{"id":6737,"date":"2010-02-01T20:26:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T01:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6737"},"modified":"2010-02-10T00:35:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T05:35:16","slug":"vanity-fair-white-power-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6737","title":{"rendered":"Vanity Fair<\/i>: White Power Pictures."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world gets smaller and smaller, and Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>‘s gets even tinier, still: Their new, March 2010 Hollywood cover<\/a>, above, shot by Annie Leibovitz, features a bevy of SPF50-dependent, semi-translucent beauties.<\/p>\n

They are, l-r, Abbie Cornish, Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Hall, Mia Wasikowska, Emma Stone, Evan Rachel Wood, and Anna Kendrick.<\/p>\n

While this isn’t unexpected\u2014I’ve written, here, on Media Assassin<\/em>, before, about VF<\/em>‘s glaringly white Tinseltown special issues<\/a>\u2014it is, again, a tad doddering, and way out-of-touch.<\/p>\n

\"cover-girls-bts-1003-we06\"<\/a>It’s almost, like, given the kind of talent available and doing amazing work today, if you do a magazine cover of nine young women in film, right, and they’re all white, it’s just because you want it white. You’re making, intentionally or not, a racial power statement.<\/p>\n

I wonder: While discussing Haiti over lunch, did any of these actors say, “Wow: This sure is one Caucazoid photo shoot”? Better yet, did anyone refuse to be part of something which so genteely hangs out the NO COLOREDS sign?<\/p>\n

I don’t know if these women have thought about this, but, just like global warming, every bit of race adds up, and if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. At least, consider that the next time you’re cast in a project\u2014like this one\u2014that sends relations back sixty years.<\/p>\n

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The world gets smaller and smaller, and Vanity Fair‘s gets even tinier, still: Their new, March 2010 Hollywood cover, above, shot by Annie Leibovitz, features a bevy of SPF50-dependent, semi-translucent beauties. They are, l-r, Abbie Cornish, Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Hall, Mia Wasikowska, Emma Stone, Evan Rachel Wood, and Anna Kendrick. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,21,51,54,18,69,71,7,14,15,64,8,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6737"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6747,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions\/6747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}