What, beyond a team of university psychologists, could explain the mechanism of Donald Trump’s mind? In the early 1990s, two journalists thought they’d figured it out, claiming Trump was fighting his overwhelming fear of being fat with a steady stream of amphetamine-like diet pills.
Shockingly, 4chan—the cherished home of aspiring internet vigilantes and/or racist piles of garbage everywhere—isn’t quite as cunning as it might have you believe. When a whistleblower published a highly sensitive (and highly legitimate) report from an Australian spy agency to its profanity-laden forums, 4chan users…
Just how hung up is Woody Allen on sex with very young women? It's a conversation that arises every time he comes out with yet another new movie that pairs an aging hero with a young woman a third his age–or, as now, when child-molestation accusations against him resurface.
While we're busy contemplating what an awful human being Arnold Schwarzenegger is for fathering a child out of wedlock and lying to his wife about it for 14 years, let's not forget all the other horrible things about America's favorite gay-porn-modeling, serial lady-groping, Nazi politician/statutory rapist.
James Toback is the creepy 65 year-old film director who recently approached a 24 year-old lady and promised to "make her a star", twice. Apparently, his cruising is not limited to the over-18 set. Here are a couple stories!
Someone sent along this side-by-side of Kurt Andersen and John Hughes, two men whose sensibilities came to define the late '80s and early '90s, for better and for worse. Where have we seen this bit before?
Kurt Andersen is, at long last, giving up his column in New York, the magazine he edited 12 years ago. Now he has time for things that are, somehow, even less important.
Kurt Andersen, who invented "snark" in 1986, is now "microblogging" at Twitter, the official web service of imagined pithiness.
All the magazines are dying! It's the Internet's fault. No, actually magazines have always died. Statistically, 80 percent of them fail. Which is what makes the medium such a perfect object for nostalgia.
Jamie Foxx is the poor man's Denzel Washington, so it makes sense that he's set to play Mike Tyson in the boxer's upcoming biopic. Washington's boxer, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter embodied many of the racial tensions of the 1960s. Mike Tyson is just a crazy dude with a thing for pigeons. Good thing Foxx knows how to play…
Spy magazine co-founder who didn't make quite as good as the other one Kurt Andersen has been named the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design's "visionary in residence" for the spring semester of 2009. Kurt, admitting that he "should be flattered," admits to actually feeling "embarrassed." Which he should! Because…
Spy magazine is to the media set what Sassy is to twentysomething girls: everybody loooves it and reminisces about how good it was even though those days are dead and gone. It was pretty great, although you can barely kick a dog without hearing about it. Now Folio asks, what about Wigwag mag? It launched around the…
Spy co-founder Kurt Andersen—whose jobs currently include 1. novelist, 2. New York mag monthly columnist, 3. "Studio 360" radio host, 4. IAC's "Very Short List" founder-consultant, 5. sometime blogger, 6. Random House editor at large—has "just inked a one-year deal to write two big articles for [fellow Spy cofounder] …
There's something new in ideas, at last, announces Salon: "First there was Horace. Then there was Juvenal. Now there is David Kamp." My goodness! You see, this fellow has invented the "aspirational satire" with his new book, "The Food Snob's Dictionary." Except then Salon goes on to say he sorta didn't? "By targeting…
Michael Moore rips off Spy. To be fair, Spy invented every joke ever, so it's hard sometimes. [Radosh]
Seen the real estate market lately? Noticed how black people are running for president? Did you enjoy bonus season downtown? Are you thinking endlessly about yourself? Try and tell us it's not the eighties all over again. For the benefit of those of you who, like our dear and dewy co-editor Emily, are too young to…
Admittedly, things have been a little bit Spy-heavy around here lately. Spy this, Spy that. Spy invented laughter. Spy invented magazines. Spy invented puppies. Spy raped me. We get it. We're totally down. We love laughing, and puppies, and rape. If Spy was Arrested Development, we would totally be sad that it got…
Above, enjoy one of the more staid events on the Spy revival/anniversary tour — more later this week! — courtesy of videographer Richard Blakeley and Intern Mary. A crowd of 30-something hipsters too young for Bob Dylan but too old for MTV crowded into the New York Public Library (NYPL, or "nipple") to hear former …
It's another "how great was Spy" piece, this time from The Observer (Graydon Carter's subsequent gig):
