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# Tina Brown's Talk Magazine Launched On This Day in 1999
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/tina-browns-talk-magazine-launched-on-this-day-in-1999-08-2024/
- Published: 2024-08-02T19:00:02.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-02T17:45:28.000Z
- Description: With Madonna in the house.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, classic photos, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:27

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*Talk* was editor/journalist/author Tina Brown's big project after she left *The New Yorker* (and several years before *The Daily Beast*). It lasted three years, was a joint venture with Miramax and burned through a reported $50 million, and won Brown a $1 million fee to just... *stop*. That's not a bad price for just *stopping*, and as a bonus, she pickpocketed Harvey Weinstein himself, which is satisfying. Anyway, they ferried everyone to Liberty Island for the party, which is QUITE a way to start using your Miramax money, and I'm sure it was catnip for Manhattanites in media circles and the actors that ran with them -- and we have not one, but TWO surprise shaved heads.

###### \[Photos: Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images, Kevin Mazur Archive/WireImage, Kevin Mazur/WireImage, Steve Eichner/WireImage, Evan Agostini/Liaison\]