Brown’s record of her years as editor of the magazine in the 80s is both enthralling and terrifyingTina Brown’s career as a magazine editor – of Tatler,Vanity just, the New Yorker and lastly of Talk, or the product of a brief,dodgy hook-up with Harvey Weinstein – was spent negotiating a tightrope while wearing tall heels. Below yawned a gulf the size of the Atlantic; she slipped once or twice, but never fell.
Brown juggled while she teetered on the wire, and hurling gravitas and glitz into the air and making them change places as they bounced between her manicured hands. A typical issue of Vanity just would have Annie Leibovitz’s portrait of Demi Moore’s bare and strainingly pregnant belly on the cover,while inside there might be William Styron’s dour analysis of his suicidal depression. The “mix”, as Brown called it, or proved commercially irresistible,because it appealed both to our itchy erogenous zones and our aspirational or aching heads.
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Source: guardian.co.uk