January 1994 cover

Spy magazine was a satirical monthly founded in 1986 by Kurt Andersen and E. Graydon Carter, who served as its first editors, and Thomas L. Phillips, Jr., its first publisher. After one folding and rebirth, it ceased publication in 1998. Spy was named after the fictitious magazine which employed Jimmy Stewart's character, Macaulay "Mike" Connor, in the movie The Philadelphia Story. Image File history File links SpyCoverJan1994. ... Image File history File links SpyCoverJan1994. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kurt Andersen Kurt Andersen (born 1954- in Omaha, Nebraska), co-founded Spy magazine with E. Graydon Carter. ... Edward Graydon Carter is the editor of Vanity Fair. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Jimmy Stewart, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American film actor beloved for his persona as an average guy who faces adversity and tries to do the right thing, an image which was largely reflected in his own... The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 romantic screwball comedy starring Jimmy Stewart, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. ...

Primarily a magazine of satirical journalism and humor, but also featuring some more serious investigative journalism, the New York-based Spy traced its influences to “H.L. Mencken and A.J Liebling and Wolcott Gibbs from the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s; parody-Time-ese of the ’40s and ’50s; New Journalism of the ’60s and ’70s; Private Eye, the scabrous (and much jokier) British fortnightly; and the ways we just happened to write,” as Andersen and Carter would later write in Spy: The Funny Years. It specialized in intelligent, thoroughly researched, irreverent pieces targeting the American media and entertainment industries. Some of its features attempted to present the darker side of celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger (printing a nude photo of him and a picture of his father's Nazi party membership card), John F. Kennedy, Jr., Martha Stewart, and especially the real-estate tycoon Donald Trump and his then-wife Ivana Trump. The mogul was repeatedly described as a "short-fingered vulgarian," and such pejorative epithets became a Spy trademark. New York Times op-ed columnist A.M. Rosenthal became Abe "I'm Writing as Bad As I Can" Rosenthal, and his wife Shirley Lord was dubbed a "bosomy dirty-book writer." Media mogul Laurence Tisch was invariably described as a "churlish dwarf billionaire." Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Private eye may mean: Look up Private eye on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Private Eye a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop (as of 2005) A private investigator, a private detective for hire (see also crime fiction and detective fiction) Private Eye, a song by Alkaline Trio... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): ) (born on July 30, 1947, in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor and Republican politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. ... The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: , or NSDAP), generally known in English as the Nazi Party, was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. ... Martha Stewart (born August 3, 1941) is an American business magnate, author, editor, former stock broker and model, convicted criminal and homemaking advocate. ... Donald John Trump, (born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York) is an American business executive, entrepreneur and author. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Laurence Alan Tisch (born March 5, 1923, died November 15, 2003) was a Wall Street investor and self-made billionaire. ... This page is about the legendary race, for the medical condition see dwarfism, and for other meanings see Dwarf (disambiguation). ...

Spy’s popular features included "Separated At Birth?" (side-by-side photographs of two different celebrities, similar to Private Eye's "Lookalikes") and "Celebrity Math," which presented thumbnail headshots atop simple mathematical models representing the components of celebrities (e.g. Fabio - Catherine Deneuve = Billy Ray Cyrus). Comanche, a romance novel written by Fabio, featuring a centrefold Fabio Lanzoni (born March 15, 1959 in Milan, Italy), widely known simply as Fabio is a male fashion model who has appeared on the cover of hundreds of romance novels throughout the 1980s and 90s. ... Catherine Deneuve at Cannes in 2000. ... Billy Ray Cyrus (born August 25, 1961 in Flatwoods, Kentucky) is an American actor and country singer, who is probably best known for his hit single Achy Breaky Heart (1992) and distinctive mullet. ...

Despite its relatively short life, Spy was among the most influential of American magazines, chiefly for its detached and ironic tone, its use of quasi-scientific charts and tables to convey information, and its elaborate, classically influenced typography and layout. The magazine was also divisive: Many established journalists considered it abrasive and tawdry, whereas many younger ones felt it precisely reflected their worldview.

Spy briefly broke even in 1989, but was ultimately not successful as a business, particularly after a recession affected the U.S. economy beginning in the early 1990s. The founders sold the magazine to European buyers in 1991; several months later Carter left the magazine; Andersen departed 18 months later, replaced by Tony Hendra. The magazine briefly ceased publication in 1994, was revived soon after under new ownership, and finally went out of business in 1998. Its last editor was a recent Harvard graduate, Bruno Maddox. A recession is usually defined in macroeconomics as a fall of a countrys real Gross Domestic Product in two or more successive quarters of a year. ... Tony Hendra (born 1941) is an English satirist and writer, who has worked mostly in the United States. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

For a humorous magazine, Spy was often aggressive about straight feature reporting. In the summer of 1992 it ran the only serious investigative story on President George H.W. Bush's alleged extramarital affairs with Jennifer Fitzgerald and other women. The following year, Spy ran an article entitled "Clinton's First 100 Lies," detailing what it described as the new president's pattern of duplicitous behavior. After O.J. Simpson was acquitted on charges of murdering his former wife and her friend, Spy ran a cover story under the headline "He's Guilty, By George!" presenting a long list of details that its writers said proved conclusively that Simpson was the killer; he did not sue. The cover illustration parodied that of the much-hyped premiere issue of George magazine, with Simpson standing in for Cindy Crawford. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Order: 41st President Vice President: Dan Quayle Term of office: January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 Preceded by: Ronald Reagan Succeeded by: Bill Clinton Date of birth: June 12, 1924 Place of birth: Milton, Massachusetts First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush Political party: Republican George Herbert Walker Bush, KBE (born... An affair is usually a euphemism for a situation where two people are involved in an illicit activity. ... Jennifer Fitzgerald, born Jennifer Ann Isobel Patteson-Knight (in 1932), is a retired U.S. diplomat who allegedly had a long-term affair with President George H.W. Bush from the time he was United States ambassador to China which continued while he was Vice President and then President. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947, San Francisco, California), publicly known by his initials as O.J., and nicknamed The Juice, is an American former college and professional football player and film actor. ... Cover of innaugural issue of George George was a glossy politics-as-lifestyle monthly magazine founded by John F. Kennedy, Jr. ... Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966, in Dekalb, Illinois) is an American supermodel, MTV television personality, celebrity endorser, cover girl, and actress. ...

The infamous nude shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger

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In October 2006, Miramax Books published SPY: The Funny Years (ISBN 1-4013-5239-1), a greatest-hits anthology and history of the magazine created and compiled by Carter, Andersen and one of their original editors, George Kalogerakis.

• "Spy Magazine"is also a still existing Australian magazine that is published for religious investigators. Its founder is the Rev Rayburn Cameron Smith (PRI), master spy and an author of adventure stories. The foundation has its headquarters in Launceston, Tasmania. An online edition of the magazine is made available by Dr. B.A.Zuiddam (PRI).

Books

• Separated at Birth? (1988, ISBN 0-385-24744-3): A collection of photos from "Separated at Birth?"
• Spy Magazine Presents The Warhol Diaries Index (1989)
• Private Lives of Public Figures (Drew Friedman, cartoons from Spy, 1990)
• Spy Notes on McInerney's "Bright Lights, Big City/Janowitz's "Slaves of New York"/Ellis's "Less Than Zero" and All Those Other Hip Urban Novels of the 1980s (1989, ISBN 0-385-24745-1): A Cliffs Notes-style look at the literature of the eighties
• Separated at Birth? 2: The Saga Continues (1990, ISBN 0-385-41099-9)
• Spy High (1992)
• George Kalogerakis, Kurt Andersen, and Graydon Carter, Spy: The Funny Years (2006, ISBN 1-4013-5239-1)

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CDs

• Spy Magazine Presents: Spy Music (Vol I)
• Spy Magazine Presents: White Men Can't Wrap (Vol II)
• Spy Magazine Presents: Soft, Safe & Sanitized (Vol III)

External links

• "Spy Magazine"
• "Ten Years Ago in Spy"

• Metropolis Magazine, April 2006, "Spy Magazine- 1986: Years after its demise the legendary magazine continues to exert a cultural influence"