Academy award winner Penelope Cruz is on the November 2009 cover of Vanity Fair.  Over the weekend, The NY Daily News ran a story about the continuous rumor that Penelope Cruz and her boyfriend Javier Bardem are expecting. When asked about this rumor Penelope flat out said “No, I’m not.”  In the new issue of VF, Penelope gives a more formal denial.

Here are a few highlights from the interview:

On who is a better kisser — Vicky Cristina, Barcelona’s Scarlett Johansson or Head in the Clouds’ Charlize Theron:  “No matter how I answer that I will be in trouble.  Both were pretty beautiful partners.”

On having anxiety, despite coming off so fearless on-screen:  “I’ve always been a worrier.  Since I was a little girl I’ve always felt that if I had a moment of peace I’d wonder: Are you sure you can afford to feel like this?”

On when she decided she wanted to be an actress: After sneaking in to see Almodovar’s racy Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! in 1990, she says,  “I fell in love.  I’d found what I wanted to do.”

Vanity Fair is the latest to profile America’s most beloved unwed teen baby daddy. In the magazine’s October issue, Levi Johnston explains what happened behind the scenes of the 2008 campaign for the White House, and what went on inside the Palin home.

Levi on Sarah’s parenting: “There wasn’t much … The kids do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, get ready for school. Most of the time [Britstol Palin]would help her sister with homework. I’d barbecue chicken or steak on the grill.”

On Sarah’s reaction to him knocking up Bristol: “Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret – nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him.”

“Sarah kept mentioning this. She wouldn’t give up. She would say, ‘So, are you gonna let me adopt him?’ We kept telling her definitely not. I think that Sarah didn’t want people to know her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.”

On Palin’s response to criticism that John McCain lost because of her: “She thought she was running for president. She’d say ‘I brought everything to the table’ and ‘the majority of people were out there voting because of me!’”

On Sarah changing post-campaign: “Sarah walked around the house pouting … one or two weeks after she got back, she started talking about how nice it would be to quit, write a book or do a show and make ‘triple the money.”

Quality stuff, and certainly there will be plenty more where that came from. Just write Levi Johnston a check and he’ll bash Sarah all you like!

He is a total D-bag!

In the September issue, Ryan O’ Neal admitted to some less-than-appropriate behavior and his “feelings” for his children.

Wow, I thought my dad was a dick. I’m speechless… Thank God he didn’t marry Farrah!  Can’t wait to read that whole article. 

Here are some highlights:

On making advances toward his estranged daughter, Tatum, after funeral of longtime love, Farrah Fawcett:
“I had just put the casket in the hearse and was watching it drive away when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me — Tatum! I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it’s my daughter. It’s so sick.”

Tatum’s response:
“That’s our relationship in a nutshell . . . You make of it what you will. It had been a few years since we’d seen each othe. And he was always a ladies’ man, a bon vivant.

If he’s sorry he had children:
“A couple of them I would take back. I don’t think I was supposed to be a father. Just look around at my work — they’re either in jail or they should be. I’m not in touch with them now. And I’ve never been happier.”

On Tatum:
“She wrote a book — bitch! How dare she throw our laundry in the street for money!”

Is that anything like “throwing your laundry in the street” for Vanity Fair?!

On son, Griffin:
“I hate him!”

Griffin’s response:
My father is a “narcissistic psychopath” who tried to make money off Farrah’s death. “All those crocodile tears! I consider him a vulture presiding over a carcass. My dad’s only goal was to make sure he would be in the will. It was so disgustingly transparent as soon as he found out she was terminal . . . Ryan thought he was going to get everything.”

On Farrah:
“I wish I could do it over with [her]. I would have been much kinder, more understanding, more mature. I’d lose some of the savagery.” 

Jessica Simpson is featured in Vanity Fair’s June 2009 issue looking skinny and sexy. In the magazine she discusses her empire, body image and the media, her dad, her football star boyfriend, Tony Romo, and more…

Here is part of her interview:

On her empire:
“The Jessica Simpson Collection is a $400 million business,” she said. “My mom and I are creative directors. We have hundreds of people working, but nothing gets by us. It’s adorable and it’s affordable. What’s amazing right now, during this recession, is that, somehow, the business keeps growing.”

She talks of performances made famous on Youtube for forgetting the lyrics to her songs and her weight:
“When it comes to media criticism, that’s just something I have had to train myself—literally train myself—to ignore,” she said. “Because I’m the one up there onstage, and I can feel the energy of the crowd. And I know when I did good. And I know when I did great. And there wasn’t one time on this tour when I felt like I butchered it. I mean, the way people make it sound, I should have never been singing in the first place.”

She talks about body image and the media:
“It comes with what I do,” she said, “and I know that every day the media’s going to challenge me, is going to want to bring me down. But I feel like I’m at such a place that I own myself, and it’s authentic. I own that authentic part of myself, and none of those words are harsh enough to make me believe them. I can’t imagine saying some of the things people have said about me about anybody else.”

She talks about her dad’s role in her career:
I can talk to my dad like he’s my manager, and put ‘Dad’ on the back burner. We’ve been doing it since I was 13. So, at this point, we’re in a good rhythm. A lot of people find it strange, but it’s the only way I know. And I don’t care to know another way, because it suits me. And we’ve done a pretty dang good job.”

Boyfriend Tony Romo says of Jessica:
“She has a very small-town side to her… We’re very similar in that we both appreciate the hometown feel to a lot of things, and live our life like that.  She comes to a ton of games,” Romo said. “She’s a supportive girlfriend.”

She speaks of being a football fan:
“I was always a fan,…..In Texas, it’s a sin not to be. But I’ve never been as passionate as I am now. Before a game, I’m crazed, sending mass e-mails: ‘Please pray for Tony’s protection.’”

And some lovely pictures to go along:

38-year-old writer-comedian, Tina Fey is on January 2009 cover of Vanity Fair showing her American pride.

In her interview she discusses marriage, motherhood, and her career, which has taken off considerably since her Sarah Palin impressions on SNL, not to mention her hit NBC comedy 30 Rock.

To read the VF interview click here.

Madonna is on the new issue of Vanity Fair. In the interview she talks about everything, from Guy Richie to Britney Spears to working with Justin Timberlake, to her new films and music, and to worldly and global issues.

Here is a little bit of the interview:

On making an album ["Hard Candy"] with Justin Timberlake, who co-wrote five of the songs and sings on four, Pharrell Williams, and the producer Timbaland:

“I didn’t have any idea what kind of music I wanted to make,” Madonna told me. “I just knew I wanted to collaborate with Pharrell and Justin. I needed to be inspired and thought, ‘Well, who’s making records I like? So I went, I like that guy and I like that guy.’ It’s not like we hit it off right away. Writing is very intimate. You have to be vulnerable and it’s hard to do that with strangers. I had ups and downs before everybody got comfortable, but I grew very fond of Pharrell and Justin.”

Madonna on her take of what is happening to Britney Spears:

“It’s very painful. Which leads us back to our question: When you think about the way people treat each other in Africa, about witchcraft and people inflicting cruelty and pain on each other, then come back here and, you know, people taking pictures of people when they’re in their homes, being taken to hospitals, or suffering, and selling them, getting energy from them, that’s a terrible infliction of cruelty. So who’s worse off? You know what I mean?”

As a sidenote:  Did you know Madonna does Pilates and dance aerobics to Britney’s latest album?   She says that she loves it!

Madonna on, Filth and Wisdom, which she co-wrote, produced, and directed:

“I’ve been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I’m married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, ‘I want to be a director’… But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn’t want to do it the Hollywood way and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.”

She then said, “It was my film school.”

“I feel this film was seriously influenced by Godard,” Madonna said. “He’s the one filmmaker I was always inspired by, but I have a lot of other filmmakers I was inspired by, all dead Europeans. I went to the University of Michigan for one year and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven. I discovered Fellini and Visconti and Pasolini and De Sica and Buñuel.”

Madonna on her Kabbalah beliefs:

“Ultimately everything’s good…Even bad is good, because bad is there to help you resist it. You need to have that resistance to be good, and, let’s face it, the worst things that happen are always the best things that happen. If you look back at your life and say, ‘Well, what did you learn? What happened that changed your life, that made you strong, that made you grow’, it’s always things you perceived as bad.”

“So is there bad?”

The Grey’s Anatomy star graces the cover of the new January Vanity Fair issue looking beautiful as a retro glam girl. Sporting creamy skin, gorgeous sculpted waves, crimson lips, and Katharine Heigl her signature brown eyes, Katherine looks elegant, feminine, and sophisticated.

In the issue Kathrine discusses her views of the movie ’Knocked Up’ being “a little sexist.” She says,  “It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys.” In the film, Heigl played Alison, a young career-oriented woman who finds herself derailed by a one-night stand that results in pregnancy… with a goofy slacker she would not have looked at twice in a less inebriated mood.

Although “ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience,” the 29-year-old actress says, “it was hard for me to love the movie.”

Kathrine not only had problems playing that character, but she also is stuggling with her Grey’s Anatomy character, Izzie. This season’s plot on “Grey’s Anatomy,”  Dr. Izzie Stevens begin an affair with her married friend Dr. George O’Malley (T. R. Knight). “I don’t really know Izzie very well right now,” she admits. “(The affair) was kind of a big change for Izzie, wasn’t it, after she was so up on her moral high ground . . . I have a really hard time with that kind of thing . . . I’m trying to figure her out and keep her real.”

In her real life, Kathrine gushes about her fiance, musican Josh Kelly. She confesses their relationship abides to certain moral principles. “I didn’t want to live together before we were married. I still have enough Mormon in me – not a lot, but enough – that I wanted to keep that little bit sacred.”

She also confesses that she did things differently with Kelly, taking chances, making things workout for the better. She says, “I’m not really a first-move kind of gal. I’m one of those women who always thinks it’s better to play it cool and keep them wanting more, but I really threw myself at him. I broke all the rules.” This does not keep her from considering marriage a “crapshoot.”

“The odds are really bad, especially in this town. But I have a lot of faith in Josh, and I wanted to have that one day when I stand in front of my friends and my family and honor him and how important he is in my life. My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.”

Vanity Fair hits newsstands Dec. 11.