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Jann Wenner

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Jann Simon Wenner (born January 7, 1946) is the co-founder and publisher of the popular culture biweekly magazine Rolling Stone, and former owner of Men's Journal magazine. [1]

97 relations: Advertising Age, Al Gore, Album cover, Alfred A. Knopf, Almost Famous, American Jews, American Society of Magazine Editors, Amy Ray, Annie Leibovitz, Barack Obama, Ben Fong-Torres, Bill Clinton, Blender (magazine), Bloomberg Businessweek, Bob Dylan, Bono, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs (album), Cameron Crowe, Chadwick School, CNNMoney, Dave Marsh, David Weir (journalist), Digital media, Don Johnson, Doubleday (publisher), Eric Ehrmann, FHM, Free Speech Movement, Gonzo journalism, Greil Marcus, Grover Lewis, Hip hop, Hootie & the Blowfish, Hunter S. Thompson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Maguire, Jim DeRogatis, Joe Eszterhas, Joe Klein, John Gardner Ford, John Kerry, John Lennon, John Travolta, Lewis MacAdams, LGBT culture in New York City, Look (American magazine), Men's Journal, Miami Vice, ..., Mick Jagger, MSNBC, Muckraker, National Magazine Awards, New Times (magazine), New York (state), New York City, New York Observer, New York Post, NNDB, Norman Mailer Prize, Outside (magazine), P. J. O'Rourke, Paul Nelson (critic), Perfect (film), Pete Townshend, Peter Tork, Popular culture, Publishing, Publishing Triangle, Punk rock, Ralph J. Gleason, Ramparts (magazine), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone, San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Chronicle, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Spin (magazine), Stag (Amy Ray album), The Beatles, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Daily Californian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Rolling Stone Interview, The Walt Disney Company, The Washington Post, Timothy Crouse, Timothy Ferris, Tom Wolfe, U2, University of California, Berkeley, Us Weekly, Video game, William Randolph Hearst III. Expand index (47 more) »

Advertising Age

Ad Age (or Advertising Age) is a global media brand publishing analysis, news and data on marketing and media.

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Al Gore

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Album cover

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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Almost Famous

Almost Famous is a 2000 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, and starring Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson and Patrick Fugit.

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American Jews

American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Americans who are Jews, whether by religion, ethnicity or nationality.

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American Society of Magazine Editors

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) is an industry trade group for magazine journalists and editors of magazines published in the United States.

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Amy Ray

Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls.

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Annie Leibovitz

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Ben Fong-Torres

Benjamin Fong-Torres (方振豪; Cantonese: Fong Chan Ho; born January 7, 1945, in Alameda, California) is an American rock journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine (through 1981) and the San Francisco Chronicle (from around 1982).

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Blender (magazine)

Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more".

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek is an American weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. Businessweek was founded in 1929.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bono

Paul David Hewson, KBE OL (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist.

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Boz Scaggs

William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Boz Scaggs (album)

Boz Scaggs is the second album by Boz Scaggs; it was released in 1969.

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Cameron Crowe

Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, author, and actor.

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Chadwick School

Chadwick School is a nonsectarian independent K-12 day school located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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CNNMoney

CNNMoney.com is a financial news and information website, operated by CNN.

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Dave Marsh

Dave Marsh (born March 1, 1950) is an American music critic, author, editor and radio talk show host.

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David Weir (journalist)

David Weir is a journalist and co-founder, in 1977, of the Center for Investigative Reporting.

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Digital media

Digital media are any media that are encoded in machine-readable formats.

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Don Johnson

Donald Wayne Johnson (born December 15, 1949) is an American actor, producer, director, singer, and songwriter.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States.

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Eric Ehrmann

Eric Wayne Ehrmann is an author, columnist and analyst who follows sports, politics and WMD proliferation issues in Latin America.

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FHM

FHM is a defunct monthly men's lifestyle magazine, currently operating solely online.

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Free Speech Movement

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a massive, long-lasting student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Gonzo journalism

Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative.

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Greil Marcus

Greil Marcus (born June 19, 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic.

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Grover Lewis

Grover Lewis (November 8, 1934 – April 16, 1995) was an American journalist now regarded as one of the forerunners of new journalism.

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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Hootie & the Blowfish

Hootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band that was formed in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1986 by Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber and Jim Sonefeld.

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Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement.

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Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Haden-Guest, Baroness Haden-Guest (née Curtis; born November 22, 1958), commonly known as Jamie Lee Curtis, is an American actress and author.

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Jerry Garcia

Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as the lead guitarist and as a vocalist with the band Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s.

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Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama sports film written, produced and directed by Cameron Crowe, and stars Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Renée Zellweger.

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Jim DeRogatis

James DeRogatis (born September 2, 1964) is an American music critic and co-host of Sound Opinions.

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Joe Eszterhas

József A. "Joe" Eszterhas (born November 23, 1944) is a Hungarian-American writer.

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Joe Klein

Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946) is a political columnist for Time magazine and is known for his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign.

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John Gardner Ford

John "Jack" Gardner Ford (born March 16, 1952) is the second child and second son of U.S. President Gerald Ford and Betty Ford.

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John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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John Travolta

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, dancer and singer.

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Lewis MacAdams

Lewis MacAdams (born October 12, 1944) is an American poet, journalist, political activist, and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles, California.

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LGBT culture in New York City

New York City has one of the largest LGBT populations in the world and the most prominent.

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Look (American magazine)

Look was a bi-weekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles.

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Men's Journal

Men's Journal is a monthly men's lifestyle magazine focused on outdoor recreation and comprising editorials on the outdoors, environmental issues, health and fitness, style and fashion, and gear.

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Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC.

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Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943), known professionally as Mick Jagger, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.

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MSNBC

MSNBC is an American news cable and satellite television network that provides news coverage and political commentary from NBC News on current events.

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Muckraker

The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.

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National Magazine Awards

The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design.

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New Times (magazine)

New Times was an American glossy bi-weekly national magazine published from 1973 to 1979 by George A. Hirsch.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Observer

Observer is an online newspaper originating in New York City.

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New York Post

The New York Post is the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States and a leading digital media publisher that reached more than 57 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January 2017.

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NNDB

The Notable Names Database (NNDB) is an online database of biographical details of over 40,000 people of note.

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Norman Mailer Prize

The Norman Mailer Prize or Mailer Prize is an American literary award established in 2009 by The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony to celebrate writers and their works.

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Outside (magazine)

Outside is an American magazine focused on the outdoors.

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P. J. O'Rourke

Patrick Jake O'Rourke (born November 14, 1947), known as P.J. O'Rourke, is an American political satirist and journalist.

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Paul Nelson (critic)

Paul Nelson (January 21, 1936 — circa July 5, 2006) was an A&R executive, magazine editor, and music critic best known for writing for Sing Out!, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone.

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Perfect (film)

Perfect is a 1985 American romantic drama film starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis, directed by James Bridges.

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Pete Townshend

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Who.

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Peter Tork

Peter Tork (born Peter Halsten Thorkelson, February 13, 1942) is an American musician and actor, best known as the keyboardist and bass guitarist of the Monkees.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Publishing

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

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Publishing Triangle

The Publishing Triangle, founded in 1988 by Robin Hardy, is an American association of gay men and lesbians in the publishing industry.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Ralph J. Gleason

Ralph Joseph Gleason (March 1, 1917 – June 3, 1975) was an American jazz and popular music critic.

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Ramparts (magazine)

Ramparts was a glossy illustrated American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 to 1975 and closely associated with the New Left political movement.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is a private, non-profit college of contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Stag (Amy Ray album)

Stag is the debut solo album by Amy Ray of Indigo Girls, released in 2001 on her Daemon Records label.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe.

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The Daily Californian

The Daily Californian (Daily Cal) is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley campus and its surrounding community.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Rolling Stone Interview

The Rolling Stone Interview is a feature article in the American magazine Rolling Stone that sheds light on notable figures from the worlds of music, popular culture, or politics.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Timothy Crouse

Timothy Crouse (born 1947) is an American journalist and writer.

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Timothy Ferris

Timothy Ferris (born August 29, 1944) is an American science writer and the best-selling author of twelve books, including The Science of Liberty (2010) and Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930Some sources say 1931; the New York Times and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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Us Weekly

Us Weekly is a weekly celebrity and entertainment magazine based in New York City.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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William Randolph Hearst III

William Randolph Hearst III (born June 18, 1949) is an American heir, businessman, and philanthropist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jann_Wenner

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