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...nuanced arena of professional wrestling, dignity is a relative term. As the World Wrestling Federation's women's champion, a leather-clad SABLE subdued opponents in front of lusty fans and posed for Playboy. But the real-life wife and mother balked at what she claims were the league's requests for her to expose her breasts and participate in lesbian story lines. Sable alleges that her resistance led to her scripted defeat in the ring earlier this month. Now she has sued the WWF for $110 million, saying the sport has become "obscene, titillating, vulgar and unsafe...
DIED. SHEL SILVERSTEIN, 66, children's author, playwright, Playboy cartoonist and Oscar-nominated songwriter; of a heart attack; in Key West, Fla. Silverstein, who served in the Korean War, was best known for writing and illustrating mischievous, charmingly tasteless books of poetry for children (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic)--a career he never intended, even though he sold 14 million books. His quirky poems featured a cast of rogues ranging from the unruly Dancing Pants to the unsanitary Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who "would not take the garbage out"). He also wrote the lyrics to several...
...this sounds unbelievable, it is. Imagine a combination of Back to the Future, The Truman Show and Phantom of the Opera, set in Spain and you'll have some idea of the complex and quick moving Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos). The movie opens with Cesar, a millionaire playboy played by Eduardo Noriega, finding relief from a seductress Nuria by meeting the beautiful girl next door type Sofia (played by Penelope Cruz). Cesar spends the night at Sofia's apartment in what seems to be the match made in heaven, but as he walks to his car the next...
Asked about a British tabloid photo which depicted him at the Playboy Mansion in Hollywood, Rushdie answered that "Clearly, that's where I've been for the last 10 years...
...realize that Silverstein, who passed away last Monday, spent many years writing and illustrating for adults. In the 1950s, he served overseas in the military, drawing cartoons for Stars and Stripes. After returning to the United States, he began drawing cartoons for Playboy. In fact, he once told a close friend he never intended to become a children's author. Even after Silverstein published his first children's work in 1963, he continued to write poems and song lyrics for adults...