Tag: Vanity Fair

Born Trump: A Book That Explains A Lot

I just can’t help myself. I’m a sucker for any newspaper or magazine article, or column, or book that attempts to explain why the Trump Family is the way it is. In other words, why   Trump and his “spawn” — the older ones anyway — are so cringeworthy (to put it kindly,) or so despicably detestable, if you just want to tell it how it is.

 Born Trump (subtitle, Inside America’s First Family) goes a long way towards providing an answer for why most of us feel like taking a shower after watching them on TV news, or reading their Tweets. The book by Vanity Fair senior reporter, Emily Jane Fox is not just a breezy, gossipy read. Sure, it entertains, but it also informs as to why this new First Family is “uniquely suited for the second decade of the 21st century and its fame-obsessed, money-hungry, voracious 24-hour cycle of a culture.” Continue reading “Born Trump: A Book That Explains A Lot”

The Diaries Of A New York Editor Revive Great Memories

When I recently picked up The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983-1992 by Tina Brown I was prepared for a fabulous stroll down memory lane. Tina did not disappoint for the most part, but one shocking (to me, anyway) revelation literally made me drop my Kindle.

Of course, I anticipated some major name-dropping and gossip from the decadent, over-the-top 80s when both Tina and I were editors in New York City: she, the fabulously talented, visionary editor who turned around Vanity Fair, a dying up-market glossy; me, the managing editor of a supermarket tabloid, STAR magazine, shunned by the same celebrities who fell over themselves to be on Tina’s Vanity Fair covers. Continue reading “The Diaries Of A New York Editor Revive Great Memories”