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...turmoil is political in character or international in scope. At Stanford University last week, some 250 students and faculty demonstrated against the presence of a Playboy magazine representative shopping for willing student bodies for a picture spread called "Girls of the PAC-10." At the University of Texas at Austin, 2,000 students marched to the state capitol building to protest a proposed tuition hike. The Reagan Administration's proposed 20% cut in student loans and grants, which has stimulated protests, also seems to have catalyzed more general student dissent and discontent...
Discovering that Madonna had posed nude early in her career is a bit like learning that the blond pop siren streaks her hair. Not exactly shattering news. Even so, there was the Material Girl without a stitch of material last week in not one but two flesh magazines, Playboy and Penthouse. The pictures are unremarkable art school stuff, black-and-white studies of Madonna reclining on couches and sitting on windowsills. The real pleasure came from watching Playboy and Penthouse trade taunts in an old-fashioned newsstand...
According to Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse, he had the first look at Playboy's pictures, which were taken in the late 1970s by two New York photographers who had hired Madonna, then an impoverished dancer, as an artist's model (pay: $30 a session). Instead, Guccione purchased the work of another New York photographer, who had paid Madonna $50 for a two-hour sitting in 1978. "Play boy's photos were coarse, uncomplimentary and rather like scraping the bottom of the barrel," said Guccione. Nonsense, says Playboy. Guccione offered at least $100,000 for Playboy's pictures...
...Playboy printed 5.9 million copies, 350,000 more than its normal run, while Penthouse is shipping 5.2 million instead of the usual 4.9 million. If Penthouse sells well, Guccione may publish another set of Madonna nudes next month. The onetime artist's model, busy preparing for her wedding next month to Actor Sean Penn, seemed indifferent to all the exposure and declined comment...
...debate game on a thrilling high note. Granted, no Copeland trophy this year (the answer to our cover from March 10 is apparently “no”), but as speculation about next season begins and Tarloff starts planning his post college years as an American playboy in London, the gang is primed for revenge...