Whatever happened to PARADE Magazine?

Publish date: 2024-05-17

I remember when we waited all week long just to get Sunday's Parade Magazine. It had articles, cartoons, puzzles and fun stuff for the whole family. It was a REAL magazine with much more than the 10 pitiful pages we get now. However, I do appreciate that they have kept Marilyn vos Savant over the decades.

Parade is the only magazine I read every week, as I am sure millions of Americans would agree, so why wouldn't they try to keep it up?

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by Anonymousreply 14May 23, 2021 10:07 PM

I used to love it just for the questions supposedly sent in by real Americans to Walter Scott's Personality Parade, e.g.:

"Lisa Hartman has for years been our family's favorite TV star on 'Knots Landing.' What's up next for the vixenish beauty?"

-- Mrs. G. L. Smithers, Dickinson, ND

by Anonymousreply 1May 23, 2021 5:23 PM

I love Marilyn vos Savant! I wonder if she is still alive or if her legend remains with us like Abigail Van Buren.

by Anonymousreply 2May 23, 2021 5:37 PM

It was always 10 pitiful pages, OP. My favorite vos Savant reply: Somebody asked if men really were meant to be faithful. She said "Probably not, but that doesn't mean they couldn't try harder".

by Anonymousreply 3May 23, 2021 5:48 PM

There’s no more newspaper advertising revenue OP - but you knew that. Growing up Parade was always decidedly second fiddle to the Sunday magazines put out by The Daily News (long gone) and The Times - also a shadow if it’s former self.

by Anonymousreply 4May 23, 2021 5:55 PM

Marilyn is married to Robert Jarvik, the inventor of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart.

by Anonymousreply 5May 23, 2021 5:59 PM

Even as a small child I could tell the questions in “Walter Scott’s personality parade” were fake, designed to promote things. It was always something like Q: “Does Bob Hope enjoy filming his TV specials?” signed Mary Jones, Chicago, IL. A: “In fact, he does, and he has a special coming up this week!”

by Anonymousreply 6May 23, 2021 6:03 PM

Oh my goodness, I posted before I read R1, to whom I must tip my hat. Spot on.

by Anonymousreply 8May 23, 2021 6:05 PM

Ugh I meant - I’m R6. Sorry, hangover.

by Anonymousreply 9May 23, 2021 6:06 PM

You waited all week just to get Parade Magazine? Really?

by Anonymousreply 10May 23, 2021 6:38 PM

Why was Walter Scott wasting his time writing a Q&A column instead of working on a sequel to Ivanhoe?

by Anonymousreply 11May 23, 2021 7:07 PM

[quote] It was always 10 pitiful pages, OP. R3 I remember it as many more glorious and colorful pages of gossip stuff. Alas, there is not more to gossip about anymore. Madonna made sure of that.

by Anonymousreply 13May 23, 2021 7:17 PM

[quote] Why was Walter Scott wasting his time writing a Q&A column instead of working on a sequel to Ivanhoe?

Be honest: whom would you rather write about, that Stuart has-been Bonnie Prince Charlie, or that vixenish beauty Lisa Hartman?

by Anonymousreply 14May 23, 2021 10:07 PM

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