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To round out the day's news, all three newscasts showered Vanity Fair with publicity for Annie Leibovitz' photo spread with Miley Cyrus. Not that VF needed the help, noted CBS' Sandra Hughes (no link), "its Website had 5m hits by midday." Cyrus, for all of you non-pubescent non-females out there, is the 15-year-old actress who plays Hannah Montana, Disney Channel's TV-music-movie-merchandising megahit. According to Leibovitz' lens, Cyrus seems not to use those Montana brand pajamas--they are really for preteens after all--preferring to sleep naked. Leibovitz' image depicted a sleepy-eyed Cyrus sitting up in bed, a satin sheet protecting her from all immodesty, but still indisputably pajamafree.
Well, the image has "created on uproar," NBC' Rehema Ellis told us. ABC's Sharyn Alfonsi called it "revealing" even though nothing but her back was revealed. Cyrus herself said the mundane image "was supposed to be artistic," which shows that she is still immature, at least aesthetically. In a press release of monumental hypocrisy, Alfonsi's bosses at Disney said the photoshoot was "created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines"--as if manipulating Cyrus in her Montana role had never been used to sell anything. "She is Disney's cash cow!" Hughes exclaimed.
NBC's Ellis contacted Bob Garfield of Advertising Age about the publicity stunt: "The word that comes to mind is bonanza. She has probably positioned herself very nicely for the next stage when she can, you know, no longer be a 15-year-old ingenue."
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