   spy was a satirical monthly magazine that ran from 1986 to 1998. ==overview== founded by kurt andersen and e. graydon carter, who served as its first editors, and thomas l. phillips, jr., its first publisher. after one folding and a rebirth, it ceased publication in 1998. it specialized in intelligent, thoroughly researched, irreverent pieces targeting the american media, entertainment industries and making fun of high society. many issues often featured brief photographs of nudity relevant to a story. some of its features attempted to present the darker side of celebrities such as arnold schwarzenegger, john f. kennedy, jr., steven seagal, martha stewart, and especially, the real-estate tycoon donald trump and his then-wife ivana trump. pejorative epithets of celebrities, e.g., "abe 'i'm writing as bad as i can' rosenthal" and "former fat girl diane brill" became a spy trademark. ==publication history== for a humorous magazine, spy often was aggressive about straight feature reporting. in the summer of 1992, it ran the only serious investigative story on president george h.w. bush's extramarital affairs with jennifer fitzgerald and other women.http://books.google.com/books?id=goaxrblmwt4c&pg=pa31&dq=%22one+hot+story%22&hl=en&ei=9mhntdholcf2gaeoyznlcg&sa=x&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0cdiq6aewaa#v=onepage&q=%22one%20hot%20story%22&f=false the following year, spy ran an article entitled "clinton's first 100 lies", detailing what it described as the new president's pattern of duplicitous behavior.http://books.google.com/books?id=hdpvu_hzgwwc&pg=pa46&dq=%22the+following+100+examples%22&hl=en&ei=xmpntbrvfs3qgqfvpf3kcg&sa=x&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0ccgq6aewaa#v=onepage&q=%22the%20following%20100%20examples%22&f=false ==legacy== in october 2006, miramax books published spy: the funny years (isbn 1-4013-5239-1), a greatest-hits anthology and history of the m
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