Is the cover story of Esquire's July issue really the worst celebrity profile ever written ? Ron Rosenbaum thinks so, and his spirited denunciation of the article has the New York magazine world buzzing like a June bug on speed. In the history of fawning gentlemen's-magazine profiles, Rosenbaum wrote last week in the online magazine Slate, there is unlikely to be a more ludicrous example than the profile in the July Esquire of -- yes -- Angelina Jolie, which spends many thousands of words and invokes grave national tragedies to prove to us that Angelina Jolie is not just a good woman, not just an enlightened humanitarian, not just a suffering victim of celebrity, not just strong and brave, but, we are told, 'the best woman in the world.
' Is the cover story of Esquire's July issue really the worst celebrity profile ever written ? Ron Rosenbaum thinks so, and his spirited denunciation of the article has the New York magazine world buzzing like a June bug on speed.
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