Queen Bees
Sofia Coppola and Marie Antoinette have a lot in common.
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Peretz's Vanity Fair profile begins with the kind of protective disclaimer that Sofia Coppola tends to evoke from journalists: "It might be tempting to dismiss Coppola as a ditz who has successfully parlayed her famous name, the right clothes, and the right friends into an overblown image." As a matter of fact, it is; so much so that, like Coppola's young queen faced with a Sèvres platter of Ladurée macaroons, I simply must give in to temptation.
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Photograph of Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette by Leigh Johnson. Courtesy Sony Pictures Publicity.