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...Back then, Bettie Page was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Titter, Whisper and Wink, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day, maybe any day. (She was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.) As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged...
Maria Sharapova fibs. "I'm just a normal girl," she giggles. Sharapova, 18, the blond, leggy, Russia-born, Florida-raised tennis pinup is the No. 1--ranked player in the world heading into next week's U.S. Open. Sure, like a normal girl, Sharapova is a bit of a mall rat. But a normal girl doesn't morph into the highest-paid female athlete on the planet in one year. She doesn't have a corporate sponsor like Motorola throw her 18th-birthday party at a swank Manhattan nightclub, pack it with 500 people and hire Maroon 5 to rock...
...gilded sheet-copper Diana that he made as a weathervane figure for the top of Stanford White's original Madison Square Garden in 1891, slender as any mannerist charmer from Fontainebleau, became in a literal way the Golden Girl of the '90s in New York, as definitive a pinup as the Gibson Girl...
Provocative pundit Ann Coulter regularly enrages the left and delights the right, so it was no surprise that our several thousand letters broke along similar lines. Some readers wondered why Coulter deserved the attention, while others saluted their favorite Republican pinup girl...
...idea clicked last December in Rio de Janeiro, where Supermodel Jerry Hall was posing for Photographer Annie Leibovitz for the March '85 cover of Vanity Fair. The session went so well that the pair decided to do a 1986 pinup calendar. There was no problem finding exposure: Workman Publishing took the calendar, Playboy a set of the photographs. Hall's seasonal poses run from a vision in lace (January) to Aunt Sam (July) to a Christmas gift (December). Observes Leibovitz of Mick Jagger's lady: "Jerry loves the camera." And vice versa...