Have you heard the news? Graydon Carter is getting the Hollywood treatment, and the actor slated to portray the Vanity Fair chieftain, Bono-hugging, elitist restaurant opening editor-in-chief is none other than Jeff Bridges.

Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter's love of Hollywood is about to undergo a new test: Jeff Bridges will play Carter, renamed Clayton Harding, in the film adaptation of onetime Vanity Fair contributor Toby Young's book, "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People." The book depicted Young himself as status-obsessed and wildly inept, even as it skewered the New York media and celebrity scenes.

Ah, we can picture it now.

Graydon Carter, drinking White Russians and smoking hashish in the tub. Graydon Carter, getting overly defensive about his longtime lady-friend. Graydon Carter, joining an ultra competitive bowling league and holding a coffee tin containing his cremated friend's ashes.

The possibilities are endless!

But for now, we can't wait to see how Graydon (and, of course, Hitch) reacts to being portrayed as pretentious, snobby and self-serving epitomization of the media elite.**

**Which is, like, sooooo not the preferred nomenclature. Plebeian averse, please.

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