<![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> @nigerienne: nigerienne, this happens to people who do not have blue eyes. i sympathize.

Stark_pigeon

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> And where was Ms. International Humanitarian herself, Angelina Jolie? I suppose she wouldn't deign to be photographed with other celebrities. She is, after all, the only person in the entire world who is doing anything at all to help people. She will save the world all by herself. She doesn't like competition.

BottomFeeder

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> @BigNuts: I had a friend at Wake Forest. I went to visit during freshman year. I felt very exotic in spite of my 100% Banana Republic wardrobe and sheltered, suburban (Oreo) ways.

lovely nigerienne

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> @grandmoffbastard:

Sorry to break this to ya but magazines really don't have the power to "save" Africa. Most magazines can't even save themselves.

SecureLocation

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> I remember going to Wake Forest University, where Dr. Maya Angelou was ensconced one week out of the y ear, and during the freshman orientation, she made an appearance and read some of her famed poetry.

Madonna wasn't there, but we all worshipped Maya with gut-wrenching knee-jerk reactionism, when the almost entirely white student body realized that this was our chance to care about black people! We loved her with a heartfelt love that went beyond sincerity.

Benecio Del Hullabaloo

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Do you think they told the celebs what the issue was going to be about before they posed for the pics? Maybe they are just leftover shots from the last Christmas issue.

COMING NEXT ISSUE: Stars of the NHL and WNBA pose for pictures to prevent global warming, plus celebrity horoscopes.

Fishman

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> homoerotic celebrities = Africa issue?

slauza

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> I'd like to be the meat in a Pitt-Honsou sandwich.

Africa is always interesting, dammit!

lovely nigerienne

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> What, they couldn't actually get Stephen Colbert to pose with his black friend Djimon Hounsou?

TakingUpWithTheEnemy

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> @HeavyWordsLightlyThrown: Actually, my first thought was that Madonna was whispering to Maya that she's going to steal her grandchildren (or great grandchildren?) for "adoption."
I would like to think that Maya put the smackdown on Ms. yoga-pilates after the picture taking was over.

VoxPopuli

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> I'm just thrilled (seriously) to see that Annie Liebovitz is still shooting on film.

GothamTomato

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> @SecureLocation: And seeing as how that totally solved Africa, it is pretty obnoxious that another publication would even bother to approach the problem in a different way.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> You know, National Geographic did a whole issue on Africa about 18 months ago and it was terrific. Thing is, they managed to cover the entire continent without running into a single glam celebrity.

SecureLocation

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> No Sting? Are you even allowed to have a celebrity charity function/photo shoot/weenie roost without him?

Gregoire

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> You know, National Geograp

SecureLocation

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> @Chaim_Gnadelstein: Shucks. Thanks.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Whew. For a second there Bono I thought you were going to shock VF's insulated readership into reality with a startling photo of an AIDS victim or an oprhan from some famine-ravaged country. This multiculi panel of hawt celebs was a much better idea.

Cloaca

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> ...But nice.

Chaim Gnadelstein

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> @grandmoffbastard:

Meta, dude.

Chaim Gnadelstein

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> @Chaim_Gnadelstein:

Yeah, but don't be too hard on yourself -- that's an apt description of 99 percent of the comments here.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> This is what pompous self-gratification looks like.

Chaim Gnadelstein

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Maya's not up for adoption, Madonna. Besides, Angelina called forever dibs on her.

HeavyWordsLightlyThrown

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Oh God. Yet more shit from the wildly overrated Annie Leibovitz. Fuck Bono and Vanity Fair.

And before Brad Pitt started banging Angie, did he ever give a flying fuck about Africa? Could he have even picked it out on a map? Please.

Looker

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Is this the issue in which Maya Angleou discloses that she re-uses plastic shopping bags?

Addison

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Africa's fucked.

Chaim Gnadelstein

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Does it say in there that, at the end of all the serial whispering, Don Cheadle handed President Bush a condom and a roll of quarters?

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> And those photos look like a Gap ad.

depardoo

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Vanity Fair really is the most pompous, preachy, self-righteous pile. It's difficult to take seriously anything therein.

depardoo

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> The worst game of telephone. Ever.

Annie L., please retire. You had great talent once. Now your work consists of bored-looking celebrities or bored family members. Not all light that goes into the shutter is meant to be slapped on a magazine cover.

pbica

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Maya has this look on her face like "Oh dear lord, please don't let her kiss me."

MsMuffinMcGuffin

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> I'll bet those Forbes employees who had their pensions cut by new owner Bono are really, really excited about his efforts to help Africa.

Ha Ha Sound

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> I've had this issue since Thursday, you guys have some awfully law-abiding newsstands down there. You gotta give Graydon props on the Bush cover though. Must be some sort of magazine coup to rake a President over the coals every single issue for 6 years, and then get him for the cover of your Africa issue.

Aatom

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Is the irony of choosing a medium that pretty much nobody gives a shit about - fewer by the day, AIDS parallels abound - apparent to any of them? Nobody reads magazines.

DeliciousNoise

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Why Bush? Seriously?

The Real JR

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Awww - Africa. Who's a good-little-distressed-continent? That's right - you are. You are. Aren't you? C'mere. C'mere. Now, roll over. Paw. Play dead.

Gabe

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> That was the dullest cuddle party I've ever been to.

TedSez

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> What IS Barack Obama doing behind Muhammad Ali there? Preparing for insertion? The only thing that saves that cover shot from being possibly the gayest thing ever is that they tactfully decided against running the select in which the Senator's spitting onto his hand.

Chaim Gnadelstein

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> feeling that when I receive my issue I will wish I was Phil Leotardo's head

Fawn Liebowitz

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> I get the

Fawn Liebowitz

]]> <![CDATA[Celebrities Almost Make Africa Interesting Again]]> Maya is most displeased because Madge doesn't call her Doctor.

Cookie Guggleman

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