Not every story has a life, though....
Written: Feb 16 '00
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Pros: It's cheap, glossy, and mindless
Cons: So was my first wife.
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| deaconb's Full Review: Biography Magazine |
The advertising for BIOgraphy magazine makes you think that it will be like the series on the A&E Network. You know, stories of people who have generally sustained some measure of accomplishment over a period of a decade or more.
It would be uncharitable to say "Every life has a story? John Travolta has two lives, then" and that the magazine seems to have a fixation on followers of scientology and members of PeTA. And it must be sad to think that one's life can be summed up while you are in your 20s, with your only accomplishment the shedding of clothing on camera from your morbidly-thin body.
So let's examine the issue you see pictured on this site. Count the number of people who are *not* involved with the entertainment industry, and who have lived long enough to *have* a story to tell:
The cover story is "The Brilliance of Jodie Foster" Yep, she's going to win the Nobel Prize for physics one of these days. They quote her on the contents page. "I think becoming a mother is the most significant thing I've done." But do you really think the ability to carry a child to term is why she landed on the cover of BIOgraphy? Or did it have more to do with John Hinckley, or the picture of Jodie in a bustier, garter belt and nylons?
In that particular issue, the features are "Parties to Remember" (every party has a story?), "Never Say Diet" (although most of the women in BIOgraphy magazine seem to be size 5 or smaller), Natalie Portman (age 18), Craig Kielburger (age 16), "Letters of the Century" (every piece of paper has a story?), Dennis Quaid (actor), Elizabeth Dole, Robert Easton (speech therapist for stars), Vivian Leigh (actress), Salvatore Ferragamo (shoemaker to the stars), Nancy Segal (who studied twins). and Max McCalman (cheesemaster to the stars).
Minor treatments go to Grace Kelly, Grace Jones, Gracie Allen, Chris O'Donnell, Debra Messing, Judi Dench, Carol Burnett, Fatty Arbuckle, Patty Duke, George Lazenby, Shirley Jones, the Leave It To Beaver kid stars, Kim Basinger, Roger Ebert, Louis Armstrong.
There are lots of pretty pictures and stories that won't make you think very hard - and the price of the magazine is rather low.
But if your house doesn't have wheels on the bottom, you might well be disappointed.
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