Madonna Elle Covers Double-Dose

One Madonna is never enough in my book. The Can-Do-No-Wrong Goddess is featured on the covers of Elle Magazine's May 2008 issue here in the US and also across the pond on the UK's version. I personally prefer the edgier British cover for it's cleaner lay out and semi-minimal text spread. The American version looks more like Glamour than chic Elle, with so much crap written all over that makes one go dizzy. Does anyone really read all those teasers before buying a mag? I don't. I buy a publication regardless of the cover type but for it's cover subject or I'll pick it up if I'm already familiar with it, like an i-D or Wallpaper.

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Natalie Portman @ Elle Magazine April 2008 Issue

Remember when American fashion magazines would feature actual models on their covers? That seems long gone as unless you are a celebrity promoting a movie or Giselle Bundchen, who already transcended being simply a model.

Elle magazine April 2008 cover girl is the gorgeous Natalie Portman, that can be featured in as many covers as editors seem fit in my opinion, as she is just a joy to stare at. I still haven't made it to "The Other Boleyn Girl" but it's on the list.

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Victoria Beckham @ Elle

Victoria Beckham is the cover girl of Elle magazine, January 2008 issue.

Once again suspenders (!) on the glossy covers of the fashion mags, but this time her boobs are covered up.

What's up with that?? I mean suspenders, not boobs.

Scarlett Johansson @ Elle Magazine

Lovely Scarlett Johansson is the cover girl of Elle Magazine's November 07 - The Women of Hollywood Issue.

Unlike many of her peers cast as contemporary post-adolescents, Scarlett Johansson prospers on her own planet icon, unconstrained by her age or by movie genre. She's persuasive as a seventeenth-century Delft maid in Girl with a Pearl Earring and as a bio-engineered clone in The Island. True, some of her films have been merely indie-quirky, and some didn't pan out at all (even her shimmering bodysuit couldn't save The Island). But it makes little difference to the inexorably upward arc of her career. Bigger than her last movie, she's a throwback in a way to the heyday of the Hollywood studio system and its industrious contract players. (After graduating from Manhattan's Professional Children's School in 2003, her college equivalency was a blur of movie sets.) “The point is,” she says, “by the time the movie has flopped, you're looking forward to finishing the next film. The important thing is to keep working.”

Johansson grew up a culture-vulture middle-class Manhattan kid, raised on movies by a cinephile mother. She admits to a case of nerves shooting the first take of Match Point with her idol Woody Allen behind the camera. But now, after last year's Scoop, the valentine of a murder mystery he created for her, she regards her breezy rapport with the director as nothing out of the ordinary, even as the press has dubbed her his muse, a late-in-the-game successor to Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow.

“Woody's mannerisms and his wit are classically him,” she says appraisingly. “But when you know someone, your conversation has an intimacy that you couldn't have predicted from seeing him on the screen. Woody surprises me all the time. On film, you see his neurotic side but not his sensi­ti­vity.” I read to Johansson a recent quote from Allen, that she has “a tiny bit of Marilyn Monroe in her zaftig humidity.” Johansson waits two beats and then laughs a naughty laugh that would have done Mae West proud. “My goodness,” she says. As that great lady herself once said, “Goodness has nothing to do with it.”

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