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Spy Magazine
''Spy'' was a satirical monthly magazine published from 1986 to 1998. Based in New York City, the magazine was founded by Kurt Andersen and E. Graydon Carter, who served as its first editors, and Thomas L. Phillips Jr., its first publisher. ''Spy'' specialized in irreverent and satirical pieces targeting the American media and entertainment industries and mocking high society. Overview Some of its features attempted to present the darker side of celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, John F. Kennedy Jr., Steven Seagal, Martha Stewart, and especially the real-estate tycoon Donald Trump and his then-wife Ivana Trump. Pejorative epithets of celebrities, such as " Abe 'I'm Writing As Bad As I Can' Rosenthal", "short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump", "churlish dwarf billionaire Laurence Tisch", "antique Republican pen-holder Bob Dole", "dynastic misstep La Toya Jackson", "bum-kissing toady Arthur Gelb", "bosomy dirty-book writer Shirley Lord", and "former fat girl Dianne Brill" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graydon Carter
Edward Graydon Carter, CM (born July 14, 1949) is a Canadian journalist who served as the editor of '' Vanity Fair'' from 1992 until 2017. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine ''Spy'' in 1986. In 2019, he launched a new weekly newsletter called ''Air Mail'', which is for "worldly cosmopolitans". Career After high school in Trenton, Ontario, Carter attended the University of Ottawa followed by Carleton University, but never graduated from either school. In 1973, Carter co-founded ''The Canadian Review'', a monthly general interest magazine. By 1977, ''The Canadian Review'' had become award-winning and the third-largest circulating magazine in Canada. Despite its success, ''The Canadian Review'' was bankrupt by 1978. In 1978, Carter moved to the United States and began working for ''Time'' as a writer-trainee, where he met Andersen. Carter spent five years writing for ''Time'' on the topics of business, law, and entertainment bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
