Word: gatefold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thrust at the whole institution of centerfolds and a self-parody of his own growing macho image. That gambit may have worked a little too well. The magazine hit the stands just as Reynolds' first really good picture, Deliverance, hit the screen, and some of his friends think the gatefold may have cost him an Academy Award nomination. Overall, however, his strategy worked. He has not had to play a heavy in years, and his success as a highly bankable "light" gives him more and more chances to call his own shots, even to direct himself, in Gator...
...aspires to be a women's lib parable, realizing the female's worst fears about her mate's desire to dehumanize her. But it is too glibly on the side of the fashionable angels. Moreover, the movie never shows a single man whose feminine ideal exceeds gatefold dimensions. That too is a form of dehumanization...
...pieces of their life. A Roman Catholic and a self-disciplined man who worked his way through college, the commander grouses good-naturedly, but with an undercurrent of emotion, about long hair, pop-music Masses at church and the pubic hair that has sprouted in Playboy's gatefold since he left. He is tender and tentative as he tries to get to know his kids again, tries to fit himself back into the world of backyard barbecues and small talk about Little Leagues. His wife, meantime, has tried to explain to the boys "that I was his girl friend...