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The Kiddies Are Abandoning Miley Cyrus!
Hannah Montana, the kids' show starring exploited teenager (or, alternately, picture-posing strumpet) Miley Cyrus, ran its first new episode in two months last Sunday. And the ratings were down 24%! Could this be the end for our hero—done in by Annie Leibovitz, Vanity Fair, and a child-unfriendly wave of bad publicity? More »
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The Miley Cyrus Reaction Roundup
This whole Miley Cyrus incident, a young pop star being immodestly scandalized by Vanity Fair photos: it's so complicated! How should you feel? Who should you blame? Who is the biggest jerk in this whole sordid incident? Where should America direct its momentary outrage so that it can return to playing video games, eating snack foods, and conducting imperial conquest? Allow us to help. After the jump, a roundup of all the reaction from our most important opinion leaders to the Biggest Media Celebrity Scandal Of The Final Quarter Of April 2008. Was Rosie O'Donnell right, that we all need to lay off the heroic and intimidating Annie Leibovitz? Or is Germaine Greer, a Guardian critic, correct in predicting the beginning of Miley's existential decline? It's quite the heated argument: More »
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Stephen Colbert's Advice To Miley Cyrus
Today's absurd scandal about Miley Cyrus' topless photo shoot for Vanity Fair apparently broke too late to make it into Jon Stewart's Daily Show (as with the Eliot Spitzer hooker scandal last month), but Stephen Colbert's later broadcast of sibling satire show Colbert Report did manage to have some fun with the 15-year-old pop star's predicament. Colbert's jokey jabs at VF photographer Annie Leibovitz don't cut too deeply into the heart of the scandal, but the late-night comedian gets points for fast turnaround. Video after the jump. More »
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Why It's Annie Leibovitz's Fault
Annie Leibovitz: come off it. Really now. As dirty as the media business is—and particularly the celebrity media business, which Vanity Fair revels in under a sheen of high class pretension—there are some bare, bottom-level standards to which we all must adhere. One of those is, "Do not sexually exploit minors." You want to economically exploit a minor? Fine. That's a grand American tradition. But trotting out 15 year-old Miley Cyrus with pouty lips, tousled hair, and only a bedsheet is just bad. Bad! Of course Vanity Fair bears the responsibility for publishing it. But the idea for the shoot can be traced to the tired celeb photographer Leibovitz (who is sorry it's been "misinterpreted"). And her narrow, robotically transgressive act has now played itself out. This incident, and Leibovitz's entire style, is less shocking than it is boring—but with a 15-year-old involved, it's boring and creepy. More »
vogue's kong cover
I had thought this was a fuss about nothing. But when you look at the images side-by-side, it's pretty obvious that Vogue's latest cover featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen is indeed a sly homage by Annie Leibovitz to King Kong. In fact, the references by photographer Annie Leibowitz to one image in particular, identified earlier this week by a tipster to Jezebel, are unmistakeable. This First World War army recruitment poster—urging loyal Americans to destroy a "mad brute"—features a Kong-like gorilla with a right arm holding a weapon and a left gripping a virginal white beauty. It's much like the position basketball star LeBron assumes on the Vogue cover.
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Time For Leibovitz To Confess
I had thought this was a fuss about nothing. But when you look at the images side-by-side, it's pretty obvious that Vogue's latest cover featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen is indeed a sly homage by Annie Leibovitz to King Kong. In fact, the references by photographer Annie Leibowitz to one image in particular, identified earlier this week by a tipster to Jezebel, are unmistakeable. This First World War army recruitment poster—urging loyal Americans to destroy a "mad brute"—features a Kong-like gorilla with a right arm holding a weapon and a left gripping a virginal white beauty. It's much like the position basketball star LeBron assumes on the Vogue cover.
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Annie Leibovitz Portraits Are Kind Of Dull
Here are some ways to know you've arrived: Winning an award, having your own Wikipedia page and getting your photo taken by Annie Leibovitz. You remember Annie, the one who takes all those photos for Vanity Fair and HBO. But as beautiful as her staged photos look on the cover of a magazine or on the side of a bus, her second major gallery show has more or less proved that their appeal is just commercial. More »
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Actress Does Retro Funky Dance In Middle of Street
[Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Noth on an Annie Leibovitz promotion shoot for the Sex and the City movie; image via INF]
Dude in charge of the BBC channel responsible for that whole "the Queen blew off Annie Leibovitz" story may lose his job. They're actually calling it Crowngate. It's kind of adorable how seriously the English take that whole monarchy thing. [Guardian]
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Angry Queen Really Stormed IN
Maybe the Queen didn't storm off in a huff during that photoshoot with Annie Leibovitz after all. Or maybe the BBC is just worried about getting its charter renewed. Either way, the organization has apologized and "admitted the sequence of events in a BBC1 documentary about the Queen had been misrepresented and would not be shown that way in the final programme." Turns out the old lady was actually bitching and moaning as she arrived for the shoot. That's how we like our monarchs: surly from the get-go.
BBC apologises for 'misrepresenting' Queen [Guardian]
The Queen of England goes off on Annie Leibovitz (on a photoshoot for Vanity Fair) much the way we've always wanted to ourselves. "TV cameras follow the Queen storming off with an official lifting the large train of her blue velvet cape off the floor as the Queen tells her lady-in-waiting: 'I'm not changing anything. I've had enough dressing like this thank you very much.'" Heh. [Daily Mail]
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Media Bubble: Telephone Screamers
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By Popular Demand: Susan Sontag's Box Lunch
You ask for pubes, we give you pubes. After the jump, the nekkid picture of Annie Leibovitz from this month's Vanity Fair. Unlike Newsweek, the mag does mention Annie's Sapphic splendor. Good for them. [WARNING: Image not safe for work, or anyone with a delicate constitution.] More »
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Media Bubble: Lickety Splits
• Newsweek stands resolute against Gawker's jeers that "while [its recent Annie Leibovitz] story tells of Leibovitz's life and her long-term friendship with the late Susan Sontag, it skips around the question of Leibovitz's sexual orientation." As long as we're jeering, how come there was no mention of Annie running off with the nanny? [NYP]• No uncomfortable questions were asked at the Bill Keller/Patricia Dunn dinner. Thank God, that would be so tactless. [NYO]
• For those of you who find Rachael Ray insufferably cloying, which should be all of you, maybe Gourmet's Ruth Reichl will be an improvement. RELATED: We get it, Bill Buford, you like cooking. [WWD]
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Dancing Around the Issue: Annie Leibovitz
This week's edition of Newsweek features a cover story on famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, whose new collection, A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005, features many of Leibovitz's personal photos, both of her extended family and "the person she was closest to for that decade and a half—the late writer and critic Susan Sontag." The article then goes on to devote a decent amount of inches to Leibovitz's relationship with Sontag, telling us how close they were, how much Sontag mattered to Leibovitz, how they never lived together but had apartments facing each other's, how they would make sweet, sweet love on the floor of West Village pleasure dome. Wait, no — not that last part. In fact, Newsweek so carefully avoids any such mention to the point of absurdity: More »
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· Unik and Kiki, the Haitians who made Serafina so hot on Wednesdays, have taken over the former Chinghalle restaurant on Gansevoort Street and plan to reopen it as a nightclub. [Page Six]
· L.A. plastic surgeons say patients want Liv Tyler's lips, Halle Berry's eyes, Angelina Jolie's body, DiCaprio's cheeks, Russell Crowe's chin. [Cindy Adams]
· Blind item: "What visionary mother is interviewing potential new nannies because she left her partner for the last one?" ("That's too many mommies," one observer said wryly.) [NY Daily News]
· Flashback: Annie Leibovitz leaves Susan Sontag for the nanny. [Page Six]
Gossip roundup
· Manhattan publicists Steven Hall and Sam Firer, owners of Thatbar, say their paperwork is in place to host five smoke-filled events this year as part of the city's exemption for promotional events. The first is May 11. [Page Six]· Unik and Kiki, the Haitians who made Serafina so hot on Wednesdays, have taken over the former Chinghalle restaurant on Gansevoort Street and plan to reopen it as a nightclub. [Page Six]
· L.A. plastic surgeons say patients want Liv Tyler's lips, Halle Berry's eyes, Angelina Jolie's body, DiCaprio's cheeks, Russell Crowe's chin. [Cindy Adams]
· Blind item: "What visionary mother is interviewing potential new nannies because she left her partner for the last one?" ("That's too many mommies," one observer said wryly.) [NY Daily News]
· Flashback: Annie Leibovitz leaves Susan Sontag for the nanny. [Page Six]
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· Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag have broken up because Annie ran off with the nanny. [Page Six]
· Steven Greenberg's new club, Cobalt, features 1940s-era antiques collected by Karl Lagerfeld. [Page Six]
· Imitation of Christ designer Danny Seo created necklaces with the letters "FF", meaning "fur free." Some fashionistas thought it stood for "fur forever" and are wearing them proudly with their minks. [Page Six]
· Bill Clinton on Richard Gere's comments to Hillary at the AmFar dinner that her husband did nothing about AIDs: "I don't blame Richard Gere, because he is an actor. He doesn't know..." [NY Daily News]
Gossip roundup
· City Council candidate Vincent Gentile, who is opposing a gay-rights bill, has a constituency of drag queens threatening to campaign for him. [Page Six]· Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag have broken up because Annie ran off with the nanny. [Page Six]
· Steven Greenberg's new club, Cobalt, features 1940s-era antiques collected by Karl Lagerfeld. [Page Six]
· Imitation of Christ designer Danny Seo created necklaces with the letters "FF", meaning "fur free." Some fashionistas thought it stood for "fur forever" and are wearing them proudly with their minks. [Page Six]
· Bill Clinton on Richard Gere's comments to Hillary at the AmFar dinner that her husband did nothing about AIDs: "I don't blame Richard Gere, because he is an actor. He doesn't know..." [NY Daily News]
Annie Leibovitz Christmas party
Thanks to Elijah Williams for the photos from AL Studio's Christmas party. Send in any other good digital party snaps to snaps@gawker.com.
Thanks to Elijah Williams for the photos from AL Studio's Christmas party. Send in any other good digital party snaps to snaps@gawker.com.
