HE SAID, SHE SAID "Miley Cyrus is apologizing to fans ahead of the release of a controversial photograph showing the 15-year-old Disney star semi-topless in the new issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands this week. 'I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be "artistic" and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed. … I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about.' Vanity Fair editors were quick to respond: 'Miley's parents and/or minders were on the set all day. Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley.'"
Miley Cyrus has gone topless for a photo shoot with Vanity Fair. She is 15 years old.
Behold Madonna's new Vanity Fair cover, which is a step up from her last two shoots. Sure, she still makes us feel uncomfortable, but at least she's not flashing her Britney.
Speaking of Brit, Madonna confessed to New York's Z100-FM that she will never sing "Like A Virgin" again unless there is a large sum of money involved. We imagine this is because the song reminds her of that notorious VMA kiss with Miss Spears.
But that doesn't mean she has given up on the trainwreck: "I usually work out to her record. I do a combination of pilates and dance aerobics." That's not too surprising, considering one look at Britney Spears is enough inspiration to work out for a lifetime.
The photo spreads are in from Vanity Fair's article about funny women. We don't care enough to read the entire piece, because we already know what it says.
The pictures do plenty of talking: Some of today's most popular female comedians — including Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig and Jenna Fischer — are featured in ground-breaking photos … dressed up as celebrities. Clever.
Vanity Fair is this month running yet another celebrity photo shoot and, guess what? For once, it's cool!
The concept was to recreate famous scenes from Alfred Hitchcock films and some of the resultant shots are beautiful. Finally, an idea good enough that it makes Annie Leibovitz and her dozen assistants seem interesting.
SCHMOSCARS LOSING FRIENDS Vanity Fair announced yesterday that it would not hold its annual Academy Award party…[Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon] Carter told The New York Times, 'A magazine like Vanity Fair is a group of writers and artists, and we are in solidarity with the writers and artists out there. Whether the strike is over or not, there are a lot of bruised feelings. I don't think it's appropriate for a big magazine from the East to come in and pretend nothing happened.'"
Remember that famous, famous, famous polar bear Knut, who only months ago graced the cover of Vanity Fair with Leonardo DiCaprio? Well, in a turn of events that has yielded the best metaphor ever for explaining Britney Spears, celebrity itself and indeed life in general, the coddling of Knut and his massive fame have caused him to become, according to experts, a "psychopath."
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In a profile with the egregiously uninspired title Heigl's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl (see what they did?), expresses regret about being in summer blockbuster Knocked Up, which she felt was sophomoric and "sexist."
"It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as goofy, fun-loving guys,” the actress — who just turned 29— tells January's Vanity Fair.
"It was hard for me to love the movie…"
We wonder if it's hard for her to love the Vanity Fair cover she's getting that never would have been had it not been for that "shrewish" turn, or the $300,000 payday that appended the film's production. Somehow we doubt it, but we're sure she cried all the way to the bank.
In her recent, tell-too-much interview with Vanity Fair, Nicole Kidman reveals that 17 years ago she miscarried Tom Cruise's child at the age of 23. This disclosure is the second of its kind; Kidman has previously discussed miscarrying another child with Cruise shortly after he filed for divorce in 2001.
Kidman says: “From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies. And we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic. And that's when it came that we would adopt Bella.
"There's a complicated background to that, given that I never speak much about many things. One day maybe that story will be told.”
How delightfully opaque!
Asked about his ex-wife's difficulty carrying children to term, Cruise said, "Many more young people shall die before I'm brought down." Quickly asked to explain himself, Cruise said, "Oh, nothing," and then turned into a bat.
After the jump, lots more from the Vanity Fair shoot.
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Remember when I told you that that Vanity Fair farce was the most ridiculous waste of star power and money in the history of celebrities supporting causes? Well that one's been upstaged. Above is the newest, biggest waste. Enjoy this cryptic Amnesty International spot of George Clooney dribbling a basketball. I hope they don't see this in Tibet.
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Remember when I told you that the Vanity Fair/Bono collaboration was purely wasteful bullshit? Well now the good, insightful, like-minded folks over at Radar have taken things a couple steps further and gathered data about exactly how wasteful that bullshit was. For instance: "The budget of a relatively cheap Hollywood blockbuster, $150 million, could buy enough mosquito netting to help prevent 30 million Africans from contracting malaria." And did you know that the budget for the photo shoot that produced the covers for that issue could have paid for thousands of computers for poor African children? Graydon, you got some 'splaining to do!
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Vanity Fair's July issue, an Africa-themed edition guest-edited by Bono, will feature 20 different star-studded cover photos taken by Annie Liebovitz. The goal of the shoot, Bono said, was to "bring some sex appeal to the idea of wanting to change the world." Here's a thought, Bono: try bringing some money to the idea of wanting to change the world.
To be sure, what this whole pitiful—surely catered—charade amounts to is nothing more than rich people with the best of intentions exerting very little effort in the hopes that it will make a difference. But despite their aspirations, the fact is that this gesture will probably prove to be relatively meaningless.
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• Let's just say the blogosphere is less than pleased with Jennifer Lopez make-up choices. [OAN, vaj face viaJunkiness]
• Lesbians love themselves some Penelope Cruz. And she loves them right back. [DListed]
• Get ready for a very Andy Warhol Vanity Fair. [Jossip]
• Look Rose McGowan dressed up as a bobble-head this weekend! [Hollyscoop]
• Possible Britney on the cover of maybe People. [JustJared]
• Kevin Federline is so desperate for attention that he's gone and gotten himself knocked up. [BWE]
• You may not know who Amber Tamblyn is, but here's her nipple. [Egotastic]
• Dear Britney, missed you at the reunion. Good luck with your million babies. Love, Justin and Christina. [ICYDK]
• Now Bam Margera says he did stick it to Jessica Simpson. And Steve-o masturbated on Nicole Richie's back. Charming. [CityRag]
• Never let it be said that InTouch will not take the exploitive route. Never. [Jossip]
• Borat will be on the cover of Vanity Fair. They know he's a character, right? [BWE]
• Is Clay Aiken gay? Read between the fabulous lines. [DListed]
• Lohan is back on the whole moving to London schtick. Just do it, I promise we won't mind. [Egotastic]
• Don't worry Gwyneth, we won't steal your babies soul. No reason to smash his face in. [PopSugar]
• I hope that Angelina bought the Banksy piece where live roaches are crawling on the altered Paris Hilton CD. [A Socialite's Life]
Okay, here are the highlights of the Suri Cruise Vanity Fair shoot. If you don't know what I'm talking about, well, welcome back to pop culture. Otherwise, enjoy; I'll try not to talk about her for the rest of the day (no promises, there are always stories, people). She's cute and Katie Holmes, despite all evidence to the contrary, can still work her little Dawson's Creek smile when she needs to. Always the actress, she'll see her name in lights someday yet.
So, I guess we're doing this Suri Cruise photo shoot reveal one by one (unless I go out and scan the whole shebang for you…or someone else does). This is our first full body baby shot and the first mother/daughter shot, but little Suri, always the demure one, does not give us any nip slip. Still thrilling, eh?
Inside the magazine, Katie Holmes talks about how hard this has all been for her. I must say, whoever was in charge of telling Tom and Katie how to play this interview did a pretty damn good job. Katie in Vanity Fair:
"Some of the crap that's out there—the stuff that's said about my parents and my siblings [tabloid accounts implied that Katie's family did not hit it off with Tom]—it's really frustrating the amount of shit that's out there. And the stuff they say about Suri?! You shouldn't say that about us, and you can't say that about my child."
Holmes explains that the gossip "eats away at me because it's just not O.K.," but that she keeps up on it because "this is my future. This is my family, and I care so much about them. To see how someone as caring and good as Tom is—to see how things can just get so twisted and turned around. I mean, where does it come from?"…
"Actually, we were taking our own photos and always planned to release those at the right time." But "then all the craziness began," Holmes says. "This 'Where is Suri?' controversy. Tom and I looked at each other and said, 'What's going on?' We weren't trying to hide anything."
Well, you're still clearly trying to hide Suri's infant pattern baldness with that hair rug, Missy.
• Jessica Simpson won a car yesterday. Sigh. Cause she totally needs it. [DListed]
• Sooo, we're still totally gonna get leaked photos from this Vanity Fair Suri Cruise shoot, right? [Jossip]
• In case you missed the VMAs and want to look all intellectual like by reading rather than watching, here's a liveblog of the show. [DrunkenStepfather]
• These videos all broke my computer, but here is K-Fed's music video and a clip of the Brit Brit/Kevin skit from last night. [Celebitchy]
• Paris HIlton is a lovelorn chicken. Just go with it. [Cityrag]
• When celebrity babies fight, everyone wins. [BWE]
• 50 Cent calls himself the George W. Bush of Hip Hop. Fuck it, I give up. [Junkiness]
This is a black-haired runt, so, for all I know, it could be Suri.
It's time for the next edition of What Could Be Wrong With Suri. This time the information comes from someone who was supposedly present for this elusive Vanity Fair photoshoot. From today's UK PopBitch e-mail newsletter:
A source from the Vanity Fair shoot of Suri Cruise says the baby looks enough like Cruise and Holmes for their parentage to be plausible, but that it is a bit of a runt, and required 21 days of photography, plus three days of digital touching-up, before the magazine and celebrity parents had a cover image they liked.
21 days of photography? What does that even mean? It's an f-ing baby, don't they all basically look the same? So, they're telling us that what we're gonna get is a digital representation of what this "baby" might kind of look like if you squint from about the distance of a helicopter.
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