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| Magazine | Description |
| Andrew Crossett's Famous "The Women of Playboy Index" | "Playmates,Covergirls,Celebrities,Super Models,Musicians who Appeared in Playboy Magazine are probably in this Index Site". |
| Peggy Wilkins Playboy Mailing list (PML) | "Excellent Site for General Information and Input on the Latest Issues Lots of Readable emails its like a Club. |
| Playboy Playmate Centerfolds | "If your Searching for a Playboy Centerfold Playmates and want to know her Name or Month & Year She Posed Try this Site Its Superb". |
| Playboy Covers Around the World | "Excellent Site to find Playboy Magazine Covers. International and USA Covers Over 5,000 Covers.Other Cool Stuff as well Has some Playboy Links" |
| Rollingstone
Magazines Website www.rollingstone.com |
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| Life Magazine Time & Life Building 1271 Avenue of the Americas,New York,NY 10020 (212-522-1212) Website www.life.com |
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| Details
Magazine 7 West 34th Street.New York,NY 10019 (212-630-4840) Website www.details.com |
Details is the name of a monthly American men's magazine, published by Fairchild Publications, a branch of Advance Publications. It reaches a subscription audience of nearly 1,600,000 readers in the United States. Its current editor-in-chief is Daniel Peres. |
| FHM Magazine 110 5th Avenue,New York,NY 10011 (212-201-6700 |
FHM, an abbreviation for For Him Magazine (or For
Horny Men, as the Philippines edition has it), is
a monthly men's
magazine (of a type
known as a lads'
mag). The magazine was
first published as FHM in 1994 in the United Kingdom, but it had in fact been around since
1985 under the name For Him. Founded by Chris
Astridge, For Him was originally distributed
through high street men's fashion outlets, expanding to
newsagents as a quarterly by the spring of 1987. It was a
predominantly fashion-based publication, and was regarded
by the general masses as a gay magazine, giving it a
somewhat limited circulation. After the emergence of
James Brown's Loaded magazine (regarded as the
blue-print for the lad's mag genre) and later competing
titles such as GQ and Esquire, For Him
hardened up its editorial approach to compete with the
expanding market and introduced a sports supplement. It
then went monthly and changed its name to FHM. It
subsequently expanded internationally. As of July 2004, it publishes 27 editions per month
including editions in Russia, the United States, Denmark, Australia, Estonia, New Zealand, France, Lithuania, Indonesia, Taiwan, Portugal, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Singapore. FHM, produced by the consumer media division of publishing giant EMAP, was launched as a response to the success of Loaded, launched by IPC Media the previous year. Like Loaded, FHM arguably relies heavily on the appeal of photographs of scantily-clad women. Unlike many magazines, FHM prints photographs of women already famous for reasons other than their beauty - such as actresses and pop singers. Also, unlike pornographic magazines, their genitals and nipples are hidden by underwear or props. This is for two reasons: Firstly the women they feature are sufficiently famous to be able to make demands as to the degree(s) of nudity of the photos; Secondly it lends the magazine a more respectable air. Thus FHM is typically stocked in the lifestyle rather than adult section on newsstands. Like similar magazines such as Maxim, its large quantity of surveys, humour, dramatic tales and informed reviews of everything from movies to remote controlled blimps has created a readership not necessarily interested in the photographs. The magazine is printed on high-quality glossy paper and the photography is of high technical quality. FHM became the best-selling magazine in Britain during the mid to late 1990s - selling 700,000 copies per month. Towards the end of the decade the lads' culture in which the magazine thrived had begun to die off and publishers turned to celebrity-oriented titles to boost overall sales. Heat overtook FHM as the UK's biggest selling magazine. As well as the photo shoots, the magazine contains articles on a wide variety of topics, including profiles of sports stars, movie, music, technology and book reviews, gossip, men's fashion shoots, the "bar scene" in a variety of locations, and extensive discussion of sexual techniques. The magazine is written in a notably "laddish" bar-room discussion style, by comparison to the more literary style of Playboy. Other magazines in a somewhat similar style include Maxim and Ralph (Australia). |
| Esquire
Magazine 1790 Broadway,New York,NY 10019 (212-649-4050 |
Esquire is a magazine
for men
owned by the Hearst
Corporation. The
magazine was founded in 1933 and became famous for contributions by literary
writers, such as Ernest
Hemingway and F.
Scott Fitzgerald. In the
1940s,
it increased in popularity, partly because of the famous Varga Girls. In the 1960s, Esquire published writers such
as John Sack,
Tom Wolfe,
Norman Mailer, Tim O'Brien, and Gay Talese, taking part in the so-called new journalism trend. For many years, Esquire has published its annual Dubious Achievement Awards, which recall unusual events of the preceding year. They are written in reverse order compared to most humor; the punchline comes first in the headline, and the copy below provides the setup by explaining the actual event. This format has been much-imitated by other publications. As a running gag, the annual article almost always includes an old photo of Richard Nixon laughing with the caption, "Why is this man laughing?" |
| Jane Magazine | Jane is a magazine
created to appeal to the women who grew up reading Sassy Magazine. Sassy, created by Jane Pratt in 1987, was intended to appeal to adolescent girls, but because of its candor and coverage of topics other teen magazines didn't touch, such as the riot grrrl movement, its popularity exploded beyond its intended audience. When Sassy ended its run in 1994, readers were left heartbroken and waiting for something to take its place. In 1997, Jane Pratt's new magazine, Jane, published by the Disney-owned Fairchild Publications, hit the stands. Although Jane is often as frank as its predecessor, its ad-driven fashionista style resembles Glamour more than Sassy. |
| O,The Oprah Magazine | O, The Oprah Magazine,
sometimes simply abbreviated to O, is a
monthly magazine for
women founded by Oprah Winfrey, who also serves as its editorial
director. Winfrey and Hearst Corporation first published O in April 2000. As of June 2004, its average paid circulation was over 2.7 million copies, two thirds by subscription. A South African edition was first published in April 2002; according to the South African Advertising Research Foundation All Media and Products Survey [1], its average readership was over 300,000. The magazine is notorious for having a higher percentage of advertisements rather than content. In April 2001, Oprah Winfrey and the Hearst Corporation were sued for trademark infringement by Ronald Brockmeyer, the publisher of O Magazine, a German erotic periodical which predated Winfrey's magazine by several years. In a March 2003 decision, Judge John Koeltl dismissed the suit, citing the different content of the two magazines and the irregular puplication schedule and minimal American sales of the German magazine. |
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| ESPN Magazine 10 E.34th Street,New York,NY 10016 (212-515-1000) Website http://espn.go.com |
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| GQ Magazine 4 Times Square,New York,NY 10036 (212-286-8085) |
Gentlemen's Quarterly,
most often known simply as GQ, is a monthly
men's magazine
that focuses on men's fashion and style. It also features articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, technology, and books. It is generally perceived as more
"upscale" and "refined" than other
men's magazines, such as Maxim or FHM. This perception is due to the fact that
GQ aims towards an audience that is older and that
has a higher income than most other men's magazines. Gentlemen's Quarterly was launched in 1957 by Esquire as a fashion quarterly for Esquire readers. The magazine moved from quarterly to monthly publication in the 1970s, still concentrating on only fashion and style and attracting a primarily gay readership. In 1983 editor Art Cooper changed the course of the magazine, introducing articles beyond fashion, targeting heterosexual men and establishing GQ as a general men's magazine in competition with Esquire. As of December 31, 2003, GQ is ranked 114th in the world in circulation reaching 788,851 people (Adage.com). GQ is published by Conde Nast Publications. GQ is also a term used to describe a person, generally a male, who dresses, acts, or otherwise imitates the general qualities of a GQ model. |
| Fiesta Magazine | Fiesta
magazine is a British soft-core porn magazine established in the 1960s,
published by Galaxy Publications. It is the
"downmarket" sister publication of Knave. It is notorious for its "Readers Wives" feature, where readers send in their own amateur photographs. |
| Maxim Magazine 1040 Ave of the Americas,14th Floor,New York,NY 10018 212-302-2626 Website www.maximonline.com/index.html |
Maxim is an
international men's
magazine that is
prominent for depicting popular actresses, singers, and
other female
celebrities in sexually alluring poses, usually wearing lingerie
or other brief attire. The U.S. version of the magazine,
unlike the European versions, does not feature frontal nudity. There is some controversy as to whether
or not this should be classified as softcore
pornography. The first issue of Maxim was released in the UK in May 1995 with Lisa Snowdon on the cover. The first American issue was released on April 1, 1997 with Christa Miller as the cover model. Maxim currently has at least fifteen different versions: the UK, the US, Canada, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine and a Spanish language American edition. In the USA, Wal-Mart has decided not to carry the magazine, but has not specified its reasons. It has been widely speculated in the media that Wal-Mart's intent was to appear attractive to family customers (who might find a magazine like Maxim offensive), and/or that the Walton family (the owners of Wal-Mart) found the magazine offensive. The Hong Kong edition was launched in April 2004, published by SCMP Maxim Limited, a subsidiary of SCMP Group. With a circulation of 30,000 copies, it is the highest circulation men’s magazine in the territory. Other regular features of the magazine are short articles on subjects such as sports, movies, television, video games, cars, crime, and drinking -- subjects considered to be of interest to the magazine's primary audience of 18-35 year old males. Every issue also features extensive reviews and endorsements of new products in these fields. Maxim has a number of subsidiaries and competitors; the most notable of these are Stuff and FHM. In 2005, Maxim Radio was launched on Sirius Satellite Radio on channel 108. Maxim Mobile, a wireless version of the magazine, was launched in 2005 across cellular carriers in twenty countries in Europe and Asia. |
| Look Magazine | Look was a weekly, general-interest magazine published in the United States from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles. It was generally considered the also-ran to Life magazine. It was a large size magazine of 11 by 14 inches. |
| Playboy
Magazine Playboy Magazine Questions Contact the Playboy Advisor if you have any questions about Playboy Magazine Mark Duran 312-751-8000. www.Playboy.com find the Playboy advisor section for email questions. 680 N.Lake Shore Drive,Chicago,Ill 60611 (312-751-8000) (Playboy Store Toll Free 800-993-6338) Website www.playboy.com Website Playboy Store http://store.playboy.com |
Playboy is an
adult entertainment magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, which has grown into Playboy
Enterprises, Inc. NYSE: PLA, reaching into every form of media. Playboy
is one of the world's best known brands. In addition to the flagship magazine in
the United States, special country-specific versions of Playboy are published
worldwide. The magazine is published monthly and features photographs of nude women, along with various articles on fashion, sports, and consumer goods, and often short fiction by top literary writers as well. The magazine has been known to express liberal opinions on most major political issues. Playboy's use of "tasteful" nude photos is often classified as “soft core” adult reading material. More “hard core” pornographic magazines started to appear in the 1970s in response to the success of Playboy's more explicit rival, Penthouse. |
| Perfect 10
Magazine P.O.Box 3398,Beverly Hills,Califorina 90212 (818-732-6999) |
Perfect 10 is a quarterly-published
men's
magazine. It features Playboy-style pictures of women that have not had any cosmetic surgery. It was founded by adjunct computer
science professor Norm
Zadeh in 1997 when a stripper friend was rejected from
Playboy because her proportions didn't fit the
magazine. The magazine places special emphasis on the fact that all the models appearing in its pages are completely natural and "non-enhanced", mainly meaning that non have undergone [breast implant|breast enlargement]], but barring most other cosmetic surgeries (like tummy tucks or collagen injection), too. One notable exception is breast reduction, which isn't an impediment for a model to appear on their pages, according to their website. The photoshoots sometimes feature well known fashion models and glamour models, or even Playmates, like Marisa Miller, Irina Voronina, Michelle Marsh, or Alexandria Karlsen. However, most models are relatively unknown, or at least unknown outside the USA, like Luba Shumeyko, Jo Ellen Dickey, Veronika Zemanova, among others. A very large proportion of the models hail from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, although models from the USA, the UK, Italy, Brazil, and other countries are also featured. |
| Penthouse
Magazine 2 Penn Plaza,11th Floor,Ste 1125,New York,NY 10121 (212-702-6000) Website www.penthouse.com |
Penthouse
is a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combining urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornographic pictorials, that eventually, in the 1990s evolved into hard-core. Although Guccione was American the
magazine was founded in 1965 in the United
Kingdom but was soon
sold in the United States as well. At the height of its success
Guccione was considered to be one of the richest men in
the United States. For many years Penthouse fell somewhere in between Playboy and Hustler in terms of explicitness (and respectability). Almost from the start the pictorials showed female genitalia and pubic hair when this was still considered by many to be obscene. Simulated sex, but not penetration or male genitalia, followed, then, several years later, male genitalia, including erections, could be seen. In addition, Penthouse attempted to maintain some level of reading content, although usually of a more sexually oriented nature than Playboy’s. Probably the most famous issue of Penthouse was its September 1984 issue, which was the largest selling issue of any magazine in history. This issue featured photos of Vanessa Williams, who was the current Miss America, from early in her modeling career. Williams posed for the series of black and white photos with another female model, engaging in simulated lesbian acts. While Williams' pictures created the most publicity at the time, the issue would later become even more controversial because of its centerfold, Traci Lords. Lords posed nude for this issue at the beginning of her career as an adult film star. It would later be revealed that Lords was underage throughout most of her career in pornography and was only fifteen when she posed for Penthouse. The September 1984 issue also featured an interview with John Travolta, a feature on Boy George, and a pictorial on a pornographic actress, Hyapatia Lee. In 1998, caught between the widespread availability of pornography on the Internet and the growing popularity of non-explicit "men's magazines" like Maxim, Penthouse decided to change its format and began featuring sexually explicit pictures (ie: actual oral and vaginal penetration). It also began to regularly feature pictorials of female models urinating, which up till then had been considered a defining limit of pornography. The new format ended up losing subscriptions and newsstand circulation for the magazine. On August 12, 2003, General Media, the parent company of the magazine, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In October 2003, it was announced that Penthouse magazine was being put up for sale as part of a deal with its creditors. On October 4, 2004, General Media emerged from bankruptcy and was renamed the Penthouse Media Group. It is now owned by Marc Bell, a south Florida real-estate developer, who intends to soften the content of the magazine. |
| Spin Magazine 205 Lexington Avenue,3rd Floor,New York,NY 10016 (212-231-7400) Website www.spin.com |
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| Stuff Magazine 1040 Avenue of the Americas,New York,NY 10018 (212302-2626) |
Stuff magazine
is an international men's magazine focused on product
reviews, but also including interviews and other articles of interest to a male
dominated audience. It is the sister magazine to Maxim,
and the two share a similar mission of providing low-brow
entertainment. The products reviewed are those targeted
towards young males (18-30) such as fast cars, computers,
video games, cell phones, clothes, beer, alcohol, etc. Often Stuff attempts to attract
readers by putting scantily-clad women on the cover, a
strategy which has both served it well and garnered it a
somewhat dubious reputation. The United States version of Stuff does not contain
nudity, though the photo shoots generally try to get as
close to nudity as possible, and at some locations, such
as Wal-Mart
stores in the U.S., Stuff and its sister magazine Maxim
have been considered pornography, and therefore banned.
The interviews tend to be with famous actresses,
singers,
and models,
some of whom appear several times over the life of the
magazine. Generally, the magazine follows this format: letters to the editor are in the first few pages, followed by jokes and several product reviews (generally the things of most interest, such as the fastest cars, and the newest computers and video games). In the middle of the magazine are articles and interviews, culminating with the cover article (usually an interview with the cover model.) Last are more product reviews, this time featuring slightly more mundane things such as clothes, watches, cell phones, etc. The magazine closes with a fashion spread and a trivia page.
The editor of Stuff UK is Tom Dunmore, along with the managing editor Adam Vaughan and others. The Circulation of Stuff UK is around 75,000 copies a month, placing it as best selling gadget magazine in the UK, according to the Bureau of Circulation. |
| Sports
Illustrated Magazine 135 W.50th Street,New York,NY 10020 (212-522-3170) |
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| Time Magazine Time & Life Bldg,1271 Avenue of the Americas,New York,NY 10020 (212-522-4348) |
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| In Style
Magazine Time & Life Bldg,Rocketfeller Center,New York,NY 10020 (212-522-1212 |
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| Cosmopolitan
Magazine 4 Times Sqaure,New York,NY 10036 (212-286-2860) |
Cosmopolitan, or
simply Cosmo, is a magazine
published monthly from New York by the Hearst
Corporation. It was
founded in 1886 as
a "magazine for the whole family". The current
editor-in-chief is Kate White. Cover of March, 1894 "The Cosmopolitan" Cover of April 2005 (UK edition) "Cosmopolitan" The Russian edition of Cosmopolitan with Alsou on the cover. Through the years, Cosmopolitan magazine has been able to open versions in 32 languages, such as Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, Russian and French. It reaches readers in more than 100 countries worldwide. It was banned in Singapore until recently. In earlier incarnations, such as under John Brisben Walker from 1889 to 1905, it was one of America's leading markets for fiction, and for a briefer period was known for important investigative journalism. Circulation had been in decline for years, until Helen Gurley Brown became chief editor in 1965, and remodeled the magazine. Cosmopolitan became a women's magazine complete with a sexy cover shot every month of a woman (usually) in a low cut dress or bikini. In recent years the magazine, and in particular, its cover stories, have become more sexually explicit in tone. Cosmopolitan in the UK started in the early 1970s. It was well known for its sexual explictness, especially with strong sexual language, male nudity (although not showing the genitals, or it would be considered pornographic) and sexual themes such as rape. More recently they have designed a spinoff magazine, CosmoGirl, targeting a young female audience. |
| Self Magazine | |
| Vogue Magazine | Vogue is a fashion
and lifestyle magazine published in several countries under
several names. It is widely considered the most
influential fashion magazine in the world. Competitors
include W, Harper's
Bazaar, and ELLE. Vogue is published by Conde Nast Publications, Inc. The world headquarters of Vogue
is in New York
City. Various editions of Vogue are published throughout the world. Particularly significant are the editions in the major fashion-exporting countries, such as Italy, Britain, the United States and France. An edition for China was announced in 2005. The current editor-in-chief of the American edition of Vogue is Anna Wintour, famous for her perfect bob and her habit of wearing sunglasses indoors. Famous past editors include Diana Vreeland and Millicent Fenwick, who would go on to become a U.S. Representative for New Jersey. |
| Vanity Fair Magazine | |
| Glamour Magazine | Glamour Magazine is a monthly women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Founded in 1939, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood. It reaches a subscription audience of 1,411,061 readers in the United States. It's circulation on newstands is 986,447, making the total average paid circulation: 2,397,508. The magazine targets women 18-49 with the median age of 33.5. Its current editor-in-chief is Cynthia Leive. |
| UsWeekly | Us Weekly is a magazine with photos and articles focusing on celebrity style, weddings, fashion, gossip, etc. It is published in the United States and targets young female buyers. A new issue is published every Friday. Its competitors include In Touch and Life and Style magazine. |
| People &
Teen People Magazines Time & Life Bldg,1271 Ave of the Americas,New York,NY 10020 (People 212-522-1212) (Teen People 212-522-0038) |
People, a weekly American
magazine
of celebrity
and popular
culture news, debuted in
1974.
The first issue, dated March 4 of that year, featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby, on the cover. People is perhaps
best known for its yearly special issues naming "The
50 Most Beautiful People," "The Best and Worst
Dressed," and "The Sexiest Man Alive." The
magazine is published by Time, Inc., a division of Time Warner. A version targeted at teens is called "Teen People." In Australia, the localised version of People is known as Who in order to avoid confusion with an adult publication of the same name. An unrelated British magazine titled People Magazine has also been published. |
| Harper's
Bazaar Magazine Harper's Bazaar is a world-renowne 1700 Broadway,3rd Floor,New York,Ny 10019 (212-903-5370) |
Harper's Bazaar
is a world-renowned fashion magazine. Since its debut in 1867 as America's first fashion magazine, the pages of Harper's Bazaar have been home to extraordinary talents, including legendary fashion editors such as Carmel Snow, Carrie Donovan, Liz Tilberis, Alexey Brodovich and brilliant photography from Man Ray, Richard Avedon, Inez Van Lamsweerde and Patrick Demarchelier. Harper's Bazaar considers itself to be the style resource for "the well-dressed woman and the well-dressed mind". Each and every month, Bazaar assembles premier photographers, artists, designers and writers to deliver a sophisticated perspective into the world of fashion, beauty and popular culture. In addition to the United States, Bazaar is published in 18 countries, including Australia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Lithuania, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. |
| Private Magazine | Private Media
Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRVT) is a pornography company operating worldwide. Private magazine was established in Stockholm, Sweden in 1965 as the world's first full-color hardcore sex magazine by Berth Milton Sr. In the early 1990s, his son Berth Milton Jr. took over the company. Milton Jr. moved the company to Barcelona, Spain and modernized it with video and Internet content. In 1999, Private became the first adult entertainment company to be traded on the NASDAQ stock market. Since Private Magazine's launch in 1965, Private Media Group has released three more adult entertainment magazines: Sex, Triple X and Pirate, the latter focusing on fetish and S/M porn. In the last decades, Private Media Group has become one of the leading companies in adult entertainment worldwide, with over 200 adult industry awards. Bestselling DVD releases include the Private Gladiator series, Cleopatra, and Millionaire. |
| The Chap Magazine | The Chap is a British quarterly magazine and related books
edited by Gustav Temple, proposing a return to a
dandified way of life, involving tweed,
pipe smoking, opium,
and finely pressed trousers. The magazine has featured such
noted Chaps and Chapettes as John
Cooper Clarke, Leslie Phillips and Miss Martindale. The "Chappists" propose a revolution based not on violence or bomb-throwing, but on dressing and behaving very nicely indeed. They combine decadence with activism and have organised protests against modern art installations and vulgar corporations such as Gap, Starbucks and Nike. It could be argued that while Chappism is certainly sincere in its appreciation of British culture and its love of tradition it is none the less firmly rooted in the Situationist strand of anarchism with more than the occasional nod to Dada. |
| Escort magazine | Escort
is a British men's magazine, or soft porn magazine, which falls under the
description of pornography, or erotica. By 2004, Escort was in its 22nd year, or volume. The content is a combination of photographs and text, with the photographs almost entirely being those of partially nude, usually completely nude females. They are photographed in an "American" style, in that their entire body is exposed, genitalia included, also they frequently open their vaginal lips (or labia) to provide a more detailed view of their genital area. Escort specialises in pictures of amateur females, and reader's wives (i.e. non-professional models) as a more realistic alternative to the glamorous professional look portrayed by American titles like Playboy and Penthouse, and fellow British titles like Mayfair. Escort is published by the Paul Raymond Publications company, which also releases six other similar titles each month, Club International, Just Girls, Mayfair, Men Only, Men's World, and Razzle. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escort_%28magazine%29" |
| Redbook Magazine | Redbook
is a magazine designed to provide humor and some
informational tidbits for a primarily female audience.
The magazine usually features stories about women dealing
with modern hardships, aspiring for intellectual growth,
and encouraging other women to work together for
humanitarian causes. Critics of the magazine feel that the magazine is
contradictory and sometimes doesn't cover relevant
aspects of a controversial issue. The magazine has also been lampooned by comedians for some its self-proclaimed "intellectual" information. The most well-known example is featured in the episode "Death of a Propane Salesman" of King of the Hill. In the episode, Peggy Hill attempts to comfort Luanne Platter by lending a sympathetic ear. During their conversation, Peggy Hill says "Redbook says that losing a boyfriend is the fourth most painful loss, right between grandmother and penis." Fans of the magazine claimed that the aforementioned list was an ironic joke where frivolous information was labelled as "intellectual". The magazine features successful women such as Christa Miller to provide inspirational testimonies and advice on life. |
| ELLE Magazine 1633 Broasway,New York,NY 10019 (212-767-5800) |
ELLE is a famous,
worldwide magazine that focuses on women's fashion, beauty,
health, and entertainment. It is owned by the Lagardère Group of France and it is published in the US by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. and in Argentina by Grupo Clarín. The first UK edition was published in November 1985. Elle magazine also hosts an annual Elle style awards ceremony. The winners are published in the magazine. |
| W Magazine 7 W.3rd Street,New York,NY 10001 (212-630-4900) |
W is a monthly American
fashion magazine.
Considered one of the most fashionable monthly
publications, W is filled with ads for high
fashion houses and rivals Vogue and Vanity Fair for sophistication and style. Many draw
comparisons between its delightful, self-aware elitism
and that of The New
Yorker. This enormous magazine–it is nine inches wide and thirteen inches tall–can be difficult to find, especially outside of the most major American cities. One can credit this with its narrow haute couture appeal; many W devotees were outraged when Lindsay Lohan was featured on the April 2005 cover. Even more recently, W was chosen to produce and exhibit a 60-page Stephen Klein portfolio of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt entitled "Domestic Bliss". The shoot was based upon Pitt's idea of the irony of the perfect American family; set in 1963, the photographs mirror the era when 1960s disillusionment was boiling under the facade of pristine 1950s suburbia. W is published by Fairchild Publications Inc. Patrick McCarthy is its chairman and editorial director. |
| Ralph Magazine | Ralph is
an Australian men's magazine, published on a monthly basis. It is produced
by ACP Publishing, a division of Publishing and Broadcasting
Limited. It was
first published in August 1997. Ralph is known as a lads magazine, in the vein of other magazines such as Maxim and Loaded. Like its rival FHM, it publishes photos of models and celebrities in revealing attire (e.g. lingerie and bikinis), without revealing their entire body. This allows for the magazine to be sold in the lifestyle sections of newsagencies, and in other retailers such as department stores and supermarkets. Ralph features photo shoots of Australian celebrities as well as international stars. Often the international photos are brought in from magazines such as Maxim. The magazine is often cross-promoted on other ACP and PBL properties, such as promotional parties held in conjunction with Cosmopolitan, and as a sponsor of home viewer competitions during the Nine Network's rugby league coverage. It has recently begun tie-ins with MSN Messenger, offering free custom logos and backgrounds using images from the magazine, In its early years, the magazine ran a feature called "Anna Watch", dedicated to photo shots of Anna Kournikova, often in upskirt situations (e.g. during a tennis match). Also during this time, Ralph also had an obsession with penguins, but over time, the magazine moved on to other obessions, including kebabs. It also contains the same kinds of articles published in similar titles, and runs its own poll to find the "world's sexiest woman". The results are published in an attachment to the regular magazine each year. Unlike FHM, it features 200 women instead of FHM's 100, but Ralph's polling only takes in Australia and New Zealand (where a separate edition is produced), whereas FHM's poll is worldwide. Ralph and FHM are locked in a battle to be the number one men's magazine in Australia, with only a few thousand in magazine sales separating the two. |
| Reader's Digest Magazine | Reader's Digest
is a general interest family magazine published monthly by The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.. As of 2004, the U.S. edition of Reader's Digest
prints 12.5 million copies and reaches 44 million readers
each month. Although its circulation has declined in
recent years, the Audit Bureau of Circulations says Reader's Digest is
the best-selling general magazine in the United States,
exceeded only by the membership publications of AARP. Reader's Digest is known for presenting a consistent view of the world that is politically conservative, upbeat, and pro-American. It is also published in a large-type edition called Reader's Digest Large Type, a Canadian edition, and in a Spanish language edition called Selecciones. |
| Razzle Magazine | Razzle
is a British soft
porn magazine, founded in 1983,
which currently focuses on amateur style pornography,
offering cash for any photos of "readers wives"
printed. In the past, however, several notable glamour
models were featured, including minor celebrity Joanne Guest. It also includes the
traditional "True" stories. Unlike most of its contemporaries, Razzle gains a fair bit of mainstream attention, having been mentioned on numerous British comedy programmes, including Meet Ricky Gervais, and in an episode of Absolutely Fabulous where it is implied that Patsy once posed for the magazine. There is even a song about the magazine, by Ian Dury and The Blockheads, entitled "Razzle in my Pocket" Despite the market for softcore pornography decreasing in the UK, presumably due to a combination of the internet, and more extreme material being available, Razzle is still successful, having launched some spin off titles including "Razzle Extreme", "The Best of Razzle" and "Razzle Readers Wives". Razzle is published by Paul Raymond, whose other publications include Club International, Escort, Just Girls, Mayfair, Men Only and Men's World. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razzle_%28magazine%29" |
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