Vanity Fair magazine: June 2010
Cover Model: Two fit chaps in their underwear, Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast) and Christiano Ronaldo (Portugal) They make me think things...
Magazine "BIG" Story: "World Cup: The Stars of the Planet's BIGGEST SPORTS EVENT." An excuse to see page after page of cute boys in their underwear.
Oh right, the World Cup takes place in South Africa this year. There are lots of words on the page talking about how "football" was invented but who the hell cares? Look at the eye candy....
Look at this Cutie Pie:
Bwalya Lietea of Zambia suffers from AIDS but because of multiple efforts by numerous health and relief charities around the world she is improving remarkably. From the documentary "The Lazarus Effect" that is set to air on HBO starting May 24th--you can see how Bwalya and many others are doing since the efforts began in earnest in 2009. (Reminder to set the DVR.)
SeaWeb: Meet the crew behind SeaWeb--an ocean conservation group dedicated to preserving the coral reefs around the world.
Read the story and remember to NOT BUY CORAL. Celine Cousteau is their main documentarian and is shown in her bikini. My abs look just like that--in my dreams...
"In Character" Hope Davis: Not to insult my fellow Sloper, but this is simply the stoooo-pidest feature they have in the magazine. Actors make three different faces and explain each. This is in every issue. For several years now. Yawn.
The Temptation of Tiger Wood, Part II: To all the whores Tiger loved before....After the Howard Stern "Tiger Woods' Mistress Beauty Pageant" all other attempts to tell this story are lame and boring. You slept with a famous married man for the money and notoriety. No other explanation makes sense. Now be gone all ye bimbos.
The White House Dinner Theater: Chock full of some fantastic photos of White House galas. My favorite picture was taken in 1985 with John Travolta twirling Princess Diana on the dance floor. See!
Also in this issue: The "Lost" goodbye (I am not ready to let this series go,) Christopher Hitchens talks about his life in the 1970s, another person who worked for Rupert Murdoch and lived to write a no-way in hell bestseller about it, and a story about the Pecora Commission hearings that tried to regulate Wall Street in the 1930s. How did that work out?
Overall Grade: B- Some nice pictures and I am glad the charities mentioned are getting some press. But boy oh boy this is not the "must read" I have looked forward to in the past. Why so glum Vanity Fair? Do you need a hug?
ox ox,
BFC
