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DIED. FRANCESCO SCAVULLO, 82, fashion photographer who could make plain women look beautiful and fashion models look like Cosmo girls; in New York City. Scavullo's work was published in Rolling Stone, TIME, Sports Illustrated and Harper's Bazaar, but he was best known for photographing more than 300 Cosmopolitan covers from 1965 to 1997 in which Scavullo's lights and lenses, and his team's exacting attention to skin, hair and costume, produced a look that became unique to the magazine. Scavullo did celebrity portraits, glamorized Watergate figure Martha Mitchell for a 1974 cover of New York magazine...
Whereas I had to glean wisdom from only Teen, Seventeen and YM magazines in an effort to haphazardly shape my adolescent identity, tweens can now read Teen People, Teen Vogue, Cosmo Girl and Elle Girl—publications which together form a more comprehensive account of the lives of those with birth years between 1988 and 1990. Whereas those of us who are now college-aged might have helped form a cult-like following of Claire Danes’ angst-ridden character in My So-Called Life, today’s tweens have icons who are universally recognized as celebrities...
...roommates and I swapped Vogue for Elle, Cosmo for Glamour, and if we were feeling particularly smart and worldly, Newsweek for Time. Major events included spotting Meg Ryan and her son in a Duane Reed drugstore and hearing country singer Tim McGraw perform live on the Today show. I knew the date of every album release, television season, movie and video premiere. Ashton and Demi internet updates filled my downtime while I made the New York Post’s gossip column “Page Six” my home page. I even snuck out of a focus group...
Back at Harvard, I’m trying to achieve a pop-cultural balance of sorts. So far I’ve only gotten to read this month’s Cosmo (my roommate’s), InStyle (my subscription), Allure (stolen from the Quincy House Mail Center) and Marie Claire (at the MAC). I’ve only averaged about one DVD per week in addition to weekly room screenings of Bridget Jones’s Diary, and course websites have replaced pagesix.com on my favorite’s list...
...Owner: Cosmo J. Santullo ’06 and blockmates