Word: marilyns
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...believe it was the TV comedy writer Marilyn Suzanne Miller, in a New York Times Op-Ed piece a few years ago, who witheringly described advertisers? target audience as ?the all-important 18-19 demographic.? To gauge from Super Bowl commercials (I fart in your general direction), Hollywood movies (stuff blowin? up, guys crackin? wise) and most newspaper and magazine coverage of the arts (INSERT HERE name of latest youthcult fad), you?d think American comprised nothing but teenage boys with billions to burn...
DIED. HOPE LANGE, 70, film, stage and television actress who won an Oscar nomination for her performance as a troubled teenage girl in the 1957 movie soap opera Peyton Place; of an intestinal infection; in Santa Monica, Calif. Her blond beauty once rankled Marilyn Monroe (before letting Lange appear alongside her in Bus Stop, Monroe demanded that Lange's hair be dyed brown) and won her parts in such 1950s films as The Young Lions. But she was better known for her matronly, Emmy-winning role as a widow living in a haunted seaside home in TV's The Ghost...
...anniversary issue, on newsstands now, and looking back at some of its 600 issues, I think of Playboy as I think of myself: a child of the 50s. The magazine?s dreams of smart clothes and fantasy babes are as much a part of that complicated decade as Ike, Marilyn, the H-bomb, the Edsel and Barbie...
...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...
...Marilyn Gomez, another Williams sophomore, agreed. She said she took a class focused on a style of modern painting during last year’s January term...