Vanity Fair Cover: Shirtless Tiger

by Colby Hall | 11:50 am, January 4th, 2010

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The February issue of Vanity Fair features an image that is sure to raise eyebrows: a shirtless Tiger Woods pumping iron, photographed by Annie Leibovitz before his alleged scandalous behavior became public. The featured article is penned by Buzz Bissinger, who weighs in on the apparent disconnect between Tiger’s public image and private life.

Sources claim that the Condé Nast title bumped Emma Watson, who was originally slated to grace this issue. The lede to the feature reveals the direction of Bissinger’s essay:

When Tiger Woods finally fell from his pedestal—the car crash, the angry wife, the tales of kinky extramarital sex, the link to a controversial sports doctor—it was one of the greatest recorded drops in popularity of any nonpolitical figure. Given Woods’s impenetrable mask of perfection, and the hints of trouble from one strange glimpse behind it, the revelations were inevitable and very, very costly. Annie Leibovitz catches the icon, pre-scandal, in prophetic isolation, while the author finds the clues in the wreckage.

Also worth noting: the first outlet to reveal the depths of Tiger’s alleged marital discretion was Deadspin, which was founded by Will Leitch, with whom Bissinger had a somewhat notorious interaction on Costas Now.

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Rachel Sklar

I can’t see Bissinger’s name without thinking of Will (who, by the way, handled himself SO classily through all that).
personwhomakescomments

Man, I guess there wasn’t much under that golf shirt eh?
michaelm

Ummm, where the hell in the linked Deadspin post does AJ break ANY News?! All I see in that post is links to other outlets’ reportage.
Puter Boi

The Vanity Fair piece tells us nothing we don’t already know. It is a rehash of other people’s work. No harm getting their cut of the Tiger action.
Truth is, none of us know what is really going on in Tiger’s world. We never will unless he allows us in. I wager he never will. He will come back sooner than later…he will break Jack’s “majors” records…..he will be bigger than ever…and he will be even more guarded. Good for him.
What Tiger Woods does in his personal life concerns me not a whit. His golf game, on the other hand, is endlessly fascinating.
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