Kevin Sessums comes to mind. He was a celebrity journalist for Vanity Fair and a damn good writer - but only if you could ignore the obvious; the conceited finesse with which he managed to wangle himself into every story he wrote. The Esquire writer of the Jolie interview strikes me as being of the same ilk.

And speaking of Angelina Jolie - When VF interviewed her a few years back, little Maddox was still a toddler and she had just had a firepole installed in her bedroom so she could "slide down to the kitchen" for breakfast. Best Woman in the World? She was a hair's breath away from being another Britney Spears. Real acting chops were always debatable but notoriety was more her claim to fame and stealing Brad from Jen sealed hers for good.

Angelina Jolie should never ever be mentioned the same breath as Brit Brit, not even in the same paragraph. She’s enormously talented, as her new movie will aptly demonstrate yet again. Whatever.

But you’re right on the payola with regard to a writer hijacking an interview article. It’s disgusting. Details was famous for doing that. But I think that’s just because they were a bunch of metrosexual pinheads with a fashion agenda that rivaled Blackwell.

But you leave m’lady alone. I mean it.

(‘Sup, sugarboobs? My sister’s in-laws had a place in Cape May so her 5 kids spent many summers there. The Gulf Coast beaches [I think I’ve mentioned before that it’s called The Redneck Riviera] are some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. But my favorite beach is still The Outer Banks, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.)

the easy falling out of favor quotient in Hollywoodland. You know, what with the potential for one of Jolie's kids to fall down that firepole chute she's got rigged up in her bedroom there. She'd go from Mother of the Universe to poor beleagured Britney's status in a heartbeat. (question: do you think they ever play "rescue 911" or is it strictly a utilitarian kind of pole?)

Talent - well that's debatable - I say she's fair to middling on that score. I'll give her this though: nobody wears a silver sheet better.