Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Vanity Fair to Leading Ladies: “Drop Dead,” Magazine Features Only Guys On Cover of Hollywood Issue, No Women

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Vanity Fair makes it plan to Hollywood’s leading ladies on the cover of its new Hollywood issue.

Fuhgeddaboutit!

The magazine has gone GQ with only men on the cover.

No women allowed.

The cover was put together by yes, Olivia Nuzzi, the new west coast editor, and author of the book “American Canto,” excerpted in the issue. Nuzzi is an expert on men. She had some kind of affair with Robert Kennedy Jr while writing a profile of him for New York Magazine last year.

Did she get close to any of these guys? Digitally, as she would say?

They include Andrew Garfield, Glen Powell, Michael B. Jordan, Lakeith Stanfield, Jeremy Allen White, Riz Ahmed, ASAP Rocky, Paul Mescal, Jonathan Bailey, and Austin Butler are depicted doing manly things like being pirates and castaways.

Three different covers, all men, men, men as they sing on “Three and a Half Men.”

They’re called “The People’s Princes.” The tag is “Let’s hear it for the boys.”

Did the men not notice women were missing from the pictures?

Maybe Vanity Fair will surprise us later with seven female stars for the year. Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jesse Buckley, Margaret Qualley, Chase Infiniti, and so on, not to mention Teyana Taylor, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, or a half dozen other names.

No Zendaya? No Sydney Sweeney? No Sydney Sweeney? 

But aren’t they telling us there are no female stars? Seems like it. The women are insignificant. And certainly “older” women like Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Chastain, et al.

Are we surprised?

Here’s Our Fake Cover of Vanity Fair with Only the Star Hollywood Actresses of the Year: “Let’s Hear it for the Women!”

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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