Tina Brown of Vanity Fair on American interests; 1984

British writer, well-known raconteur, and gay icon, Quentin Crisp interviews Tina Brown (Christina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans), who was the Editor of Vanity Fair at the time. Crisp asked Brown if she thinks that Americans want to read different things in a magazine to English people. Tina Brown comments, "....there also are some differences, I find, for instance, that America's no memory. It's, er, not interested in the past, whereas nostalgia is a big industry in England, and indeed, at the Tatler, I always had a sort of strong, nostalgic element, the sort of longing for the country house. Here, I don't think people are at all interested in the past. In fact, they're almost hostile to the past. But the most complimentary thing anybody ever says, it seems, is 'That's so contemporary'., which I like actually, I think it's great. It makes you think more about what you're doing at the moment, rather than falling back on some of the sort of, er, material one might have used in other magazines." Inside Vanity Fair offices, Condé Nast, Madison Avenue, New York, USA; 1984 (LNFL407S - AEVZ001J)