7 posts categorized "W MAGAZINE"

Jan 04 2020
Chris Evans, Brad Pitt & 2019's Best Perfs + Rare Gay Book Found + Perfect Male Nudity + Tucker Carlson Slams Trump + MORE! — 12-PACK Comments (0)

ABOVE: To Tahiti with Gus Kenworthy.

BELOW: Keep reading for the performances of the year, a gay-book discovery, effortlessly hot nudity and more ...

Read More

 
Jan 18 2018
A Criss Before Dying: The Star Of AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE Speaks Comments (0)

2_web(Image by Michael Beckert for W)

Didja watch American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace?

Keep reading for some tidbits from star Darren Criss's W Magazine interview and shoot ...

Read More

 
Jan 13 2017
They Will Survive Comments (0)

Screen Shot 2017-01-13 at 10.41.42 AM(Video still via W Magazine)

Watch Andrew Garfield, Chris Pine, Emma Stone, Dev Patel, Ruth Negga, Lucas Hedges, Naomie Harris, Anya Taylor-Joy, Taraji P. Henson, Natalie Portman, Matthew McConaughey, Mahershala Ali, Hailee Steinfeld, Felicity Jones, Alden Ehrenreich, Joel Edgerton, Greta Gerwig, Michael Shannon, Dakota Fanning and Amy Adams sing/speak Gloria Gaynor's “I Will Survive” for W Magazine.

The main thing I learned: I'd love to get an album of Amy Adams cover versions. She sounds good!

Keep reading for the video ...

Read More

 
Nov 18 2016
Barbra & Her Gams On W Magazine Comments (0)

1c652b2cf00a6ab1dfc0de0ba75f532a(Image by Steven Meisel/W Magazine)

Barbra Streisand flaunts some leg, at 74, on the cover of W, shot by Steven Meisel.

In the profile by Lynn Hirschberg, she identifies her first crush as Marlon Brando:

Since I was 13, Marlon Brando was my favorite. I saw him in Guys and Dolls—and that was it. Interestingly, there was a period of 27 years when I didn't sing in public, because of stage fright, and when I finally did, I created a scenario in which I sang “I'll Know” with Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls. I put myself in his movie! I invited Brando to my house to see the piece, and he made me take him through my entire show. We then watched a movie together. It was wonderful: He was my idol, my biggest crush.

Of that crazy, sheer pantsuit she wore to accept her first Oscar, she notes:

That night, in my dressing room, I was choosing between two different outfits. One was lovely, but very conservative. And then there was the pantsuit with plastic sequins. I had no idea that when the lights hit that outfit, it would become transparent! I wanted a white collar and cuffs, which it had, and I wore my hair under my chin, because I thought to myself, I'm going to win two Oscars in my lifetime, and I'll be more conservative next time.

More here!

 
Feb 25 2016
BREAKFAST At Eddie's: Redmayne Takes On Holly Golightly Comments (0)

Screen Shot 2016-02-24 at 7.33.45 PMEddie Redmayne (Video still via Vanity Fair)

Eddie Redmayne auditions for Hepburn's Breakfast at Tiffany's role, and Margot Robbie does Brando.

Brando's legacy is safe, but Redmayne gives Hepburn a run for her money.

Brilliant, guilt-free click bait from W's Lynn Hirschberg.

 
Jan 06 2015
Need To Know: Hedging His Bets + The Shame Of PRIDE + Signs Of Intelligent Life In Florida + That Sexy Animal Cooper + MORE! Comments (0)

Hedge-fund-killerPatricidal maniac

*widget boy cultureHedge fund manager's son allegedly kills him over allowance.

*widget boy cultureWhy was Pride DVD de-gayed?

*widget boy cultureLet's get hitched in Tallahassee!

*widget boy cultureHave you ever invited a stranger to come inside? Listen:

*widget boy cultureA good, er, Christian look back at 2014.

*widget boy cultureAw, I love you, Graham Norton.

*widget boy cultureScandal-plagued, trailblazing beauty queen Bess Myerson died last month.

*widget boy cultureWasn't Bradley Cooper fat 10 seconds ago?

Bradley-CooperMoviola

 
Sep 15 2014
On The Cover Of A Magazine: Madonna's 200+ Greatest Magazine Covers Comments (0)
  6a00d8341c2ca253ef01b8d06a87ab970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511e662d3970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511d47726970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511d47711970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511d4774b970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511d4770d970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511d476f9970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511d476f3970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511d476e7970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511d476e1970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511d476d1970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511d476cd970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a511d476ae970c-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a73df765cc970d-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a73ddfc890970d-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a73ddfc872970d-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a73ddfc859970d-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a73ddfc852970d-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a73ddfc84c970d-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a73ddfc8b6970d-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a3fd36b3c7970b-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a3fd24f292970b-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a3fd24f285970b-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a3fd24f27b970b-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a3fd24f2f6970b-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a3fd24f2ec970b-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a3fd24f2e4970b-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a3fd24f2e0970b-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a3fd24f2da970b-800wi 6a00d8341c2ca253ef01a3fd24f2a8970b-800wi

Above: A gallery of 30 more, unranked Madonna mag covers! 

Unlike any star since—and unlike only a precious few before—her, Madonna has made the act of being on the cover of a magazine into an art form. A gung-ho participant in creating a visual record of her beauty, her aesthetic, her political and quasi-punk challenging of social norms and her status as a visual icon, Madonna has always taken her covers seriously, in some cases as seriously as other rockstars take music videos or even albums.

As a rabid collector of Madonnabilia, I specialize in ephemera, especially in magazine covers. I would hate to be presented with a calendar and shown exactly how many months of my life I've spent tirelessly pursuing new, old and new-to-me old magazines with Madonna on their covers, valuing some for their uniqueness (she posed specifically for the cover!), some for their status within her career (it was her very first time on a cover!), some for the exotic nature of their home countries (Japan! Japan! Japan!), some for being totally weird (ugliest Madonna cover ever!) and some just for the sake of fulfilling my desire to have one of everything.

Song Hits May 87 copyChoosing Madonna's best covers took forever, and it will take another forever for us to duke it out in the comments over my rankings, over which ones I forgot, over which ones I personally detest and excluded on purpose...these kinds of lists are a recipe for dissent.

But if you're into this shit, you're into it, and the time spent is as good as the time spent inhaling and exhaling oxygen.

V Summer 2014Madonna's still causing a cover commotion in 2014...

Please enjoy this list, and please comment on it. If I have forgotten any major ones, I'll happily amend my list. And if you have Long Island's Nightlife and/or Hamptons '85, I'm all ears and am ready to buy them.

Each entry contains the magazine's title, the country (it's the United States unless otherwise specified), the date of publication and then a credit for the cover photographer. In cases where I was unable to quickly determine the ID of the shooter, it's listed with a question mark. If you think you have info on any of who any of these photographers may be, I'm all ears for that as well.

One more thing: This 32,000-word post is my gift to you. But I would appreciate it if you would consider contributing any amount to my Kickstarter so that I can produce a 20th anniversary edition of my book Encyclopedia Madonnica. Click here! Tell your friends!

Thanks! Now, on with the list...

Read More