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The 2012 Hollywood Issue cover of Vanity Fair — shot by Mario Testino — features 11 "starlets" shot in satin and feathers for a "'20s and '30s boudoir feel." The ladies on the power panel — the left third, aka the actual newsstand cover — are Rooney Mara, Mia Wasikowska, Jennifer Lawrence and Jessica Chastain. Pariah's Adepero Oduye and Mission Impossible's Paula Patton are the only two ladies of color, and they are not on the power panel, but on the right two-thirds of the cover, which is folded up and tucked away when on newsstands. More »
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Tonight Vanity Fair announced that Christopher Hitchens, the polarizing author and essayist, died on Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston due to complications of esophageal cancer. He was 62. More »
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Apparently Lady Gaga is attracted to creative people, and it doesn't always end well. Sometimes, she tells Vanity Fair, they end up being jealous of her. And sometimes they're just mean: "I had a man say to me, ‘You will die alone in a house bigger than you know, with all your money and hit records, and you will die alone.'" Caught in a bad romance! Plus: Gentlemen who try to make up for treating her crappily by asking her to marry them are shit outta luck: More »
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Scarlett Johansson certainly wasn't happy about a hacker rifling through her email, but while many were scandalized by the revelation that ScarJo has photographed herself in the nude, she isn't ashamed of the pics. In fact, she knows she looked hot. From Vanity Fair: More »
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Back in 1981, Nell Scovell was selected by the Boston Globe to join a program that allowed college students to work as correspondents for their sports section. Scovell later went on to a very successful career in television writing and producing, working on shows like NCIS, Murphy Brown, and Monk. She was the first female to write a Simpsons episode, and she created and produced Sabrina the Teenage Witch. You may also remember her from a piece she penned for Vanity Fair about what it was like to be a writer for Late Night with David Letterman. More »
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Two big things jumped out at me when I saw Vanity Fair's new June cover. The Katy Perry profile is cover-teased as, "There's Even More Than Meets The Eye!" but, I must admit, what I saw first was her ample Meets The Eye. And then there was the Hillary Clinton cover line. "HILLARY CLINTON'S THIRD ACT: DEALING WITH OBAMA, SAVING THE WORLD, SNEAKING BROWNIES." More »
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Katy Perry is on the cover of Vanity Fair, and inside, she kind of explains the obsession with candy and fruit: She had no childhood. She tells Vanity Fair: "I didn't have a childhood." The only book she was allowed to read was the bible; she couldn't say words like "deviled eggs" "or "Dirt Devil." In addition, Perry reveals that her evangelical Christian parents sheltered her and fed her false information: "Growing up, seeing Planned Parenthood, it was considered like the abortion clinic. I was always scared I was going to get bombed when I was there. I didn't know it was more than that, that it was for women and their needs. I didn't have insurance, so I went there and I learned about birth control." These days, Katy and her parents have a different relationship: "I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree. They're excited about my success." Even though Katy has a tattoo that reads "Jesus," her spiritual life is more open. "I have always been the kid who's asked, 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like - 'why?' At this point, I'm just kind of a drifter. I'm open to possibility. My sponge is so big and wide and I'm soaking everything up and my mind has been radically expanded." [Vanity Fair via London Evening Standard] More »
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The cover of the 2011 Hollywood Issue of Vanity Fair was shot in Los Angeles and New York over the course of two days by photographer Norman Jean Roy. It features fifteen actors. One of whom is black. More »
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Vanity Fair has spiked a story about three women overseeing Hollywood coverage — Nikki Finke, Sharon Waxman, and Janice Min — "because it wasn't catty enough. They wanted a catfight story," according to The New York Post's anonymous insider. More »
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Oh, gosh, of course! So: the Ferraris are mainly red, the Jaguars are dark green, and the Porsches are black. This is what a lifetime of selling ties got Ralph Lifshitz. More »
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Wasn't he the inescapable face of 2010? Do we have to take him seriously now? Can you believe his name's in larger type than "Kennedy" and "Warren Buffett"? This is the same mag that loves Marilyn and Jackie O? More »
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• Joan Smalls — a model whose career we've been tracking for years — bagged an Estée Lauder contract. The Puerto Rican's ads will debut next spring. "We are rejoicing in the importance of global beauty," said Aerin Lauder. [WWD]

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Johnny tells Vanity Fair that while filming The Tourist, he and Angie avoided talking to each other in public, "because someone will take a photograph and it will be misconstrued and turned into some other shit." Unrelated: He looks hot. More »
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• Karl Lagerfeld gave the Pirelli calendar — which traditionally features "artistic" nude shots of top models — the theme of ancient Greek and Roman mythology. And he added one (clothed) Julianne Moore and, a Pirelli first, several (unclothed) men. [Telegraph]

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That's despite the best efforts of her Vanity Fair interviewer. She keeps it classy, eventually saying, "You can write anything you want. There is freedom of speech. If you want to say I'm a slut, go ahead. I don't care." More »
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• Krazy Kaiser Karl, on Kate Middleton and Prince William: "For the royals, apparently the royal blood is not in demand any longer." But no matter, because Middleton is "beautiful and elegant," and "chic in a way the position needs." [WWD]

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• Rachel Weisz and director Darren Aronofsky are separating after nine years together.

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• Lindsay Lohan has been reunited with her father Michael Lohan while in rehab; it's the first time they've really seen or spoken to each other face to face in seven months.

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Cher has opinions on everything, from Palin to aging to her transsexual son Chaz. Oh, and Dr. Pepper. A few of our favorite soundbites? More »
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Zach Galifianakis' Vanity Fair "Swimsuit Calendar" is actually just five shots of him wearing a red one-piece, but considering that the mag usually features scantily-clad female starlets and clothed male actors, it's a step in the right, amusing direction. More »
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• Annabelle Neilsen, on Alexander McQueen: "He was loved by so many, but felt loved by so few." A Scottish pipe band played at McQueen's memorial service, and Björk performed in a winged dress made of molded wood and feathers.

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The author of the controversial Sarah Palin profile in Vanity Fair is defending himself against charges of inaccuracy. As with all things Palin, some of this is murky. More »
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• Balenciaga asked Cindy Sherman to create a series of six of her trademark in-character self-portraits for the brand. In each, naturally Sherman wears Balenciaga head-to-toe. [The Cut]
• Pop covergirl Britney Spears might perform at the magazine's FNO party. [DFR]

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A highly determined hatchet job on Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair is already controversial: Roger Ebert called it "devastating" and "a scorcher." But others, notably several women in media, worry that the piece is playing into Palin's hands. More »
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Lindsay Lohan scored the October cover of Vanity Fair, and she tells Nancy Jo Sales that while she's made mistakes, she "was young and irresponsible." More »
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When shots of a male model named "Jo Calderone" hit the Internet, the immediate conclusion reached was that Calderone was Lady Gaga in drag. More »
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Here are 29 covers from the hallowed, heavy September fashion issues (click to soak it all in). So how do Vogue, Elle, and the smaller titles stack up? Let's put September to a full statistical analysis. More »
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With the September issue, the new editor of W is announcing his vision to the world. The cover theme is young Hollywood It girls, and somehow, unlike corporate sibling Vanity Fair, W thinks women of color can also be "it." More »
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According to Vanity Fair, this year's list has an "eclectic feel." Sure, okay, you can call it that when you include individuals like the flamboyant Lady Gaga and the dapper-yet-conservative Brian Williams. But not just anyone can make the list. More »
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• Emily Blunt told British Elle that Photoshop is over-used. "I don't like it when they stretch you out and make you all long and skinny. It makes you look like a Barbie. Who the hell looks like that?" [Elle UK]

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The PR honcho is so over revenge. In the contemporary Panopticon of social media, reality television, and e-mail forwards, Cutrone's rule is "don't ever put anything in writing and never say anything when anyone's around." Except for, apparently, this interview. More »
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We just got an email which read, "My Theory on the Inner Thigh Tattoo" and contained a pretty good argument: More »
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• The September issue cover choices are in: Harper's Bazaar chose Jennifer Aniston, Elle nabbed Julia Roberts, and, as predicted, Vogue went with Halle Berry. (Anyone wanna take odds on a "What Gabriel did was very uncool" cover line?)

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Before Scientology took hold, before they forgot their mantras, before the baby food diet, Vanity Fair reminds us of the weird period in the 1950s when half of Hollywood's wives were on medicinal LSD: More »
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In the new issue of Vanity Fair, Angelina Jolie talks about acting, family, Brad Pitt and, of course, daughter Shiloh and her penchant for masculine fashion. More »
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Remember the Young Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair, and its oddly homogenous cover? In the end, according to The Observer, sales weren't great for that issue. More »
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As imagined by Vanity Fair. Two more at the link: [Vanity Fair] More »
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"A Love Too Big To Last!" Proclaims Vanity Fair. (The words "too big" are plastered over Taylor's cleavage.) Though it might be more accurate to cite acute alcoholism, infidelity and ego as to why things didn't work out. More »
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• Lady Gaga spent two hours answering questions live online. "I need fashion for my music, and I need music for my fashion," she said. [SHOWStudio]
• That Gaga: Always destroying her Birkins. [Fashin]

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• Naomi Campbell allegedly insisted that model/Sean Penn date-r Jessica White not be admitted to her 40th birthday party. [P6]
• Cash-strapped Annie Leibovitz is shooting for Jones New York with Jessica Stam, Hillary Rhoda, and 20-odd other models today. Allegedly. [WWD]

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