Liz Loves Spy, Tabs Love Themselves
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
20 YEARS AGO IN SPY Smith • Nerf brickbats: Two decades after being savaged by Spy magazine month after month, Liz Smith calls the New York monthly, "benign ... positively quaint." Also, Billy Joel's daughter Alexa is "beautiful and petite."
• New York magazine columnist passes: Bernice Kanner, who wrote New York's "On Madison Avenue" column as well as the popular Are You Normal? book series has died. According to the New York Times, the cause of death was a brain aneurysm.
- Tragic One Direction Singer Liam Payne Dead Aged 31 After Horror Hotel Balcony Plunge: Celeb Tributes Pour In as Images Emerge of Smashed Up Hotel Room Strewn With White Powder and 'Drugs Foil'
- Family of Menendez Brothers Beg for Convicted Killers' Freedom in Press Conference Three Decades After Brutal Murders: 'They Were Failed By Their Parents!'
- BREAKING: Jailed 'Sex Beast' Sean 'Diddy' Combs Hit With Another Wave of Horrific Lawsuits — Rapper Accused of Drugging, Raping, Sodomizing and Threatening to Murder Multiple New Victims
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• New York Post: We rule!
• Daily News: No, we do!
• Related: Slate's Jack Shafer on why journalists love themselves so darn much. (But does all that self love make us safer?)