MAKE UP YOUR MIND • "Miley Cyrus doesn't regret her controversial, semi-topless Vanity Fair spread shot by Annie Leibovitz earlier this year. In fact, she says the pictures inspired her to want to be a photographer. … 'I just had to deal with that and just realize that I got to work with an amazing photographer,' she said. 'She was amazing and so talented and her lighting… I would love to work with her again. … That's what I want to do with my life. I would love to be a photographer.'"
YOU LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY • "A faint scar runs across Tina Fey's left cheek, the result of a violent cutting attack by a stranger when Fey was five. Her husband says, 'It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen.' You can hardly see the scar in person."
• A classy update on the girl who wants to auction off her virginity, as only Tyra Banks can do. [DListed]
• Heidi Klum cutes it up in a new Guitar Hero commercial. [HT]
• Kate Winslet is upset over accusations that she was Photoshopped on the cover of Vanity Fair. We're guessing Mariah Carey has something to say on the topic. [INO]
• Starlets stripping down to fight global poverty. [Yeeeah]
• We could have gone our whole lives without hearing about Seth Rogen's shaving habits. [ICYDK]
• Oops, Victoria Beckham forgot her pants! [PS]
News broke today that Vanity Fair and the National Security News Service are in a legal battle with the United States Navy over documents they believe prove John McCain's involvement in a car accident that injured or killed another person.
Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to have knowledge "developed from first-hand sources" of a car crash that involved then-Lt. McCain at the main gate of a Virginia naval base in 1964, according to legal filings. The incident has been largely, if not entirely, kept from the public. And in documents suing the Navy to release pertinent information, lawyers for the NS News Service allege that a cover-up may be at play
Yikes! But maybe not…
'US' READERS FINALLY KNOW HOW TO VOTE "Could Angelina Jolie be voting for Barack Obama this fall? 'Obama is fighting for international justice, he wants to intervene militarily in genocides abroad, and he wants to close down Guantanamo Bay,' she tells the German edition of Vanity Fair. 'They are things which could move me to vote for him, not his roots.'"
Graydon Carter has such a hard on right now, as Vanity Fair releases its most Vanity Fair-esque piece to date on the defrauded, jet-setting Raffaello Follieri. What makes the seven-page article so perfectly VF, with its mix of celebrity and scandal and a dash of eau de creep?
Celebrity photographer Anne Leibovitz, who's convinced everyone from John Lennon to Miley Cyrus to get naked for her camera, is allegedly as greedy as she is increasingly trite. To wit:
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Usually too bogged down by his own egomaniacal, impossibly-high expectations to enjoy or appreciate any career accolades that come his way, it’s sort of a shock to see Kanye West so genuinely overjoyed and humbled after Vanity Fair included him on its “International Best Dressed List.”
In fact, the honor has rendered him unable to adequately express himself on his blog.
MILEY CAN'T QUIT WHILE SHE'S AHEAD "[Miley] Cyrus is rumored to be interested in the lead role in Undiscovered Gyrl … which would be that of 'a lovable, lost suburban girl who descends into a life of reckless partying and promiscuity.' The source says if Cyrus did take the part, you’d be seeing a lot more of Cyrus than what appeared in the Vanity Fair photos. 'There would definitely be nude scenes,' says the source."
Gisele Bundchen let it all hang out for the latest issue of V Magazine and then actually formed some coherent sentences during an interview. Small victories. Despite answering the question of what she's most passionate about with a simple “the destruction of our planet," Gisele had plenty to say when it came to the Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair scandal:
Can you believe this is news? It’s ridiculous. And the politicians aren’t going to create any laws about this [kind of media saturation]. They’re very happy with it. They can go around doing what they want and no one cares because we’re more concerned about some 15-year-old girl holding a sheet in a picture. No one cares about what [the politicians are] screwing up, or how much money is being lost.
The Miley Cyrus topless debacle yielded the most letters Vanity Fair has ever received in response to a particular story. Currently, the count is at 915 "mostly negative" missives.
Ann Shoket is not on the good side of Gossip Girl Blake Lively. The blonde starlet — tragically seen in the sequel to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants — pops up on Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan this month, but her cover role on Shoket’s Seventeen has her pissed. Even her rep says she’s not happy about it!
Except, well, this isn’t the worst cover on which we’ve ever seen Lively. In fact, we have three candidates that are at least equally terrible.
Isn't it sad/funny/expected but still shocking/gruesome how Hollywood gives expiration dates even to the stars it likes?
And people are mystified when pretty young girls in the spotlight kill themselves.
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Miley Cyrus, hellion and Hannah Montana, says she believes her now infamous "My First Cheesecake" photo shoot for Vanity Fair did nothing but make her "even more relateable":
I don’t think people will look at me any differently because they’re like, "You know what, I’m going to do stupid stuff too."
Yes, because what little girl can't relate to being made a sex object by the nation's most revered modern photographer in one of the nation's most widely read magazines. It's this American life!
Well, this is unsettling:
Miley Cyrus' pics in Vanity Fair may have been scandalous, but she should look on the bright side, because now she has a whole new crop of admirers! Only problem is, they're felons.
Miley has received thousands of love letters from prison inmates since the magazine hit newsstands.
Isn't the prison system wonderful? When the cons aren't assaulting each other, they're fixating on 15-year-old girls. How rehabilitating and conducive to a better America.
Billy Ray Cyrus stopped by The Today Show to speak about raising a famous daughter, but he seemed more interested in spewing off as many analogies as humanly possible. Our favorite: "The turkey with the longest neck's gonna be the one everybody's shootin' at." We're thinking of getting it crocheted on a pillow to pass down from generation to generation. CONTINUED »
Gina Gershon is lying in the same bed as Bill Clinton. But not in the way you think!
In fact, if you were thinking that way, then you’ll understand the whole reason Gershon is complaining about Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair article in the same way Clinton was: Because she claims the insinuations made about her – that she enjoyed the romantic company of the ex-president – aren’t true.
THE ODD COUPLE "Miley Cyrus isn't letting her semi-topless Vanity Fair photo scandal slow her down. In between concerts and filming Hannah Montana, she may also be gearing up to record a duet with John Travolta."
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