The full Vanity Fair profile and accompanying photo slideshow of the 21st century's Helen of Troy, Angelina Jolie, is now online.
"As T. S. Eliot wrote, 'The roses had the look of flowers that are looked at.' She went through the lobby the way a shark goes through the ocean, quickly and smoothly. You detect her presence not by her face, which she can obscure or render ordinary in that way of celebrities, but by how people around her react—the flurry in the water."
I met Jolie, very briefly, a long time ago, working the press line at the SAG Awards. That was before everything. She was rail thin, self-soothingly anxious, and here and there had tiny scars on her body.
