Miley Cyrus' Vanity Fair Shoot: Hollywood Weighs In

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How is the rest of Hollywood responding to the much-talked about Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair show?

Her father Billy Ray is reportedly very upset, as he left the set before the photo that caused the outcry was taken.

From Academy Award winner Sally Field and former Disney star Hilary Duff to the girls of MTV's The Hills and Rosie O'Donnell, "Extra" has the below reactions from Tinseltown regarding the 15 year-old's pictures. Plus, see what fellow teen-queen Hillary Duff had to say.

Sally Field: "I love Miley Cyrus. My granddaughters are completely and utterly over the moon. I watch Hannah Montana....I think, 'Let it go for God's sake'...It's a beautiful picture."

Hilary Duff: "It's a lot of pressure. I don't know how I would even begin to give her advice because I feel she has a huge career and she'll learn how to deal with it."


Lauren Conrad [The Hills]: "I found it a bit silly. I thought she looked beautiful in the pictures. I didn't find it that inappropriate. I think it's difficult. It s a lot of pressure on her since she is a role model, but I think she's doing a good job."

Heidi Montag [The Hills]: I think she's a young girl in Hollywood and she's just having fun. Exploring herself."


Spencer Pratt [The Hills]: "I didn't think it was that bad. Supposedly, she's wearing a top underneath. It's artistic."


Tila Tequila [VH1's A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila]: "I think it's hot. When I was 15, I was doing the same thing except a bared it all....She's just showing her back. She's growing up. I don't think she's doing anything harmful. If the media keeps pushing her, pressuring her, she might end up messed up. But right now, I think everyone should just let her have fun. She's not doing anything scandalous. I think she's hot!"


Emmy Rossum: "I think she's a role model for kids, but I think she looks beautiful."


Rosie O'Donnell spoke out about the so-called scandal on her blog saying, "I had two photo shoots with her [Annie Leibovitz]. It's intimidating. Annie Leibovitz. I also didn't think it was a pornographic photo in any capacity. I thought it was kind of a beautiful portrait, you know. I like the one of her and her dad too. It's Annie Leibovitz people. Leave Miley alone!"


Hillary Duff told People:

"Everyone goes through things and takes their own path," Duff said Monday a press event for her new movie War Inc. "Who am I to judge decisions that she made?"


Still, Duff says she would not have chosen the same path for herself. "People are pushing you to do something, and if you want to do it, that's your choice, you know?" added the singer-actress. "It's not what I would choose to do, but if she did then that's fine. That's her choice."


Jamie Lee Curtis wrote a blog about Miley Cyrus' Vanity Fair shoot for Huffington Post about it, and she thinks it's unfair that a child was put in that position.


Star editor Bonnie Fuller is also upset, and she's mad with Miley's parents, and voiced her displeasure in her own Huffington Post blog.


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The people that are so outraged at the photo of Miley Cyrus who think that it is disgusting, pornographic, and immoral to have a 15 year old pose for a picture that in my opinion was very artsy, taseful, and benign are hypocrites. We have in this country so called beauty pageants for grils that are much younger then Ms. Cyrus. These girls range from ages 5-13 and they actually have to model swim suits which are very revealing, more so the the picture of Ms. Cyrus. These girls have so much makeup on that they do not even look like a real person, they look like a doll. That to me is more upsetting then the photo of Ms. Cyrus . Where are all of the so called moral christian zelots when it comes to these pageants? Below is a link to a picture of a beauty pageant contestant, she must be only 8 years old and she is modeling a swimsuit!!! The Christian right wingers are delusional, idiots, and fools when it comes to social issues. Why is there no outrage when it comes to these pageants? There is a great documentary about this disgusting practice of very young girls (ages 5 and up) made to look like dolls. Here is the IMBD link. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285298/
The name of the documentary is called "Living Dolls: The making of a child beauty queen.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:50 AM on 05/02/2008

I'm so glad Rosie has chimed in on this. I'm usually lost without her expert guidance.

And Tila Tequila too. Now there is a role model.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:05 PM on 05/01/2008

So the whole Billy Ray clan, handlers, PR people, etc. go to this photo shoot, and before the last picture gets shot the whole bunch up and leave, leaving poor Miley alone, by herself with the evil celebrity photographer, who talks her into removing her top and dawning a blanket for a sexy photo!

Something smells funny about this. I think its that load of BS coming from people seeing their meal ticket disappear.

PS Looks like Miley needs a sandwich!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:24 AM on 05/01/2008

Miley's protective dad never leaves her side, but after doing a photo shoot together - he left?

Hmmmmmm - sorry, I don't buy it!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:16 PM on 04/30/2008

The young girl will eventually be an old woman, and she will look back at this beautiful portrait and cherish it.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:27 PM on 04/30/2008

Good ol' squeaky clean Disney. At least Miley is older than this girl (and showing a lot less skin):

http://www.slate.com/id/2190255/

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:28 PM on 04/30/2008



The conflict is between our desire to protect the children and our reluctance to admit that we must let the children grow up and enjoy life.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:26 PM on 04/30/2008


To be even more blunt, the Texas Polygamists leaders and Vanity Fair have both sexualized children to profit their bottom line.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:38 PM on 04/30/2008


In Texas the sexualization of children is reviled and prosecuted while in Hollywood it's promoted, condoned and glamorized. What's going on?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:27 PM on 04/30/2008

PLEASE STOP POSTING THE VANITY FAIR COVER AS IT GIVES ME A HARDON. YES IM AN ADULT.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:46 PM on 04/30/2008

And obviously attracted to very young girls. The To Catch a Predator folks will be at your door in 10 minutes.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:10 PM on 04/30/2008

It's a million times more offensive to me that this 15 year old is out there performing like an organ grinder's monkey 250 nights a year so that thousands of adults (including Disney shareholders) can wring a profit out of her. And that parents feel compelled to spend hundreds of dollars to buy tickets to these live shows.

The picture is a complete non-event (although, I wouldn't call it "art," it's commerce. So what). We don't do a very good job of addressing the transitional period of adolescence in this country. But, 15 is not 8, and the extent to which the image is provocative is completely dependent on the viewer. People should check out Sally Mann's "Immediate Family" photographs if they want to really wrangle with the art v. exploitation issue.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:10 PM on 04/30/2008

Well said!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:15 PM on 04/30/2008

Seriously, if you want to see more vulgar displays of underage female flesh, just drive by any middle school around 3-ish when the bell rings. I think two inches of butt cleavage protruding from a pair of jeans that look painted on is the accepted norm nowadays. What Miley Cyrus did was absolutely harmless.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:59 PM on 04/30/2008

just wait until we get the risqué Annie Leibovitz photos of Reverend Wright

then the chickens will really have come home to roost...

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:24 PM on 04/30/2008

Ummm...Tila Tequila? Why is anyone asking Tila Tequila for an opinion on anything?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:21 PM on 04/30/2008

because Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian were unavailable for comment?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:27 PM on 04/30/2008

The big hoo-hah over the Miley Cyrus pictures says reams about us; we'tre a society given over to moral priggishness and the " better her than me" moral relativisim. They're rally great, stylish, artistic pictures. Get over it priggs. Send your kids to a Hanna Montana concert so you have time alone to check-ourt you're latest issue of Playboy and get out the whips and chains while the kids aren't looking.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:56 PM on 04/30/2008

Huh huh huh. You said, "hoo-hah"

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:00 PM on 04/30/2008

Next thing you know they'll be telling us she has breasts.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:53 PM on 04/30/2008

Ahhh! M eyes are burning!

/s

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:57 PM on 04/30/2008

This picture is not worth the effort of the complaints.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:27 PM on 04/30/2008

Its amazing to see how many papers (especially the NY Post) who ran a front page photo of the picture and then critisised it as kiddie-porn. How is this picture sexually provocative? Perhaps it is the people who are complaining about this photo who are the ones with twisted minds. They are the ones who see it as a sexual provocative image, so perhaps they are the pedofiles. Would these people say the same thing if this girl wore a backless dress to the oscars?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:28 AM on 04/30/2008

They would.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:54 PM on 04/30/2008

Larisa Alexandrovna noted that the NASCAR Newscaster Brian Williams spent over two minutes on the nightly news over this topic, but only 80 seconds on the monstous Voter ID ruling on the Supreme Court!

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/04/miley-cyrus-tru.html

Who watches the evening news anyway?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:24 AM on 04/30/2008

Day 3 of the story you just can't stop not caring about!!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:08 AM on 04/30/2008

Ask a few real humans what they think. This is another bait-and-switch, giving kids a wholesome entertainer to admire then tarting her up with sexuality and hints of incest. By now it's a conventional progression for young stars. Next come breast implants, an eating disorder, a toxic "best friend," drugs and alcohol, rehab, oblivion, where are they now, and a comeback on the carnival circuit. Meanwhile, 10-year-old girls everywhere are looking in the mirror wondering how to make themselves sexy like Hannah Montana. The horror.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:00 AM on 04/30/2008

It is very telling of our national conscience that that the Miley Cyrus photos have garnered so much media attention, when hardly a ripple was made over the May 2008 Vanity Fair article, "Monsanto's Harvest of Fear," which has everything to do with the roots of world hunger, not to mention the Bush-Clinton funding and sanctioning of this ruthless, unethical corporation, bent on taking over the world''s food supply. Yet one more installment in this country's insatiable appetite for fluff over substance.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:43 AM on 04/30/2008

Disgusting!

She's a 15-year old child and should NEVER be posed for any sort of sexually suggestive photograph until she is no longer a child.

No matter how "tasteful" the photo is argued to be, the only reason it was taken was for the worst of reasons. I feel sorry for this girl . . . her father seems like he is only interested in cashing-in as much as possible in the few years he has left before she turns 18.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:22 AM on 04/30/2008

Just one look at this kid and its all said.....she looks like an over made up 26 year old. sad sad

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:08 AM on 04/30/2008

Well as a Father of 5 BOYS who have to deal with the girls who are going to be copying this girl I OBJECT!!
These girls are getting dangerous for young boys to deal with. They will even resort to social blackmail to get what they want or punish boy if they are turned down.
Girls have already been caught passing notes to my sons asking them "Do you want to have sex"? or "How about a BJ"? .
One girl even turned her CLICK against my son after she was sent home for asking my son for sex.
They spread roumor and lies about him and all he wants is and education!!!!!
He stated it would have been eaiser to just have screwed her than to deal with all the crap from her friends after she was expelled.

So go on think it is art.
]It is the kids who will suffer fron the decisions adults make!!!!!!!!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:58 AM on 04/30/2008

"One girl even turned her CLICK against my son after she was sent home for asking my son for sex.
They spread roumor and lies about him and all he wants is and education!!!!!
He stated it would have been eaiser to just have screwed her than to deal with all the crap from her friends after she was expelled."

They're spelled: CLIQUE, rumor, easier. Maybe you need the education.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:35 PM on 04/30/2008

"They're spelled: CLIQUE, rumor, easier. Maybe you need the education." by prospectofdeath

prospectofbeingananal-englishteacherstyle: lighten up. We get the idea and dadw5boys' points all make sense.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:34 PM on 04/30/2008

I'm surprised Disney doesn't have a purity clause in her contract. She brings in to much money for them not to protect themselves against reputational damage that could spell ratings disaster.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:54 AM on 04/30/2008
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