cover: TIGER WOODS FOR VANITY FAIR

On the heels of scandal, Tiger Woods covers the February 2010 cover of VANITY FAIR magazine wearing a skull cap and no shirt. Check out an excerpt from the article titled “Tiger In The Rough”after the jump.

When Tiger Woods finally fell from his pedestal—the car crash, the angry wife, the tales of kinky extramarital sex, the link to a controversial sports doctor—it was one of the greatest recorded drops in popularity of any nonpolitical figure. Given Woods’s impenetrable mask of perfection, and the hints of trouble from one strange glimpse behind it, the revelations were inevitable and very, very costly. Annie Leibovitz catches the icon, pre-scandal, in prophetic isolation, while the author finds the clues in the wreckage.

EX BAD BOY ARTIST, MARK CURRY WRITES TELL-ALL ABOUT DIDDY

2009 seems to be on its way to being the year of the tell-all book. Former Bad Boy rapper Mark Curry has written a juicy book called "Dancing with the Devil," chronicling his life as a "Bad Boy" - where in which he admits it is not just a record label, but a bad omen, as well.

The book offers a look into the "fast paced, controversial, and sometimes deadly world of hip-hop music" and comes with "Dishin it Out," a compilation CD of tracks from former Bad Boy artists. Here's an excerpt:

"Puff has an annoying habit of inserting himself into songs and videos of all the artists on his label and it was common knowledge that many Bad Boy acts resented him for this. Puffy charged the artists for his appearances on their records and in the videos, usually without their realizing it until they received their royalty statements. That's when they discovered that a large sum of their money had gone to fees which were doubled, tripled and even quadrupled because Puff 'special appearances.' He charged artists, for example, for having his Bentley in their videos - which he insisted upon - then took a tax credit for business use of the car"

For more information and to read the first chapter of the book for free, visit: MarkCurryBook.com