CONTRIBUTORS

® Luca Dotti

Luca Dotti was born in Rome in 1970. His mother, Audrey Hepburn, had married his father, psychiatrist Andrea Luca, the year before. "By falling in love with him, she fell in love with Rome," recounts Luca, the author, along with journalist Luigi Spinola, of the forthcoming book Audrey in Rome, adapted for Vanity Fair on page 144. "The city is very much still in love with herd

® Tom Brokaw

Tom Brokaw, the former anchor of NBC Nightly News, counts himself fortunate to have been a White House correspondent during Watergate 40 years ago. "It was the greatest constitutional crisis in the history of the American presidency," says Brokaw, whose Spotlight on Robert Redford's forthcoming documentary, All the President's Men Revisited, can be found on page 154.

® Jonas Fredwall Karlsson

Swedish-born contributing photographer Jonas Fredwall Karlsson pulled double duty this month, shooting Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner ("The Man Who Pierced the Sky," page 174) and several Facebook executives ("Facebook Leans In," page 156). "Power today lies in the hands of those who dare to invest all their creativity and intelligence in something completely new," says Fredwall Karlsson.

© Mark Bowden

For his article in this month's issue, contributing editor Mark Bowden was re-united with Ken Brennan, the private detective whose work he chronicled for Vanity Fair three years ago in "The Case of the Vanishing Blonde." While reporting on "The Body in Room 348" (page 164), Bowden was once again bowled over by Brennan's investigative abilities. "Ken's remarkable," says Bowden. "When he brought me this story I told him, 'I give up—you've got me again.' "

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® Jerry Weintraub

With cards for Frank Sinatra and George H. W. Bush, Jerry Weintraub's Rolodex would make a great Smithsonian exhibit. In this month's V.F. Portrait, on page 184, Weintraub honors another friend, singer Paul Anka. "I could have never written this without [contributing editor] Rich Cohen. He's my muse," says Weintraub, who produced HBO's upcoming Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.

® William Langewiesche

In "The Man Who Pierced the Sky" (page 174), International Correspondent William Langewiesche re-creates skydiver Felix Baumgartner's world-record free fall, a feat made possible by the aerospace experts on the ground, 125,000 feet below. "This is more than a story about a great athlete who went supersonic," says Langewiesche. "It is also an examination of the strange, highly creative aviation community that has grown around Mojave, California."

® Dan Winters

"He exudes a confidence that some may perceive as arrogance," photographer Dan Winters says of Ken Brennan, the brassy private eye who worked the mysterious homicide case detailed in "The Body in Room 348" (page 164). But Winters saw the self-assurance for what it really was: "The intelligence and tenacity required to solve difficult cases."

© Kurt Eichenwald

In "Facebook Leans In" (page 156), Kurt Eichenwald chronicles the social network's promising future despite the recent unhappiness of disaffected shareholders. "Facebook has created an advertising medium that not only has never existed before but can't be replicated," Eichenwald explains. "If a Ford dealer wants a 37-year-old woman who purchased a red truck 423 days ago in Peoria, Facebook can get an ad to that person."

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1 Michael Callahan

With a murderers' row of editors and authors, Holiday magazine was a "textbook for aspiration," says Michael Callahan, executive editor of Philadelphia magazine. In "A Holiday for the Jet Set" (page 120), he recounts the history of the captivating monthly that introduced Americans to wanderlust: "It sparked a thirst for travel that has gone on unabated."

© Benjamin Wallace

Now that the blood and Grey Goose have been mopped up, Benjamin Wallace, in "A Very Exclusive Brawl" (page 110), offers a blow-by-blow account of last winter's barroom row at Manhattan's Double Seven. "Each side added considerable value that night: the Europeans as V.I.P. validators of the club's aura of exclusivity," says Wallace, "and [entrepreneur] Adam Hock as a spender of money and supplier of models."

® Justin Bishop and Hannah Thomson

Covering Vanity Fair's annual Oscar party is not for the starry-eyed. Photographers Justin Bishop and Hannah Thomson shot for 20 consecutive hours and handed over some 2,200 images, from which deputy editor Punch Hutton and associate art director Paloma Huerre curated the spreads, beginning on page 91. "We work really well together in an effort to make the magazine's Fairground photos as beautiful as the party," says Bishop.

© Business Department

Though the members of Vanity Fair's business department have 29 years of experience among them, the shifting media landscape has kept them on their toes. Editorial finance manager Geoff Collins has been at Conde Nast for 15 years, editorial business manager Amanda Meigher for 11, and assistant editorial business manager Alexandra Polkinghorn for 3. "The best thing about working with Amanda, Alex, and [managing editor] Chris Garrett is realizing that I don't know everything," says Collins. "That inspires me every day."

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