LAURA M. HOLSON

February 6, 2020

As Long as There’s Been an Envelope, Oscar Parties Have Pushed It

It all began with a dinner dance. Well, a banquet, really. Long before Swifty Lazar corralled celebrities to join him at Spago or Graydon Carter reigned […]
February 2, 2020

Does Your Pet Really Need Cat TV or a Dog Playlist?

This is a story about Opie and Karma. Most days the two cats cuddle on a bed upstairs in the Saratoga Springs, N.Y., home of Aray […]
January 20, 2018

The National Rifle Association’s Telegenic Warrior

DALLAS — Dana Loesch has a biblical inscription tattooed on her forearm, a reference to a passage in the Book of Ephesians that calls for Christians […]
December 27, 2017

How to Interview a Celebrity Like a Celebrity

Advertisement George Wayne has a theory about why his celebrity column has been a hit at Vanity Fair for more than two decades: sex. “When you […]
December 9, 2017

Hey, ‘Budtender’: Los Angeles’s Power Brokers of Pot Crank Up the Kook

LOS ANGELES — Carli Jo Bidlingmaier was talking to a group of 20-somethings in a living room in the Bel-Air neighborhood here, weeks before the wildfires. […]
December 8, 2017

From Ho, Ho, Ho to No, No, No! Office Parties Feel the Chill

Remember the scene in the movie “Office Christmas Party” when the head of human resources grabbed the D.J.’s microphone and told employees to have sex in […]
November 9, 2017

André Balazs, Celebrity Hotelier, Is Accused of Groping

In November 2014, the married actors Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka attended a dinner party at the Chiltern Firehouse after the London premiere of “Horrible Bosses […]
September 26, 2017

Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No.

McMinnville, Ore. — “This is hostile territory. Everyone hates us.” I was riding up a steep hill near Highway 18 one August afternoon when Richard Wagner […]
July 27, 2017

The Year of the Goat

Scout Raskin owns three dogs, a cat, turtles and a pair of hermit crabs. Still, she longed for a country pet to round out the menagerie […]
April 13, 2017

Encounters: John Dean, Who Worked for Nixon, Sizes Up Trump

Encounters By LAURA M. HOLSON At a recent cocktail party in Manhattan, John Dean and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a zebra-print bench. Wherever Mr. Dean […]