Actor Sean Penn has flown all the way to Cuba to interview controversial communist leader Fidel Castro for an article to be featured in Vanity Fair Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor has learned. The Oscar winner has been regulalry criticized for his support of the anti-U.S. revolutionary, his president brother Raul, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.


In fact, the media has even accused Penn discrediting his good work in the gay community by lending his support to such polarizing politicians. Now, the Mystic River actor is rumored to have jetted to the Caribbean to discuss how US President Barack Obama’s administration has affected Cuba for an upcoming piece for VF.
Vanity Fair chats with Academy Award-winning actress Penelope Cruz, of Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in its November issue.

In a revealing new interview with Vanity Fair Magazine, Levi Johnston, the former fiancee of political daughter Bristol Palin, opens up about what his one-time future mother-in-law former Republican Vice President candidate Sarah Palin. In the storyt titled “Me and Mrs. Palin,” Levi reveals that then Alaska Gov. Palin hatched a plan to his son with Bristol Palin, Tripp (born in December 2008) a secret so that she and husband Todd could raise him.

“She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him,” the 19-year-old reveals in the October issue of Vanity Fair. “That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging — she wouldn’t give up. She would say, ‘So, are you gonna let me adopt him?’ We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.” Read the rest of this entry »
Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin’s former fiance, has written a essay about his woman who almost became his mother-in-law — former GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin — for the Oct. issue of Vanity Fair Magazine.

News of Johnston VF special broke on Monday, when the magazine released an image of its October cover — which features the teasing headline “Me and Sarah Palin, by Levi Johnston.”
The new issue of Vanity Fair arrives on newsstands in New York and Los Angeles Sept. 2 and nationwide on Sept. 8.
(VF has officially jumped the shark.)

Who wore it best?
Vanity Fair Magazine has unveiled its annual International Best-Dressed List, featuring stylish appearances by Brad Pitt, Anne Hathaway, and First Lady Michelle Obama.