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...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...
...would have to be Marilyn Monroe. One could not have written a more perfect scenario, that we would wind up with our very first centerfold as the woman who became the major sex celebrity of the 20th century...
...never had patience with the feminist casting of Marilyn as only a victim,” says Geller, who says he’s seen just about all her films. “She was a tremendously ambitious person who helped create her own myth...