A Selection of Terrible Lines from Vogue's Amy Schumer Cover Story
Amy Schumer is on the cover of Vogue’s July issue, and the accompanying profile is, in typical Vogue cover story fashion, not great!
Jennifer Aniston's Harper's Bazaar Profile Deftly Side-Steps How Shitty Mother's Day Will Be
From Harper’s Bazaar’s Laura Brown comes another floridly written celebrity profile, this time featuring Jennifer Aniston and a very large bird.
Justin Bieber Reflects on His Monkey, Apologizes to 'The Mayan People or Whatever'
Justin Bieber is on the cover of GQ’s March issue, and the interview inside is beautifully, delightfully unsurprising.
Year of the Fanboy Profile: Writers Fawning Over Subjects Because They Don't Have a Choice
Five years ago, I was an editor at Vibe, and I got an assignment to interview Usher. It was my second time profiling him for a cover story, but this setting would be more intimate than the previous one—instead of meeting in a hotel conference room, we’d talk at an outdoor bar at the Sunset Marquis in Hollywood, just…
There Is Only One Way To Write A Charlize Theron Profile
Oh, is it time for another Charlize Theron profile? In which we will learn that she consumes alcohol and uses swears and ? It's been like three months since the last one, and easily scandalized editors seem to still be surprised that a woman could drink and say "fuck," so why not? In fact, looking back over the long…
