As expected, People fronts a young glamour shot of Elizabeth Taylor in its “Farewell to a Legend” coverage, with only “Reese’s Big Day Plans!” and “Courteney & David: Working it out?” in small print above the title. And American Media, Inc. is out with a “Liz Tribute to the Queen of Hollywood 1932-2011” collector’s issue.
Time’s Liz tribute is promoted in the upper-right corner, which has a decidedly unglamour shot of old Gaddafi and the question “What if he doesn’t go?”—answered inside by Fareed Zakaria.
Entertainment Weekly seems to have somehow missed the Liz boat entirely—but why not, when it has Robert Pattinson? Surely “Beyond Twilight,” wherein RPattz dishes on romancing Reese (who’s with him on the cover) in Water For Elephants, is more attractive. Inside, too, are the “summer movies we can’t wait for,” not to mention “the truth about the Kennedy miniseries”—hopefully, nothing but the whole truth.
The New Yorker has a cute cover drawing of a bunch of tourist animals (moose, fox, raccoon, etc.) reading tourist guides while waiting for a train at Columbus Circle Station—just around the corner from the cavernous Gottfried’s office (I was actually standing next to the animals the day the artist drew the illustration—but I’m not in the picture). The big story inside is “Chronicle of a death foretold,” about a prominent Guatemalan lawyer who predicted he’d be killed by the president—with the investigation into his death turning out to be stranger than anyone imagined. Two other stories concern “What’s next for the Middle East?”
Tyrese graces the cover of Jet, with the “The Temple of Tyrese” story detailing the actor-singer-author’s turning of Twitter into his pulpit. And finally, Billboard juxtaposes cover act Foo Fighters with The Eagles in its caption “Take it to the limit one more time,” which highlights the band’s new album Wasting Light and the promotional campaign behind it. Inside is “Warner Music: Behind the scenes at a bidding war,” along with a timely feature on Chris Brown and a “Music Education Special.”
--jim bessman
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