Marueen Dowd's column is great, form fitting, and illuminating. She clearly excells in writing for America's number one insider magazine: Vanity Fair. Please consider this a public appeal from one concerned hoi polloi to have her contribute monthly to this magazine and not to the newspaper I try hard to admire.
Her article is long and wafty, which is perfect for Vanity Fair. Their articles snake through 150 pages of glossy, engaging the reader to flip through countless ads.
If you do not have time to read it (an hour, at my limited reading level), here are many of the Vanity Fair forms that Maureen Dowd successfully (naturally) shows:
- Fashion, fashion! Expensive, of course, and both known and lesser-known designers.
-Old movie stuff that artsy people love: Marlene Dietrich, Fellini
-the looks, the looks! Tons of stuff to make Tina Fey's verbal look book (hint, she's not a fashionista, and boy do we learn that)
-sexy details about the past
-vulgar quotes
-adoration! adoration!
-how tall Tina Fey's husband is to the 1/2 inch
-using a phrase like glamour-puss
-Tina Fey's weight issues
-Tina Fey's ethnic heritage
-known lit references: Daisy Buchanan Great Gatsby
This is Vanity Fair. This is people in-the-know that you-don't(won't)-know talking way off the cuff about those we, "the collective consciousness," know. First, it's vibrant reading. Bore yourself to death with Time, Newsweek, and the Economist, the people quoted in these articles are too important to care about damaging quote regurgitation. Second, it's Vanity Fair, which has it's own in-crowd of people who gobble this stuff up. They give their people what they want, hat's off to them. Other publications are not so successful.
Maureen Dowd is an insider: who she knows, what they wear, what they'd like to wear, and where they wear it. This magazine needs to accept her into the fold. I mean, she may not bleed blue blood, but can't Vanity Fair make an exception?
Please?
Please?
What about me, can I get a table? I'll buy a mixed drink with my dinner, I promise!
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2 comments:
Hilar, Wellsmus.
I will sign your petition. MOVE DOWD TO VANITY FAIR NOW!
Yes, you feel me! I'm all for positivity! Clearly, these op-ed columns are choking her off. She doesn't have enough inches to list all the fashion labels people are wearing and to do the calorie counts.
Seven for all Mankind, Ermenegildo Zegna... you can't say those in less words.
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