Vanity Fair magazine has named its May 2008 bombshell — Kristin Bell of the now defunct “Veronica Mars” (our deepest condolences to Daniel) and the upcoming Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which is the latest relative brain-child from director Judd Apatow. Bell talks about the Apatow’s moviemaking legacy in progress:

“They’ve sort of invented this new type of moviemaking where you really just improv almost the whole thing,” says Bell. “I think the sense of accomplishment when you’re done is even greater.”

Vanity Fair’s website has a new web-exclusive gallery of The Vanity Girls (”shapely ingénues [who] are on the cusp of fame or have just hit it big”) in 50s-style pinups shots. The magazine’s collection of dolled-up dames is definitely worth a glimpse or two.

Previously: An Invincible Summer