BioGraph
Connecting Hugh Hefner and Anna Wintour
Hugh Hefner
In ''Roots: The Next Generations'' (1979), the interview was recreated with James Earl Jones as Haley and Marlon Brando as Rockwell.
Marlon Brando
Cornell also cast him as the Messenger in her production of Jean Anouilh's '' Antigone'' that same year.
Jean Anouilh
Festival Theatre, Chichester: 29 May 2002. Directed by Edward Kemp. With Catherine Walker, Andrew Scarborough, Patricia Routledge.
Catherine Walker (actor)
Irish actress
She also had a minor role in the Ridley Scott directed ''House of Gucci'', playing Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of ''Vogue''.
Hugh Hefner
The first issue of ''Playboy'' was published in 1953, featuring Marilyn Monroe in a nude calendar shoot; it sold over 50,000 copies.
The first issue was published in December 1953 and featured Marilyn Monroe from a 1949 nude calendar shoot she did under a pseudonym.
He is interred at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, in the crypt beside Marilyn Monroe, for which he paid $75,000 in 1992.
Marilyn Monroe
Biographer Lois Banner writes that Monroe often subtly parodied her sex symbol status in her films and public appearances, and that "the 'Marilyn Monroe' character she created was a brilliant archetype, who stands between Mae West and Madonna in the tradition of twentieth-century gender tricksters." Monroe herself stated that she was influenced by West, learning "a few tricks from her—that impression of laughing at, or mocking, her own sexuality".{{sfnm|1a1=Churchwell|1y=2004|1p=63 for West|2a1=Banner|2y=2012|2p=325}} She studied comedy in classes by mime and dancer Lotte Goslar, famous for her comic stage performances, and Goslar also instructed her on film sets. In ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'', one of the films in which she played an archetypal dumb blonde, Monroe had the sentence "I can be smart when it's important, but most men don't like it" added to her character's lines.
Madonna
American singer, songwriter and actress
Consisting of sexually provocative and explicit images, photographed by Steven Meisel, the book received strong negative reaction from the media and the general public, but sold 1.5 million copies at $50 each in a matter of days.{{Sfn|Morton|2001|p=183}} The widespread backlash overshadowed ''Erotica'', which ended up as her lowest selling album at the time.
Steven Meisel
American fashion photographer (born 1954)
Meisel has been a protégé of both Franca Sozzani and Anna Wintour, editors-in-chief of Italian and American ''Vogue'', respectively.
Barack Obama
In February 2021, Obama and musician Bruce Springsteen started a podcast called ''Renegades: Born in the USA'' where the two talk about "their backgrounds, music and their 'enduring love of America.
Bruce Springsteen
American singer, songwriter, and musician
''The River 2016 Tour'' was the top-grossing worldwide tour of 2016; it pulled in $268.3 million globally and was the highest-grossing tour since 2014 for any artist topping Taylor Swift's 2015 tour which grossed $250.1 million.
Taylor Swift
Bloomberg L.P. views Swift as a sex symbol, albeit of a subtle and sophisticated variety unlike many of her female contemporaries. She co-chaired the 2016 Met Gala with Anna Wintour, Idris Elba and Jonathan Ive.
Hugh Hefner
On October 3, 2017, Playboy Enterprises announced that a Hugh Hefner biopic directed by Brett Ratner with the screenplay by Jeff Nathanson was greenlit with Jared Leto rumored to play Hefner.
Jared Leto
He described it as a "bizarre and hallucinogenic journey through an incredibly surreal landscape." The short film features several artists, including burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, gymnasts McKayla Maroney and Jordyn Wieber, writer Neil Strauss and a number of animals.
Dita Von Teese
American vedette, burlesque dancer, model, and businesswoman
Von Teese's unique style is "inspired by eccentric women like Luisa Casati, Anna Piaggi, and Isabella Blow." She also says, "Doing it myself is a matter of integrity and pride.
Isabella Blow
English magazine editor (1958–2007)
In 1981 she married her first husband, Nicholas Taylor (whom she divorced in 1983), and was introduced to the fashion director of the US edition of ''Vogue'', Anna Wintour.
A memorial service was held in the Guards Chapel in London on 18 September 2007, where Anna Wintour and Geordie Greig spoke.
