
The Vanity Fair Diaries
1983-1992
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Tina Brown
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Tina Brown
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Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.
The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in New York City with a dream. Summoned from London in hopes that she can save Condé Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is immediately plunged into the maelstrom of the competitive New York media world and the backstabbing rivalries at the court of the planet's slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company. She survives the politics, the intrigue, and the attempts to derail her by a simple stratagem: succeeding. In the face of rampant skepticism, she triumphantly reinvents a failing magazine.
Here are the inside stories of Vanity Fair scoops and covers that sold millions—the Reagan kiss, the meltdown of Princess Diana's marriage to Prince Charles, the sensational Annie Leibovitz cover of a gloriously pregnant, naked Demi Moore. In this cinematic audiobook, the drama, the comedy, and the struggle of running an "it" magazine come to life. Brown's Vanity Fair Diaries is also a woman's journey, of making a home in a new country and of the deep bonds with her husband, their prematurely born son, and their daughter.
Astute, open-hearted, often riotously funny, Tina Brown's The Vanity Fair Diaries is a compulsively fascinating and intimate chronicle of a woman's life in a glittering era.
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I loved being in NYC with her during this oh so interesting time while she is woman, wife, mommy, boss, friend, cultivator of talent, taste maker, strategist, fingers crossed leaper & more.
A long visit with a delightful, powerful friend
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Engaging
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Ok story but frenetic pace
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loved it!
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..a combo of high intelligence, great literary style, and spot-on observations.
Delicious!! Erudite, smart, wonderfully gossipy!
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You will laugh out loud at all the snarky remarks from the society set. She shined as a tough woman in a very tough business. I think Tina Brown had lunch or dinner with every superstar on the planet - Presidents, A - list movie stars, CEO of business, brilliant writers,artists , couture designers , creative directors , billionaires and Royalty! America, London , France,Spain & Germany It s delicious fun to listen to her tell us all about it
Her chapters on her very loving marriage to her brilliant husband Harry Evans and their babies are touching and at times heart wrenching. As well her closeness with her loving, also brilliant parents.
As a woman the same age as Ms Brown I always loved magazines and followed Browns career. I remember every one of the
VF issues and covers. So much fun to hear about the making of them ! Her instincts for what public wanted to read about were genius. Ms Brown is a tough boss but rewarded loyalty and made so many superstars in her watch.
She did an amazing job at VF i applaud her wonderful book!
Ms. Brown does talk very fast on this audio book , but that is her and luckily you can always rewind to hear a fabulous , juicy line again !! Will miss her voice in my car !
Loved it ! A Fabulous book!
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Fast Talker
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Fantastic pace and wonderful stories
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The process of turning around VF and editing the different issues was what I enjoyed most about the book. Useful for anyone that needs to edit content for a living.
The Epilogue was great.
Editor-in-Chief Forgot to Cut Words
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