Polish social hall in the East Village, called the Dom, in 1966. *From top:* Nico, Andy Warhol, and Lou Reed.

*Top,* the Velvet Underground and Nico with Warhol, by Morrissey, circa 1966; *above,* the final flyer for the Rutgers show.

*Clockwise from top left:* Moe Tucker, Reed, John Cale, and Sterling Morrison, of the Velvet Underground, and Nico, by Morrissey, circa 1966.

Self-portraits of Morrissey, circa 1969.

Two pictures taken at Eothen, the Montauk house rented by Morrissey and Warhol in 1972. The first, taken by Morrissey, shows a young John F. Kennedy Jr.; the second, of Morrissey, was taken by J.F.K. Jr.

An advertising maquette Morrissey designed for his 1971 film *Women in Revolt.*

*Top,* Morrissey directing Holly Woodlawn in *Women in Revolt,* circa 1970 (photo by Gretchen Berg); *above,* an undated portrait by Morrissey of Candy Darling.

Publicity stills for Morrissey’s films: *top,* Holly Woodlawn in *Trash* (1970) and, *above,* Joe Dallesandro and Louis Waldon in *Flesh* (1968).

*Clockwise from top left, Morrissey’s portraits of:* Rodney Harvey, star of *Mixed Blood* and *Spike of Bensonhurst,* circa 1983; a portrait of Nico taken for the cover of her 1967 debut album, *Chelsea Girl;* Warhol holds his 1968 book *a: A Novel;* Joe Dallesandro, the star of *Flesh, Trash,* and Heat, circa 1970. A

Morrissey, Dallesandro, and Udo Kier filming *Blood for Dracula,* 1973 (photographer unknown); Morrissey directing Kevin Bacon in *Forty Deuce,* 1982 (photo by Mandy Vahabzadeh).

*Clockwise from top left:* Morrissey with his parents, Lawrence and Eleanor, at his elder sister Justine’s wedding, late 1950s; Eleanor, Justine, and Paul Morrissey, circa late 1930s to early 1940s; Morrissey with the Indri children—his nieces and nephews, and the author’s neighbors—early 1960s.

Photo-booth self-portraits of Morrissey, 1950s–80s.

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Down and Dirty On the Waterfront How the classic film, made in the wake of the McCarthy-era Red-hunting trials, pitted director Elia Kazan against star Marlon Brando

By Stephen Rebello

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A Night at the Newsstand Walter Isaacson, Christine Baranski, Tony Danza, and others gathered at the AIR MAIL Newsstand in Greenwich Village to celebrate Ken Burns’s latest documentary, Leonardo da Vinci

By Jack Sullivan

Photographs by Daniel Paik

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*Top,* Walter Isaacson and Ken Burns; *above,* Tony Danza and Ken Auletta.

*Top,* Christine Baranski; *above,* Michael Lynton, a guest, and Peter Thoren.

*Top,* Binky Urban and Walter Isaacson; *above,* Carson Griffith, Molly Jong-Fast, and Carl Swanson.

*Top,* Anna Chapman, a guest, and Thomas Beller; *above,* Peter Thoren, Ray Kurdziel, and a guest.

*Top,* David Friend, Ed Sorel, and Kathy Hourigan; *above,* Joe DePlasco.

*Top,* Peter Thoren and Katherine Malone-France; *above,* Walter Isaacson and Ken Burns onstage.

*Top,* Olga Rei and friend; *above,* Ken Burns and Walter Isaacson.

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“Hello, H.R.? I’d like to file a complaint. I just learned I’m being paid 30 percent more than a female colleague doing exactly the same job.”

The Pages of Sin The prolific crime-writing legend David Baldacci discusses his feud with Lee Child, his jaundiced view of American justice, and his latest—his 54th!—thriller

By Jake Kerridge

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We’ll Always Have the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Paul Frank rockets, Hello Kitty planes, SpongeBob Santas … Elizabeth Kahane’s photos of the New York mainstay, taken from her third-floor window over the last 25 years, are collected in a festive coffee-table book

By Elena Clavarino

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Julius the Monkey, Paul Frank’s signature character, photographed by E. A. Kahane in 2012.

*Top,* children watching Scrat, from *Ice Age,* float by in 2017; *above,* Snoopy as a NASA astronaut, 2019.

Ada Twist, from *Ada Twist, Scientist,* 2021.

Dino and Baby Dino, the Sinclair Oil Company mascots, 2023.

Mickey Mouse, the Kool-Aid Man, and Wiggle Worm (an original Macy’s character), 2012.

*Top,* Greg Heffley, from *Diary of a Wimpy Kid,* 2016; *above,* cheerleaders from Varsity Spirit, 2011.

Virginia O’Hanlon, the American educator, 2012.

*Top,* Spirit of America Cheer, a group created exclusively for the Macy’s parade, 2021; *above,* Kahane in action, 2023.

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The Payday of the Jackal When Frederick Forsyth wrote his groundbreaking thriller, he had no idea how successful—or how enduring—his tale of an assassin would be

By Chris Hastings

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Nicolas Rapold On

Dead Air: The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America

by William Elliott Hazelgrove

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Tom Scocca On

Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist

by Richard Munson

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Spies Like Us With Michael Fassbender heading up a starry cast that includes Richard Gere and Jeffrey Wright, can The Agency match its peerless French forebear, Le Bureau?

By Andy Meek

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Train Journey, a wood engraving by Tirzah Garwood, 1929.

Tirzah Garwood, Lost and Found

Last week, Dulwich Picture Gallery opened a door into the enchanted world of Tirzah Garwood. Art circles gently buzzed in anticipation, asking, “Who is Tirzah Garwood?” A surrealist perhaps, with a small s? Did her love of Victorian and Edwardian children’s-book illustration influence her play on scale, a conviction held by the show’s curator, James Russell? Was she a proto-feminist? Some of her work looks like a moment in time from an uncanny fairy tale. READ ON

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Soft Power Made with Scottish wool, Irish craft, and English design, &Daughter’s heritage sweaters have become the talk of the town

By Ashley Baker

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Malcolm Washington The Spike Lee protégé and son of Denzel Washington directs an adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Piano Lesson

By Jack Sullivan

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How Marlon Brando Almost Torpedoed One of His Greatest Roles On this week’s podcast, Stephen Rebello goes inside On the Waterfront

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Inside the Music An insightful critic and a skilled jazz pianist in his own right, David Yaffe had the rare ability to parse both the mechanics and the mysteries of a song

By Matthew Gasda

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Jon Hamm

The Emmy Award–winning actor answers 42 of life’s most pressing questions

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In Memoriam

Peter Bogdanovich Duncan Hannah Douglas McGrath Richard David Story André Leon Talley David Yaffe

The View from Here Bootlegging, drug dealing, Airbnb-ing. Diplomats abandoned by their countries turn to unusual trades to keep the consular lights burning

The Rest Is Podcasting Is there anything that former soccer star, now podcaster and media mogul, Gary Lineker can’t do?

Do Italians do it better? Find out with AIR SUPPLY’s holiday gift guide entirely devoted to items designed, crafted, or inspired by Italians

Oh, Brother! Queen Elizabeth always preferred the boorish Andrew to the sensitive Charles. Is the King finally getting revenge on his disgraced sibling by cutting him off financially?

The second-generation proprietors of Le Sirenuse, in Positano, spend the off-season at their home in Rome. Here, the world-class hosts share their secrets for a perfect Roman holiday

Speed Dials Whether it’s due to their high degree of mechanical engineering, or the sensational amounts of money spent on both, Formula One cars and high-end watches are made for each other

Walking on the Moon The coolest way to commute! Inner-city composting made easy! A projector with a 120-inch display that you can take anywhere! And more …

The Attention-Whore Index Mark Zuckerberg raps, Whoopi Goldberg spats, and Sarah Palin strikes back

Unoriginal Sinner Italy’s little-known, highly suspicious history with the same steroids Jannik Sinner tested positive for bodes poorly for the tennis world champion and his massage-table alibi

The Ayatollah and the de Kooning The Argo-like story of the top-secret, high-stakes trade of a priceless illustrated manuscript for a modern masterwork

The Exploding Archival Inevitable Paul Morrissey—overseer of Andy Warhol’s Factory, manager of the Velvet Underground, and cult director—saved everything. AIR MAIL takes an exclusive look

Down and Dirty On the Waterfront How the classic film, made in the wake of the McCarthy-era Red-hunting trials, pitted director Elia Kazan against star Marlon Brando

A Night at the Newsstand Walter Isaacson, Christine Baranski, Tony Danza, and others gathered at the AIR MAIL Newsstand in Greenwich Village to celebrate Ken Burns’s latest documentary, Leonardo da Vinci

The Pages of Sin The prolific crime-writing legend David Baldacci discusses his feud with Lee Child, his jaundiced view of American justice, and his latest—his 54th!—thriller

We’ll Always Have the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Paul Frank rockets, Hello Kitty planes, SpongeBob Santas … Elizabeth Kahane’s photos of the New York mainstay, taken from her third-floor window over the last 25 years, are collected in a festive coffee-table book

The Payday of the Jackal When Frederick Forsyth wrote his groundbreaking thriller, he had no idea how successful—or how enduring—his tale of an assassin would be

Spies Like Us With Michael Fassbender heading up a starry cast that includes Richard Gere and Jeffrey Wright, can The Agency match its peerless French forebear, Le Bureau?

Soft Power Made with Scottish wool, Irish craft, and English design, &Daughter’s heritage sweaters have become the talk of the town

Malcolm Washington The Spike Lee protégé and son of Denzel Washington directs an adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Piano Lesson

How Marlon Brando Almost Torpedoed One of His Greatest Roles On this week’s podcast, Stephen Rebello goes inside On the Waterfront

Inside the Music An insightful critic and a skilled jazz pianist in his own right, David Yaffe had the rare ability to parse both the mechanics and the mysteries of a song

The Emmy Award–winning actor answers 42 of life’s most pressing questions

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