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Vanity Fair

Oliver Stone’s 1987 Wall Street succeeded brilliantly in capturing a culture, and failed miserablyas a call for change. To the director’s dismay, thousands of financial hotshots dreamed of becoming Gordon Gekko—and the rest is recent history. Antici

Lehman Brothers C.E.O. Dick Fuld expected his top executives to get married, and stay married. For their wives, the firm was both fishbowl and shark tank, with unwritten rules about the clothes they wore, the charities they supported, and the hikes they t

While Michael Douglas reprises his Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko, he is also focused on another sequel: the successive father-son problems that have wounded three generations of Douglases. The author hears how the 65-year-old star made peace with his

What is it about St. Patrick’s Day that prompts the most stylish among us to forget good taste and pull on an old chartreuse polo? Or clip on a Kelly-green tie? (Could it be an early-morning green beer?) Despite all the evidence on Ireland’s proudest

David Hyde Pierce and Ruven Afanador spotlight Dame Edna Everage and Michael Feinstein, Broadway’s craziest combo.

Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel, Brideshead Revisited, was a love letter to a vanishing world. In an excerpt from her Waugh biography, Paula Byrne focuses on his inspiration: the divinely decadent Lygon family and their estate, Madresfield Court.

Michael Burry always saw the world differently—due, he believed, to the childhood loss of one eye. So when the 32-year-old investor spotted the huge bubble in the subprime-mortgage bond market, in 2004, then created a way to bet against it, he wasn’t

In recession-battered Britain, where class divisions run deep, Tory leader David Cameron is a master of congenial compromise—and the likely next prime minister. Michael Wolff examines how the aristocratic Cameron and his Conservative Party have defused