Today's big magazine is likely to be Rolling Stone, what with a pensive and “Deeply Neurotic, Desperate for Approval—and Happier than Ever” King of All Media Howard Stern. Howard’s been hyping it on his show for the last two weeks, ever since Stone approached him for the cover feature. And since he loves the magazine, he gave it and writer Neil Strauss plenty of access, in fact, turn the cover page and there’s a second cover with a different Stern shot. Also inside is the “Spring Music Preview” highlighting the likes of Lady Gaga, Jay-Z & Kanye, Lil Wayne, Paul Simon, Foo Fighters and Fleet Foxes.
Vogue is big this week, too, thanks to Rihanna’s see-thru dress—a perfect fit to go with her take “On Fame, Family & How She Really Feels About Her Curves” (spoiler alert: she actually likes her body). Today’s Page Six in the Post includes an inside Vogue Rihanna pic, so it’s getting the push. Also inside is “Secrets Behind the World’s Most Beautiful Bodies,” not to mention “Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen: Tiny Powerhouses Behind the Row.”
Playboy’s “Sex & Music Issue” has Hawaii Five-O’s Taryn Manning on the cover, and on the music side trumpets the legendary George Jones (“The Country Badass has no Regrets,” it proclaims), and also lists Cee Lo, Robin Thicke, Chromeo, R. Kelly, Bryan Ferry and Deadmau5. A more fully clothed but no less enticing Amanda Seyfried graces the cover of Elle and discourses inside “On Kissing Justin Timberlake and Falling for Costars”. Besides it being “The Genius Issue!” (signifiying, apparently, the style secrets of Joe Zee, Michael Kors, Jason Wu, and more!), the issue tallies 221 shoes, bags, jackets and jewelry to personalize your look in its “Fashion! Dress Up for Work” listing.
The “single, but not desperate” (whew!) Eva Longoria graces the cover of Allure and its “Get Gorgeous Skin” special, though I’m more interested in how the 11 women who took Allure’s “Anti-Aging Challenge” finished. Town & Country follows suit with its “Forever Young” cover feature and the timely “Medical Roundtable: Resetting Your Age Clock,” along with “Timeless Style: The Women of Santa Barbara.”
Meanwhile, it’s the “Couples Issue” over at Marie Claire with Bradley Cooper and Abbie Cornish divulging their presumably much-sought stance “on kissing strangers.” The ish also offers a “Fashion Extravaganza,” “Sexy Spring Makeovers” and most important, “Love & Sex: New rules to bulletproof your relationship." GQ pictures bat-wielding Derek Jeter and details his “Swinging Years” while naming “The Most Obnoxious Sports Fans in America.” And if you haven’t had enough Charlie Sheen, the “inside story” recounts his “Porn-tastic Implosion.”
Fitness-wise, Shape shows Vanessa Hudgens “Sronger than ever!” and reveals “How she got there!” But I very much question its “Slim Without the Gym: No weights, no gadgets—just you!”—but hey, some of us need structure. Self allows us to “steal Kim Kardashian’s Surprising Secrets” under its “Keep Your Curves, Lose the Extra” heading, and further offers a “Special Step-by-Step Handbook” for dropping 10 pounds, as well as “23 Ways to Boost Your Energy.”
The lifestyle titles include Seventeen, with Victoria Justice’s “Real-life Drama” (in high school, she felt alone and isolated) and more important, “Get Your Dream Hair” (though that one, I’m afraid, is only in my dreams). Life & Style has a “teen mom exclusive” in “Two More Babies!”—which should be required reading.
And the celebrity weeklies are likewise earth-shattering with In Touch blaring “Bachelor Betrayed! The Real Story,” OK! presenting the “exclusive first look” at “Kim’s Dream Wedding,” Star’s “Breaking News” report on "Renee Betrayed by Bradley,” Us investigating “How He [Justin] Broke Her [Jessica's] Heart,” and People also documenting “The Bachelor Blowup!”
For what it’s worth, People also runs a small upper corner picture of a minor story, “Japan’s Tsunami: Hearbreak, Heroes & Hope.”
--jim bessman
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