@eXXX: I agree, it looks terribly forced and plastic.

Actually they all look like forced & plastic photoshop jobs.

Benovite

@procrastinator, esq.: In all seriousness, my first thought was "Oh, shit! Mona's back?!"
Poor Seth Rogen. That photo makes him look way fatter than he actually is, unless he put on serious chunk after his totally jumpable turn in "Superbad." Also, Gwyneth wishes she could fill Grace Kelly's ballgown. Please!

bestdamnedtapper

The Lifeboat image really sucks.

eXXX

Betty White looks awesome!

and we all know that Canadian Seths, are by and large, hot.

el smrtmnky

Well, I don't know what it says about me that when I saw Eva Marie Saint in the photo spread for Lifeboat, I thought it was Katherine Helmond.

Also, couldn't they have come up with a better shoot for North By Northwest? I couldn't think of a less Roger Thornhill-like person than Seth Rogen, and in any event, the Mount Rushmore scene is more iconic (by a smidgen).

procrastinator, esq.

Kim Novak she ain't.

pixie-stix

Wow, Renée actually looks older than Julie Christie.

Charlize is sooooooo pretty it's unfair.

heidiho

Wow, that's Zellweger? I don't even recognize her when she's not making that squinty piggy face she always does.

buttler

Tang Wei!

The Real JR

Keira and Jennifer reenact the creepy hallway scene from Rebecca? Wait, what creepy hallway scene?

God, I love Mrs. Danvers. That lady was nutters.

FancyInk

Jodie Foster looks less like 'Tippi' Hedren and more like that crazy lady in the diner who slaps her later on in the movie.

The one that says "I think you're EVIL! EVIL!!!!" Am I crazy?

LBJeffries

umm...why are they not even looking out the window in the "rear window" shot. was that a scene i missed? anxiously and eerily awaiting 21 to arrive at the door with food?

hydeordie

What? No shots of "Shadow of a Doubt"? Supposedly, that was Hitchcock's favorite of his films.

Sir Winston Thriller

Well Cary Grant was sort of an English Jew if the various stories are to be believed.
One of them is that he was privately adopted from a Jewish woman.
And apparently he was circumcised which isn't customary in Britain except for religious reasons.

Greasy Thumb Guzik

Poor Seth Rogen, indeed (I guess they thought Clooney was too obvious). However, Charlize, Jodie and James McAvoy were fierce. And when isn't Jennifer Jason Leigh channeling Mrs. Danvers?

OldTowneTavern

I don't see the appeal of Seth Rogan. IMO,he's not cute, not funny, can't act. Maybe he's a great guy in person? No Cary Grant, he.

TryThisAtHome

That guy in the picture with Charlize looks like Sean Penn when he was sporting that stupid little mustache.

SikeChick19

Yeah, Charlize pretty much can't do anything wrong, I think.

dmac

Wasn't there the exact same North by Northwest shot done before in Vanity Fair (w/ a real leading man)- or am I repeating what's already been established?

Also- Charlize looks awesome. Love. Her. (take note Heigl)

hack-a-rific

Cotillard in psycho! yes! This might be her way of telling Hollywood "what, you think breakthrough actresses don't like stripping? I'm French."

aspiringexpatriate

Jodie Foster would kick those birds' asses.

@procrastinator, esq.: I think it says only remarkably good things. At first, I thought it was Blythe Danner, which just proves that I don't pay much attention to women when making my first "spot any hot guys" pass over pictures.

Victor Ward

Enough with Gwyneth already, isn't she retired or something?

shag_carpet_bomb

@bestdamnedtapper: that is totally an "oh fuck what am I doing here" face Rogen is making

brechtgirl

Why are all the girls on the cover wearing the Jordan almond-colored wraps you get when you go to the gynecologist?

I like the Marion Cotillard spread.

Clare

This spread only makes the current Hollywood regime's inability to compare with the legends of Hollywood that much more pronounced.

Nice to see Jodie in the Birds shoot, though, since she usually plays such hard-as-nails roles. And I like Marion Cotillard to I give that 6 out of 10 stars.

Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.

@buttler: Hahaaaaaaa, too true!

Benovite

@Benovite:
Then they should have photoshopped out Rogen's spare tire. Or at least given him a girdle.

Miss Anne Thrope

BooooRING!

More total suck, than honest homage...

Miss d

@heidiho: Bingo.

theobviouschild

@hack-a-rific: The photo brings to mind Homer Simpson, in that episode when somebody poked his fat.

CrankYank

@Miss Anne Thrope: oh, but I love the spare tire!

Plus, I heard one of the VF editors interviewed on E! say that he's so NOT Carey Grant and choosing him for the pic is kind of their little joke. How sweet.

hack-a-rific

oops, forgot to add this one@The Bitter Librarian: Maybe that's what I'm thinking of...but was there one wth George Clooney, too?

hack-a-rific

@CrankYank: Or, any episode of The Simpsons :)

hack-a-rific

@hack-a-rific: Entertainment Weekly did a photo series with Hugh Jackman as several different famous movie icons including that exact scene from NBNW.

And is it me--or at first glance does Robert Downey Jr. look like he is channeling Dr. Gregory House in that photo...

The Bitter Librarian

Please, the sofa is less wooden than Paltrow.

raincoaster5

Somebody at Vanity Fair apparently doesn't like Ms. Zellweger.

whoneedslight

Funny, I thought the Rene pic was Madonna. She really does look about 20 years older. Yikes.

ATL_Girl_Publicist

"This spread only makes the current Hollywood regime's inability to compare with the legends of Hollywood that much more pronounced."
Gosh, I so agree...I get twitchy everytime some magazine does one of these stupid things. They are all sad jokes, every one of them.

debbiemac