Who's More Vain, Beyoncé or Paris?
Compiled by the DiversityInc staff
© 2005 DiversityInc.com®
Analysis of today's diversity news from the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, FOXNews.com and more:
Vanity Fair, the magazine that unmasked Deep Throat, still is in the news, this time for having a difficult time planning the cover of the September issue. The New York Daily News reports that singer-turned-actress Beyoncé Knowles and reality-TV star Paris Hilton both think they have landed the top spot. Hilton's representatives think Knowles lost her edge thanks to less-than-glowing advance reviews of her upcoming film "Pink Panther." But a magazine representative tells the Daily News, "We are shooting Beyoncé for the cover next week."
By our count, that would make Knowles the first black person to appear alone on the cover of the Condé Nast publication since July 1999, when Will Smith did it. As recently as February, some media outlets lambasted the publication for the dearth of blacks on the cover. Three years after their historic Oscar wins, neither Halle Berry nor Denzel Washington has appeared on Vanity Fair's cover.
Not that that's a huge surprise. Remember, this is the publishing company that earlier this year included traditional black-American food as a "foreign specialty" in the cafeteria.
Ah! Let's make this 'simple' for Vanity Fair: All in support of Beyonce` HOLLA BACK!!!!! And for you Paris Hilton fans.....Get your vote in, too. (lol)
Posted By:
Friday, June 10th 2005 at 2:11AM
You can also
click
here to view all posts by this author...
