Word: centerfolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer is none of the above. The correct response: Shannon Tweed, the November 1981 Playboy centerfold, inviting viewers to join her in Hugh Hefner's new electronic rabbit warren. In partnership with Escapade, a cable programmer that bills itself as an "adult entertainment service," Playboy last month launched the first in a series of one-hour video magazines into 200,000 homes. "The cable market is similar to the opportunities the magazine had in the 1950s," says Hefner. "This is where home entertainment is going. It's a core interest...
...first show opens with a Playboy interview: John Derek and Bo Derek atop a California hill that is only slightly less windswept than the Dereks' conversation. After a promo by Playmate Tweed en deshabille and a parody commercial, the program rips through a "Ribald Classic," stages a centerfold photo session on Shannon and tosses in a humorous feature on Andy Kaufman, male chauvinist champ presumptive, wrestling Playmate Susan Smith to the mat in a "primal battle of the sexes...
Bound into the centerfold of this week's issue is Waldenbooks' 32-page holiday gift catalogue, the largest single-product ad ever to appear in a national consumer magazine. The four-color catalogue features 364 hard-cover books, paperbacks and calendars. TIME's only larger insert was a corporate ad for Gulf & Western in 1979, a 64-page annual report...
Mike Bass is a former Playgirl centerfold who enjoys surfing and video games. He will be happy to have you call him, and will be available in the Sports Cube Wednesday and Thursday night at the Comp meeting. Free Beer Here...
...frequently duplicated (five entertainment editors, seven gossip writers). Many veteran staffers resented the Felker recruits, contemptuously labeled "boutique journalists" by Bareknuckle Columnist Jimmy Breslin. Bad planning and production problems turned the revamped multisection paper into an incomprehensible jumble; it became a challenge just to find the old pictorial centerfold, and a near impossibility to locate the TV listings...