Graydon Carter, the former Vanity fair Editor who launched the famous Oscars party of the magazine revealed that only one guest received a lifelong ban on the annual event.
Carter, 75, took over the monthly Condé Nast title in July 1992 when he was known for establishing the satirical magazine Spy With Kurt Andersen.
He is now ready to release a new memoir, When the passage was good, over his time at Vanity Fair, Including what he describes as the ‘toxic atmosphere’ of his first few years.
Only one person is banned from the famous Oscars gala, he wrote: Harvey Weinstein.
Page six Reports that Carter announced how the now exploited film producer and convicted rapist would regularly show up with ‘more guests than his invitation indicated and the staff would bully’.
“He was banned from everything because he was rude to the staff and I did not like it,” Carter told the publication, adding that the ban was temporarily lifted and then reinstated.
He said that this behavior was “not from drink … it was just inside him.”
The independent contacted Weinstein’s representative for comment.
Carter came up with the idea of hosting a new Oscars party after the death of the famous Hollywood agent Swifty Lazar, who represented legends such as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Cary Grant, Noel Coward and Truman Capote.
Until then, Lazar was known for his Oscar Night Galas thrown into Beverly Hills, an invitation to which it was considered just as important as making an appearance at the governor’s ball.
“I don’t know why I thought [Vanity Fair could fill the gap]Carter said. “I did not throw in any big parties up to that point. But I do believe that, if you think there is a possibility of failure, do not have too much eyes on it. ‘
The Vanity fair Some grew to the point that editor Sara Marks, who handled the guest list, became the object of ‘bribery, threats and even abuse’, but Carter was determined to ‘get as many movie stars with Oscar statues in one room as humanly possible’.
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Carter acts as editor of Vanity fair In 2017, he announced that he wanted to leave “while the magazine is upstairs”.
“I want to leave while in a lively form, both in the digital world and the printed world,” he said The New York Times. “And I wanted a third act – and I thought, time is precious.”
When the hallway was good: an editor’s adventures during the last golden era of magazinesis scheduled for release by Penguin Press on Tuesday 25 March.
