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From: Mark Tomlonson
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:24:19 -0400
Subject: [PML1] CC: Geraldine "Gig" Gangel

In Gig Gangel's centerfold (January 1980) she's dressed for a night on 
the town. Well, one kind of night anyway. A particular kind of town, 
too, come to think of it.

I'll admit right off that I'm no fan of fishnet. Probably too many 
images of cheap, consumptive, syphilitic, drunken French whores burned 
into my memory files. (Media images only, mind you!) Here, though, 
fishnet works very well.

Gig plays a big part in this, with a figure that can stand being 
visually cut up into little squares and slightly squeezed. The pose is 
good, not because of what it does to her bustline, but because of the 
animation it gives the photo.

Somehow that black fishnet also ties in with the fedora and choker, 
giving the whole image a Frank Sinatra kind of class; the definition the 
slightly nerdy Hefner admired in his adolescent years. There have been 
centerfolds that have tried this image and failed. This one succeeds. 
I'd guess it's the attitude that Gig projects. It's that same sense of 
cock-surety that the Chairman Of The Board made his trademark. Gig's 
unique quality is being able to project this while still retaining every 
ounce of her femininity.

Photographer: Ken Marcus

Scoring:
Pin-up: 2.0
Erotic: 2.0
Artistic: 3.0

Overall: 2.2 out of 4.0

Cyber Club Portfolio Photo I like better than the Centerfold: #16

http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/1980/01/centerfold.html
http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/1980/01/16-lrg.html

Update:
For our International readers, I heard just recently that fishnet dies 
not carry the seedy image on the Continent that it often does on this 
side of the Atlantic.

Revised Scoring:
Pin-up: 3.0
Erotic: 2.5
Artistic: 3.0

Overall: 2.8 out of 4.0

Mark Tomlonson
Kalamazoo MI