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...University and at New York University, he worked as a film critic for publications as disparate as the National Review, New Times and the now defunct Soho News before joining TIME in 1980. In addition to his reviewer's duties, Corliss co-edits a bimonthly journal called Film Comment (circ. 48,000), scouts films for the New York Film Festival's program committee and is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, an association of reviewers who write for magazines and newspapers...
...founding editor of New York in 1968, Clay Felker pioneered the brash, trend-spotting magazine devoted to capturing the beat of a city. Felker, who went on to Esquire and U.S. News & World Report, is returning to native ground, this time as editor of Manhattan,inc. (circ: 85,000), a glossy, literate, monthly specializing in examinations of power and the powerful in New York City...
...mounting losses, the firm sold the Boston Herald American to Rupert Murdoch in 1982 and shut down the Baltimore News-American four years later. As if to prove that it was not deserting big cities entirely, Hearst bought the Houston Chronicle in March for $400 million. The Chronicle (circ. 425,000) is vying for reader loyalty with the Houston Post (circ. 316,000), and victory will require greater infusions of cash...
...Burda Moden magazine, the world's largest fashion monthly (est. circ. 2.5 million), the year's trendiest color is without a doubt red. West Germany's rough equivalent of Vogue is about to become the first capitalist fashion journal to publish a Russian-language Soviet edition. Burda's initial 100,000- copy Soviet offering, with advertisements from such upscale firms as American Express, Cartier and Adidas, will hit Moscow newsstands on March 3. Says Manfred Made, director of the magazine's parent publishing house: "We are thinking in long terms. We believe that the Soviet market will be of immense...
Like a drowning swimmer, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat went down last week for the third time, taking 350 employees with it. The 134-year-old newspaper (circ. 146,432) is not expected to surface again. The financially troubled daily almost closed in 1983 and ceased publication last year for two months. Current Owners William Franke and John Prentis sought $15 million in industrial revenue bonds to finance a new building, buy presses and meet operating costs, luring investors with the promise that if the paper defaulted, they could deduct the loss from their state taxes. But a local lawyer...