Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005

Sadly, Damien Hirst Turned Down The Part Of Toto

By Rebecca Winters Keegan

It's clearly not Kansas when Dorothy dons Balenciaga. Pride & Prejudice star KEIRA KNIGHTLEY and minimalist painter BRICE MARDEN are part of an Oz-themed pictorial in next month's Vogue. Annie Leibovitz also shot painters Jasper Johns and John Curren as the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man. Aren't artists supposed to be prickly, reclusive and, you know, serious? Not when Annie's folks call. "They just told me to bring hats," says Marden, a friend of Leibovitz's. "It was easier than a Gap ad I did once."