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...Maxim left a pile of bullet-ridden corpses of competing magazines and spawned such raunchy followers as FHM, which, like Maxim, tried to Americanize the British "lad mag." But the most glaring ratification of Maxim's success came last spring, when the Conde Nast magazine empire brought in Golin to edit the archrival young-men's magazine Details. So it was all the more stunning when last Monday, less than a year into the hot editor's tenure, Conde Nast president Steve Florio told a hastily convened Details staff to clean out their desks by Friday, confounding staff members...
...fall of Details was more than a clash between tony Conde Nast culture and the ruffian lad-mag sensibility. It was a clash between rival ideas of manhood. Men's mags have slavered over women before--remember Vargas girls?--but with an affect of gentlemen's-club exclusivity. Young men turned to them as tutors in the mysteries of manhood. Today youths prefer populist outlets like Maxim and TV's The Man Show, which toast an uncomplicated guy-hood. Details, finally, didn't party hard enough...
...former editor of FM, I would like to make a general stylistic suggestion for the mag: more first-person pieces. Speaking from a reader's perspective, I'd like to point out that I'm not really interested in the stories; I'm interested in the writers and every embarrassing detail of their Harvard existence. See this letter I? Learn...
...this is issue 1 of the new fm, and though the oldies rocked our aggregate house, we're young and red-blooded and ready to reinvigorate the mag with fresh irony. so here goes...
...next term as an official member of the FM fam. This Boston native always has the inside scoop and commits herself to exposing elitism in all its forms, from gold coast housing to swanky parking places. A Web Watcher like none other, Frances will bring a lot to the mag, provided she doesn't run off with some megabyte she meets on Love Connection...