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Daria Takes Aim At Jane Magazine
It sucks big time that Daria isn't available on DVD (only the two made-for-TV movies are). Apparently, it has something to do with music licensing problems. But there are some bootleg torrents available online, and we recently watched some episodes from the third season. One that totally escaped us at the time (we don't know how) is the episode based on Jane magazine, fictionalized as Val. Editor-in-chief Val visits Lawndale and goes undercover as a student to follow Daria around for the day for an expose she was working on about "cool, smart" teens. Jane Pratt must've rubbed some people at MTV the wrong way at some point because the thinly veiled portrayal—with constant references to Val's friend Drew—is kinda vicious. Clip above.
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By TracieComment by vadger1: Daria might come out on DVD soon -- Amazon has it on pre-order but who knows what that means exactly. There... more » | Other threads
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jane pratt
So much nineties today! The latest Page Six Magazine profiles Jane Pratt, a legendary magazine editor whose "unique personality" it describes in a phrase demonstrative of why Page Six Magazine is the only good thing about Sundays, as "a mix of Peter Pan, Carrie Bradshaw and Simone de Beauvoir." She's still not really doing much/oh yeah except that Sirius radio show no one listens to/trying to blame Brandon Holley for ruining Jane even though, hello. But she's gotten less obnoxious, except for in a quote I'm putting after the tag because I refuse to fucking get drawn into this Lori Gottlieb crap on the home page one more time. More » -
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By TracieComment by FashionistaFanatic: and....I love this show. It should be picked up by MTV.....Laurie would totally be the new LC. more » | Other threads
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omg affirmation!
The Defendant Will Plead Not Guilty To Negligent Homicide Of 'Jane'
The esteemed writers of the Sassy book have finally eulogized, all gravitas-y and "dying publications are like leaking balloons" and shit, the magazine we once called Jane. Marisa Meltzer and Kara Jesella subscribe, as a lot of Janeeologists have, to the notion that Jane was the casualty of readers' love-hate relationship with it, which we don't really get because, duh, love-hate relationships are sort of the engine of late capitalism. (Or wait, are we the only ones conflicted about refreshing TMZ 69 times a day?) Anyhow, then we came upon this.The sassy youthful readers Jane meant to address are still out there. Some have gravitated to blogs like Feministing and Jezebel...
Wait, Jezebel=us, right? Are we even six weeks old yet? We are so flattered! But we totes do not deserve credit for putting Jane out of its er, sorta fun brand of misery! The credit is allllllll Conde Nast's. More »
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By MoeComment by Snakeophelia: I sell Avon cosmetics, which (as some of you may know) has a subsidiary called Mark that targets teenagers (both... more » | Other threads
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r.i.p. jane
'Jane''s Fate Was Written All Over That Shitty Pizza
So what's become of that subscription offer on the Jane website now that Jane is officially dead? An invitation to subscribe to Glamour, a "dorky" reader tips us. How dorky?I am dorky enough to have gone to one of the "dinners with Jane!" things at their offices just when Brandon [Holley] took over.
Oooh, tell us more! Well for starters, the food was not exactly awesome.. More »
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By MoeComment by thearchnoises: I got invited to one of these dinners on July 2. I said no because I cancelled my subscription... more » | Other threads
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prattitude
Jane Pratt Could Maybe Use Some Of Those Drugs Her Baby Went On
Jane Pratt just won't shut up about how actually she really hated Jane after Conde Nast ousted her ass. In fact, she wonders why the whole world didn't just come to a screeching halt the day she left! "I have some questions why they stayed after it became crappy," she said on her ragingly popular satellite radio show of former staffers. Maybe because they had a new boss who actually came to work and was really nice? But she was its MOMMY.I feel like I abandoned that baby and it went off and got on drugs or something.
Um, we just fact-checked this analogy to someone who used to work with Ms. Pratt, who says it almost holds up with some mild tweaks: "It was actually sort of like a baby who could have recovered from its mild case of fetal alcohol syndrome with regular feedings but mommy was an absentee fame whore who eventually got a visit from child-protective services." More » -
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'Jane' Magazine Gets Jettisoned: The Meaningless Memos
The internal memo about the demise of Jane Magazine is making the rounds, and we've got a copy. The summary: It was a difficult decision to shut down the magazine, and Conde Nast President/CEO Charles H. Townsend says that his company has come to believe "that the magazine and the website will not fulfill our long-term business expectations." Blah, blah, blah. Translation: "We wasted too much fucking money on Portfolio." Townsend's memo, and a press release, after the jump.
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Moe's Date With 'Jane' Magazine's Virginal Dating Blogger Sarah DiMuro
Last Thursday I had a date with Sarah DiMuro, the 30 year old virgin-on-hiatus from her role as the Jane Magazine 30 year old virgin. We didn't have sex, though she gave me a hug (I think I initiated it) but she's not the kind of girl you really want to hug, not because she isn't warm and genuine, but because she's really fucking skinny — like, sub-100 pounds skinny, and I didn't want to break her with any help from my tremendous heft. Of course, she's also one of those skinny people who will make the flagrantly-false statement "But I'm the same size as you you!", which is the sort of assertion so absurd that anorexics know not to make it. So I'm going with "naturally thin." More »
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By AnnaComment by TheFormerJuneBronson: My husband: "Her mouth takes up too much of her head. It would be like screwing Guy Smiley." I was glad... more » | Other threads
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end of days
"Jane" Editor To Cut Her Hair Short, Start Nagging
- Jane Magazine's Brandon Holley got hitched. Like two weeks ago! [Gawker]
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By AnnaComment by BreeKilledGeorge: VM's cancelation is more like euthanasia. And this is coming from a hardcore Season 1 and 2 fan. ... more » | Other threads
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avril lavigne
Anatomy Of A Celebrity Maturation: Avril Lavigne Grows Up, Buys More, Sounds The Same
If there is one thing we are more soooooo sick of than Avril Lavigne giving interviews about how she is soooooo sick of everyone talking about how she is this, like, tomboy in Chuck Taylors and suspenders because she is suuuuuch a feminine grown-up now (and p.s. Mark Jacobs and Proenza whatever and every other cool designer pls send her stuff she is a perfect sample size!!! maybe skinnier!!!) it is probably Gwen Stefani giving interviews to the same effect. Because, like, aren't there enough makeover shows in the world already that we don't need our manufactured pop idols spending valuable studio time disseminating the important message that "maturity" actually equates to "buying clothes you can't afford"?? More »
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By MoeComment by miss_maggie: What perplexes me is the general media's inability to see through Avril's carefully-constructed faux-punk; the girl is as pre-fab as... more » | Other threads
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jane magazine
Brandon Holley's Apparently Controversial April Editor's Letter
Brandon Holley's April editor's letter in Jane is getting lots of play online today. WWD reports on changes to the magazine trumpeted in Holley's latest reader-directed missive, the reasons for Jane's falling newsstand stales last year (Holley says its due to magazine's price-raise from $1.99 to $2.99), and Holley's defense of the magazine's heightened focus on celebrity. More » -
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Jane Magazine: Sneaky, But Not That Sneaky
Jane Magazine's website has a mildly-interesting but potentially-fun feature called "Rate My Outfit", in which regular women are asked to submit photos of themselves for visitors to vote on. More » -
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Jane Magazine Wants Your Help.
It's tough running a magazine, you know, and it appears the strain of it all is getting to Jane Magazine's Brandon Holley. More » -
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Who needs condoms?
Poor Brandon Holley. Having given astoundingly unfunny 'comic' Sarah DiMuro a whole three months in which to lose her virginity and win a book deal after blogging her efforts, the Jane Magazine editor finds herself saddled with someone who couldn't apparently lose her virginity if she laid naked on the cobbles of the Meatpacking district on a Friday night. Worse still, DiMuro is strictly of the 'I had a grilled cheese sandwhich for lunch and gee I hate my mom' species of blogger. Witness: More » -
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What a girl wants. Not.
There's a certain type of male journalist who makes his living writing for women's magazines about how crap men are. More » -
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Taking the piss?
And speaking of Jane, new editor Brandon Holley startlingly admits to her fetish in this month's readers letter: More »
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