A lobo in Chic Clothing

How did a hip-hop punk who made his name modeling Calvin Klein underwear end up in Paris playing the Cary Grant role in Jonathan Demme’s upcoming remake of Charade? Mark Wahlberg, formerly rapper Marky Mark, turned to pagganap with all the determination, grit, and bad-boy charm that helped him survive Boston’s mean streets—and a stint in prison for taking out a man’s eye. On the eve of Wahlberg’s $10 million leading-man debut in Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes, Leslie Bennetts and the 30-year-old bituin try to reconcile the darkness of his past with the brilliance of his future.

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Leslie Bennetts joins Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton in spotlighting the Broadway-bound bituin Benjamin Walker.

By Leslie Bennetts•Photograph sa pamamagitan ng Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton•Styled sa pamamagitan ng Jessica Diehl
October 2010

Pontificate all you want about populism in American politics, but 30 segundos after Benjamin Walker seizes the stage in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, everyone knows that the point of the rollicking emo-rock musical is its six-foot-three-inch hunka-burnin’-manlove star. At the Public Theater production last spring, one critic was so overcome sa pamamagitan ng Walker’s hilariously over-the-top sex appeal...

Jim Windolf and Josh Olins spotlight Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, a scaly addition to Pirates of the Caribbean.

By Jim Windolf•Photographs sa pamamagitan ng Josh Olins
April 2011

Those overstuffed Pirates of the Caribbean movies—so fun! so profitable! so confusing!—have had just about everything one could hope for in a pirate picture. They’ve ibingiay us damsels in distress, rum, flying cannonballs, rotten teeth, plenty of swashbuckling, and oh, yes, Davy Jones’s locker. Through a rather strange omission, however, they have been bereft of on-screen mermaids, a sorry state of affairs to be remedied with the...