Grimes on Mars, Music, and Musk; Allegra Gucci’s Tell-All; Lewis Hamilton Looks Ahead

  [The best Vanity Fair stories of 2022.]( [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf)   [Vanity Fair's Cocktail Hour logo image]( Today, Cocktail Hour continues the countdown of 2022’s most popular stories. Revisit revealing celebrity profiles (Grimes’s secret baby!), an inside look at Jeff Bezos’s billion-dollar TV series, and more. [Image may contain: Paul America, Human, Person, Clothing, Apparel, and Joanne Woodward]( [Paul Newman Says Wife Joanne Woodward Turned Him Into a “Sexual Creature” in Posthumous Memoir]( [The sex symbol confessed that “girls thought I was a joke—a happy buffoon,” before he met his wife.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( [Image may contain: Clothing, Apparel, Night Life, Human, and Person]( [“Infamy Is Kind of Fun”: Grimes on Music, Mars, and Her Secret New Baby With Elon Musk]( [The visionary pop star holds nothing back, talking with Vanity Fair about everything under the sun, including her thrilling upcoming album, Book 1.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( [Image may contain: Human, Person, and Finger]( [Allegra Gucci Speaks to Vanity Fair About Her Mother, Her New Book, and What She Thinks of House of Gucci]( [The daughter of Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani was overwhelmed as a child by a wave of tragedy and looked for “a gasp of air to breathe, even as sharks circled all around.” Now, she tells Vanity Fair Italia editor Simone Marchetti why she is breaking her silence in a shocking book.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( [Image may contain: Water, Outdoors, Human, Sport, Sports, Swimming, Person, and Ripple]( [Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series Rises: Inside The Rings of Power]( [One show to rule them all—the first look at a billion-dollar saga set thousands of years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary trilogy.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( [Image may contain: Human, Person, Advertisement, and Poster]( [“This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy]( [Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a VF investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( [Image may contain: Lighting, Human, Person, and Lewis Hamilton]( [Lewis Hamilton: The F1 Superstar on Racism, His Future, and the Shocker That Cost Him a Championship]( [The maverick driver can handle anything. But spiders. And traffic.]( [R E A D M O R E »]( Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now]( [Vanity Fair Logo](www.vanityfair.com) [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe](newsletter=vf) Copyright © Condé Nast 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.