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...forehead? And creases in her cheek? "At last!" declares the cover line. "A magazine for the woman who wasn't born yesterday." At last, indeed. After a tempestuous 2 1/2-year start-up that had Manhattan media circles sniffing with disdain, readers this week will see the first issue of Lear's. The brainchild and namesake of Frances Lear, former wife of Hollywood Producer Norman Lear, the new magazine is dedicated to the proposition that "women over 40 -- yesterday's 'mad housewives' -- are today's sanest, most creative, most interesting Americans...
...year marriage was falling apart (she has two grown children), Lear decided to move to New York City to pursue an idea for a magazine. Bolstered by her $112 million divorce settlement, she has committed $25 million to the project. "I plan to make money," she says firmly, sitting in her cluttered Park Avenue office. "If it doesn't make money on schedule, we won't continue it." Behind that calculus, however, lies a crusade. After years of watching women get pushed aside at an age when many men reach their prime, Lear, 64, wants to change the way women...
...Personally, professionally and creatively, these may well be the best three years of my life," she enthuses. "I am experiencing a rebirth." Such themes -- independence, job fulfillment and spiritual renewal -- are central elements of Lear's. Divided into five sections, including "Pleasures" and "Self Center," the premiere issue features an interview with Philippine President Corazon Aquino and original fiction by Doris Lessing. There are also inspirational profiles of half a dozen exemplars of the Lear's woman, a combination of elegance, success and self-awareness. Most revolutionary are the fashion pages, which feature models ranging from...
...advertisers behaved as though no one past middle age ever bought anything more durable than panty hose. No more. Few marketing experts can ignore the fact that Americans over 50 earn more than half the discretionary income in the country. Magazine publishers are betting on the favorable demographics. Norman Lear's former wife Frances, 64, will next week debut Lear's, a glossy upscale bimonthly for women over 40. Major firms are forming special groups to study the senior market, and at least one company that offers ageless ads has opened. "My sense is we're on the leading edge...
...trying to make a play for my daughter?" asks Meredith of one William Shakespeare Jr. the Fifth (Theater Director Peter Sellars). Well, yes -- and the play he wants to make for her is King Lear. The film, though, could be called The Comedy of Eras. With his usual dour brio, Godard mixes allusions from five centuries of drama, painting, film. He presides onscreen too, speaking like a deranged Hitchcock, his hair a Rastafarian tangle of phone cords, stereo jacks and dog tags. The whole sport makes for Godard's most infuriating, entertaining pastiche in two decades. It's nice...