My first week in New York in 1978, when I was about to start as a writer at Time. And my first week in the south of France after retiring from my job of 25 years as editor of Vanity Fair.
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Graydon Carter
b. 1950
Born in Canada, Graydon Carter, 75, moved to New York in 1978. He became a staff writer on Time magazine, followed by Life in 1983; in 1986, he co-founded the satirical publication Spy. He edited the New York Observer for a year before becoming editor of Vanity Fair in 1992; he retired in 2017. His memoir, When the Going Was Good, is out now. He lives in New York City with his third wife and has five children.
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Getting into a tense argument with Russell Crowe during one of the Vanity Fair Oscar parties.
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With dozens upon dozens of beautiful women weeping over my casket.
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Be generous and kind. Honestly, those two things did everything for me.
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