The 2022 Paramount+ limited series The Offer, about the making of The Godfather, is not a very good show. But it does contain a great performance from British actor Matthew Goode, who’s enormously enjoyable in the role of the coarse, cigar-chomping, visionary studio head and future convicted cocaine trafficker Robert Evans. Evans is a figure who looms large in the Hollywood pantheon, in no small part because he was an accomplished self-mythologizer. If you’re not already familiar with his legend, you’re in for a treat: Hadley Hall Meares breaks down all the highlights in the latest installment of her long-running Old Hollywood Book Club series, which revisits the industry’s juiciest and most revealing memoirs and autobiographies. Evans managed a late-in-life comeback after publishing his own canonical lookback, The Kid Stays in the Picture, which was later adapted into a rolicking documentary (and perhaps an even more entertaining episode of Documentary Now!). Dig in.
Elsewhere, Jenny Lumet revisits her father Sidney’s seminal film Dog Day Afternoon, and gets to know the stars now bringing it to Broadway; Ralph Jones chats with the man who taught Timothée Chalamet to play ping-pong (sorry, table tennis); and Erin Vanderhoof watched Megyn Kelly’s rant about Bad Bunny so you don’t have to. More tomorrow! |
HILLARY BUSIS,
SENIOR EDITOR |
“When your back’s against the wall, the impossible is possible.” The man behind Chinatown, The Godfather, Rosemary’s Baby, and endless anecdotes recalls his high highs and low lows with characteristic swagger in his peerless autobiography. |
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The longtime friends, who will star in a theatrical adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon, get real with Jenny Lumet, whose father directed the 1975 classic. |
The media personality turned red in the face over the course of her 10-minute rant about her disdain for the Puerto Rican rapper. |
Take it from Diego Schaaf, who taught the Marty Supreme star how to play: “I could see immediately the guy knows how to move; he’s in very good control of his body.” |
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For the March 2026 issue, VF’s Anna Peele spoke with the wife of Kanye West, who, for the first time, is speaking for herself. “She’s the person I’ve interviewed who is least like the public version of herself,” Peele shares. |
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