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The Vanity Fair Diaries: My Ride Through the Cash, Flash, and Trash of the 1980s by Tina Brown
2 reviews
oknora's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
wildly fascinating!!! just beyond fun to barrel through all these stories of new york in the 80s through tina brown's british outsider perspective and with the inside view of the people who were the real tastemakers and who had their fingers on the cultural pulse during that decade. tina is really analyzing that history as she's living it, like in this one section talking about a party in 1988 where she proclaims that this party post-stock market crash where wall street types are intermingling with new artistic types is the last night of the 80s, and like, she's right. highly highly recommend seeking out the audiobook as hearing all of this in tina brown's voice is delightful. forever screaming about that lunch where tina is trying to convince warren beatty to do an interview ahead of ISHTAR and he spends the whole lunch calling people on the phone from their table and telling them that he's obsessed with them, and then later when someone comments that warren has "phone disease" aka he's addicted to talking on the phone. again i am screaming. wish i could read the "new yorker diaries" sequel but i guess the epilogue is okay too. the quote "america has no memory" is sticking with me, babyyy
Content Warnings
Moderate: Miscarriage
Minor: Death
corneliasd's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death