No first fortnight of any year would be complete without a stunning pic of Scarlett Johansson. This time on the cover of the latest Harper’s Bazaar.

Looking good, my angel.

Looking good..

Johansson

Absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Here’s a snippet from the article.

On a rainy afternoon in November, Scarlett Johansson saunters into the Carlyle hotel in New York, undetected despite her rather conspicuous I’m-trying-to-blend-in ensemble of black trench coat, black fedora, and black Ray-Ban aviators. “You know, I always try to keep a low profile, which probably makes me the most identifiable person in a crowd,” Scarlett jokes. “It’s like, There goes that woman in a wig, mustache, and glasses.”

Costumed and bespectacled or not, Scarlett, 24, prefers to keep a Grand Canyon-size divide between her personal and professional lives. She rarely comments on her romantic relationships (including her marriage to actor Ryan Reynolds in September) and doesn’t sashay down a red carpet unless she has to. There is one man, however, who has won her public affection: President-elect Barack Obama. “I’m absolutely over the moon,” she says of his victory, with the broadest of smiles. “If I’m invited to the inaugural party, I’ll be there in a giant gown with the Obama family silk-screened on it.”

Having announced her support early on, Scarlett quietly campaigned for Obama for 16 months leading up to the November election. She traveled to the swing state of Ohio the week before Election Day and made calls to undecided voters.

As with any true politico, her foray into that arena wasn’t without consequences. It has been well documented that last year, when she gave an interview and revealed that she had received an e-mail from the future president thanking her for her efforts, it caused a big brouhaha. (Her point was that during his grassroots campaign, Obama called even those who had given small donations to personally thank them.) “And then, the title of the article was ‘Actress Has a Crush on Obama,'” says Scarlett, exasperated. “Talk about sexist. If I were George Clooney, they would never have written that.

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Read Harper’s Bazaar here.

This obviously has nothing to do with the story a few years back regarding her elevator bonk with Benicio Del Toro.