Just days after Cracked announced the demise of its print edition, one of the heavy hitters of film glossies has joined it in the great printing press in the sky. Premiere magazine, best known for… honestly, not much, is calling it quits after the April issue. The magazine is survived by its website, several foreign editions, and former editor/giant tool Christopher Connelly, who vows to continue Premiere’s legacy of killing time.
Premiere was one of the pioneers of the now-omnipresent trend of listing things: “Women in Hollywood,” the “Power List,” and, of course, the yearly “Women Who Have Rejected Oliver Stone” double issue. But, as with many magazines, the dual threats of rising printing costs and the prevalence of the Internet quickly made it a relic. Take away the movie news and stories on upcoming features (all available in a more timely fashion online or in weekly counterparts), and all you have are artsy pictures of celebrities. But as US Weekly, InTouch and its brethren have repeatedly proven, what people really want to see are pictures of celebrity cellulite.
Watch your back, Hollywood Life…
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Desiree Blanc said
March 9 2007 @ 4:35 pm
It might have been time for Premiere to call it quits, but how in the heck does Hollywood Life stay in business? It used to be an irreverent magazine called Movieline with great columns like “Bad Movies We Love” and “The Bottom Shelf.” Now it is just a glossy chick-junk rag that fawns over celebutards and what they are wearing, carrying, and moisturizing with. Certainly no man would read it, but I question what type of WOMAN the publisher thinks will read it. I guess it makes a lovely bird-cage liner.
Svetlana Zabolotnikovskoratkyginskiski said
March 9 2007 @ 4:50 pm
Hollywood Life is a worthless, star-f***ing POS that owes a huge debt to the trees that provided the paper its printed on. How it outlived Premiere is one of the great mysteries of the universe, kind of like why Paris Hilton is famous. Lindsay’s lip gloss? Jessica’s shampoo? Angelina’s douche products? HL has it covered!
Linda Lee said
March 9 2007 @ 4:57 pm
Hollywood Life is fed solely by the fetid blood of the devil herself. It is a sad vanity affair, and so long as evil walks this earth…so shall shelves be defiled by its insipid, tepid, twaddle!