Word: centerfolds
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...Victoria Ilyinsky—one of the FM’s hottest women—was asked what “hot is,” she replied, “LAX’ers of course!”? Or that the other three people profiled on the centerfold spread are all gazing longingly in Stenmark’s general direction? After all, he did describe himself as “ridiculously good looking...
...lenses, and his team's exacting attention to skin, hair and costume, produced a look that became unique to the magazine. Scavullo did celebrity portraits, glamorized Watergate figure Martha Mitchell for a 1974 cover of New York magazine and shot Burt Reynolds in the nude for a 1972 Cosmo centerfold. "I don't think I can say I'm the best," he told the Washington Post in 1985. "But I think I do what no one else does. My pictures are alive...
...conglomerate. TV: he created and hosted two syndicated TV shows, ?Playboy Penthouse? and ?Playboy After Dark.? Books: Playboy Press published collections from the magazine and original material like Lenny Bruce?s ?How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.? Nightclub-restaurants: Playboy Clubs soon straddled the globe and franchised his centerfold Playmates into real live (but clothed) Bunnies. Movies: Playboy Productions financed Roman Polanski?s ?Macbeth? and Monty Python?s ?And Now for Something Completely Different,? and Hefner negotiated with screenwriter George Axelrod to make a movie of his life, called ?Playboy...
...first centerfold subject - not yet called a Playmate - was Marilyn Monroe, in the notorious though little-seen calendar nude she had posed for a few years earlier. According to Joe Goldberg?s 1967 book ?Big Bunny: The Inside History of Playboy,? Hefner had bought that photo (with its color separations) and a batch of others for $5,000. For that modest amount he got not only fabulous publicity for his first issue but the next year?s worth of centerfold photos. Only at the end of 1954 did he start assigning ?original art? from such cheesecake shutterbugs as Russ Meyer...
...Playboy sold the woman as erotic machine. The Playboy man could drive her as NASCAR speeds, stop when he felt like it, trade her in for a new model as the whim drove him - not once a year, as Detroit pressed him to, but every month, in the Playboy centerfold...