From L-R: Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, James Franco, Jennifer Lawrence, Anthony Mackie, Olivia Wilde, Jesse Eisenberg, Mila Kunis, Robert Duvall (LOL), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Garrett Hedlund, and Noomi Rapace.

For their 17th annual Hollywood Issue cover, Vanity Fair went back to the basics—no teenagers, no penguins, no (full-on) nudity, just the most exciting actors and actresses of the moment. Anchoring the front panel are Oscar co-hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco (himself a best-actor nominee), along with Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal, two of the most versatile, likable (and, yes, good-looking) leading men in Hollywood.

The two inside panels feature 11 more stars, from newcomer best-actor/actress nominees Jesse Eisenberg and Jennifer Lawrence to Noomi Rapace, whose stunning performance in the original, Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo propelled her from Stockholm to Hollywood. The cover was shot in Los Angeles and New York over the course of two days by photographer Norman Jean Roy, and, as you can see in the behind-the-scenes video below, V.F.’s West Coast editor Krista Smith managed to nab nearly all of our cover subjects for sit-down interviews on set. For even more on the cover, check out a slide show of behind-the-scenes photographs.

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Rooney Mara is ready for Lisbeth Salander.

The 25-year-old actress is W Magazine’s February issue.

The drastic change is all part of Mara’s next role as the anti-establishment, chain-smoking private investigator in the movie adaption of Stieg Larsson’s Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

She and Daniel Craig, who plays Mikael Blomkvist, have been filming David Fincher’s American version in Sweden. The movie has a December 2011 release.

Cannot wait!!!

Katherine Heigl lovingly cradles the gorgeous little girl in her arms, wrapped in some white frilly netting.

Heigl adopted Naleigh, who was born in South korea with congenital heart problems that were later corrected through surgery, just ‘three or four days’ before she started work on Life As we Know It.

‘I was about to play a woman who inherits a baby, and I was experiencing the exact same thing,’ she said in an interview with the magazine.

Inside the issue Heigl also poses with more of her family, including mum Nancy and sister Meg.

‘My sister is Korean,’ Katherine said. ‘I hope one day she and Naleigh will be able to talk about what it’s like to be adopted.’

Heigl has talked extensively about her decision to adopt, claiming that she feels it was her destiny to do so.

She says it’s a subject that she broached with her then boyfriend, who later became her husband, musician Josh Kelley, early on in their relation, even before they got engaged.

Explaining that making her plans really clear was key to deciding if they had a future together. ‘Not everybody is down with that,’ she notes. ‘Not everybody thinks that.

‘I just wanted to make sure that I was marrying a guy who understands that this was going to have to happen.’

The couple finalised the adoption of Naleigh in September 2009

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Dianna Agron blogged about the controversy Wednesday night, apologizing to anyone who might be “hurt” or “uncomfortable” by the shot. She stressed, “We are not the first” public figures to pose provocatively.

“Nobody is perfect, and these photos do not represent who I am,” she wrote, adding that GQ “asked us to play very heightened versions of our school characters. A ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’ version. At the time, it wasn’t my favorite idea, but I did not walk away.”

If parents are upset over the magazine, it is their job to keep it away from their children, not hers.

“If your 8-year-old has a copy of our GQ cover in hand, again I am sorry,” she wrote. “But I would have to ask, how on earth did it get there?”

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“The Parents Television Council must not be watching much TV these days and should learn to divide reality from fantasy,” Jim Nelson, editor-in-chief of GQ, said. “As often happens in Hollywood, these ‘kids’ are in their twenties. Cory Montieth’s almost 30! I think they’re old enough to do what they want.”

According to The Parents Television Council, the latest GQ photo shoot has gone too far. The ‘Glee’ girls appear in the magazine half dressed. See the full photo shoot here. Read the statement they posted:

“It is disturbing that GQ, which is explicitly written for adult men, is sexualizing the actresses who play high school-aged characters on ‘Glee’ in this way. It borders on pedophilia. Sadly, this is just the latest example of the overt sexualization of young girls in entertainment,” said PTC President Tim Winter.

“Many children who flocked to ‘High School Musical’ have grown into ‘Glee’ fans. They are now being treated to seductive, in-your-face poses of the underwear-clad female characters posing in front of school lockers, one of them opting for a full-frontal crotch shot. By authorizing this kind of near-pornographic display, the creators of the program have established their intentions on the show’s direction. And it isn’t good for families.

“While this photo shoot and the direction of the show in its second season have caught many parents off guard, we were concerned this might be coming. ‘Glee’ creator Ryan Murphy has declared that it is his goal in life to remove every barrier to the depiction of explicit sex on TV. On Bravo’s ‘Sex in the Box’ Murphy said, ‘It’s tough to get that sexual point of view across on television. Hopefully I have made it possible for somebody on broadcast television to do a rear-entry scene in three years. Maybe that will be my legacy.’

“With a demonstrated market of eager fans for an entertaining, musical-themed program like ‘Glee,’ we wonder why the show’s creators feel the need for such graphic sexualization of women. Interestingly, the photos of the male character showed him wearing a shirt, tie and vest.

“Parents need to be on guard as we expect the show to push the envelope even further. Unfortunately, it seems ‘Glee’ is only masquerading as family show and is far from appropriate for young viewers,” Winter concluded.

Even the Glee stars are surprised by the GQ shoot, titled “Glee Gone Wild!”

“I don’t know how they got me to do half the stuff I did” for the GQ shoot, said Michele. “But I was in really good shape this summer, so…”

Said Agron: “I’ve never been shot in so little clothing.”

Julianne Moore covers the November issue of Allure, and in the interview she talks about aging, plastic surgery and kissing women . Here are some excerpts from Julianne’s interview! See more pictures here.

On having to stay out of the sun:
“I have what I call ‘my outfit’, I wear a long-sleeved rash guard and a pair of board shorts. It’s not so sexy, but I keep myself covered. My husband hates it. But if you ever see me at a water park, that’s what I’ll be wearing.”

On getting older:
“I’m always shocked by people who talk about not being middle-aged, I’m like, ‘How old do you think you’re going to live? Let’s double your age and see where you get.’ People are always like, ‘Thirty-five is not middle-aged.’ I’m like, ‘Double it.’”

On finding herself modeling at age 50:
“I like to call myself the hundred-year-old model.”

On plastic surgery:
“I don’t believe it makes people look better. I think it just makes them look like they had something done to their face, and I don’t think we find that instinctually appealing.”

On kissing men vs. women:
“I don’t really think it’s different kissing a woman vs. a man. I don’t think it really is. The difference is kissing someone you know versus someone you don’t.”