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The Vanity Fair Hollywood issue is here, always a lot of fun and most anticipated. On the cover: Ben Affleck, Emma Stone and Bradley Cooper in bed. An insert of Eddie Redmayne and of Q from “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Inside cover has Halle Berry (great picture), an odd shot of Kerry Washington, and Olivia Wilde as Josephine Baker. Jonah Hill is photographed Hurrell-style by Bruce Weber surrounded by beauties in a convertible– he is a lucky, lucky man. There’s a portrait of Quincy Jones with his daughters including famous Rashida. VF says: “When [Bruce] Weber was staging Quincy Jones and three of his beautiful daughters—Rashida, Kidada, and Kenya—Weber asked them to come up with a song they all knew so that they could sing together. Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” from the Thriller album, which Quincy produced, was their choice.” Check it out at www.vanityfair.com. More to come…

Roger Friedman

Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News. Friedman previously wrote the Intelligencer column at New York Magazine, He writes for Parade magazine and has written for Details, Vogue, the New York Times, Post, and Daily News and many other publications. He is the writer and co-producer of a film about R&B Music called “Only the Strong Survive,” which was released by Miramax in 2003 and was a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals.