Vanity Fair March 2008 : The Hollywood Issue by Annie Leibovitz

[Label Basher]

Blake Lively will never be on Vanity Fair. With these 'new Hollywood' covers, they usually try to pick someone who is going to have a career three years from now. That's not Blake, and she's tacky and ugly.

Hilary Duff? Seriously?

I think you need to have another look at the examples Luxx posted above regarding your "they usually try to pick someone who is going to have a career three years from now" statement.

I don’t see why Blake Lively couldn’t be on there. Her show is a hit and she has the Sisterhood sequel with America etc coming out. I think she is “one to watch” and will be around in 2011. Being so called “tacky or ugly” hasn’t stopped other people being on magazine covers before has it.

and Hillary Duff has been on the cover of Vanity Fair before.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Anyone else here thinks the past group photos look incredibly photoshopped?Did they even pose all at once?In the same room?It looks like they were just pasted together.

And that 1995 shoot cracks me up EVERY time,they are all wearing lingerie,except Paltrow in the middle,looking Oscar ready with her dress.

Scriptgirl you always make me laugh,love your comments,and couldnt agree more about Hilary!

 

[JFCoelho]

Scriptgirl, your comments couldn't be more true. Hilarious!

 

[SugarMe]

Anyone else here thinks the past group photos look incredibly photoshopped?Did they even pose all at once?In the same room?It looks like they were just pasted together.

Considering how in-demand some of these actors are, it wouldn't be surprising if it was necessary to paste them together. What are the odds that all of these people would be able to show up in the same place at once? Many schedules probably wouldn't allow it.

However, from more recent years (such as 2002, possibly 2004), there have been instances where they've all been together. The only reason I know this is because of the backstage photos that are usually published along with the letter from the Editor.

 

[moussemaker]

Here are backstage pictures from the 2003 cover:

source www.tomcruisefan.com

 

[Thew]

I think you need to have another look at the examples Luxx posted above regarding your "they usually try to pick someone who is going to have a career three years from now" statement.

I don’t see why Blake Lively couldn’t be on there. Her show is a hit and she has the Sisterhood sequel with America etc coming out. I think she is “one to watch” and will be around in 2011. Being so called “tacky or ugly” hasn’t stopped other people being on magazine covers before has it.

and Hillary Duff has been on the cover of Vanity Fair before.

I don't think Blake will be a star she has only done like three movies that weren't very successful and hardly anyone knew who she was before Gossip Girl which will probably only last two or three seasons.I love how you think because someone works with America Ferrera(who also, many people didn't know about before she was on Ugly Betty) than they've made it.Also,hufnagel was responding to what bluedolphin said about Hilary Duff being on this cover yes she's been on it before a few years ago which is why she won't be on this "fresh faces" issue.

 

[iriswills]

hmm...

I'm not sure why Ellen Page is being reviled. Not glamorous? Does it matter? What about past cover girls Sarah Polley or Fairuza Balk? As for Ellen not getting past "quirky roles", what about Selma Blair?

I think Ellen shows great promise, so it wouldn't surprise me if VF put her on a future cover. And would that really be so bad? Just remember past "fresh" faces like Jordana Brewster, David Arquette, Claire Forlani, and Paul Walker... were any of those people remotely worthy then or now?

 

[Mchunu]

whoever that is in the green ruins the cover with that awful pose & positioning

 

[kimair]

here's the pic from march 2003...fabsugar.com

Amanda Bynes, Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff, Alexis Bledel, Evan Rachel Wood, Raven Symone, and Linsey Lohan

it's definitely hit or miss in terms of talent, but i don't understand all of the comments about such and such being "glamourous" or not or pretty or not...
vanity fair isn't a fashion magazine...
as luxx said, for a young star, it's an honor to be selected and i can't see ellen page turning it down (unless she was asked to be nude, which clearly she wouldn't this year)...

 

[Miss Dalloway]

^^Interesting Lindsay was in the fold out.

 

[Label Basher]

I love how you think because someone works with America Ferrera (who also, many people didn't know about before she was on Ugly Betty) than they've made it.

I didn't mean that at all. I only mentioned America is because I couldn't remember the names of other two. I could have written "the chick off Gilmour Girls and the one from Joan of something" but instead I wrote "etc". I don't know whether the person I was replying to knew anything about the Sisterhood movies that is why I wrote that.

I think that if Blake and America choose the right projects then they will stick around. You don't so let's agree to disagree.

 

[scriptgirl]

The other girls were Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel. I think America has staying power.

 

[LUXXX]

^^Interesting Lindsay was in the fold out.

Mean Girls hadn't come out yet and she was still under the radar...the backstage gos from that shoot was that Hil was dating Aaron Carter at the time, and that was when she and Linds were still fighting about it. Lindsay wanted him kicked out of the shoot but since Hilary was the bigger star at the time, he was allowed to stay. And basically the shoot was a disaster...as one would expect in a room full of teenage girls who are on the verge of stardom......all catty and jealous of each other.

 

[scriptgirl]

I heard that cover was photoshopped

 

[Street_a_Licious]

i remember reading that Mandy Moore said that none of those girls was eating anything poor girls.

but all those girls made it quite big! (except for the 3rd from the right) though, Mandy must have been a good bit older than the other girls.

 

[Street_a_Licious]

I heard that cover was photoshopped

all covers are photoshopped.

but there was one VF cover with a lot of actresses and one couldn't show up for the shoot, so they shot her seperately and then shopped her into the picture. dunno though which cover it was again. maybe Nicole Kidman? idk, idk.....

 

[scriptgirl]

No, I mean that not all of the girls in that teen cover were there for the shoot

 

[MissMagAddict]

source | usatoday

Juno Oscar nominee Ellen Page and Ugly Betty Emmy winner America Ferrera are among 10 young actresses who grace the cover of Vanity Fair's annual Hollywood issue, on stands nationwide Feb. 12.Page, 20, and Ferrera, 23, are joined by Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada), 24; Amy Adams (Enchanted), 33; Jessica Biel (I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry), 25; Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada), 25; Alice Braga (I Am Legend), 24; Zoe Saldana (Vantage Point), 29; Elizabeth Banks (The 40 Year-Old Virgin), 33; and Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love), 29.The March cover, whose theme is fresh faces of Hollywood in 2008, was shot by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz in two seatings: the four on the cover with the Vanity Fair logo together, and then the remaining six. Clothing from Dior by John Galliano was designed exclusively for the shoot.

 

[Lacroix]

Why was Biel on the cover and someone like America on the very last page? What an insult. And Ellen Page has every right to be on VF, who cares if she's not 'glamourous'? Theres more to life than that, she's got some serious talent, to say the least.

 

[Aleksa]

ha, i've never seen anything most of those girls are in.

pretty colors though!