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If you have seen the new issue of Entertainment Weekly you would know that three stars from Iron Man 2 are on it, but noticeably missing is one of the stars: Gwyneth Paltrow .
Why would they not include Gwyneth when they include Robert Downey Jr.,Scarlett Johansson and Mickey Rourke?
Well the answer is pretty simple – editors feel she is “newsstand suicide” after her now infamous Vogue cover last summer flopped.
Condé Nast Publications confirmed that the May 2008 issue of the magazine with Gwyneth was the worst selling issue since 2001 after it only shifted around 310,000 copies.
Since sales in most publications have fallen due to people reading their news and gossip online – you can’t blame the editors for not putting Gwnyeth Paltrow on the cover, I wonder how Playboy would do if they put her on the cover.
For the best & worst selling magazine issues of last year follow the jump.
Vogue
Best-Selling Cover: Keira Knightley (559,000 copies)
Worst-Selling Cover: Rachel Weisz (276,000 copies). But Gwyneth was a close second with 310-350,000 copies.
Vanity Fair
Best-Selling Cover: Angelina Jolie (504,000 copies)
Worst-Selling Cover: Katherine Heigl (314,000 copies)
Elle
Best-Selling Cover: Victoria Beckham (413,000 copies)
Worst-Selling Covers: Carrie Underwood (253,000 copies)
Glamour
Best-Selling Cover: Jessica Simpson (775,000 copies)
Worst-Selling Cover: Nicole Kidman (460,000 copies)
Cosmopolitan
Best-Selling Cover: Scarlett Johansson (2 million copies)
Worst-Selling Cover: Jessica Simpson (1.5 million copies)
W
Best-Selling Cover: Angelina Jolie (78,000 copies)
Worst-Selling Cover: Hilary Swank (27,000 copies)
InStyle
Best-Selling Cover: Eva Longoria-Parker (889,000 copies)
Worst-Selling Cover: Anne Hathaway (585,000 copies)
Marie Claire
Best-Selling Cover: Women of “Sex and the City” (440,948 copies)
Worst-Selling Cover: Jennifer Connelly (191,000 copies)
Harper’s Bazaar
Best-Selling Cover: Lindsay Lohan (213,000 copies)
Worst-Selling Cover: Drew Barrymore (120,000 copies)
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There’s four separate tribute covers available this week from Entertainment Weekly. The covers feature Michael Jackson singing at home in 1972; on the set of the “Thriller” video in 1983 (pictured above); a portrait taken in 1983; and performing in New York City on Sept. 10, 2001.
  
Entertainment Weekly columnist Stephen King writes,
“It’s worth noting that he was never convicted of anything in criminal court, and when I asked Mick—who hung out with Michael occasionally— he was emphatic in his belief that Michael Jackson was indeed innocent of the abuse allegations.
In the court of public opinion, however, he was found guilty of Weirdness in the First Degree, and ended up secluded in one haunted castle after another. Finally, he died in one.
Strange man. Lost man. And not unique in his passing. Like James Dean, Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Heath Ledger, and a dozen others we could name, he just left the building far too soon. Because, man oh man, that guy could dance.”
What a nice tribute!
It’s sad that some media outlets, like OK! magazine, elect to use a cover showing a dead Michael Jackson as their tribute issue.
The magazine reportedly spent close to $500,000 to obtain their cover pic of the legendary King of Pop.
Time, Inc., which publishes such magazines as People, Entertainment Weekly, Time and In Style, is really feeling the pinch. In a drastic cost-cutting effort, the company is firing 600 of its employees.
The company outlined the overhaul on Tuesday evening in a memorandum to employees after The New York Times revealed the cuts on its Web site. The layoffs will begin in about two weeks.
No magazines are scheduled to close, but some are likely to be severely cut back. Ann S. Moore, Time Inc.’s chairman and chief executive, was already planning an overhaul because of the upheavals in print media, but she was forced to speed up those efforts amid the financial crisis and looming recession.
Time Inc.’s 24 magazines in the United States and their Web sites will be organized into three divisions: news, which will include Fortune, Money, Time and Sports Illustrated; lifestyle titles, which include Real Simple, Cottage Living, Coastal Living and Southern Living, among others; and style and entertainment, which includes People, InStyle and Entertainment Weekly, which has suffered a severe downturn and is likely to be whittled down under the new structure.
Maybe they shouldn’t have been paying MILLIONS of dollars for celebrity baby photos?
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