Word: ym
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Graduation holds an abundance of possibilities. Three new publications (TEEN PEOPLE, Jump and Twist) are challenging the established triumvirate (Seventeen, YM and Teen). Already, TEEN PEOPLE has 500,000 subscribers; each of Twist's five issues has sold 20% more copies than the previous one; and Jump boasts a circulation of 350,000. "We use girls with all body types and races to make the point of not shooting unrealistic images of beauty and thinness," says Christina Ferrari, managing editor of TEEN PEOPLE (a Time Inc. publication). The June/July issue features the 21 hottest people under 21 as well...
...just released The Man in the Iron Mask. Leo, as the 23-year-old is known to friends and true fans, is also the subject of four quickie books currently on various New York Times best-seller lists. Explains Bari Nan Cohen, who as entertainment editor of YM is well-versed in teen idoldom: "A lot of girls would go see Leo open a paper bag right now." If you want to understand why this is so, go see The Man in the Iron Mask yourself and one answer will be readily apparent: he is not his co-star Gerard...
...magazine is written by young people for young people," says Cohen, who is a Crimson editor. "It's not like some of those publications--for some reason Seventeen and YM come to mind--where there are adults trying to key into the interests of young people. The articles are all interesting and fun to read...