Channing Tatum: The Y's Have It
The Vanities section has long featured a shapely ingénue on its opening page. For the April issue, we attempt to even the score with something a little different: a comely up-and-comer with a Y chromosome, and chrome wheels to boot. To celebrate, we’ve thrown in some outtakes.
Heath Remembered
In August 2000, Vanity Fair featured a rising young star on its cover: Heath Ledger. Bruce Weber's photographs captured the looks, character, and promise that the actor's co-workers and friends described in the accompanying cover story. Ledger fulfilled that promise before his untimely death, in January 2008. Here, a selection of images from Weber's shoot, both published and unpublished. Related: “We're Havin' a Heath Wave," by Kevin Sessums. Plus: “The Last of Heath, by Peter Biskind.
改編自二十世紀八十年代卡通片集的《變形金剛》(Transformers),票房成績理想,那麼當年同樣擁有無數「粉絲」的《義勇群英之毒蛇風暴》(G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,《特種部隊:眼鏡蛇的崛起》),沒理由不受歡迎。何況它有群星拱照,且個個武功高強,施展的武器又新穎,真箇甚有吸引力,肯定是喜歡玩格鬥、玩電玩又愛刺激的男觀眾那杯茶。 其實,這班群英是由公仔引發而來。話說當年,玩具生產商「孩之寶」專門生產十二吋高的人形軍事公仔,後來又進化成三吋多高的玩偶,並分成正邪兩派,一隊是維護正義之士,另一幫則是為惡的毒蛇黨,玩偶甫推出即甚受男孩歡迎;大好形勢下,玩偶演化成卡通片集,於是英雄與惡幫登時成為家喻戶曉的人物。