The art of celebrity profiling
Slate has a scathing critique of how journalists write celebrity profiles for men magazines. Ron Rosenbaum hones in on a particular profile of Angelina Jolie that was published in Esquire:
No, the piece is a serious profile, and there are serious reasons for running it. There are serious issues raised, there are profound questions about The Way We Live Now to be discussed. The result is a meretricious prose whose pretense at arch sophistication has become a schlock art form, the written equivalent of a Leroy Neiman nude.
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