Meet the Beautiful People of 2012
Vinny Guadagnino
In a recent episode of Jersey Shore, as Vinny Guadagnino walks down the boardwalk with housemate and erstwhile hookup buddy Snooki, policemen barricade the crowd mobbing the couple. There's a meta quality of the show…
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Jake Johnson
At the heart of New Girl, FOX's latest hit series, there's Zooey Deschanel. Yes, she's adorkable [sic]. But where would the New Girl be without a few good New Men behind her? That's where Jake…
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Jane Levy
In a little over a year, Jane Levy has gone from anonymously mailing her picture and résumé to agents, to carrying her own sitcom -- ABC's Suburgatory -- and starring in a gigantic remake of…
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Kreayshawn
When Columbia Records doled out a big fat check, signing Kreayshawn after her "Gucci Gucci" YouTube video went viral last May, the 22-year-old rapper-slash-director bought a bag of Hot Cheetos and a Cup O' Noodles.…
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Nina Arianda
The Golden Age of Broadway -- when there were true stars of the stage -- is gone. Now, it's buzzy film actors like Scarlett Johansson and Sienna Miller who tend to be cast in tried…
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Thomas Roberts
MSNBC news anchor Thomas Roberts just moved to the Big Apple, but he's already settled into a real New York groove: He walks to work from the Hell's Kitchen apartment he shares with his fiancé,…
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Alexis Ohanian
In 2005, a year after graduating from college, Alexis Ohanian and pal Steve Huffman founded the social news website Reddit, following an epiphany Ohanian had in a Waffle House. The site's simplicity was the key…
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Tanya Aguiniga
Tanya Aguiniga knows textiles. On a recent morning in her L.A. studio, she works on her signature felted chairs, layering turquoise wool as she gestures to the wealth of materials surrounding her: a lampshade she…
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Caveman
The story of how the five guys in Caveman met is straight out of a "Shit Guys in New York Bands Say" video. Front man Matthew Iwanusa and his high school friend, guitarist Jimmy Carbonetti,…
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Rebel Wilson
Australian actress Rebel Wilson had only been in the U.S. for three months when she landed a part in the smash-hit movie Bridesmaids. Rightfully, it's an achievement she's pretty proud of. "If you're a girl…
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Daniel Fuller
There are several Daniel Fullers. The first is the Hawaii-born kid who left school at 15 to become a pro surfer. Found on the cover of Transworld Surf and each year at the Billabong Pipeline…
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Correll Correll
Daphne and Vera Correll, the twin sisters behind Correll Correll, are not your typical twin designers. Despite the fact that they run a fashion line together, they thrive on independence; they live in different boroughs…
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Amaryllis Fox
Amaryllis Fox credits two epiphanies, 13 years apart, with having led to the creation of Mulu.me, a site equal parts social networking, e-commerce, curation and fund-raising. The first took place back in 1998, at the…
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Devonté Hynes
Devonté Hynes has embarked on a very promising third -- but not final -- act. The 26-year- old musician, who found success with two very different bands --Test Icicles and Lightspeed Champion -- has reemerged…
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John Mulaney + Mike O'Brien
"I knew I wanted to do comedy from a young age," recalls 29-year-old Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney. "As a kid, I wrote a sketch where women were the bosses and men were the…
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Design, Bitches
How do you define architecture? It's a question that could generate any number of pretentious answers, but when Los Angeles architects and designers Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph saw it on the submission form for…
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David Oyelowo
In an industry of severe feast or famine, David Oyelowo has bitten off more than most actors' chops could chew. Between simultaneously shooting the homicide thriller One Shot and Steven Spielberg's Civil War drama Lincoln,…
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Young Jean Lee
The South Korean born playwright-director Young Jean Lee has a unique approach to creating her experimental theater. While getting an MFA in Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College in 2002, she was assigned to…
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Nick Waterhouse
In late 2010, a frustrated musician named Nick Waterhouse put out a single called "Some Place," two minutes of truly old-school rhythm 'n' blues. After years of bad-to-no luck trying to pull a band together,…
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Haley Tanner
Following in the grand tradition of literary duos -- Franny and Zooey, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer -- are the title characters of Haley Tanner's immaculate debut novel, Vaclav & Lena. A short story she…
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Franchesca Ramsey
One of the year's more memorable Internet memes was born last December with the viral video "Shit Girls Say." Though spin-offs abounded, one of the most popular was Franchesca Ramsey's "Shit White Girls Say... to…
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Lee Toland Krieger
You know a director's tight with his actors when he agrees to adopt one of her dogs. Such was the case when Lee Toland Krieger "rescued" Pippa from Rashida Jones. He fell for the dog…
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Ms. Fitz
Claire Fitzsimmons--who goes by Ms. Fitz-- believes that if you look nutty enough, people in New York won't mess with you. "If you come off as 'trendy crazy,' people try to fuck with you, but…
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Zosia Mamet
Shoshanna, the character Zosia Mamet plays on HBO's new Lena Dunham-helmed, Judd Apatow-produced comedy Girls, is the type of young woman who proudly displays her Sex and the City poster in her bedroom, and wears…
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Brady Corbet
"It's dark subject matter that interests me," Brady Corbet says, describing what draws him to a role. At 13, Corbet first impressed audiences in the coming-of-age-meets-cautionary tale, Thirteen, playing Evan Rachel Wood's older brother. Now,…
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Lily Kwong
When Lily Kwong was 18, she moved from San Francisco to New York to study political science at Bard College. Her original plan was to graduate and run for office, but Kwong dropped out after…
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Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson's first major exhibition was a group show at Harlem's Studio Museum called "Freestyle." The 2001 exhibition focused on young black artists given the stylistic label "post-black." Johnson, who grew up in the Chicago…
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Rita Ora
"People always ask me: Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?" says Rita Ora, the 21-year-old pop singer whose debut album drops this fall on Jay-Z's Roc Nation label. Her…
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Jordan Kahn
It's not surprising that Jordan Kahn's Red Medicine is considered one of the best new restaurants in L.A. He's been a foodie since he could walk. Growing up in Savannah, Georgia, he regularly helped his…
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L.P.
"I want people to enjoy a song no matter what I look like," says L.P., who, at first glance, gives Cate Blanchett's Bob Dylan-in-drag a run for his/her money. After years behind the scenes penning…
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Mike Q
Mike Q is the new face of vogue and ballroom house music, but he hides his eyes on the cover of his debut album, Let It All Out. "I'd rather be heard than seen," he…
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