A profile of Chris Evans, star of the upcoming Captain America:

At this point, which was a…number of drinks in, it was easy to forget that it really was an interview, and I'd be lying if I said it didn't cross my mind that something might happen (and that we'd go to the Oscars and get married and have babies forever until we died?). But there was always the question of how much of it was truly Chris Evans, and whom I should pretend to be in response.

The rise, fall and stubborn survival of a teenage Internet celebrity who discovered that the real world can be a very scary place.

On what you do when you can do whatever what you want.

On Elizabeth Taylor at the height of her fame.

Is Dr. Drew’s “Celebrity Rehab” therapy or tabloid voyeurism?

The comedian and veteran of MTV’s The State on a peculiar brand of stardom. “Often people would be like, I’m such a big fan of your work. I think you’re amazing. I want to have a career like yours. And I’m like, great, can you buy me a slice of pizza?”

Six months after playing an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, a rambling Dylan holds forth on style, songwriting, and fame. “People have one great blessing—obscurity—and not really too many people are thankful for it.”

On the dilemmas facing a (very famous) working mother in New York City. “It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam—which, let me make it very clear, I have not done—than it is to speak honestly about this topic.”

Reporting from inside the Church’s Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles.

A profile of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, written at the midpoint of his career.

A profile of director Sofia Coppola.

A profile of Winona Ryder.

A profile of 12-year-old actress Elle Fanning, Dakota’s sister.

A profile of the perpetually disappointed Alec Baldwin.

Where crazy things seem normal and normal things seem crazy.

Christian Audigier is the man behind Von Dutch and Ed Hardy. The massive succes of his garish and expensive creations may say more about the power of celebrity than about fashion.

An awkward journalist-Russell Crowe friendship turns even more awkward.

The champ is now a vegan, claims to be broke, and says he feels freer than ever before. “I have this uncanny ability to look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘This is a pig. You are a fucking piece of shit.’”