The above is Vanity Fair’s 17th annual Hollywood issue. From the magazine’s website, I glean that they’re hoping to recover from last year’s mess of ‘Teenage/ 20-something White Girls Of Whom You May Have Heard’; that cover that garnered screams of ‘that’s racist’, and even louder yells of ‘that’s lazy’, after featuring only young White women for the second year in a row. The magazine claims they ‘Went back to the basics; no teenagers, no penguins, no [full] nudity, just the most exciting actors and actresses of the moment.’ This is one of those annoying fold-out covers. The front-facing part features an oddly-aged Anne Hathaway and her plunging neckline, Jakey Poo, James Franco, and Ryan Reynolds. I can’t even… Reynolds? Really? I quite like the guy, but ugh. There are others over the fold (shown here). Defamer mocks the cover, as a poor recovery from the last (seen here), with their post entitled, ‘Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue Takes a Stab at Diversity.’ They point out that there are ’1.5 African-Americans on the cover. That’s up from 0.25 African-Americans last year.’ This is referring to The Hurt Locker’s Anthony Mackie, and Rashida Jones whose father, Quincy Jones, is black and mother, Peggy Lipton, is Jewish. From left to right, the cover shows: Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, James Franco, Jennifer Lawrence, Anthony Mackie, Olivia Wilde, Jesse Eisenberg, Mila Kunis, Robert Duvall, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Garrett Hedlund and Noomi Rapace. There’s the full cover and the inside page in larger sizes in the gallery. See also a behind-the-scenes video.
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