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Graydon Carter on Making a Scene—and a Magazine

Posted Dec 11, 07 4:54 PM CST in Arts & Living 

(Newser) Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter runs the glossiest magazine, hosts the most A-list parties, and runs one of New York's most exclusive restaurants, all on the same principle, he tells the Guardian's Janine Gibson: "Life is all about seating and lighting." The key, he says, is not who you let in but who you leave out, and making all those big egos look and feel good. Vanity Fair, he says, "is like running the Metropolitan Opera in a way."

Gibson mentions in her piece—but pointedly does not mention to Carter—his Devil Wears Prada treatment at the hands of Toby Young, a British writer who dashed off a tell-all about disastrous experiences at Vanity Fair called How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. In the movie adaptation, the character of "Clayton Harding" is to be played by Jeff Bridges, and the real-life model for the character is reportedly not amused.

Source Guardian (UK)

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"Vanity Fair" editor Graydon Carter and wife Anna arrive for the 2007 Library Lions Benefit at New York Public Library Monday, Nov. 5, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Gary He)   (Associated Press)
Vanity Fair's editor Graydon Carter arrives at the Vanity Fair party of the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival, held at the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York, on Tuesday, May 4, 2004.   (KRT Photos)
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