Dish by Jeannette Walls

Author:Jeannette Walls
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780062031303
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2000-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

* Some of the criticism may have been fueled by jealousy. Jane Amsterdam, editor of the then-hot Manhattan inc. considered Brown a rival. Amsterdam was married to Jon Larsen, the editor of the Village Voice and a good friend of Harold Evans and Brown, but according to one Manhattan inc. source, Amsterdam was regularly on the phone with Sally Quinn, making jokes about Brown and unkind references to her “udders.”

* Although this tidbit is repeatedly mentioned in profiles of Brown, an article in the Sunday Times Magazine of London quoted Brown’s classmates who adamantly insisted that she was, in fact, eighteen when she went to Oxford. “I put the point to Tina Brown,” wrote Georgina Howell, “who conceded, ‘Well, I might have been just seventeen.’ ”

* Brown was third runner-up in the Miss Holiday Princess contest.

* The comparisons, however, are inevitable, including how Quinn also seduced her married boss with passionate letters. Brown made the comment after her infamous falling out with Quinn. Vanity Fair called Quinn’s novel Regrets Only “cliterature” and “a one-pound beach cutting-board and sun-tan lotion absorber.” Quinn disinvited Brown and Evans from Bradlee’s sixty-fifth birthday party. “As a professional journalist who specializes in hatchet jobs in the Washington Post,” Brown said, “I don’t think she should complain.” Replied Quinn, “Tina’s desperate for success and nothing matters to her except her magazine.” The two have supposedly reconciled, but Quinn maintained that she should have at least been warned about the seemingly unprovoked attack. According to a friend of Brown, it was not unprovoked and in fact was payback for a scathing review of Vanity Fair that ran in the Washington Post in the early days of the magazine—when Brown desperately needed good press. “It is one thing to make fun of soigné fatuities,” Curt Suplee wrote. “It is quite another to wallow in them. And the sheer bulk of banality in much of this magazine suggests not ridicule of vanity, but the glad embracing of it.”

* Evans sued the magazine at least three times, and in 1983, Evans’s lawyers demanded that the magazine stop writing about him and Brown for at least eighteen months: “We hereby give our solemn pledge that we will never, hereafter, in any circumstances, make any references whatsoever to these two clapped-out old has-beens,” the magazine announced. “Frankly, who wants to hear about them ever again?”

* Not long after the Reagans were no longer in power, Brown assigned a hatchet job on them.

* In 1983, when the Reagan camp was worried that the President’s age and health might become an issue in his reelection, political adviser Ed Rollins approached Si Newhouse’s buddy Roy Cohn for help. “I can give you anything the Newhouse papers have,” Cohn told Rollins. The resulting December 4 cover of Newhouse’s Parade magazine, “How to Stay Fit” by Ronald Reagan, effectively quieted the concerns about Reagan’s health.

† Buckley was so tight with the Reagans that he is said to have pulled strings to help Ron Reagan Jr. get into Yale.

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