The Megawoosh Waterslide Viral: How It Was Really Done Aug 12, 2009
In a new essay, Caitlin Flanagan rips into Helen Gurley Brown, the steno pool and adulterers. Amy Benfer. (Salon)
Renowned Editor Bonnie Fuller to Become President of HollywoodLife.com Jul 17, 2009
Fuller also brings to Hollywood Life her deep understanding of the young female audience -- following successful stints as editor in chief of YM, Marie Claire (which she launched in the U.S.), Cosmopolitan (where she succeeded the legendary Helen Gurley Brown), and Glamour (where she followed the legendary Ruth Whitney). In each case, circulation at the magazines soared under her editorship. (PR Newswire)
The new romantics May 17, 2009
To the list of usual suspects blamed or credited for this - Elvis, Helen Gurley Brown, the birth-control pill, the Internet - one might add Viagra, which in recent years has had an outsized role in shaping how we think and talk about sex, love, and the relationship between the two. The drug, first released 11 years ago, has not only helped millions of men revive sex lives diminished by age or disease, it has also made sexual dysfunction a topic of public discussion, with Bob Dole endorsing the... (Boston Globe)
Important Women in Arkansas History May 15, 2009
Learn more about Helen Gurley Brown, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Mary Steenbergen. Take pride in the powerful women who have come before us so we may continue to take risks and work for change in our lifetimes. (Suite101.com)
Helen Gurley Brown's Sexy Mistake May 13, 2009
Jennifer Scanlon's biography of Helen Gurley Brown ... Sprawled across the cover of Jennifer Scanlon's new biography of Helen Gurley Brown is Brown herself, leaning back awkwardly on a heap of pillows in a tight, leopard-skin blouse and gold chains ... Photograph of Helen Gurley Brown on Slate's home page by George De Sota/Newsmakers. (Slate)
Richard E. Deems, Trustee of The Hearst Family Trust, Board Member of Hearst Corporation & Longtime Force In Publishing Industry, Dead at 96 May 6, 2009
Known throughout his long and accomplished career as an "editor's publisher," Deems recruited some of the country's leading editors for Hearst Magazines when he was president of the Group from 1960 to 1976, including Helen Gurley Brown for Cosmopolitan, John Mack Carter for Good Housekeeping, and Frank Zachary for Town & Country ... It was Deems who was willing to take a chance on Helen Gurley Brown as a magazine editor after she and her husband, movie producer David Brown, approached publishing... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Hearst Corp. Director Richard Deems Dies at 96 May 6, 2009
He was president of the magazines group from 1960 to 1976, hiring key editors such as Helen Gurley Brown for Cosmopolitan magazine and John Mack Carter for Good Housekeeping. Deems became chairman of Hearst Magazines in 1976. (MediaWeek.com)
'American Swing': The King Of Sex, By Kurt Loder Mar 28, 2009
Celebrities of the day put in appearances, too, and visiting stars like Richard Dreyfuss and , are duly name-checked by a talkative array of Plato's veterans, ranging from showbiz hyphenates Buck Henry and Melvin Van Peebles to Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, former New York mayor Ed Koch, a smattering of actual porn stars and an erotic specialist called Danny the Wonder Pony. Their recollections are refreshingly unvarnished. (VHI.com -- Music News)
