To: pml1@yahoogroups.com Subject: [PML1] CC: Jill De Vries From: Mark Tomlonson Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:26:16 -0400 Wil has some "issues" with Playboy during the seventies, and I think Jill De Vries' centerfold (October 1975) is a good illustration of what he has been talking about. Jill's PMOM feature was titled "Country Girl". She has the freshness of the Midwest. Playboy was founded on the notion that even good Midwestern girls like sex, but Jill's centerfold says that good Midwestern girls can be easily confused with $5 New Orleans hookers. That's a little rough. After all, it wasn't only Playboy that reached a nadir in the seventies, so did a lot of other things. I know, I was there. Popular styles in particular took a real dive, and it could be that what strikes me now as a cheap-hooker look was meant simply as erotic. Jill is wearing the kind of robe you could get from Montgomery Ward's, not Frederick's of Hollywood, and maybe that look on her face is more the blushing prom queen than anything else. I think my real complaint here is the tack that Playboy took with the centerfold. I would have much preferred the look of my alternate pick, playing to Jill's strengths rather than casting her in a contrived and forced role. Photographer: Dwight Hooker Scoring: Pin-up: 2.0 Erotic: 2.5 Artistic: 2.0 Overall: 2.2 out of 4.0 Cyber Club Portfolio Photo I like better than the Centerfold: #1 http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/1975/10/centerfold.html http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/1975/10/01-lrg.html Mark Tomlonson Kalamazoo MI