The Montreal Mafia Murders; Santa Gets His Claws; Sumner Redstone’s Sexcapades

[And more to talk about by the fire…]( [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf)   [Vanity Fair's Cocktail Hour logo image | A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks]( [Santa Gets His Claws]( [By SAM KASHNER]( [The cinematic holiday once ruled by Irving Berlin, Charles Dickens, and It’s a Wonderful Life now belongs to a little 1983 sleeper. How A Christmas Story punctured the cozy sentimentality of Hollywood tradition.]( [R E A D M O R E]( [Buckingham Palace Explains Why It Won’t Return the Remains of an Ethiopian Prince]( [By ERIN VANDERHOOF]( [For more than a decade, campaigners have asked Britain to repatriate the body of Prince Alemayehu, who was buried at St. George’s Chapel when he died at 18 in 1879.]( [R E A D M O R E]( [Jerzy Kosinski stands on the street in front of a mirror facing the camera]( [Jerzy Kosinski’s Fall From Grace: Investigating a Literary Smear Campaign]( [By WAYNE LAWSON]( [Celebrated everywhere from Elaine’s to the Oscars, the Polish-born anti-Communist was the toast of Manhattan’s elite—until a swirl of questions about whether he wrote his own books sank his reputation. Three decades after Kosinski’s untimely death, an editor who worked with him reveals the complicated truth.]( [R E A D M O R E]( [Malia Andelin, Sumner Redstone and Les Moonves]( [The Cringey Sexcapades of a Horny Billionaire]( [By JAMES B. STEWART AND RACHEL ABRAMS]( [Media titan Sumner Redstone flexed his MTV ownership, rang his grandson at 3 a.m. for hookups with new women, and rewarded companions with stock options and TV shows.]( [R E A D M O R E]( [Can Anyone Fix California?]( [By JOE HAGAN]( [Climate. Housing. Crime. Depending on who you ask, the Golden State is a bellwether for progress, or a liberal hellscape. A journey through a land in crisis.]( [R E A D M O R E]( [The Montreal Mafia Murders: Blood, Gore, Cannolis, and Hockey Bags]( [By ADAM LEITH GOLLNER]( [A Fargo-esque tale of hapless hit men, Mob moles, and two naive pawns who were lured into their web.]( [R E A D M O R E]( [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]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.