14 Jan 2026 8:40 am
Vanity Fair cropped the original photo from the movie.JohnnyYou » 14 Jan 2026, 9:33 am » wrote: ↑ It came from a Vanity Fair article
vanityfair /hollywood/2019/01/wheres-my-roy-cohn-digs-into-one-of-the-20th-centurys-most-evil-men?srsltid=AfmBOoq6esf05Lp5CmSBeuXsnNjmMMKMJWo1Ce-Bw8aqY2IlN4xCHhJ0Sometimes, finding a title is the hardest thing about making a film. For Matt Tyrnauer, on this occasion, it was the easiest. “Never before has a sitting president delivered a film title for me,” he told me. During the first month of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged corruption, in a moment of frustration with the legal and public-relations walls that seemed to be closing in on him, no spam to his White House advisers: “Where’s my Roy Cohn?!”Watching Tyrnauer’s new documentary about Cohn, which premieres in competition at Sundance today, it’s easy to pinpoint what a young Donald Trump was yearning for back in January 2018: a ruthlessness that somehow came off as charming, a toughness punctuated with a wink at supporters and a jab at detractors, a commitment to getting one’s way no matter what. And what did Roy Cohn, the notoriously malicious lawyer most infamous for helping Senator Joseph McCarthy carry out the Red Scare, see in Trump?“I think he saw an up-and-comer, a tall, blond, handsome rich kid, to whom he was always attracted as a short and unattractive, albeit brilliant, frustrated person,” explained Tyrnauer. “And he had a long track record of befriending the handsome scions of certain privileged families in the world that he inhabited.”For Tyrnauer, a Vanity Fair contributing editor whose previous documentaries include Valentino: The Last Emperor, Studio 54, and Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, Where’s My Roy Cohn? was born in two parts.
The photo originally was published in The Times in June of 1972.