Description of Tarzan's 'Jane' causes rumble in jungle

11 July 2016 - 09:34 By ©The Daily Telegraph

Actress Margot Robbie, star of the new movie Legend of Tarzan, has been interviewed in Vanity Fair - and the reactions have not been pretty. Writer Rich Cohen's prose has ignited fury in Australia and among all those who believe sexism to be bad.Cohen isn't the first male journalist to appear creepy or distasteful when profiling a young rising star. Here are some offensive profiles of recent years:Cohen on Robbie - "She is 26 and beautiful, not in that otherworldly, catwalk way but in a minor knock-around key, a blue mood, a slow dance. She is blonde but dark at the roots. She is tall but only with the help of certain shoes."Nicole Kidman, David Thompson, New York Times - "That elegant Australian body, which has sometimes shone like a lighthouse in sex scenes . "I suspect she is as fragrant as spring, as ripe as summer, as sad as autumn and as coldly possessed as winter."Angelina Jolie, John Richardson, Esquire - "I know I wanted my little piece of the beautiful Angelina. And wasn't I shocked and a little thrilled when she came apart in my hands?"Sienna Miller, David Katz, Esquire - "It's a lovely hand, mostly, and quite small, which is good because she is a small woman, smaller than you thought, actually, though, thank God, not in that giant-head-on-a-tiny-body way of other actors."Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Lane, The New Yorker - "The fun part, for connoisseurs of such erotic power, is predicting when and where Johansson will turn it on."Megan Fox, Stephen Marche, Esquire - "She is flawless. She's a screensaver on a teenage boy's laptop, a middle-age lawyer's shower fantasy, a sexual prop used to sell movies and jeans."Emilia Clarke, Benjamin Mar-kovits, Esquire - "Half pal, half dominatrix. Half kid sister, half sexy queen. The movie star who plays, in her real life, an anonymous, funny beauty."Sky Ferreira, Art Tavana, LA Weekly - "She looks like a more cherubic Sharon Stone, icy but also sweet, like a freshly licked lollipop."Rosario Dawson, Tom Junod, Esquire - "Lord, forgive me for my night with Dawson. Forgive me for the talk about faulty condoms. Forgive me for the stuff about her grandmother's sex habits, girlie sounds during foreplay and enhanced butts. Forgive me for everything involving erogenous zones. Forgive me for looking at her as she fired a 20-gauge Beretta shotgun, then cackled and stuck her tongue out à la Gene Simmons. Forgive me for committing adultery in my heart." ..

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