Emily: Well first tell me what you thought of the book! As you know, I loved it.
Doree: I loved it too. All the behind-the-scenes stuff was great. They were pretty frank about Jane Pratt, I thought, without seeming catty.

Earlier: [April 4 2007] How Christina Kelly Changed Jane Pratt's Life:

[After the beginning of the book, Jane] is a background presence. Much more prominent is Christina Kelly, whose "What Now" and "Cute Band Alert" always seemed to nail the next actually hot new thing and gave the magazine its core of true credibility. And as Meltzer and Jesella have it, once the magazine began to seriously flounder and Jane was off hosting talk shows, Christina became editor in chief in all but name. "Jane was completely not around," Christina is quoted as saying. "I remember I was really not happy being the editor...."
When the magazine was sold so quickly that the staff wasn't even allowed to go back to their desks, Jane was already developing a new project at Time Inc. that would later, at Fairchild, become Jane. Her first hire there was Christina, so some sort of rapprochement must have been achieved. huh. Still, this version of the Sassy story doesn't reflect so well on the lady who's currently kicking off her third act.

cmmts:
-i'll pick it up in the store to see what the "Lucky." ladies have to say. in that magazine andrea still seems cool; kim france comes off a bit like a chainsmoking basketcase. this is a reader's observation only.
-@de wolfe: I concur in the judgment, Kim France does come off like a meth-fueled greenstick fracture.
Does anyone else remember - after the Fall of Sassy - that month when Mademoiselle took a left-hand turn into darkness? It always sucked in comparison to Sassy, sure, but one month it was bearable ("Dresses for Every Shape" and "Abortion: a Debate") and the next month it was fascistic assholery ("Ralf Your Lunch Up Now, You Porcine Monstrosity" and "Poor People Need More Lipstick."