Graydon Carter and The Editor’s Eye
Fail Better with David Duchovny
Grace Cohen-Chen
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's morning in New York. |
| 0:02.8 | Oh, God. |
| 0:06.2 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Mandy Patinkin. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Catherine Grady. |
| 0:09.8 | And we have a new podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | It's called Don't Listen to Us. |
| 0:14.1 | Many of you've asked for our advice. |
| 0:16.1 | Tell me, what is wrong with you people? |
| 0:19.2 | Don't listen to us. |
| 0:20.3 | Our Take It or Leave a Device show every Wednesday out now. |
| 0:24.7 | A Lemonada Media Original. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm David Dukovni, and this has Failed Better, a show where failure, not success, shapes who we are. |
| 0:44.5 | Graydon Carter is the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, where he spent 25 years overseeing countless stories and photo shoots that became cultural touchstones. |
| 0:54.4 | Graydon's influence was instrumental in popularizing the magazine's unique style, |
| 0:58.8 | from candid portraits of Hollywood icons to bold investigative pieces. |
| 1:03.8 | Vanity Fair's content became a must-read under his direction. |
| 1:07.6 | I was lucky enough to grace the cover, June 1998, photographed by the great Annie Leibowitz, |
| 1:15.4 | who proceeded to glue dead flies all over my face. |
| 1:19.7 | I never looked better. |
| 1:20.9 | He was also behind what's considered one of the most exclusive soires in the entertainment world, |
| 1:25.7 | the Vanity Fair Oscar party. |
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