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...Joel Stein...
When a single day's batch of mail includes a letter from one reader who tells us how much she "adores Joel Stein's celebrity interviews" and another from a reader who thinks Stein is "the nastiest, bitchiest, sleaziest little rat ever to scoot around the halls of TIME," you know you've got one provocative writer on your hands...
From the moment he debuted as the writer of the People section, on Nov. 3, 1997, we noticed an uptick in mail about what was already one of the magazine's best-read pages. More than that, it was the beginning of an intractable love-hate relationship. Was Stein "the best thing to happen to TIME," or had the People page "become prisoner to his maniacal destructiveness"? Was he "wacky and fun" or "flat-out obnoxious"? Even as a sportswriter, a role he has taken up recently, Stein continues to attract both cheers ("What brilliant commentary!") and catcalls ("His report...
...JOEL STEIN...
...reader suggested that the time has come for an all-Joel magazine, the Stein Journal. If there were such a beast, what would its focus...