If anyone deserves to take over the entertainment world, it’s Lena Waithe. Vanity Fair, or more pointedly the new Vanity Fair run by editor-in-chief Radhika Jones, agrees, picking Waithe as her first cover story for April. It’s a clarion call to the industry: This is the future of Hollywood

In a statement given to The Hollywood Reporter, a spokesperson for Vanity Fair confirmed the magazine Photoshopped (or whatever software they use as a verb) James Franco out of their annual Hollywood cover “after learning of misconduct allegations against him.”

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In Gabriel Sherman’s new profile of Steve Bannon for Vanity Fair, Bannon deflects the explicitly true suggestion that he has encouraged white supremacist and Nazi groups with an interesting anecdote.

It appears that no one in the Trump household had any desire for its demented paterfamilias to become president, including—but not limited to—his wife Melania, according to a new profile in Vanity Fair, as well as piles of empirical evidence.

Radhika Jones, the well regarded New York Times books editor, was just appointed as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair; she is its first woman editor since Tina Brown and, more significantly, the first Indian-American woman to helm a major glossy in America, ever.

Radhika Jones, editorial director of the books department at the New York TImes, will be the next editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, the Times reports. Jones is rumored to have beat out Adam Moss, the editor of New York; Janice Min, and Andrew Ross Sorkin—all of whose names were reportedly floated for the job.

It is truly the end of an era: Graydon Carter, the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, is stepping down in December, after 25 long years.

In a long interview with Vanity Fair’s Evgenia Peretz for their September cover, Angelina Jolie talks about her new movie, her children and that’s about it.

In high-end glossy magazines’ neverending quest to spotlight beautiful people and luxurious endeavors, occasionally they will focus on those whose wealth and beauty is perhaps ill-begotten—and in doing so, they will conveniently omit the unprettiest facts in an effort to project a certain proper well-heeled image.…

Here’s Serena Williams, pregnant and beautiful on the cover of Vanity Fair, shot by Annie Leibowitz, natch, with an accompanying cover story written by former leather enthusiast Buzz Bissinger that covers Serena and Alex Ohanian’s origin story in breathless, exacting detail.

This week kicks off the fortieth anniversary of the Star Wars franchise, which honestly seems to always be celebrating something. As a gift to to all of us, Vanity Fair shared their new covers online Tuesday, celebrating the cast with images taken by Annie Leibovitz. They include one of the last official portraits of…

We’ve a new development in one of the millennium’s most boring questions: Boobs—feminist or nah? Recently actress Emma Watson—a grown woman—appeared in Vanity Fair wearing an ensemble that exposes parts of her breasts. And now certain individuals are demanding that she hand over her Feminist Card for this most…

David Foster, award-winning composer/producer and Hollywood patriarch, never came off particularly well when he appeared on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which starred his now ex-wife Yolanda Hadid. He was portrayed on the show as sort of slimy and self-important; Yolanda fluttered around him, exerting a wild…

Vanity Fair’s annual “Hollywood” issue dropped Thursday, and features all ladies for the second year in a row! Can I get a “HELL YEAH”?! (HELL YEAH!!!) The cover, usually shot by Annie Leibovitz and usually featuring A-list actors at their most languid and well-dressed, draping themselves on walls, chairs, floors, or…

Today, President-Elect Donald Trump met with top editors at Condé Nast, several of whom have taken extremely adversarial stances against Trump (Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, who coined the term “short-fingered vulgarian,” perhaps most of all), in an off-the-record meeting.

Guys, how many more weeks are left in this year? What are the odds 2017 will bring about a greater national understanding of shade as well as fewer instances of people trying to bite Judge Brown’s steeze? Oh, incredibly low, you say? Perfect.

On Wednesday, Vanity Fair proclaimed in the headline of an extremely negative restaurant review that Trump Grill, the steakhouse in the lobby of Trump Tower, “Could Be the Worst Restaurant in America.” Author Tina Nguyen decried the restaurant’s “flaccid, gray Szechuan dumplings,” “French-ish paintings that look like…

Back in June, the journalist William D. Cohan published a lengthy piece in Vanity Fair that explored a heated dispute among the surviving heirs of the investment banker and billionaire Bruce Wasserstein, who died in 2009, and whose family owns New York magazine. As Jeremy Barr of Advertising Age pointed out today, …