Shame, shame, shame
Sunday, January 22, 2006
In a moment of madness a few months ago, I signed up for a six-months subscription to Vanity Fair Magazine. During the 1920s and '30s, it had been a lavish and smart (not to say smart-alecky) periodical that monthly erupted in a surge of photos and witty stories of Hollywood glamour girls, Broadway and political notables, and inside stories of all the celebrities (before the age of huge celebrities had officially begun) those particular decades had set before the American reading public.