Suri's Fall Debut?
She captured one of the last images of John Lennon and made art out of Whoopi Goldberg lying in a bathtub of milk. But, more importantly, did Annie Leibovitz take the first destined-for-publication pictures of Suri Cruise?!
According to a Page Six item in Wednesday's New York Post, the famed portraitist has photographed Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' kid, and the pics are going to be published in Vanity Fair sometime this fall.
But try getting anyone to admit that Suri, now 113 days old with nary a magazine cover to her name, even sat (or drooled, slept or crawled) for Leibovitz, or that her coming out party is, in fact, being chronicled in the pages of Vanity Fair.
"We cannot comment on where photos might be released at this time," Arnold Robinson, one of Cruise's reps, told E! News, leaving the veil of secrecy firmly in place. Vanity Fair also said that the magazine does not comment "on rumors or possible future issues."
A spokesperson for Leibovitz's studio told Reuters that the photographer's studio is closed for August and that they "know nothing about this."
The demand for pics of the littlest Cruise (which, reportedly, could go to the highest bidder for anywhere between $2 million and $5 million) has inspired the Website WhereIsSuri.com, prompted Us Weekly to keep a running clock tallying the time that has passed since Suri's birth, and has turned Suri-spotting stories into hot commodities.
Some of the privileged few who say that they have viewed the mystery child include King of Queens star and fellow Scientologist Leah Remini; Jada Pinkett Smith and hubby Will Smith; Steven Spielberg; and, most recently, Cruise's ex, Penélope Cruz.
Joe Dolce, editor of Star magazine (which recently took the initiative, putting together a composite shot of what Suri might look like), told the New York Times last month that People--which bagged the first (legal) pictures of Shiloh Jolie-Pitt for the reputed price of $4.1 million--would ultimately get first dibs on the Suri pics.
"People is courting them, and they'll probably get them," Dolce said. "They've got the money, and probably the best relationship with [Cruise's publicist] Paul Bloch. Tom also wants the veneer of mainstream morality around him, and People would be the best place for that to happen."
Well, Vanity Fair wouldn't be such a bad place, either. The worst that can happen is Suri gets accused of being a Democrat.
But even People inquired, "What gives?" when it comes to TomKitten's prolonged absence from the public eye. Pictures of Brangelina's bundle of joy hit the Internet seven days after she was born in Namibia.
And in the meantime, Us Weekly editor Janice Min pointed out that, while Suri hasn't graced any magazine covers, Cruise and Holmes aren't hurting for face time.
"Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes get on the covers of magazines because they haven't shown their baby," she told the Times. "So, who's really getting played here? We're just pawns."





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