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...Garfield the Cat, and Christie Brinkley's Outdoor Beauty and Fitness Book is poised to shimmy up the bestseller list. So lest a bit of open wall in a teenager's bedroom not be filled with her image, here comes a new $3 poster, her first authorized pinup, with the subject in a Norma Kamali bathing suit that not just anyone could or would wear. Next Brinkley must turn to promoting her movie, National Lampoon's Vacation, due out later this summer. "Life," as Christie has said, "is the search for a decent night's sleep...
...Sinatra, who left (to join Tommy Dorsey) before the band's romantic 1941 hit recording of You Made Me Love You established James as one of the premier swingmen during World War II. His fame hit its peak in 1943, when he married America's No. 1 pinup, Betty Grable (from whom he was divorced 22 years later). Despite the many subsequent changes in popular taste, James held a band together for 40 years, playing his final gig ten days before he died...
...three years ago?" he says. Three years ago! And then he comes toward the stage waving this thing that looked like a pipe. Luckily, it turned out to be a rolled-up poster of Brooke Shields. What? The guy couldn 't find a copy of my pinup? Actually, it really shook me. And now I hear that he's out on parole for murder. They took him away and everything, but it sure made me homesick for the good old days and Los Angeles sound stages. I know they say there's nothing like the thrill...
...waited a lifetime, more than 30 years, to hear those three words, 'Mrs. Howard Hughes.' " And the three words were worth perhaps eight figures to Terry Moore, 54, actress (Peyton Place, Come Back Little Sheba) and Korean War pinup girl. Back when she was a starlet in 1949, Moore maintains, she and Billionaire Hughes, then 43, were secretly married on a sailing trip to Mexico and were never legally divorced, even though he remarried at least once and she has since married and divorced three other men. After Hughes' death in 1976, Moore went public with...
Students of institutions as diverse as the University of Texas, Kansas State, Michigan State, UCLA, and Yale have produced either male or female pinup calendars in imitation of the original, which is believed to have featured men at Arizona State...