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unusual facts about Spy magazine



Beyond the Fringe

Without it, there might not have been either That Was the Week That Was or Private Eye magazine, which originated at the same time, and that partially survived due to financial support from Peter Cook, and served as the model for the later American Spy Magazine.

David Bourgeois

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1990, he took at job at Spy magazine, where he worked under Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter.

George Wackenhut

Wackenhut's main office featured a pair of chairs shaped like elephants, which he called "Republican chairs," that had real tusks, as well as an autographed photo of Wackenhut shaking hands with George H. W. Bush (whom Wackenhut used to call "that pinko", according to Spy Magazine).

Logrolling

Spy Magazine ran a feature entitled "Logrolling in Our Time" that cited suspicious or humorous examples of mutually admiring book jacket blurbs by pairs of authors.


see also

Migraine Boy

Over the course of the years, it was also published in other printed media, such as the Spy magazine, Flagpole Magazine, the Village Voice, UTNE Reader, The Baffler, Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly.

Slip of the Lip

In the music video for the song, a female freelance reporter named Kitty Galore (an allusion to Ian Fleming's Pussy Galore character) is sent to a Ratt concert to spy on the band for the fictional "Spy Magazine".