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''After Dark'' was an entertainment magazine that covered theatre, cinema, stage plays, ballet, performance art, and various artists, including singers, actors and actresses, and dancers, among others. First published in May 1968, the magazine succeeded ''Ballroom Dance Magazine''.〔Back issue (retail site )—intended as a reference for dates and images only. Note that some of the issue dates are incorrect; however, the listing correctly identifies Vol. 13 No. 01 as being published in May 1980. An online search in (www.bookfinder.com ) returns a September 1982 issue as the most recent one available, and lists the May 1976 issue as the Tenth Anniversary Issue.〕 In the late 1970s Patrick Pacheco took over the editorship from William Como and strived for a time to make the magazine a more serious critical monthly with a greater emphasis on quality writing, doing away with color printing inside and reducing photos to a few inches square. This was a clear reaction to Como's "eye-candy" thrust, but evidently that is not what the readership was looking for as sales were low, so in 1981 Louis Miele replaced him at the helm and returned to the full-color format with plenty of skin on show. It seemed however that the day was done for ''After Dark'', perhaps because several newer magazines were now doing a better (and more explicitly targeted) job of appealing to the magazine's original readership, for Miele's incarnation of ''After Dark'' folded after only a couple of years, this time for good. The first issue does not say "Volume 1 No. 1", it says "Volume 10 No. 1". It continues with "Volume 10" during the year - which makes chronology difficult as somewhere along the line (1969?) it started to label its volumes in regular numerical order. In 1978, for example, the volume is once again number 10. == Background == ''After Dark'', founded by its first editor, William Como, and Ruldoph Orthwine (both of ''Dance Magazine''), covered a wide range of entertainment- or lifestyle-related topics. In addition to numerous articles on dance, topics ranged from a review of the stage production of the musical ''Hair'' in the December 1968 issue and an article on Shirley Bassey in the January 1972 issue, to a cover photograph and feature article on Donna Summer in the April 1977 issue. Other cover photos included Bette Midler (January 1973), Robert Redford (December 1973), Barbra Streisand (April 1975), Lauren Hutton (December 1976), Mae West (May 1977), Peter Allen (February 1978), Dolly Parton (April 1978), Jon Voight (April 1979), Christopher Reeve (October 1980), Lily Tomlin (February 1981), and Diana Ross (May 1981). Best sold issue was the February 1976 Issue with Zarko Halmic, Bonita George and Bo van den Assum on the cover. The May 1979 issue contained a profile of actor Philip Anglim, who originated the role on Broadway of John Merrick in ''The Elephant Man'', a play by Bernard Pomerance. Two other profiles in that issue were of James Mason, the actor who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the husband of Judy Garland in the film ''A Star Is Born''〔Mewborn, Brant. "James Mason: Odd Man In". ''After Dark'', Danad Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 98 pp. May 1979, pp. 70–73〕 and Marilyn Hassett, who portrayed Jill Kinmont in ''The Other Side of the Mountain'', a film about skier Kinmont's accident that left her paralyzed.〔Stoop, Norma McLain. "Inside ''The Bell Jar''—Marilyn Hassett:The Upbeat Side of a Tragic Type". ''After Dark'', Danad Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 98 pp. May 1979, pp. 74–76〕 Issues regularly contained features on fashion; at times articles were about men's fashion exclusively. The "Cityscapes" section contained brief articles about then-current items of note in various cities or other geographical areas worldwide, for example, London; Toronto; San Francisco; Los Angeles; Las Vegas; Birmingham, Alabama; Kansas; New Jersey; Washington, D.C.; and Miami. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「After Dark (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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