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Green Porno Prototype
You know my feelings on Isabella Rossellini's series Green Porno. (The most important film project of our time!) I was thrilled to read that new episodes are coming. This season, we can expect to see one of the world's most classic and pedigreed ...
What To Wear To An Orgy
Playboy has put a bunch of their archives online. (You'll have to download Microsoft Silverlight to view them. Don't resist the software. It made for great browsing.) This is a cover from May 1971 and it's a lot artier than the covers of today. I...
Going Completely Fishwife
This is the photo that accompanies a feature in my March, 1952 issue of Cosmopolitan. The 1950s is one of my pet decades for time travel. In addition to playing dress-up on my trip, I look forward to luxuriating in ignorance. I will take up smo...
Spectacular
Kay Heffernon enjoys a hot dog and a Coke, wearing a nubbly-textured bikini, on Jones beach, in 1948. Also possibly worth noting: Kay is standing in a cloud of POISON. This photo, by George Silk, was taken to demonstrate that insecticide DDT wa...
13 Pounds Away From Love
Readers Chris W. and Stacy O. just sent me this brilliant vintage ad. Click to enlarge and read the saga of Kitty, an overeater, who is unable to compete with a lithe blond at the pool. Luckily Kitty's undermining friend steps in to tell her abou...
