Well I certainly hope that Nicole Kidman is reading this thread because lets face it she hasn't looked like this in a good seven years and I don't think there is a single person who wouldn't like to see her go back to looking that good.
Sorry, I just remember when Nic was gorgeous and now she's too Botoxed and bleached for me.
Anywho, I think Amy is looking stellar. Great Rita Hayworth impersonation. Mert and Marcus are getting a lot of slack for this but I think it turned out especially well. Testino is still my favorite photographer for Vanity Fair but M&M's covers look great albeit too steeped in old Hollywood but as it was said up thread VF is a tad obsessed with the past. M&M's Kate Moss VF cover was another standout.
For the future I'd really love to see Vanity Fair move forward rather than backwards - how about a nice celebrity pictorial that isn't referencing an icon. Ugh. That's what I used to love about Testino for VF there was always a certain freshness.
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I find her really annoying, this is the first time I've seen her outside of films and she looks corny to say the list.
Does she have anything 'interesting' coming up?.
and MMA, I hear you.. really.. is there some magazine who stills feels like experimenting and being bold enough to introduce people to one or two new photographers?. all I see is Sorrenti, Inez, Mert, Inez and Sorrenti these days. somebody make it stop!.
I don't want to hear about her. She's just another actress they are trying to shove down our throats... and I couldn't care less about her. I'm interested in anything else in this issue but her.
That is the point of any entertainment rag-to force actors down your throats. And VF is not a fashion mag, so of course they are not going to put a model on the cover. They are gonna feature actors.
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^Yeah I'm fully aware that VF isn't a fashion mag script girl... and I know what they are doing... I have every issue of VF since it was relaunched. I'm just not interested in Amy Adams... that's all.
I find her really annoying, this is the first time I've seen her outside of films and she looks corny to say the list.
Does she have anything 'interesting' coming up?.
and MMA, I hear you.. really.. is there some magazine who stills feels like experimenting and being bold enough to introduce people to one or two new photographers?. all I see is Sorrenti, Inez, Mert, Inez and Sorrenti these days. somebody make it stop!.
She has "Doubt" set to debut during Oscar season co-starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep, based on a successful New York play by John Shanley. After that the Julia Child biopic.
With one beloved indie Oscar contender and a Disney BO hit and other good, critically-acclaimed roles in the past plus what's up ahead, an Adams VF cover isn't surprising. I think that Shia dude got it solely because of crummy "Transformers" (which was a Michael Bay so of course it's enough for a cover).
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Features
186 SOME ENCHANTED AMY
Amy Adams was all washed up—yet another blonde trying to make it in Hollywood. Next thing she knew, there was a redheaded, full-fledged movie star in the mirror. With a stunning rollout of new films, including next month’s Doubt, Adams talks to Michael Shnayerson about her roller-coaster ride to an Enchanted height. Photographs by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Web special: Video.
192 INSIDE COLOMBIA’S HOSTAGE WAR
Following the cinematic rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages in July, is Colombia finally winning its battle with the farc guerrillas? Interviewing Betancourt, fellow prisoners, and President Álvaro Uribe, Maureen Orth explores a six-year jungle nightmare, the white-knuckle rescue mission, and the continuing ordeal of a captive nation. Portraits by Jonas Karlsson.
198 WILL’S CUP OF TEA
Of all Prince William’s would-be princesses, it was a St. Andrews classmate, Kate Middleton, who caught his eye, some six years ago. And a bumpy six years it’s been. As Britain waits for a wedding, Vicky Ward explains how the stewardess’s daughter learned to navigate the tabloids, please the Queen, and keep the future King in line.
204 SEARCHING FOR ROBERT JOHNSON
Surfing eBay, a vintage-guitar expert chanced upon what could be only the third known photograph of Robert Johnson, the ill-fated 1930s Delta-bluesman who—legend has it—met the Devil at the crossroads, acquiring a talent that would inspire Dylan, Clapton, and many more. Frank DiGiacomo joins the quest to authenticate the image and untangle Johnson’s legacy.
208 WHO IS WALL STREET’S QUEEN B.?
Is the rivalry between CNBC star Maria Bartiromo and up-and-comer Erin Burnett real, or just a tabloid fantasy? As they race to cover a deepening economic crisis, Suzanna Andrews reports on the “Money Honey” phenomenon. Portraits by Martin Schoeller.
214 POP TO THE PEOPLE
Annie Leibovitz and Ingrid Sischy spotlight Keith Haring, who would have turned 50 this year, but whose art still lives.
216 DR. NICHOLAS AND MR. HYDE
Lots of billionaires behave badly, but Henry Nicholas is in a class by himself. Charges that he defrauded investors at his high-tech powerhouse, Broadcom, have been overshadowed by allegations of drug-fueled, prostitute-filled binges and the construction of a secret lair beneath the mansion where he lived with his wife and children. Bethany McLean investigates the background of an epic hangover.
222 THE TWO FIRST LADIES
Dazzled by a star-spangled White House dinner party held in his honor by Jacqueline Kennedy, French culture minister André Malraux set out to lend America his country’s greatest jewel: the Mona Lisa. In an excerpt from her new book,Margaret Leslie Davis follows the delicate painting’s nerve-rattling journey, on the heels of the Cuban missile crisis, and the “Mona Mania” that gripped the headlines as the First Lady orchestrated a triumphant display of U.S. leadership.
FANFAIR
97 30 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE
Con men—Guy Ritchie captures some of the cast of his latest film, RocknRolla
98 The Cultural Divide
100 Elissa Schappell’s Hot Type
102 Leslie Bennetts frames Milton Greene’s life in pictures; Olivia Strand discovers Katrina Markoff’s sweet life
104 My Desk—Martha Stewart
106 Julian Sancton grooves to RocknRolla; Graham Fuller applauds The Soloist
108 Punch Hutton goes island-hopping in the Bahamian archipelago
112 My Stuff—Ashley Olsen; Claire Howorth reads up on Miami’s literati; Night-Table Reading
114 Lisa Robinson’s Hot Tracks
116 Holding a candle for Cire Trudon; John Ortved detects a West Village scent-sation; Hot Looks
Columns
124 THE NEWS BLUES
Today’s news isn’t just bad; it’s apocalyptic. Even JamesWolcott, a committed pessimist who survived atomic-age jitters, can’t handle the headlines. Illustrations by Barry Blitt.
132 HALL OF FAME
Susan Rasco nominates sailing legend Gary Jobson, who has raced to raise more than $26 million for cancer research since he battled lymphoma. Portrait by Gasper Tringale.
134 REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
How much worse will the economy get? Nobel-laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz lays out the problems, the best-case scenario, and the way to reach it.
140 CHERIE BOMB
Cherie Blair’s Downing Street blunders, intentional and not, drew constant scorn from the British press. Her best-selling tell-too-much has given them fresh ammunition. In an interview with Leslie Bennetts, the U.K.’s former First Lady strikes back. Portrait by Wayne Maser.
154 SHE LIKED IT HOT
In an excerpt from his new memoir, Tony Curtis recounts his affair with a 22-year-old Marilyn Monroe, when they were two unknowns aching to make it, and their torrid reunion 10 years later on the set of Some Like It Hot.
166 QUANTUM PHYSIQUE
Miles Aldridge and Krista Smith spotlight Gemma Arterton, one of the rare truly British Bond Girls.
168 LEVINE IN WINTER
For four decades, being caricatured by the New York Review of Books illustrator David Levine was both a coveted honor and a humbling rite of passage. But as the artist’s eyes fail, his recent work has all but vanished from the Review’s pages. David Margolick outlines the poignancy of a career in its twilight. Photographs by Gasper Tringale.
VANITIES
181 TAKE A LOAD OFF, SALLY
182 The S.N.L. cast gets into Wii
184 George Wayne probes Denis Leary
Et Cetera
68 EDITOR’S LETTER
American Political Idol—Mutually-Assured-Destruction Edition
She has "Doubt" set to debut during Oscar season co-starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep, based on a successful New York play by John Shanley. After that the Julia Child biopic.
Julia Child biopic?!.. oh my god. I need to see that!!.
thanks for the info, Bahiyya. I might as well give Amy the.. benefit of the 'Doubt'.
I'm thrilled to bits to see Amy Adams on the cover and a nice cover it is too. The inside pics look good also.
I think Amy is a great actress and I've interested in her work snce seeing Junebug where she was outstanding. My only hope is that now she is becoming more mainstream, she isn't the next thing to be shoved down out throats.
For a change also I know very little about her and maybe I wanna know some more. I'm gonna get this, but I'm hoping not to see her everywhere anytime soon.
Julia Child biopic?!.. oh my god. I need to see that!!.
The movie is based on the book Julia & Julia... did you read that MP Meryl Streep plays Julia Child & Amy Adams plays Julia Powell.
I got my copy today... it is OK for an Oct issue... not nearly enough ads though it seems The photos of Amy inside have that soft focus look that M&M are so fond of.
Of all the magazines and types of journalism, Vanity Fair has to be my least favorite. It's articles are always salacious, talking about the greed, corruption, drugs, sex, of the rich, famous, and powerful; and written by writers who seem to revel in the misery of others.
It's nothing more than another tabloid, just maybe a more high-class version of the National Enquirer and The Sun.
and I don't think there is a single person who wouldn't like to see her go back to looking that good. 
Julia Child biopic?!.. oh my god. I need to see that!!.
The inside pics look good also.
Meryl Streep plays Julia Child & Amy Adams plays Julia Powell.
The photos of Amy inside have that soft focus look that M&M are so fond of.
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