Spy, Esquire Rip Worst Of ‘95

Should auld acquaintance be forgot? Heck, no. Not when we can greet the new year by skewering the worst of the old, with the help of two magazines that never have any trouble finding the jugular: Spy and Esquire.

With its usual boundless appetite for spite, Spy in its February issue roughs up the “100 Worst People, Places & Things of 1995,” a year that Spy describes as “perhaps the most annoying, alarming and appalling year in history.”

As proof, Spy notes the return to the limelight of its favorite short-fingered vulgarian: Donald Trump. But there were plenty of other celebs to annoy, alarm and appall us in ‘95, and Spy doesn’t miss a one: Demi Moore, Peter McNeeley, Ricki Lake, Newt Gingrich, Cindy Crawford, Michael Jackson, Boris Yeltsin, the Clintons, Dennis Rodman, Barbra Streisand, Ralph Reed, Mike Ovitz, “Gramps” Jagger. … O. J. Simpson is left off the list but is the standard for judging the others, Spy says.

Though less lethal than Spy’s, Esquire’s own brand of merry malice flavors its “Dubious Achievements of 1995” roundup. Simpson is on the cover, as he becomes the first person to cop the title of Dubious Man of the Year for two years in a row.