Lea Michele: Glamour Magazine October 2010

Lea Michele rocks a striped shirt on the latest cover of Glamour magazine. Here’s what the Glee star opened up about:

On her friendship with cast member Amber Riley: “We’re both big personalities, and you definitely would think we’d bump heads. But she has taught me more about myself than anyone. She inspires me, she protects me, she makes me laugh, she tells me not to take myself so seriously. She’s my Mama Amber.”

On what’s going to happen to Rachel next season: “I think we’re going to see [what she’s like] with a boyfriend. She’s kind of inexperienced still, and I would like to see them together for a bit as a couple. I want to meet her dad—I really do. I think that they’re saving that, though.”

On her ideal romantic evening with actor Theo Stockman: “Scary movie, pizza, being at home, maybe having friends over and a great bottle of wine. I like it when a movie scares the s—t out of me. That, for me, is just the best.”

Edited: September 1st, 2010

Lindsay Lohan: Vanity Fair October 2010

Lindsay Lohan covers the October 2010 issue of Vanity Fair – the interview was taken before she headed to jail. The actress admitted irresponsibility in this candid interview. Here’s what she shared:

On her alleged alcohol addiction: “If I were the alcoholic everyone says I am, then putting a [scram] bracelet on would have ended me up in detox, in the emergency room, because I would have had to come down from all the things that people say I’m taking and my father says I’m taking — so that says something, because I was fine.”

On denying drug abuse: “I’ve never abused prescription drugs. I never have — never in my life. I have no desire to. That’s not who I am. I’ve admitted to the things that I’ve done — to, you know, dabbling in certain things and trying things ’cause I was young and curious and thought it was like, O.K., ’cause other people were doing it and other people put it in front of me. And I see what happened in my life because of it.”

On hanging out with the wrong crowd: “So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving. I had a lot of people that were there for me for, you know, the party.”

On her career being far from over: “I want my career back. I know that I’m a damn good actress, and it’s been my passion since I was a child, and I know that when I care about something, I put 100 percent and more into it. … I want the respect that I had when I was doing great movies. And if that takes not going out to a club at night, then so be it. It’s not fun anyway. I don’t care. It’s the same thing every time.”

Edited: September 1st, 2010

Mary-Louise Parker: “People Give Me Pot All The Time”

Weeds actress Mary-Louise Parker strikes a pose for Vanity Fair magazine. Although she plays a pot dealer on the show, Parker admits that she’s by far no expert on the drug. Here’s what the 46-year-old actress opened up about:

On how she feels about pot: But I’m not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I’m just not one of those people. I don’t think it would be the best drug for me. What am I going to do, start doing drugs at my age? It’s a little late. I’m a mother of two. It’s probably not the best idea for me to start getting into it now. People give me pot all the time. I put them up in my closet, on the very, very top shelf, where I keep all my shoes, just so my kids wouldn’t find them. I don’t need that.

On being curious about smoking weed: My entire life, I never wanted anything to do with marijuana, but then it became a thing. You know what I mean? “I don’t smoke pot.” That was my thing. So when I was sick, I was like, “What the hell?” I was actually kind of excited about it. I was like, “Oh my god, I’m 45 and I’m having my first pot experience!” But it did nothing.

Edited: August 27th, 2010

Blake Lively Gets Handcuffed for Interview Magazine

Blake Lively gets cuffed in a cover shot and spread for Interview magazine’s September issue.

The spread shows Lively seducing police investigators – and it’s all caught on tape. Here are some highlights from the interview:

On her sex scene with Ben Affleck: With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we’re all only so confident. It doesn’t mean we think we’re great looking or anything. It’s all a façade. But the sex scene was really awkward. It was my first day, so thank you for that.

On her parents supporting her career: They disowned me…They were as involved in my life as any parents are in any person’s life. It was always important to them when I was growing up. I didn’t start acting until I was 16, but when I was a kid people always asked why I didn’t act like the rest of my family, and they would say, “Well, she needs a childhood! We would never allow her to do that even if she wanted to.

On who she admires: People always ask me that and I always answer with men. Which is not to say that there aren’t incredible women in this business, but I feel like men are still given much better opportunities. I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can’t look at one person’s life and say, “I want that life.” I want to make my own history.

Edited: August 21st, 2010

Hilary Swank: InStyle Magazine September 2010

Hilary Swank rocks a LBD on the September cover of InStyle magazine.

Here’s what the 36-year-old two-time Oscar-winning actress shared:

On divorce: “A lot of people look at divorce as a failure. I really looked at my relationship with Chad [Lowe, her ex husband] as 14 years of success. I will carry him in my heart forever. He’s part of me… Friends of mine and I talk about this. Does someone come into your life for a certain time, and then you are supposed to go your separate ways? There’s a part of me that thinks that’s true. We have friendships that we grow out of. But I believe in the long haul. I believe in having a monogamous relationship.”

On being stylish on a budget: “People around me laugh because I still have a deep understanding of what a dollar gets you and how far to make that dollar go. No wonder my closet is a hodgepodge. I have everything from Louboutins to Payless. From Gap to designer stuff. You don’t have to have a brand name on to be stylish. You can mix it all together and it works.”

Edited: August 18th, 2010

True Blood Gets Naked For Rolling Stone

Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are all bloody and naked in the new issue of Rolling Stone. Here’s what the True Blood cast shared:

Anna – on a doctor that suggested she close the gap between her teeth: “Somewhere between the doctor putting his finger in my mouth and saying that he could fix it for me, I was like, ‘Yeah, and I could bite your finger right now.’ ”

Anna - on announcing that she’s bisexual: ““I’m not sure what the reaction was, but I’m glad I did it. There’s such an impulse to turn it into a sensational thing, when what I was really hoping to say is that it’s normal and not interesting. (smiles) I feel so lucky right now. Life
is pretty great.”

Stephen - on why vampires are so hot right now: “If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn’t one before. It’s a de-virginization – breaking the hymen, creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. And there’s something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that’s pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive. (laughs) Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?”

Stephen – on getting the callback for True Blood the same day his apartment was burglarized: “When you have things stolen, you become much more aware of what’s important – f—ing take the camera if you want, but don’t take the tape that’s in it. I lost all those sex tapes, the ones of me giving head when I was young. That was supposed to be my meal ticket.”

Alex – on Eric Northman: “I like to think about Eric like he’s a male lion. He
looks so relaxed, his heartbeat is probably 15 beats a minute, but you don’t know if he’s going to pounce, or attack, or yawn.”

Alex – on not wearing a sock while shooting nude scenes: “I don’t want a sock around it, that feels ridiculous. If we’re naked in the scene, then I’m naked. I’ve always been that way.”

Edited: August 18th, 2010

Halle Berry: Vogue September 2010

Halle Berry rocks a blunt bob on cover of Vogue’s famed September issue. Here’s what the 43-year-old actress shared:

On not doing an interview in three years: “I was burned-out with having other people tell the story about me that they wanted to tell. I told my publicist, ‘I’m not going to talk anymore. I’m just going to live my life and be who I am.’”

On being chosen to be on the cover of the September issue: “What that means for a woman of color and what that means in the fashion world, what that means to pop culture, there was no way I could say, ‘No I’m not going to be on the biggest issue of the year.’”

On breaking up with Gabriel Aubry: “It’s just that you realize you are not meant to go the distance with everybody. We were meant to bring this amazing little person (daughter Nahla Aubry) into the world. And I think that’s why we came together. And because of that, we are going to be together forever, all three of us. We are a family until we are not here anymore… We have always been friends, we’re still friends, we love each other very much, and we both share the love of our lives. And we are both 100 percent committed to being the best parents we can be. And while it was not a love connection for us, he was absolutely the right person to have this child with because she is going to have an amazing father. And that was really important to me. We’ll make sure we always do what is right for her and put her first. And she will see as she grows that we have a lot of love for each other.”

On the curse of winning an Oscar: “Everybody talks about the Oscar curse. People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that’s partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day. I thought, If I’m going down, I’m going down taking chances and daring to risk. Hence…Catwoman.”

On her appreciation of the female body: “I love the naked female form. I just feel like that’s the most empowered position you can be in… That comes with age. I’ve been slowly getting there. If the world wouldn’t persecute me, I’d take nude pictures every day of the week.”

Edited: August 12th, 2010

Bored to Death Cast Steal Harper’s Bazaar

The stars of HBO’s comedy Bored to Death, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Schwartzman and Ted Danson are featured in a fun spread in the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

Are you excited for the show’s return?

Check out the spread and fun video below!

Edited: August 12th, 2010

James Franco: Esquire Magazine September 2010

Eat, Pray, Love actor, James Franco, looks sharp in Gucci as he takes the cover in Esquire’s September issue. Here’s what the 32-year-old opened up about:

On why it is important being a student: “Acting doesn’t do very much for me. I put off school for it, but it’s not like it was a sacrifice or anything. I really didn’t miss school until I went back. Or maybe I missed it and nobody believed that, not even me. The work of it — and I have really great teachers — that’s the stuff that adds up for me in a way that acting doesn’t.”

On his new movie, Eat, Pray, Love: “What can I say about Eat, Pray, Love? Let’s see, you know, in Eat, Pray, Love, my character mostly appears in the first 20 pages of the book. And I can definitely say I read the first twenty pages.”

What do you think of the cover shot?

Sound off in the comments!

Edited: August 11th, 2010

Zac Efron: Details Magazine September 2010

Zac Efron covers the September issue of Details magazine. Here’s what the actor shared:

On Shia LaBeouf’s attitude: “I’m so jealous of that. Yeah, that’s awesome to not give a sh–. And Shia still pulls it off. That’s so cool. It’s just awesome. It just comes easy to some people.”

On contracting poison oak before the interview: “I went backpacking over Memorial Day weekend and I just got the worst poison oak, bro. Dude, it’s like everywhere. Everywhere. I can’t even begin to show you, ‘cause you’ll get so grossed out. I look like a zombie from Dawn of the Dead.”

On Tom Cruise recently flagging him down in the lobby of agency CAA: “He made so many great movies. I get the feeling that he works really, really hard. It didn’t come from swagger with him. It came from dedication, hard work. You see it in the way he physicalizes everything. You watch The Last Samurai and that’s him! He’s really doing that. I don’t even want to know. It’s just so cool that he gave a shit, the fact that he cared at all. No one else did that.”

Edited: August 10th, 2010

Rachel Zoe: I Die For Harper’s Bazaar

Stylist to the stars Rachel Zoe looks stunning in a fashion spread in Harper’s Bazaar. The Rachel Zoe Project star poses with several top designers – Francisco Costa, Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang, Brian Atwood and Michael Kors. Here’s what they had to say about Zoe and fashion.

“I would die for Rachel’s vintage archive.” -Francisco Costa

“Rachel’s energy is electrifying? …And often shocking!” -Marc Jacobs

“I only want to kill Rachel when I don’t land one of her fabulous clients for the Oscars!” -Vera Wang

“Death by Stiletto? I can’t imagine a better way to go.” -Brian Atwood

“The perfect accessory can make the difference between looking blah and totally to die for.” -Michael Kors

What do you think of the photo spread?

Sound off in the comments!

Edited: August 9th, 2010

Julia Roberts: Elle Magazine September 2010

Julia Roberts graces four separate covers of Elle magazine’s September issue. Here’s what the Eat, Pray, Love actress opened up about:

On the botox/plastic surgery trend in Hollywood: “It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates. I want my kids to know when I’m pissed, when I’m happy, and when I’m confounded. Your face tells a story… and it shouldn’t be a story about your drive to the doctor’s office.”

On her family with husband Danny Moder: “The children became the shooting stars of him, of that thing we have. How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.”

On behind the scenes pranks with the cast of the Ocean’s movies: “Those boys! I was the only girl there. One day George Clooney put these giant potted trees in front of my door so that I couldn’t get out to work. I pride myself on being punctual! You didn’t want to leave your camera lying around, either, People were breaking into each other’s rooms, taking them, and let’s just say you didn’t want your mom picking up your photos at Walgreens! Photos of unidentifiable body parts.”

Edited: August 6th, 2010

Mary-Kate Olsen: Marie Claire September 2010

Mary-Kate Olsen dons a green jacket on the September 2010 cover of Marie Claire. Here’s what the 24-year-old actress/designer shared:

On having a twin: “Sometimes [my twin sister] Ash and I have to bring each other back, or push each other more. It’s really helpful to have another half; we’re constantly checking in with each other.”

On growing up as a child star: “I would never wish my upbringing upon anyone…but I wouldn’t take it back for the world.”

On her and Ashley Olsen’s high-end line, The Row: “It took us a year-and-a-half to make the first T-shirt. I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that’s great … but this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.”

Edited: August 6th, 2010