Vanity Fair's agglomeration of anemic starlets (The Newsroom)

NEW YORK -- Call it a lie of omission. One ages afterwards featuring shirtless, fresh-kill Tiger Woods, Vanity Fair presents their anniversary "Young Hollywood" affair with a absolutely added alabaster cover. Kristen Stewart, Abbie Cornish, and Carey Mulligan denticulate the advanced of the mag, and six added actresses adroitness the daybed cover, none of them antic so abundant as a tan.

Open the annual and you'll see that Vanity Fair isn't aloof pitiably clueless. Inside the affair you'll acquisition Academy Award nominees Mo'Nique and Gabourey Sidibe alongside Precious administrator Lee Daniels and Pedro Almodóvar with his muse, Penélope Cruz. In 2008's "Young Hollywood" issue, America Ferrera and Zoë Saldana peeked out from the daybed spread, and in 2007 Chris Rock rocked the cover. In the past, the annual has featured the brand of Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, and Barack Obama on its face, which makes this month's awning that abundant added egregious.

As all-over as bodies of blush are in accepted culture, it takes accomplishment not to put one on a awning of advancing actresses. Let's say "Avatar" and "Star Trek" brilliant Saldana was out because of her antecedent inside-cover appearance, and that Mo'Nique is too abundant of a adept to accomplish the cut. What about Sidibe? She's far and abroad the best buzzed-about extra of the year. Why not Paula Patton? Naturi Naughton?

What bulletin is Vanity Fair sending, anyway? That actresses of blush can't move annual covers? They absolutely awash a lot of cine tickets in this accomplished year of almanac box-office receipts. That they're not high-profile? Isn't that the point of the advance -- to highlight the newbies? That they're aloof not absorbing abundant to arete coverage? Anyone who's apparent any of these ladies' assignment couldn't activate to buy that argument. And ironically, accustomed that Vanity Fair has featured some of them (albeit in beneath arresting ways), it's an altercation they can't accurately advertise -- not alike to themselves.

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