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...Well, Dad," the youth revealed, "while hitch-hiking in pursuit of your movies, I happened to be picked up by a big limousine bearing none other than movie cut-up Rodney Dangerfield and his friend, Paulina Porizkova. After a wacky series of misadventures, involving several cases of mistaken identity, a mix-up with a bag of jewels, and a wedding averted at the last moment, it turns out that Miss Porizkova is in love with me and that I am heir to a large industrial fortune. Excuse me, Father, but I believe the chauffeur is waiting." And with those words...
This year, in a rare display of tokenism, Sports Illustrated has included photographs of a Black woman. In previous years, only white women with WASPy names (with the recent exception of Paulina Porizkova) were considered beautiful enough to grace the issue's pages...
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anti-Communist, really "just a young brat writing graffiti on the walls." But in Czechoslovakia, that meant he was frequently jailed. So in 1975, when she was ten, Porizkova moved to Sweden with her parents, and by 18 she had dazzled much of Europe as a top Paris model. Then she came to New York City where she now earns $300,000 a year with the Elite modeling agency. She is here on a working visa and has not yet decided to seek citizenship. "What I love and hate about the U.S. are the same things. I hate that there...
When SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's annual swimsuit issue hit the newsstands in February, 19.5 million readers were captivated by the come-hither pose of Czech-born Model Paulina Porizkova, whose sea-green bikini accentuated all the right curves. Armin and Leah Gottlieb, however, had eyes only for her $50 lace-andLycra swimsuit, which was manufactured by their Israeli company, Gottex, a privately held family firm (1984 sales: $40 million) that is the leading exporter of fashion swimwear...