Vanity Fair’s Heath Ledger cover story: Is it celebrity porn?
July 20th, 2009When you read a 5,000-word magazine piece that begins by saying, “It’s nine in the morning and I am in a cab threading its way through a tangle of narrow country lanes …,” you know that you’re reading Vanity Fair, the last magazine left standing where writers are encouraged to let us know way too much about themselves (as in one infamous VF piece in which the female journalist quoted the person she was writing about offering a fulsome appreciation of her legs) and far too little about the actual subject of the profile.

