Alicia* wasn’t sure what to do when the TaskRabbit she’d hired finished building her Ikea Billy bookcase, wiped his hands on his jeans, and asked her out. “It’s not like he was some old guy with plumber’s crack,” the 27-year-old Cobble Hill resident said later. “He was a good-looking guy, and I think he had […]

Adam McKay’s new financial-apocalypse comedy The Big Short — thesubject of this week’s Vulture cover story — was produced by Brad Pitt, who also took a small role in the film to help ensure the production got properly funded. Here, Pitt talks about his sideline as a genuine prestige-movie mogul (with his company Plan B), […]

This week’s Vulture cover story, on Adam McKay’s The Big Short, asks whether America is angry enough for a Hollywood version of Occupy Wall Street, and if McKay’s brand of dick jokes can actually teach us something about the financial crisis and what went wrong in 2008. The man who really knows what went wrong […]

He’s a distinguished actor’s actor who’s no stranger to plumbing the dark depths of the human condition. It’s the start of the holiday season. But it’s not the nip in the air or the smell of chestnuts roasting on an open fire that reminds Chiwetel Ejiofor that Christmas is coming. It’s the people who come […]

He may be as famous for his Instagram exploits—partying with models, canoodling with Kardashians—as for his work cool-ifying the venerable French fashion label Balmain. But Olivier Rousteing, the 30-year-old designer whose buzzy H&M collaboration launches this month, says he’s out to upend an industry that’s too old and too white to reach millennials like him […]

Mary-Louise Parker has long been known as a different kind of Hollywood creature. On the occasion of her new memoir, Jessica Pressler observes the untamed, unfiltered actress in her natural habitat. So there’s this bird up at Mary-Louise Parker’s farmhouse in upstate New York. “And it keeps flying into the same fucking spot in the […]

One evening earlier this summer, Joseph Yoon pulled a cooler big enough to store a corpse down the long hallway of a sleek Upper West Side building and stopped at a door emanating house music, which was opened by an expensively tousled young man holding a laptop. He showed him to the kitchen and resumed […]

The thing people always talk about first, when they are talking about Net-a-Porter, is the packaging. For a company known for being on the leading edge of online fashion, it is surprisingly anachronistic: The black, beribboned bags that arrive, brimming with tissue paper and the promise of a life-changing ensemble, could just as easily have […]

For Nikki Finke, fiction was always the enemy. “As a journalist, that was the worst thing you could say about something,” she says. “That’s fiction.” In the years she spent covering the entertainment industry for the L.A.Times, L.A. Weekly, and her own Deadline website, Finke became famous — and famously feared — for telling the […]

Henry Blodget heads for the staircase of his office building, a neo-Romanesque beauty in the Flatiron District that, back in the 19th century, was home to the largest publisher in the world. These days, it is occupied mostly by startups, including Blodget’s business-news site, Business Insider, which moved into the eighth floor last year and, […]