Jonathan Last

Sofia Vergara’s Night Reading
April 12th, 2012

As promised: JVL in The Three Stooges. (Click for the big version click here.)

Brian Faughnan April 12, 2012 at 2:15 pm

You pretty much have to hang it up now, don’t you? I mean, how do you top that?

Galley Wife April 12, 2012 at 3:03 pm

I so want to say something like, “He topped that the night I read that in bed,” but that would be so inappropriate, right?

J.P. Freire April 12, 2012 at 2:20 pm

Pics or it didn’t ha… oh.

Gabriel April 12, 2012 at 2:49 pm

Can’t think of a better way to sell natalism

Galley Friend L.B. April 12, 2012 at 3:57 pm

Awesome.

So, do you have the backstory on how this came about? Did some secretly neocon production assistant sneak TWS onto the set and happily provide it when someone said, “Hey, Sofia needs a magazine to read in this shot?”

SteveN April 12, 2012 at 5:33 pm

If that was paid product placement then Kristol needs to fire the marketing research staff.

Galley Friend J.E. April 12, 2012 at 7:17 pm

I think this is what Maslow had in mind.

SkinsFanPG April 12, 2012 at 8:12 pm

This might be the awesomest thing I’ve ever seen. Ever. This beats a parody of my mom on SNL.

Ben April 12, 2012 at 11:30 pm

I think the term Epic Win is overused. This is an Epic Win.

mrmandias April 13, 2012 at 12:06 pm

Your sould must be primo stuff if the Devil was willing to pay that high.

WershovenistPig April 13, 2012 at 2:40 pm

As long as your magazine isn’t covering up a topless Sofia Vergara, this is very cool.

Nedward April 15, 2012 at 2:59 am

Hmm. I’d always scoffed at the running theme in the LA Times and the trades (R.I.P. Premiere & Movieline) about the Mormons secretly infiltrating Hollywood but now, as the Robin Williams genie put it, don’t I feel sheepish!

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