fan magazine

American  

noun

1. a magazine containing information and gossip about celebrities.

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Etymology

Origin of fan magazine

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

“I was still searching for an identity for myself,” Reiner told an “All in the Family” fan magazine in 1971, the year Lear offered him the role of Archie Bunker’s hippie son-in-law Michael “Meathead” Stivic.

From Los Angeles Times

As a plus-size bounder, she has drawn inspiration and gotten tips from others, and was recently featured in a fan magazine for her look as Scar from “The Lion King.”

From Washington Post

In 1918, an essay in the film fan magazine Photoplay criticized the older arts as elitist, but noted that when the moving picture arrived “democracy clasped it to its heart” — this was, the writer proclaimed, “the first art-child of democracy.”

From New York Times

As we walked through Kabukicho’s patchwork of bars and more dubious businesses, he showed me an out-of-print yakuza fan magazine, one of many that for decades were fixtures at Japanese newsstands.

From New York Times

But as the hours passed, and Ono remained — painting at an easel, chewing a pastry, paging through a Lennon fan magazine — I found myself impressed by her stamina, then entranced by the provocation of her existence and ultimately dazzled by her performance.

From New York Times