A Sly Wink at de Blasio Makes Cover of Vanity Fair

 

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The January 2015 cover of Vanity Fair shows Bradley Cooper with billiard balls. The headline on the ball at far left seems, with a little imagination, to allude to the mayor.

Tucked into the corner of the current cover of Vanity Fair, which features a photograph of Bradley Cooper playing pool, is a billiard ball with a partially visible, Esperanto-like headline: “ill lasio ex ape!”

The phrase, cut off at the left edge of the page, reads as nonsense. But readers with a little imagination — particularly readers in New York — might be forgiven for mentally filling in the blanks. Add a few missing letters, et voilà:

“Bill de Blasio Sex Tape!”