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Article: Fat Vanity Fair weighs the heavyweights The 312-page October issue rates `The New Establishment'
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 23, 1996
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At 312 pages, the October Vanity Fair is not quite the
record-setting beast it was last month. But whereas the incredibly
shrinking pop-political magazine George seems to have caught a fatal
case of "slim disease," Vanity Fair and its advertising department
have discovered the magazine industry equivalent of steroids.
Though editorial matter is nearly impossible to find among Vanity
Fair's hundreds of ad pages, persistent page flippers will be
rewarded by a long piece on the down-and-dirty late-night war between
Jay Leno and Dave Letterman.
Also interesting and substantive, too is Christopher Hitchens'
unequivocal defense of the great George Orwell, whom some slanderous
Brits have ...