Vanity Fair magazine has named its April 2008 bombshell — Summer Glau of Fox’s “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” Glau admits that she almost neglected to attend the casting call for the role that has catalyzed her rapid ascent to fame:

“I was reluctant to audition because I knew who they had cast as the girl Terminator in the last movie,” says Glau. “She’s statuesque and really striking.”

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.