Explore the vast range of titles available.

FORMER DAILY News music critic Susan Toepfer died after a battle with lung cancer, her friends said. She was 65. The life-long journalist started as a freelancer for the Daily News just as new music genres like punk rock exploded in the city during the 1970s, writing dozens of pieces based off interviews with the industry's famous, larger-than-life characters. Her prose featured an opinionated spark.

Susan Toepfer, hired by Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing in the summer of 2002 to revive the faltering [Rosie O'Donnell] magazine, downplayed her proposed changes and expressed amazement at why they elicited angry outbursts from O'Donnell. During cross-examination, O'Donnell's attorney attempted to portray Toepfer as argumentative. The editor allegedly picked a fight after only two days on the job over cover photographs that showed O'Donnell with the female stars of HBO's \"The Sopranos.\" G+J filed suit against O'Donnell after she severed all ties to Rosie magazine, which stopped publishing after two years with the December 2002 issue. O'Donnell countersued, alleging the publisher violated her rights under the joint-venture agreement. Each side is seeking about $100 million in damages.

Susan Toepfer, hired by Gruner Jahr USA Publishing in the summer of 2002 to revive the faltering [Rosie O'Donnell] magazine, downplayed her proposed changes and expressed amazement at why they elicited angry outbursts from O'Donnell. During cross-examination, O'Donnell's attorney attempted to portray Toepfer as argumentative. The editor allegedly picked a fight after only two days on the job over cover photographs that showed O'Donnell with the female stars of HBO's \"The Sopranos.\" GJ filed suit against O'Donnell after she severed all ties to Rosie magazine, which stopped publishing after two years with the December 2002 issue. O'Donnell countersued, alleging the publisher violated her rights under the joint-venture agreement. Each side is seeking about $100 million in damages.

Susan Toepfer, hired by Gruner Jahr USA Publishing in the summer of 2002 to revive the faltering [Rosie O'Donnell] magazine, downplayed her proposed changes and expressed amazement at why they elicited angry outbursts from O'Donnell. During cross-examination, O'Donnell's attorney attempted to portray Toepfer as argumentative. The editor allegedly picked a fight after only two days on the job over cover photographs that showed O'Donnell with the female stars of HBO's \"The Sopranos.\" GJ filed suit against O'Donnell after she severed all ties to Rosie magazine, which stopped publishing after two years with the December 2002 issue. O'Donnell countersued, alleging the publisher violated her rights under the joint-venture agreement. Each side is seeking about $100 million in damages.

The first thing you notice about the new Rosie magazine is that there's no Rosie. The three leading ladies of \"The Sopranos\" fill the cover - space that namesake and editorial director Rosie O'Donnell used to share with the issue's profiled celebs. You wouldn't know from Rosie's letter in the issue that she's squabbling with her partner, Gruner + Jahr CEO Dan Brewster, since he hired [Susan Toepfer].

FORMER DAILY News music critic Susan Toepfer died on Christmas Eve after a battle with lung cancer, her husband said.

In the midst of the much-reported \"clash\" between Rosie O'Donnell and Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing president/ceo Dan Brewster over the direction of Rosie came word that creative director [DOUG TURSHEN] was not retained by new editor-in-chief Susan Toepfer.

[Rosie O'Donnell], finishing her testimony Friday at the breach-of- contract trial, said she entered the joint venture with publisher Gruner+Jahr USA believing she controlled the editorial content and staff of Rosie magazine. She said that was no longer true by the end of summer 2002. In e-mails shown as evidence at the trial in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, O'Donnell said she would control the magazine's editorial content or she would shut it down. The last issue of Rosie was December 2002. G+J lawyers say she killed the magazine because of the fight with [Susan Toepfer] over the \"Sopranos\" photo. The cover, showing O'Donnell standing between Lorraine Bracco and Edie Falco, was never used.

[Dan Crimmins] worked on the contract [Rosie O'Donnell] signed with G+J to publish Rosie magazine. But the star blamed him for not protecting her against G+J. O'Donnell also gave her version of what became the beginning of the end of the magazine: her dispute with editor-in-chief Susan Toepfer about a cover photo of O'Donnell with the cast of \"The Sopranos.\" [Marty Hyman] suggested that O'Donnell became bored with Rosie six months before Toepfer was hired and had never really wanted to be in the magazine business.