Scarlett Johansson's New Album Promo Images

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Scarlett Johansson is set to join the long line of Hollywood actors who've turned their hand to music when she releases her debut album in May 2008. Entitled "Anywhere I Lay My Head", Johansson's album will be a collection of Tom Waits covers - of which the grizzled songwriting legend has apparently lent his approval - with only one track an original composition. Needless to say, the Hollywood starlet has called in the favours from her celebrity chums, with David Bowie providing guest vocals on two tracks and Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner appearing throughout.
Speaking of the album, Johansson told Access Hollywood: "It was a whole other magical experience for me. It was amazing. I worked with some incredible people... Tom Waits' melodies are so beautiful and his voice is so distinct. I sent him some of my early, early recordings, and he said, 'Go ahead'. I've heard he's very pleased."
Johansson's previous dabblings in the music world have included an appearance in Justin Timberlake's What Goes Around... Comes Around video, a song on 2006 charity album Unexpected Dreams: Songs From The Stars, and an on-stage performance with The Jesus And Mary Chain at America's Coachella Festival in 2007.

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The Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue Covers

It all began in 1995 with 10 alluring beauties on a three-page foldout cover. With the current issue—fronted by fresh faces Emily Blunt, Amy Adams, Jessica Biel, and Anne Hathaway—Vanity Fair marks the 14th year of its gigantic annual Hollywood Issue, and thus the 14th year of photographer Annie Leibovitz’s spectacular gate-fold covers. These classic photographs capture Tinseltown talent and glamour like nothing else. If you are unfamiliar with the Vanity Fair Covers, the left third of each image is what was visible on the cover before unfolding.

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March 2008: “FRESH FACES” Emily Blunt, Amy Adams, Jessica Biel, Anne Hathaway, Alice Braga, Ellen Page, Zoë Saldana, Elizabeth Banks, Ginnifer Goodwin, and America Ferrera.

March 2007: “MEN IN BLACK” Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Chris Rock, and Jack Black.

March 2006: “FORD’S FOUNDATION” Scarlett Johansson, Tom Ford and Keira Knightley.

March 2005: “NOT SO DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES” Uma Thurman, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Claire Danes, Scarlett Johansson, Rosario Dawson, Ziyi Zhang, Kerry Washington, Kate Bosworth, and Sienna Miller.



April 2004: “SEND IN THE GOWNS” Julianne Moore, Jennifer Connelly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Naomi Watts, Salma Hayek, Jennifer Aniston, Kirsten Dunst, Diane Lane, Lucy Liu, Hilary Swank, Alison Lohman, Scarlett Johansson, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

April 2003: “ALPHA LIST” Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Ewan McGregor, and Matt Damon.

April 2002: “RHAPSODY IN BLUE” Kirsten Dunst, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Connelly, Rachel Weisz, Brittany Murphy, Selma Blair, Rosario Dawson, Christina Applegate, and Naomi Watts.

April 2001: “MASTER CLASS” Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve, Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Vanessa Redgrave, Chloë Sevigny, Sophia Loren, and Penélope Cruz.

April 2000: “SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS” Penélope Cruz, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Marley Shelton, Chris Klein, Selma Blair, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, and Sarah Wynter.

April 1999: “NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK” Adrien Brody, Thandie Newton, Monica Potter, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Stiles, Leelee Sobieski, Giovanni Ribisi, Sarah Polley, Norman Reedus, Anna Friel, Omar Epps, Kate Hudson, Vinessa Shaw, and Barry Pepper.

April 1998: “THE HOT NEXT WAVE” Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn, Natalie Portman, Djimon Hounsou, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Claire Forlani, Gretchen Mol, Christina Ricci, Ed Furlong, and Rufus Sewell.

April 1997: “THE NEXT WAVE” Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Claire Danes, Renée Zellweger, Minnie Driver, Alison Elliott, Jada Pinkett, Jennifer Lopez, Charlize Theron, and Fairuza Balk.

April 1996: “BOYS’ TOWN” Tim Roth, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Rapaport, Stephen Dorff, Johnathon Schaech, David Arquette, Will Smith, and Skeet Ulrich.

April 1995: “HOLLYWOOD HIGHEST—THE CLASS OF 2000” Jennifer Jason Leigh, Uma Thurman, Nicole Kidman, Patricia Arquette, Linda Fiorentino, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Julianne Moore, Angela Bassett, and Sandra Bullock.



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Scarlett Johansson @ Vanity Fair Germany

Scarlett Johansson as the February 2008 cover girl of the German edition of Vanity Fair. Woof!

Scarlett Johansson & Natalie Portman @ W Magazine

Screen sirens Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman are the cover girls of W's February 2008 issue. They are also featured inside in a very sexy fetish-inspired layout and both look gorgeous. Their new movie "The Other Boleyn Girl" debuts on February 29 here in the US and I can't wait to see it. I watched the preview the other week and it looks just amazing, with great sets and wardrobe. Both Portman and Johansson glow in the screen with their flawless beauty and great acting chops. I just love Natalie Portman and she was just so amazing in "Paris, Je T'Aime" that made me all teary eyed.

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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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