Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

By Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole

From 1988-1994, Sassy was the coolest magazine going for Gen-X teens. Celebrate that golden time by joining Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole for a deep dive into every one of its 80 gloriou... more

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March 02, 2021 April 1988 Pop Culture: Tiffany, Tom Hanson, & Twisted Sister
Weeeeeeeeell…it's the pop culture topics of the April 1988 issue! What Now covers the latest in Madonna's acting career, Corey Haim's love life, and a new movie from Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, as well as the first entry in the Sassy glossary, news about condoms, and facts about prom, year-round school, and Frisbees. Watch It features reviews of Hairspray (the original and best), Dominick And Eugene, Stand And Deliver, and She's Having A Baby, while Listen Up highlights artists with hair (Twisted Sister) and without (James Taylor). We check in on where One To Watch Matt Adler is now. Then we are divided on Karen Catchpole's infamous profile of Tiffany, and Christina's turn as an extra on 21 Jump Street. Put on your vintage party dress and get into it!

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Contact Us
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📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram
🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com
📫 Email us at [email protected]

Episode Notes
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
😇 Lost Angels on IMDb
👼 Lost Angels on YouTube
🐨 "Daggy" on UrbanDictionary.com
🎧 Bill On His Own on the Quaid In Full podcast
🤰 She's Having A Baby on CBS All Access (soon to be Paramount+)
🪦 The She's Having A Baby end credits
🎸 The April 1988 Listen Up mixtape on Spotify
🎭 Matt Adler on Wikipedia
🏄‍♂️ "Whatever Happened To Matt Adler AKA The Dude From North Shore?"
🧑‍🎤 Trailer for the Billie Eilish documentary The World's A Little Blurry on YouTube
🦜 Fiona: The Caged Bird Sings
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1h 10min
February 23, 2021 April 1988 Teen Life: AIDS, Divorce & Dating A Rock Star
We're back to TEEN LIFE topics, now in the April 1988 issue!
Christina Kelly gets a first-person account from a man whose friend died of AIDS as a teen. Karen Catchpole demystifies what it's actually like to date a rock star, killing some Beastie Boys crushes in the process. Karen then dares to tell the truth about boys' bodies -- not just the parts in their boxer shorts, though that is admittedly what we're mostly interested in. And Catherine Gysin prepares readers for how their lives might change after their parents' divorce.
Christina returns with the Short Short Story "What Sudie Didn't Tell Me." On The Road takes a trip to Austin (a place all your co-hosts have lived and loved!). Body Talk moves from Fashion to Teen Life, and with it our comments on its reporting on pap smears, golf, and cross training. Help has some truly wild questions we must pray are fake before closing things out with What He Said: "What do you think of girls who make the first move?"
QUICK LINKS
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com
🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids
☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site
🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter
📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram
🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com
JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES
📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs
💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public
👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials
🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers
👚 Merch discounts and free stickers
🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!
TOPICS
🎧 Hello, It's April 1988
🎧 Us In April 1988 & Spine Line
🎧 Feature: My Best Friend Died Of AIDS
🎧 Feature: Dating A Rock Star: What It’s Really Like
🎧 Feature: The Truth About Boys’ Bodies
🎧 Feature: The Divorce Is Only The Beginning
🎧 Fiction: What Sudie Didn’t Tell Me
🎧 On The Road: Austin
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 Help
🎧 What He Said
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
👼 Angels In America on HBO Max
♥️ The Normal Heart on HBO Max
👩🏽‍🦰 Pose on Netflix
📖 The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois
📻 Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould
🧼 Brian Bloom on the cover of the December 1987 YM
🌮 Chuy's Barton Springs
📷 Tony O'Dell on Instagram
🌴 The Again With This podcast
🙋‍♀️ April 1988 Quiz: How Compatible Are you?
...more
1h 5min
February 23, 2021 April 1988 Teen Life: AIDS, Divorce, And Dating A Rock Star
We're back to TEEN LIFE topics, now in the April 1988 issue! Christina Kelly gets a first-person account from a man whose friend died of AIDS as a teen. Karen Catchpole demystifies what it's actually like to date a rock star, killing some Beastie Boys crushes in the process. Karen then dares to tell the truth about boys' bodies -- not just the parts in their boxer shorts, though that is admittedly what we're mostly interested in. And Catherine Gysin prepares readers for how their lives might change after their parents' divorce. Christina returns with the Short Short Story "What Sudie Didn't Tell Me." On The Road takes a trip to Austin (a place all your co-hosts have lived and loved!). Body Talk moves from Fashion to Teen Life, and with it our comments on its reporting on pap smears, golf, and cross training. Help has some truly wild questions we must pray are fake before closing things out with What He Said: "What do you think of girls who make the first move?"

Visual Aids

🖼 View scans from the magazine in this episode's Visual Aids

Call The Hotline

☎️ Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO

Contact Us

🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter
📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram
🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com
📫 Email us at [email protected]

Episode Notes

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
👼 Angels In America on HBO Max
♥️ The Normal Heart on HBO Max
👩🏽‍🦰 Pose on Netflix
📖 The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois
📻 Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould
🧼 Brian Bloom on the cover of the December 1987 YM
🌮 Chuy's Barton Springs
📷 Tony O'Dell on Instagram
🌴 The Again With This podcast
🙋‍♀️ April 1988 Quiz: How Compatible Are you?

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1h 5min
February 19, 2021 March 1988 Slumber Party: Competition & Baking Soda
We took Sassy's very first quiz -- How Competitive Are You? -- and so can you! It's online and linked right here in the show notes. We each pick one question that particularly resonated with us and discuss it, and then report on our scores. Next, we play some of your calls. A few are about the quiz; a few are about how Sassy first came into listeners' lives; and a few are on subjects we never ever could have predicted, and we love them. Then, we read an email from an O.G. Sassy staffer. Learn more about us, yourself, AND your fellow listeners with this latest episode!
QUICK LINKS
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com
JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES
📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs
💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public
👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials
🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers
👚 Merch discounts and free stickers
🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!
TOPICS
🎧 Hello, It's March 1988
🎧 Quiz: How Competitive Are You?
🎧 From The Hotline
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
👊 Take the "How Competitive Are You?" Quiz
🚀 Tara's review of For All Mankind on Vanity Fair.
🔥 The Extra Hot Great podcast
🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast
🚣 I Remember Everything: Life Lessons From Dawson's Creek by Erin Hensley and Julia Callahan
🎧 The Dawson's Critique podcast
...more
37min
February 16, 2021 March 1988 Fashion Etc: Bandanas, The Boardwalk & Bugle Boy
Once Tara and Pam have described the fashions they were sporting or coveting in March of 1988, we critique the cover, and then get into the fashion stories of Sassy's premiere issue, set on a boardwalk, at an old railyard, and in a palette of creams and beiges. What Next also forecasts coming fashion trends with pinpoint accuracy -- thanks, Michael Kors and Betsey Johnson! The beauty features teach you how to use bandanas and makeup; then About Face tells you about bang trims and hot oil treatments, and Body Talk warns you about gonorrhea, weed, and NutraSweet. After Elise gets a makeover (and WILDLY negged in the process), we take a quick trip through some of the issue's most memorable ads, including Benetton, Levi's, Cherry Lane trying to make bloomers happen, and which Sassy Club products we'd be bugging our mom to buy us.
Then: the Magazineyness! Jane's first Diary (her editor's letter) has a culturally insensitive lede but otherwise makes us want to keep reading. The letters to the editor in Say What are probably just as real as the ones in Help! And should Sara Walker, the subject of Inside Out (the magazine's inside back cover column for magazine production ephemera) who actually named the magazine itself, maybe have been its first cover model? Start thinking about how you can source these outfits on the cheap as you listen along!
QUICK LINKS
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com
🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids
☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site
🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter
📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram
🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com
JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES
📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs
💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public
👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials
🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers
👚 Merch discounts and free stickers
🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!
TOPICS
🎧 Hello, It's March 1988
🎧 What We Wore
🎧 Fashion: Cover
🎧 Fashion: On The Boardwalk
🎧 Fashion: Tough Enough
🎧 Fashion: Milk And Honey
🎧 Fashion: What Next?
🎧 Beauty: Bandanarama
🎧 Beauty: Beginner's Guide To Makeup
🎧 Beauty: About Face
🎧 Beauty: Body Talk
🎧 Beauty: Then & Now
🎧 Sassy Ads
🎧 Sassy Club
🎧 Magazineyness: Diary
🎧 Magazineyness: Say What
🎧 Magazineyness: Inside Out
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
💈 DO YEH HEH CYNTHIEH
🛶 Beaver Canoe
📸 Andrew Southam's website
📸 Andrew Southam on Instagram
📸 Naomi Kaltman's website
🛍 Pam's jean jacket on Poshmark
💅 Tully Jensen on Wikipedia
🇬🇧 Jensen's British "Vogue" cover, shot by Herb Ritts
🥈 Photographer Nick Vaccaro's website, The Silver Canvas
💅 Marni Malinosky on Instagram
🎀 Chrissy Teigen's scarf scrunchies
👁 Magazine ad for Coty's disposable mascara
👛 Guerlain Meteorite Powder Pebbles
💄 Shiseido matte lipsticks
😵 Current adolescent gonorrhea rates
💋 Carmex urban legends
🤩 TV commercial for the United Superstars of Benetton
🤯 Benetton's history of "shockvertising"
😈 Creative director Oliviero Toscani's most controversial Benetton campaigns
🇮🇹 Why Benetton fired Toscani (for the second time) in 2020
🦋 Tara's review of Clarice at VanityFair.com
🏠 "Whole House" by Lolawolf
...more
1h 2min
February 09, 2021 March 1988 Pop Culture: Mack, Mallory & Iron Lad
After flicking through Mackenzie Astin, Keith Coogan (yes, again), Married To The Mob, Tom Cruise, and more (Glemby) in What Now, it's on to the reviews. How do we vibe with the star ratings given to Rick Astley, Madonna, and R.E.M. -- of course -- in Listen Up? What about Moonstruck and September in Watch It?
Then, once we revisit Charlie Schlatter, our very first One To Watch, it's on to the pop culture features. Christina and an Iain Blair tag-team to profile a circa-Less Than Zero Robert Downey Jr. Then John Elder pervs all over poor Justine Bateman. Dig out your copy of Kick: we Need You (to listen to our latest podcast) Tonight.
QUICK LINKS
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com
🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids
☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site
🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter
📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram
🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com
JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES
📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs
💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public
👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials
🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers
👚 Merch discounts and free stickers
🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!
TOPICS
🎧 Hello, It's March 1988
🎧 What Now: Up Close With Mackenzie Astin
🎧 What Now: Cieth Coogan Count
🎧 What Now: Bumping Into Married To The Mob and Tom Cruise
🎧 What Now: And Now A Word From Glemby
🎧 What Now: Sassy Launch Party
🎧 What Now: Fury Of Bubbles, etc.
🎧 Listen Up: Inxs
🎧 Listen Up: R.E.M.
🎧 Listen Up: Cindy Lee Berryhill
🎧 Listen Up: Eurythmics
🎧 Listen Up: Rick Astley
🎧 Listen Up: Madonna
🎧 Watch It: Moonstruck
🎧 Watch It: Anna
🎧 Watch It: Good Morning, Vietnam
🎧 Watch It: September
🎧 One To Watch: Charlie Schlatter
🎧 Robert Downey, Jr. Is A Little Weird, But We Like Him
🎧 This Girl [Justine Bateman] Has Touched Michael J. Fox, Scott Valentine and Jason Bateman...What’s She Got That You Don’t?
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🎸 @nahalidabarbie's viral tweet about MTV's current schedule
🎢 Up Close With Mackenzie Astin
🏄‍♂️ Under The Boardwalk (the release title of Wipe Out) on Amazon Prime
🔫 The Married To The Mob poster
🔫 Married To The Mob on MaxGo
💇🏻‍♀️ The story of Glemby
🖥 Brian Evans's website
🐦 Brian Evans on Twitter
🎙 Trailer for the Michael Hutchence documentary, Mystify, on YouTube
👩🏻‍🎤 Madonna A to Z, by Mark Blankenship and Sarah D. Bunting
🎧 Pam's March 1988 Mixtape
🇨🇿 The Anna trailer on YouTube
🏆 Sally Kirkland's Golden Globe win on YouTube
📺 The pilot of the Ferris Bueller TV series on YouTube
📷 Charlie Schlatter on Instagram
🏥 Schlatter on his chronic myeloid leukemia
📸 Firooz Zahedi, who shot the Robert Downey Jr. portrait
📸 Zahedi's other portraits
🍔 The Pulp Fiction poster, which Zahedi shot
💉 "The star who came back from the depths" (The Guardian, August 23, 2008)
🤷‍♂️ "A history of male journalists fetishizing their female subjects, in 8 profiles" (Vox, July 25, 2016)
🤦🏼‍♀️ Rachel Axler's New Yorker essay satirizing this tendency
🐦 Justine Bateman on Twitter
📷 Justine Bateman on Instagram
💻 Justine Bateman's website
🎬 Fake Famous on HBO Max
📬 Tara's talking about Postcards From The Edge on the Quaid In Full podcast
📖 Here For It, by R. Eric Thomas
🖥 R. Eric Thomas's website
🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast
...more
1h 12min
February 09, 2021 March 1988 Pop Culture: Mack, Mallory & Iron Lad
After flicking through Mackenzie Astin, Keith Coogan (yes, again), Married To The Mob, Tom Cruise, and more (Glemby) in What Now, it’s on to the reviews. How do we vibe with the star ratings given to Rick Astley, Madonna, and R.E.M. — of course — in Listen Up? What about Moonstruck and September in Watch It?
Then, once we revisit Charlie Schlatter, our very first One To Watch, it’s on to the pop culture features. Christina and an Iain Blair tag-team to profile a circa-Less Than Zero Robert Downey Jr. Then John Elder pervs all over poor Justine Bateman. Dig out your copy of Kick: we Need You (to listen to our latest podcast) Tonight.
Visual Aids
...more
1h 12min
February 02, 2021 March 1988 Teen Life: Sex, Flirts & Tiaras
We're delving into the features and ephemera regarding TEEN LIFE in the March 1988 issue!
Karen Catchpole dares to be frank on the matter of "Losing Your Virginity" (and parents/right-wing wackos were PISSED). Catherine Gysin goes undercover at the Miss South Carolina USA pageant and learns secret uses for Vaseline. The whole staff collaborates on a "How To Flirt" guide…of sorts. In the spec piece that got her the job at Sassy, Christina Kelly addresses how to handle "Talk Behind Your Back." Catherine speaks to the survivors of three young people who died by suicide. Christopher Newbound kicks off the fiction section with "My Name Is Daniel."
Then it's on to the departments: On The Road to Miami; What He Said about why guys dumped their girlfriends; and a real mixed bag of Help. (What to do when Mom kisses Boyfriend is just one of many questions WE have for that possibly fake letter writer.)
Stretch out on the shag rug and turn down George Michael on the radio: it's time to Listen To Sassy!
QUICK LINKS
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com
🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids
☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site
🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter
📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram
🧑‍💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com
JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES
📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs
💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public
👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials
🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers
👚 Merch discounts and free stickers
🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!
TOPICS
🎧 Hello, It's March 1988
🎧 Spine Line & Distrupting Seventeen
🎧 Feature: Losing Your Virginity
🎧 Feature: Backstage At Miss USA
🎧 Feature: How To Flirt
🎧 Feature: Talk Behind Your Back
🎧 Feature: Life After Suicide
🎧 Meanwhile At Seventeen...
🎧 Fiction: My Name Is Daniel
🎧 On The Road
🎧 What He Said
🎧 Help
🎧 Goodbye For Now
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🍒 “Losing Your Virginity: Real Talk About What Happens The First Time You Have Sex” in Teen Vogue
📖 How Sassy Changed My Life by Marisa Meltzer and Kara Jesella
😖 Aglow International, as Women Aglow is now known
🪦 Obituary for Jan Dawes
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Focus On The Family
🏡 The Family Research Council
🐦 James Dobson on Twitter
🌟 April Abel in the Miss South Carolina USA Hall Of Fame
🎙 April Abel's interview in the Miss USA pageant (starts 3:50)
🤝 Teen Vogue's advice on how to start dating
🐑 Boochi Tag
📷 Lauren Rutten, who shot the lead image for "Talk Behind Your Back"
🐦 Christina Kelly on Twitter
👩🏼‍💻 Christina's blog
🧐 Grok Nation, which she helped launch with Mayim Bialik
🧹 A piece Christina wrote about cleaning up her mother's home after her death
👨🏻‍💻 Christopher Newbound's blog
🛍 Miami's Bayside Marketplace
📰 Tara's essay on collecting Sassy at The New York Times Magazine
📝 Notes To Boys, by Pamela Ribon
...more
1h 9min
February 02, 2021 March 1988 Teen Life: Sex, Flirts & Tiaras
We’re delving into the features and ephemera regarding TEEN LIFE in the March 1988 issue!
Karen Catchpole dares to be frank on the matter of “Losing Your Virginity” (and parents/right-wing wackos were PISSED). Catherine Gysin goes undercover at the Miss South Carolina USA pageant and learns secret uses for Vaseline. The whole staff collaborates on a “How To Flirt” guide…of sorts. In the spec piece that got her the job at Sassy, Christina Kelly addresses how to handle “Talk Behind Your Back.” Catherine speaks to the survivors of three young people who died by suicide. Christopher Newbound kicks off the fiction section with “My Name Is Daniel.”
Then it’s on to the departments: On The Road to Miami; What He Said about why guys dumped their girlfriends; and a real mixed bag of Help. (What to do when Mom kisses Boyfriend is just one of many questions WE have for that possibly fake letter writer.)
Stretch out on the shag rug and turn down George Michael on the radio: it’s time to Listen To Sassy!
Visual Aids
...more
1h 9min

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