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In March 2011 ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' published a profile written by Buck of [[Asma al-Assad]], wife of Syrian President [[Bashar al-Assad]], which described her as "glamorous, young and very chic—the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies."<ref name=WPFarhi>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/vogue-profile-on-assads-wife-disappears/2012/04/25/gIQAgMWthT_story.html|work=The Washington Post|first=Paul|last=Farhi|title=Vogue's flattering article on Syria's first lady is scrubbed from Web|date=2012-04-26}}</ref> The piece caused a furor within foreign policy circles,<ref name=WPFarhi/> and media websites including ''[[The Atlantic]]'' attacked it as an ill-timed "[[puff piece]]" that ignored human rights abuses under Syria's [[Ba'athist]] regime.<ref name=Max>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/vogue-defends-profile-of-syrian-first-lady/71764/|title=Vogue Defends Profile of Syrian First Lady - Max Fisher - International|publisher=The Atlantic|date=2012-04-06|accessdate=2012-04-12}}</ref> In May 2011 the article was removed from ''Vogue's'' website<ref name=WPFarhi/> even though the magazine had earlier defended it, saying that the piece took "more than a year" to cultivate,<ref name=Max/> and a few months later, Buck's contract not renewed.<ref name=Jez>{{cite web|http://jezebel.com/5919553/kate-upton-tells-gq-about-that-time-her-top-fell-off|title=Rag Trade: Kate Upton Tells GQ About That Time Her Top Fell Off|Access date=27 August 2012}}</ref>
In March 2011 ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' published a profile written by Buck of [[Asma al-Assad]], wife of Syrian President [[Bashar al-Assad]], which described her as "glamorous, young and very chic—the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies."<ref name=WPFarhi>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/vogue-profile-on-assads-wife-disappears/2012/04/25/gIQAgMWthT_story.html|work=The Washington Post|first=Paul|last=Farhi|title=Vogue's flattering article on Syria's first lady is scrubbed from Web|date=2012-04-26}}</ref> The piece caused a furor within foreign policy circles,<ref name=WPFarhi/> and media websites including ''[[The Atlantic]]'' attacked it as an ill-timed "[[puff piece]]" that ignored human rights abuses under Syria's [[Ba'athist]] regime.<ref name=Max>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/vogue-defends-profile-of-syrian-first-lady/71764/|title=Vogue Defends Profile of Syrian First Lady - Max Fisher - International|publisher=The Atlantic|date=2012-04-06|accessdate=2012-04-12}}</ref> In May 2011 the article was removed from ''Vogue's'' website<ref name=WPFarhi/> even though the magazine had earlier defended it, saying that the piece took "more than a year" to cultivate,<ref name=Max/> and a few months later, Buck's contract not renewed.<ref name=Jez>{{cite web|http://jezebel.com/5919553/kate-upton-tells-gq-about-that-time-her-top-fell-off|title=Rag Trade: Kate Upton Tells GQ About That Time Her Top Fell Off|Access date=27 August 2012}}</ref>


More than a year after the profile first appeared, Buck published a critical article about the assignment in ''[[Daily Beast Newsweek|Newsweek]]'' in which she said she had been been "duped" by the Assads and that she initially had not wanted to take the assignment. She said that it had, among other things, "destroyed her livelihood."<ref name=DB>[http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/29/joan-juliet-buck-my-vogue-interview-with-syria-s-first-lady.html Joan Juliet Buck: Mrs. Assad Duped Me], [[The Daily Beast]], Jul 30, 2012</ref> Bloggers on ''[[The Guardian]]'' and ''[[The Tablet]]'' websites were critical of the ''Newsweek'' article, saying that Buck had known what she was doing when she accepted the assignment<ref name=Homa> Homa Khaleeli, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2012/jul/31/asma-alassad-vogue-blame-game?newsfeed=true Asma al-Assad and that Vogue piece: take two!], The Guardian "Shortcuts Blog", July 31, 2012</ref><ref>Adam Chandler, [http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/107926/joan-juliet-bucks-second-mistake Joan Juliet Buck’s Second Mistake], The Scroll: Tablet magazine on the news, July 31, 2012</ref> (although the former conceded that ''Vogue'' was equally to blame).<ref name=Homa/> Buck has since been vocal on [[Twitter]] about developments in Syria.<ref name="WWDmaza"/>
More than a year after the profile first appeared, Buck published a critical article about the assignment in ''[[Daily Beast Newsweek|Newsweek]]'' in which she said she had been been "duped" by the Assads and that she initially had not wanted to take the assignment. She said that it had, among other things, "destroyed her livelihood."<ref name=DB>[http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/29/joan-juliet-buck-my-vogue-interview-with-syria-s-first-lady.html Joan Juliet Buck: Mrs. Assad Duped Me], [[The Daily Beast]], Jul 30, 2012</ref> [[Michael Totten]], an award winning reporter and Blogger of the Year in 2006 by ''The Week'' magazine for his dispatches from the Middle East responded in [[World Affairs]] to her comments pointed out that although Assad was then not a war criminal when Buck wrote her piece, he was a totalitarian dictator. His state was a sponsor of radical Islamist terrorist organizations. That this information was well known and she had no excuse for writing such an article<ref>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blogs/michael-j-totten</ref>. Bloggers on ''[[The Guardian]]'' and ''[[The Tablet]]'' websites were critical of the ''Newsweek'' article, saying that Buck had known what she was doing when she accepted the assignment<ref name=Homa> Homa Khaleeli, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2012/jul/31/asma-alassad-vogue-blame-game?newsfeed=true Asma al-Assad and that Vogue piece: take two!], The Guardian "Shortcuts Blog", July 31, 2012</ref><ref>Adam Chandler, [http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/107926/joan-juliet-bucks-second-mistake Joan Juliet Buck’s Second Mistake], The Scroll: Tablet magazine on the news, July 31, 2012</ref> (although the former conceded that ''Vogue'' was equally to blame).<ref name=Homa/> Buck has since been vocal on [[Twitter]] about developments in Syria.<ref name="WWDmaza"/>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==

Revision as of 13:32, 28 August 2012

Joan Juliet Buck
Study for a portrait of Joan Juliet Buck by Reginald Gray. Paris 1980s(graphite on canvas)
Born
Los Angeles, California
Occupationwriter/editor/actor

Joan Juliet Buck is an American writer and actress. She was the editor in chief of French Vogue from 1994 to 2001,[1][2] the only American ever to have edited a French magazine.[3] Buck currently writes for T magazine, New York Times's fashion magazine,[4][5] and W,[6][7][8] and was contributing editor to Vogue and Vanity Fair for many years.

Background

She is the only child of Jules Buck (1917–2001), an American film producer, who moved his family to Europe in 1952 "in protest against political repression" in the United States.[9][1] Her mother was Joyce Ruth Getz (aka Joyce Gates, died 1996), a model, actress, and interior designer.[10][1] John Huston, for whom her father worked as a cameraman,[9] was the best man at her parents' 1945 wedding. Her first language was French.[11]

Career

Journalism

Dropping out of Sarah Lawrence College to work at Glamour magazine[8] as a book reviewer in 1968, Buck became the features editor of British Vogue at the age of 23, then a correspondent for Women's Wear Daily in London and Rome.[12] [13] Buck was an associate editor of the London Observer. A contributing editor to American Vogue from 1980 and also Vanity Fair,[8] her profiles and essays appeared in The New Yorker,[14] Condé Nast Traveler,[15] Travel + Leisure, and The Los Angeles Times Book Review. As movie critic for American Vogue from 1990 to 1994, she served on the New York Film Festival selection committee.[16] From 1994 to 2001 she was editor-in-chief of French Vogue,[8] where she doubled the circulation and produced thematic year-end issues on cinema, art, music, sex, theater, and quantum physics[2].

She has appeared in numerous documentaries, among them James Kent's Fashion Victim, the Killing of Gianni Versace, Mark Kidel's Paris Whorehouse and Architecture of the Imagination. Buck narrated James Crump's 2007 documentary Black, White, and Gray, about art collector Sam Wagstaff and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

Since 2011, Buck has been the consulting editor to Dasha Zhukova on her Garage magazine.[4][17][18]

Performance

She began studying acting in 2002, and appears in Nora Ephron's 2009 movie Julie and Julia as Madame Elisabeth Brassart, head of the famed Le Cordon Bleu cooking school.[19][20][21][2] She wrote about the experience of auditioning for Ephron after she passed away in June 2012.[11]

In November 2009, she appeared in an action theater piece with other actors for Performa09 at the White Slab Palace in New York City.[22] Curated by Michael Portnoy and Sarina Basta, it was part of a week of Weimar cabaret,[23] and in it, Buck and another actor held a conversation guided by the third actor's random flashing of prompt cards.

In 2010, Buck played Mrs. Prest in an adaptation of The Aspern Papers, a Henry James novella, directed by first-time filmmaker Mariana Hellmund.[24] [25]

In May 2012, she appeared with comedian Eugene Mirman, performers Ira Glass, Lucy Wainwright Roche, and Amber Tamblyn in a night of interpretations of the Joan of Arc narrative at the Littlefield, a performance space in Brooklyn, New York.[26]

As a child, Buck was cast as a Scots waif in the Walt Disney film Greyfriars Bobby.[27]

Novels and adaptations

Buck's novels about multicultural expatriates are The Only Place To Be published by Random House in 1982 and Daughter Of The Swan published by Weidenfeld in 1987.[28][29] She was one of a long line of writers commissioned to adapt D. M. Thomas's novel The White Hotel. Her version was singled out by Thomas as "faithful and intelligent" among versions that included ones by the writer himself and Dennis Potter but the film has never been made.[30]

In 2009, the story "the Ghost Of The Rue Jacob"[31] was a big hit at The Moth. In February 2012, Buck went on "The Unchained Tour" through Georgia with George Green, founder of The Moth.[32][33]

Internet

In 2008, she joined Liz Smith, Peggy Noonan, Joni Evans, Mary Wells Lawrence, Lesley Stahl, Whoopi Goldberg, Candice Bergen, and others in founding wowowow.com, a website for women.

Asma al-Assad Controversy

In March 2011 Vogue published a profile written by Buck of Asma al-Assad, wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which described her as "glamorous, young and very chic—the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies."[34] The piece caused a furor within foreign policy circles,[34] and media websites including The Atlantic attacked it as an ill-timed "puff piece" that ignored human rights abuses under Syria's Ba'athist regime.[35] In May 2011 the article was removed from Vogue's website[34] even though the magazine had earlier defended it, saying that the piece took "more than a year" to cultivate,[35] and a few months later, Buck's contract not renewed.[3]

More than a year after the profile first appeared, Buck published a critical article about the assignment in Newsweek in which she said she had been been "duped" by the Assads and that she initially had not wanted to take the assignment. She said that it had, among other things, "destroyed her livelihood."[36] Michael Totten, an award winning reporter and Blogger of the Year in 2006 by The Week magazine for his dispatches from the Middle East responded in World Affairs to her comments pointed out that although Assad was then not a war criminal when Buck wrote her piece, he was a totalitarian dictator. His state was a sponsor of radical Islamist terrorist organizations. That this information was well known and she had no excuse for writing such an article[37]. Bloggers on The Guardian and The Tablet websites were critical of the Newsweek article, saying that Buck had known what she was doing when she accepted the assignment[38][39] (although the former conceded that Vogue was equally to blame).[38] Buck has since been vocal on Twitter about developments in Syria.[8]

Personal life

In 1977 Buck married John Heilpern, a journalist and writer; they divorced in the 1980s.[40][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Jules Buck". London: Telegraph. 2001-08-10. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  2. ^ a b c d La Ferla, Ruth (2009-09-17). "Stepping Out of Fashion and Into Film, Without Glancing Back". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Rag Trade: Kate Upton Tells GQ About That Time Her Top Fell Off". {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "http://jezebel.com/5919553/kate-upton-tells-gq-about-that-time-her-top-fell-off" ignored (help)
  4. ^ a b "Rich as Creases". The New York Times. 2012-02-28. Retrieved 16 April 2012. Cite error: The named reference "NYTimes" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Full House". The New York Times. 2010-12-04. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  6. ^ "Taryn's World". Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  7. ^ "Blithe Spirit". Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Joan Juliet Buck: No Longer in Vogue". wwd.com. 2012-06-18. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  9. ^ a b Gussow, Mel (2001-07-26). "Jules Buck, 83, Film Producer And Battlefield Cameraman - New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  10. ^ Lauren Bacall (1996-08-21). "Obituary:Joyce Buck - People - News". London: The Independent. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  11. ^ a b Joan Juliet Buck (2012-06-27). "Joan Juliet Buck on Being in Awe of Nora Ephron". Newsweek the Daily Beast. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  12. ^ "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; French Vogue Names Editor - New York Times". Nytimes.com. 1994-04-11. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  13. ^ "Gale Contemporary Fashion: Missoni". Answers.com. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
  14. ^ "Contributor: Joan Juliet Buck". New Yorker. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
  15. ^ "Contributors: Joan Juliet Buck". Condé Nast Traveler. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
  16. ^ William Grimes (1993-08-26). "Film Festival '93: An Emphasis On the Epic, as Seen Personally - New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-06-09.
  17. ^ "Entrepreneur Dasha Zhukova Is Launching A Magazine Because She Can". TheGrindStone. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  18. ^ Helmore, Edward (2011-05-26). "Dasha, Dasha, Dasha". WSJ. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  19. ^ Pols, Mary (2009-08-17). "Julie & Julia: The Joy of Cooking". TIME. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  20. ^ Reiter, Amy. "Entertainment - entertainment, movies, tv, music, celebrity, Hollywood - latimes.com - latimes.com". Calendarlive.com. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  21. ^ Goldfarb, Michael. ""Julie & Julia" - France". Salon.com. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  22. ^ ""The PROMPT (a night club)"". Performa. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
  23. ^ http://kunstverein.us/programs/ Kunstverein programs
  24. ^ ""The Aspern Papers (2010)"". imdb.com. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
  25. ^ ""Mariana Hellmund"". LinkedIn.com. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
  26. ^ ""The Talent Show Brand Variety Show: The Shows"". The Talent Show. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
  27. ^ Greyfriars Bobby (1961) on imbd.com
  28. ^ "Daughter Of The Swan by Joan Juliet Buck 3.82 stars". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  29. ^ "Daughter Of The Swan by Joan Juliet Buck". Powell's Books. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  30. ^ DM Thomas (2004-08-28). "DM Thomas: My Hollywood hell | Film". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  31. ^ "The Moth: The Ghost of the Rue Jacob". HuffDuffer. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  32. ^ "The Unchained Tour Rides Again". Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  33. ^ "Unchained". Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  34. ^ a b c Farhi, Paul (2012-04-26). "Vogue's flattering article on Syria's first lady is scrubbed from Web". The Washington Post.
  35. ^ a b "Vogue Defends Profile of Syrian First Lady - Max Fisher - International". The Atlantic. 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  36. ^ Joan Juliet Buck: Mrs. Assad Duped Me, The Daily Beast, Jul 30, 2012
  37. ^ http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blogs/michael-j-totten
  38. ^ a b Homa Khaleeli, Asma al-Assad and that Vogue piece: take two!, The Guardian "Shortcuts Blog", July 31, 2012
  39. ^ Adam Chandler, Joan Juliet Buck’s Second Mistake, The Scroll: Tablet magazine on the news, July 31, 2012
  40. ^ [1][dead link]

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