Well Played Cover: Angelina Jolie

First of all, my favorite thing about this cover is how TINY the mention of Project Runway?s winning collection is.

I wonder if they were contractually obligated to do it, but then punted as best they could at the last second because it was so underwhelming a season. That thing is written�in, like, eight point font, tucked above the masthead in a spot where you almost never look because the only information that?s usually there is the date and price of the issue, or maybe the URL.

But also, you never would look there, because you are too busy being arrested by Angelina Jolie?s face. That is a compliment. She is arresting. This is the second cover in as many months on which Marie Claire has made someone look better than they recently have on the red carpet (the first being Kim Kardashian), all by keeping it deceptively simple. The quizzical face and heat in her eyes might be a little edgier and foxier than Marie Claire traditionally goes for, but that?s kind of why I love it. She is RIGHT there, coming at you, without any bells and whistles except the ones her genepool (and maybe a nose sculptor) gave her. And it works. This is the fire that tends to be missing from her on the red carpet ? this is the Angelina I wish we got more of, the one who is feisty and stunning and sassy and makes it impossible to look away. I?m almost bashful under her stare. I want to apologize for my face, or my shoes, or my hair, or the weather. Sure, there is something a little ooky about how disembodied all the parts look ? that arm could as easily be a mannequin hand someone jammed into the shot, and her hair is covering up enough of her neck that she almost looks to be missing a chunk of it ? but overall the effect is really hypnotic. Magnetic. Arresting. There?s the word again. But it is. I feel cuffed to it, thrown against a car, and read my rights in a rushed and perfunctory way ? a grudging courtesy, as everyone knows nobody ever fully pays attention to that spiel because the fact of what?s happening is too distracting. I want her simultaneously to slap me and be my best friend. It?s strange. Which I guess means it works. Or that I just fell in dysfunctional love with her. Or both.

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