She’s faultless! (Says magazine that used to EXPOSE vanities)

ThERE’S the sycophantic interview, and then there’s the ‘Vanity Fair’ interview, in which the divine subject has no humanising qualities at all.

September’s cover features angelina Jolie, right, interviewed in her 11,000sq.ft La mansion, with her children moping about her, just like an ordinary person.

angelina has, of course, been through hell lately, what with a cancer scare, double mastectomy, oophorectomy, early-onset menopause, Bell’s palsy and a divorce.

But anyone who’s been through hell though will tell you they’d rather have done it while young, radiantly beautiful and fabulously wealthy, and with a career and motherhood to sustain them. hell for ordinary people often adds in penury or solitude or feeling superannuated or having an extra stone or two on – delete where applicable.

anyway, by Vanity Fair’s lights, angelina has not only suffered but also has no faults. at all! actually there’s one. Since the divorce from Brad Pitt, she’s been doing her best on the domestic front – cooking, cleaning dishes and picking up dog poo – but with indifferent results. Turns out she doesn’t have a gift for the domestic stuff. She’s just too damn exciting.

no one wants a hatchet job, but still… what of the original US Vanity Fair magazine, staffed by Dorothy Parker among others and which aimed to expose vanities, not encourage them?