Dogmatic creed of multiculturalism ignored
One thing magazines love todo is call dibs on who will be the new “It” celebritiesin the year to come. Sometimes they pick stars whose careers aredestined to take off, occasionally they make incredible calls withnear-nobodies who later become A-listers, and usually the majorityof their picks fade into oblivion.
While we’d like to thinkceleb bible Vanity Fair puts a great deal of thought and planninginto its annual “New Hollywood” issue, this year theeditors really limited their scope when it came to choosing thenext big stars.
(Or perhaps they overemphasized the”Fair”? ) Every woman on its new cover is extremely thinand very, very white. Unless Vanity Fair considers one redhead tobe diversity, we feel the need to cry foul.The cover of the March issuefeatures Abbie Cornish, Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, AmandaSeyfried, Rebecca Hall, Mia Wasikowska, Emma Stone, Evan RachelWood, and Anna Kendrick. Many, if not all of these women have goodreason to grace the Vanity Fair cover, and to be a part of whatthey have dubbed “the fresh faces of 2010.”
Evan RachelWood has garnered critical acclaim since her Golden Globe-nominatedperformance in 2003’s “Thirteen” as well as loads ofmedia attention from her highly publicized romance with rockerMarilyn Manson. Kristen Stewart was catapulted to fame by themega-successful “Twilight” franchise and will star asJoan Jett in the upcoming film, “The Runaways,” while Amanda Seyfried’s career was put in motion after her rolein 2008’s “Mamma Mia!”
But WAIT: Vanity Fairalready had both Stewart and Seyfried on an August 2008cover touting “Hollywood’s New Wave.” And this wasalso a white-girl-only cover. Were there no promising young actorsof color who could have been featured in either issue?