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OverheardBy ANIKA MYERS PALM

“I understand the impulse to “We’re all sort “If I could boil the look at paparazzi pictures of celebrities go- of the anti-blogs. And Tom Ford ing about their business; but these images, which I think we will eventually experience down to a are so prevalent at the moment, have very little to do triumph over the blogs!” single element for you, Roger Hodge, new editor of with photography.” it would be the yellow Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, on the Harper’s, in a March 2006 New York rise of candid photos in celebrity magazines magazine article on young super- Post-It note I found star magazine editors stuck to a photograph of Angelina Jolie that was pinned to the wall of Vanity Fair’s planning room. In “It’s all voodoo.” “We think the market has plenty of room. small handwriting Craig Marks, editor of There seems to be just a tremendous appetite were the words “Leave Blender, on calculations for celebrity coverage.” magazines must make in butt crack. TF.” Bob Davidowitz, publisher of In Touch and Life & Style Graydon Carter, in deciding what to put (both are owned by Bauer Publishing, which is rumored to in cover lines editor of Vanity Fair, on have yet another celebrity weekly in development), Tom Ford’s art direction on whether the celebrity magazine market is saturated for the magazine’s annual Hollywood issue

“Fit is the new rich.” Dave Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men’s Health, when asked by Jon Stewart whether he sees his magazine having the longevity of publications like Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan “At the end of the day, think about where you read your magazines: in bed at night or on an air- plane or any place where you are feeling good. “When Madeleine Albright talks You are engaged in it. You are entertained by it. about luxury lifestyle, that’s the kind And when I look out 10 or 15 years, I don’t think of story an editor wants.” it is going to be any different.” Jason Binn, publisher of Hamptons, Gotham Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines, on and Los Angeles Confidential, on launching his new why the magazine industry still survives and Washington-based magazine, Capitol File what it will look like in a few years

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