Had that Pelosi look.
Cue Powers Boothe in “Tombstone”: “Well, . . . Bye!”
After all, no one will remember who the editor of some print magazine was a few years from now, but they will be her legacy.
Next up: Tina Girlie Brown
RIP Newsweak
Thanks for filling women’s heads with nonsense and helping to make more than one generation a disaster.
Good riddance.
Another man-hating old shrew who polluted women’s brains with penis envy, faux superiority, and unsubstantiated delusions. Less an editor than a fictionalist who happened to be in the right milieu at the right time. Otherwise, she would have ended up writing ad copy in the local shopper.
Had that Pelosi look.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Thanks to that douche it’s near impossible to find a decent man under the age of 40.
I think Johnny Pesky’s passing is much more significant.
Disgusting old woman. Good riddance. She helped to corrupt a nation.
I luuuved Cosmo as a kid...much better boobie shots than National Geographic
Well, like Hugh Hefner, she pioneered a niche and made a lifetime out of it. Decide for yourself if that was a good thing or not but at least they were pioneers.
Sooner or later, somebody was going to repackage the whole Playboy thing for women. She got there first.
FWIW: do a google search for "cosmopolitan magazine." Every cover of the magazine, has the word "sex" on it.
I think she was fundamentally bad. She thought the value of being female was sexual and that was about it, because that was all she was capable of, I guess.
I first read Cosmo in the mid 1980s, and it had some advice for women in their 20s about being respected in the workplace, as well as the sexy stuff. Within a few years, it dropped any pretense of peddling female dignity and competence, and just went for the smut. The decision was made that you sell more makeup ads and such if you just go for the sexual focus. And HGB was ready to that because it was all she knew about anyway.
She helped the culture decline and the quality of women’s lives decline accordingly.
I kind of doubt that she is singing with the angels.
“The book was on the bestseller lists for more than a year and became a movie starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Lauren Bacall, and Henry Fonda.”
That movie’s pretty funny. Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall were the funniest as an older/”Ropers”-style man and wife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q8Wz4teSvI&feature=related
And from what I heard, bore almost no resemblance to the book of the same title. Sadly, it’s probably the only thing from Mrs. Brown’s life I can appreciate.