Happy Birthday, Annie Leibovitz!

Annie Leibovitz, photographer of the stars, turns 63 today. In 1970, she started her career as staff photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, just getting off the ground. Three years from that, publisher Stone's Jann Wenner promoted her to Chief Photographer.

At one point, 1989, Leibovitz was in a relationship with the late Susan Sontag, the brilliant essayist. She considers Sontag a mentor.

Glenn Close famously satirized Leibovitz on tv's "Will & Grace," albeit as a fictitious character based on the famed photographer.



Here are just a few iconic images taken by the grande diva of portraits:

Defiant Debra: "I’d be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero!"

Debra & her first Will

While we wait for the big changes that the actress who loves her gay best friends to death, at least on the tube, will go through on next season's Smash, Will and Grace's Debra Messing keeps messing with our minds by living a life that imitates her art. Not only did she ditch her real-life husband in favor of the actor whose character her character was having an affair with on last season's Smash (Will Chase; "Once again, Debra Messing has linked up with a guy named Will," crowed iVillage), she recently proved that her love of gay men -- in real life -- seemingly has no bounds.

“I’d be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero! As a parent," Debra said at a recent Trevor Project (GLBT youth suicide prevention and anti-bullying organization) event, "you just envision a certain life for your child. I mean, if he’s straight, think of all the fabulous things he’s going to miss out on!”

I wonder if Travolta or Cruise are cruising for a fag hag?