03.30.07 5:10 AM CDT
• Letters
• Chip Rowe
Here's the last of the month's reader correspondence: John Mahoney of Winnipeg writes to protest that Donald Trump has been shown on The Girls Next Door partying at the Mansion. “I have been a lifelong reader of Playboy. I remember the 1960s and 70s as a great battleground for personal freedoms. So it’s hard to stomach seeing Trump embraced by Playboy after he made those ugly remarks about Rosie O’Donnell, calling her a ‘degenerate’ because she is a lesbian. Trump needs Hef more than Hef needs Trump.” John, it’s safe to say that Hef doesn’t share that view of lesbians, or of Rosie.
“One of my favorite lines from the movies is the Crash Davis quote from Bull Durham that you share in Romance 2007 as a way to `seal the deal,’ “ writes Craig Gentile of Albuquerque. “But in order to get laid, if I have to omit, as you did, the part about Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone and the constitutional amendment banning AstroTurf and the designated-hitter rule, count me out. Some of us still hold our principles (and women) to a higher standard.”
Mike Cupertino from Loveland, Colorado believes it’s time to see Tyra Banks in the magazine. “She recently stated she is tired of being called fat and that she wants to prove how good her breasts look,” he writes. “I say that Playboy is the best forum for Ms. Banks to express herself and prove the doubters wrong.” That’s not a bad idea. We’ve asked Tyra a number of times to pose for us, and we can certainly ask again.
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Tyra Banks as a professional stripper? Well, that is remarkable. Now that she has officially retired from modelling and handed the torch to another on VH1, America's Last Top Model at last Toppless in Playboy would really take the cake.
While an article on family estate-sitters could not be more timely, Trump and the Hiltons seem less and less topical, as even the inheritor of Guinness would rather play than work. All work and no play made Jack a dull boy, but all play and no work made Jack jack. Any fool who could have simply told the world that they could now all have Guinness for free forever rather than force the population to pay for St. James' Gate has no class, and no forsight: any man who has given another man a free beer knows that he has a best friend for life. Imagine all the friends the Guinness family would have had by now.
Ultimately, the question is "is Rosie a degenerate?"
C'mon, Playboy. Look at the landscape: deviance hasn't been on the books since 1973. That year was the same year the House and Senate decided to go out and get drunk rather than turn down all those "free drinks" they'd been offered for years. Oh, and for those of you counting, 1973 AD was also the year that Susie Salmon was murdered on "The Lovely Bones."
I for one would love to see Tyra Banks in all of her glory lesbian or not.
It would certainly shut the critics up on all those fat comments anyhow I think she is beautiful either way.
i beg to differ...
hef & lesbians don't share the same worldview?
well, if one can get past the whole presumption that there is a single unitary worldview subscribed to by all lesbians, and no one else, and pretend the full statement has any validity, one could then argue, that lesbianism and hef-dom both hold as a central and organizing principle the beauty of the woman's body. sounds pretty similar to me.