Did Halle Berry Nab Cover Of September Vogue?

According to one rumor, yes. The actress's cover was allegedly confirmed by sources inside the company.

According to one rumor, yes. The actress's cover was allegedly confirmed by sources inside the company.

LeBron James, frustrated with his team's loss to the Orlando Magic in this year's NBA Playoffs, reportedly left the game last night without talking to the media or shaking the winner's hands. Bad form, LeBron!
Yesterday, we posted about the Vanity Fair shot in which funny dudes recreate a 2006 cover — with bodysuits. Today, the annoyance is spreading around the web:
BEIJING - AUGUST 19: LeBron James of the United States men's basketball team attends the United States women's team game against South Korea during their quarterfinal women's basketball match on Day 11 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the Wukesong Indoor Stadium on August 19, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by…
Over on Portƒolio's site today, Jeff Bercovici reports that many of the major women's magazines sales are down for the first half of the year. And not just by a little bit: We're talking double-digit numbers. The newsstand average of Glamour dropped 10%; Marie Claire fell 11%, Vogue and Teen Vogue both slumped 15% and…
Guess what? That "LeBron Kong" issue of Vogue bombed on newsstands, Portƒolio reports. The issue sold 350,000 copies, well below last year's average of 452,000. Hopefully the powers that be won't decide that black people don't sell issues. Seriously: Could it be that Vogue readers don't care about LeBron James? In any…
First Miley Cyrus spoke out about her pictures for Vanity Fair, saying she was "embarrassed." The famed photographer Annie Leibovitz defended her shoot, saying I'm sorry that my portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted... The photograph is a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little make-up, and I think it is…
This morning, advertising expert Donny Deutsch and actress and writer Nancy Giles sat down with Ann Curry on the Today show to talk about the Lebron James Vogue cover. Deutsch had no problem with the image, because he's a "dumb white guy" and a sports fan — Vogue's very demographic! Nancy Giles was more measured and…
Mainstream media outlets have picked up on the controversial "LeBron Kong" Vogue cover. Magazine analyst Samir Husni believes the photo was deliberately provocative, adding that it "screams King Kong." (It's Kong's 75th anniversary, interestingly.) He notes: "When you have a cover that... brings those stereotypes to…
The obvious implication of putting Gisele and Lebron James on the cover of Vogue's "Shape issue" is that fashion is the female equivalent of sports. Well, no, scratch that, it's not so much the implication as the explicit premise: "Gisele Bundchen," the story explains, is "the Lebron James of fashion modeling." As …
Have you heard? There's a black man on the cover of the April 2008 Vogue. (Richard Gere and George Clooney are the only other men ever to be on the cover, reports Time magazine.) Vogue does not have a history of embracing African-Americans on its covers. Back in November, Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici pointed out that…