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A spy informs us that David Katzenberg, son of Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, is earning his keep by shuffling papers at Vanity Fair (quite the cushy gig, especially compared to his last stint as Mary-Kate Olsen's boyfriend). Meanwhile, former Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards' daughter Cate is still toiling away at the mag as an editorial assistant. So that's two relatively young darlings who've managed to enter the holy temple of Vanity, both of whom are just coincidentally the spawn of the rich-and-powerful.
Now we'd never suggest that these bright young things got their jobs based on anything other than their own merit — Katzenberg, we hear, is a genius when it comes to profiling mid-century British socialites. But surely they're not the only children of the elite who have been hired to staple things at enviable publications.
So, we're asking you: Do tell us where these fortunate sons and daughters are slaving away like common folk. Who are the privileged interns and assistants, and where are they putting in those character-building hours?
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amy fleetwood. vogue.
There are lots of reasons why magazines would hire the children of the rich and famous: * When you have to live in New York on an editorial assistant's salary of $23,000 per year, it helps to have that extra apartment your folks bought as an investment in 1990. * Now that magazines realize they actually have to fact-check, say, how long a famous drug addict spent in jail or whether a certain TV writer studied to be a pickup artist, your prep-school and Ivy League education will come in handy. * When you're asked to give Anne Hathaway a tour of your offices in preparation for her role in "The Devil Wears Prada," it's better if you can say "Hey, remember that one party? That was great!" rather than "A-hamina-hamina-hamina." * When the head guy is ready to shop around his own screenplay about a magazine editor who singlehandedly stops the gang of terrorists who've taken over his building, you can pull half a dozen studio execs right out of your Blackberry.
Taking classes with them isn't much better. The personal anecdotes are so painful. If you had to hear someone relate Charlotte Perkins Gilman to "my mom, who's a CEO and works really, really hard..." Oh thank god it's summer.
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