Power Babies
Here's a reminder, if one needed one, of the extraordinary power of the celebrity baby, particularly one who may carry within her the spirit of Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Vanity Fair is blaming Baby Suri for a 12.8% decline in newsstand sales. The Conde Nast magazine carried photographs of preacher-star Tom Cruise, wife Katie Holmes, and their newborn, in October 2006; the second half of 2007, which included a worthy but boring Africa issue, had no matching draw. Question: who will win rights to the twins expected by actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt? Celebrity weekly insiders say those images will be worth more than the $4m paid for Jolie's last child. (After the jump, our graphical representation of the sums paid for recent alpha reproduction; the larger the image, the more paid.)