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Vanity Fair Crowns Blake Lively, Emma Roberts "Hollywood's New Wave"

Mandi Illuzzi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:34:34 -0400

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The girls talk Jimmy Choo, John Mayer — and reveal their first "Hollywood" moment

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Mamma Mia!'s Amanda Seyfried, 22; Emma Roberts, 17; and Blake Lively, 20; and Panic Room's Kristen Stewart, 18, have been dubbed "Hollywood's New Wave" in the new issue of Vanity Fair.

(Previous titleholders? Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff and Evan Rachel Wood in 2003.)

The girls spilled all.

Fashion
Seyfried digs "Miu Miu. I can’t afford it, but I love it." She adds that Prada pumps "make a woman’s leg look fantastic.” Roberts reveals she has "probably a little under 50" pairs of shoes and prefers Christian Louboutin heels and classic Chuck Taylors. Her style icon? “I love the way Mary-Kate and Ashley dress. I know that’s probably cliché to say." As for Lively, she can't get by without “Jimmy Choo and Chanel. I can’t stand it: the security guards know me there.” Stewart says she doesn't need a label: She likes "anything that’s beat up. I kind of like to look like a hobo.”

Guys
The girls definitely have boys on the brain. Roberts said she'd take Justin Timberlake over John Mayer. Lively (who is seeing Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley) joked, "I’m dating Brad Pitt.” (For the record, she said Angelina Jolie was her favorite "girl's girl.") Stewart, meanwhile, doesn't want any of those A-listers. She says her No. 1 crush is “my boyfriend, [actor] Michael Angarano!”

See photos of Blake Lively, Penn Badgley and others who've hooked up on the set.

Role Models
Seyfried said Claire Danes "was the first girl I related to in some way.” Stewart picked Jodie Foster.

First Hollywood Moment:
Roberts said she realized she hit it big "after my television show started airing, and I would be walking around the mall or just out with friends, and girls would come up to me and be like, ‘Oh my God, we love your show, we love this!’ And I would look around still, and be like, ‘Are they really talking to me?’" Asked when she had her first "Hollywood" moment, Lively joked, "I hope not ever."

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Miley Cyrus Speaks Out on Vanity Fair Scandal: "It Still Hurts"

Mandi Illuzzi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:36:14 -0400

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"Every career thing that I do can’t be perfect," she says

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Miley Cyrus says she is still recovering from her topless Vanity Fair photo scandal.

"I was embarrassed... but also it’s like, every career thing that I do can’t be perfect, and sometimes my decisions are wrong," she tells Billboard in a new interview.

On the plus side, she says the experience made her "even more relatable.

"I don’t think people will look at me any differently because they’re like, 'You know what, I’m going to do stupid stuff too, and I’m going to make mistakes, and that’s fine,'" she adds.

But she admits, "It still hurts when I think about it.”

She says she is "super blessed" that she is a role model for young girls but "that doesn’t mean that I’m not going to make mistakes and do things that everyone’s going to be happy with ... there's no such thing as perfection."

The 15-year-old singer — who is about to finish shooting the upcoming Hannah Montana movie in Nashville — says she doesn't plan on playing the character forever.

"I mean, I won’t be Hannah Montana by the time I’m 30," Cyrus says. "But we’ve only done two seasons, so we definitely want to work on that hopefully for another two years."

Next up?

"I’ve been talking to people about some cool movies, but right now I mostly want to stay within my company and keep them happy and keep everything that we’re doing successful and focus on that," she says. "I like to do everything that I do 120 percent and unless I can focus hardcore on that, I don’t want to do it yet."

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Billy Ray Cyrus: My Daughter Sees Annie Leibovitz as a Paparazzi

Lindsay Powers — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:00:47 -0400

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The famed Vanity Fair snapper shot semi-topless pics of Miley Cyrus

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Billy Ray Cyrus says his family considers famed Vanity Fair photographer Annie Leibovitz — who famously shot Miley semi-topless — to be a paparazzi.

"I was catching these crawdads [with daughter Noah, 8] and all the sudden this paparazzi lady jumps out with this big bazooka lens and starts snapping away," Billy Ray said on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show Monday. "My little girl Noah looks up and says, 'Is that Annie Leibovitz?'

"That's the bizarre life I'm living right now," Billy Ray added.

Leibovitz shot the nearly topless photos of Miley, 15, for May's Vanity Fair.

"I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about," the Us Power Girl said as the photos sparked controversy from fans, parents and critics.

Still, Billy Ray — who is hosting the reality show Nashville Star — said his daughter is "doing great — she's doing a fantastic job on this Hannah Montana feature film, doing some wonderful acting."

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Angelina Jolie: Brad Pitt Finds My Pregnancy "Very Sexy"

Mandi Illuzzi — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:22:14 -0400

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Expecting babies "makes me feel like a woman," she tells Vanity Fair

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may not have welcomed their twins just yet (Entertainment Tonight is sticking by their account).

For now, the actress, 32, is just enjoying her pregnancy.

She opens up in July's Vanity Fair about being pregnant, raising an international family, their 2-year-old daughter Shiloh and how they annoy their children.

See 15 photos of her bump.

On being pregnant:
“I love it. It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing. Also, I’m fortunate. I think some women have a different experience depending on their partner. I think that affects it. I happen to be with somebody who finds pregnancy very sexy. So that makes me feel very sexy.”

On her international family:
“When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents. It’s not a humanitarian thing, because I don’t see it as a sacrifice. It’s a gift. We’re all lucky to have each other. I look at Shiloh — because, obviously, physically, she is the one that looks like Brad and I when we were little — and say, ‘If these were our brothers and sisters, how much would we have known by the time we were six that it took into our 30s and 40s to figure out?’ I suppose I’m giving them the childhood I always wished I had.”

On Shiloh’s birth:
“We were in this little hospital in Africa when Shi was born. I don’t think there was anybody else in the hospital. It was just a little cottage, the three of us. It ended up being the greatest thing…. I had a C-section and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.”

On nannies:
“We don’t ever have anybody spend the night. We may have to adjust that when the next one comes. But we do have ladies that work with us, and they’re also from different cultures and back-grounds. One lady’s a Vietnamese teacher — wonderful. One is of Congolese descent from Belgium. Another is from the States and is really creative and does art programs.”

On raising her children:
“Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It’s what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.”

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Miley Cyrus Makes First Post-Photo Outing at Target Store

Alissa R — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:21:15 -0400

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"No comment," she says when asked about the Vanity Fair shots

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In her first appearance since her semi-topless Vanity Fair photo scandal, Miley Cyrus popped by a Target store in Nashville, Extra reports.

Asked how she is doing, she replied, “Good, thank you.”

As for the semi-topless pics, she remained mum. "No comment," she said.

Over the weekend, Cyrus released a statement apologizing for the racy spread, saying she was "embarrassed" she took them.

She has since been holed up at home in Nashville, where she is working on pre-production for the latest Hannah Montana film.

Yesterday, several stars came to her defense.

On her blog Rosie O'Donnell told people, "Leave her alone," adding that she approved of the 15-year-old's shots by Annie Leibovitz.

Hills stars Heidi Montag and Lauren Conrad also had no problem with the pics.

"I think she’s a young girl in Hollywood, and she’s just having fun," Montag said. "[She]'s exploring herself."

Added Conrad, "I thought she looked beautiful in the pictures. I didn’t find it that inappropriate."

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Christian Coalition: Disney "Should Reprimand" Miley Cyrus

Alissa R — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:28:15 -0400

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"She needs to be more accountable for her actions," a spokesperson tells Us

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Miley Cyrus should be held accountable for taking the semi-topless Vanity Fair photos, Michele Combs, a spokesperson for Christian Coalition of America, tells Usmagazine.com.

"Disney should reprimand her," Combs says.

Combs is calling for a televised press conference, where "Miley should say it was a mistake and that kids have to be very careful at such a young age." (Cyrus issued a statement, apologizing; the Disney Channel claims the magazine "manipulated" her, which Vanity Fair denies.)

"Kids look up to her," Combs adds. "Something needs to be done."

Miley, 15, also admitted in the interview that Sex and the City is her favorite TV show.

"If she's gonna go out there and represent wholesome values, she needs to be more accountable for her actions," Combs says.

Combs adds that famed photographer Annie Leibovitz has "a reputation for doing racy things ... Miley should have thought this out before she agreed to go in front of Annie."

She said the photos — as well as other ones of a lingerie-clad Cyrus that recently hit the Internet — are "very disappointing ... sad.

The photos are "gonna hurt a lot of people," Combs says. "It's gonna hurt her image.

"She was the one person out there who everyone seemed to trust," Combs adds. "She should have been more thoughtful."

Dr. Bill Maier, child and family psychologist of the Colorado-based organization Focus on the Family, also calls the photos "a big mistake.

"Her career has been based on her squeaky clean image," he tells Us. "If she made the choice, it wasn't the best decision."

He advises parents to address the situation with their kids.

"It would behoove parents to sit down with daughters," he says. "This provides a great opportunity to talk about some of these issues and the decisions we make: What are our values? What do we expect from our kids? Are these photos something that's acceptable in our family?"

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Vanity Fair Astrologer Likens Britney to Anna Nicole

Noelle Hancock — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:45:48 -0400

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Vanity Fair magazine’s resident astrologer has revealed that Britney Spears, 25, has an identical astrological chart to Anna Nicole Smith and is worried that the two will suffer a similar fate.

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Vanity Fair magazine’s resident astrologer has revealed that Britney Spears, 25, has an identical astrological chart to Anna Nicole Smith and is worried that the singer will suffer a fate similar to Anna Nicole's. Horoscope writer Michael Lutin says that Smith, who was born November 28, and Spears, who was born December 2, are both Sagittariuses “with Libra rising” (one’s rising sign refers to the time of day one was born).

Smith was found unresponsive in a Florida hotel room on February 8 after ingesting at least 11 prescription drugs.

Spears has been battling her own problems with substance abuse. She has been in and out of rehab several times this year, and during a custody hearing on Tuesday, an L.A. judge declared the singer a “habitual” drug and alcohol user and ordered her to undergo twice-weekly random testing in order to retain shared custody of her kids.

“Instead of laughing at her and making fun of her just the way they did with Anna Nicole, somebody better step in and do something or it is going to be just like Anna Nicole,” Lutin writes.

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Nicole Kidman: I Miscarried Tom’s Baby

Noelle Hancock — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:02:56 -0400

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In a revealing interview in the October issue of Vanity Fair, Nicole Kidman admits that she and Tom Cruise lost a baby early into their marriage.

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In a revealing interview in the October issue of Vanity Fair, Nicole Kidman admits that she and Tom Cruise lost a baby early into their marriage.

Kidman tells the magazine that she has wanted a child of her own since she was 17 but is willing to wait a few years because her current husband, Keith Urban, wants the couple to have some time to themselves.

In the article, on newsstands tomorrow, the 40-year-old actress opens up on everything from being single to Urban’s stint in rehab last year. She even reveals that she was engaged to a man (who she declined to identify) in between her marriages to Cruise and Urban, 39. Was it former flames Lenny Kravitz or Steven Bing?

Check out the interview highlights below and see if you can figure it out:

On miscarrying a baby with ex-husband Tom Cruise:
“From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies. And we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic. And that’s when it came that we would adopt Bella.”

On being single:
“You're in a hotel and you're like, 'Okay, well, I'm sitting in this big suite with an Oscar and I still don't have a life - what is wrong with me? Who do I jump on the bed with, and celebrate with, and order pancakes with?’”

On being engaged to a man after her split from Cruise but before meeting Urban:
"I get engaged and I get married — that's my thing…I got engaged to somebody…I wasn't ready. We weren't ready."

On meeting Urban:
“I would probably say that two very lonely people managed to meet at a time when they could open themselves to each other. We were a mixture of frightened and brave.”

On Urban's rehab stint:
"I've learned an enormous amount having a relationship with someone who is in recovery. I'm more than willing to walk it with him…We were in a very, very, very bad, painful place and have managed to step through it, and I hope that gives some people some hope who may be in the same place. And that's enough said. Anything else is overindulgent and unnecessary right now."

On handling a long-distance relationship:
"Two weeks is still too long for us (to be apart). We like one week. We start to hurt after seven days."

On having kids with Urban:
"I'm yearning to have one. I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby. Keith knows I want one, and he has been getting there slowly."

On her children with ex Tom Cruise: Isabella, 14, and Connor, 12:
"I called Tom (from Australia) and said, 'Guess what? Bella wants blue hair.' I go with my daughter to the hair salon to get it dyed blue, and I look at her and I think, My God, it's cool!"

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Clooney Vows to Date a Different Actress Every Night, Settles for Deal or No Deal Model

Noelle Hancock — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:59:19 -0400

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George Clooney is hatching a plan to invalidate the pics in celebrity magazines by being photographed on dates with a slew of gorgeous A-list actresses. Way to take one for the team, Clooney.

"Here is my theory on debunking photographs in magazines, you know, the paparazzi photographs," Clooney says in the November issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands October 10. "I want to spend every single night for three months going out with a different famous actress. You know, Halle Berry one night, Salma Hayek the next, and then walk on the beach holding hands with Leonardo DiCaprio."

He adds: "People would still buy the magazines, they'd still buy the pictures, but they would always go, 'I don't know if these guys were putting us on or not.' "

The 45-year-old actor-director, who knows a thing or two about Oscars (he won best supporting actor in Syriana), also let the mag in on his favorite thespians.

"I will tell you right now -- (Cate Blanchett) will win the Oscar," he says of his costar in "The Good German." "She's the best actor working today. Not actress, she's an actor. Intimidating, in a way, to work with an actor that good."

He added that Johnny Depp "just keeps doing really good stuff. He's just a really, really smart and good actor." And he thinks Clive Owen is "the big find in the past two or three years."

"I think he's a movie star," Clooney says. "He's, like, a man -- there's a sexuality and a masculinity that I think is really interesting."

We can only hope that his dating one of the Deal or No Deal models is part of the plan to throw off the paparazzi. Because, we don’t wanna front or anything, but there’s something seriously wrong with this world when Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor is dating someone’s whose entire career is opening a briefcase for Howie Mandel.

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