Word: mensa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controlled; she performs them each morning like aerobics. She is properly repelled by Tom, and improperly attracted to him. Improperly, because she has a perfect pal -- not a soul mate exactly, but a brain mate -- in Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks), a warm, supercompetent, underappreciated reporter, the Jimmy Olsen of Mensa. Aaron can spit out pertinent facts about Gaddafi, he can get drunk and sing along in flawless French to a Francis Cabrel tune, he can love Jane to pristine pieces, all to no avail. Poor Aaron. He lacks what this judicious, irresistible romantic comedy is about: the fatal attraction...
Media also crowded around the Mensa models, whose makeup had already begun to crease and who looked nothing like their Playboy photos. A photographer from the Boston Herald guided the two around, using for props various magazines, notebooks and glasses to achieve exactly the right pose...
While at this venue the Playboy publicist directed the models poses, Mensa specimen Selig says the seven intellectuals chose their own fantasy for their pictorials in the famous men's magazine...
Proposed by the woman with with the highest I.Q., 174, a 20-year-old who is a radio reporter and host on a cable television show, the idea received 100 queries from Mensa members...
Playboy, which is well-known for pictorials of college students, then auditioned the genuises to see if they had what it takes to be a nude model. They somehow pared the group down to the seven best-looking Mensa members...