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Tanya Gold of The Guardian looks at this month's Vanity Fair cover—another triptych of young actresses—and sees "a desperate sight to make all feminists tremble. This is Disempowerment as she is dressed by Versace.... I feel soiled gazing at this photograph, and it's not just jealousy. It reminded me of Caravaggio's famous chicken in the National Gallery; it's just as pornographic." Hmm. All I see are Uma Thurman, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Claire Danes, Scarlett Johansson, Zhang Ziyi and others as posed by Annie Leibovitz and her assistants, in pretty much the usual VF way. It was shot in Culver City in December. Spotted at Movie City News, which calls the Gold take "a magnificent deconstruction of the sexy sexist soporific Vanity Fair Oscar cover."
* Also in VF: Frank DiGiacomo reports on consternation among the Crossroads set, who are wondering if the Santa Monica school has "lost its progressive cred." The kids of Dustin Hoffman, Brian Grazer, Joe Roth, Meg Ryan, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Kiefer Sutherland and David Mamet attend these days.