In the introductory chapter of The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992, today's Tina Brown weighs in on young Tina Brown, and her verdict is clear: From day one, she was hot, hot, hot. Her work for The New Statesman right after university? "Frisky." Her 1977 affair with the "fearless, crusading" Harold Evans, whom she'd one day marry? "A scandale." Her old college flame Martin Amis? A "literary lothario" who was "small and Jaggeresque".

After all these years, she still writes in Vanity Fair display type.