"Party of the Easily Manipulated"

In September, in one of the presidential campaign's more refreshing and unscripted moments, conservative columnist Peggy Noonan chatted with NBC's Chuck Todd about Sarah Palin, when both thought their microphones were off. Palin's addition to the Republican ticket, Noonan said, was "political bullshit."
Ten months later, Noonan's opinion of the resigning Alaska governor seems to have deteriorated further. In her Wall Street Journal column, Noonan just unloads on Palin.
Noonan, methodically and thoroughly, simply takes Palin apart, detailing the governor's inability to be thoughtful, unwillingness to learn what other think, reluctance to explain or even understand her own policy positions, and tendency to say things that are "scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence."

Related:
Vanity Fair article on Sarah Palin HERE
Republican pundits open fire on Sarah Palin
Levi Johnston says Sarah Palin resigned because she couldn't handle the pressure

Bernie Madoff's Secretary Spills The Beans

Bernie Madoff was a sexist, egomaniacal, short-tempered control freak—yet everybody loved him. That is according to his secretary of more than 20 years, Eleanor Squillari (above), who co-authored a 9,000-word article in the June issue of Vanity Fair
more w/video HERE

Heath's Beach - Depp's Tribute to Ledger

Johnny Depp has named a beach on his 45-acre private Bahamian island after the late “Dark Knight” star Heath Ledger. Depp named a patch of water on Little Hall’s Pond Cay “Heath’s Place,” he told the July issue of Vanity Fair. The isle features six beaches named after Depp’s partner, Vanessa Paradis, and their children, Lily Rose, 10, and Jack, 7, as well as his mentors, Hunter S. Thompson and Marlon Brando.
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Laetitia Bianca

Curvy supermodel Laetitia Casta goes blonde...Vanity Fair Italia...
more pics HERE

He-e-e-e-e-re’s Danny!

In the last couple of years he’s burst through the door like no one since Jack Nicholson in The Shining. In Pineapple Express, he was sick funny as Red, a freakish low-life dealer who never starts a fight he can’t lose in an extremely painful manner.
And in a cast of bright comic actors, he managed to steal a corner of Tropic Thunder for himself as the lunatic pyrotechnician.
Danny McBride has a special talent for taking your average everyday dumb-ass and making him into someone you hate to love. That’s what he’s been doing as the star of the new HBO comedy series East Bound and Down, in which he plays an ex-major-leaguer working as a gym teacher.
Vanity Fair article HERE

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White Hot Vanity Vixen

Furor is building over this shot of Slumdog Millionaire vixen, Freida Pinto in Vanity Fair with what appears to be much lighter-looking skin than she has in real life. Vanity Fair remains silent about whether it lightened Pinto's pigmentation.
more HERE

...she's one Pinto we'd like to rear-end!

The Great Entertainer

Tina Fey was voted The Associated Press' Entertainer of the Year, an annual honor chosen by newspaper editors and broadcast producers across the country. Fey was selected by AP members as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008.
more HERE

Kate is Bare in Vanity Fair

Winslet was channeling the Catherine Deneuve character from Belle de Jour, about a housewife moonlighting as a daytime prostitute.

Kate Winslet bares it all -- and then some -- in the December 2008 issue of "Vanity Fair," talking about why she needs coffee and a ciggie in the morning, what she thought about husband Sam Mendes when they first met, how it feels to have five Oscar nominations and how much she really, really wants to WIN this year.

Parody v. Reality

If you found last week's real cover of The New Yorker magazine offensive because of the way it depicted Barack and Michelle Obama, then you may also take issue with this fake cover of Vanity Fair.
The portrait on the wall appears to be President Bush. The document burning in the fireplace is the Constitution. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who turns 72 soon, is using a walker and has a bandage on his head (presumably a reference to his battles against skin cancer). His wife Cindy, who overcame an addiction to painkillers, is holding pill bottles.
USA Today article is HERE

...thing is, this one is less of a parody, isn't it?

The Faris of Them All

Anna Faris does her best Jean Harlow in the July 2008 edition of Vanity Fair magazine...
slideshow HERE

Chinese Disney AD Campaign

So Disney sends Miley Cyrus to her room due to a classy yet titillating Vanity Fair photo shoot, but doesn't seem to have an issue with their own pedophile inspired billboards...interesting double standard over at the house of mouse...
more HERE

I think I just heard Walt spinning around in his CRYO TANK...again...

Vanity Fair releases video of Miley Cyrus photo shoot

Getting Hitched

Alfred Hitchcock created some of the most arresting images in film history. For this year’s Vanity Fair magazine's Hollywood Portfolio, 21 of the finest actors working today have joined with four regular VF photographers to re-create 11 of Hitchcock’s most iconic scenes.
That's Seth Rogen ('Knocked Up'; 'Superbad') as Cary Grant in 'North By Northwest' above.
watch the 'making of' video HERE