Blake Lively receives backlash for controversial September issue cover of Vogue

Aug 20, 2024 17:08

Blake Lively is the cover star of Vogue's September issue - and not everyone is happy about it ( Read more... )

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meetviolent August 21 2024, 00:59:14 UTC
From the article:

“As she is showing me pictures on her phone, I’m watching her and wondering: What makes a movie star? There are so few left, at least in the old-fashioned sense of Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, and here I sit before one of the last of these rare creatures.”

Uh. Is the last of these rare creatures in the room with us?

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genbu_no_miko24 August 21 2024, 01:00:42 UTC
Please tell me that's not Baz saying this.

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meetviolent August 21 2024, 01:12:47 UTC
Ha! No, it was the writer. But Baz does get quoted about her being such a movie star or something.

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squirrels_oh_no August 21 2024, 03:01:26 UTC
I don't see Baz putting her in one of his movies if she's a star.

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jojito August 21 2024, 01:03:53 UTC
A movie star? her?
Lord, how much was this "journalist" paid?
Some things are subjective but I can't imagine anyone genuinely believing she's has movie star charisma.

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silverstarry August 21 2024, 02:30:29 UTC

The writer of this article is Andrew Sean Greer, the author of Less (a book that a lot of people raved about but I didn't like when I read it several years ago).

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crazyfreakyaj August 21 2024, 01:12:16 UTC

wow, that's embarrassing if baz said that

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irajaxon August 21 2024, 01:14:23 UTC
that's like mistaking a painted horse for a zebra, lol

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chll51 August 21 2024, 01:40:41 UTC
"and here I sit before one of the last of these rare creatures.”


... )

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formisscaulker August 21 2024, 02:06:54 UTC
grace kelly and audrey hepburn, sweeties..

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alwayspolaris August 21 2024, 04:05:01 UTC
Actually as much as I love Audrey and Grace, their beauty and their extraordinary lives (Audrey's work as an ambassador, Grace's royal marriage) were as much a draw as their acting skills - and I do think they were both good actresses but it was these other elements that made them stars. Blake...has one of those three things I guess.

I would say actresses like Zendaya and Angelina Jolie are these kinds of movie stars now - where they are good actresses, but we also want to just want to look at them/know everything about their personal lives. And everyone knows their name.

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blazingeternity August 21 2024, 09:12:23 UTC

What a ridiculous claim. I haven't seen a single thing she was in, and neither have most of my rl peers. Even at 94, Tippi Hedren is still more of a movie star with that x factor than this lady.

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toddies August 21 2024, 22:28:54 UTC
her last non-reynolds movie, the rhythm section, earned $6 million dollars total and lost the studio an estimated $30-40mn. on its third weekend it grossed $25,602; that weekend it was pulled from 97% of its theaters, making it the biggest third-weekend theater drop in history.

the vast majority of her films are critical and commercial flops.

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