Natalie Portman Channels Demi Moore With Hew Own Pregnancy Photo For Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue

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In what will surely become an iconic photo, a pregnant Natalie Portman channels the 1991 photo of a naked and pregnant Demi Moore, shot for Vanity Fair's August issue. Portman joins Emma Stone, Lupita Nyong’o, Amy Adams, Natalie Portman, Ruth Negga, Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Aja Naomi King, Janelle Monae, Greta Gerwig and Dakota Johnson on the cover of Vanity Fair's March 2017 Hollywood issue, also shot by Annie Leibovitz.

Vanity Fair acknowledges the inspiration, writing that while "the reference is clear, the moment is Portman's alone."

How sad that this cover was shot before the November 21 March for Women. Imagine if we had one or two Pussyhats anchored by those vivid red and pink hues.  Read my new article: Step 2 For Pussyhat Power: How About Yarnbombing America From Sea To Shining Sea?

Did Trump Affect Cuba's Decision To Cancel Collaborative Show With The Bronx Museum

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The National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana has -- for the present -- pulled out of a collaborative exibit with the Bronx Museum. The planned initiative called 'Wild Noise', opening February 17, was to include works from the Bronx Museum that traveled to its sister Havana institution in 2015, coupled with 60 works by Cuban artists coming from Havana to the Bronx.

The Bronx museum's executive director, Holly Block said: her Cuban counterparts at the National Museum did not say whether their hesitation stemmed from fears about possible diplomatic uncertainties under a Trump administration. “We didn’t get a no from them but we also didn’t get a final yes,” Ms. Block said. “So we decided that in good faith we’re going to do this exhibition instead.”

There is a high probability that the Cuban government is concerned about whether state-owned art works from Cuba could be endangered with a possibility looming of a seizure of them by the US federal government. Such an action might be taken to satisfy legal claims by Cuban Americans seeking payment for unsatisfied judicial claims connected to property confiscated in Cuba after Fidel Castro seized power in 1959.

Angelina Jolie Named Beauty Ambassador Of 'Mon Guerlain', Will Donate Salary To Charity

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Angelina Jolie stepped out of the shadows on Monday, as Guerlain Parfumeur announced that the actor would be the face of its new fragrance, Mon Guerlain. The contract was actually signed back in December 2015, while Jolie was directing 'First They Killed My Father' in Cambodia, birthplace of Jolie's first son, Maddox.

The partnership is Jolie's first beauty ambassador contract in 10 years, and Angelina will donate all the profits of her contract to unspecified charities. 

“We create perfumes for the women we admire,” Jacques Guerlain said in a statement, whilst the brand’s master perfumer Thierry Wasser said he drew inspiration from Jolie to create a fragrance expressing the “notes of a woman”.

Besides her work as an actor, filmmaker and mother of six, Angelina Jolie is a special envoy of the UN Refuge Agency and co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative.

Steven Klein Flashes Spring 2017 Equinox 'Commit To Something' Ad Campaign

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Steven Klein Flashes Spring 2017 Equinox 'Commit To Something' Ad Campaign

Imagery includes Jessica Stam growing cannabis and Samantha Paige displaying her double mastectomy scars. (Steven) Klein, who is one of AOC's treasured, favorite photographers, said about Samantha: “It is brave and daring on both Equinox’s and Samantha’s part, to show a woman that decided that the physicality of having breasts, was not important to feel good about yourself,” he commented. “Today people are over-consumed with their exterior physicality.”