We're not so hot on the new Vanity Fair Green Issue cover featuring Madonna -- she looks great, but also like they put Poison Ivy in the new Batman without telling us -- but seriously, we double dog dare you to click through Madonna's 1992 Marilyn-inspired Steven Meisel spread in the new Madonna VF Retrospective and not swear off LiLo's attempt at conjuring up the soul of Norma Jean Baker forevermore. It's like comparing to apples to oranges -- ridiculously foxy, wholly self-assured oranges.
Actually, It's shocking how many of the other images found here seem like instant classics as well. Have a look -- and try to forget that when Madonna was at the peak of her young erotic powers, she was letting Warren Beatty hone the "sex" part of his becoming a "sexagenarian."