The centerfold, for instance — yes, there is still a centerfold, in this case, Dree Hemingway, a great-granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway — cavorts in the buff.
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A Neytiri Playboy Centerfold would have been a good idea.
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Because one kangaroo seems to be gunning for the centerfold spot.
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French model Ines Rau appears in a spread and the centerfold.
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Why was a Playboy centerfold the test case for the JPG?
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Playboy's appeal to the G.I. in Vietnam extended beyond the centerfold.
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I'm calling it a photo when, really, it was a centerfold.
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Incorporating elements of new-wave pop, "Centerfold" catapulted them to mainstream success.
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He had final say on the centerfold, cartoons and overall editorial direction.
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Screen Time "Centerfold" has a long history on the big and small screens.
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"Well, his [centerfold] is quite a bit more obvious than mine," says Welch.
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Did you put any of the TigerBeat heartthrob centerfold posters on your wall?
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"In any case, it's not just the centerfold I disapprove of," Greer complained.
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He was laid to rest beside Marilyn Monroe — the subject of Playboy's first centerfold.
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Tear-out centerfold prints allowed readers to decorate their walls with Kokoschkas and Kandinskys.
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I screen tested for "One Life to Live" with Ola Ray, a Playboy centerfold.
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Lena's glossy centerfold, with its complex mixture of colors and textures, was the perfect candidate.
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" For Chang, the moment that Lena's centerfold was torn and scanned marked "tech's original sin.
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Hefner, it turns out, pushed for McCarthy then and throughout her five-day centerfold shoot.
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She told WebMD that she hoped to get the centerfold in Psychology Today one day.
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When Playboy magazine debuted in 1953, she became its first cover model and nude centerfold.
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He suggested that one young woman leave school and become a "centerfold model," investigators said.
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I'm sorry, I never read the articles, though I do enjoy the impeachment centerfold, though.
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Trump's campaign had said it knew nothing about any payment to ex-centerfold Karen McDougal.
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There's also at least one other famous playmate of the month and centerfold buried there, too.
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Trump is listed as "himself" in the Playboy Video Centerfold: Playmate 2000 Bernaola Twins IMDb page.
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The first centerfold, a feature of the monthly magazine, was of Marilyn Monroe late in 1953.
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Well the next day, New York Daily News did a centerfold pictorial on what happened last night in Manhattan and the Bee Gees got a photo—an inch by an inch—and the whole rest of the centerfold was Bianca riding in on that white horse.
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Trump and Melania have created a world where Melania is ever the centerfold, but never the centerpiece.
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I had a cousin who discovered me in a Spin magazine centerfold who reached out to me.
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The system worked; the humans on the outsourced appeals team remembered the exemption for Burt's beefcake centerfold.
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The centerfold and other visual features in the magazine served another, unintentional purpose for American troops in Vietnam.
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The beautiful black-and-white photographs are divided vertically down the center, like the centerfold of a book.
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The magazine, which featured Marilyn Monroe as its first centerfold in 1953, stopped publishing nude photographs earlier this year.
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Former Playboy centerfold and "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson spoke out about her "romantic" relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Former Playboy centerfold and "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson wants to save the world with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (ZUMAPress)
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Reynolds's centerfold, much as he might have come to regret it, indicated that a shift was in the air.
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Although her promoters attempted to follow the centerfold imperative, Santos did not make the same "hot" lists as Carano.
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" — TREVOR NOAH "[As Trump:] I'm sorry, I never read the articles, though — I do enjoy the impeachment centerfold, though.
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In 1972, Cosmopolitan presented its first male centerfold: a furry Burt Reynolds, reclining nude on an equally furry rug.
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In 1995, with the encouragement of Type O's record company, Steele posed as a nude centerfold for Playgirl magazine.
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So it's kind of shocking that he's never seen his fiancée, Kayla Rae Reid, in her July 2015 centerfold spread.
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The investigation — written by student reporters Jack Williams, Molly Hendren and Matteo Campagnola — was the centerfold spread in the Oct.
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Their first big hit, "Love Stinks" came in 1980, and they finally scored a number one with "Centerfold" in 1981.
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The Shannon twins also appeared in Playboy's 2009 summer issue as Miss July and Miss August, sharing their centerfold duties.
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Every time a big-name woman would pose on the cover, or appear as a centerfold, the criticism rang loudly.
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If they hadn't used a Playboy centerfold, they almost certainly would have used another picture of a pretty white woman.
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TMZ has learned the centerfold is renting out her Beachwood Canyon home in the Hollywood Hills for $7,500 per month.
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When Burt Reynolds' famous 1972 Cosmopolitan centerfold hit wide, he asked his friend Raquel Welch, what she thought about it.
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It was like a time capsule: the soldiers' living quarters, the calendar on the wall from 225, the Maxim centerfold.
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In the centerfold was a short piece written by gay activist and co-founder of the city's legendary parade, Rev.
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The centerfold pages hung on tent flaps and office walls, and could be found stashed in pockets, helmets and packs.
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Providing support and comfort should be the primary goal of a bra — not creating a centerfold ideal of heteronormative feminine sexuality.
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"I feel like a booger," says the former Playboy centerfold in an exclusive sneak peek at friday's Kendra on Top finale.
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Meagan was at LAX when we asked about Ines becoming Playboy's first transgender centerfold, and it was all positive for her.
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The photo layouts were a seduction, with the Playmate slowly revealing more and more until being fully nude in the centerfold.
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A third female student struggling to pass an exam said Strampel suggested she become a centerfold model, according to the complaint.
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The head researcher said, "I bet there's some nice photos in there," and they chose the one that was in the centerfold.
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Nina Daniele, the magazine's first centerfold following their new "Naked Is Normal" campaign bringing back nudity, says posing nude can be powerful.
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On top of acting, Lyle was also a major heartthrob and became the first male seminude centerfold for Playgirl magazine in 1973.
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Sponsored by Simms, she was the first female skater to have her own two-page article and centerfold in a skateboarding magazine.
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Time away from the sport has not mellowed the once Playboy centerfold who gave up gymnastics for good following the 19973 Athens Games.
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Burt Reynolds caught the eye of Hollywood producers — and a larger audience — when he did a nude centerfold for Cosmopolitan in April 1972.
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The first issue featured Marilyn Monroe in the centerfold, with images taken for a nude calendar four years earlier, before she became famous.
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Former Playboy centerfold model Stephanie Adams and her 7-year-old plunged to their death after falling from a New York City hotel.
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One of them, standing amid an inviting clutter, opens up a volume to reveal a lush, life-size centerfold illustration of a fish.
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But gazing at the huge centerfold is the time to recall a simple instruction that Mr. Schwartz offers on the cover page: Look.
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When actor Burt Reynolds died last September, fans across Instagram and Facebook paid tribute to him by posting his 23 Cosmopolitan magazine centerfold.
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To have a man on the cover of Playboy — the magazine known for publishing Marilyn Monroe's nude centerfold in its first issue — is foreign.
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Scott Flanders, the company's chief executive, admitted to The New York Times that the centerfold had become passé in the eyes of American readers.
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Long after other publishers made the nude "Playmate" centerfold look more sugary than daring, Playboy remained the most successful men's magazine in the world.
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Let's not forget that Mr. Hefner's whole branding "relationship" with Ms. Monroe — from the magazine centerfold to the crypt — were undertaken without Monroe's consent.
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Centerfold is out now via Washington Square Music Kathy Iandoli is glad her love of Penn Badgley was only strengthened by their first date.
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Lizzie Armanto is on the cover of April's Thrasher magazine with her own centerfold, and she has parts in new Birdhouse and Thrasher videos.
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" In Lord Vicar, the same topic rears its head, becoming the centerfold of both "Between the Blue Temple and the North Tower" and "The Spartan.
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He legendarily shot to superstardom when he posed nude — lying on a bearskin rug, no less — for a history-making centerfold in Cosmopolitan in 290.
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In that video — a 1994 VHS tape obtained by CNN titled "Playboy Centerfold" — Trump takes part in Playboy magazine's search for its 40th anniversary Playmate.
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" As for Burt's mixed feelings about the centerfold, which he shared later in life, Welch says, "There's one thing about public image and the press.
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The scents smelled like what they had been told men should smell like: patchouli and sandalwood and musk; like Burt Reynolds in that famous Cosmo centerfold.
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A former Playboy centerfold also came forward this month with claims that she, too, had an affair with Trump while he was married to Melania Trump.
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The well-placed centerfold illustration is of a cool and smooth DJ Kool Herc, known as the founding father of hip-hop, with his turntable and mic.
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Campbell drew the map, which features musicians such as Cab Calloway and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, for the centerfold of Volume 1, Number 1 of the 1932 Manhattan Magazine.
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The elder Mr. Marshall dated a succession of former strippers and, at age 803, married the model and former Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith, then 26 years old.
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Chart Topper Released in September 1981 off the album Freeze-Frame, "Centerfold" took some time to catch fire but would ultimately prove to be the band's biggest hit.
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In one 1994 video named Playboy Centerfold, the 70-year-old is seen taking photos of fully clothed models with a Polaroid camera and interviewing a potential Playmate.
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Marilyn Monroe was featured on the cover and as a centerfold in the first Playboy, which he described as a "good choice" in a CNN interview in 2010.
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"It was kind of like the Burt Reynolds pinup," Mr. Cenicola said, referring to the time the actor, who died in September, appeared nude in a Cosmopolitan centerfold.
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Another witness said Strampel suggested she become a centerfold model and related to her how another student had become a stripper to pay for school, court documents said.
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My involvement in the early days of the magazine mostly consisted of bringing products to be photographed for the centerfold of the mag or to appear in contributing articles.
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The French model Ines Rau, 26, will appear as the November centerfold in the first issue since the death of Hugh Hefner, Mr. Hefner's father and the magazine's founder.
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One involves Jomama hilariously fighting Tamika over Prince's body (as pictured on a centerfold poster) back in 1979; another is about the singer's Aunt Cleotha and her trusty shotgun.
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He famously appeared naked - reclining on a bearskin rug with his arm strategically positioned for the sake of modesty - in a centerfold in the women's magazine Cosmopolitan in 19776.
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In the 70s he quickly became a sex symbol and the first man to appear in a Cosmopolitan centerfold, posing nude on a bearskin rug with a strategically placed arm.
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Their 12th album, "Freeze-Frame," featured its popular title track as well as chart-topper "Centerfold," which spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982.
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Granted it&aposs not the sort of deal most of us will make in our lives, but Trump paying a centerfold to keep quiet, I believe that&aposs called Tuesday.
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An invite to a February 20 Samsung launch event for the forthcoming Galaxy S10, sent out to press two weeks ago, also included a conspicuous centerfold in its graphic teaser.
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Looking at –the mild, amateur kink of the Polaroid studies next to his full-color centerfold spreads of burly, oiled biceps is both a little laughable and a little haunting.
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The group's debut album Centerfold arrived this past Spring, with its success being (as Badgley puts it) "slow and steady," landing the band a worldwide tour opening for The Neighbourhood.
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He was overshadowed by Dirk Shafer, a gay Playgirl centerfold model whose naked body graced the cover of the magazine (stopping right at the end of his well-defined pelvic muscles).
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In reconstructing the issue into a 70 by 32 inch poster, readers reveal the ultimate centerfold, a paean to the male body to post above their bed, breakfast table or toilet.
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She says her end goal is Sports Illustrated, Maxim or Vogue -- and even though Playmates no longer bare all, Sophie's down to become only the 3rd mother-daughter Playboy centerfold duo.
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There's an undertone of darkness, as the boy discovers the bloodied centerfold in the automobile's twisted remains — but also an element of juvenile comic innocence that serves to undercut the horror.
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And even if I have no dreams of posing for a centerfold, I can't help but feel grateful to Hef for allowing me to see myself in the pages of his magazine.
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The former Playboy centerfold has never exactly been shy about her body or saying what's on her mind, so this swimsuit/selfie combo seems pretty much right on-brand for the E!
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The album, which followed the comical hit "Love Stinks," also included the title track and "Centerfold," which was No. 1 for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 list, the group said.
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Hugh Hefner still had a hand in Playboy's centerfold biz as his health was failing ... according to Miss September, who's floored she'll now be mentioned in the same sentence as Marilyn Monroe.
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Though it quickly became a cliché, many male readers really did "read it for the articles," telling surveys that they enjoyed features on the ideal bachelor pad even more than the centerfold.
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Family Ties The "Centerfold" music video — which was in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV — was directed by Paul Justman, brother of J. Geils Band keyboard player and songwriter Seth Justman.
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According to investigators, Dr. Strampel made graphic sexual comments to female medical students at the university, suggested that one student become a "centerfold model" and grabbed at least two women on the buttocks.
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I remember one song he played, over and over, by the J. Geils Band, about a guy who is deeply distraught that his former girlfriend posed for a naked centerfold in a magazine.
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Last September, on the day that Burt Reynolds died, a lot of people chose to commemorate the 82-year-old actor by logging into their Facebook accounts to post his famous Cosmopolitan centerfold.
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Police would not confirm the woman's identity to PEOPLE, but multiple media outlets, including the New York Post and NBC News 4, reported that the deceased was former November 1992 Playboy centerfold Stephanie Adams.
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The former attorney of an ex-Playboy centerfold says he has no clue what prompted the doting mother to jump from a New York City building with her 7-year-old son on Friday.
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Police would not confirm the woman's identity to PEOPLE, but multiple media outlets, including the New York Post and NBC News 4, reported that the deceased was Adams, a former November 1992 Playboy centerfold.
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A New Sound "Centerfold" marked a departure from the raw, blues-based sound that had been the J. Geils Band's trademark throughout the '60s and '70s, earning them a reputation for dynamic live shows.
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Before she plunged from a New York City hotel on Friday with her 7-year-old son, former Playboy centerfold Stephanie Adams endured years mired in lawsuits, failed relationships and an ugly custody dispute.
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In an exclusive sneak peek at Wednesday's Donnie Loves Jenny, McCarthy revisits the surprising place where she first dreamed of centerfold stardom – the Chicago convenience store where she worked for most of her teens.
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The Wall Street Journal three days before the election revealed a $232,000 payoff that [National Enquirer chief executive David] Pecker made to silence a Playboy centerfold who claims she had an affair with Donald.
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He later said he regretted that centerfold image, which showed Reynolds spread out across a bearskin rug, and said it distracted attention from his "Deliverance" co-stars and likely cost them an Academy Award.
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Unfortunately, the issue's centerfold was the first appearance of Traci Lords, who turned out to be 16 years old at the time, making anyone in possession of the magazine at risk of owning child pornography.
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He invited photographers from major papers on the weekends, when he knew celebrity guests would be present, and the club would be full, a shining success in the centerfold of the New York Daily News.
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Coming off star-making turns in flicks like Deliverance and Smokey and the Bandit, and an infamous Cosmopolitan photo shoot that launched the male centerfold, he was one of the biggest celebrities in the world.
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The sorority sisters got together in Costa Rica's Guanacaste region for a 10 year reunion, and the idea for the photo shoot — basically the Sports Illustrated centerfold of our dreams — began after a lot of research.
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"When I was trying out to be a centerfold, they actually gave the girls five days of a test," the 44-year-old model and actress recalled on "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen" Sunday.
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San Diego-born Shauna Sand made a name for herself in the '90s as a model and actress but was most-notably nude as the sexy centerfold in May, 1996 as Playboy's Playmate of the Month.
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Rating In the very first scene, an adolescent boy admires a centerfold beauty named Misty Mountains as her car comes crashing through the roof of his house in the hilly suburbs of Los Angeles circa 1977.
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In its March issue, the magazine will abandon nudity, which has been the core of the brand's identity since its beginning in 1953, with a centerfold of Marilyn Monroe and lots of pathbreakingly candid talk about sex.
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In Rio de Janeiro, Christ the Redeemer stands like a centerfold, arms wide on a mound, welcomingly breaking up the cityscape amid the Olympics Stadium, a skein, a helicopter, and lots of square close-ups of waves.
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With a combined $8,000 raised from 45 investors, including his mother and brother, he published the first issue of Playboy, which featured as its centerfold a nude photo of Marilyn Monroe taken years earlier, in December 1953.
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In fact, it was his stint as a guest host on The Tonight Show, standing in for Johnny Carson, that first introduced Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown to Reynolds, and led to the idea of the centerfold.
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The scathing open letter he wrote to Ms. Horyn in 2012, calling her, among other things, "a schoolyard bully," has become near legendary; the fashion journal Vestoj republished it as a centerfold, of sorts, in the fall.
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It showed up in a Playboy magazine centerfold and, some 20 years later, in a promotional photo for "Sex and the City," said Allen Frechter, the youngest of George's three sons, who would eventually run the business.
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The former Playboy centerfold who fell to her death from a New York City hotel on Friday along with her 7-year-old son pushed the boy from the building first before leaping herself, police confirm to PEOPLE.
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The star, who according to his family had been dealing with health issues, was known for performing many of his own stunts, as well as that iconic centerfold he did for Cosmopolitan magazine that sparked big studio interest.
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But it wasn't until 1972 that his career exploded — thanks to his centerfold turn in Cosmo, which sold a staggering 43 million copies, and his co-starring role in the classic John Boorman thriller Deliverance alongside Jon Voight.
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Image 2 of 20133 NEW YORK – A former Playboy centerfold involved in a custody battle apparently jumped with her 7-year-old son to their deaths from the 25th floor of a Manhattan hotel, law enforcement officials said Friday.
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Even though it's been quite a while since Kendra Wilkinson has stripped down for her ex Hugh Hefner, the centerfold turned wife and mom was more than happy to show some skin in honor of the Playboy mogul's recent 90th birthday.
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I've been tagged on Instagram in videos of Filipina Titas (Aunties) looking at my centerfold, to messages from trans people who still can't come out to their partners, to my friends from childhood in the Philippines, I've heard from everybody.
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But it was a Cosmopolitan centerfold (that magazine's first) in 1972 and his kidding about stripping down to all his hairy-chested glory — and other physical subjects — with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show that brought catapulted him to stardom.
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Stormy's feature dance booking agent, Danny from Centerfold Features, tells TMZ ... he's been getting bombarded with calls from other strip joints who want to book her following a show with a standing-room only crowd at Trophy Club in Greenville, South Carolina.
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Alice Denham, a writer and former Playboy centerfold who left a vivid chronicle of her literary and sexual adventures in her 2006 memoir, "Sleeping With Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-All of Literary New York in the Fifties and Sixties," died on Jan.
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Playboy, after reprinting "The Deal," with an illustration by Leroy Neiman, in the July 1956 issue that included her centerfold, rejected two more of her stories, informing her in a letter that it did not intend to have any more women's bylines.
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The father of a slain 7-year-old is "distraught" over the loss of his son, who was killed in a murder-suicide when his mother, a former Playboy centerfold, jumped with the boy from a New York City hotel on Friday.
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That he did not get one was attributed by some, including Mr. Reynolds himself, to his decision to pose artfully nude as a centerfold in an issue of Cosmopolitan magazine that was published at roughly the same time the movie was released.
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Unless Steve Bannon finds another Breitbart centerfold the way he did in Alabama, and then we can have an exciting race with Romney versus a far-right puppy-beater who lives in a cabin on a hill surrounded by machine gun turrets.
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" That understanding played out in memorable Rolling Stone images like David Cassidy showing off his naked torso down to his pubic hair, in a Playboy-style centerfold, and Jim Morrison smoldering next to the cover line "He's Hot, He's Sexy, He's Dead.
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A bunch of hormone-addled coders could conceivably stumble upon a massive compression breakthrough based on theoretical jerk-off calculations — after all, modern image compression came about after an engineer walked into a lab with a Playboy mag and showed off the centerfold.
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I've heard from people from all walks of life, including Filipina aunties looking at my centerfold, my high school classmates sharing how proud they are of me, and young trans girls all over the world — whether it's in Indonesia, Spain, Brazil, or the Philippines.
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After Trump's short cameo in a 2000 Playboy Centerfold video came to light last week following his attack on former Miss Universe Alicia Machado for her alleged sex tape, CNN's KFILE uncovered two more Playboy videos on Wednesday featuring the Republican presidential candidate's cameo.
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Three decades on, in 2002, the designer Tom Ford would make a knowing nod to that early Cosmo centerfold when creating a black and white Yves Saint Laurent fragrance advertising campaign that featured the martial arts champion Samuel de Cubber naked and ostentatiously unwaxed.
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Though Reynolds eventually admitted that he regretted doing the centerfold because he believed it hurt Deliverance's chances for critical success, it's become one of the most famous emblems of modern male sexuality, widely seen as a breakthrough moment for acknowledging and catering to the female gaze.
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Ms. Denham later wrote the novel "Amo" (1974), about a feminist centerfold who has a fantasy life on another planet, and "Secrets of San Miguel" (2013), a tell-all chronicle of the expatriate artistic community in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, which she visited for many years.
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The team settled on the centerfold, tearing out its top third so the paper would fit on the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had tricked out with analog-to-digital converters for red, green, and blue, along with a Hewlett Packard 503 minicomputer.
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The issue that exemplifies the genius of the nine-panel structure and perhaps the series&apos greatest is its fifth issue, "Fearful Symmetry," where the entire issue, like its title, is juxtaposed in a perfect symmetry that begins here, in the centerfold image in the middle of the book.
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Included in a centerfold is a collection of drawings penned by the cartoonists who lost their lives in the attack, including one by Wolinski of a woman sporting a "Law 1905" tank top — the French law on the separation of church and state — and a "Neither God, nor master" tattoo on her behind.
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By the end of first season, viewers are treated to the work of Henri Matisse ("La Danse" 1909), Rothko (take your pick), and Keith Haring ("Dancing Dogs" and others), as well as a Bojack version of the 1972 Cosmopolitan centerfold photo of a nude Burt Reynolds lounging on a bear skin rug.
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You know, in her work, in Boston, the beginning of this industry she had to sit at her bench, she's an exceptionally talented electrical engineer, computer scientist, and had to have a Hustler magazine centerfold [on a wall in front of her], for two years, until she could get rid of it.
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And on her latest trip to Miami to celebrate New Year's Eve with besties Cat McNeil and Lexi Boling, the model looked ready to conquer a whole new plateau of success and finally land her very own Sports Illustrated centerfold while out enjoying the city's beaches solo in a red string bikini. Pichichi/Splash
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Not only does the issue feature the first man ever to appear on its cover without a woman — in a tribute to founder Hugh Hefner — but inside, Playboy is also introducing readers to its first openly transgender Playmate with a pictorial and centerfold in its 64-year history: French high-fashion model Ines Rau!
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And on the day of the murders, Simpson called a model and actress named Traci Adell, this month's Playboy centerfold, whom he had never met, and engaged her in a 215-minute conversation in which she says he made romantic overtures, spoke of the end of his relationship with Nicole and of his need to reset priorities in his life.
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Yet in consenting to the Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown's proposition (she made it to him while he was sitting in for Johnny Carson as host of the "Tonight" show) that he become the first male centerfold, Reynolds was not only helping to propel us into a new era in women's magazine publishing but also a refreshed understanding of what women desire.
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A Word With After 60 years in the movie business — five of them, from 153 to 1982, as the top box-office star in America — Burt Reynolds might appear to be an open book, his every feat, foible, affair and chest hair chronicled so vividly that almost nothing about him could surprise you the way that naked Cosmopolitan centerfold did in 1972.
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My Aunt Jennifer was the first black Playboy centerfold in March of 1965, just days after the assassination of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, also known as Malcolm X. The minute I learned of her place in black history -- or as I like to think of it, black "herstory" -- I realized I come from women who are unapologetically self-confident about their bodies; even now, in their 70s, my aunts exude confidence about their beauty and femininity.
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