Us Weekly (1-year) | 
| Publisher: Wenner Media
List Price: $207.48
Buy New: $51.48
You Save: $156.00 (75%)
Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 31
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 52
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 52
First Issue Lead Time: 4-6 Weeks
ASIN: B00005N7TB
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Who Reads Us Weekly?
Us Weekly's readers are young, educated and affluent adults compelled by breaking celebrity news, Hollywood style and the best in entertainment. They focus on celebrities’ style, health and beauty routines, nutrition and fitness advice, and even the vacations of their favorite stars. The Us reader is interested in the film, television, and music industries, as well as fashion-forward trends and the inside entertainment scoop.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue: - Hot Bodies: The annual Hot Bodies issue scours Hollywood for the best bodies in the business. Us Weekly’s unique perspective and insider access delivers the stories on Hollywood’s hottest celebs, and the nutrition, style and figure-fixer secrets behind the looks.
- Celebrity Style: Reinforcing authority on style, beauty, and all things celebrity, Us Weekly brings you our Celebrity Style special issue – the ultimate guide to chic star style. Us Weekly celebrates celeb style at its most inspiring – from the dresses that have launched a thousand careers, to the style faux pas that will live infamously in history. Celebrity Style will give readers the inside scoop on the clothes, designers, and signature touches that create star-caliber looks.
- Hollywood’s Best Diets: Even celebrities struggle with over-indulging during the holiday season. Us Weekly’s Best Diets issue features the stars that look particularly great come January, and divulges their secrets to staying healthy and fit. Plus, star menus, food planners and advice from top celebrity trainers.
- Awards Night: Red Carpet coverage is central to Us Weekly’s editorial mission. Reporting on 18 award shows a year, and with pre and post coverage of every major awards event, Us Weekly delivers exciting multi-faceted cross-platform marketing opportunities that extend your message from online to broadcast.
- Red Carpet: what's the new dress craze this week?
- Hot Pics: need we say more?
- Plus, Star Beauty, Star Style, Hot Stuff, The Record?
Magazine Layout: Each issue is picture-packed with hundreds of photos, documenting the latest news on your favorite celebrities. It is the perfect blend of photography and text for those interested in the celebrity lifestyle. Comparisons to Other Magazines: Us Weekly is the magazine that keeps the closest watch on the ever changing and ever exciting entertainment industry, unlike any other magazine. It takes you backstage at awards shows and sneaks you into celebrity parties. Us Weekly peers into the minds (and dressing rooms) of the biggest stars, and escorts you around the world to see exactly where and with whom the hottest names in entertainment have been hanging out. Us gives you more access than any other magazine on the newsstand. Past Issues: Awards: AdWeek Hot List, 2005, 2006, 2007. Top Performer of the decade, 1996-2006.
Product Description
This magazine covers film, video, television and contemporary music. It provides in-depth editorials on top personalities, events and developments current in the world of entertainment.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 60 more reviews...
 Ephemeral and guilty March 9, 2004
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
35 out of 46 found this review helpful
The first thing to know about US Weekly is what it is and what it isn't. It is NOT a magazine. It IS cotton candy liberally spread on paper. A mixture of gleeful celebrity worship and tabloid dirt-dishing, this is an amusing guilty pleasure.The photo-heavy US mainly focuses on celebrities and their love lives -- mostly false reports and half-truths. Most of the rest is stuff like "The Sexy Stars of S.W.A.T," photographs of stars doing ordinary things (ooh, Keanu Reeves ate a sandwich!), cutesy captions, and descriptions of handbags, jewelry, clothes and cocktails that no ordinary person can afford. Tacked on at the end, to provide the illusion of real journalism, are brief movie and TV reviews. There are a handful of diverting articles. For example, occasionally there are fluff interviews with various celebrities -- models, actors, singers, and reality-TV doofs. The most amusing (not to mention witty) section is the Fashion Police, with quilted skirts, paint-splattered boots, and Britney's sequined bra. It includes some nicely catty comments ("Crazed kewpie doll") and proof that money can't buy taste. It's colorful and fun to look at. But so are baby toys. The wispiness of US makes it unmemorable. For those who worship at the altar of pop culture, it's a must. For the rest of humanity, it's trashy and fluffy.
 don't buy magazines from amazon!!!!!!!!!!! January 18, 2005
unhappy customer (new jersey)
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
Don't buy any magazines from Amazon!!! I made the mistake of giving a gift subscription to a friend of mine. Despite many phone calls and e-mails the magazines weren't sent and they would not send a refund. Apparently, Amazon subcontracts the magazines to a sleazy outfit called Synapse Services, and despite my complaint being raised to "Amazon Escalation" I have not gotten a refund nor have the mags been sent. This was for an Xmas present in 2003! I have given up, no one was willing to take responsibility. They took my money and did not deliver. That is larceny in my book!!.
Shallow but unfortunately very entertaining August 13, 2004
Mark Twain (www.chismetime.com)
18 out of 26 found this review helpful
For me, US Weekly is a mixed bag. As a screenwriter, I want to know what's going on in the entertainment industry, who is dating whom, and what my favorite actors and actresses are up to, and US Weekly is the best choice because the magazine is easy to read and fun. However, US Weekly gets the award for Paparazzi stalkers of the year. They seem to capture celebrities at their most vulnerable, and sometimes don't even get the entire story straight before rushing an article to print. US Weekly also concentrates too much on Paris Hilton, J Lo, and now more than ever, Brittany Spears, three women I couldn't care less about. One article a month is enough, but in every issue? UGH! How bout dealing with how the other half live? And instead of all the bad, it would be great to see the more helpful side of celebrities like charity events and fundraisers.
US Weekly also annoys me with its 'Stars, they're just like US" column, which depict stars doing everyday activities like shopping, filling up gas, and GASP, eating! This is ridiculous because never for a moment did I think these stars were from outer space and not like us. They make movies people, they're not martians. Obviously they're like US. Give that column a rest US. It's annoying.
US Weekly is quickly doing downhill and if it continues this way, I will not renew my subscription. It started off great, but now it's getting pretty annoying and shallow. J Lo who?
 Relatively okay November 24, 2003
Angel of the Future (Morgantown)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
This magazine has absolutely no substance and I wish it did, but it IS a fun magazine to read while waiting for a hair cut or in the doctor's office or wherever. For those people not familar with this magazine, it's all about current celebrities and fashion stuff. Sometimes, the celebrity stories are entertaining to read. However, there are two problems with the celebrity section. Number one, sometimes US goes into TOO MUCH personal detail about a celebrity. Number two, some of the celebrities they interview or have a story on are completely overrated and don't deserve it (the story). The fashion section isn't my favorite to read, in any magazine, and this one is no exception. However, sometimes there are cool clothing featured. But what kind of person can afford what they show? Like I mentioned before, this magazine has no substance, so that means no world issue stories. It wouldn't kill the writers or the company who puts this magazine out to throw in a few world issue stories for those people who like this magazine but want to see something that isn't fluff. My final warning/thoughts for this magazine? For those people who absolutely detest fluffy magazines, this would NOT be for you. Avoid it at all costs. For those pop-culture obsessed people, this is one magazine you should DEFINITELY own. For those people waiting in a doctor's office or waiting for their turn to get their hair cut and want something to read, give this magazine a chance.
 Everyone needs a guilty pleasure!!! April 15, 2004
P. Rudnicki (Norfolk Virginia)
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
I can't help it! I know that I should be reading something more educational, but I adore US Magazine! There is something about it that makes me swipe it off of the shelf at the grocery store every time a new issue comes out! I love reading about the latest celebrity spoofs! US Magazine is literally overflowing with the latest gossip on every celebrity you can think of. From what not to wear, to pregnancy alerts, you can read all of the juicy stuff! Every week they write about all the new movie deals everyone signed up for, who has gotten married, arrested, pregnant etc.! I just love it. One of my favorite features about US is the pictures of stars caught reading it! I love the fact that not only do I have to have my weekly gossip fix, but so do they!
|
|
|
