Of all the terrible, terrible celebrity profiles in all the glossy men's and women's mags and Vanity Fairs, etc, etc, you chose Tom Junod's piece on Angelina Jolie as your representation of "the worst celebrity profile ever"?

Junod is one of the best, most original, innovative glossy mag writers going right now and, yes, I agree that it's a complete waste of his talent to tap him for a celebrity profile but, Christ, it seems like the point of your excoriation is not just that celebrity profiles are bad, but also that no one should attempt to do anything different with them.

Junod's attempt to change up the standard celebrity piece, tweak it and look at it while acknowledging that one has to play the game (thus the meta moments) in order to change it may have failed, and yes, I do think he tried to stretch it too far, but at least he put himself out there. That piece was very different from most of the meet at fancy hotel, see them in "non-scripted moment" on the set, see them cooking you waffles in their home- type pieces that end up mostly being about how the writer has a crush and the celebrity cares about things beyond acting bc she owns a Prius.

And give me a break with your disclaimer: you claim it's not an attack and then you go right into knocking his "...prose" for the next 6 grafs.

Anyway, I'm not actually angry about this, I just think that if you want to do a hatchet job on writers doing celebrity profiles, by all means go forth, just please pick someone worth hatcheting (Like maybe the guy who wrote the Jessica Alba profile for the June GQ...that was nearly unreadable).