Vanities Culture
W
ho better to serve as a tour guide
than a boundless enthusiast? In
the series The World According to Jeff
Goldblum (Disney+), the actor,
father, and pianist for his jazz band, The Mildred
Snitzer Orchestra, scours the globe for life’s little
joys, from ice cream to tattoos. The result, he
says, is “nothing if not overstimulating.” Here, he
shares some of his own favorite places and the
projects that brought him there.—KEZIAH WEIRON LOCATION
At Van Cleef & Arpels, haute
joaillerie often takes
a page from literature, with
collections based on such
eclectic texts as Grimms’ fairy
tales and the novels of Jules
Verne. Now, a new exhibition
at Milan’s Palazzo Reale
finds its curatorial framework
in journalist and novelist
Italo Calvino’s collection of
criticism, Six Memos
for the Next Millennium. More
than 400 jewelry pieces,
watches, and objets d’art—
Princess Grace of Monaco’s
77-plus-carat diamond tiara
and Elizabeth Taylor’s lion
necklace among them—will be
organized under the titles of
Calvino’s memos, including
“Lightness,” “Multiplicity,”
and “Exactitude,” and more
broadly into the three poetic
pillars of Van Cleef ’s heritage:
time, nature, and love.
—DAISY SHAW-ELLISAbove: Egyptian-inspired bracelet in platinum,
sapphires, rubies, emeralds, onyx, and
diamonds, 1924. To p : Pre-Columbian-inspired
necklace in yellow gold and lapis lazuli, 1971.BEYOND
Words
Kauai, Hawaii
HIKE THE NA PALI COAST
“I filmed the first two Jurassic Parks on Kauai. We also,
as a band, went to Oahu and played the Blue Note.”London
CATCH A SHOW AT THE OLD VIC
“I made The Tall Guy in London; I’ve done
theater in London—David Mamet’s Speed-the-
Plow. I stayed in the dressing room Laurence
Olivier and Peter O’Toole and Anthony
Hopkins were in. It was a delicious experience.”Rome
TOUR CINECITTÀ
Years before filming Wes Anderson’s
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou in
Rome, “I was on a publicity tour with
Michelle Pfeiffer on Into the Night
and we were taken to Cinecittà to watch
Fellini film a little bit of Ginger and
Fred with Marcello Mastroianni. Oh,
my God—can you imagine that?”ILLUSTRATIONS BY JORDAN ANDREW CARTERPortland, Oregon
EXPLORE NORTH AMERICA’S
ONLY RAIN FOREST
Goldblum has ventured to the Pacific
Northwest to film episodes of
Portlandia and T WATJG, and the film
The Mountain. “You will be
born again if you go there, I tell ya.”Pittsburgh
VISIT THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY
MUSIC HALL
“The band played at the Music Hall,
five minutes from the house
where I grew up. For T WATJG , we
went to the Artisan Cafe and
Tattoo Gallery, where once a year
they have Jeff Goldblum Day—
you can get Jeff Goldblum tattoos.”54 VANITY FAIR DECEMBER 2019
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATT BARNES (GOLDBLUM);FOR DETAILS, GO TO VF.COM/CREDITS