FIRST LOOK AT GREY GARDENS

Here is a first look at HBO’s new film Grey Gardens, starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange.  I have expressed my doubts about the making of Grey Gardens as I thought the Maysles film was too incredible to even try to emulate.  My staunch opinion has not changed but I would like to confess that the costumes and cinematography on this production look amazing.  Something that has also eased my pain is that the film will be aired on HBO rather than being released in the theaters.  The original and only Grey Gardens is incredibly special to me and I know many of you, so I am sure you understand my fears of exploitation and the thought of ruining something so beautiful.

LABELS: Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens, HBO, Jessica Lange

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Vogue: The Few. The Banal.

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When I recently received my issue of September Vogue I said out loud – “Not Keira Knightly again!”  I have no sort of qualms with Keira, in fact I think she is quite lovely, but I find that I am often questioning what is driving Vogue magazine to have such uninspired covers?  Since I am addressing this issue, it would also be fair to say how unattractive these covers as well!  What is going on with Keira’s hair?

While sitting down and admiring the hundreds of pages of ads, I asked myself – how many covers has Keira really been given?  Which in turn sent me on an obsessive spiral to document the past four years of banal Vogue covers.  In fact, what I discovered was astonishing.  No, not the fact that virtually almost every cover displayed a white actress slathered with an awful shade of lipstick, but rather that the cover girls (women) seemed to be playing a game of musical chairs.  Among 57 covers, there were 5 actresses who graced Vogue 3 times, and 11 actresses who smiled for the camera twice.  You do the math.  Not much representation of the diversity of actresses, models nor America at that.

Surely Vogue knows of more than 10 actresses in Hollywood?  There is no shortage of starlets, or even better, leggy models.  Anna Wintour can do better than this, can’t she?  Maybe she should give Carine a call, as Vogue Paris publishes some of the best covers the Fashion Intel has seen. Lets break it down:

1. Keira Knightley: 12.05, 05.06, 06.07, 09.08
2. Drew Barrymore: 04.05, 02.06, 04.08
3. Kate Hudson: 06.04, 07.06, 01.08
4. Nicole Kidman: 05.04, 12.06, 07.08 [also 09.03]
5. Jennifer Aniston: 08.03, 01.04, 04.06
6. Gwyneth Paltrow: 10.05, 05.08 [also 10.03]
7. Sandra Bullock: 03.05, 10.06 [also 01.03]
8. Rene Zellweger: 12.03, 02.07
9. Natalie Portman: 02.04, 03.06
10. Angelina Jolie: 02.04, 03.06
11. Charlize Theron: 10.04, 10.07
12. Kirsten Dunst: 07.04, 09.06
13. Jennifer Connolly: 11.04, 10.07
14. Cate Blanchett: 12.04, 11.06
15. Sarah Jessica Parker: 09.05, 06.08
16. Reese Witherspoon: 06.03, 11.06

LABELS: Angelina Jolie, Anna Wintour, Cate Blanchett, Drew Barrymore, Gwyenth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connolly, Kate Hudson, Keira Knightley, Kirsten Dunst, Natalir Portman, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Rene Zellweger, Sandra Bullock, Sarah Jessica Parker, The Covers of Vogue Magazine, Vogue Magazine

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