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Magazine Covers
Beverly Johnson was a 21-year-old ingenue sleeping on a mattress on the floor of her midtown Manhattan apartment when she went into the photo studio with legendary photographer Francesco Scavullo 35 years ago this month.
The atmosphere, she remembers, was “magical.” “You could kind of feel it in the air during the shoot,” says Johnson. “I knew it was going to be a good picture.
But the rising model was stunned when she learned that an image from the session — of her in a simple, powder blue sweater and a Mona Lisa smile — would become the cover of Vogue in August 1974, making her the magazine’s first black cover model.
Johnson became a poster child for the American civil rights movement practically overnight, her name mentioned in the same breath as that of the Rev. Jesse Jackson (who was, all of a sudden, calling her to discuss race relations in America).
“Everyone was like, ‘Do you understand the significance of this?’ ” recalls Johnson, now 56. “They were making the comparisons with Jackie Robinson and what he did for the baseball league.” At the time, she says, she was only vaguely aware of what they were talking about.
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Jet Mag writes:
First-time Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson is one of the busiest Black women in Hollywood right now with starring roles in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Not Easily Broken. Later in the year she will also star in the dramatic films Hurricane Season and Once Fallen.
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Beyoncé is ready to shed her alter ego and show the world she’s fierce in her own right. See these outtakes from the star’s shoot with Michael Thompson in New York City, plus exclusive shots from her 2002 Allure cover story. For more of our interview with Beyoncé, pick up the February issue of Allure, on newsstands January 26.
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Beyoncé was low-key behind the scenes at the shoot (she requested Uno cards for her dressing room), but certainly not low-energy on the set. When a Michael Jackson song came on, she danced with hairstylist Kimberly Kimble. The day’s playlist also included music by Beyoncé’s sister Solange and by Kelly Rowland. The moment her husband Jay Z’s 2001 album The Blueprint started, the singer laughed and said, “Oh, you can’t play this—you’re going to make me blush.” And then she danced to the entire album. Here, she poses in a beaded silk tulle dress by Roberto Cavalli.
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Well she did say she made a million from mixtapes, wait, so let’s FIXATE
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Very family has its unique rites of passage, those generational milestones that mark a child’s growth and remind parents of their own similar experiences, years earlier. In the Jolie-Pitt household, one such event is the day a kid begins collecting daggers. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s seven-year-old son, Maddox, like many boys his age, has lately developed a fondness for guns and knives, and Jolie proudly notes that the predilection runs in the family.
“My mom took me to buy my first daggers when I was 11 or 12,” she recalls. “And I’ve already bought Maddox some things. We take him to a special shop.” She emphasizes that the knife blades are dulled so they’re not dangerous, and that the purchases are accompanied by discussions about violence. But, she says, “we also talk about samurais and about the idea of defending someone as good. We talk about everything.”
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The Saint & The Sinner
How’d you two meet?
Kim: Matt Leinart [quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals] was dating a friend of mine, Paris Hilton. I went to the ESPY Awards with my stepdad, and Matt was sitting with Reggie. The rest is history.
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