Defamer
With all the reverence paid to the roll-out of Vanity Fair's annual Hollywood issue, you'd expect that each subscriber would have his or her magazine delivered by a battalion of cherubim, an angelic cohort ready to blast triumphantly their celestial horns the moment one first unfurls the cover gatefold. This year's cover certainly delivers the accompanying flare of dazzling light, courtesy of the reflective properties of Scarlett Johansson's alabaster flesh, but with The Rack artfully obscured by an arm, no one will go blind from a long-awaited flash of her celebrated bosom. Much was made of Rachel McAdams' exit from the cover shoot, a conniption of modesty that resulted in Tom Ford, the special issue's art director, being inserted into her place. Only our imaginations can help us gauge the aesthetic impact of this distressing change; McAdam's presence would likely have elevated the cover to first-rate masturbatory material for the Hollywood obsessed. Instead, we get a pasty Johansson trying to ignore the well-dressed gay dude about to chew off Keira Knightley's earlobe. And if the cover hasn't already dampened your desire enough on its own, if you glance at it quickly, you could swear photographer Annie Leibovitz has perfectly captured the magic moment before Jeremy Piven moves a boozy three-way from the living room floor to the heart-shaped waterbed in the boudoir.
Bonus: If the cover hasn't fully satisfied you, there's some thrilling behind-the-scenes video of Johansson and Knightley lounging around the shoot in bathrobes.
- Johansson, Knightley Bare All for Magazine [AP]
- Previously: Rachel McAdams Flees Tom Ford’s Vanity Fair Nudie Shoot [Defamer]
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In the spirit of the Oscar billboard depicting a statuette dangling from a tuxedo zipper, VF comes up with an apt metaphor for this year's Academy Awards. With Brokeback, Capote, Transamerica and Good Night and Good Luck taking center stage, the gay tempter butts in on the traditional female glamour.
Tom, take a hike. We are sooooo tired of you and your chest hair.
TV Guide's Angel Cohn wrote in 2003: "(Scarlett) admits director Sofia Coppola had some convincing to do on the day they shot (the infmaous underwear scene in "Lost in Translation"): I said, 'Sofia, I don't want to wear sheer underwear because I've just been eating a lot of [Japanese udon noodles], and I'm bloated. I just don't want to do it. Can't we just use regular underwear with my ass crack [showing]?'" "In response, Coppola assuaged Johansson's fears about the panties by modeling them for her! 'Sofia's got such a nice figure,' Johansson says. I thought, 'Wow, if my ass is going to look like that in those underwear, get them on me.'" It is a slippery slope from sheer panties in an independent film to laying doggo, ass-crack bared on the cover of the King of all Glossies.
I'm with SecureLocation. I am so sick of Tom Ford and his chest. Does the man not own a shirt with more than three buttons? Why, Annie, why?
At first glance, I totally thought it was Piven. I'm not sure if Tom Ford is better or worse. Probably better. No, worse. No, same. What the hell's wrong with Rachel McAdams?
Didn't you see her nip slip about a month ago? She has hairy nipples.
she's Canadian. I can say that, too, 'cause some of my best friends are Canadian.
Where are the Gorilla Grrls when you need them--2 naked young starlets and a fully clothed man eating one of them? So very liberated.
But artster, it's a fully clothed gay man. So it's subversive. Key distinction.
here here artster!
thank you
In a textbook case of NIMBYism, the fashion icon Tom Ford has launched a private campaign to prevent oil exploration near his New Mexico ranch.
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