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There’s No Business Like Show Business. By Stephen Macaulay.

Spy Magazine was launched in October 1986 and ran until the late 1990s but its first five years, under editors Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter, were its best. Spy, which had as its descriptor “Smart, Fun, Funny, Fearless,” skewered the social, literary and entertainment participants who were then, as now, too self-inflated....