Peter Basch

Light and the Nude The currently popular trend that has the experts telling you and me how-to-do-it leaves me cold. I prefer to explore the more complex — and therefore more satisfying — question: “why?” But the one area where I feel that an exploration of purely technical aspects is permissible is lighting. When coping…

Tera Patrick

Tera Patrick wasn’t always Tera Patrick. Once upon a time she was a gangly, teenaged bookworm named Linda Ann Hopkins, obsessed with serial killers and Marilyn Mpnroe and determined to make men all over the world desire her. And she succeeded: Today she sits atop the porn world, has graced the cover of every major…

Helmut Newton

Interview January 1986. Vol 16 Iss 1, by David Fahey Helmut Newton, along with a handful of other photographers, has defined the contemporary fashion photograph. Once labeled the “King of Kink” by Time magazine, he is obsessed by a desire to work and to explore new ideas. His distinctive style has been the source of…

Surrey Marshe. The girl in the centerfold

The Evening News of the Tonawandas, from the 12-19th of January 1970. Solveig Mellomborgen was 18, the youngest of three children in a Norwegian farm family when she came to the United States in 1965 with dreams of becoming a famous movie star or model. She worked for a time as a domestic and a…

Edwige Fenech

It’s not everyone’s luck to be born on Christmas Eve. But it happened to actress Edwige Fenech. The date which appears on her passport is December 24 th , 1948, and that makes her twenty-two years of age.Twenty-two gorgeous years, may I add. Edwige Fenech is tall and slender, moves with grace and elegance and…

Tori Black

Most college girls looking for a summer job usually end up as a barista at Starbucks or а waitress or some other mind-numbing, soul-destroying temporary job. Not Tori Black. She became a porn slut who turned into an A-list star, much to her disbelief. But if Tori is surprised, no one else is. With her…

Terry Higgins

If fate behaves with its usual wilful caprice, then the green-eyed blonde with the sensational face and figure on. display in these pages will be the next Monroe-Mansfield-Bardot of the film industry. The reason for such a supposition, apart from the tremendous physical assets here shown, is somewhat less obvious. It lies in the fact…

Pompeo Posar

After 25 years of shootings Playboy gatefolds, he has the job most envied by American males. by David Roberts Pompeo Posar opened the locked door of the Playboy studio to let me in. I had my notebook in one hand, briefcase in the other, but Posar grasped me by the the elbow and said in…

Yvonne Menard

Yvonne des Folies Bergère Backstage with “the most beautiful nude in Paris” by Paul Deutschman. Esquire, November 1953. I first spotted Yvonne Menard in October, 1951, at the Folies Bergère in Paris, with all her clothes on. It was during tho opening number. The entire troupe was onstage, in colorful Latin-American costumes—about, sixty artistes, all…

Jacqueline Lovell (Sara St. James)

St. James Cyber Queen by Gary Sage (Adult PC Guide, February 1997) The image of Sara St. James has filled hundreds of pages of men’s magazines. She has been responsible for the rental and sales of thousands of videos the world over, and she’s one of the major reasons that MacDaddy Entertainment’s CD-ROMs are as…

Mamie Van Doren

Thoroughly Modern Mamie Several months ago [1968], on a business trip to Los Angeles, FLING’S executive editor, Robert Livingston, met and interviewed actress Mamie Van Doren. In the privacy of her plush, Beverly Hills home, he talked with Mamie about her early life, her spectacular career and her three marriages. Speaking into a portable tape…

Annette Haven

Annette Haven: What’s a Classy Girl Like You Doing in a Movie Like This? by Charles Taylor. It’s a casually ladylike gesture: A stylish, impeccably groomed woman rests her chin on folded hands as she takes in the scene before her. That she’s watching her maid give head to a male visitor doesn’t alter the…