Vanity Fair and existential questions at the Royal Ontario Museum
Posted by Simon in media, Uncategorized on 06. Jan, 2010 | 5 Comments
As I strolled the halls of the Royal Ontario Museum’s Vanity Fair exhibit, all I could wonder was; is this a tomb to magazines? Conde Nast was once the gatekeeper of high culture. Now the storied publishing house is struggling simply to stay relevant (and financially stable) closing previously untouchable halo titles such as Gourmet. [...]
Fox Corp has cow over Toronto scribe's Simpsons story
Posted by Jef in media, Pop Culture, Television on 15. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Released this week was The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, Toronto-raised John Ortved’s oral history of The Simpsons franchise spun from his 2007 Vanity Fair story on the same topic. According to a piece Ortved wrote for the Daily Beast, a behind-the-scenes piece about the behind-the-scenes book (can I get a natch?), his poking through [...]
