As I said, I did like her. She was challenging with the hair and beauty folks but totally lovely w me, even tho she refused to make Rice Krispie treats w me (after her publicist suggested bc she just LOVED to bake).

What’s your name? I started in ‘91 as low girl on the editorial totem pole; I’m so sorry if we overlapped and I was mean! A former intern called me “boppy” in her zine and said I “dressed like a suburban Cure fan,” so I predict I was too dorky to be nasty. I was certainly the biggest goober there.

No! I wrote that and I LOVED her.

Hi, Bozo! I’d mildly argue that people choose to remember the celebrity coverage, but that was NOT where the magazine was truly subversive. After the Million Mom/Moral Majority crew went after Sassy (and ONLY Sassy) and advertisers fled, Sassy did a TON of political and social issues coverage (because we COULDN’T…

Former Margie here. I still don’t feel great about some of what I wrote in my ‘20s. (The very MEANEST was about Milla Jovovich. Glad you missed that one.) But it was pre-online-era, and I will say in our defense that there was no alternative then to the sweetsy bullshit publicity machine; merely pointing out its…