Tops is the cover story on likely Republican mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg. And in a politically weighted issue, New York has at least three or four articles that makes us want to dive right in. Spring is not just swimsuit-picking weather, it’s also candidate lineup time in the Big Apple. The before and after pics are pure comedy. The mag does better on the feature stories – especially one about what happened to the Best Looking and Class Flirts from high school. She only talks about the women she most admires. Bravo! Nicole Kidman graces the cover – but doesn’t dish about her breakup with Tom Cruise. Just in time for the summer, the mag even offers up suits a regular gal can wear and organizes its picks by what looks best on different types of figures. Hair, horoscopes, the secrets of easily orgasmic women, 657 new looks, and 138 swimsuits make up the May issue of Marie Claire. Elsewhere, Glamour does delve into more serious territory with an expose on discipline schools for bad girls where some have died, and a piece on who’s blocking access to birth control pills. Editor Bonnie Fuller uses two covers of Britney Spears – a hot pink one of Britney in a grown-up white halter number, and a blue cover showing her in a micromini. And those flawless adolescent figures wearing them? Score one for eating disorders. She doesn’t get a cover mention.Įver try on 815 bathing suits? In Glamour‘s swimsuit spread (count ’em: 815), some are so small it wouldn’t take much time at all. Cosmo’s also got an interview with the nation’s favorite former White House intern, but it’s clear that Monica Lewinsky is no longer selling mags. But this version’s got great tips, including a fascinating way to integrate a loofah into your bedroom routine. The more intriguing story is another standard Cosmo offering: how to please your man. Haven’t we read that story somewhere before? Gosh, we probably read that story 50 times by the time we were 15. Cosmo also offers a story on getting fab abs in 21 days without doing a single sit-up. The swimsuits Cosmo features this issue – with their high-cut legs and low-cut busts – are only for true hard bodies.
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Sometimes tried-and-true makes for nothing but boring. Loved by both Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, this is a much better story than Vanity Fair’s focus on Robbins alone. In the plus column for Talk is Amanda Vaill’s story on ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq. Benza believes he’s a celebrity, who are we to point out the truth? This excerpt from his upcoming (Miramax) book is probably not going to convince too many others either. And we’re getting tired of these “profiles” that are simply a bunch of sound bites strung together, the treatment both Marc Rich and Dick Cheney got this month. For now, this month’s story on cover-boy Hugh Grant paints him as a man suspiciously similar to the caddish character Grant plays in “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” a – what else? – Miramax release. So, just what would Talk write about if it didn’t have Miramax stars to feature on its cover? Maybe we’ll never know. But Dame Edna’s woe column is hilarious – can’t wait for the next installment – and you can feel Christopher Hitchens’ pain about the lack of venues that welcome smoking. Elsewhere, the rest of the mag is a mixed bag -power players in Davos. And the story on the man who created the “Lad” magazine genre isn’t half bad either.
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Vanity Fair starts us up with its cute coverline -“Does Cleavage Sell Magazines? A) Ask Maxim’s Felix Dennis B) See below.” And below is lovely cover girl Jennifer Aniston’s convincing cleavage. VANITY Fair gets the decision in its monthly slugfest with Talk, due to a clever cover twist, while Time edges out Newsweek in a news feast for the newsweeklies.