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more about #covers more comments → A Message To Rudy: Looks like there's room enough for both of them to bust out of that big ol' gay box. #ellendegeneres more » random_play: Joy? Jay? Goy? Gay? Just drop it, I say! Oy to the world! (Or "Oi" if your Ska-ish.) #ellendegeneres more » Baroness: I like and admire Ellen. This photo however makes me ask how much longer she's going to pull off assuming the visual persona of a rumpled, towheaded ... more » m4ximusprim3: Pog! #ellendegeneres more » RheaPollstry: "The secret to real happiness is sharing it." What if you don't have any to give away in the first place? Huh, O.? How's that gonna work? #ellendegen... more » BitchyD: Oprah, no matter how big and poofy you get your victorian/Princess Diana wedding dress sleeves to be it will not reduce the size of your waist. #elle... more » mommy_dearest: Inside there is another "cover" with them in front of a giant gingerbread house, and Ellen's head looks oddly photoshopped on. It's weird. #ellendege... more » sanyucat: Happy holidays, you big old gay Jew! #ellendegeneres more » timeoutofmind: errrr ... Jenna Bush handed a Today show plum, Levi Johnston published in Vanity Fair. and you seriously wonder why your country is rotted to the core ? more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: the book is so pre 9.11 it's a shame to lose the wtc from the cover more » HowDareThey: dominick dunne replaced so soon. more » Tara Incognita: For God's sake, VF. Stop with the dead Kennedys. There really are other things I'll read about. more » lalaland13: I think VF inadvertently screwed itself. Next month may very well be a Dominique Dunn/Ted Kennedy double tribute cover! So that's three months of dead... more » Ephraim Gadsby: I thought McInerney had it written into his contract that only Chip Kidd could do his covers... and this doesn't look like one of his to me. more » MelitaPolyhymnia: Like everything else I once loved, seems that Vanity Fair is now groveling to people's most salacious and lowest "common" denominator-type behavior. ... more » -
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Oprah's Secret Message?
Maybe this is just a Rohrschach test for whether you're a gay leftist gossip site, but we think the holiday-card treatment on the Ellen Degeneres cover of O makes the word "Joy" look like "Gay." (Or "Goy" if you're Jewish.) -
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Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
Ugh. What a terrible cover. "JACKIE: HER LONELIEST BATTLE," really? Was she furious that Audrina sided with Heidi? Did Brad stop calling her? Oh, but wait! Levi Johnston wrote a piece for the issue? Double really?
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#makeovers
Bright Lights, Big City Gets Fancy New Cover For 25th Birthday
Happy 25th anniversary of coked-out young dudes writing novels about being coked-out young dudes! To celebrate, Random House is finally updating the cover of Bright Lights, Big City. More » -
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How OK! Faked Its Jessica Simpson Weight-Loss Cover
OK! magazine wanted to drum up sales with this cover about Jessica Simpson's weight loss. When Us Weekly ran the same basic cover, it was their best-selling cover of 2007 — the same year, incidentally, OK! found Jessica's "new" body.
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#saveitforthekids
Time's Commemorative Michael Jackson Issue To Hit Stands Monday
Another iconic cover: Time's special edition issue to commiserate the death of Michael Jackson arrives Monday. They lined up an absurd amount of tributes; the last time Time published a "special" edition between issues was right after 9/11. [Chartini] -
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Time Puts Twitter on Cover, at Vanguard of American Economy
What could Time magazine possibly have to say about Twitter that hasn't been said in a thousand prior magazine and newspaper articles, and on Oprah? That it drives the American economy. In fact, Twitter is the new GM! More » -
#photoshopofhorrors
OK! Magazine's Extreme Dieting Advice
OK! Magazine has had some issues with Photoshop on their cover before. This week, they show how amputating a leg may be the easiest and fastest way to lose 90 pounds. Diet secrets revealed, indeed. -
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The Michelle Obama Cover Guide
The magazine industry had sincere, desperate hopes that Michelle Obama could be the next Princess Di, moving copies automatically with her smile. Not gonna happen. But following these simple Michelle Magazine Cover Rules can help: More » -
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#disasters
How Barack Obama Got Snared In Portfolio's Crazy-Making
Joanne Lipman, the diva editor of Portfolio, is becoming known for her disastrous cover decisions. The worst, perhaps, involved the president and Annie Leibovitz. More » -
#queerasfolk
Bob Dylan's Gay Kiss
How to tenderize Bob Dylan's "bleak... sneering" new album, built around the song "Life is Hard?" With the title "Together Through Life" and a black-and-white, backseat gay kiss on the cover. (Click to enlarge.) More » -
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Another Irrelevant Portfolio Cover Coming
What is wrong with Joanne Lipman? Does the Portfolio editor detest business journalism? Is she trying to finally get fired? There must be some reason she's putting Sarah Palin on next month's cover. More » -
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Barack Obama: More Popular Than Jesus, Angelina Jolie
Barack Obama is on the cover of Rolling Stone again! So soon after the last one. And just one week after he showed up on the front of publisher Jann Wenner's UsWeekly! In fact, if you have a magazine, you have probably put Barack Obama on the cover. It's summer, so nothing is really going on besides Batman and this Barack Obama character. Does anyone without a pair of breasts sell so many magazines? Did our prettiest president even get this much ink until he tragically died? Attached, a composite of the media maelstrom. (The Tiger Beat one, sadly, is from The Onion. It was our favorite too.)
