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''Ritz Newspaper'', colloquially ''Ritz Magazine'', sometimes simply ''Ritz'', was a British magazine focusing on gossip, celebrity and fashion.〔Puttin' on the Ritz again, Andrew Lycett, Media & Marketing, ''The Times'', London, 31 May 1989〕 It was launched in 1976 by David Bailey and David Litchfield, who acted as co-editors. Published on newsprint and described by Litchfield as "the Lou Reed of publishing", it sold 25,000 copies a month at its peak in 1981.〔 It ran for fifteen years, though at the beginning of the 1990s it lost readership to glossy titles such as ''Tatler''. It closed temporarily in October 1988.〔 Redesigned in A4 format on matt art stock paper by Art Director Tony Judge, it relaunched early in 1989 with funding from the property developer Neville Roberts,〔 finally closing in the early 1990s. ==Gossip== The founder gossip columnists covering the London social scene were Nicholas Haslam, Frances Lynn, Stephen Lavers and Amanda Lear. Haslam, an Old Etonian society decorator, wrote about his British aristocratic and Hollywood movie star friends under the pen name ''Paul Parsons''. Lynn wrote the 'Bitch' gossip column about café society. Lavers, who moonlighted as Head of Films at A&M Records was the Music and Media columnist. Lear gossiped about the international glitterati. Lavers and Lear even interviewed each other. Richard Young 〔 〕 was initially hired as Lynn's photographer, but eventually took photographs for all the columns. The four gossip columnists sometimes attended the same parties and wrote about each other. Haslam invited Lynn to all the parties he organised for his celebrity friends like Andy Warhol, so that she could report about them in her column. Film producer Cat Villiers (then known as Catkin Villiers) began her career on the staff of the periodical. Although Ritz Newspaper's policy was to avoid paying their contributing editors, established writers like Clive James and Peter York contributed to the magazine, as occasionally did established pop and rock stars such as George Michael. 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「Ritz Newspaper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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