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war ıs rr, exactly, that Modonne is trying to tell us? That a 
strong woman can be smart and foolish, glamourous and 
tacky, tough and tender, all at the same time? Or has she 
pulled off the biggest hoax since Milli Vanilli? Writer Michel 
Kelly takes on these questions in Playgirl of the Western World, 
with an illustration by Olivia De Berardinis. We know what Den- 
nis Barrie, the director of Cincinnati's Contemporary Art Cen- 
ter, was trying to tell us when he mounted an exhibition of the 
late Robert Mopplethorpe's photographs: that regular people 
can look at art and decide for themselves whether or not it has 
merit. In Cincinnati, on April 7, 1990, the local sheriff and the 
county prosecutor decided the photos were obscene. They 
barricaded the museum and hauled Barrie into court. Our 
story Showdown in Cincinnati has a happy ending, and Senior 
Staff Writer James R. Petersen was there to report on the trial 
and the verdict. In a related Playboy Forum piece, “The Ob- 
scenity Amendment," Robert Scheer mulls over the recent First 
Amendment-related obscenity flaps and suggests it’s time to 
take this matter right to the people. If the Constitution is to be 
shredded, says Scheer, let the voters do it with an amendment 
banning obscenity. First, of course, someone will have to 
define obscenity. That ought to tie up Jesse Helms for a couple 
of years. An upcoming trial that will also be debated long aft- 
er it's over is that of Erik and Lyle Menendez, charged with the 
shockingly brutal murder of their parents. Journalist Robert 
Rond's piece, The Killing of Jose Menendez, exposes the dar 
side of the American dream. Those eager to exonerate the 
sons have fingered the Mob—which is what film makers have 
been doing a lot lately. In moviehouses, it's hard to avoid 
gangsters, so Contributing Editor Williem J. Helmer thought it 
was time to give you readers a test, А Quiz You Can't Refuse (il- 
lustrated by Mike Benny), to separate the good guys from the 
GoodFellas. When you're done, you'll know who done it. 

Contributing Editor David Sheff says he was pretty cynical 
about New Age spirituality and even more so about psychiatry 
until his own life hit some serious snags. By the time he sat 
down with M. Scott Peck, author of the best-selling The Road Less 
Traveled, which recently surpassed The Joy of Sex in all-time 
sales, he was ready to listen. But in his Playboy Interview, the 
guru of self-help surprised him by being full of contradictions. 

Robert Silverberg's The Clone Zone is an absorbing story about 
a South American dictator who gets duplicated to protect 
himself from being assassinated. It's illustrated by Argentine 
artist Carlos Nine. 

Now that we've filled your head with interesting informa- 
tion, it’s time to treat your eyes. Managing Photo Editor Jeff 
Cohen had so much fun exposing Russian women to American 
audiences in Mission: Implausible (February 1990) that this 
year, along with French photographer Patrick Magaud, he yen- 
tured into Cuba (via Mexico) and came home with Cohiba 
cigars and Cuba Libre, a wonderful photojournalism story fea- 
turing the women of Cuba. The cigars may be great, Jeff, but 
Magaud took one of the models, Idolka, home with him to 
Paris! For further balm to the eye, award-winning photogra- 
pher Herb Ritts takes a close look at gorgeous supermodel 
Stephanie Seymour —more revealing than that you'll see in the 
upcoming Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. 

We tee off in fashion this month with the best in golf gear 
and garb. In Home, Smart Home, Jonathan Tokiff makes George 
Jetson’s space-age abode look like the cartoon it is. Ours is 
real. Are we finished yet? Not until we remind you—as if you 
needed it—to check out Playmate Julie Clarke. Now we're done! 


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vol. 38, no. 3—march 1991 CONTENTS FOR THE MEN'S ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE 
PLAYBILL...... —— seres 3 
DEAR PLAYBOY............... — py SS Ee 9 
PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS ............... E 13 
MEN Er 28 
THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR ES 31 
Cuba libre 
THE PLAYBOY (FORUM E ED EE 33 
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: 

THE OBSCENITY AMENDMENT—opinion ............ - .... ROBERT SCHEER ЗВ 
PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: M. SCOTT PECK—candid conversation ................ 43 
SHOWDOWN IN CINCINNATl—article ...............-...- JAMES R. PETERSEN 64 4 
CUBA ИВВЕ—рюпа]...........................<+++++ text by JEFF COHEN 68 Menendez Murders P. 100 
A QUIZ YOU CAN'T REFUSE ................. compiled by WILLIAM J. HELMER 78 
PLAYGIRL OF THE WESTERN WORLD— playboy profile. ....... ..MICHAEL KELLY 82 
PRICELESS JULES—playboy's playmate of the month er Ears EO 86 
PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor ..... csse 98 
THE KILLING OF JOSE MENENDEZ—article................. ..ROBERT RAND 100 
FORE PLAY—fashion.............-..-- +++ о КАР ЕЕ HOLLIS WAYNE 102 
THE CLONE ZONE—fiction ....................... E . ROBERT SILVERBERG 108 
STEPHANIE—pictorial.............. оо EEE 112 


HOME, SMART HOME— modern living. ..... 


PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE ............... Ern Enc ANT eL ES 165 Sweet Home 


COVER STORY 

Stephanie Seymour sheds her swimsuit ond oll inhibitions in o Alayboy 
pictorial that transforms the supermodel into o seductive sea goddess. Thanks 
to Sally Hershberger and Sharon Simonaire of Visage Style for hair and 
styling опа to Carol Show of Cloutier for make-up. Kudos to photog- 
rapher Herb Ritts for his vision of Venus rising from the deep in a timeless fan- 
tasy. Our Rabbit adds the finishing touch to Stephanie's crowning glory. 


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JAY LENO 

The mention of self-hypnosis in the 
Playboy Interview with Jay Leno (Decem- 
ber) is most intriguing. 

Although the term is never used, he 
does use such phrases as "going into a 
tance," "rhythm of the thing," "I fall 
asleep." "My pulse drops way down." 

Jay could have been trained to go into 
a hypnotic trance, but my guess is that 
this commendable ability is natural to 
him. This is true of a number of people. 

For instance, it was said that before Al- 
bert Einstein went to the blackboard to 
work on an equation, he appeared to go 
into a trance, as if he shifted gears in or- 
der to use his subconscious mind. Come- 
dy ain't physics, but a great interview i 
great interview. Thanks, Playboy. 

Stew Albert 
Northridge, California 


After trying to sell a screenplay 100 
times, I had all but given up; but after 
reading Jay Leno's interview, I've picked 
myself up, dusted myself off and started 
all over again. 

Thanks for the inspiration, Jay, and 
showing that persistence and hard work 
do pay. 

Paul Lopresti, Jr. 
Sewell, New Jersey 


I've always liked Jay Leno. He doesn't 
drag people's names through the mud. 
He does not spout blue lines on stage 
and make you want to gag. He just ob- 
serves things and reports them in a hu- 
morous manner. He doesn’t overdo sex 
and violence. Instead of foul language, 
he uses common sense and a mastery of 
the language to be humorous. He joinsa 
long list of humorists who made their 
way in the same manner: Groucho 
Marx, Will Rogers, Jack Benny, Robert 
Benchley, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, 
Bill Cosby and even Leno's buddy David 
Letterman. 

Maybe clean humor is on its way back. 
I noticed that on the Party Jokes page in 


the same issue, there are only two of 11 


jokes that one may not wish to tell at the 


dinner table. I hope Jay Leno stays at 
the top for a long time. There is a lot to 
be said for good, old-fashioned clean 
fun. Great interview! 
Charles Howard Thomas 
Wilmington, Delaware 


UNDER GOD 

Alter reading Garry Wills's article Un- 
der God in the December issue, I am re- 
minded ofthe old saw that “America has 
ganized criminal class, except for 
politicians." Today, I believe that would 
read, “and Jesus business hucksters,” 
since the present crop of Robertsons, 
Falwells, Bakkers, Wildmons, et al. have 
long since blurred the lines and made 
any reasonable distinctions impossible. 

It is amazing that intelligent, literate 
and scholarly people seem to overlook 
the constant flow, in the gutters and sew- 
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religiosity and what I like to call sancti- 
phoniousness. Perhaps this blind spot 
Comes from the rather silly notion that 
religion is, somehow, a matter removed 
from greed, venality, baseness and crass 
hunger for power. 

Certainly, the best, most comprehen- 
sive and most accurate portrayal of evan- 
gelism and the Jesus business in America 
remains Sinclair Lewis Elmer Gantry. 
Perhaps this work should be made com- 
pulsory reading for granting of a high 
school diploma. 

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repressions descend upon us, we should 
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“Coming Out Right” thought-provoking 
and complementar; However, both 
writers missed the point. The underly- 
ing Puritanism that’s ingrained into 
American society affects both the far 
right and the far left of politics. The con- 
cept that life consists of absolutes—black 
and white, good and evil—and the idea 
of one’s own absolute moral and ethical 
superiority lead to the terrorism prac- 
ticed by both anti-abortionist and radical 
ecologist. Indeed, if the Mapplethorpe 
photographs displayed in Cincinnati 
had been heteroerotic instead of homo- 
erotic, most likely, members of NOW 
rather than those of the right wing of the 
body politic would have been the ones 
bringing charges of obscenity against the 
exhibition. 


Uniontown, Pennsylvania 


“COMING OUT RIGHT” 

If I understand Robert Scheer cor- 
rectly, he suggests that all intelligent lib- 
ertarian-minded conservatives should 
divorce themselves from the mainstream 
of conservatism. What purpose is Scheer 
asking libertarians to serve? To rid the 
right of its conscience? To leave the lead- 
ership of the right to the Klan? Or sim- 
ply to leave the field open to the 
unbridled charge of the holy coalition of 
the left? 

But Scheer makes a good point. That 
is, that coalition politics often overrides 
intellectual consistency, so politics makes 
strange bedfellows. So what else is new? 
But, to be honest, this is equally true of 
the left, or whatever you call that multi- 
textured juggernaut that seems to con- 
trol Congress, the bureaucracy, media, 
race relations, etc. 

It is not in the least surprising that 
some politically knowledgeable homo- 
sexuals—people who are acutely aware 
of the fundamental importance of indi- 
vidual liberties—find an appeal in the 
libertarian position. 

When powerful opinion makers such 
as Scheer cease to seek to divide and 
conquer us all with labels more suitable 
to bird parts or aircraft terminology, po- 
litical debate can be more intelligible. 

Leroy Yerxa 
Santa Fe, New Mexico 


PETER JENNINGS, FAMILY MAN 
1 enjoyed E. Jean Carroll's profile of 
Peter Jennings and his wives (The Kiss of 
the Anchor Man, Playboy, December). It is 
truly startling to learn that besides hav- 
ing a pretty face, the pretty man 
somehow managed to keep a balance in 
his personal life. 1 think it is important 
that someone like Jennings, who is in- 
stantly recognizable around the world, 
can share positive moral values and 
demonstrate that success and a family 
life aren't necessarily incompatible. 
Saskia Estupinan 
Arlington, Virginia 


We're not sure Carroll intended to present 
Jennings as a role model, but we're glad you 
enjoyed the article. 


SHERILYN FENN 
The cover of the Gala Christmas Issue 
(Playboy, December) is one of your best! 


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Sherilyn Fenn is simply a stupendous 
work of art. 

Todd Colicchio 

West Orange, New Jersey 


Who killed Laura Palmer? Who cares? 
Sherilyn Fenn is the sexiest, most beauti- 
ful screen/TV actress to grace your 
pages in recent years. 1 am now a Twin 
Peaks addict! 

Scott L. Spencer 
Austin, Texas 


IN DEFENSE OF NASA 

One swipe at the Hubble Space Tele- 
scope 1 can ignore, but two, as in your 
December issue (Party Jokes and What 
NASA Wants for Christmas), are too much. 

І can unequivocally state that even 
with the current problem with the tele- 
scope's optics, the H.S/T. is clearly the 
best ultravioleVoptical telescope ever. 
When the problem with the mirror was 
announced, NASA said that Hubble was 
capable of performing excellent and in- 
novative science. Unfortunately, the me- 
dia, your magazine included, in their 
zeal to outdo one another in publishing 
bad news, have left the public with the 
erroneous impression that the telescope 
is nearly useless. Now, as NASA releases 
what are indisputably some of the finest 
astronomical photographs ever taken, of. 
a quality impossible to achieve from 
ground-based telescopes, the media are 
in the somewhat amusing position of try- 
ing to present this information without 
appearing to have been in error origi- 
nally. So we are now seeing stories begin- 
ning with “FLAWED OPTICS PRODUCE SUPERB 
PHOTOGRAPH." 


However, bad news dies slowly, if at 
all, regardless of how erroneous it may 
be. It appears that the Hubble Space 
Telescope is destined to suffer this fate— 
unable “to read the top line of the eye 
chart,” as your story goes—while pro- 
ducing data of staggering scientific im- 
portance. Correct this injustice! Spread 
the word! The Hubble Space Telescope 
is producing ground-breaking science 
now, and in 1993, NASA expects to re- 
turn H.S.T. to its full potential. 

David J. Pine 

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NASA Headquarters 
Washington, D.C. 


THE MEN OF DESERT SHIELD 

1 am now spending my 50th day here 
in Saudi Arabia as part of Operation 
Desert Shield. 

As you probably know, we are unable 
to receive your magazine because of lo- 
cal laws. What would be the chances of 
receiving letters from some of the Play- 
mates? Lam single, as are a lot of guys in 
my flight crew. Believe me, just a note 
from a Playmate would brighten our 
days and make life a little bit easier here. 

The married guys are always getting 
letters and packages from home (one re- 
ceived 14 letters today). Even though we 
single guys receive, and greatly appreci- 
ate, mail from the public (through efforts 
such as Operation Dear Abby), most of 
our letters thus far have come from 
school children who write to us as 
part of a class project. But if female Play- 
boy readers or the Playmates would write 
to us, we would be even more inspired. 

Master Sergeant Dan Lucero 
76th Weapons Flight Crew 
Operation Desert Shield 

23 TFW/76AMU (Deployed) 
APO New York, New York 

We're sending yours and all such letters 
that we're receiving to Kimberley Conrad 
Hefner, who's heading a cadre of Playmates 
who are writing letters to our military person- 
nel on duty in Operation Desert Shield. 


BLANCHARD'S BLUES 
Playboy knows jazz, which makes it 
even more surprising that you would 
credit the trumpet virtuosity in Spike 
Lee's Mo’ Better Blues to Branford 
Marsalis (Sex Stars of 1990, December). 
Shame on you! Jazz lovers know that the 
sweet trumpet sound on that film could 
have emanated only from the lips of Ter- 
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PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS 


GETTING PERSONAL 


Eric Neher, editor of the New York 
shopping guide Manhattan Pennysaver, 
has fashioned the ultimate Big Apple 
column: “The Anü-Personals." A weekly 
lorum for people who want to “dis an 
exlover” or “slay a rotten neighbor,” 
The Anti-Personals” urges readers to 
give the gift of hate." Ten dollars buys 
you 20 uncensored words, and the pa- 
per publishes real names. Some samples: 

“Phil, I know I shouldn't have slept 

with you, but it w. 
suring that you'd never call me again— 
Gina." 
"To the remaining members of the 
Severed Limbs: At first, I was really up- 
set that you kicked me out of the band, 
but now I finally realize why you did. It 
was because Pm a musician, Don't quit 
your day jobs, ‘cause you guys stink- 
Bosco." 

“Hey, Tommy C.: I don't know how to 
break this to you, good buddy, but here I 
go: Last week, when you passed out at 
Bob's party, I took your fiancée, Rachel, 
for a joy ride. Don't be mad—we re even 
now—].K." 

“Goodbye, New York. I hope I never 
have to smell your disgusting garbage, 
listen to your idiotic political views and 
ride your decrepit subway system again. 
Tm going to a place where people still 
respect people—Jean.” 

“To my ex-boyfriend, who dumped 
me for that trampy slut across the street: 
Today, she came into my office for a 
GYN exam. Guess what, darlir Your 
new girl has syphilis. Hope you have a 
nice day—Susan.” 

While the column seems to be catch- 
ing on, Neher reacts to its success with a 
typical New York shrug: “It’s great. So 
far, no lawsuits." 


s the only way of en 


ROOM SERVICE 


Sign in a Japanese hotel: vou ake isvra 
ED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAMBERMAID, 


I WANT MY АСТУ 


With his Sledgehammer music video, Pe- 
ter Gabriel won kudos for breaking new 


ground in visual art. Now he's at it 
again—via interactive TV technology in 
collaboration with ACTV Inc. Accessed 
through cable and requiring a simple re- 
mote device, ACTV allows viewers to 
choose what happens on the screen. 
Well, sort of. 

We looked at Cats, a video demo by 
Gabriel featuring several of his hits. Call- 
ing up a concert version of In Your Eyes, 
we pushed buttons on the control and 
moved the camera angle around the 
stage: from a close-up of the drummer to 
stage left to dead center. During the stir- 
ring anthem Biko, we flipped among live 
shots, docu footage of the 
African people and their struggle with 
apartheid and a helpful display of the 
song’s lyrics. Gaining confidence, we iso- 
lated the various instruments in Sledge- 
hammer and recombined them one at a 
time, assembling our own arrangement 
Next up came the Peter Paper Doll seg: 
ment in which, like girlfriend Rosanna 
Arquette (see Playboy, September 1990), 
Gabriel poses nude—only his body be- 
longs to a Ken doll. We got four choices 
from which to pick his outfit—the hula 


concert 


ILLUSTRATION BY PATER SATO 


skirt was a hoot 

So far, ACTV is available only in 
Springfield, Massachusetts, and Canada, 
but it could boom into our living rooms 
as early as next year The possibilities 
seem endless. Just imagine tuning in to 
The New Wheel of Fortune—what won't 
Vanna wear tonight? 


SPEEDY DELIVERY 


Sign in a Norwegian cocktail lounge: 
LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN 


IN THEBAR. 


WHEEL TALK 


Courtesy of a Brit wit from Autocar ES 
Motor, “Ten Things Car Dealers Say (and 
What They Really Mean) 


ON THE SALES FLOOR 


“It will be here next Tuesday”: Your car 
was delivered last week but in the wrong 
color, with the wrong engine and with- 
out the sun roof you ordered. 

“They're going like hot cakes": 1Us a limit- 
ed edition with a stupid paint scheme, 
and we're so desperate to unload them 
before this years models arrive well 
practically pay you to drive one away 

“This car's for the real connoisseur”: The 
chrome’s peeling, the interiors mil- 
dewed and the walnut panels have wood 
rot. It guzzles gas and has sat on the lot 
for five months, 


AT THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT 


hey all do that": We've never seen this 
problem before and we don't know the 
cause of it—but we figure you'll feel bet- 
ter if you think you're not the only one 
We're waiting for the part”: We forgot to 
order it, then we ordered the wrong 
one. Now the computer's down and we 
can't remember what we needed in the 
first place. 

“We're test-driving it right now”: The 
guys have gone to the bar in your car 
and they'll be back in an hour. 

“There's some additional work we'd recom- 
mend”: The test-drive to the bar resulted 
in a cracked muffler and a broken 
rearview mirror—but we have already 


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WHERE'S 


“Would you believe—Louis B. 


We thought covert operations were 
passé in liberated Russia, but ominous 
rumblings from Moscow continue. A те- 
cent dispatch from the motherland. 


The former head of MGM studios 
is in need of your services? 

“In the worst way.” 

But the question remains, what 
happened to Lenin? Did the Soviets 
body away as an embarrass- 


By Ray Bradbury 


It was first reported as an absence 
without leave, then as a disappear- lug hi 
ance, then as a kidnaping. ment? 

Lenin's body, that i *No comment." 

It vanished from beneath the Did the Soviet hard-liners nab 
Kremlin wall (where it had rested in and stash it in order to deny—never 
a glass tomb since 1924) опе Decem- тіпа the history books—that L. 
ber night. was ever born? 

No word has been received from “Well... 


Or did Gorbachev's 
neoconservative radi- 
cals hope to discard 
the past to balance the 
ruble? 

"Mmm...." 

Has anyone taken 
credit for the disap- 
nce, the disposal 
nd/or the kidnaping? 
"Rumor says Len- 
in, still dead, is on 
a ү guarded 


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press tra 
No! 
“As he came, so he 

went. 
Who hired the 


Sotheby’ 
The London auc- 
tion establis 2 
“You got it." 
Sotheby's set a mii 
the body goes on display? 
rst bid is already in! Would 
ve the national Republican 
Evil Empire 


the thieves or kidnapers, nor has 
there been a demand for ransom. Has 
One moment for whei 
ported S. Olanski, chief military Phe 
tomb guard, “then—poof! Gone!” you be 
“I am devastated," mourned Party for its аши 
1. Ivanov, necroco їп Catalog?" 
charge of the long-dead- Well, it has been a long showcase 
stant-need-of-repair Red leader. for him, hasn't it? 
What will you do now, it was ity-seven years under glass be- 
ked, in lieu of your month-to- neath that Kremlin wall? You bet.” 
month and year-to-year servicing of Shall we wish him Godspeed on 
the goatee, eyebrows, cheeks and his long journey to Sotheb 
eyelids of Comrade Lenin? “Why not? And may he keep 
“Wi hours, I have had offers," along the м 
sighed Ivanov. “As a last resort— Finally, is there a futu 
Hollywood?" in the 21st Cel 
To repair with wondrous cosmet- "Asa statue, maybe, at Speak 
ics the complexion of which famous Corner in Hyde Park. Only the pi- 
but long-dead body? geons can tell.” 


e for Lei 


replaced the parts and we want you to 
pay for them. 

Is it a fleet car, mister?": If you've not 
paying for this out of your own pocket, 
th ‘an wait three times as long for 
it and charge you twice as much, 

“Will you be paying by cash?" Prepare 
yourself; the bill’s more than a hundred 
bucks. 

“Do you know much about this new fuel- 
injection system?”: Neither do we. We had 
one manual and someone spilled oil 
over 


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PERRIER: THE SOURCE 


Sign in an Acapulco hotel: тне мах 
AGER HAS PERSONALLY PASSED ALL THE WATER 
SERVED HERE. 


BOSS KENNEDY 


“And now, heading down the runway 
sky blue and sea green is. . .." Robert 
Е Kennedy, |r? Not quite. But the envi- 
ronmental activist and dyna pre- 
sentative of the next wave of Kennedys. 
did team up with tony clothing designer 
Hugo Boss to kick off the company’s lec- 
ture series, A press release touted the 
event asa sign of Boss's “commitment to 
the cultural community. 

We arrived at the Boss showroom in a 
visibly trashier outfit than most of those 
worn by the fabulously clad models, 
agents and fashion-industry reps. “Oh,” 
a pretty lady said with a sigh, “I thought 
John, Jr, was speaking, not Robert.” 

But her disappointment turned to 
awe as Kennedy arrived. A handsome 
Harvard grad with weighty creden- 
tials—he's a professor at Pace U 
aw School and a project attorney for 
the Natural Resources Defense Council 
(N.R.D.C.)—Kennedy delivered an in- 
spired and charismatic speech on water 
conservation and citiz 
Observing that his audience was 
business of influcnc others, he a 
gued for curbs on the auto and oil in- 
dustries. “If you join groups like the 
Rain Forest Alliance or the N.R.D.C., 
they will eventually gain enough power 
to elect changes." 

Right on. We left in a nostalgic mood, 
fit to march on Washington. 


mic re 


LA. INDIGESTION 


Overheard at a swank luncheon for lit- 
erary agents: “The producer calls my 
client and says, `1 loved your screenplay. I 
think i'll make a wonderful TY movie. 1 
cried when my secretary read me the 
synopsis." 


WANTED 


Sign in the office of a Roman doctor: 
SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES. 
— This and the previous sign mes- 
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for the Far Eastern Economic Review 


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By BRUCE WILLIAMSON 


RENATA BELLA (Holly Hunter), recently jilt- 
ed by a live-in beau, takes off on a 
Caribbean jaunt in search of a recharge. 
On her return to Boston, she takes along, 
a much older man (Richard Dreyfuss) to 
meet her Italian-Catholic family. Plot- 
wise, Once Around (Universal) is hardly 
new, but it's a charming, romantic 
human comedy, thanks both to screen- 
writer Malia Scotch Marmo and to 
Scandinavian director Lasse Hallsırom, 
whose Swedish-language movie My Lif 
as a Dog was a hit. This is Hallstrom’s 
first film in English, and he shows a for- 
eigner's keen appreciation of American 
hustle and go-getter qualities—traits 
that a more cynical moviemaker might 
see as negatives. Once Around is full of 
surprises, frequently skating to the edge 
of sentimentality, then darting away 
with Dreyfuss in rare form as the obnox: 
ious, loud but lovable supersalesman 
type who sweeps his gitl off her feet, 
marries her and nearly destroys her ec- 
centric, close-knit family. Hunter keeps 
pace with her co-star, which says a lot, 
and there are delicious bits contributed 
by Danny Aiello, Gena Rowlands and 
Laura San Giacomo—cast, respectively 
as the heroine’s dad, mom and newly 
wedded younger sister (who confides on 
her wedding day that she’s having an 
affair). The thrust of it, of course, is Re- 
nata's utter devotion to her lewd Lithua- 
nian, whose style is to publicly greet a 
young couple with: “I hope you have a 
lifetime of good sex and joy.” Obviously. 
Hallstrom loves the guy. So will aud 
ences, I suspect, nudged along by famil- 
iar tunes such as Fly Ме to the Moon to 
melt their resistance to the most feel- 
good movie of the new year. УУУУ 
. 

Having the smash hit Big behind her, 
director Penny Marshall tackles darker 
problems of identity іп Awakenings 
(Columbia), a downbeat but thrilling 
drama about the mental aftereffects 
sometimes sullered by victims of en- 
cephalitis. Like Rip van Winkle, they 
linger for year sleep- 
ing state. Robin Williams plays the 
fictional Dr. Malcolm er, whose work 
with such patients emulates that of Oli- 
ıcks, M.D., author of the book that 
inspired the movie. Williams’ perform- 
ance is movingly understated, shy and 
self-effacing. But the movie belongs be 
yond doubt to Robert De Niro as the 
twitching, tortured patient named 
Leonard, who emerges from his veg- 
etable state after receiving the experi 
mental drug L-Dopa, only to start 
slipping away aga ry efforts to 
stay in the world he has rediscovered are 
little short of heroic. This work 


MOVIES 


Once Around with Hunter, Dreyfuss. 


Holly, Richard take 
romance; movies brush 
up their Shakespeare. 


demands an Oscar—unless Academy 
members re: g the prize to actors 
playing handicapped characters three 
years in a row (after Dustin Hoffman for 
Rain Man in 1988 and Daniel Day Lewis 
for 1989's My Left Foot). Ruth Nelson as 
Leonard’s mother, Penelope Ann Miller 
as a sympathetic young visitor who be- 
iends him and Julie Kavner as Wil- 
liams nurse are splendid. Throughout, 
Marshall proves that her movie know- 
how 15 not confined to comedy. Awaken- 
ings is a preachy but passionate and 
wrenchingly human slice of life. УУУУ 
° 

Surprisingly, remaking Shakespeare's 
Macbeth as a modern piece about Mafia 
power plays in New York turns out to be 
not such a bad idea. Men of Respect 
(Columbia), rewritten and directed by 
William Reilly, stars John Turturro 
his wife, Katherine Borowit 
and Ruthie Battaglia, a street-smart mar- 
ried pair who think they might win con- 
trol of a crime family by bumping ой 
ingpin named Charlie D'Amico (Rod 
Steiger). Dennis Farina plays a Banquo 
character, Bankie Como, and Peter 
Boyle confidently does MacDulf as an 
Irish mobster yclept Dully. With a strong 
bunch of actors at his command, Reilly 
keeps the gang politics quite compr 
hensible and the movie has a dank, 
downtown look. At moments, though, 
Men shrinks a classic down to snickering 
size—especially when the New Yorkese 
Borowitz, wielding a flashlight, tries to 


wash away her guilt in а birdbath, 
or when Macbeth/ Battaglia ultimately 
meets his comeuppance, soliloquizing 
"Shit happens.” Then you're damned 
sure that the Will in charge is no Shake- 
speare. УУУ; 


. 
Too bad the Bard of Avon doesn't get 
iduals: His characters are making a 
splash all over the screen, In addition to 
a modernized Macbeth, here comes Fran- 
co Zeihrelli's Hamlet (Warner), starring 
Mel Gibson, of all people. It's an intelli- 
gent, stunningly handsome production, 
and a chance to see the star of Lethal 
Weapon cross swords with La 
sidering that he plays Hamlet as a young 
man of action—which somewhat contra 
dicts the dialog—Gibson is passable, and 
gets hetter as he goes along. The sup- 
porting cast helps, with Glenn Close as 
a mesmerizing Gertrude, the hero's 
Queen Mother, Paul Scofield as the 
Ghost of Hamlet's father, Alan Bates as 
the murderous King Claudius and Hele- 
na Bonham Carter the doomed 
Ophelia, who сен has her mo- 
ments. Gibson's peak may be the grave- 
yard scene, when he slows down a tad 
and lets us see some soul behind his ba- 
by-blue orbs while speaking to the skull 
of poor Yoric 


And then there's playwright Tom 
Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 
Are Dead (Cinecom), with Stoppard di- 
recting his own screen adaptation of his 
international stage hit that turned 
Shakespeare upside down two decades 
ago. Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, re- 
spectively, play the title roles, with Iain 
Glen as Hamlet and Richard Dreyfuss as 
Ihe Player—a strolling thespian right 
out of the original Hamlet, which in- 
spired Stoppard to plunge two minor 
Shakespearean characters into an intel- 
lectual romp about fate, free choice and 
the classics. Stoppard's cast is so brilliant 
you may wonder at times why they don't 
give up his precocious plays on words 
and just go straight back to the Bard, 
who could also handle the English lan- 
guage audaciously. In one inspired bit of 
theatrical mockery, Dreyfuss’ hammy 
Player scoffs, “You call that an ending . . 
h everyone still on his feet?” Filmed 
on location in Yugoslavia, Rosencrantz 
and Guildenstern is a funny, eye-filling 
spoof for the literati. ¥¥¥ 

. 

Trimmed down from a three-part tele- 
vision miniseries, An Angel at My Table 
( le) borrows its title from a book by 
New Zealand novelist Janet Fram 
with actress Kerry Fox playing Janet as 
an adult with wrenching vulnerability 
and pathos. This autobiography direct- 
ed by Jane Campion (whose oddball 


Sweetie was one of last year's surprises 
from down under) actually has three ac- 
uesses portraying the writer at variou: 
ages, each one a mop-topped redhead 
looking remarkably like Little Orphan 
Annie. Fox's moving portrayal shows her 
as a painfully shy young woman who 
spends eight years in a mental hospital 
enduring shock treatments after she is 
wrongly diagnosed as schizophre 
Her writing saves her and provides the 
means for a trip to Europe, public recog 
nition, a measure of self-fulfillment and 
erating love idyl on the island 
of Ibiza. Divided into chapters but tight- 
ly telescoped on film, Angel is an exeruci- 
that Fox and Campion make 
and persuasive. ¥¥¥/2 
. 

Lena Olin is a magnetic, wonderful 
screen presence, clearly cut out for bet- 
ter things than the warmed-over Ingrid 
Bergman role she has been given in 
Hovona (Universal). Is a rehash of 
Casablanca, with the action transported 
from World War Two Morocco to pre- 
Castro Cuba. Olin appears opposite 
Robert Redford, miscast and decidedly 
no match for Bogart in the role of a jad- 
ed, globe-trotting gambler who plots 
card games while Batista’s Cuba goes 
down the drain. He even falls for Oli 
(who wouldn't?) and makes a noble g 
ture regarding her wealthy, liberal hus- 
band (Raul Julia), who either 
imprisoned or dead. Except for Lena 
director Sydney Pollack's pallid politica 
adventure makes one wonder: Why 
bother going to Havana with Casablanca 
available on tape? YY 

. 

China's candidate for the 1 
race is Ju Dou (Miramax), directed by 
Zhang Yi-Mou and starring sexy Gong 
Li in the ole. Zhang's steamy dra- 
ma of adultery and retribution has been 
touted as an Asian version of The Postman 
Always Rings Twice. Not quite. But it is 
stylish, with awesomely simple imagery 
to adorn a tale of illicit lust. Gong Li 
plays the wife of an impotent, brutal old 
merchant (Li Wei) who owns a dye facto- 
ry. Under a stream of colorful banners 
that seem to hang all over the place, she 
conceives a child with the old devil's 
nephew (Li Bao-tian), then s nelessly 
flaunts their relationship alter an acc 
dent leaves her husband crippled from 
the waist down. The son, of course, 
grows up to wreak vengeance on the 
amoral pair in this tale of headlong pas- 
ion. YY 


. 
mon is a stunning actress 
who wrote, directed and stars in The End 
of Innocence (Skouras) which she ac 
knowledges is at least partly autobio- 
graphical. It’s all about a troubled young 
woman named Stephanie who is de- 
railed in childhood by a mother who tells 
her, “You cannot touch boys things” and 
“If you're not a virgin, à guy doesn't 


nt you." Some guys and many 
backs later, she's in group therapy. resist- 
ing her counselor (John Heard) and 
deploring patients such as Angel (Renee 
Taylor) who prattle nonstop about sex. 
Cannons honest intentions and her own 
powerhouse performance cannot quite 
conceal the achingly familiar sense that 
we have seen all this before. Y 
. 

Australian-born writer-director Peter 

as concocted Green Cord (Touch- 
stone) as a showcase for nch supe 
star Gérard Depardieu. playing his first 
major English-language role ar- 
dieu, currently reaping acclaim as the 
definitive Cyrano de Bergerac on film, is 
all awkward charm as a Frenchman who 
needs a wife in order to obtain a gree 
card so he can work in the U Andic 


MacDowell, who needs a husband to 
qualify for buying an apartment, is an 
appealing foil for Depardieu. Here, 


clearly, is a screen comedienne whose 
role in sex, lies, and videotape was no flash 
in the pan. Well, naturally, she starts out 
deresting Depardieu and winds up in his 
arms. Where else? Its t kind of 
movie, an airy romantic comedy. ¥¥¥ 

. 

Coming to terms with life as death 
looms is the serious matter considered 
by French director Bertrand Tavern 
in Daddy Nostalgia (Avenue). Written by 
h ife, Colo Tavernier O'Hagan, 


amily drama concerns the relationship 
between an English businessman (Dirk 
and his only child (Jane 
screenwriter in Paris. Auend- 
ed by his French wife (Odette Laure), 
Bogarde is recovering from heart 
surgery in a villa on the Riviera when his 
daughter arrives to reminisce, fume, 
find fault and get reacquainted with һе 
father before it's too late. Its all nicely 
done, in French and subtitled English, 
full of delicate personal touches—and 
dominated by Bogarde. A suave and 
subtle screen actor, he is more than wel- 
come in his first film since 1978. ¥¥¥ 
. 

Hostage taking is а topical subject 
made harrowingly real in Not Without My 
Daughter (MGM/UA), directed compe- 
tendy by Brian Gilbert from a book 
co-authored by Betty Mahmoody. Ci 
rently a lecturer on captive women and 
children, Mahmoody is the Michigan 
housewife whose doctor husband lured 
her back to Iran in the 
then made her a virtual prisoner « 
alien, primitive society. Sally Field 
Beuy, the plucky heroine who vows to 
escape with her child (Sheila Rosenthal). 
Pluck, of course, is Field's stock in 
trade—emotionally, she lets all the stops 
out here, with Alfred Molina (of Prick Up 
Your Ears) excellent as her treacherous 
Iranian mate. It's as obvious as a morn- 
ing headline, which adds some melodra- 
matic punch. ¥¥'/2 


arly Eighties, 
that 


MOVIE SCORE CARD 


capsule close-ups of current films 
by bruce williamson 


Alice (Reviewed 2/91) Woody Allen's 
fantasy about infidelity. Yyyy 
An Angel at My Table (See review) A 
writer's bio from down under. ¥¥¥/2 
Awokenings (See review) Williams res- 
cues De Niro from limbo. УУУУ 
Bonfire of the Vanities (Listed only) 
| Miscast, misdirected and generally 
| mauled version of the best seller. ¥ 
Cyrano de Bergerac (12/90) As the nosy 
poet and soldier, Gérard Depardieu 
makes a classic soar. In French, УУУУ 
Daddy Nostalgia (Sce review) Deathly 
father-daughter doings. ww 
Donces with Wolves (2/91) Kevin Cost- 
ner's long, self-indulgent ode to Indi- 
ns has heart but loses its head. УУ 
Dork Obsession (12/90) Sex and status 
in Britain, with Gabriel Byrne 
Edward Scissorhands (Listed only 
Burton's captiv: 
ny Depp. a shea 
The End of Innocence (Sc 
Group therapy in a Cannonade. Wir 
The Field (2/91) Evin go bravura— 
a feud among land grabbei 
The Godfather Port IM (Listed only) 
Floridly operatic but not up to its 
masterful predecessor: Wh 
| Green Cord (Sec review) Depardieu, 
п a lighter vein, weds Andie Mac- 


см) 


Dowell. УУУ 
| The Grifters (12/90) Thompson tale 
stars Anjelica in top form. wy 


Homlet (See review) Mel de mére in 
Isinore. yyy 
Havano (See review) One wag cor- 
recdy calls it Ken and Barbie in 


blanca. Ww 
Ju Dou (See review) Flagrant adultery 
with a China doll. Y 


The Long Walk Home (2/91) Bus boycott 
unites Whoopi and Sissy E 
Men of Resped (See review) Macbeth 
goes modern with Turturro. Ууу; 
Mermaids (2/91) Fishy Cher stuf. ¥ 
Mr. end Mrs. Bridge (1/01) The New- 
| mans as Midwesterners. m 
Not Without My Daughter (See review) 
Field trip to Iran. wh 
Once Around (See review) May-Decem- 
ber marriage, a family affair. УУУУ 
Rosencrontz ond Guildenstern Are Dead 
(See review) Expert Bardfoolery. ¥¥¥ 
The Russia House (2/91) Connery joins 
Pfeiffer for a Soviet spy saga. — ¥¥¥/2 
The Sheltering Sky (2/91) Bertolucci's 
bad take on 
Winger, Malkovich sand- 


vel leaves 
apped. ¥¥ 


Bowles's 


YY Worth a look 
Y Forget 


| ¥¥¥¥ Don't miss 
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"| have very eclectic 
testes," says Emmy- 
winning talk-show 
host Sally Jesse 
Raphael. Apparently 
so: Her personal 
video library includes 
(among others) The 
Е Godfather, Fred As- 
taire and Shirley Temple flicks, Disney car- 
toons and all the Crosby and Hope Road 
pictures. While The Gods Must Be Crazy, 
Eating Raoul and King of Hearts are partic- 
ular faves, Raphael views by genre: every- 
thing by Woody Allen (“He's more real 
than anyone”); the works of Ingmar 
Bergman ("for the mood and photogra- 
phy”); Abbott and Costello comedies (“as 
a relief from the day—and their proven 
humor”); and Olivier's Henry V and Hamlet 
("to hear English spoken well“). Don't look 
for current box-office hits in Raphael's col- 
lection, though. “(Film makers] can't be as 
creative or as sophisticated as they once 
were,” she complains. “Pretty Woman, for 
example, is not on my list of favorites.” 
— osan kenn 


VIDEO SLEEPERS 
good movies that crept out of town 


The Great Santini: Marine ollicer Robert 
Duvall drives his wife (Blythe Danner) 
and son (Michael O'Keefe) half-crazy. 
Bob was never better. 


COUCH-POTATO 
VIDEO OF 
THE MONTH: 


Guys do not live by the 

Three Stooges alone. 

The Best of the Soupy 

Sales Show reruns 

two decades of the 

TV clown's top guests 

(Sinatra and Sammy), 

best bits (Black Tooth and Pookie the Lion) 
and, natch, flying pies (Rhino). 


0 COUCH-TOMATO 
VIDEO OF 
THE MONTH: 


Bobby-soxers, re- 
unite! You can swoon 
again to your favorite 
heartthrob crooner: A 
Tribute to Ricky Nelson 
includes vintage clips, 
candid interviews and 
E oldies such as Garden Party and 
Travelin’ Man (Rhino). 


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MEE TAKTS 


Primo Videos Mexicano (from Bowker's 
Complete Video Directory—translations 
theirs): Son Tus Perfumes, Mujer (Girl, It's 
Your Perfume); Tonta, Tonta, pero No Tanto 
(Dumb, Dumb, But Not That Dumb); Hay 
Muertos que No Hacen Ruido (Some Dead 
Don't Make Noise); Mi Novia El... (Is She 
a He?); Nosotros los Feos (We the Uglies); 
Carnada (Bait); Carne de Horca (Hung 
Bait); Una Chava para Dos (One Chick for 
Two); La Buscona (Grope in the Dark); Dos 
Esposas en Mi Cama (Two Wives in My 
Bed); Asi No Hay Cama que Aguante (No 
Bed Is Big Enough); Cinco Nacos Asaltan 
Las Vegas (Five Jerks Hit Vegas); Los 
Apuros de Dos Gallos (Two Cocks in Trou- 
ble). 


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Colbert and Joseph Cotten. 
Starting Over: Burt Reynol 


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«dy. Best bit: Candice Bergen's bad 
singing. BRUCE WILLIAMSON 


VIDEOSYNCRASIES 
Cinema Paradiso: 


nchanting Os 
celebrating the silver screen's 
llage theater, a young It 
transported by movie gre: 
too. Subtitled or dubbed (HBO). 

The Best of 60 Minutes: Two 60-minute 
(what else?) volumes featuring the grill 
team's cight favorite stories. Be: 
ments: Safer qu 
niuses and М 
College for the deaf (CI 
Doing Business in Asia: F ape set ex- 
plores the etiquette, customs and mar- 
ket-place conduct of the Pacific Rim 
biggies—]ap: 
and South Korea. Includ page 
; produced by Asian expert Yue- 
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Airlines (you've seen excerpt 
west's ads). To order, call 800-2 
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watch for prices to go lower. Canon 
the first step with the introduction of 
E57 8mm camcorder. Complete with 
10:1 zoom, electronic shutter, remote 
and video light, it lists for a relatively 
lightweight $1299. — MAURY LEVY 


Henry V (Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-nominated turn os the 
English monorch on the warpath in France); I Come in Peace 
(big, nosty cop Dolph Lundgren trades fire with an even bigger, 
nastier alien); Predator (yet onother large alien wipes out 


Schworzenegger's merry band о” huntsmen). 


© 1890 Dep Corporation, 


A single cigarette. Thats all it takes. It's a problem you'd be stuck with if you 


were using a regular, or even a tartar control toothpaste. 
But with Topol smoker's toothpaste, not only can you fight 

plaque and tartar. You can also brush away the smoking stains: 
Which makes Topol a habit every smoker should have. 


Nothing Removes Smoking Stains Better Than Topol. 


To coincide with the Grammy awards, hon- 
oring the best music of the year, we've asked 
our critics to honor their favorite underrated 
albums of 1990. 


ROBERT CHRISTGAU 


me FMLURE of the Pretenders’ Packed! 
(Sire) to reach anybody but hard-core 
Chrissie Hynde fans is enough to make 
you think that guita 
style. Despite producer Mitchell Froom's 
yboards, it’s old Rockpile stalwart Bil- 
ly Bremner who defines Hynde's tough- 
est bunch of songs in a decade, adding 
signature rock-and-roll crunch and re- 
verb to singing and writing that have 
become more sinuous with the years. 
Chrissie’s lyrics about romantic pain add 
emotional muscle. What kind of pop 
world is it when Mariah Carey can cream. 
all over the charts while the full-time 
feelings of Never Do That and Sense of 
Purpose stiff? A callow one. 

And what kind of music world is it 
when the most soulful dance jams of me 
year have their U.S. break-even poin 
calculated at 1000 sales? A UE 
s three mid-Sev 
cuts by 


tation of lise 
International, Heavy on the Highlife! 

third release in Original Music’s quixotic 
distribution deal with Lagos’ Mrodisia 
label that isn't basically archival. When 
Dan Satch Okpara picks up the guitar 
beat from another angle or Dr. Sir War- 
rior Okpara shouts out another varia- 
tion on his eternal theme, 1 say yeah. 
Available for $17 by writing to Original 
Music at R.D. 1, Box 190, Lasher Road, 
New York 12583. 


VIC GARBARINI 


If Ritchie Valens had lived to develop 
a poetic social sensibility and assemble a 
band like John Cougar Mellencamp's 
with a touch of , he might have 
sounded like Miami’s Nuclear Valdez, 
whose driving, haunting Summer from 1 


Am 1 (Epic) was the great lost single of 


1990. Traces of the band's Hispanic- 
American heritage come through in 
Froilan Sosa's impassioned vocals and 
warm melodies, but these guys are po- 
tentially a great rock-and-roll band with 
I s. And the Мис» 
ful lyrics stir the heart and the head 
without slipping into agitprop. 

Frankly, I'm pissed that some of the 
superstars who contributed to the well- 
tentioned Nobody's Child (Warner) 
couldn't ante up anything more than 
mediocre leftover tracks and half-baked. 
nals for the Romanian children, 


are going out of 


Reeling in 1990's lost treasures. 


Signature rock and roll, 
hip-hop and percolating 
dance music. 


many of whom have AIDS. You knew 
Stevie Wonder and Elton John would 
make worthy contributions. The sur- 
prise is Guns п” Roses’ shattering Civil 
War, a maelstrom of defiance and hope 
that keynotes the Nineties the way 
Gimme Shelter and London Calling did in 
previous decades, That one track is worth 
the cost of the album. So is the cause. 


CHARLES M. YOUNG 


The trend in metal over the past cou- 
ple of years has been toward intelli- 
gence. Bands such as Metallica, Anthrax, 
Alice in Chains, Faith No More, Sound- 
garden, the Buck Pets and others have 
demonstrated wit, social awarene: nd 
musical imagination way beyond the 
of cliché. A couple of lesser-known bands 
that belong on the above list are Manito- 
ba's Wild Kingdom and the Jersey Dogs. 

Singer Handsome Dick Manitoba was 
born to fill up concert halls with his 
hugely exuberant personality. On Mani- 
toba's Wild Kingdom's And You? (MCA/ 
Popular Metaphysics), he demonst 
a wondertul gilt lor enthusiasm. When 
he sings a song like the deserves-to-be- 

ic The Party Starts Now!!, you know 
s now. Songwriter/ 
oducer/bassist Andy Shernoll finds 
just the right blend of hooks, snarl, hu- 
mor and aggression, This record makes 
me feel manly without feeling stupid. 

The Jersey Dogs debuted last year 


with Thrash Ranch (Grudge). They come 
oll as а cross between Metallica and 
Bruce Spri They're dissonant 
and have Ifyou want 
to thrash but not think about Satan or be 
exhorted to drink beer, I predict these 
guys will inspire you to bang your head 
on the nearest sharp corner: 


NELSON GEORGE 


Without the hype of Teddy (new jack 


swing) Riley or the notoriety of Time 
members Jimmy “Jam” Harris and Terry 
Lewis, “Babyface” Edmonds and his 


ONE OF THE strongest 1990 debuts be- 
longed to the classic hard-rock quintet 
Alias, and one of the strongest voices in 
pop belongs to Alias lead singer Freddy 
Curci. Much to our surprise, the album 
Curci chose to review was a classical 
disc, the 17-track “Carreras Domingo 
Pavarotti in Concert” (London). 

“My parents are Italian, and 
from the womb to the age of 13, I 
heard only opera. As a teenager, I 
did a 180-degree turn to Black 
Sabbath because of peer pre: 
but I continue to split my listening 
time today between rock and clas 
ic. What I like most about 
een een palpable experi- 
ence of being at the concert. 
There's a tremendous intimacy 
among the three tenors and be 
tween the performers and the au- 
dience. Each singer brings his own 
special gift: Domingo provides the 
passion, Pavarotti the clarity, Ca 
reras the control. Listening to 
these singers helps me a lot in 
what I do. There's so much to 
learn about te: e, control and 
embracing a lyric. And the selec- 
tions on this LP cover a lot of terri- 
tory—from the opera Tosca to 
popular works such as Maria from | 
West Side Story. A person who loves 
the intensity of rock can also 
love the intensity of the classics. I 
hate to think of music fans robbing 
themselves. It's OK to like classical 
music. It won't bite! 


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partner L. A. Reid have emerged as per- 


эз the most versatile black writing 
team since Kenny Gamble and Leon 
Hull. The Tinkertoy pop of Paula Ab- 


dul's Knocked Out and the Motownlike 
I'm Your Baby Tonight, by Whitney Hous- 
ton, are just two examples of their 
melodic dexterity. 

Whether guiding nonsingers like Ab- 
dul or Pebbles, the booming voices of 
Johnny Gill or Houston or even the pas- 
sionate yelps of Bobby Brown, the 

_.A./Babyface team maintains a пісе bal- 
ance between the high-tech demands of 
current pop and the more emotive tradi- 
tions of black music. Despite that consist- 
ent achievement, Babyface's solo album, 
Tender Lover (Solar/Epic), hasn't garnered 
the critical acclaim it deserves. Baby 
face'simage may be too slick or his music 
too smooth at a time when r awness is. 
celebrated. by musical scribes. But his 
collection juxtaposes the best elements 
of dance music with ballads for an over- 
all effect that is definitely artful. 

Two of the ballads have become m- 
stant classics: Whip Appeal, a love song 
with a Kinky edge to it, and Soon Ay / Get 
Home, with ultrasensitive-male lyrics (^1 
give good love/I'll buy your clothes/I'll 
cook your dinner, too/Soon as | get 
home from work”) that miffed many 
male listeners. Although his tenor is no 
match for the elite love men (Luther 
Vandross, Al Green), Babyface has su- 
perb phrasing. 


DAVE MARSH 


California is now hip-hop's functional 
center. The big sales come from Oak- 
land's M. C. Hammer and the real ener- 
gy comes from L.A.'s anti-authoritarian 
underground (Ice-T, Ice Cube, N.W.A.). 
L.A. is also home to hip-hop's emergin: 
Hispanic contingent, led by Mellow Man 
Ace's hilarious bilingual Mentirosa—Es- 
cape from Havana (Capitol)—and Kid 
Frost's Hispanic Causing Panic ( Virgin). 

My favorite unknown. hip-hopper is 
Mix-a-Lot, whose Seminar 
stymix) shows off the underground’ 
vices and virtues. My Hooptie is the great- 
est car song anyone has written since Lil- 
lle Red Corvette. IF last summer's furor 
over The Star-Spangled Banner had been a 
real dialog rather than an exercise in 
demagoguery, National Anthem would 
have made Mix-a-Lot a star. Mix-a-Lot’ 
mordant, eminently repeatable “I'm 
ashamed of my national anthem” is wait- 
ng to be picked up as the first anthem of 
the new antiwar movement. On the oth- 
er hand, Beepers, Gortex and Something 
About My Benzo place Mix-a-Lot squarely 
within the ritualized, consumption- 
crazed dope-dealer environment. ‘That 
doesn’t make him a hypocrite—he's not 
running for office—but it ought to wipe 
the easy smile off our lips. That’s a job 
for an artist. 


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Tender Lover 


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And You? | 


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Brothers Interna- 
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BLODO, SWEAT AND SHEARS DEPARTMENT: А 
doctor has advised Crystal Gayle to cut 
her hair to cut down on recurring 
headaches. Crystal's hair weighs sev- 
en pounds! 

REELING AND ROCKING: Tl 
bios—of the Jacksons, Marvin Gaye and 
Jackie Wilson—are in production at 
Motown for either TV or featu 
The Wilson bio will be directed by 
Debbie Alleı . Madonna has teamed 
up with director David Lynch's daugh- 
ter Jennifer (who wrote The Secret Diar 
of Laura Palmer) to make Boxing Han- 
na... - Vanilla Ice will make his screen 
debut in the Ninja Turtles sequel. . 
Look for the Ramones in Car 54 (ino 
spired by the Sixties TV series) later 
this spring. 

NEWSBREAK: 


ec movie 


record-industry 
trade groups—The National Associa- 
tion of Recording Merchandisers and 
The Recording Industry Association. 
of America—are gearing up to fight a 
new wave of lyrics legislation in at 
least 15 states where labeling and 
sales restrictions on music are cur- 
rently under consideration. . . . In the 
wake of Milli Vanili’s admission of lip 
synching, the Grammy nominees and 
per ied a warn- 
ing by the National Academy of 
Recording Arts and Sciences. Mike 
Greene, president of the academy, 
stressed that lip synching is not al- 
lowed at the Grammy awards. Don 
Wes is one of the producers of the new 
Paula Abdul album. Wilson Phillips. 
plans to avoid the sophomore slump 
on its second album with "harder- 
edged” songs, says Carnie Wilson. . . 

Ronnie Spector's autobiography didn't 
make ex-husband and former pro- 
ducer Phil Spector very happy. He still 
refuses to allow her the rights to sing 


Two 


ormers have been i 


her old hits. Ronnie has a new line-up 
of Ronettes and has been recor 
with Marshall Crenshow producing. . . 
The Montreux Jazz Festival cele- 
brates its 25th anniversary in July and 
Quincy Jones has signed on as copro- 
ducer. Since 1967, more than 10,000 
artists have performed there. . . - 
George Michael plans to hit major U.S 
concert halls in late 1991 Whitney 
Houston's world tour will begin later 
this spring. . - . The editors of Rock & 
Roll Confidential will have 50 Ways to 
Fight Censorship (Thunders Mouth 
Press) out any time now . Re- 
member we told you that Berkeley, 

ifornia, home of the original free- 
speech movement, was thinking 
about banning rap concerts at Berke- 
ley High? The ban was voted down by 
the school board. . . . Yes, that's Mark 
Knopfler playing guitar on Ronnie Mil- 
sap's song All Is Fair in Love and 
War. . . . For those of you who would 
not send your sweetheart a fruit bas- 


ket, we have a hipper idea: Retro 
Kool gift baskets. Each basket con- 


tains vintage sweets from the Sixties 
(from Chuckles to Red. Hots to Pez) 
and a 45, tape, CD or memorabilia 
from the same era. Baskets start at 
about $31. We like the Retro Kool 
that includes a Turtles collectible, for 
$45. For more information, call 800- 
677-KOOL. Finally, under the 
heading Old Hippies Never Die and 
They Don't Fade Away, Either: Country 
Joe McDonald's personalized California 
license plate reads crane. We know 
thoseare the opening words of the in- 
famous Fish Cheer, but Joe told the 
Department of Motor Vehicles that E 
was a musical reference, And so it 
goes. BARBARA NELLIS 


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that are currently be- 
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among others. Quartz moxe- 
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s practical as they are sophisticated. The 
hottest watch in Europe is the Breitling, worn with a brown 
stitched-leather band. Whichever watch you select, the choice 
will make you a canny consumer—what the Nineties are 
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We Fuck Now?” Baber. 

You know what I mean? Most guys 
know what | mean. Its what all our 
sheep and chicken jokes are based on. 
Our sexuality is humongous, and it takes 
a lot of energy and wisdom to contain it 
I've said before, the sexual energy of 
the normal male is the equivalent of a 
nuclear power plant. 

Believe it or not, good brother, I think 
I have some limited wisdom about this 
question now. After many years of 
wrestling with it, Fd like to share some- 
thing with you about. promiscuity and 
the self-destruction it can bring. 

It goes like this: Forget the scolds, for- 
get the moralists who warn you of hell's 
f ad God's judgment if you stray. 
The fact of the maner is that fucki 


ound is a self-destructive and self-lim- 


iting act. When you fuck around, you 
fuck yourself. It fragments your time 
and your psyche. When you fuck 


By ASA BABER 


A QUESTION 
OF FOCUS 


around, you send a signal to yourself 
that basically says, “Go ahead and mess 
up your life, sucker; start juggling two or 
three women at a time and split yourself 
into pieces: go ahead, numbnuts, and 
complicate your life." 


Let's tell it like it is: At that moment of 


rationalization, you are the victim of your 
own sexual confusion. You are the person 
who will become more and more divided 
as the complications pile up, the liule 
white lies accumulate, the juggling con- 
tinues. When you start to wander, you 
voluntarily take an ax and split yourself 
into pieces. You lose your focus. That is 
the central problem with promiscuity. H di- 
vides the self. 

Care to share a few laughs about the 
complexities of having an affair on the 
side? It gets confusing, doesn't it? You 
have to remember names, for example. 
In your sleep and in your orgasms, you 
have to remember to call the right wom- 
an by the right name. “Um with Nancy 
today,” you mutter to yourself. “Don't 
call her Sylvia. Or Jane. This is Nancy.” 

Better be alert on the street, too, dic 
meister. Sure, you hope the women in 
your life never get together and com- 
pare notes—but what if they all ran into 
you on the same street corner at the 
same time? What if the god of syn- 
chronicity decided to call your nam 
Did you ever have a dream about that? 


women in touch with all your 
hypocrisy, and all standing at the same 
intersection as you arrive? You'd be 
mincemeat in about five seconds, right? 

Told one way, its kind of funny. 
Looked at another way, it is very reveal- 
ing. What does it reveal? That mince- 
meat what you're looking to be, 
superstud. For some deep and dark and 
personal reason, you want to be divided 
at this point in your lile. You want to be 
out of focus. Why? That is the essential 
question that only vou can answer. Here 
are a few of the many possible reasons: 

1. You crave excitement, What, a life with 
no diversions or complications? How 
deadly dull. You have fun living by your 
wits. You enjoy the chase and the seduc- 
tion, the small lies and manipulations, 
the thrill of hiding affairs and holding 
secrets. It makes you feel alive. A little 
split, but alive 

2. You need nurturing. No question 
about it, given todays pressures and 
pace, many a couple can fall off the bed 
of nurturing. Some pcople never get 
back on. So the search for nurturing is 
out there. You may be after it. But since 
when did splitting the sell comfort you? 

3. The unfocused perspective is all you 
know. To be focused and centered is scary 
for some of us. We don't necessarily 
know how to do it. We've been divided 
for too long. We fear the responsibility 
we would have to assume for our own a 
tions if we had no crises in our lives, no 
melodramas, no women crying or argu- 
ing or scolding, no domestic distractions. 
Imagine: You, without excuses for f 
ure, without the diversions that keep 
you from looking at yourself—could you 
handle that? 
- For you, commitment is a dirty word. For 
some people, possibly for you, commi 
ment is obscene, especially the comm 
ment to the focused self. That is what 
you want to avoid. Or so you think 

But consider this, and consider it well 
In the martial arts, in all the arts, in bus 
ness and sports and parenting, the 
always for focus, 
Tor clarity, precision. loyalty. unit 

The search of the wise man? Try il 
sometime. You may surprise yourself 
and the people around you. For a 
change, pull all of you elves back to- 
gether. Enjoy the new cohesion. Don't 


. Do it now. 


All you 


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Here's one for the books. My lov 
I are having an argument about sex 
ntasies. Recalling that Jimmy Carter 
once confessed to lusting in his heart for 
other women, she asked how many 
women I had slept with—in my heart. 


Like a fool, 1 told her. If you can't fool 
around in your fantasies, what are fan- 
tasies for? She responded that women 

ive monogamous fant ie, she 


doesn't even fool around ii ms. 
Can you cast any light on this subject?— 
J- P. Chicago, Illinois. 

Bruce J. Ellis and Donald Symons studied 
sexual fantasies of male and female college 
students and found dramatic differences be- 
tween the sexes. The most interesting question 
was, “Considering your sexual fantasies 
throughout the course of your life, do you 
think that in your imagination you have had 
sexual encounters with more than 1000 peo- 
ple?” One ош of three men said yes; only eight 
percent of the women had been that active. Al- 
most half of the women (43 percent) reported 
that they never substituted or switched part- 
ners in the course of a single sexual fantas 
only 12 percent of the men said they never did 
so. The researchers found other differences, as 
well: “Women's fantasies were less frequent 
and less dominated by visual images than 
men's fantasies were; women, more than men, 
emphasized touching, feelings, partner re- 
sponse, their own physical and emotional ve- 
sponses and emotional states, such as mood 
and anbience. Women's fantasies were more 
personal than men’s fantasies: Women were 
more likely to fantasize about someone they 
were or had heen involved with, to focus on 
personal or emotional characteristics of their 
imagined partner, to include nonphysical de- 
tails about their imagined partner and to re- 
port that their imagined partner was uniquely 
able to arouse them emotionally and physical- 
ly. Women's fantasies unfolded more slowly 
than men’s fantasies and included more ca- 
messing and nongenital touching, and this 
build-up and interplay were more important 
lo women than to men. . .. By contrast, men's 
fantasies were more frequent, featured more 
imagined partners, were more impersonal, 
were more dominated by visual images, partic- 
ularly genital images, moved more quickly to 
explicilly sexual acts . . . and were more likely 
lo emphasize partner variety.” The researchers 
suggest thal women's fantasies are like ro- 
mance novels, men’s like pornography. The 
former are about mate selection, finding Mr. 
Right. The latter are about sex and physical 
encounters. In short, fun as we know й. 


Mas: wht that the best way to stop a 
car quickly in a dangerous situation is to 
hit the brakes hard to drop the car's nose 
down, then ease up on the pedal to pre- 
vent the wheels from locking up. My 


new car has ABS—antilock braking sys- 
tem. If | have to stop quickly, should I 


just slam on the brakes and let the com- 


puter do all the work?—C. S., Los Ange- 
les, California. 
Step on it. The ABS pumps the brakes au- 
tomalically—up to 15 times per second—to 
prevent wheel lockup. Not even drug-crazed 
tap dancers can move that quickly. Take the 
car to an open parking lol and get used to the 
sensation of emergency braking. Then trust 
the system. 


tly, my girlfriend and I had our 
first serious sexual encounter, After mas- 
turbating her to orgasm, she began to 
masturbate me in return. That was the 
first time a girl had ever touched my pe- 
nis. I thought I wouldn't last for ten sec- 
onds, but the opposite happened: 1 
couldn't come. It was like my penis had 
lost all sensitivity. Finally, after concen- 
trating on the fact that a beautiful girl 
was touching my penis, I had a great or- 
gasm. But I really had to work for it, and 
I was еті sed that she'd had to 
work so hard. Is it normal for a sexual 
novice to take so long?—K. J., Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 

Relax. We used to close lectures by asking 
people to repeat “The Playboy Advisor" oath: 
“I am incredible in bed, and when someone 
else is there with me, I'm even better.” First sex- 
ual experiences are fraught with anxiety and 
cluttered with expectations. The only hand 
that had touched your penis was your own— 
you probubly got caught up in the difference 
between what she was doing and what you 
were accustomed to. Some people ате so preoc- 
cupied that they suffer from. spectatoring, 
mentally distancing themselves from the ac- 


ILLUSTRATION BY DENNIS MUKAI 


tion. You were able to redirect your attention to 
the physical sensation of the moment, the mir- 
acle that a beautiful girl was touching you. 
When you see sex as what it is, instead of what 
it should be, the result is orgasm. You did fine. 


AX fer a long monogamous relationship 
fizzled, | met the girl of my dreams. In 
six months, we were engaged to be m: 
ied. Here's the problem: With the wed- 
ding still three months away, women 
seem to be coming out of the woodwork. 
Гуе had several proposals for final flings 
from women who had little interest in 
me before. What's going on, and should 
1 partake?—W. R., Charleston, South 
Carolina. 

The final-fling factor rates right up there 
with the mercy fuck as one of those unex- 
plained mysteries of womanhood. IVs probably 
easier lo talk about the latter. One of our edi- 
Lors was once struck by an automobile while 
riding a motorcycle. He broke some bones, in- 
cluding a rib. Within weeks of the accident, 
women, as you say, came out of the woodwork. 
One woman offered oral sex; he declined, say- 
ing that if he moved, the rib might puncture 
his heart or a lung and he might die. "That's 
the point,” she said. Another woman whom he 
had pursued for years finally straddled his im- 
mobile body. He was as confused as you. 
Throwing yourself in front of 4000 pounds of 
moving steel is nol a form of seduction you 
can easily repeal. The same irony applies to 
the final-fling factor. Women say thal all they 
want is a man who is willing lo make a com 
mitment. You have made one (not to them) and 
ave suddenly Mr. Right. How you deal with it 
depends on your definition of commitment. 
You can't exactly walk around the streets of 
Charleston. with a sandwich board proclaim- 
ing, GETTING MARRIED. LAST CHANCE FOR A FA- 
ALFLING. 


tte tapes are starting to slip 
and slide. Are my rubber pinch rollers 
worn beyond repair? Р. L., Detroit, 
Міс n. 

First, make sure they are clean. Buy one of 
those mock-cassette cleaning units that clean 
both the heads and the rollers. If you still have 
a problem, you may want to touch up the 
rollers with Radio Shack's Non-Slip. If that 
fails, take your cassette player into the shop for 
replacement of the rollers 


Нар: га a 25-year-old male. My last 
relationship lasted a little more than two 
years. It was filled with the most exciting 
and adventurous sex Гуе encountered 
in my life. We had sex in my bedroom, 
on the counter in my bathroom, during 
showers and baths, in her bathroom, in 
her basement, in an open field, in а 
house under construction, in the woods, 


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ona beach (wh a when you roll 
in the sand). in a motel room, in a movie 
theat my hatchback, at my sister's 
house (shhh!), a warehouse under 
construction, in an abandoned house, on 
a picnic table in a park and probably oth- 
er places that I can't remember. We even 
experimented with bondage (rope and 
handculls). Here's the problem: All of 
the above came up in a casual, friendly 
conversation with a female co-worker 
When I talk with certain women, I find I 
can be very up front and honest about 
past sexual experiences. And usually, 
they will be up front with me. My co- 
worker—who is 40, but with the looks 
and body of a woman in her late 20s— 
listened. Then she told me that she w: 
in a horrible marriage and that she т 
fuses to sleep with her husband, who 
docs nothing to keep in shape. She said 
she was at her sexual peak and hinted 
that she could keep up with someone my 
age. Recently, she asked me to join her 
for drinks. Fm running out of excuses. 1 
need some advice. What do you think of 
our age difference? If you were in my 
shoes, would you go out with her? If 
I give in, will I be morally damned fo 
Does that шапе! 
ze about having o 
her.—M. D., Trenton, New Jer 

You may be reading a litile too much into 
her invitation. She may just want you 10 com- 
miserale. You may learn something; it may 
lead to something; then again, it may nol. Can 
you deal with that frustration? (We once 
thought that if God had wanted us to play the 
transitional man, He would have put our 
genitals up around our collarbone—thal way, 
when women cred on our shoulder, it would 
at least seem like sex.) If you are uncomfort- 
able with sleeping with another man’s wife, 
don't. We aren't into the moral-damnation- 
for-all-eternity business. 


Laos in Italian restaurants, I've tast- 
ed a dessert, firamisu—sort of an Ма 
trille. What goes into such a luscious 
dish? Can it be made at home?—E. G. 
New York, New York. 

Tiramisu is not new, but apparently, its 
lime has come. Recipes vary. The one from 
Manhattan's popular Реп & Pencil restau- 
rant consists of ladyfingers moistened with 
espresso and liquew; layered with a mixture of 
mascarpone cheese, egg yolks, sugar, vanilla 
extract and whipped cream. ИУ topped with 
тоте whipped cream and shaved semisweet 
chocolate. 


weeks ago, I met a s 
goddess. I have neve 
ishing woman, not even in my most erot- 
c dreams. She has beautiful, long, curly 
diny-blonde hair, seductive blue eye: 

luscious lips and а perfect nose. Не 
neck invited me to nibble on it. Her 
breasts screamed for my massive hands. 


rav- 


seen a more 


are a 


Her never-ending legs slick a 
snow. There are no words that I can con 
ceive of that would do justice to her va 
na. There wi п attraction between us 
mmediately, Surprisingly, there was no 
trouble at all regarding the difference in 
our ages. Our sex is great. On the ver 
first night of love, we started off by 
fondling cach other for about ten min- 
utes. She unbuttoned my shirt with he: 
teeth while 1 slowly stripped off he 
piece by piece. When we were 
Кей, we examined each other 
She directed my hand to her 
It fit perfectly. I caressed her pa: 
sionately. I moved my fingers down and 
began feeling her pussy. She directed my 
mouth toward her vagina and I licked 
decp. She gradually pushed my head 
forward, signaling that she wanted me to 
he screamed passionately, 
Then, with dden thrust, M grabbed. 
me and threw me backward. She knelt 
down and started to rub my penis. She 
gradually rubbed faster and faster until 
it was fully erect. She remarked on how 
enormous it was. Needless to say, I was 
feeling very confident of my manhood at 
that moment. She then started to lick it, 
from the testicles to the tip. She put it in 
her mouth and violently sucked it. 
could tell she was very enthusi She 
stopped sucking and pulled my dick to- 
ward her pussy while wrapping her long 
legs around me. She was controlling our 
every move. I felt powerless and uncom- 
fortable. Nonetheless, it was one of the 
best sexual experiences I have ever had. 
Until then, every Gime I had made love 
with somebody, I was always in control. I 
remarked to her that I liked being more 
п control during intercourse and that I 
didn't think that when we made love, she 
should control my every move. She got 
mad and said that that was the way she 
liked her encounters. She also 
азе she is older and much 
nced, she should be the 
in control, because I am still a 
Т don't feel that way. We have 
de love many times, and every time, 
she is in total control. She refuses to let 
me direct us. I enjoy our sex very much, 
but Га enjoy it more if she would let me 
direct. How can I persuade her to let me 
do this once in a while?—J. N., 
Diego, California. 

Is this what comedienne Judy Tenuta calls 
being a stud puppet? Now you know what it 
feels like to be made love to—many men nev- 
er give up the active role, never relinquish 
control, never experience the pleasure of re- 
ceiving. Having said that, we cam або 
understand your confusion. Nothing in this 
scenario satisfies your need to [vel competent. 
You have more lo offer than your responsive- 
ness, your 22-year-old anatomy. A one-sided 
sexual relationship sucks. Healthy relation- 
ships have the flexibility to accommodate the 
needs of both individuals. This may be a situ- 
ation where talking about power doesn't help: 


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If you have to ask to take control, you aren't in 
control. If she can't take turns, take a walk, 


s, Гуе read The Playboy Advisor. 
t time, you have counseled 
men who suffer from premature ejacula- 
tion. You've described the squeeze tech- 
nique, the stop-and-start technique and 
others. But you have never said what 
causes premature ejaculation. Why does 
it strike some men and not othe 
D. Z., Dallas, Texas. 

Every sex therapist has a favorite theory, 
Some feel that the premature ejaculator hasn't 
learned how to read his arousal accurately 
and so slides off Ihe precipice. Yet studies have 
shown that premature ejaculators and 
non—premature ejaculators are equally accu- 
тие. They know exactly how excited they are at 
any given moment, Other therapists have sug- 
gested performance anxiety, power struggles, 
anger, control issues. It may be much simplex: 
Donald Strassberg and three other researchers 
at the University of Utah wondered if perhaps 
premature ejaculators were simply more sensi- 
tive Lo all forms of sex. They asked a group of 
premature ejaculators to masturbate in the lab 
and at home, then compared the times with 
those of а group of non—premature ejacula- 
tors. The PE. group reached orgasm during 
masturbation in 3.16 minutes on the average. 
The N.PE. group reached orgasm on the av- 
erage in 6.24 minutes, (The men in the PE. 
group reported that they reached orgasm in 
two minutes or less at least 50 percent of the 
time during intercourse and perceived that 
they had no control over the onset of orgasm. 
The N.PE.s reported that they lasted three 
minutes or more al least 50 percent of the time 
during intercourse, and that they were able to 
exert control over the onset of orgasm.) Strass- 
berg concludes, “The orgasmic threshold for 
premature ejaculatars may simply be lower . . . 
requiring less physical stimulation (via part- 
ner or self) for premature ejaculators to reach 
orgasm, This would explain why even remov- 
al of all sources of interpersonal anxiety still 
results in the premature ejaculatory reaching 
orgasm more quickly than his “normal coun- 
terpart.” Whatever the reason, it is reassuring 
to know that if you are bothered by this prob- 
dem, the cures work. 


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The rancor on the floor of the U.S. 
House of Representatives last July 
was unusually intense as members 
debated the political future of Barney 
Frank. The popular Massachusetts 
Democrat, who had acknowledged a 
relationship with Stephen L. Gobie, a 


self-appointed hit men 


THE CONGRESSMAN 


then Vice-President George Bush's 
locker in the House gym and that 
Frank was aware of the use of his 
house for prostitution when he was 
out of town and indulged in sniffing 
the soiled bed sheets. 

After Dannemeyer stopped froth- 


ing, before his resolution was defeat- 
ed 390 to 18, Julian Dixon, chairman 
of the ethics committee, took the 
floor. “You have just heard [some] of 
the most edited, selected garbage that 
has ever been put forth, in my opin- 
ion, in this House,” he thundered, as 


the Democratic side 
of the House burst 
into applause. 

It would be very 
difficult to pinpoint 
which of Danne- 
meyers many pro- 
nouncements on 
AIDS and gay issues 
would not merit that 
distincion. Danne- 
meyer has told his 
colleagues that the 
AIDS virus can “mu- 
tate in such a way so 
that it can be trans- 
mitted through the 
respiratory system 
as a main means of 
transmissibility" and 
that persons infect- 
ed with AIDS should 
“take a glass of water 


male prostitute, had 
been the subject of 
an ethics-committee 
probe. While the 
committee uncov- 
ered no evidence 
to support Gobie's 
more lurid charges, 
it did find that 
Frank had fixed his 
parking tickets and 
intervened with his 
probation officer. It 
recommended that 
Frank be reprimand- 
ed. 

But to William 
Dannemeyer, a 12- 
year Congression- 
al veteran with a 
well-known sodomy 
fixation, reprimand 
was not sufficient. д F 
The conservative ` 2 A, < 


pun blicas с The Vile People: William Dannemeyer, Patrick Buchanan, Jesse Helms. 
fornia, had intro- IS 

duced a resolution | О 

to expel Frank MS 

from the House. 

^We must stand and 
affirm the existence 
of standards in our 
society" he said. 
“What is going on in 
America is a cultural 
war" that pits the 
Judaeo-Christian 
ethic against godless 
"moral relativism.” 
He then went on to 
recite as fact Gobie's 
seamier unproved 
allegations: that 
Frank and Gobie 
had ejaculated into 


" as a palliative. 
He has said that 
people with AIDS 
"emit spores that 
have been known to 
cause birth defects" 
and that radical gays 
were likely to prac- 
tice "blood terror- 
ism,” intentionally 
spreading the virus 
to heterosexuals by 
donating blood. 
“One third of male 
homosexuals [find] 
child sex attractive," 
he told a hooting au- 
dience in San Fran- 
cisco; "typical gay 
pastimes, he added, 


“Although polls show more Americans are beginning to accept 
homosexual men and women and support their rights, there has 
been a great increase in reports of antigay bias since the begin- 
ning of the AIDS epidemic. But rather than creating the new 
hostility, researchers have found, the disease has given bigots an 
excuse to act out their hatred. 

"In studying the virulence and tenacity of antigay feelings, 
psychologists are finding clues to the deeper sources of homo- 
рден The new findings confirm the theory that some men use 

ostility and violence to homosexuals to reassure themselves 
about their own sexuality. But the greatest portion of antihomo- 
sexual bias, psychologists now say, arises from a combination of 
fear and self-righteousness in which homosexuals are perceived 
as contemptible threats to the moral universe.” 
—DANIELGOLEMAN in The New York Times, July 10, 1990 


To all the statis- 
tics regarding the 
North Carolina 
Senatorial race 
won by Jesse 
Helms, may I add 
this one: 62. It 
is the reported 
number of peo- 
ple murdered last 
year in attacks on 
homosexuals. 
The best you can 
say about Helms 
is that he did 
nothing to lower 
those numbers. 
In the dosing 
days of his cam- 
paign, Helms ap- 
pealed not only to 
racism but to homophobia, as well. 
He accused his opponent, Harvey 
Gantt, of accepting money from gay 
groups—funds raised, Helms said, 
in gay bars. "Why are homosexuals 


buying this election for Harvey 
Gantt?” a Helms newspaper ad 
asked. "Because Harvey Gantt will 
support their demands for manda- 


tory gay rights!!" 


Hatred of homosexuals remains 
the last acceptable American big- 
огу. . . . Racism, on the other hand, 
has been banished from the Ameri- 
can political dialog. Thats why 
David Duke, a racist and anti- 
Semite if there ever was one, was 
booted from the Republican Party. 
Duke's racism used to be raw and 
uncomplicated—as raw as once be- 
ing a Nazi and a member of the Ku 
Klux Klan. That being the case, it 
hardly mattered that in his recent 
Senatorial campaign, Duke es- 
chewed outright racism and’ con- 
centrated, instead, on affirmative 
action, We all knew what he was 
Saying... 

The primary obligation of a 
politician is not different from that 
of a physician: First, do no harm. 
Helms does plenty of harm. He is 
entitled to be a political reactionary, 
not to mention a mean and cantan- 
kerous human being. But his ap- 


included eating human excrement. 
Dannemeyer wrote a book, Shadow in 
the Land: Homosexuality in America, that 
outlines the insidious process by which 
gays and their liberal apologists are 
taking power in America. He takes his 
message of hate on the road, lecturing 


peals to bigotry— 
above ай, to 
homophobia 
should put him 
beyond the pale 
of American poli- 
tics. For some 
reason, though, 
they do not. The 
same G.O.P that 
would have noth- 
ing to do with 
Duke embraced 
Helms. Presi- 
dent Bush cam- 
paigned for him 
twice, raising 
an estimated 
$1,000,000. What 
point of light was 
that? 

When it comes to homosexuals, 
the sum and substance of Helms's 
message is one that encourages 
continued discrimination and, in- 
deed. violence. Helms may say, 
"Prove it,” to which 1 respond, 
"Sorry, I cannot." But as a citizen 
and a journalist, I know my coun- 
try. I know, in other words, that just 
as lynchings occurred in a hos- 
pitable political culture, so do as- 
saults on gays. There were nearly 
800 of them last year, some result- 
ing in death, others in injuries so 
horrible (attempts at castration) 
that fev newspapers would report 
them in any detail. To some men, 
the difference between gays and 
deer is a mere technicality. The lat- 
ter can be hunted only in season. 

Helms is once again a winner 
and, as usual, for a variety of rea- 
sons. But one of them, surely, is 
that he appealed to the prejudices 
of the electorate. It's too late now 
for George Bush to refuse to cam- 
paign for Helms, too late for the 
G.O.P to treat him as it did Duke. 
Maybe the most we can ask is some 
sense of shame. For the Republican 
Party in the matter of Jesse Helms, 
it would be well deserved. 

RICHARD COMEN, The Washington 

Posi, November 8, 1990 


church and civic groups on the topic 
“Are gay-rights groups trying to de- 
stroy the American family?” To educate 
his colleagues, he has inserted graphic 
descriptions of purported homosexu- 
al practices into the Congressional 
Record (see “For the Record,” The 


Playboy Forum, January 1990). Activities 
peculiar to homosexuality include 
“having one man or men urinate on 
another man or men; fisting, or hand- 
balling, which has one man insert his 
hand and/or part of his arm into an- 
other man's rectum; and using what 
are euphemistically termed ‘toys,’ such 
as one man inserting dildos, certain 
vegetables or light bulbs up another 
man’s rectum.” So upset was Repre- 
sentative Andrew Jacobs, Jr., of Indi- 
ana after reading this diatribe that he 
asked the ethics committee to investi- 
gate whether Dannemeyer had violat- 
ed House obscenity standards. 

Dannemeyer's book, published by 
the Catholic Church’s Ignatius Press, 
lays bare his delusions in florid detail. 
“In their newspapers and magazines 
homosexuals openly proclaim their in- 
tention to destroy American society— 
our families, our churches, our 
deepest religious beliefs," he rails. 
“The homosexual blitzkrieg has been 
better planned and better executed 
than Hitlers." Aware that scientific 
findings attributing homosexuality to 
biological or genetic causes may lead 
to increased tolerance and acceptance 
of gays, he declares that “homosexual- 
ity is not undeniably an inherited ‘ori- 
entation,’ but is probably a bad habit 
acquired in early childhood or puber- 
ty. . . . In an age when homosexuality 
was not publicly advertised, relatively 
few young people fell into such unnat- 
ural behavior.” 

Like his sex-obsessed soulmate in 
the Senate, Jesse Helms, Dannemeyer 
keeps gays on the defensive by trying 
to attach antigay amendments to ap- 
propriations, health-care bills and oth- 
er legislation. For example, in debates 
on the Hate Crimes Statistics Act, man- 
dating that the Justice Department col- 
lect statistics on crimes motivated by 
bigotry, Dannemeyer went on a cru- 
sade to exclude hate crimes based on 
sexual orientation. According to 
Frank, “You get this very distinct im- 
pression from him that he thinks it’s 
understandable to commit violence 
against gay men and lesbians.” (Physi- 
cal assaults against gays, Dannemeyer 
writes, are “a minuscule number when 
compared with the violence perpetrat- 
ed against children in this country— 
some of these crimes committed by 
homosexual pedophiles.”) 

Dannemeyer has fought to prohibit 
the use of Federal funds for education- 
al materials that “promote or encour- 
age” homosexuality targeting safe-sex 
instruction, sponsored a 1988 amend- 
ment to reduce money for AIDS 
research by $100,000,000 and opposed 


distribution of the Surgeon General's 
report on AIDS, because it "promotes 
sodomy." While most of Dannemeyer's 
proposals fail by lopsided margins or 
are stricken in conference committees, 
he occasionally scores. In 1989, after 
the Department of Health and Human 
Services (HHS) issued a report on teen 
suicide that concluded that gay youth 
were two to three times more likely to 
take their lives than other teens be- 
cause of “a society that . . . stigmatizes 
homosexuals," Dannemeyer pressured 
HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan to re- 
nounce this section of the report be- 
cause it was "antifamily." 

“] never thought of heterosexuality 
as such a fragile institution that a soci- 
ety's acceptance of the reality of sexual 
diversity somehow threatens the con- 
tinuation of the race,” says Urvashi 
Vaid, executive director of the Nation- 
al Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a 
frequent Dannemeyer target. Vaid cau- 
tions against dismissing Dannemeyer 
as an isolated wacko. “1 think he's very 
dangerous”. she says. "He voices the 
prejudice that many people feel. . . . 
He speaks to an element that is abso- 
lutely ignorant of gay people's lives, 
that has a lot of prejudice and miscon- 
ceptions about them and that really is 
unwilling to change its mind." 

Above all, it is AIDS that most rivets 
Dannemeyer. A lawyer, he acquired his 
dubious public-health expertise with 
the help of Dr. Paul Cameron, a psy- 
chologist whose relentless campaign of 
hatred against gays probably con- 
tributed to his expulsion from the 
American Psychological Association, 
according to Los Angeles magazine. The 
promulgator of the myth that gays 
have sex with gerbils (the rodent's 
death throes are supposed to offer rec- 
tal thrills), Dr. Cameron, who signed 
on as Dannemeyer's AIDS advisor in 
1985, has called for the quarantine and 
extermination of all gay men. (He later 
fudged his final solution by saying he 
had written only of its "viability.") Until 
a public outcry forced Dannemeyer to 
sever formal ties to this lunatic, 
Cameron's $2000-a-month fee was 
paid by the American taxpayers. 

“He is obsessed with male homosex- 
uality,” says Thomas B. Stoddard, ex- 
ecutive director of the Lambda Legal 
Defense and Education Fund, who de- 
bated Dannemeyer on several occa- 
sions before the Congressman stopped 
appearing with gays on the grounds 
that they were plotting to kill him. "Re- 
ally, only a psychotherapist could ex- 
plain what motivates such a public 
crusade.” 

—STEPHEN RAE, a New York writer 


Pat Buchanan, THE sage our brave 


like many com- 


Marines must 


nene COLUMNIST preserve- Hisown 


loony right, has 
a hater's quarrel 
with homosexu- 
als. “His lips as- 
sume a tracing 
of utter disgust 
whenever he talks 
about them,” said 
Tom Braden, his 
former adver- 
sary on CNN's 
Crossfire. 

The beast has 
been brought out 
by the AIDS epi- 
demic. In 1983, 
just when the 
horror of the 
virus was begin- 
ning to sink in, 

Buchanan taunt- 

ed those who 

were about to die: 

“The sexual revo- 

lution has begun 

to devour its children. . . . The poor 
homosexuals—they have declared 
war upon nature, and now nature is 
exacting an awful retribution.” 

In a 1984 article in The American 
Spectator, Buchanan and fellow ho- 
mophobe J. Gordon Muir raised 
the specter of the gay community as 
the human equivalent of biological 
weapons: “Within the homosexual 
community, there are today incu- 
bating pandemic, rare and exotic 
diseases with a time-bomb potential 
of exploding into the general popu- 
lation. Without descending into 
clinical detail, some concept of the 
“gay lifestyle’ needs to be under- 
stood. Its essence is random, re- 
peated, anonymous sex—runaway 
promiscuity. The chapel of this new 
faith has been the bathhouse.” In 
the same article, Buchanan moaned 
that gay rights would force the mili- 
тагу to accept homosexuals. He is 
afraid that “basic waining of 18- 
year-old Marine recruits will in- 
clude sensitivity training on the 
proper respect to be accorded the 
‘alternative lifestyle’ of their gay 
comrades in the barracks.” 

He apparently feels that gay 
bashing is one of the rites of pas- 


efforts tend to- 
ward the shrill 
and nonphysical. 
Buchanan's fa- 
vorite form of gay 
bashing is statisti- 
cal genocide. He 
would like to 
make homosexu- 
ality disappear, 
and he has enlist- 
ed the aid of 
two pseudo sci- 
entists—Edward 
Eichel, a Manhat- 
tan psychothera- 
pist, and Judith 
Reisman, a 
former songwrit- 
er for Captain 
Kangaroo and 
self-described 
performance art- 
ist [see Showdown 
in Cincinnati, on 
page 64]. The two have written a 
book called Kinsey, Sex and Fraud: 
The Indoctrination of a People. 

Buchanan has promoted the 
crackpot theories of Eichel and 
Reisman in several nationally syndi- 
cated colum One in ten Ameri- 
can males is either homosexual or 
bisexual. That explosive finding, by 
the late Dr. Alfred Kinsey. may be 
one of the great hoaxes of the 20th 
Century and Dr. Kinsey may soon 
be adjudged the greatest scientific 
charlatan and mountebank of his 
age.” 

Eichel and Reisman rake over 
AIDS statistics and, with some 
skewed thinking of their own, cal- 
culate that the “true figure for ex- 
clusive homosexuality among the 
male population is one to two per- 
cent.” 

Buchanan trumpets the finding: 
“It may just blow the sewer cap off 
Kinsey's monumental reputation, 
re-establish homosexuality as a one- 
in-50 aberration [and] expose the 
gay-rights movement as a paper 
tiger.” 

With the courage of an accoun- 
tant, Buchanan accomplishes his 
final solution. 


E 


E R 


QUORUM SEX? 


Having finished The Playboy 
Forum's series on date rape, I 
was astonished by the cover- 
age of a trial in Oshkosh, Wis- 
consin. A 20-year-old man met 
a 26-year-old woman who suf- 
fers from multiple-personality 
disorder, (She claims to have 
anywhere from 21 to 46 per- 
sonalities—each dominated by 
a specific emotion.) He had sex 
with one of her personalities. At 
least one other surfaced and 
said that she had been raped, 
that Knowing of her condition, 
he had summoned forth a “fun- 
loving” personality who would 
say yes to sex. The woman says 
she has no control over which 
personality emerges but was 
able in court to change voices 
like television channels. The 
Judge required that each new 
personality be sworn in. It 
sounded like a circus, except 
the poor guy could spend ten 
years in jail. This sort of de- 
stroys the notion of consent: A 
single yes won't do; you have to 
hear from a whole choir. 

David Wall 
Chicago, Illinois 


That bizarre rape case in 
Oshkosh leaves me wondering 
Just how much new law there is 
to be made out of sex. The de- 
fendant has been convicted of 
making it with one of the so- 
called victim's 46 personali- 
ties—one of which consented to 
have sex and presumably en- 
joyed it. Why should he be prosecuted 
after the fact by a nonconsenting per- 
sonality that, by the same stretch of 
psychology, wasn't involved? Perhaps 
the consenting personality should be 
prosecuted for fornication, which is il- 
legal in Wisconsin. 

(Name withheld by request) 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

Apparently, others saw it the way our 
readers did. A judge subsequently ordered a 
new trial and the prosecution chose to drop 
all charges. Still, this cose raises more ques- 
tions than it answers. Women have many 
moods, and in dating, men attempt lo elicit 
one that is conducive lo consensual sex. 
How different is that from the behavior of 
the man in the Oshkosh trial? Call it Rubik's 
consent: Before you can have sex with a per- 


son, must you have a qualified psychiatrist 
testify that there is only one person home? Or 
that if your partner has multiple personali- 
ties, all of the squares are in agreement? 
This was made-for-TV-movie justice. 


NC-17 CONTROVERSY 

‘Twenty-four church leaders took out 
an ad in the Ventura County Star-Free 
Press, equating the new NC-17 film rat- 
ing with a formula for disaster: “We, 
the undersigned, as leaders in our 
community, want to go on record that 
we oppose the Motion Picture Associa- 
tion of America's recent change of the 
movie-rating system from X to No 
Children Under 17 (NC-17). We be- 
lieve this is an attempt to legitimize 


films that up to now have 
been rated X. As USA Today 
pointed out in a recent editori- 
al cartoon, it is a ‘wolf in 
sheep's clothing." We see this as 
the ultimate in hypocrisy and 
self-serving for the M.PA.A. to 
redefine and predetermine 
our community values so they 
can line their pockets. In re- 
sponse to this unwarranted 
change, we are asking you, as 
responsible members of our 
community, to refuse to sup- 
port any theater or chain of 
theaters in our cities while they 
are screening any film with an 
NC-17 rating.” 

A  "Sound-Off Poll"—in 
which readers could phone in 
their opinions on the boycott — 
followed two days later. Of the 
1058 callers, 884 supported 
the boycott. Granted, this is by 
no means a scientific represen- 
tation of my community, but 
it's scary to think of the conse- 
quences, By the way, I do not 
support the ban on NC-17 
movies. 


David Weber 

Ventura, California 

Did you phone in? Did you 
‚phone in 20 or 30 times? Have you 
called your local theater manager 
to tell him you support mature 
movies with adult themes? Did you 
write a letter telling him how much 
you enjoyed “Henry & June,” the 
fest NC-17 film? What people 
sometimes fail to recognize is that the forces 
of censorship are not unsophisticated. It is 
easy lo organize the intolerant, almost im- 
possible to organize the tolerant. The intro- 
duction of the new NC-17 rating is 
welcomed by all who believe that it is possible 
to make adult films that are not pornograph- 
ic. But its arrival will do something more. It 
will reveal the hidden agenda behind the 
previous suppression of distribution and ad- 
vertising of any adult film that received an 
X raling. Those of a censorial mind will 
now refuse to distribute and/or advertise 
certain NC-17 films as well, because they re- 
ally do believe they have the right to suppress 
legitimate adult entertamment. Their pro- 
fessed concern, protecting children from 
pornography, is simply a cover for their 


real agenda—control of the minds and bod- 
ies of their fellow citizens. 


GLOBAL-WARMING CZAR? 

Has anyone done a scientific study 
correlating the trend in global warm- 
ing with the number of ridiculous 
speeches made by departed drug czar 
Bill Bennett? He quit his job in a snit, 
the sound of his saber rattling lost in 
the roar of Saudi-bound machinery. 
He claimed that progress was being 
made in the war on drugs as a result of 
his rhetoric, his talk of beheading drug 
dealers, of creating orphanages for the 
children of drug users, fines for the 
parents of dealers. The simple fact is 
that drug use has dedined steadily for 
more than a decade—not because of 
interdiction or high-tech cops but be- 
cause we learn from our own experi- 
ence. (America’s attitudes toward legal 
drugs—alcohol and tobacco—demon- 
strate a similar pattern. We did not 
change from sousing to sophistication 
because of mandatory prison sentenc- 
ing.) 

Benneu launched a highly publi- 
cized war on drugs in Washington, 
D.C. It failed. He launched a highly 
publicized campaign in four target ar- 
eas. It failed. He left a legacy of lost 
freedom—his speeches paved the way 
for increased drug testing in the work- 
place, in schools and in the athletic are- 
na. Next time you have to piss into a 
test tube, think of Bill. 

(Name withheld by request) 
New York, New York 


“DATE RAPE” 

Stephanie Gutmann (“Date Rape,” 
The Playboy Forum, October) ignores the 
real nerve of the date-rape controver- 
sy: consent. She says that the issue is 
clouded by the tradition of men's tak- 
ing the sexual initiative and complains 
that date-rape dogma depicts women 
as passive. Actually, the tradition of 
male initiative keeps the woman in 
power, sitting in judgment on the man 
and forcing him to wait upon her fem- 
inine wiles. Women preserve this tradi- 
tion to protect their own emotional 
advantage. What is needed is role re- 
versal. The female should initiate all 
sexual advances. If she made the ad- 
vance, consent could not be an issue 
and no one would call it rape. She 
would take full responsibility for her 
choice to have sex. My guess is that 


women would not welcome such a 
change. Why not? Because it would re- 
quire of a woman what she loathes the 
most—having to commit sexually or 
emotionally to a guy before she knows 


The makers of Trojan brand 
condoms have prepared the fol- 
lowing quiz to test how much you 
really know about condoms and 
their use. Take it and see- 

1. It is safe to put a condom on 
just before ejaculation. True or 
false? 

2. A condom used alone is an ef- 
fective method of birth control. 
True or false? 

3. Using a condom interferes in 
the intimacy and/or pleasure of 
sex. True or false? 

4. Condoms come in different 
sizes. True or false? 

5. Condoms have an expiration 
date. True or false? 

6. All condoms are made of la- 
tex. True or false? 

7. Condoms have assumed a 
new importance in our society 
over the past five years. True or 
false? 

8. What is the proper way to put 
on a condom? 

Answers: 

1. False. Never wait until just be- 
fore ejaculation to put on a con- 
dom. A condom should be put on 
an erect Pens prior to any contact 
as part of foreplay. 

Note: Pre-ejaculatory fluid can 
cause an unwanted pregnancy. 

2. True. A condom, when used 
consistently and properly (accord- 
ing to instructions), is 97 percent 
effective in pregnancy prevention. 

3. False. Putting a condom on 
the penis may be done by either 
partner and can be an intimate 
part of foreplay. In addition, to- 
day's condoms are thinner, allow- 
ing for increased sensitivity. 

4. True. Larger-sized condoms 
are available for those who find 
standard condoms uncomfortable. 
5. True. The shelf life of spermi- 


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whether or not he’s interested, thus 
making her sexually and emotionally 


vulnerable to his mood. 
Steven Jenkins 


Wilmington, California 


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cidally lubricated latex condoms is 
generally two years and their ex- 
piration date is marked according- 
ly Latex condoms without a 
spermicidal lubricant, which have 
a shelf life of about five years if 
stored properly, do not currently 
carry an expiration date. For pro- 
tection from deterioration while in 
storage, condoms should be kept 
in a cool, dry area (50 to 86 de- 
grees Fahrenheit) and not ex- 
posed to extremes of heat and 
cold. They should remain in their 
individually sealed, air-tight pack- 
ages until ready to be used. 

6. False. Condoms are made 
from either latex (rubber) or spe- 
cally processed natural lamb- 
membrane material. 

7. True. The condom became 
the focus of attention when the 
medical community found latex 
condoms to be the best available 
protection (barring abstinence) 
against transmission of the AIDS 
virus. The renewed interest in 
condoms underscores other ad- 
vantages of condom use, includ- 
ing: 

* Lack of serious side effects as 
opposed to other forms of birth 
control 

* Protection against many sex- 
ually transmitted diseases 

* Male participation in contra- 
ception and protection from infec- 
tion 

* Low cost 

* Availability 

* Examination, prescription or 
fitting not required 

8. Place the rolled condom at 
the head of the erect penis. 
Squeeze tip gently so no air is 
trapped inside. Hold the tip while 
unrolling the condom all the way 
down to the hair. 


Reporter's Notebook 


Like death and taxes, it seems that 
sex and censorship will always be with 
us. Now more than ever. With Jesse 
Helms triumphantly back in the Sen- 
ate, and liberal Justice William Bren- 
nan retired from the Supreme Court, 
it's time to reflect again on sexual ex- 
pression and the First Amendment. 
Before the new conservative Court ma- 
jority, under pressure from right-wing 
legislators, lurches farther down this 
conservative path, let's force the de- 
bate onto honest turf. Heres my 
opener: Helms should propose a con- 
stitutional amendment banning what- 
ever it is he defines as obscenity. If the 
Constitution is to be shredded, let the 
people do it. 

I borrow the idea from the late Jus- 
tice William O. Douglas, one of the 
great defenders of the First Amend- 
ment, who warned that the Supreme 
Court could not be trusted to pro- 
tect us from lurking puritans. Despite 
the constitutional barrier separating 
church from state, there remains a 
strident minority insistent on treating 
sexual ideas and imagery as so blas- 
phemous that they are no longer ideas 
but plain sin. And the Court has too of- 
ten bowed to its agenda. In his time, 
Justice Douglas challenged the zealots 
to be honest and try to get the public to 
support a rewrite of the Constitution to 
suit their purposes. 

"What shocks me may be sustenance 
for my neighbor," Douglas wrote in a 
dissenting opinion, along with Justices 
Brennan, Stewart and Marshall, in the 
landmark Miller vs. California case. 
"What causes one person to boil up in 
rage over one pamphlet or movie may 
reflect only his neurosis, not shared by 
others. We deal here with a regime of 
censorship that, if adopted, should be 
done by constitutional amendment 
and after full debate by the people." 

So, if Helms were to rise to the chal- 
lenge, how would the people vote? 1 
don't know. We have such complicated 
feelings about our sexuality that the 
libertine and the puritan are often at 
war in the same person. Hell of a 
thing, sex. No other natural and pre- 
sumably God-given act is both so con- 
sistently exciting and so consistently 


distressing. How else to explain the 
fact that the public censors so often 
turn out to be the private perverts? 
The corruption is ecumenical. Born- 
again Protestant minister Jim Bakker 
saw his empire crumble over charges 
of illicit sexuality. And the Catholic 
priest Bruce Ritter, once the leading 
zealot on the Attorney General's Com- 
mission on Pornography, now is hum- 
bled by his own Church over repeated 
accusations of homosexual affairs. 


Didn’t we know all along that the cen- 
sors are at best voyeurs? Yet many fall, 
and always will, for their gambit; Jim- 
my Swaggart is preaching again. 

What is it about sex that so disorients 
the common sense of otherwise reason- 
able people? And why is it that sexual 
imagery, everywhere, is found to be so 
subversive of the established order? 

In China last fall, a woman received 
a life sentence for selling pornographic 
literature. In traditional Saudi Arabia, 
a woman can't even have premarital 
conversation with a man outside of her 
family. And in most of the Christian 
world, the fiction that sex is meant on- 
ly for procreation remains enforced by 
law. There are interesting differences 
of degree as one traverses the sexual 
terrain from primitive monarchy to 
enlightened democracy, but the princi- 
ple is the same: Sexuality is an offense. 

Hypocrisy, however, is rarely forbid- 


den. Concubines are still a way of life 
for the powerful in China, and Gulf 
sheiks are notorious for molesting 
servants at home and running wild 
with callgirls abroad. 

And back in the U.S.A.? If we can 
believe their biographers and various 
police reports, many of the most 
influential U.S. citizens diddled out- 
side the confines of marriage up to the 
moment of their death. Recent ac- 
counts of the private lives of John E 
Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr, 
Nelson Rockefeller and William Paley 
all provide evidence that a ribald sexu- 
al life may be useful—hell, essential — 
to exemplary leadership. 

At least in overtly totalitarian coun- 
tries, the censors make it clear that 
they are threatened by the ideas inher- 
ent in a freer sexuality. Sexual fantasy, 
the more honest totalitarians readily 
admit, embodies the subversive notion 
of an individual's fantasy's escaping the 
control of the dominant power, be it 
religion or the state. So in China, ac- 
cording to top officials there, pornog- 
raphy is held responsible for all kinds 
of rebellious opposition to the state 
and, indeed, is the very essence of 
bourgeois democracy. In Saudi Arabia, 
sexuality outside the male master/fe- 
male slave confines of the family is con- 
sidered an example of pernicious 
Western influence. The Saudis will let 
the U.S. Marines in but not the 
Marines’ favorite literature. 

Of course, a well-developed sexuali- 
ty is no more Western than it is East- 
ern, as the Kama Sutra so eloquently 
testifies. But the market economy now 
identified with Western practice and 
values does embody the radical notion 
that individuals should be free to pur- 
chase whatever literature or see what- 
ever movies they want and that the 
market should respond by delivering 
them. Which explains the recent ex- 
plosion of erotica on the streets of east- 
ern Europe. 

Back at the beginning of the Gor- 
bachev era, I found myself trudging 
up a creaky, unlit stairwell to the closet- 
like studio of one of Moscow's leading 
photographers. His pictures of insects 
and fauna had been collected in seri- 


ous books, but 1 was not visiting for 
that reason. My guide, a leading fe- 
male editor at one of the young, cut- 
ting-edge Soviet publications, had 
taken me there to see a slide show of 
erotic photography this man had man- 
aged to shoot under several tyrannical 
regimes, from Khrushchev to An- 
dropov. His collection consisted of 
thousands of slides, mostly of women 
and some of men, all posed nude 
against natural settings. From these, he 
created shows with the aid of a primi- 
tive and cranky projector and an errat- 
ic record player. 

I can't adequately judge this man's 
artistry. But I can tell you that he was 
one of the bravest souls 1 had ever en- 
countered. Both he and his unpaid 
models had worked at considerable 
risk, facing some of the most severe 
penalties the Soviet state then dished 
out. There was no question about his 
willingness to sacrifice his freedom— 
and perhaps his life—for his ideas on 
the erotic and art. 

Maybe this guy was the D. H. 
Lawrence of his set. But one wonders, 
Why the hassle? As with Lawrence, the 
most serious burden placed by the cen- 
sor on those who would explore the 
realm of the erotic is to deny that there 
is anything intellectually important 
about their quest. It is, the censors al- 
ways assume, simply porn. 

How to exclude sexual expression 
from constitutional protection has long 
been a creative obsession of America's 
would-be censors. Clearly, they could 
not just cite the fact that various sexual 
practices are against God's laws, be- 
cause that would violate the separation 
of church and state. Nor could they 
simply ban ideas relating to sexuality, 
since there are the troublesome provi- 
sions of the First Amendment. 

The answer, enshrined in the Miller 
decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, 
which stands as the current dictate on 
sexual censorship, is simple if absurd: 
Sexual depiction can be banned not 
because it offends religious norms but 
because it violates something more 
secular-sounding called "community 
standards." And as to free trafic in 
ideas, that's simple: Sexual ideas are 
simply ruled not to be ideas at all. 

“The dissenting Justices [Brennan, 
Stewart, Douglas and Marshall] sound 
the alarm of repression,” Justice War- 
ren Burger wrote for the majority in 
Miller. “But, in our view, to equate the 
free and robust exchange of ideas and 
political debate with commercial ex- 


ploitation of obscene material demeans 
the grand conception of the First 
Amendment and its high purpose in 
the historic struggle for freedom.” The 
Court, failing to draw a clear line be- 
tween erotica and obscenity, contented 
itself with stating that “a state offense 
must also be limited to works which, 
taken as a whole, appeal to the pruri- 
ent interest in sex, which portray sexu- 
al conduct in a patently offensive way 
and which, taken as a whole, do not 
have serious literary, artistic, political 
or scientific value.” 

The last phrase sounds good, but it’s 
a cop-out. There is nothing in the First 
Amendment about protected speech's 
being serious or artistic in the eyes of a 
local jury. And the Court has made 
clear that it does not apply this extra- 


neous requirement to nonsexual ex- 
pressions. Indeed, the Court acted 
vigorously to protect the ranting of 
racists without asking for proof of its 
serious political content. 

The determination of whether sexu- 
al behavior is “patently offensive,” ac- 
cording to the Court, is to be made by 
local communities applying local 
standards. The absurd result is that 
Luther Campbell is free to sing in one 
city in Florida but not in another. No 
similar local standard is tolerated in 
evaluating nonsexual activity. A march 
by uniformed Nazis in Skokie, Шіп 
with its large Jewish population, in- 
cluding many concentration-camp sur- 
vivors, was Clearly offensive. Yet there, 
the Court argued, a national standard 


of the unfettered right to speech and 
assembly had to be respected. 

Sexual expression, the Court decid- 
ed, is in a category all its own when it 
comes to the Constitution. The prob- 
lem is, the U.S. Constitution provides 
no such exemption. “The difficulty,” 
Douglas noted in his dissent, is that 
"'obscenity' is not mentioned in the 
Constitution or Bill of Rights.” 

Douglas then challenged the Court's 
majority, writing that the only way one 
could justify censorship consistent with 
the Constitution would be to amend 
that sacred document. 

And why not If the founding fa- 
thers failed to properly calibrate our 
rights to guard against sexual expres- 
sion, then a constitutional amendment 
is the method they provided for such a 


fundamental change. Constitutional 
conservatives, led by Robert Bork, 
should open their arms wide to this 
strategy, since they are the ones who al- 
ways insist that the Supreme Court not 
creatively interpret this sacred docu- 
ment as a cover for social engineering. 
If they want the Constitution to permit 
the state to tell us what books to read 
and movies to watch, they should put it 
to the test. 

As Justice Douglas wrote, “If there 
are to be restraints on what is obscene, 
then a constitutional amendment 
should be the way of achieving the 
end.” And, pending passage of such an 
amendment, the Court should get 
back to enforcing the First Amend- 


ment as it was so clearly written. 


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ONT 


what's happening in the sexual and social arenas 


THECENSORSHIP SAILS ON 


GREEN COVE SPRINGS, FLORIDA— Local 
school parents have forced removal of the 
children's classic “My Friend Flicka” from 
the fifth- and sixth-grade optional-reading 


lists. Parents objected because the book con- 
tains the word damn and the word bitch in 
reference lo a female dog. The Florida 
town is rivaled by Owensboro, Kentucky, 
where the object of recent censorship was 
Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five," 
which makes reference lo a Magic Fingers 
vibrating device attached to a bed. 


LIESAND DOLLS 


MINNEAPOLIS—Used alone, anatomical- 
ly correct dolls can lead to more false than 
true clues of child sexual abuse, says a 
University of Minnesota study. Re- 
searchers believe the dolls are useful only 
when the child's strengths, weaknesses and 
other problems are understood. 


FEDPORN, INC. 


SAN FRANCISCO —The Ninth U.S. Cir- 
сий Court of Appeals has decided that a 
child-pornography sting operation called 
Project Looking Glass was not entrap- 
ment. The defendant had mailed ten dol- 
lars to U.S. postal inspectors for a copy of 
Torrid Tots magazine. The inspectors 
had solicited the man because of his an- 
swers to a sex survey conducted by another 
Government front company. 


SMUT BUSTERS 


WASHINGTON, D.C.—By rejecting the free- 
speech arguments of the defendants in a 
recent appeal, the United States Supreme 
Court has tacitly approved the use of the 
Federal racketeering law following obscen- 
ity convictions. The Court upheld an ap- 
pellate ruling that, under the Racketeer 
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations 
Act, allowed Federal prosecutors lo seize 
the entire assets of three adult bookstores 
and nine video-rental shops because their 
owners had been convicted on obscenity 
charges т Virginia. The appellate court, 
conceding that much of the inventory was 
legitimate reading and viewing materials, 
had held that “obscenity is not protected by 
the First Amendment and a convicted 
racketeer may not launder his dirty money 
by investing it in materials that involve 
protected speech.” 


SDs and HIV 


KINSHASA, ZAIRE—Studies of prostitutes 
show that those with sexually transmitted 
diseases—especially chlamydia, gonorrhea 
and trichomoniasis—stand a three to seven 
times greater risk than others of acquiring 
the HIV virus. A researcher suggests two 
possible explanations: The diseases may 
cause microscopic ulcerations that permit 
entry of the virus, or the attendant inflam- 
mation may cause an increase in the kinds 
of cells that the virus most often targets. 


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NEW YORK CITY—A survey by the Alan 
Guttmacher Institute indicates that sex- 
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Socio-economic classes rose sharply dur- 
ing the Eighties. Sexual activity among the 
daughters of white or high-income families 
increased the most. The median age for 
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Northrop Corporation wants to stop the 
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tic from calling it the Stealth Condom and 
marketing it in a package modeled after 
Northrop's B-2 bomber, which is designed 


to elude radar detection. The military con- 
tractor claims the condom “may falsely 
suggest a connection with” or “bring dis- 
repute” to Northrop. Condom experts 
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a candid conversation with america’s all-time best-selling psychiatrist 
about the joys of love, the evils of satan and the problem with fidelity 


"Life is difficult.” 

With those three words, psychiatrist 
M. Scott Peck began his landmark book “The 
Road Less Traveled” and launched millions 
of personal breakthroughs, religious conver- 
sions and psychological calharses. Few books 
since the Bible have influenced so many peo- 
ple. Certainly, few have sold more. While pub- 
lishers gleefully celebrate the number of weeks 
a book survives on the best-seller list, Peck's 
book seems to have taken up permanent resi- 
dence there, going on its seventh year. It has 
sold about 4,000,000 copies and continues to 
move al the rale of approximately 500,000 
books a year—recenily acing out “The Joy of 
Sex” as the record holder in the nonfiction cat- 
egory. 

In the process, Peck has become perhaps the 
most famous, and most controversial, psychia- 
trist in the country. His insights hit home with 
all age groups, but more interestingly, his in 
fusion of spirituality into psychiatry—a field 
not known for ils close relationship with reli- 
gion—wins him both admirers, who are look- 
ing for moral guidance, and detractors, who 
find his religious views naive and puzzling. 
Three other Peck books have followed “The 
Road Less Traveled” onto the best-seller list, 
and he is a sought-after speaker and lecturer, 
both ах shrink and as religious leader 


“There is no such thing as a marriage that 
does not have to deal with the problem of 
fidelity or infidelity. One of our myths is that 


we should be completely happy and fulfilled by 
one woman or one man. That’s nonsense.” 


Unlike his psychiatrist-turned-writer coun- 
lerparts who offer self-help, instant therapy 
and an “I'm OK, you're OK” view of life, 
Pech refuses to sugar-coat life's. problems. 
There are no easy answers, he says. “The 
Road Less Traveled” introduces a radically 
different idea: Of course you're worried. There 
is a lot to be worried about. 

Millions have found solace in this uncheery 
thought and in Peck's prescriptions [or copi 
with today’s harsh realities. For instance, de- 
pression, he says, is nol necessarily something 
to be avoided; il is often an appropriate re- 
sponse to change or lo the frustration most of 
us often feel. Nor is it the end of the road; й 
can be a temporary slate in the process of 
growth. Peck has also sought to redefine our 
idea of relationships. As long as we hold on to 
our romantic illusions, he maintains, we will 
continue to be disappointed and to search for 
fulfillment in the wrong places. Peck offers no 
panaceas or quick fixes. He instead advocates 
hard work, discipline and introspection. 

But it is Peck's concern with spirituality 
that makes "The Road Less Traveled” unique. 
He rebelled against his family's atheism while 
a college student, finding solace in Eastern re- 
ligions well before they were fashionable here. 
He studied Zen Buddhism and Taoism and 
practiced meditation but put them aside when 


“I believe pornography can be healthy. It’s 
natural to look at pomography. 1 enjoy it. 1 
separate only the really demeaning, violent 
stuff. But where do you draw the line? It's al- 


ways a question of drawing the line. 


he opened his private practice in New Pres- 
ton, Connecticut, where he was a traditional 
secular therapist 

"I came to see thal psychotherapy and spir- 
itual growth are one and the same thing,” 
Peck says now. Time and time again, he found 
that his patients were searching for answers 
that psychotherapy couldn't provide. It led him 
to a search that culminated in his baptism as à 
Christian in 1980. Unlike traditional psychi- 
alrists such as Sigmund Freud, Peck believes 
that psychology and religion are complemen- 

Theologically, he's very sound, "says the 
Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr, former 
senior minister al Manhattan's Riverside 
Church 

When “The Road Less Traveled” was re- 
leased in 1978, The New York Times sum- 
marized it as “psychological and spiritual 
inspiration by a psychiatrist." Phyllis The- 
roux, writing in The Washington Post, 
called it “not just a book but a spontaneous 
act of generosity." In an interview with the 
Times, she said she was so taken by the book 
that she spent weeks “crafting a review for the 
Post that would force people to buy [il] 

The book, originally tilled “The Psychology 
of Spiritual Growth,” is a mix of Peck's com 
mon and uncommon sense, case histories 
from his days of practicing psychiatry, both 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE CONWAY 


“I gel opposition from right-wing Catholics, 
from the New Age people and from the funda- 
mentalists. They say that I'm the Antichrist. 
That's real power—I mean, not one of the an- 
lichrists, but the Antichrist.” 


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privately and in the military, and doses of his 
neo-Purilan philosophy. The publisher, after 
asking him lo rename the book, originally 
agreed to print only 5000 copies, which quick- 
Ly sold ош. Phenomenal word of mouth—at 
cocktail parties, group-therapy sessions, A.A. 
meetings, on college campuses—took over. 
Peck even received a call from Cher, who had 
read the book and wanted help from him per- 
sonally. A year after its publication, it had 
sold 12,000 copies. In the following years, 
sales grew, so that by mid-1983—frve years 
afler й was released—il crept onto the Times 
best-seller list for the first lime. More than 
1,000,000 coptes were sold that year: 

Peck returned to his typewriter in 1982 and 
produced an incredibly controversial book, 
“People of the Lie"—a study of human evil 
from that in man-woman relationships to the 
horror of My Lai. The Wall Street Journal 
called the book ground. breaking”; The 
Washington Times, ^a daring "study of 
and Contemporary Christian Mag- 
ne, “one of the most significant new works 
Thus time, Theroux praised 
Although “People of 


in recent тетот 
Рену “act of courage.” 
the Lie" didn't come close lo the first book's 
huge appeal, it was another best seller, as was 
“The Different Drum,” which fallowed. In 
“Drum,” Peck moves. from diagnosing the 
woes of individuals to diagnosing the woes of 
communities, America and the world itself: 
Subtitled “Community Making and Peac 
the book sets forth Peck’s premise that the 
human race stands al the brink of self-anni- 
hilation and only radically new thinking 
will save us. 

Peck's background is eclectic. He was born 
in New York City, where his father, a self-made 
man from Indiana, had become а successful 
lawyer and judge. After graduating from 
Harvard in 1958 with a degree in social rela- 
tions, Peck bowed to pressure from his father 
and wenl into medicine. He envolled in 
Columbia University for premed studies and 
there met Lily Ho, who was born and raised in 
Singapore. Although his family objected to 
their interracial relationship, they married a 
year late 

After receiving his degree in medicine, Peck 
‚Joined Ihe Army and spent the next nine and a 
half years as a military psychiatrist serving in 
Okinawa and the Surgeon General's office in 
Washington, D.C. In 1972, he returned to 
civilian life and moved to Connecticut, where 
he hung ош his shingle as а shrink and 
worked on his golf game. He, Lily and their 
three children lived in an 18th Century farm- 
house on, appropriately enough, Bliss Road. 
There Peck led the quiet life of a country psy- 
chiatrist until, four years later he “was 
called,” as he puts it, to write "The Road Less 
Traveled.” 

The controversy surrounding Peck's books 
and his work—he now spends most of his time 
lecturing, conducting workshops and promot- 
ing his books, as well as wriling—continued 
when his latest book, “A Bed by the Window,” 
was released. It is, surprisingly, a novel, but it 
still provides a forum for his message—this 
time laced into a mystery about murder and 
sex in a nursing home. A reviewer for the Los 


Angeles Times was appalled. “Call me prej- 
udiced! Call me puritanical! Call me naive! 
The sex in this novel made my hair curl.” The 
New York Times, on the other hand, found 
“this overtly didactic and opaquely religious 
novel both moving and brave." The conclu- 
sion? Nothing has changed; people are still 
furiously feuding about Peck, making it high 
time for us to make our own assessment. Con- 
tribuling Editor David Sheff, who last squared 
off with Japan's controversial politician Shin- 
taro Ishihara, made the pilgrimage. His re- 
port: 

“Psychologists tell us that everything we do, 
think and react to has a larger significance. At 
one time in my life, I thought that was non- 
sense. I considered most of psychology and psy- 
chiatry manipulative, exploitative and even 
dangerous. They offered panaceas, blame and 
rationalizations 

“When I first heard about Scott Peck, I was 
particularly suspicious. The first line of "The 
Road Less Traveled’ that had been ballyhooed 
aboul— Life is difficult —seemed. like a less 
imaginative version of the bumper sticker 
LIFES A BITCH AND THEN YOU DIE 

Then, when my marriage disintegrated, I 
went into therapy. I came to realize that there 


“One of our primitive 
needs is to 
have heroes 
rather than to 
be heroes 


ourselves.” 


was something profound about the process. 
The motivations for much of what we do are 
incredibly complex, and it’s no accident that 
we keep on making the same mistakes. In ther- 
apy, 1 learned thal only if we choose lo figure 
out why we do what we do can we live con- 
sciously—awith our eyes open. 

“By the time I was assigned to interview 
Peck, my mind was open to much of what he 
talks about, though I remained cynical about 
his religious references. 1 certainly appreciated 
the fact that he doesn't pretend to have easy 
answers—and sometimes admits he has none. 

“Nonetheless, I wasn't prepared for the 
man I mei. Al times, the interview swung from 
the sublime lo the ridiculous. Peck was full of 
contradictions, He trembled (attributing the 
condition to a neurological disorder) and 
smoked so much that 1 felt as if the interview 
had shortened my life. 

“We met in Seattle, where he was busy 
working the talk-show-and-interview circuit 
lo push his novel. After a hearty breakfast of 
eggs Benedict in the hotel’s restaurant, we 
moved to Peck’s room for a first marathon 
session. He sal on the couch, pulling up his 
khaki slacks at the knees. He adjusted his 
turquoise sweater and pushed on the nosepiece 


staring into the 
coffee he'd made with his travel percolator. His 
appearance changed with his moods—at 
times, he seemed older, world-weary; at others, 
youthful and vibrant. His tone swung from 
animated to, when he spoke about religion, sex 
or the demons that he believes exist among us, 
a barely audible monotone. He rolled his eyes 
when 1 asked my more skeptical questions. 
He'd heard them all before. 

“He watched the clocks—three of them were 
placed around the room—and at precisely five 
тм. poured us healthy shots of gin. For ай of 
his solemnness and reverence, Peck was aware 
that this was, after all, the Playboy Interview.” 
In addition to describing what he likes about 
our centerfolds (basically, the more provoca- 
tive the better), he told me a joke for Playboy 
readers: A very Christian woman with two 
Christian parakeets went to a pet shop to buy a 
third but was told that the one parakeet the 
pet=shop oumer had left was inappropriate for 
her, since the only thing it could say was, Fm 
a prostitute! Im а prostitute! The woman 
finally persuaded the man to sell her the bird, 
апушау—ћех birds, she said, would save it. So 
she took it home and placed it т a cage with 
the Christian parakeets. After a [ew minutes, 
the newcomer spouted the only expression it 
knew: Tm a prostitute! I'm a prostitute!’ The 
Christian parakeets looked at each other and 
said, ‘Our prayers have been answered." 


PLAYBOY: The Road Less Traveled has been 
on the best-seller list longer than any 
other work of commercial nonfiction. 
Why do you think it is so popular? 

PECK: People are no longer accepting the 
answers they've been given; they want 
more. They realize the old program 
doesn't work. There's a larger and larger 
segment of the population that has made 
adecis n the givens—things 
for granted, things 
parents taught them. They are 
becoming enlightened. Some go to ther- 
apy, some to A.A., some 

PLAYBOY: Some go to you. How do you 
feel about the cult that has grown up 
around you? 

PECK: | hate cults. They encourage de- 
pendency and conformity, neither of 
which I be When I get the feel- 
ing that there is a Scou Peck cult, I get 
very uncomfortable. 1 constantly tell 
people, “Look, I don't want to be you 


people 


PLAYBOY: Yet you want people to hear 
your mi 
PEck: Well, there is a tendency for us to 
put people on pedestals. I think that one 
of our primi s is to have heroes 
rather than to be heroes ourselves. It's a 
y odd feeling when people come up 
to touch my robe, so to speak. Е 


me, I think, Baal? Ugh! Gel аша) 
PLAYBOY: Before you wrote The Road Less 
Traveled, you worked aditional p: 
chotherapist—a secular therapist. 
did you write the book? 

PECK: | м led to write it—that one 


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and h of my other books. They said, 
"Write me. Do it.” I was under orders. 
PLAYBOY: Orders from whom? 

PECK: m God. 

PLAYBOY: Do you hear a voice or get a 
lec How does God talk to you? 
PECK: You know when you are called. The 
word for it is vocation, which means call- 
img, and is thought to come from God. I 
suppose it's a matter of faith, but I be- 
lieve that some of our drives, our intu- 
ons, do come from 1 or from 
Whoever God is—something outside 
r than we are 

you also called to write 
your latest book, the novel 4 Bed by the 
Window? 

PECK: Actually, when The Difjerent Drum. 
was put to bed, it was the first time in ten 
years that I didn't feel called to write 
anything. It felt just great, as if God had 
let me off the hook. Because 1 wasn't 
iting and had free time, a friend sug- 
gested I read some murder mysteries. I 
took a bunch with me to Jama 


PECK: І can't even remember. All I know. 
is that I was going to Jamaica to pl 
golf, even though I was 
of messages that I was o 
as my bad back was concerne 
reading these myste too, thi 
would be fun to try to write one. 
threw my back ош and was stuck on my 
back in Jamaica with nothing to amuse 
me except a Dictaphone. I said to myself, 
My God, what am I going to do for the 
next two weeks, other than pray? I start- 
ed dictating the book. It jı ed and 
said, “Write me.” 

: The Road Less Traveled is famous 
opening sentence, “Life is difi- 
cult.” Why do you think that’s such a 
provocative idea? 

PECK: Well, the most common response 
Ive gotten to my books has been not 


nking all along but 
are afraid to talk about. Well, life is 
difficult, 
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dren on the head. But thats not at all 
the Jesus of the Gospels. The fact is, life 
is difficult and there is often much to 
worry about. That's very disillusioning 
for people who think that we're here to 


Why are we here? 

PECK: To learn. In my gloomier mo- 
ments, I thi his is a kind of celestial 
boot camp. Children are done a disserv- 
ice if they are taught that they ought to 


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be happy. They are in for great disap- 
pointment. 

PLAYBOY: Don't your patients go to you 
because they want to be happy? 

PECK: I used to tell my patients that ther- 
apy is not about. happiness, it is about 
power. I can't guarantee that you'll leave 
therapy one jot happier. What I can 
guarantee is that you will leave mor 
competent. There is a certain joy that 
comes fi lowing you're worrying 
about the big things and no longer get- 
ting bent out of shape over the little 
ones. 

PLAYBOY: Do shrinks—— 
you object to that word? 
Peck: I don't care, but the idea of head 
shrinking has to do with people's ans 
ety. In fact, psychotherapy is about the 
opposite: It is head expanding, conscious- 
ness expanding. 

PLAYBOY: Why are people so an 
about therapy? 

Peck: They cart handle the paradox 
that both the sickest and the healthies 
go into therapy. To be in therapy sug- 
gests to some people that you are nuts, 
whereas it often means you are far 
healthier than many people who stay 
away from therapy. 

PLAYBOY: Resorting to therapy is also 
sometimes viewed as a weakness in a cul- 
ture that places a high value on being 
able to handle problems by ourselves. 
ng to therapy means admitting that 
you need help. 

PECK: In fact, it is often the wisest people 
who realize when help is necessary. I be 
lieve that therapy can benefit almost 
anyone willing to dedicate himself to it. 
Some people certainly do fine without it, 
but many others find themselves making 
the same mistakes over and over. Usual- 
ly, they're looking for the reason for 
their problems everywhere but where it 
ics. Therapy is the only process devoted 
to finding the source of those problems 
and changing it. 

PLAYBOY: Psychology and psychiatry are 
Not exact sciences, so ficult to de- 
termine what effect they have. How can 
you tell if you've helped a patient? 

Peck: There was one study in whi 
searchers took one group of people 
put them into therapy, while refusing 
therapy to a control group. Three or 
four years later, they found that the pa- 
tients who hadn't had therapy were just 
as healthy as those who had. However, 
about ten years after the study, some- 
body decided to look again. They found 
that there was a remarkable difference 
between the treated group and the un- 
treated group. The group that had had 
therapy had more variability. Some were 
far more healthy, and some were E 
more unhealthy than they had been. 
PLAYBOY: What do you conclude? 
PECK: Well, they traced it further to par- 
ticular therapists. Good therapists made 
people better. Bad therapists made peo- 
ple worse. 


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PLAYBOY: Which brings up a major 
tion: How does one choose a shrin! 
PECK: І get so many letters asking how to 
choose a therapist. All 1 can say is, don't 
hesitate to shop around. Go on your gut 
fee Different styles of therapy 
appropriate for different types of peo- 
ple. When I went into therapy, I was al- 
eady clearly aware of some spiritual 
parts of my nature, so I went looking for 
a Jungian therapist. I found one, and I 
was [urious because he kept treating me 
as if he were a Freudian—after our first 
session, he didn't say anything for the 
next eight sessions, I never learned any- 
thing about his personal life. I kept ta 
ng in these beautiful dreams and 1 
waited for him to analyze them, but he 
never said a word about them. Well, i 
took a long time for me to realize that his 
lence was exactly what I needed. You. 
n to know after you have been in 
apy for about three months. You 
may not feel any better, but you. may 
have some sense that the process is going 
in the right direction, that it's a proc 
that you need. If by the end of three or 
four months you don't have that sense, I 


“With the exception 
of sleeping 
with a patient, 
I've probably 
broken each of 
those rules.” 


would question whether you ought to 
work with somebody else. 
PLAYBOY: Some people claim that many 
shrinks are more screwed up than the 
people they treat. 
PECK: It’s not that simple. I've known 
some therapists who were quite screwed 
up but who were extremely good 
PLAYBOY: Another confusing aspect of 
therapy is the number of philosophies it 
embraces—Freudian, Jungian, Gestalt, 
and so on. To which do you subscribe? 
PECK: To none and to all. The best thera- 
pists are im ably eclectic. If I could 
take only one school of thought to a 
desert island, I would take Freud's. He 
was a true genius. He had no peer. Un- 
fortunately, he gave psychotherapy a se- 
ious bi 
rl Jung was helpful in starting to 
correct that. His chief contribution w: 
to bring spirituality into psychology. 
Maslow brought spiritual aspects to the: 
ару; he also brought the idea ofstudying 
healthy people. And he found, by the 
way, that the healthiest people tend to be 
quite spiritual. Adler founded the social- 
work movementand emphasized power 


and will, which have remained neglected 
subjects. Each school essentially de- 
scribes a piece of a person. I think we 
need pioneers, founders of new schools. 
PLAYBOY: How do you feel about alterna- 
tive therapies—from Werner Erhard 
and est to primal seream? 

PECK: Anything carried to an extreme 
can cause harm. Est became a cult. Cults 
are dange: 
PLAYBOY: 
shrinks—such as Toni 
David Viscott? 

PECK: | haven't listened to any of them. 
However, in the book-promotion bus 
ness, I do call-in shows, and Гуе gotten a 
taste of what those media therapists do. I 
used to think, God, no, I can't do that. 
But now I think it's OK. It's amusing. 
PLAYBOY: Do media therapists help 
people? 

Peck: | think they probably would have 
been sued up the kazoo and put into jail 
if they had done harm. But, generally, 
no, I don't think anybody gets real ther- 
apy over the phone. The best help a 
media therapist can probably give to 
someone with a real problem is to rec. 
ommend that he or she see a therapist 
for real therapy. 

PLAYBOY: Are you suppor 
pop trends in psychology? 
PECK: You know what I am critical of? I 
am a critic of the critics of psychologizing 
America. Plato said that the unexamined 
life is not worth living. Well, more and 
more people are examining their lives. 
That cannot be bad. 

PLAYBOY: Some therapists break com- 
pletely from the Freudian model and be- 
come part of their patients’ lives. You 
even hear about therapists who seduce 
their patients. 

Of course there are people who 
abuse the relationship. I think it is gen- 
erally best for a therapist to keep his d 
tance from a. patient, but all rules are 
made to be broken. 1 think we should be 
nervous about breaking rules 

PLAYBOY: Have you broken rules? 

With the exception of sleeping 
with a patient, Uve probably broken each 
of those rules. When I look back, I think 
1 significantly helped a small portion of 
my patients, but 1 don't think that I've 
harmed any of them. There were times 
when I found it was appropriate to talk 
about my ovn life in therapy, which is 
generally viewed as verboten, and there 
were some times I made that decision 
wrongly. 

PLAYBOY: How do you feel about the 
charge that psychotherapy is elitist—that 
many people can't afford the money or 
the ndulge in it? 

ts a concern but 
significant one. Decent therapy is avail- 
able to almost everyone. There are slid- 
ing fee scales, free clinics. The more 
likely scenario is that people who need 
therapy find excuses not to go. 

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therapy is more of an option for the up- 
per and middle classes than for the low- 
er classes? 
PECK: Ordinary therapy is not going to 
culture of poverty, where 
there is so little capacity for delaying 
gratification. You have to have a tremen- 
dously large ability to delay gratification 
to get anywhere. There is no instant fix. 
You have to pay your bills 

In my own practice, no matter where 
patients fell on a sliding scale, when they 
would bounce checks, 1 would practice 
what I call checkbook therapy. Learning 
how to balance one's checkbook is a first 
step in being responsible for other as- 
pects of one's life. That's one of my con- 
cerns about this country. I'm concerned 
about how much this country has to 
grow in health when it can't even bal- 
ance its own checkbook. 
PLAYBOY: You've said that the success of 
The Road Less Traveled is connected to the 
proliferation of groups such as A.A. Why 
are А.А. and its offshoots so popular? 
PECK: I believe, along with many other 
people, that perhaps the greatest event 
of the 20th Century occurred in 1935 in 
Akron, Ohio, when A.A. was established 
A.A. was the beginning of the self-help 
movement, and also the beginning of the 
integration of science and religion on a 
grass-roots level. 
PLAYBOY: Why does A.A. work? 
PECK: When I was studying psychiatry, it 


work in a 


was assumed that A.A. worked with alco- 
holics—better than psychiatry did—be- 
cause alcoholics were what we called oral 
personalities who got together at A.A. 
meetings and yapped a lot, smoked a lot 
and drank a lot of coffee and in that way 
satisfied their oral needs. Most psychia- 
trists still think A.A. is a substitute addic- 
tion. But that's a bunch of shit. A.A 
works because it's a program of religious 
or spiritual conversion. 1 suspect that 
many people who do not profess to be 
religious have a sense of a higher power, 
even when they're not vet on friendly 
terms with it, and A.A. helps them dis- 
cover that. It works because it's a psy- 
chological program that helps uncover 
the motivations behind unhealthy symp- 
toms. It teaches people not only why they 
should go forward through the desert 
toward God but also how they should go 
forward through the desert. It teaches 
people how to support one another 
Joining A.A. is obviously not an easy de- 
cision. When you have made the deci- 
sion, there is some sadness in being in 
this minority who have transcended the 
culture. [People in A.A., therapy, etc.] 
make up four or five percent of the pop- 
ulation now, which is significant 
PLAYBOY: In what way? 

peck: The bigger the number, the more 
we can go forward as a race. 

PLAYBOY: How so? 

PECK: We take control of our own lives 


and become intolerant of irresponsible 
governments. People become more com- 
passionate and at the same time more 
competent. Being awake involves an 
appreciation of life, of the environment, 
of our fellow man. And an intolerance of 
waste, of incompetent bureaucracy, of 
prejudice 

PLAYBOY: And you believe A.A. has sig- 
nificance beyond the treatment of addic- 
tion? 

PECK: Yes, because it teaches people 
about community. 

PLAYBOY: On a larger scale, what implica- 
tions could it have 
PECK: My wife and | started The Founda- 
tion for Community Encouragement, 
with the idea of incorporating A.A.'s way 
of thinking. It’s a nonprofit educational 
foundation with the goal of teaching in- 
dividuals, groups and organizations to 
communicate, deal with difficult issues 
and overcome their differences to form 
communities. We have workshops in 
which we teach groups how to make de- 
cisions by consensus—instead of by fiat 
or by vote. People learn to trust that 
process 

PLAYBOY: Can you give a practical exam- 
ple of how that process works? 

PECK: | guarantee you, if you can get, 
let's say, five Anglos, fifteen Afrikaners 
and thirty-five blacks together in South 
Africa in the same room for three or four 
days, willing to go through our process, 


they will come out not only loving and 
respecting one another but able to work 
together with phenomenal efficiency 
The problem is getting them into the 
room. The potential for conflict resolu 
tion is enormous. Do that with groups 
inside cities. Or with factions in govern- 
ment. When we conduct our workshops, 
people who thought they could never 
agree are amazed. It gets to the point 
that they want to know if they are 
hooked on the foundation to help them. 
solve their problem 
PLAYBOY: Wellz 
PECK: The answer is no, It's the same an- 
swer I give to people who want to know 
when they should stop therapy 

PLAYBOY: Which is? 

PECK: When you become your own ther- 
apist, therapy becomes a way of life. The 
same for groups—you don't need the 
foundation once you've learned to do it 
yourself and it becomes a way of life 
PLAYBOY: What about one of the latest 
trends in pop psychology, codepend- 
ence? More and more people are con- 
vinced that their problem is that they put 
someone else's problems before their 
own. Al-Anon, the A.A. offshoot for fam- 
ilies of alcoholics, is increasingly popular. 
Why is codependence such a popular 
problem all of a sudden? 

PECK: The problem isn't new, only the 
word. Do you know how many Al-Anon 
members it takes to screw in a light bulb? 


None. They just let it screw itself in. Do 
vou know tlie last thing a codependent 
sees before he dies? Somebody else's life 
flashing before his eyes. 
Anyway, for longer than it 
trendy, Гуе given a lecture about the to- 
getherness and the separateness in mar- 
riage and families. In order to live well, 
we have to negotiate a kind of tightrope 
between these two extremes, to have X 
amount of togetherness and X amount 
of separateness. When Lily and I were 
doing therapy with couples, we more of- 
ten than not found couples who were too 
much married. 
PLAYBOY: Does that mean they spent too 
much time togetherz 
PECK: Beyond that—they had come to 
make up one person. In groups, we 
found we had ro separate husbands and 
cs, put them in different parts of the 
group. Still, we'd ask John what he 
thought about something and Mary 
would answer, “John thinks this way 
The same thing would happen when 
we'd ask Mary 
The same thing is true of children. Ul- 
timately, the task of parents is not to 
keep the family together but to help 
your children separate from you. One of 
the things that confused me early in my 
psychiatric career was discerning a pat- 
tern for children leaving home: Those 
who grew up in warm, nurturing, lov- 
ing homes usually had relatively little 


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difficulty in leaving those homes, while 
children who grew up in homes filled 
with backbiting, hostility, coldness and 
viciousness often had a great deal of 
trouble leaving. It seemed to me that if 
you grew up in a warm and loving 
home, you'd want to stay there, and that 
if you grew up in a home full of hostility 
and hatred, you'd want to get the heck 
out as soon as you could. But I came to 
realize that we tend 10 project onto the 
world what our early childhood home is 
like. Children who grow up in nurturing 
homes tend to see the world as a warm 
and loving place and say, “Hey, let me at 
it" Children who grow up in a home 
filled with hostility and viciousness tend 
to see the world as a cold, hostile and 
dangerous place 
PLAYBOY: What kind of therapy helps 
those childrenz 

PECK: It's all about reprograming the 
tapes—the internal and external tapes 
This supposedly Christian culture em- 
phasizes family values—the family that 
prays together stays together—as if Jesus 
had been some Kind of a great family 
man. 1 don't necessarily want to knock 
family values, but the fact is that the Je- 
sus of the Gospels was nota great family 
man, If anything, he was a breaker-up 
of families. He set siblings against sib- 
lings and children against parents. And 
he did that because he was fighting 
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family togetherness becomes sacred at 
all costs, where it becomes more impor- 
tant to do what will keep the family ma- 
wiarch or patriarch happy than to do 
what God wants you to do. 

PLAYBOY: Is that your objection to cou- 
ples who are “too much married”? 

PECK: No. When we look to a spouse or a 
lover to meet all of our needs, to fulfill 
us, to bring us a lasting heaven on earth, 
it never works, does it? It’s very natural 
for us to want to do that, because it’s nat- 
ural to want to have a tangible God, one 
we can touch and hold and embrace and 
sleep with and maybe even possess. But 
doesn't work. 

PLAYBOY: How do you help couples avoid 
that trap? 

PECK; I've said before that there are only 
two valid reasons to get married. Lots of 
invalid ones but only two valid ones. One 
is for the care and raising of children. 
The only other valid reason is for the 
friction marriage provides. 

PLAYBOY: Friction? Well, then, most mar- 
riages are probably doing fine 

PECK: [Laughs] A marriage ought to con- 
sist of two people who are gathered to 
gether for some purpose higher than the 
mere pleasure of being together, Name- 
ly, to help each other on their own jour- 
neys of spiritual growth, through and 
with the friction, 

PLAYBOY: That's hardly romantic. 

PECK: People have the fantasy that once 
they get married, they will no longer be 
lonely. Then, when they find themselves 
still lonely, they think, Well, gee, the 


¡ge must be bad, it must nor be 
But the healthiest marriages 
can, at times, be lonely places. The an- 
swer is learning and growing, and your 
marriage can help you do that. 
PLAYBOY: How? 

PECK: First, examine it and yourself. A 
woman went to a therapist because of 
headaches that her regular doctor told 
her were not physical. She said, “I don't 
know why I should have psychosomatic 
headaches. Everything is wonderful i 
my life, Гуе been married for four years 
now and my marriage is absolutely glori- 
ous and my husband is a saint.” Then 
therapy starts and, of course, in v 
short order, she acknowledges that her 
husband maybe annoys her a little bit, 
then that things he does really bug her 
and that, as a matter of fact, she really 
can't sland certain things about him. And 
the woman comes to the terribly painful 
realization that she and her husband 
have fallen out of love. Suddenly, the 
headaches go away. 

PLAYBOY: So the headaches are cured, 
but the marriage is in serious trouble. 
PECK: The marriage was obviously in se- 
rious trouble, anyway. Denial seldom 
works for long. What often happens i 
that couples fall into a pattern of dom 
nance and submission. One partner is 
the dominant partner—in about two 
thirds of the cases it’s the male—and the 
other is the submissive partner. You can 
obviously avoid friction if one person is 
accustomed to and comfortable with giv- 
ing all the orders and the other person 


doesn't mind taking all the orders. But 
it's not particularly good for people's 
spiritual growth to live their lives in 
those roles. 

Lily and I fell into it before our m: 
riage, when we were engaged. I was the 
dominant one and she was the subm 
sive one. But typically, after about five or 

x years of marriage, couples become 
sick of that pattern. The dominant mem- 
ber becomes sick and tired of the sub- 
missive member's being dependent all 
the time, and the submissive member be- 
comes sick and tired of being bossed 
around. They start trying to renegotiate 
the power structure of the marriage. 
When it cannot be renegotiated, couples 
split up. That is one of the major causes 
of divorce between five and ten years. 
PLAYBOY: Is that what the seven-year itch 
is all about? 
PECK: Yes. It is being discontented with 
the given order and accepting it as un- 
changeable. Often, there is an illusion, a 
delusion, that a new partner will solve the 
problem. 

PLAYBOY: What is the alternative? 

PECK: Healthy couples renegotiate the 
power structure. At about the five-year 
mark in our marriage, I grew sick and 
red of Lily's dependency and she grew 
К and tired of my being a male chau- 
ist pi ich I was, so we began to 
try to renegotiate. That involved, among 
other things, going into therapy. We 
worked hard and still work hard о 
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relying on drugs—Lithium or antide- 
pressive medications. Where do you 
stand on the drug- vs. talk-therapy de- 
bate 
PECK: When ] practiced. my specialty 
was not biological psychiatry, but 1 
would still use some phenothiazines for 
the few schizophrenic people I saw and, 
more commonly, I would prescribe an- 
tidepressants. Sometimes, people aren't 
even ready to participate in therapy, be- 
cause they're so depressed they can't 
participate unless you give them some 
drugs. The problem is getting people to. 
tolerate the side effects 

One study has suggested that a 
startling number of Americans—at least 
ten percent—suffer from undiagnosed 
depression. Do you agree with that 
figure? 

PECK: One hundred percent of people 
suffer from depression, including me. 
PLAYBOY: Clinical depression? 

PECK: First of all, suffering from depre: 
sion isn't a bad thing. There is a section 
in The Road Less Traveled on the healthi- 
ness of depression. One of the benefits of 
being a religious person is that other 
people just get ups and downs in their. 
lives, and we get to have spiritual crises. 
It's much more dignified to have a spir- 
itual crisis than a depression. And, I sug- 
gest to you, you'll probably get over your 
depression quicker if you look at it as a 
spiritual crisis, which it usually is. 
PLAYBOY: Or, if you're right about drugs, 


PECK: For some people, it is primarily a 
biological crisis. In most, it’s mixed. It 
depends on the severity and duration of 
the depression. But depression is a prob- 
lem for everybody. 

PLAYBOY: When you talk strictly about 
psychology, you are aligned with many 
others in your profession. But when 
you bring in religion and spirituality, 
you alienate many of them. What do you 
find lacking in secular psychology? 

Peck: To me, religion and psychology 
not separate. 

PLAYBOY: Yet, as you admitted, psycho- 
analysis' roots arc ani gious. 
antagonism toward religion ba 
facı that religion offers answers outside 
oneself; psychology, inside? 

PECK: I think the reason psychiatrists ar 
against religion is different. Freud, the 
granddaddy of American psychiatry, was 
an atheist. Also, he wrote in the heyday 
of the scientific movement, at the turn of 
the century, when the world was consid- 
ered a materialistic place that could be 
understood in materialistic terms. That 
attitude has altered dramatically with 
the new discoveries in physics. And psy- 
chiatry was largely a Jewish profession. 1 
would estimate that probably sixty per 
cent of psychiatrists in the country are 
Jewish. That's cert 
atry would be anti- 
PLAYBOY: But not antireligious. 

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the casualties of religion, which gives 
them a biased outlook. We see people 
who have been hurt by those rigid, frigid 
nuns and we tend not to see the people 
who have been saved by those rigid, 
frigid nuns 

PLAYBOY: Saved? By nuns? 

PECK: J don't mean religiously saved. I 
mean people who grow up in chaotic 
homes bu that rigid parochial 
school, learned some pri 
lowed them to escape their background. 
PLAYBOY: Psychiatry teaches people to 
live consciously. Religion impli 
gree of simple faith. Psychiatry 
that we'll get further relying on cı 
thinking than on faith, doesn’t it? 
PECK: But if you're going to be a real 
good doubter, after a while, you have to 
start doubting your own doubts. 
PLAYBOY: But doubting doesn't necess: 
ily lead to religion. 

PECK: my own religious develop- 
ment actually came about through my 
psychiatric work. My interest was in 
long-term psychoanalysis devoted to 
substantial personality change, not in su- 
perficial answers to problems. One of 


"You'll probably get 
over your depression 
quicker if you look 
at it as a spiritual 
crisis, which it 
usually is.” 


the things I found after a few years was 
that many of my patients would go into 
what I call a therapeutic depression. 
This would usually occur between the 
first and second years of therapy, and 
they would become far more depressed 
than they had been when they came in to 
therapy. 

I realized that what happens is that 
the patient’s old way of being is no 
longer tenable for him. Such patients be- 
come conscious enough to see clearly 
how stupid and maladapted and sick 
that old way is. But rewriting the tape 
seems so difficult, so risky, that they feel 
they can't go cither backward or for- 
ward, so they say, “Why don't 1 just go 
sideways? Why don't I just kill myself? 
Grow? Grow toward what? Why not just 
give up?” 

These are questions that are not even 
raised, let alone answered, in textbooks 
on medicine or psychiatry. These are 
spir questions 
PLAYBOY: They are raised in traditional 
ychotherapy. That's the time the pa- 
tient makes choices and rewrites the tape 
consciously. 


PECK: Well, in my case, people asked me 
seriously, "Why should I grow?" or 
Why shouldn't I kill myself?” I had two 
ways to respond. One was to shrug my 
shoulders and say, “Golly, gee, I dont 
know why you shouldn't kill yourself.” 
The other was to get down with them 
and wrestle with the spiritual issues. 
PLAYBOY: Another therapist would help 
them figure out why they shouldn't kill 
themselves. Isn't the point of psycho- 
analysis to reach that pain 
PECK: In People of the Lie, 1 wrote, "Faith is 
the choice of the nobler alternative. 
Do you believe faith is a choice? 
alf choice, half gift 
It doesn't feel like a choice to 
someone who sees a fallacy behind it. 
Peck: He has the choice of doubting his 
own doubts. 
PLAYBOY: That's what therapy is about. 
Peck: And if you do that well enough, 
you may come to something. To me, 
there are three approaches to human 
meaning. One is called nihilism, which 
assumes that there is no meaning and, 
consequently, it doesn't matter what the 
fuck you do. Then there is what 1 would 
loosely call existentialism, which holds 
that there's no reason to conclude that 
there is any meaning to life, but to live as 
if life were meaningless is too horrible 
and too destructive to consider. 
PLAYBOY: Existentialism can lead to a 
choice that life has the meaning we give 
it, which is different. 
Peck; Only because it’s intolerable for it 
not to have meaning. 
PLAYBOY: No, but because that is life 
meaning—the choices we make, our 
roles as children, friends, parents. 
PECK: Well, the third position is what I 
adhere to—that life actually does have 
meaning, and part of the reason we're 
here is to try to figure out what the 
meaning is. 
PLAYBOY: There's no real contradiction 
between that and existentialism— its se- 
manties. Life inherently has meaning 
and we choose to define what that is 
РЕСК: That is the problem with secu 
humanism, basically that position. It 
maintains that we could be our own cre- 
ators. I don't think we're that sma! 
PLAYBOY: Just because we're not that 
smart, why presume someone else i 
PECK: My experience is that 1 am bei 
manipulated by a power beyond me. 1 
think many people have th 
ence. What some people do 
it. I choose to cooperate with it, because 
as far as I can ascertain, this manipula- 
tive power is infinitely more intelligent 
than I am and seems to have my best 
nterests at heart. That doesn’t mean 
I'm powerless, but I see us as being co- 
creators, For me, that makes more sense 
than secular humanism, which says that 
we create eve ig, or some kind of 
Calvinism, which says that God prede- 
termines everything. 

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at all costs. If you're willing to be dedi- 
cated to reality at all costs, you're going 
to have experiences that will lead you to 
question the rational, purely physical 
stuff. My primary identity is as a scientist, 
even before that as a religious person. 
We scientists are empiricists, meaning 
that we think that knowledge comes pri- 
marily through experience. I'm remind- 
ed of Carl Jung. Just before he died, he 
was captured on film. In the interview, 
he was asked if he believed in God. Old 
cighty-three-year-old Jung pulled away 
on his pipe. "Believe in God?” he said. 
"Believe is a word that we use when we 
think something is true but for which we 
do not have any substantial body of evi- 
dence. No, I don't believe in God. I know 
there is a God!" 
PLAYBOY: Do you believe in reincarna- 
tion? 
Peck: For the most part, | am very leery 
of any doctrine that can be used to ex- 
plain away the mystery of life. Some peo- 
ple who buy reincarnation say that 
children choose their parents. I am sor- 
ry but Гуе seen children born into 
homes where their souls have been sy 
tematically diminished. While it may be. 
necessary for us to go to the cross in 
adulthood, I know of no law that would 
cause a child to be born into a home 
where his soul would be systematically 
diminished. Karma or your moon being 
in Aquarius can be used to explain ev- 
erything. My variety of Christianity is 
not used to explain everything. It ac- 
cepts and appreciates mystery. 
PLAYBOY: Yet even within the Christian 
community, you are controversial. 
Peck: I think the people who object to 
mc are on the fringes. I get some op- 
position from what might be called 
far-right-wing Catholics and some oppo- 
sition from the far-lefi-wing or New Age 
religious people and a lot of opposition 
from the fundamentalists. 
PLAYBOY: But you've described yourself 
as a fundamentalist. 
Peck: I dislike the term fundamentalist. 
Fundamentalism began simply as a 
movement to get back to some of the 
basics of Christianity, but the term got 
aken over by fanatic Christians. I've 
been picketed twice, People have hand- 
ed ош leaflets saying that I'm the An- 
tichrist. That's real power—I mean, not 
one of the antichrists, but the Antichr 
The patterns of opposition are some- 
times quite fascinating. At our founda- 
n workshops, we have as much of a 
oblem with the New Age fundamen- 
talists—who insist not only that there be 
herbal tea present but that everyone 
drink it—as we do with Christian funda- 
menta 
PLAYBOY: w hy do you object to the New 
Agers? 
PECK: A very popular New 
Love Is Lelting Go of Fear, by a psychia- 
mpolsky. It's about forgive- 
vibly important topic. 


ge book 


But the problem with the book is that it's 
very simplistic. It makes forgiveness 
sound easy, which it isnt. The New 
Agers scem to think you should just 
beam the affirmations out there. That's 
nd of New Age Christianity I have 
a hard time with. 105 not about reality. 
One New Age joke that was given to me, 
appropriately, by a New Age woman 
goes like this: Three ministers are down 
in hell—a Catholi st, a Jewish rabbi 
and a New Age minister. The topic of the 
conversation turns to why they've ended 
up in hell. The Catholic priest says, 
"Back on earth, I just loved booze too 
much. That's why I'm here.” The rabbi 
says, “I had this thing about ham sand- 
t couldn't leave them alone. 
n to the New Age minister and 
ask, "How about you? What are you do- 
ing down here in hell?” The New Age 
[his isn't hell and I’m 
not the least bit warm." 

Another thing about the New Age 
movement I object to is its react 
against technology. Science is very holy. 
‘The scientific method consists of a bunch 
of convenüons and procedures that 


"People have 
handed out 
leaflets saying that 
Pm the Antichrist. 
That's 
real power.” 


we've developed over the centuries in 
order 10 combat a prolound tendency 
we humans have to deceive ourselves 
It's the search for the truth. 
PLAYBOY: And a contradiction, ultimate- 
ly, to religion. 
PECK: A complement to religion. God is 
love, God is light, God is truth. And so 
science is very godly. But it doesn't an- 
swer all questions. And that is one of the 
things that characterize the New Age 
movement—a lack of skepticism or dis- 
cernment. Before I'm going to shower 
with crystals, | want to investigate 
whether or not crystals improve health 
PLAYBOY: Why is the New Age movement 
so popular? Is it simply a reaction 
against traditional religions? 
Thats exactly the right word—re- 
reaction against the sins of 
rn religion and the sins of science, 
or at least as they've been translated into 
technology. It is looking for new way: 
PLAYBOY: Why do you oppose that? 
as such, it is potentially v 
I think the sins of the Christian 
church have been enormous and they 
should be reacted against. But the prob- 


lem with the movement is what we call 
reaction formation, in which you go to 
the other extreme and throw out the ba- 
by with the bath water. I've done that in 
my own life. My father, who was a long- 
time judge and a famous litigation 
lawyer, had a fair amount of anger. He 
would sometimes go off in an inappro- 
priate tirade, directed either at us chil- 
dren or at somebody else—some hapless 
desk clerk or bus boy. Once, when I was 
twelve or thirteen and we were traveling, 
1 remember squirming in the middle of 
one of those public outbursts and think- 
ing, When I grow up, I'm never going to 
make an ass out of myself like that. So 
when I grew up, I never got angry in 
public. Only 1 had high blood pressure, 
and people started calling me aloof and 
cold and distant. 1 gradually realized, at 
the age of thirty or so, that I had thrown 
the baby out with the bath water, that I 
should have gotten rid of inappropriate 
anger in public, not of anger in public. 
PLAYBOY: What babies are the New Agers 
throwing out with their bath wate 
Peck: Christian theology, which is proba- 
bly the best theology we've got. They 
react against how Christians have be- 
haved, not what they've believed. As 
G. K. Chesterton put it, “The Christian 
ideal has not been tried and found wan 
ing, it has been found difficult and left 
untried.” 
PLAYBOY: Since mankind has such a 
difficult time not perverting dogmas that 
may, indeed, be pure, perhaps it's not so 
bad to throw them out. 
PECK: Well, it happens, thats for sure. 
Religions are usually started by very holy 
people—say, Buddha and Jesus and 
Lao-tzu. One of the greatest’ mystical 
writings in the world is the Tao Té Ching. 
My fantasy was, “Boy, these Taoists real- 
ly have it together.” Well, if you go to 
‘Taiwan and see Taoism being practiced, 
you see that it has degenerated to a 
bunch of magical hodgepodge. Same 
with Buddhism. And Christianity: 
PLAYBOY: Do you believe in faith healing, 
or at least that there are psychological 
factors in sickness and healing? 
Peck: | believe there's an enormous 
amount to it. A great many diseases 
аге psycho-socio-spirituo-somatic. Гуе 
known of some cases of cancer in which 
it has been indelibly clear that the victim 
has reached a dead end in his or her life. 
I'm not saying that all cases of cancer are 
like that, but there 
my mind that virtua 
some psycho-socio-s 
ponents. 
PLAYBOY: Do you believe that patients 
can help heal themselves through visu 
tech nd other kinds of 
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much to affect their health as to give 
them comfort and support. What he 
found, though, was that the cancer pa- 
tients in group therapy lived significant 
ly longer than the others 

PLAYBOY: Do you believe there is an emo- 
tional component to AID! 
PECK: | get the impression that the fact 
that somebody is exposed to AIDS 
doesn't necessarily mean he will get it 
There is a new field on the cutting edge 
of medicine called psychoneuroim- 
munology. It studies the way our psy- 
chology can affect our immune systems 
About six years ago, | almost died from 
pneumonia. 1 was working this insane 
schedule, so 1 was physically fatigued. I 
hadn't come to terms yer with my limita- 
tions. My book had just hit the best-sell 
er list a few months before. I was dealing 
with the problems of fame. There were 
some people who wanted me to run for 
President. I was taking that notion seri- 
ously at the time. I picked up a bug from 
my son, who had pneumonia. There was 
psychological and physical suf going 
on. IL was probably both of those 
PLayaov: If you hadn't been ill, perhaps 
we'd have had a different President 
PECK: 1 doubt that. I decided that I was 
constitutionally unqualified, and not by 
the U.S. Constitution but by my physical 
constitution 

PLAYBOY: How serious were you about it? 
PECK: Well, after about two years of peo- 


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ple's telling me that I should, I began to 
take it pretty seriously. But when T real- 
ized I could never emotionally or physi- 
cally handle the job, I began to wonder 
how any sane person could be qualified 
PLAYBOY: Could someone with your reli- 
gious convictions be elected? 

PECK: I think people would like to sce 
genuine spirituality reflected in their 
leaders. That includes genuine morality. 
PLAYBOY: Did vour religious sense come 
from your family? 

PECK: Our home was secular, but I was 
curious about religion, In school, I took 
a course in world religions and fell in 
love with Hinduism and Buddhism. 
They made sense to me. When I was 
eighteen, | was a Zen Buddhisi—way be- 
fore it was fashionable. I became a Chris 
tian as I wrestled with the ideas of sin 
and guilt. remorse and contrition, Chris- 
tianity dealt with those in ways I felt 
made sense. 

PLAYBOY: How did you end up in psychi- 
апу? 

PECK The only time my father advised 
me correctly was when he suggested I go 
to medical school. 
PLAYBOY: He was a lawyer 
suggest medical school? 
PECK: Because ГА majored in psycholo- 
gy, and he knew that Î was so antipathet- 
ic toward him at that time that | would 
never be a lawyer. 

PLAYBOY: Did vou 


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into therapy? 


PECK: In the military. where 1 took my 
residency, I worked in a hospital and a 
clinic. I went into therapy for the last 
year of my residency, not because it 
would be a learning experience but be- 
cause I needed it 

PLAYBOY: 15 it possible to sum up what 
you got out of therapy? 

PECK: | think the biggest single thing that 
1 learned was that among other prob- 
lems that I had at the time was a pro- 
found one in dealing with authority 
Wherever | studied or worked, there 
was always some son of a bitch in chy 


whose guts I absolutely hated. It was al- 
ways a man, always an older man. a dif- 
ferent man each place, but wherever I 
went, that man was there—which I as- 
sumed was his fault and had nothing to 
do with me, At the time I went into ther- 
apy, if you'd asked me whether I was a 
dependent sort of person, I would have 
said, “Scott Peck doesn't have a depend- 
ent bone in his body." I discovered that 
my problem came from my father. He 
was an extremely attractive figure, very 
bright and very loving in his own way 
but also the most overcontrolling charac- 
ter who ever came down the pike. If he 
could have. he would have controlled 
not only what college I went to but what 
1 majored in and what graduate school I 
went to and whom 1 married. 

When I was a child, he was somebody 


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Га have liked to depend upon, but to 
depend upon my father would have 
been to be steam-rolled by him. To pre- 
serve my identity, I had to keep my dis- 
tance from him. The way I did that was 
by saying, Who needs him? Who the hell 
needs anybody? 1 think my therapy was 
helpful in a whole bunch of ways, but 
one was in putting me in touch with my 
dependency needs 

PLAYBOY: So all those bad generals were 
bad fathersz 

PECK: Yeah. I was looking for the ideal fa- 
ther figure. But since | didn't know I was 
dependent, I wasn’t even aware that I 
was looking for a father figure. When 
these men would fail to be ideal father 
figures, I'd get furious with them. Alter 
ysis, I felt, This guy is not my ideal 
father, so ГШ take what I can from him 
PLAYBOY: Where did you meet your wifez 
PECK: | sat behind Lily in a class one 
summer. Every morning, I looked at the 
back of her neck. Perhaps Im а паре 
man and don't know it. Also, perhaps I 
was attracted to her because she was 
Chinese and had sort of an exoticness. 
We married thirty years ago, practically 
parents! dead bodies 

PLAYBOY: Because of the dillerence in 
your races? 

PECK: My parents raised me to be the ul. 
timate WASP I was marrying a chink 
They told me I was ruining my life, that 


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Га have no friends. They disinherited 
me. Her parents were equally bad. They 
were furious because they had lost con- 
wol of her 

PLAYBOY: Was it dillicult for your kids? 
PECK: It was harder on them than on us 
They encountered. prejudice in school 
But it turned out well, I think. They are 
very strong people 

PLAYBOY: You have admitted that you 
were not as good a father as you should 
have been because of your calling. 

PECK: Well, I had no trouble changing 
my children’s diapers or any of that. But 
1 was very impatient with them from 
about the age of two until they started 
becoming interesting to me at about 
thirteen. I didn't spend time with them 
If you asked them, “What kind of father 
was your father?” they'd say, “Well, he 
was pretty good in a crisis, but you had 
to have a crisis to get his attention.” 
PLAYBOY: Do you regret that? 

PECK: 1 wish I'd had been a better father, 
yes. I wish Ud had more time for them. 
Em grateful that we have good relation- 
ships now 

PLAYBOY: Why did you become a military 
psychiatrist? 

PECK: Well, it was an odd choice. Years 
before, Га actually been one of the first 
R.O.T.C. protesters against the military. I 
got kicked out of Middlebury College lor 
i. That was back when McCarthy had 


not been long dead, which tells vou 
about the era. Well, although it wasn’t 
announced in the school catalog, Mid 
dlebury had a compulsory RO.TC 
course. 1 objected, so in the middle ol 
my second year, I stopped going. They 
docked all my academic credits. Fortu 
nately, because my father was on the 
alumni council, Harvard admitted me 
and restored my credits. 

PLAYBOY: Then how did you end up in 
the military? 

Peck: Alter I graduated from medical 
school with two young childre! 
itary was the only place | could get 
decent training and a fivable wage. 1 
looked back at my experience with the 
R.O.T.C. and said it was just my adoles- 
cent rebellion. About two and a half 
years later, partly through a couple of 
my patients, I began to wonder about 
the Vietnam war, and then I looked fur- 
ther into it. Finally, I realized, My coun 
try is lying so badly there is no way to 
ionalize it. I realized that our involve 
ment there was evil 

PLAYBOY: Yet you stayed in the military 
for several more years. 

PECK: | used my position in the military 
to study what was really goin Ihe 
more I saw, the more I was faced with a 
question. I wondered whether or not I 
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commitments and been sent to jail. Well, 
their voice was lost. It didn't seem to me 
a terribly responsible thing to do, with a 
wife and two children 


PLAYBOY: The voice of those who went. 


to jail was not lost; it made a strong 
statement. 

PECK: Maybe it was a cop-out, but I de- 
cided to be one of those people who 
worked from within. That was how I 
started really becoming interésted in the 
relationship between psychi 
ics and government. That was wh) 
stayed in the military longer than I had 
to and gave up a very lucrative Harvard 
fellowship to stay in the Army and go to 
Washington. I learned a lot. 
PLAYBOY: And did what with it? 
PECK: | was in the Surgeon General's 
office. From that position, I leaked infor- 
эп to [columnist] Jack Anderson's 
people. 

PLAYBOY: Specifically, what? 

PECK: There were many things I consid- 
ered to be scandals that 1 kept Ander 
son's office apprised of. But eventually, 1 
got disillusioned and tired and quit. 
"That's when I went to Connecticut, with 
no greater ambition than just being an 
ordinary country psychiatrist and. get- 
ting to play golf on weekends and 
Wednesday afternoons. 

PLAYBOY: You say you came to believe 
our involvement in Vietnam was evil 
What's the background of your res 
in evil? 

Peck: [he book and movie The Exorcist 
first piqued my curiosity about posses- 
sion, though I thought they did the sub- 
ject a disservice by being simplistic. The 
girl became possessed for 3 
possession were some kind of accident. 
"That could lead people to think that you 
could be walking down the street and a 
demon might leap out from behind a 
bush and dive into yor 
PLAYBOY: It wouldn't? 
PECK: In act, there are profound reasons 
why people become possessed. 

PLAYBOY: You're serious? 

PECK: Quite serious. 

PLAYBOY: And you 
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real Devil? 
PECK: | didn't always. After reading The 
хос, the next thing I read on the sub- 
ject was Malachi Martin's Hostage to the 
Devil. While I think it is overdramatic in 
some ways, it has a sufficient smack of re- 
ality to say to me, “Hey, maybe I have to. 
take this thing seriously.” One of the 
things that Martin makes clear is that 
possession is not an accident. There is, in 
y case, what he calls cooperation. 
And do you maintain that mak- 
g a pact with the Devil is a psycho- 
logical disorder like schizophrenia or 


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tually believe in the 
a metaphorical Devil but a 


PECK: Yes, though possession is 
disorder. 
PLAYBOY: Isn't someone who acts pos- 


sessed simply psychotic? 
PECK: The two patients 1 worked with 
were not in the least psychotic, though 
one was able to fake psychosi 

PLAYBOY: What's the diffei 
symptoms are concerned? 

PECK: Someone who is truly insane can- 
not pull himself together. But just as in 
some ways people who are possessed 
have chosen to cooperate with the de- 
monic, exorcisms succeed because they 
can reverse the choice. That's the es- 
sence of exorcism. 

PLAYBOY: Do you believe that a physical 
spirit actually enters someone's body? 
PECK: This gets very hairy. Satan is a spir- 
it—it doesn't have horns, hooves and a 
forked tail. But Satan has no power ex- 
ceptin a human body. 

PLAYBOY: Can you give an example of 
possession? 

Peck: I had two patients who were pos- 
sessed. I once attended an exorcism. 
PLAYBOY: A real exoräsm? 

PECK: Yes, during which the patient had 
to be restrained because she was violent 
much of the time. She would often lic 


nce, as far 


“Satan is a spirit — 
it doesn't have horns 
and a forked tail. 
But Satan has no 
power except in a 
human body.” 


face down on the bed to try to escape. 
You could lay books on her and she 
would just lie there quietly. But when 
you put the Bible or The Book of Common 
Prayer on her, she would start to writhe. 
PLAYBOY: You actually put prayer books 
and Bibles on her back? 

PECK: Yes. 

PLAYBOY: And you consider that proof 
that she was possessed, not simply nuts? 
It sounds like proof that you were nuts, 
PECK: [Smiles] Well, there were other 
things that were much more compelling. 
The most compelling-thing for me was 
her facial expressions. I mean, they blew 
my mind. 

PLAYBOY: You couldn't compare them 
with those of someone who was having 
another kind of breakdown? 

PECK: They were nothing like I had ever 
seen before, or have scen since. 

PLAYBOY: Do you admit that possession 
sounds farfetchedz 

Peck: | don't think I'm going to convert 
you. 1 was converted through personal 
experience. / approached it as a skeptic, 
too. I did not believe that possession ex- 


isted. But it seemed to me that if 1 could 
see one good, old-fashioned case of pos- 
on, it might change my m 
didn't think that I would see one. I 
twelve years, I had a busy psychiatric 
practice and I hadn't seen one, though 
for the first ten of those years, 1 could 
have walked right on top of one and not 
known what it was. 

PLAYBOY: But once you accept the Devil, 
you can explain away anything? 

PECK: AIL I can tell you is that for a couple 
of years, I had been vaguely open to the 
but hadn't scen anything to con- 
ce me. I went out looking for it. The 
1 couple of cases of reported posses- 
sion I saw were, as far as I was con- 
cerned, standard psychiatric disorders. 
was very happy, believe you me. 1 put 
notches on my scientific pistol and said, 
“See there?” For the third case, I went 
to another state to interview a woman 
who had some features suggestive of 
chizophrenia, some of what we'd call 
ight of ideas. She also had some fea- 
tures of what we'd call hysteria and oth- 
er traumatic disorders, but she didn't 
feel quite like a hysteric. After about four 
hours, I was already mentally packing 
my bags and making my third notch on 
my scientific pistol when she began talk- 
ing about her demons. 

PLAYBOY: Couldn't you have explained 
that as more hysteri 
PECK: Well, she said that she felt sorry for 
them. When I asked, "Why?" she said, 
“Because they're really weak, pathetic 
beings.” That caused me to prick up my 
ears. It seemed to me that if somebody 
had a psychiatric need to invent demons, 
he would invent big, strong, scary 
demons. Later I learned that this is a 
quite common demonic strategy, to por- 
tray itself as weak and frail—"No need to 
be afraid of me.” At the time, all I knew 
was that it didn’t fit. It caused me to start 
looking a little deeper. Then, the more 
time we spent, the more things came up 
that didn't fit. It wasn't so much super- 
natural stuff as it was stuff that just didn't 
th who this person was. 

PLAYBOY: Yet if you had been a psy- 
chiatrist who didn't accept the Devil, 
couldn't you have explained away every- 
thing you saw? 

Peck: If Га been an ordi 
trist, I would never have gotte: 
with the case to begin with 
PLAYBOY: Unless you were seriously try- 
ing to treat a person who happened to 
have those symptoms, 

PECK: All J can tell you is that I think that 
genuine possession is very rare. There 
are certain people who see demons lurk- 
ing in all corners. I think that’s irre- 
sponsible. Nonetheless, 1 think it is an 
underdiagnosed condition 

PLAYBOY: Modern psychology tells us 
that we have to be responsible for our a 
tions. If someone has made a pact with 


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the Devil, he's no longer responsible for 
his actions. 

PECK: No! There is cooperation. Once 1 
was called by a lawyer who wanted me to 
examine a client, a murderer, and testify 
on his behalf—to get him off by virtue of 
insanity, because he was possessed. I 
said, “As far as I'm concerned, whether 
or not your client is possessed has a great 
deal to do with how he would be treated 
in therapy, but I could not support a not- 
guilty verdict on the basis of insanity— 
because there is a choice.” 

PLAYBOY: Isn't it likely that if possession 
were real, other psychiatrists through- 
out history would have believed in it? 
Even Jung, who dealt with spirituality, 
never considered possession. 

PECK: It's true that I am the only well- 
known, scientifically trained psychiatrist 
who has dealt with it. 1 know three other 
responsible psychiatrists around the 
country who have dealt with it, but 
they're not the biggies. 

PLAYBOY: So you're left in pretty shaky 
company, since the other people who 
talk about the Devil are those fundamen- 
talist preachers who depend on igno- 
rance and blind religious belief. They 
scream about possession every Sunday 
onTV. 

PECK: It drives me bananas. On the one 
hand, you have people seeing possession 
when it doesn't exist, and on the other 
hand, you have people refusing to see it 
when it does. 

PLAYBOY: Do you believe that there 
might, indeed, be satanic messages in 
some rock albums? 

PECK: There's a lot of satanic stuff, cults 
and rituals, going on, and people would 
rather overlook it. But it’s dangerous. 
Are there evil, satanic rock lyrics? Yes, 
there are. 

PLAYBOY: Placed there intentionally by 
heavy-metal Devil worshipers? 

PECK: I've not made enough of a study of 
this to tell you. But when I first saw 
MTV, I was flabbergasted by the very 
clear satanic images. 

PLAYBOY: Isn't a lot of that just posturing 
and attempts to shock on the part of 
bands? Attitude? 

PECK: Whether the musicians are doing it 
consciously or unconsciously, І don't 
know. If it's only because it's cool, it's a 
sick way of being cool. 

PLAYBOY: Would you censor them? 

PECK: We get into a terrible problem. 
Where do you draw the line? It's always 
a question of drawing the line. For in- 
stance, 1 believe pornography can be 
healthy. Pornography can be used for 
good or for ill. 

PLAYBOY: Do you lump all nudity into the 
category of pornography? 

PECK: No, 1 separate only the really 
demeaning, violent stuff. Otherwise, I 
think it's natural to look at pornography. 
J enjoy it. But I also think that there is a 
tendency to demean women and to di- 


minish and strip sexuality of its potential 
holiness. 

PLAYBOY: Holiness? 

PECK: In The Road Less Traveled, 1 wrote, 
"When my beloved first stands before 
me naked, all open to my sight, there is a 
feeling throughout the whole of me: 
awe." And I asked, "Why awe?" If sex is 
no more than an instinct, why don't 1 
simply feel horny or hungry? Such sim- 
ple hunger would be sufficient to ensure 
the propagation of the species. Why do I 
feel it throughout the whole of me? Why 
should sex be complicated by reverence? 
PLAYBOY: Well? 

PECK: To me, sex and God are inherently 
connected, which is why the American 
ideal of romantic love is so troublesome. 
It holds that it ought to be possible for 
Cinderella to ride off with her prince in- 
to an endless sunset of endless orgasms. 
Well, anyone who buys that is doomed to 
disappointment. Such people are look- 
ing to their spouse or their lover to fulfill 
them, to be their God, their heaven on 
earth. It violates the First Command- 
ment. Idolatry of human romantic love 


“To me, sex and God 
are inherently 
connected, which is 
why the ideal of 
romantic love is so 
troublesome.” 


is no less a form of idolatry. 

The older I've gotten, the more im- 
pressed I have become by sexuality, by 
what the mysterious essence of the dif- 
ference between men and women is, 
which we don't understand. Science 
doesn't even begin to understand what 
the nonanatomical differences between 
men and women arc—to what extent 
theyre genctic, to what extent they're 
cultural, and what not. But I’m pro- 
foundly impressed by the differences. 

Anyway, sexuality is one of the few 
things that keep me humble, because it's 
bigger than I am. 

PLAYBOY: You have taken some contro- 
versial stands regarding sex, such as 
your suggestion that fidelity is not neces- 
sarily good. 

PECK: First of all, there is no such thing as 
a marriage that does not have to deal 
with the problem of fidelity or infidelity. 
I cannot tell you what the right way to 
deal with it is. The only thing I can do is 
tell you what the wrong way is. At one 
extreme is the couple who say, "Whats 
the problem? My wife and I have been 


married for thirty-five years and I've 
never even looked at another woman 
and she has never even looked at anoth- 
er man." But that doesn't work. 
PLAYBOY: You think that's impossible? 
PECK: The price that people have to pay 
for that kind of repression simply isn't 
worth it. They don't know how to deal 
with those feelings—it might be the Holy 
Spirit that's leading you on, or it might 
be Satan, or it might be your glands. But 
it's impossible ever to know that what 
you are doing is right. However, if your 
will is steadfastly to the good, and if you 
are willing to suffer fully when the good 
seems ambiguous, then your uncon- 
scious will always be moving in the right 
direction, one step ahead of your con- 
scious mind. In other words, you will do 
the right thing. But you will not have the 
luxury of knowing it at the time that 
you're doing it. 

Listen, one of our myths is that we 
should be completely happy with and 
fulfilled by one woman or one man and 
that the issue of fidelity should never be 
a problem, and that we should have no 
need to do such things as look at 
pornography. That's nonsense. As 1 say 
in a lecture I give, sex is a problem for 
everyone—children, adolescents, young 
adults, middle-aged adults, elderly 
adults, celibates, married people, single 
people, straight people, gay people—ev- 
eryone. If this is celestial boot camp, it is 
replete with obstacle courses, almost 
fiendishly designed for our learning. 
The one most fiendishly designed is sex. 
God built into us this feeling that we can 
max sex. 

PLAYBOY: Max sex? 

PECK: Yes, that we can conquer it or solve 
it. Maybe we find someone for a day or 
two or even a year or two, but then she 
changes or he changes or we change and 
we realize that we haven't maxed itat all. 
We either try again with someone else or 
go forward and learn about love and in- 
timacy and how to whittle away at our 
narcissism, and some of us graduate 
from boot camp. 

PLAYBOY: Are you a graduate? 

PECK: [Shrugs] With almost everything, 
I'm very much like the professor of phi- 
losophy who was asked, “So you believe 
that the core of all truth is paradox. Is 
that correct?” His answer was, “Well, 
yes and no.” There are only two great 
truths I know that are not paradoxes. 
One is that the only way to stop a game is 
to stop it. Eric Berne, in Games People 
Play, essentially defines a psychological 
game as repetitive interaction in which 
there is an unspoken payoff. Whether 
it's Monopoly or the arms race or games 
in your marriage or the self-destructive 
tendencies you live with, the only way to 
stop a game is to stop it. The other 
truth? It’s a simple one: Love makes the 
world go round. 


64 


SHOWDOWN 
IN 
CINCINNATI 


the obscenity trial of a museum 
director for exhibiting 
robert mapplethorpe 
photographs had a happy ending. 
what came up during the trial is 
much more terrifying 


article by 
JAMES R. PETERSEN 


{ Е YOU WANT to find the truth about а 
trial or a war, find the nearest bar. 

In the case of The State of Ohio vs. the 
Contemporary Art Center and Dennis Barrie, 
the lobby bar in the Omni Netherland 
Plaza serves the out-of-town press. 

In a way, the two-story lobby symbolizes 
Cincinnati's preposterous vision of itself. 
The first level looks like King Tut's tomb, 
with bas-relief sculptures and mock foun- 
tains out of which emerge horses with 
aquatic hooves. Light fixtures sprout from 
their heads. The second level has Depres- 
sion-era oil paintings, the 13 stations of 
Cincinnati culture, depicting Colonial 
maidens in hoop skirts and corsets sere- 
naded by earnest troubadours, courted by 
Colonial gentlemen. Somewhere near the 
ceiling, there is a chariot being pulled by a 
horse even Pete Rose wouldn't bet on. 
Some establishments rely on bar snacks to 
whet the appetite. In Cincinnati, purity 
motifs drive us to drink. 

We journalists bristle with anecdotes 
that don't fit into four-paragraph stories 
or usual requirements of objectivity. 

"What got into [Prosecutor Frank] 
Prouty today? All of a sudden, he's talking 
about lines, how the legs of the child come 
together to call attention to the genitals. Is 
he taking art lessons from somebody on 
his lunch hour?" 

“God, don't you hate the word genitals? 
It's a distancing word like mutual funds, 


ILLUSTRATION BY RAFAL OLBINSKI 


PLAYBOY 


66 


for people who don't have the nerve to 
own the real thing." 

“What a waste of taxpayers’ money. 
Prouty spent the entire day asking art 
experts how long it takes to insert a 
bullwhip into your rectum." 

"My editors seem to do it every day 
in an astonishingly short time." 

“All I know is that whenever the 
C-SPAN camera turns my way, I want 
to blink out T-O-R-T-U-R-E.” 

. 

Some things you have to see with 
your own eyes. 

For the past few years, 1 have written 
about the First Amendment, about art 
and obscenity, about sexual freedom, 
1 have reduced principles to para- 
graphs. I have written paper about pa- 
per, ideas about ideas. By the time a 
case reaches public consciousness, en- 
tire lives have been reduced to itali 
Roe vs. Wade. Brown vs. Board of Educa- 
tion. One forgets that the vs. may reflect 
years of struggle, years of isolation. 

Last September, I read a news ac- 
count that jury selection had begun in 
the trial of Dennis Barrie. A museum 
director, Barrie had brought an exhibi- 
tion of 175 photographs by the late 
Robert Mapplethorpe to Cincinnati's 
Contemporary Art Center (C.A.C.). 
The exhibition was on a seven-city 
tour—it had played in Chicago, Berke- 
ley and Hartford without incident. On 
the floor of Congress, Senator Jesse 
Helms had turned obscenity into the 
new communism. When he ranted 
about Mapplethorpe's photos of white 
men embracing black men, it was hard 
to tell whether racism ran deeper than 
homophobia. But it was clear that he'd 
discovered a political hot button. He 
stood in Washington, D.C., waving the 
Mapplethorpe photos the way Mc- 
Carthy brandished lists of Reds. 

It worked in Washington, a city that 
created the public-relations ethic called 
Low Profiles in Courage. Dr. Christina 
Orr-Cahall, the director of the Corco- 
ran Gallery of Art, canceled the exhibi- 
tion. 

Barrie could not. It was a small act: 
He would bring the exhibition to 
Cincinnati because he believed in it, 
and because he believed the people of 
Cincinnati had the right to educate 
themselves about a gifted artist. He in- 
tended nothing extraordinary—he 
simply wanted to do his job. 

In Washington, Helms had a hard- 
on, and it cast a long shadow. Around 
the country Jesse wanna-bes un- 
wrapped their Turkish towels to see if 
something was stirring. In Cincinnati, 
it is thought that a handful of political 
cronies—some members of the Cincin- 
nati Athletic Club—gathered around 
Hamilton county sherif Simon Leis. 
The good old boys wondered if they 


had the making of a case or, if not, the 
making of a show trial. 

On opening day of the exhibition, 
April 7, 1990, the Cincinnati police and 
county-sheriff deputies barricaded the 
C.A.C., served warrants, gathered evi- 
dence and indicted Barrie. Cited as 
obscene were seven of the 175 pho- 
tographs of nudes, flowers, portraits 
and graphic sexual poses that made up 
the Mapplethorpe retrospective. But 
the trial was no more about pho- 
tographs than the Scopes trial had 
been about science. It was about peo- 
ple, about a museum director facing a 
year in jail or a $2000 fine, about 
lawyers working around the clock, 
about families caught in the cogs of 
justice. 

Unlike the defendants in the other 
great obscenity trial of 1990—that of 2 
Live Crew—Barrie and the C.A.C. did 
not profit from the controversy; there 
was no CD, no sound track. This act of 
conscience had а three-hundred-fifty- 
thousand-dollar price tag. 

A week into the trial, I decided to go 
to Cincinnati. I wanted to see freedom 
struggle to survive in a courtroom. I 
wanted to see a principle made human 
1 wanted to bear witness to a verdict— 
not on Barrie but on America, on a 
conventional man who had had the 
courage to defend unconventional 
thought. I took along Burt Joseph, 
friend, lawyer, First Amendment 
coach, special counsel for Playboy. This 
is what I saw. 


OCTOBER 3, 1990—THE VERDICT. 


For two hours, the press has been 
wandering the immense halls of the 
Hamilton County courthouse, a 76- 
year-old stone building that resonates 
with respectability. Inside the court- 
house, we step over cables, edge 
around a squad of tripod-mounted 
Minicams. In one corner, on banquet 
tables, the networks have set up moni- 
tors, recorders, fax machines. Every 
monitor shows the same image—the 
One camera allowed in the courtroom 
feeds a picture of an empty chamber 
and the closed door through which the 
jury will return. Some reporters cluster 
around Lou Sirkin and Marc Mezibov, 
the defense lawyers, looking for one 
more quote, looking for reassurance, 
looking for odds. 

lt is hard to tell how the word 
spreads. On the video monitor, a bailiff 
emerges from the jury room and whis- 
pers something, and the press room 
and halls empty like a firehouse. The 
jury has a verdict. We scramble for 
the 20 chairs in the spectators' gallery. 
"The TV crews start heating up lights in 
the hall outside, holding white hand- 
kerchiefs in front of camera lenses to 
check color balance. The on-camera 


personalities, who have never been in- 
side the courtroom, clear their throats, 
check light and sound levels, mentally 
rehearse questions: "What will you do 
now, Mr. Barrie? What does a hung 
jury mean? Can you go through this 
twice? How does it feel to be free?" 

This is a moment that the world will 
never see, Ar the outset of the trial, the 
Judge instructed the press that the jury 
could not be photographed, video- 
taped or named. The in-court camera 
never pans the jury box, The in-court 
press photographers, with lenses the 
size of sewer pipe, never catch the jury. 
The courtroom artist, a little old lady 
who sits with a pair of binoculars 
around her neck (to check eye color), 
never sketches the jury. 

Unable to name them, the press has 
turned the members of the jury into 
characters from Central Casting: the 
secretary, the salesclerk, the warehouse 
manager, the telephone repairman, the 
data processor, the X-ray technician, 
the engineer, the shipping worker. We 
are familiar with the ironies: Only one 
has a college degree, only one has ever 
seen a Mapplethorpe photograph. 
Most have never been to a museum. 

What do any of us know about these 
eight people? Now 1 find it hard to 
look at Barrie. At this moment, every- 
one in the courtroom faces a sentence, 
a judgment on what America means. 

The judge walks in, we rise. 

The jurors file into the box. The sec- 
retary holds the verdicis. She smiles 
briefly at Sirkin and hands them to the 
bailiff. I start to relax. Everything I 
know about jurors—i.e., from televi- 
sion—says that if they smile, your client 
is not guilty. The expression on the two 
women jurors who follow the secretary 
destroys the cliché. They are pale, 
quaking, on the verge of sickness. They 
look as though they're being helped 
from a crash on the highway in which 
not everyone has survived. 

The judge reads aloud the four ver- 
dicts. With the first “not guilty," I see 
Sirkin start to breathe. Barrie relaxes, 
sinks ever so slightly into his chair, like 
a man released from an Iron Maiden 
or a fullbody cast. Whatever strength 
supported him for seven months relax- 
es its grip. I look at Amy Bannister, the 
spokeswoman chosen to represent the 
C.A.C., at the defense table. The only 
part of her body that moves are the 
tears flowing down her cheeks. 

By the fourth "not guilty," there are 
shouts, hugs, high fives. Roger Ach and 
Robert Allen, two supporters who have 
shown up in court every day, leap up, 
trying to turn the courtroom into a 
locker room. “Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" they 
scream. 

The judge roars, “Bailiff, eject those 

(continued on page 76) 


“If you'd let me join the damned PLUG club, Pd 
probably be out there playin’ golf now. 


AFTER HIS TRIUMPH 
IN MOSCOW, OUR MAN VENTURES 
OFF LIMITS IN THE CARIBBEAN 


text by JEFF COHEN 


Last year, I wrote about my journey to 
the Soviet Union and the adventures 
my team and I had there, finding and 
photographing Russia’s most beautiful 
women (Mission: Implausible, Playboy, 
February 1990). The food, the grim- 
faced customs officials, the surly people 
convinced me that Moscow was not the 
fun capital of the world. But my most 
recent adventure was quite different. It 
took me just 90 miles from our own 
shores to a satellite Communist coun- 
try that travels in its own sunny orbit. 
To an island resplendent with history, 
architectural weasures and a culture 
blessed with artists, writers, musicians 
and great sportsmen: a people with en- 
ergy, warmth and a love for life who 
take their warm ocean beaches, potent 
rum drinks and aromatic cigars as 
birthrights. To a land of dark, sensuous 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY PATRICK MAGAUD 


69 


women who at one moment can be proudly aloof, the next as giddy as schoolgirls. It is a retirement nirvana for thousands 
of lovingly cared-for, hand-painted automobiles from Detroit's iron age, the uneasy host to a U.S. naval base outfitted with 
the most sophisticated war technology and the home of a burgeoning tourist economy that trades only in Unde Sam's 
greenbacks. Where it gets those greenbacks is a good question, since Americans are forbidden to spend them there. This 
sunny spot is the republic of Cuba, and our Government has declared it off limits. It's not exactly illegal for U.S. citizens to 
travel to Cuba, but under the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Act, the Treasury Department prohibits U.S. citi- 
zens from spending dollars there. The penalties are stiff: as much as $250,000 and 12 years in jail. Ironically, it's OK to blow 
your Yankee cash in Iran or almost any other country, not excluding the erstwhile "Evil Empire." Uncle Sam knows how to 
hold a grudge. As a curious Playboy editor, I was able to take advantage of the loophole in those restrictions that excepts 
journalists, Government officials, researchers and farnily members who wish to reunite with their relatives in Cuba, The 
idea for the trip had come about in discussions I was having with Patrick Magaud, a French photographer and frequent 
contributor to this magazine, who specializes in photographing nude women in the midst cf daring and spectacular stunts 
(see Living Dangerously, Playboy, May 1900). Patrick and I share a Franco-American love of adventure and on several occa-, 
sions had discussed wild photographic projects that would test our resolve and, we hoped, lead to fascinating photographs. 


Splashing at Cayo Faraisa (preceding spread) оге Idolko de Erbiti (left) and Lionette Taylee. Lionette reappears below left; Adrianis Her- 
nandez is Банат right. Lacking U.S. exports, cubanos lovingly restore such cars as the 1948 Buick Super Eight below right. That's Roisa 
Soboritt opposite, right; ot top left, opposite, Lisette Roz and Roche! Lopez chat up a guard outside Guontónomo U.S. Naval Bose. 


During onc such conversation, 
shortly after my return from the So- 
viet Union, we simultaneously whis- 
pered the word Cuba. It was near 
yet far; hot yet cool. And if Gorby 
had let Playboy in to see his women, 
Fidel would certainly have to an- 
swer the challenge by extending us 
the same courtesy. The hunt was on, 
and Patrick was to lead the way. 
Through contacts in Paris, he was 
able to meet the Cuban ambassador 
to France and persuade him to pro- 
pose a pictorial to the appropriate 
officials in Havana. Several months 
later, when Patrick got the green 
light from the tourism ministry, I 
flew to Paris to close the deal with 
the ambassador. It was at his home 
that I experienced my first taste of 
Cuba—Cohiba cigars and Havana 
Club seven-year-old rum. Ten days 
later, I was in Havana. 

Not that it was easy to get there. 
Havana is one of the few destina- 
tions in the world that aren’t served 
by a flight from Chicago's O'Hare 
International Airport. Nor do ma- 
jor airlines fly there from Ј.ЕК., М 
ami or even Key West. But Toronto, 
Montreal, Vancouver and the major 
European capitals have daily flights. 
Mine was through Mexico City. 

The Cubans do a very smart 
thing when American citizens pass 
through passport control They 
don't stamp their passports. Mine 
shows that I left Chicago and ar- 
rived in Mexico City, and eight days 


later headed home, stopping in Dallas to clear Customs. Until a U.S. official reads this story, our 
own Government has known only that I was in Mexico. 

As for the Cubans, they are happy to see you—and, more important, eager to have your 
money. The island had 300,000 visitors last year—50,000 Canadians and a like number of Ger- 
mans, with the balance coming from other European countries, notably Spain and Italy. A mere 
6000 gringos took the circuitous journey to play in the Caribbean sunshine. But if the U.S. 
travel restric- 
tions were to 
be lifted, that 
number would 
likely soar into the millions. The social 
and political turmoil in the Communist 
Eastern Bloc has left Cuba's pipeline to 
financial aid all but cut off, making 
tourism the best hope for the island's 
economic future. Three major organiza- 
tions—Gaviota, Cubanacan and Intur— 
have been given power to develop 
tourism and foreign partnerships. All 
three are building hotels, marinas and 
sports facilities at Varadero Beach, a 
finger of sand and palm trees pointing 
straight at the Florida Keys that is a 
three-hour drive from Havana. Varadero 
is Cuba's attempt to leap from the 
Fifties—when the despised dictator Ful- 
gencio Batista was ousted by Fidel Castro 
and his band of guerrillas—into the 
Nineties. For nearly four decades, the is- 
land's old luxury hotels have decayed, 
along with those American-made auto- 
mobiles. The Varadero development is 
supposed to redress that lack of tourist 
accommodations. 

Varadero was the first stop for Patrick 
and me on our tour around the island. 
During a helicopter flight over the clean, 
white sandy beaches that rim the penin- 
sula, I counted no fewer than six con- 
struction sites. Cranes, earth movers and 
thousands of laborers were working on 
elaborate, architecturally sophisticated 
hotels that, we were told, would feature 


swimming pools, four-star restaurants, 
crystal chandeliers, Italian-marble-and- 
gold bathroom fixtures, all to attract first- 
class travelers with first-class wallets. One 
Gaviota official told me that by 1995, the 
area would have 40 to 50 hotels with 
30,000 rooms; today, there are one tenth 
that many. Our escort at Varadero and, 


Twenty-three-yeor-old Isobel Cabrero (opposite) pases pravacatively at the Colonial Museum af Art in Havana. Idalka de Erbiti (above), 
ct 22 Cuba's top model, and Patrick Magaud, the French photagrapher of this pictariol, fell in lave during this assignment and she re- 
cently moved ta Paris ta be with him. Immediately sought ofter by magazines and madeling agencies in France, Idolka hos been 
stunned by the glamaur of the City af Light and the superabundance af material gaods in Porision shops. It's a far cry from life under 
the government of Fidel Costra (inset, top, giving ane of his legendary morathan speeches in the Plozo de la Revolución, Havana). 73 


indeed, throughout the island was León Pérez, a representative of the Cubanacan group. He was our guide and, at times, 
our warden. We could roam, but we were loosely tethered—instcad of by a chain, with a bungee cord. If we strayed too far 
from our hotel or our vehicle, León would snap the cord and draw us back. He was actually a pleasant fellow, with many 
friends and colleagues around the island, but he had one habit that made him less than endcaring to us: He kept picking 
his teeth and ears with a ballpoint pen. Even now, 1 sometimes awake from a sound sleep with a vision of Pérez picking 
away, and I have to get up, floss and fondle a cotton swab. 

Our band of three traveled the island by minivan, army helicopter, boat and sleek corporate jet. Everywhere, our fame 
preceded us: We were the group from 
la revista Playboy. We saw Bahía de los 
Cochinos, the Bay of Pigs, and the mu- 
seum that celebrates the expulsion of 
the invading imperialists from the 
north. We visited the mountainous 
spine of the island, with its Tyrolean 
landscape and clear, crisp air, and 
stayed at a medical spa catering to the 
government elite. On the far southeast. 
end of the island, we visited Santiago 
de Cuba, (continued on page 157) 


Back at Cayo Paraiso, four señaritas stage a wet-T-shirt contest. From left above ore Isabel Cabrero, Grisell Valdez, Lianette Taylee and 
Idolka de Erbiti. Below, a likeness of 19th Century Cuban revolutionary hero José Morti dominates a parade on the 26th of July, an- 
74 niversary of Costro's first attack on the forces of dictator Fulgencio Batista; at right, Dalila Marin with one ingredient of a piña colada. 


PLAYBOY 


76 


CINCINNATI 


(continued from page 66) 


“I begin to wonder if written on the judge's palm is 
the one thing he learned in law school.” 


two men.” 

Ach and Allen file out with a school- 
boy-contrite “Sorry, Your Honor.” On 
the other side of the glass door, they re- 
sume their dance, opening their arms 
to indude Barrie's wife. Having ar- 
rived late, she has been forced to stand 
outside, out of hearing, out of touch, 
while her husband's fate is decided. In 
one glance, I have the sense that for 
her, this has been a silent movie that 
she has been powerless to stop. I look 
around. Reporters from The Washing- 
ton Post, The Village Voice, the Baltimore 
Sun and Neusday are on the edge of 
tears. We exchange low fives behind 
the rail. 

"The judge addresses the jury. The 
very people the state has claimed to 
protect, whose values were allegedly 
offended, have rejected that protec- 
tion. The short speech is a model of 
damage control. He tells the jurors 
they have a right to privacy, they can 
talk to the press but that they should be 
advised that the press will use what it 
deems controversia. And, oh, yes, 
“You can keep your jury buttons." 

The jury files out of the room, ex- 
pressionless. 

1 walk out of the courthouse into the 
sun. 1 have felt this way once before, on 
the night my daughter was born. The 
combination of joy, exhaustion and 
dread—the awareness that it could just 
as easily have gone the other way. A 
block from the courthouse, I see the ju- 
ry forewoman—the secretary—and the 
blonde salesclerk, still distressed, shak- 
ing off the last of the reporters. 1 am 
jolted by their resemblance to a pho- 
to of Vietnam soldiers carrying the 
wounded across a swollen creek toward 
a landing zone. The only difference is 
that in Cincinnati, there will be no heli- 
copter to take them back to America. 

“Thank you," I yell as they rush past. 

Startled, one replies, "You're wel- 
come,” and continues running. 

I wonder what it is they saw in the 
courtroom that so terrified them. 


THE FACE OF THE ENEMY: 


On our first night in Cincinnati, we 
pose a question to Sirkin: Who are the 
bad guys? 

"Dennis Barrie and the C.A.C. had 
received a few letters of complaint in 
March—before anyone had seen the 
photos," Sirkin replies. "They knew 
the exhibition would be controversial. 
In April, we requested a state judge to 


impanela jury on the exhibition before 
it opened. The police said they didn't 
know what they were going to do. The 
judge dismissed the case without preju- 
dice. Twenty-four hours after the rul- 
ing, the vice squad moved in. One of 
the policemen, when he took the stand, 
had notes indicating that the police 
had planned the raid as early as March. 
There was a plan A, a plan B. There 
were instructions that the sheriff 
should not be named or involved.” 

Who pulled the puppet strings? 
Sirkin mentions Monty Lobb, presi- 
dent of Citizens for Community Values 
(C.C.V.), a local decency group that has 
ties to the Reverend Donald Wildmon's 
National Federation of Decency and a 
quarter-million-dollar yearly budget. 
He talks about Carl Lindner, an heir to 
Charles Keating's antiporn legacy. 
None of these people show up in 
court—they've won their victory. They 
have the power to launch prosecutions. 
The jury never saw the puppetmasters, 
but they saw one of the puppets. 

"In the jury selection,” Sirkin 
says, “we got a woman who works for 
the Reverend Jerry Kirk, the leader of 
the National Coalition Against Pornog- 
raphy. We asked her, ‘Did you go to the 
national convention?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Did you 
visit the exhibit of sexually explicit 
photos? ‘Yes.’ ‘Did you learn any- 
thing?” ‘Yes.’ ‘Have you seen any of the 
pictures involved in this case?’ She says 
she has seen a Xerox copy of the man 
urinating into another man’s mouth. 
One of her co-workers with the council 
showed it to her. She is on the mailing 
list of the C.C.V. but insists she can be 
fair. She believes that the pictures are 
morally indecent but insists that she 
can be fair. And every time she says she 
can be fair, her skin blotches.” I imag- 
ine what the other prospective jurors 
must have thought when they saw this 
attack matron for the New Right. She 
represented the pressure groups that 
had righteously made the decision 
about what Cincinnati could and could 
not see while viewing it themselves. 
She maintained an air of propriety 
while blood vessels danced like neon 
on her skin. 


THE COURTROOM. 


A courtroom is an abstract stage. The 
players try to create a reality before the 
Jury, to submit evidence, to determine 
the facts. Long before they assemble, 
decisions are made as to what will be 


admitted on the stage. 

The man making those decisions is 
Judge F. David J. Albanese. 

Judge Albanese plays for the home 
bleachers, or what he perceives them to 
be. A lawyer not involved with the case 
speculated on the link between Sheriff 
Leis, prosecutor Arthur Ney and Al- 
banese, telling The New York Times, “It's 
impossible to tell whether it's like 
minds thinking the same or whether 
anyone is pulling anyone’s strings.” 

Albanese has the power to stop the 
trial but never exercises it. Sirkin and 
Mezibov argue that Ohio law allows 
museums to display art that some 
might consider obscene—Albanese 
rules that the C.A.C. is an art gallery, 
not a museum. 

Sirkin and Mezibov argue that all 
175 pictures in the exhibition should 
be admitted as evidence, to create a 
context. The Supreme Court standard 
for judging obscenity requires that the 
work be taken as a whole. 

Albanese listens to pretrial testimony 
of judith Reisman, Ph. self-de- 
scribed visual-communications expert, 
and rules that cach photo is a whole. 

Iris clear that the judge is deeply of- 
fended by the photographs, turning 
them face down on his desk. He de- 
mands that the five sexual pho- 
tographs be kept separate from the rest 
of the XYZ portfolio—a group of pho- 
tos arranged to force the viewer to 
compare the sex organs of flowers with 
those of gay men. When the defense 
argues that the decision won't be fair to 
the XYZ photos, the judge says that 
puuing them back "wouldn't be fair to 
the flowers." 

Albanese has one characteristic ges- 
ture. Whenever the defense makes a 
motion or files an objection, he covers 
his brow with one hand, appears to 
think deeply, then does whatever the 
prosecution wants. I begin to wonder if 
written on his palm is the one thing he 
learned in law school, or maybe the 
one thing he learned as he climbed the 
power ladder on Leis's coattails: "Do 
whatever Simon says." 

Most of his favoritism toward the 
prosecution is hidden from the jurors. 
For them, he puts on an avuncular 
robe. He seems protective, telling them 
at the end of each session to "be con- 
siderate, be cautious, but, above all, 
be conscious.” When anticensorship 
groups demonstrate outside, he ex- 
plains that there might be "interfer- 
ence" and offers them bodyguards. 
When the defense moves for acquittal 
after the prosecution presents only 
three witnesses, he denies the motion: 
“The court will not substitute its judg- 
ment for that of the jury" When the 
matter is finally delivered to the jury, 

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“Т don't know about the rest of the environment, but the 
greenhouse effect has been good to you, Celia.” 


A QUIZ YOU 
CAN'T REFUSE 


test your knowledge of gunmen and godfathers with playboy's gangster s.a.t.s 
ED e» 


compiled by WILLIAM J. HELMER 


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Bad guys ore hot again, ond you're going to feel pretty silly when your friends discover that you don't know “Machine Gun” Kelly from “Machine 
Gun” Jock McGurn or Ma Barker from Bonnie Parker. Well, sharpen up your number twos. Score high ond we guarantee you'll make o, um, hit. 


ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKE BENNY 


1. This New York street gang was the Har- 
vard of tough and graduated such Mobsters 
as Al Capone and “Lucky” Luciano: 


A. The Bowery Boys 
IB. Тһе Five Pointers 
©. The Plug Uglies 
ID. The Dead Rabbits 
E. The Pansies 


= Yes, there actually were street gongs called the 
Bowery Boys and the Pansies, but the correct answer is 
the Five Points Gang (8), so named for an intersection 
of streets in Lower Manhation, 


2. Match the monikers with the names 
their mommas gave them: 


“Dutch” Schultz 

“Baby Face” Nelson 
“Legs” Diamond 
“Machine Gun” Kelly 
“Two Gun” Louis Alterie 
John T. Nolan 

George Barnes 

Lester Gillis 

Arthur Flegenheimer 
Leland Verain 


= Ald), Bl), Cfa), 00) Ele) 


3. Getting machine-gunned in a telephone 
booth became a gangster-movie staple after 
1932, when gangland rivals emptied a 
Thompson into: 

А. “Mad Dog” Coll 

B. “Legs” Diamond 

©. "Lucky" Luciano 

D. "Dutch" Schultz 


E (4) Coll, on orders from Schultz. 


4. New York Mobster Albert Anastasia's 
novel demise started people worrying about: 


A. Shower stalls 
B. Barber chairs 
©. Theater seats 
ID. Public rest rooms 


©” (8) Albert bought it in 1957 while sitting, eyes 
dosed, in a barber choir at New York's Park Sheraton 
Hotel. 


85. Who else got it where else? 


А. joey Gallo 

в. John Dillinger 

©. “Mad Dog” Coll 

D. “Dutch” Schultz 

The “Bugs” Moran gang 
Palace Chop House 
Umberto's Clam House 
Biograph Theater 
S.M.C. Cartage Co. 
London Chemist's 


©” Alb), in New York, 1972; Blc), in Chicago; 
(e), a drugstore at 300 West 23rd Street, New 
York, 1932: D(a), in Nework, 1935; E(d), a garage 
ot 2122 North Clark Street, Chicogo—the St. Valen- 
tine’s Doy Massacre, 1929. 


€. The only woman outlaw named Public 
Enemy Number One was: 


A. 
B. 
c. 
D. 


Bonnie Parker 
Ma Barker 
Helen Nelson 
Anna Sage 


= (C) Mrs "Baby Face" Nelson replaced her husband 
at the top of the list after he Killed two Federal agents in 
а machine-gun battle near Barrington, Minois, in 1934 
and escaped with her in the agents’ cor before expiring o 
few hours loter from 17 bullet wounds. She surrendered 
and spent a year in prison for “harboring” her spouse. 


—À — 


7. The “Woman in Red,” who betrayed John 
Dillinger, was: 


A. 
B. 
c. 
D. 


Polly Hamilton 
Mary Longnaker 
Anna Sage 

Billie Frechette 


ar. (C) Anno Sage, а табат whose lover wos a cop 
who was also part of the FBI ambush outside the Bio- 
(continued overleaf) 


graph Theater. 


8. Which place keeps insisting it does not 
have Dillinger's prodigious pecker pickled in 


formaldehyde? 


A. The National Museum of Health and 
Medicine in Washington, D.C. 

BB. The Smithsonian Institution 

€. The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia 

D. The Cook County, Illinois, coroner's 
office 


ә” All of them, but legend most often ploces it ot the 
Smithsonian. You should write to the Smithsonian ot 
Washington, D.C. 20560, just to get its form letter 
denying there's any truth to the rumor. 


a 


9. The Thompson submachine gun was first 
marketed in: 


1917 
1918 
1921 
1925 


A. 
B. 
©. 
D. 


ur (C) It wos conceived in 1917 os a trench weapon. 
for World War One, completed too late in 1918 for mil- 
itary use ond marketed commercially in 1921. 


10. During Prohibition, the Thompson be- 
came known as a: 


А. Chopper 

B. Tommy gun 

©. Chicago typewriter 
ID. Antibandit gun 


а" All of the obove. 


ل 


11. Which of the seven St. Valentine's Day 
Massacre victims was an optometrist who'd 
just stopped by the garage for coffee? 


A. Adam Heyer 

B. Albert Weinshank 
©. John May 

D. Reinhart Schwimmer 
E. James Clark 

F. Frank Gusenberg 
©. Peter Gusenberg 


© (D) Reinhort Schwimmer, whose aged mother had 
warned him that selling eyeglasses to bootleggers could 
only get him in trouble. 


— 


12. Which Capone gunman was saved by 
his girlfriend, “The Blonde Alibi,” from prose- 
cution for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 
only to be convicted of transporting her 
across state lines for “immoral purposes"? 


AA. John Scalise 

B. Albert Anselmi 

©. "Machine Gun” Jack McGum 
D. frankie Yale 


«87 (C) McGum ond girlfriend Louise Rolfe were found. 
guilty of violating the Mana Act, but their convictions 
were overtumed by the U.S. Supreme Court. 


13. Al Capone died in 1947 of: 


А. Lead poisoning 

B. Electrocution 

©. Old age 

ID. Failure to practice safe sex 


+ (0) Complicotions due to untreated syphilis. 


14. Which massacre led to G men's being 
allowed to carry guns? 


A. The Baby Massacre 

IB. The Kansas City Massacre 

©. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre 
ID. The Fox Lake Massacre 


x (8) The Kansas (йу Massacre of 1933, in which 
machine gunners, led by “Pretty Boy” Floyd, killed four 
Towmen os well as the mon they were supposed to 
rescue. 


“ 


15. Match these famous last, nearly last or 
at least memorable words with the guys who 
uttered them: 


“| hate to bust a cap on a lady, especial- 
ly when she's sitting down.” 

"Never trust a woman or an automatic 
pistol." 

"The bastards never forget." 

“Mother is the best bet, and don't let 
Satan draw you too fast." 

"Nobody shot me." 

F. “Tell the boys I'm coming home." 

"We only kill each other." 

"The only thing we have to sell is fear." 
1. “Only Capone kills like that." 

"They don't call him Bugs for nothing." 
John Dillinger 

Roger Touhy 

“Dutch” Schultz 

Wilbur Underhill 

Frank Gusenberg 

f. Frank Hamer 

Billy Dauber 

"Bugsy" Siegel 

i. "Bugs" Moran 

3. А Capone 


aw A(f) ex—Texos Ranger Homer, after shooting Bon- 
nie Parker, B(c) to a fellow gong member; C(b) Chicago 
bootlegger Touhy, gunned down in 1959 after serving 
25 yeors in prison on a bogus kidnoping charge: 0() 
Schultz, in a deathbed delirium; Ele) Gusenberg, who 
lived for a few hours offer the St. Valentine's Doy Mas- 


socre; F(d) Underhill, the “Tri-State Terror,” mortally 
wounded in о shoot-out with Federal agents; БЇ}; H(a) 
Douber, c Chicago hit man, shortly before he wos mur- 
dered: 10); Ji). 


16. Who's the only famous American 
gangster ever convicted of murder and exe- 
cuted? 


А. Joey Gallo 

В. “Lucky” Luciano 
©. Vito Genovese 
D. Louis Buchalter 
E. “Bugsy” Siegel 
F. Dion O'Banion 


© (D) Buchalter, in 1944, for one of mony killings 
he committed os a principal hit man for Mew 
York's Murder, Inc. 


122. IS THE FLOWERS ARE ALL MADE SWEETER BY THE 
SUNSHINE AND THE DEW, SO THIS OLD WORLD 15 MADE 
BRIGHTER BY THE LIVES OF FOLKS LIKE YOU is the 
touching epitaph on the gravestone of: 


A. Ma Barker 
B. Anna Sage 
©. Bonnie Parker 
D. Helen Nelson 


ow (C) Bonnie Parker. 
س‎ 


318. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN is the somewhat 
less sentimental epitaph on the gravestone of: 
A. “Baby Face” Nelson 

B. John Dillinger 

©. Clyde Barrow 

ID. “Pretty Boy” Floyd 


«t. (С) Clyde Borrow. 


19. (apone gunmen, firing from two 
apartment windows, managed to put a record 
59 slugs into: 


A. Hymie Weiss 
B. Dion O'Banion 
©. Joey Aiello 
D. “Bugs” Moran 


= (C) Aiello, in 1930, who sought shelter from one 
machine-gun nest by hiding under the window that held 
another one. 


20. (hicago's beer wars were set off by 
the “handshake murder” of the first North 
Side gang leader, who was: 


A. “Bugs” Moran 
в. Dion O'Banion 
©. Vincent Drucci 
D. Frank Nitti 


"6" (B) Three (opone gunmen entered 0’Banion’s 
Flower shop on November 1D, 1924, ostensibly to pick 
up а funeral wreath, shook hands with the gangster 
Florist and held on so tight he couldn't reach for any of 
the three pistols he corried. 


(continued on page 14D) 


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PLAYBOY PROFILE 


WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SLUT FEMINISM, WHERE 


MADONNA'S SOFT-CORE AND A SHREWD SELL ADD UP TO HARD CASH 


PLAYGIRL of THE WESTERN WORLD 


By MICHAEL KELLY 


rLtAst, take Madonna. Seriously. 

Madonna Louise Ciccone has made more than $100,000,000 over the past 
four years selling the extraordinary product of herself. She will undoubtediy 
make even more over the nextfour. Her business is singing, dancing and act- 
ing; the singing is not great and is sometimes lip-synched, the dancing is ener- 
getic but not inspired, the acting is appealing but amateurish. She is a creature 
of blatant artifice who repackages herself to calculated effect every two years, 
as if she were a Congressman running scared for re-election. She is nakedly 
ambitious, manipulative, exploitive. Her facial expressions run the gamut 
from "Fuck you" to "Fuck me." She has a reputation for having claved her 
way up over the bodies of softer and weaker humans, most of them men. (In 
New York, when she was still rising to fame in the early Eighties, some spoke 
of her as “McDonna—over one billion served.") She is shallow, obvious and as 
vulgar as a belch. 

It is, therefore, entirely appropriate that on this July afternoon, as she 
stands on a giant stage flanked by four-story-tall figures of naked bald 
men, grabbing her crotch and singing about the pleasures of being 
spanked, she should be greeted by the heartfelt cheers of 75,000 people who. 
seem to feel hers is the wisdom of the ages, or at least of the moment. Entirely 


ILLUSTRATION BY OLIVIA DE BERARDINIS 


PLAYBOY 


84 


appropriate. Quite right. As perfectly 
fitting as her own exposed brassiere. 
The last fin de siécle was scored by De- 
bussy. The cusp of the third millenni- 
um belongs, God help us, to Madonna. 
She is the defining figure of our pop 
culture, a perfect reflection, only 
slightly magnified, of all that is around 
her. 

Wembley Stadium, a big concrete 
squat of a building plopped down in 
the middle of a London suburb, is as 
ugly as the 20th Century gets, which 
is damned ugly, indeed. Inside, the 
young women and girls who make up 
two thirds of the crowd are very excit- 
ed. The arena's infield, covered with a 
dirty black-plastic tarp, is a grand cos- 
tumed mass of Madonnacolytes, all 
paying homage to one or another of 
the versions of their icon through their 
choice of clothes. Some are Boy Toys— 
that was the Madonna of the early 
Eighties—in cutoff jeans and skimpy 
halters and make-up that is an exag- 
gerated mask of sluttish intent; others 
are playing the more sophisticated par- 
ody, the push-pull Madonna, at once 
sexually enticing and repellent in black 
bustiers and exposed bras matched with 
unflattering Lycra pants, cheap rayon 
blouses and dunky, ugly shoes. Some 
are festooned in chains and crucifixes 
in imitation of Madonna's imitation of 
blasphemy. 

Up on the giant stage, Madonna is 
nearing the close of the elaborate, mir- 
ror-polished 105-minute act that is the 
heart of Blond Ambition, her 1990 
world tour. The act has displayed her 
every face—tramp, vamp, bad girl, lost 
girl, torch carrier. But the great theme 
running through it is down-and-dirty 
sex. In the acts highlights, Madonna 
has pretended to slap, kick and caress 
her female backup singers; grabbed 
her pantied crotch half a dozen times; 
straddled and mock-screwed a black 
man dressed as a slave, heaving down 
on him with split-wide legs and moan- 
ing loudly with each thrust; mock- 
sodomized another half-naked man; 
humped a bordello-red velvet bed, legs 
splayed and pumping triple time un- 
der strobe lights in a parody of 
nymphomaniacal masturbation; strad- 
dled a fake altar rail while dressed as a 
priest and clutching a crucifix; and 
stuck her spangle-covered bottom high 
in the air for a pretend spanking. 

The tightly choreographed show al- 
lows for a few brief speeches. The im- 
portant one isa celebration of the word 
fuck, brayed in the accent ofa New Jer- 
sey bad girl telling Daddy where to get 
off. The word comes out from her love- 
ly pouting lips rhyming with hawk: 
Fawk! Fawk! Fawk! *Fawk is not a bad 
word! Fawk is a good word! Fawk is the 
reason I am here! Fawk is the reason 


you are here! If your mother and fa- 
ther did not fawk, you would nor be 
here tonight. . . . So fawk you!" 

Am I the only one in the stadium 
who watches all of this with astonish- 
ment? With a feeling that we have tak- 
en yet another baby step in the strange 
evolution of the century? Apparently, 
yes. Everyone else is happily boogieing 
to the beat. In the row behind me, a lit- 
tle boy who looks like Christopher 
Robin in Levi's and a Lacoste shirt is 
dancing exuberantly with his mother, 
she hugging him close from behind, 
the two of them swaying and hopping 
in happy unison. Next to them, the 
boy's teeny-bopper sister dances with 
their aunt. It is a pretty scene cf to- 
getherness. 

Some say Madonna does it all for 
shock value, but that can't be right; 
there is no value to shock when no one 
is shocked anymore. And dearly, no 
one at Wembley is. People here are ex- 
periencing pleasure, not outrage. They 
are caught up in a frisson of desire, a bit 
of a naughty thrill, a quickening of 
pulse and slight warmth in the loins. 
That is all. Twenty-five yearsago, when 
Madonna was a little girl in Michi- 
gan, English and American teenagers 

urned and stomped Beatles records 
after John Lennon innocently pointed 
out that for many young fans, the Bea- 
des were more popular than Jesus 
Christ. Now Madonna takes the stage 
in church vestments to sing the joys 
of fawking, masturbating, spanking, 
beating and buggering, and no one 
is tuttutting except the increasingly 
unheard Vatican and a few of the 
British tabloids whose business it is to 
be appalled by all vulgarity except 
their own. Everyone else is dancing. In 
the last years of the second millenni- 
um, this is merely entertainment. 

More important than what Madonna 
is doing on stage—it's pretty tame stuff, 
after all, in a culture that offers mastur- 
batory telephone lines—is that she is 
doing it with the full participation and 
enjoyment of the shuffling multitude 
arrayed before her. In this regard, 
Madonna is doing something no one 
has done before. Within the context of 
music, she is presenting herself as a 
soft-porn fantasy figure, and she is not 
doing it in a private, adults-only set- 
ting, which is the traditional venue for 
such stuff. She is doing it in a very pub- 
lic arena for ıhe masses. And—most 
important—she is not doing it for the 
benefit of men. She is doing it as a con- 
scious act of defiance of males and for 
the interest and benefit of females. 

In Madonna's early days, feminists 
decried her obvious sex games as a re- 
turn to premovement sexual exploita- 
tion of women. But that was wrong. 
Madonna did, indeed, reject the blue- 


stocking prudery of the paleofeminists, 
but she did not do so in order to offer 
herself as a symbol of sexual submis- 
sion to men. As she has pointed out, 
she is not really anybody's Boy Toy. 
What she exemplifies and advocates— 
for hers is a very political art—is not 
men's sexual control over women but 
women's over men. Her act, her songs 
and her videos all carry a clear and 
compelling message: Men want only 
one thing and women should ruthless- 
ly exploit that wanting. Make 'em beg 
and make 'em suffer. 

It is not subtle. The men in the 
Blond Ambition ac are Girl Toys. 
Dressed in costumes that symbolize fe- 
male sexual fantasies (slaves, prisoners, 
muscle men, priests, Warren Beatty), 
they submit to her explicitly sexual and 
violent will in song and dance, to be 
slapped or shoved aside at the conclu- 
sion. Madonna's outfits are an elabo- 
rate sneer at male notions of how 
women should dress to attract men. 
Her blandishment of underwear is not 
a celebration of the Frederick's of Hol- 
lywood mentality but a parody of it, an 
amplification and distortion of the 
trappings of feminine sensuality to the 
point of Felliniesque grotesquerie: 
garter straps flapping in the air over 
pants, brassieres with tips that end in 
rocket points, a bicycle jacket worn 
atop a corset. Similarly, Madonra's ges- 
tures are designed to simultaneously 
attract and repulse male desire, to ex- 
ploit her own sexual appeal while 
moxking it. She follows a sweeping, As- 
tairelike turn with a spread-leg squat, a 
bit of sinuous stretching with a crude 
pelvic thrust. 

In an act where care is paid to the 
most minute details, all of this is calcu- 
lated. The signature moment of the 
Blond Ambition tour, for example, is 
Madonna's crotch grabbing, an elo- 
quent visual put-down of male phallic 
pride. You might think thar this is one 
of those gestures that a seasoned per- 
former could just practice a few times 
in front of a mirror and pretty much 
get down pat. Madonna hired a con- 
sultant to achieve it. She was coached 
by Vince Paterson, the 40-year-old 
choreographer who worked with pace- 
setting groin grabber Michael Jackson. 
Paterson recalls a conversation with 
Madonna that belongs peculiarly to 
our times. 

"Are you the one who had Michael 
Jackson grab his balls [in the Bad 
video]?" she asked. 

“No,” said Paterson, “he was grab- 
bing his balls before I got on the Bad 
video.” 

“Well, maybe I should do it," said 
Madonna. 

“well, you should,” said Paterson, 

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T-shirt never spent the night with you!” 


“Whoever gave you that 


86 


YHEADS still spinning,” says Julie Clarke, best known for turning men's 
heads on the beaches of her beloved Naples, Florida. Seven months 
ago, she was working the phones at a local health club. Now that job's 
on hold. Julie—*Jules” to her friends—is living a life “that's like a fanta- 
sy vacation." Her dizzying ascent from Florida fitness buff to Playmate 
began when the tanned, tawny daughter ofa globe-trotting G man (her 
dad, an FBI language specialist, sends her bikinis from Brazil) appeared at a 
swimwear pageant in Clearwater, looking untouchably fine. A local female- 
beauty inspector offered to send her picture to Playboy. “I said, ‘Yes!’ I'd always 
thought that if I ever had a chance to be a Playmate, you wouldn't have to ask 
me twice,” We would have asked twice, of course, but it's lucky that we didn't 


have to—otherwise, you might not have met Julie yet. Relaxing beside 


miss march dazzles her way 
from coast to coast 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY 
ARNY FREYTAG 


the grotto at Playboy Mansion 
West, Julie works on her already- 
perfect tan. "I'm having the time 
of my life,” she says, plotting an 
assault on Los Angeles night 
spots with her new pal, Playmate 
of the Year 1990 Reneé Tenison. 
Famously fit—she has been 
known to exhaust her dance 
partners at Skipper's in Tampa, 
where the dance floor is sand— 
Miss March hones her figure by 
sweating every last fat cell into 
submission. Her daily “Jules and 
Gym" workout: half an hour 
climbing stairs, half an hour with 
free weights and "hundreds and 
hundreds of sit-ups." Not one to 


sit still, Julie is just now getting 
warmed up for her new full-time 
job, "having fun. Maybe I'll settle 
down when I'm thirty, but not 
now. Plans? Well, I think I might 


go skinny-dipping in the ocean— 
Гуе always wanted to do that.” 


Posing nude for the first time “wos 
fun. It wos even funny. | loved being 
in the old-time-diner scene," says 
Julie, loughing, "but the hot lights 
melted my ice-cream sundoe! Do 
you think thot picture will turn out to 
be too suggestive?” Noah. No woy. 


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After a session in the gym or a midnight workout on the dance floor, Miss March looks for- 
ward to a long, luxurious massage, “When | meet a guy, I look at his hands. Big, strong 
hands are best,” she says. “A great massage can hurt a little at first, but when all the kinks 
аге out—that's when 1 feel like snuggling.” Masseurs, take note: Julie's most snugglable 
when it's cold. “Of course, I'm a Floridian, sa it doesn't have to be tao cold. Maybe sixty." 


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PLAYBOY’S PARTY JOKES 


The nervous young attorney shufled papers 
and tried to look busy on his first morning 
at the prestigious law firm. As his secretary was 
leading his first client into the office, the 
lawyer snatched up the telephone receiver and 
sis, fa sorry, but I have a tremendous 
caseload and won't be able to look into this for 
at least two months. Call me back then and ГЇЇ 
see what I can do." 

Returning the receiver to its cradle, he 
turned his attention to the newcomer. "And 
just what can I do for you?” he asked curtly. 

“Nothing,” the man replied. “I'm just here 
to hook up your phone.” 


Why were men given larger brains than 
dogs’? So they wouldn't hump women’s legs at 
cocktail parties. 


AER 


Three friends from New York decided to drive 
up to Canada to do some fishing. Havin 
found a lake to their liking, the men launche: 
their boat and headed out. After several hours, 
one of the men stood to reach for a beer, lost 
his balance and slid into the water. Twenty 
minutes later, his two friends noticed he was 
missing. 

"Shit, Charley must have fallen in!" one ex- 
claimed as he set his rod down and jumped in 
to search for his lost friend. 

After a few dives, he dragged a soggy body 
up into the boat and began performing 
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. 

“Jeez, I never knew Charley had such bad 
breath!” the rescuer said, coming up for air. 

“Yeah,” said the other, “and I don’t remem- 
ber Charley wearing a snowmobile suit, ei- 
ther!” 


What's the difference between cheating on 
your wife and cheating on your taxes? If you 
tell the truth about your taxes, the IRS will still 
want to screw you. 


Daring the long walk home from the subway, 
Bruno boasted to his wife, “You know, Bertha, 
dogs can sense things about people. Ever no- 
tice how every time we go someplace, dogs— 
big oe small dogs, even the meanest 
dogs—all come up and lick my hand?" 

“Maybe they wouldn't be so friendly,” 
Bertha retorted sharply, “if you ate with a 
knife and fork.” 


A man's speech therapist suggested he take 
up parachuting as a way to build his self-confi- 
dence, hoping that would help cure the man’s 
stutter. 

“The moment you leave the plane,” the in- 
structor reminded his class, “start counting. 
When you get to three, pull the cord.” 

At the instructor's signal, the students began 
jumping from the plane. One by one, 
the parachutes opened. Suddenly, the stutter- 
er went racing by everyone else at enormous 
speed. He was last heard saying, "T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t- 
two. 


А victim of a shipwreck was washed ashore оп 
a remote Pacific island and was immediately 
captured by a band of cannibals. After bein; 
tied to a stake, the hapless captive was Seanad 
in the arms and forced to watch as the savages 
drank his blood. 

After several days of this, the poor fellow 
called for the cannibal king. “You can kill me if 
fies want to, but this torture has got to stop,” 

е protested. “I'm tired of being stuck for the 
drinks!” 


arents at Beverly Hills High School were de- 
lighted to hear dien the administration had 
Eis a shop dass to the curriculum—until 
they found out that it was a field trip to Rodeo 
Drive. 


As she lay in bed with her lover, the woman 
heard her husband come into the house. The 
lover jumped up, grabbed his pistol and hid 
under the bed. 

"I know there's a man here!" the husband 
yelled. He looked on the terrace. "Not here." 
He looked in the bathroom. “Not here." He 
looked in a closet. "He's not in here." Finally, 
he went into the bedroom, looked under the 
bed, saw the man with the gun and said, "He's 
not under here, either.” 


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FO R E P L A Y 


great golf garb and gear that come in way under par fashion By HOLLIS WAYNE 


RESSING for a round of golf has 5 
D come full circle. In the Twen- 

ties, when the game first hit 
its stride in the U.S., players wore 
street clothes. Today, golf is the 
fastest-growing participant sport, and 
whether you're playing a public 
coúrse or a more posh one such as the 
PG.A. National Resort in Palm Beach 
Gardens, Florida, where we pho- 
tographed this feature, what you 
wear on the links can be worn for al- 
most any casual occasion. Instead of 
the loud, look-at-me pleatless pants 
and Orlon sweaters of the past 
decade, men are now opting for more 
classic selections and choosing com- 
fortable, elegant fabrics made of lux- 
urious natural fibers such as cotton, 
linen, silk and cashmere. Old-school 


PG.A. Natianal Resort's four tournament 
courses caver a lot af ground—2340 
acres. So does galf, in its fashion. At left, 
cotton checked jacket, $200, and cotton 
V-neck pullover, $100, both from British 
Open by Joseph & Feiss; worn with cation 
Supima lisle piqué pola shirt, by Crass 
Creek, $50; cotton ponis, by Bob- 
by Janes, $190; wing-tip golf shoes, by 
Fratelli Rossetti, $360; and socks, by 
Stanley Blocker, about $10; plus sun- 
glesses, by Oliver Peoples, $125; and 
leather golf glave, by Daiwo, $18. Right: 
Оп in twa wearing o nylon jacket, $295, 
cotton oxfard shirt, about $55, silk/linen 
vest, $165, cotton poplin pants, $125, 
silk spartsman tie, about $60, and cap, 
$35, all from Polo by Ralph Lauren; leath- 
er saddle golf shoes, by Ralph Lauren 
Foatweor, about $445; washable suede 
golf glave, by Valley Forge, abaut $9. 


PHOTOGRAPHY BY ULIROSE 


ties and straight-collared knitted 
pullovers, formerly required 19th- 
hole attire, have been replaced by 
more relaxed offerings such as 
V-neck or cardigan sweaters, round- 
collared polo shirts and pleated 
trousers. Walk shorts also are becom- 
ing popular particularly among 
young players. Hartmarx, manufac- 
turer of the Bobby Jones Collection of 
golf clothes, states that the correct in- 
seam length for walk shorts worn in 
most private clubs is 19 inches. Any- 
thing shorter and your foursome may 
become a threesome as you attempt 
to get through the door. And baseball 
caps and visors are spiffy alterna- 
tives to the snap-top newsboy look— 
especially when you want to keep 
the sun from botching that eagle putt. 


Save the jogging shorts for the track. The 
big swing is to wolk shorts when things 
heat up on the course. The cotton pleated 
ones ot left, by Izod Locoste, $45, hove 
been teamed with a waterproof golf jack- 
et, $200, and cap, about $15, both by 
MacGregor; Peruvian cotton polo shirt, 
by Sansabelt Golf, $35; and washable 
lecther golf shoes, by Signature, about 
$80; plus sunglasses, by Carerra, $90; 
sports watch, by Bulova, $185; and 
leather golf glove, by Doiwa, $18. If 
you're not into shorts, don't sweot it. 
Breathable fobrics, such as cotton and 
linen, will keep you cool when the weath- 
er's not. The golfer at right wears a cot- 
ton cable-stitched sweater, by Burberrys, 
$145; stone-washed cotton polo shirt, by 
Duckhead, $32; brushed-cotton twill 
pleoted trousers, by Ashworth, about 
$60; sports watch, by Bulova, $195; 
leather golf shoes, by Dexter, about 
$110; plus wire-frame glasses, by Oliver 
Peoples, about $210; ond The Classic 
golf glove, by Volley Forge, about $14. 


ШТ 


JAMES IMBROGNO. 


Where & How to Buy on page 163. 


Our wish list of 18-hole goodies includes, 
clockwise from top right: Cotton cop, 
from Polo by Rolph Louren, $35. Cotton 
cordigon vest, by Joseph Abboud, $250. 
Cotton twill wotch-ploid umbrello with 
wooden handle, by Rolph Louren, $85. 
Leother golf brogues, by Stylo, obout 
$200. Block Wotch golf-boll coddie, by 
Rolph Louren, $30. Self-winding, water- 
resistont, stainless-steel golf wotch thot 
can keep score for two people, by Oris, 
$1100. Digitol Forties golf wotch of 10- 
kt.-rolled-gold plote with steel back and 
leather strop, by Elgin Monufocturers, 
$1100. Pole-yellow cotton piqué polo 
shirt, by Bogner, $48. Willow-green cot- 
ton polo shirt, by Izod Lacoste, obout 
$40. Intorsio/cotton Argyle button-front 
cardigan, by Whitfield & Bridges, $94. 
Cowhide golf bog with motching club. 
covers from the Corocciola Collection, by 
Gold Pfeil, $4000. In the pocket of the 
bag are hand-crofted SofFlex cobreta 
leother golf gloves, by Grandoe, $18. 
Atop it is a Stewart torton golf towel, by 
Ralph Lauren Home Collection, $12. 
Right: For ironclad good looks and o fit 
thot leoves plenty of room for your swing, 
choose loose cosuals such os this cosh- 
mere V-neck double-cable-knit sweoter, 
by Gentry Portofino, $595; ond cotton 
shirt, by Izod Locoste, about $40; worn 
with silk/cotton checked trousers, by 
Cordovon & Grey, $125; nubuck-suede 
belt, by Cole Haon, obout $60; ond 
leother golf shoes with oxford contrast 
stitching, by Johnston & Murphy, $165. 


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we have made vast strides 

in the biological sciences— 
we will want you to 
visit our laboratories 


fiction By ROBERT SILVERBERG 


moment, Mondschein thought the plane 

had landed in Rio or Buenos Aires by 
mistake. But then he noticed the subtle signs of de- 
ception, the tackiness around the edges, the spongy 
junk behind the gleaming facades, and knew that he 
must, indeed, be in Tierra Alvarado. 

“Senor Mondschein?” a deep male voice said while 
he was still marching down the corridors that led to 
the immigration lounge. He turned and saw a short, 
wide-shouldered man in a beribboned green-and-red 
comic-opera uniform that, he remembered after a 
moment, was that of the Guardia de la Patria, the 
Maximum Leader's elite security corps. “I am Colonel 
Aristegui," he said. “You may come with me, please. It 
was a good journey? You are not overly fatigued?” 

Aristegui didn't bother with passport formalities. 
He led Mondschein through a steel doorway marked 
SEGURIDAD, INGRESO PROHIBIDO that admitted them to a 
series of bewildering passageways and catwalks and 
spiral staircases. There was no veneer back here: 
Everything was severely functional —gun-metal-gray 
walls, exposed rivets and struts, harsh unshielded 
light fixtures that looked a century old. Here it comes, 
Mondschein thought: This man will take me to some 
deserted corner of the airstrip and touch his laser pis- 
tol to my temple and they will bury me in an un- 
marked grave, and that will be that, five minutes back 
in the country and I am out of the way forever. 

The final visa approval had come through only the 
day before, the fifth of June, and just hours later, 
Mondschein had boarded the Aero Alvarado flight 


HEAIRPORT was very new. It had a bright, 
= | shiny, major-world-capital feel, and for a 


PAINTING BY CARLOS NINE 


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110 


that would take him in a single soaring 
supersonic arc nonstop from Zurich to 
his long-lost homeland on the west 
coast of South America. Mondschein 
hadn't set foot there in 25 years, not 
since the Maximum Leader had ex- 
pelled him for life as a sort of upside- 
down reward for his extraordinary 
technological achievements: For it was 
Mondschein, at the turn ofthe century, 
who had turned his impoverished little 
country into the world leader in hu- 
man cloning. 

In those days, it was called the Re- 
public ofthe Central Andes. The Max- 
imum Leader had put it together out 
of parts of the shattered nations that in 
an earlier time had been known as Pe- 
ru, Chile and Bolivia. But now the 
name of the country was Tierra Alvara- 
do and its airline was Aero Alvarado 
and its capital was Ciudad Alvarado. 
That was a fine old South American 
tradition. You expected a Maximum 
Leader to clap his name on everything, 
to hang his portrait everywhere, to glo- 
rify himselfin every imaginable way. 

Alvarado had carried things a little 
further than most, though, by having 
two dozen living replicas of himself cre- 
ated, the better to serve his people. 
That had been Mondschein's final task 
as a citizen of the republic, the su- 
preme accomplishment of his art: to 
produce two dozen AAA Class clones 
of the Maximum Leader, which could 
function as doubles for Alvarado at the 
dreary meetings of the Popular Assem- 
bly, stand in for him at the inter- 
minable National Day of Liberation 
parades and keep would-be assassins in 
a constant state of befuddlement. They 
were masterpieces, those two dozen 
Alvarados—all but indistinguishable 
from the original, the only AAA Class 
clones ever made. With their aid the 
Maximum Leader was able to maintain 
unblinking vigilance over the citizens 
of Tierra Alvarado 24 hours a day. 

But Mondschein didn't care how 
many Alvarados he might be coming 
home to. Twenty, 50, 100, what did that 
matter? Alvarado still held the entire 
country in his pocket, as he had for the 
past generation. That was the essential 
situation. To Mondschein, the clones 
made no real difference at all. 

In fact, there was very little that did 
make a difference to Mondschein. He 
was getting old and slept badly most of 
the time. He wanted to speak his native 
language again—Spanish as it had 
been spoken in Peru and not the furry 
Spanish of Spain—and he wanted to 
breathe the sharp air of the high 
mountains and eat papas a la huancaina 
and anticuchos and a proper ceviche and 
maybe see the ancient walls of Cuzco 
once more and the clear dark water of 
Lake Titicaca. It didn't seem likely to 


him that Alvarado had granted him a 
pardon after all this time simply for the 
sake of luring him back to face a firing 
squad. The safe conduct, which Mond- 
schein hadn't in any way solicited but 
had been overjoyed to receive, was 
probably sincere: a sign that the old 
tyrant had mellowed at last. And if not, 
well, at least he would dic on his native. 
soil, which somehow seemed better 
than dying in Bern, Toulon, Madrid, 
Stockholm, Prague, wherever—any of 
the innumerable cities in which he had 
lived during his long years of exile. 


° 
They emerged from the building in- 
to a bleak, deserted rear yard, vis 
empty baggage carts were strcwn 
around like the fossil carcasses of an- 
cient beasts, a perfect place for a quiet 
execution. The dry cool wind of early 
winter was sweeping a dark line of dust 
across the bare pavement. But to 
Mondschein's astonishment, an im- 
mense sleek black limousine material- 
ized from somewhere almost at once 
and two Guardia men hopped out, 
saluting madly. Aristegui beckoned 
him into the rear of the vast car. "Your 
villa has been prepared for you, Dr. 
Mondschein. You are the guest of the 
nation. When you are refreshed, the 
Minister of Scientific Development re- 
quests your attendance at the Palace of 
Government, perhaps this afternoon." 
He flicked a finger and a mahogany 
panel swung open, revealing a well- 
stocked bar. “You will have a cognac? It 
is the rare old. Or champagne, per- 
haps? A whiskey? Everything import- 
ed, the best quali 

"] don't drink," said Mondschein. 

"Ah," said Aristegui uncertainly, as 
though that were a fact that should 
have been on his prep sheet and unac- 
countably hadn't been. Or perhaps he 
had simply been looking forward to 
nipping into the rare old himself, 
which now would be inappropriate. 
"Well, then. You are comfortable? Not 
too warm, not too cool?" Mondschein 
nodded and peered out the window. 
They were on an imposing-looking 
highway now, with a city of pastel-hued 
high-rise buildings visible off to the 
side. He didn't recognize a thing. Al- 
varado had built this city from scratch 
in the empty highland plains midway 
between the coast and the lake, and it 
had been only a few years old when 
Mondschein had last seen it, a place of 
raw gouged hillsides and open culverts 
and half-paved avenues with stacks of 
girders and sewer pipes and cable reels 
Piled up everywhere. From a distance, 
at least, it looked quite splendid now. 
But as they left the beautifully land- 
scaped road that had carried them 
from the airport to the city and turned 
off into the urban residential district, 


he saw that the splendor was, unsur- 
prisingly, a fraud: The avenues had 
been paved, all right, but they were re- 
verting to nature, cracking and up- 
heaving as the swelling roots of the 
bombacho trees and the candelero 
palms that had been planted down the 
central dividers ripped them apart. 
The grand houses of pink and green 
and azure stucco were weather-stained 
and crumbling, and Mondschein ob- 
served ugly random outcroppings of 
tin-roofed squatter shacks sprouting 
like mushrooms in the open fields be- 
hind them, where elegant gardens 
briefly had been. He thought of his 
comfortable little apartment in Bern 
and felt a pang. 

But then the car swung off onto a dif- 
ferent road, into the hills to the east, 
which even in the city's earliest days 
had been the magnificently appointed 
enclave of the privileged and powerful. 
Here was no sign of decay. The gar- 
dens were impeccable, the villas spa- 
cious and well kept. Mondschein 
remembered this district well. He had 
lived in it himself before Alvarado had 
found it expedient to give him a one- 
way ticket abroad. Names he hadn't 
thought of in decades came to the sur- 
face of his mind: This was the Avenida 
de las Flores, this was Calle del Sol, this 
was Camino de los Toros, this was Calle 
de los Indios, and this—this—— 

He gasped. The handsome two-story 
building with the white facade and the 
red-tile roof in front of which the 
limousine had halted was, in fact, his 
villa, the actual and much-beloved villa 
he had lived in long ago, until the 
night when the swarthy little frog-faced 
officer of the Guardia had come to him 
to tell him that he was expelled from 
the country. He had had to leave every- 
thing behind then—his books, his 
collection of ancient scientific instru- 
ments, his pre-Columbian ceramics, his 
rack of Italian-made suits and fine 
vicufia coats, his pipes, his cello, his 
family albums, his greenhouse full of 
orchids, even his dogs. One small suit- 
case was all they had let him take with 
him on the morning flight to Madrid, 
and from that day on, he had never 
permitted himself to acquire posses- 
sions but had lived in a simple way, 
staying easily within the very modest 
allowance that the Maximum Leader 
in his great kindness sent him each 
month wherever he might be. And now 
they had given him back his villa. 
Mondschein wondered who had been 
evicted, on how much notice and for 
what trumped-up cause, to make this 
building available after all this time. 
For the first time, he wondered 
whether his impulsive decision to ac- 
cept Alvarado’s astonishing invitation 

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“I must say this planet is having an odd effect on our astronauts 


TART WITH a secluded beach, miles of white 

sand on Hawaii's Kona coast. Paint the sky 

turquoise to match the smooth Pacific. Add 
one of the world’s most beautiful women, equal parts 
beauty and energy, and one of the reigning photogra- 
phers of celebrity and 
glamour. It’s the inter- 
section of magic and 
technique—photogra- 
pher Herb Ritts's latest 
exhibition, starring su- 
permodel Stephanie Sey- 
mour. "A sea fantasy,” 
Ritts calls it. "It's always 
summer on that beach. I 
wanted these images to 
suggest a timeless sum- 
mer, and Stephanie was 
perfect. She combines a 
very childlike, innocent 


quality—like the Little 


Mermaid— with a mature kind of beauty In the mod- 
eling world, she's known for her great body, but it's 
what she does with that body that counts. Stephanie's 
sensuously creative, and she trusts me,” he says. “It 
can be harder to make beautiful images when your 
model doesnt have 
dothes to work with. 
That wasn't the case in 
Hawai" His mermaid 
agrees. “I do trust 
Herb,” says Stephanie, 
who at 22 is a veteran of 
countless fashion shoots 
and three famous ap- 
pearances in Sports Illus- 
trated's swimsuit issue. 
"All alone, with no need 
to cover myself—this was 
more interesting than a 
fashion shoot. 1 could 


be uninhibited and free." 


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116 


he Ritts-and-Seymour mutual-admiration society expands: “Because this was for Playboy, 

there was no commercial pressure. It wasn't about the clothes, because there were no 

clothes. 1 liked that. This was about the photographer's vision, and about me,” says 

Stephanie, who earned her fame—not to mention the lust of S.J. readers—by looking great 

inside the creations of the globe's top fashion designers. "I'm delighted," Ritts says, “by the 
fact that Playboy wanted these images—new, atypical images that would look equally good in Playboy or 
Vogue." As longtime fans of the women in that magazine, we must say that we can't quite imagine these pho- 
tos in Vogue, but we think we know what he means. Beauty is, as Ritts suggests, independent of context. 
Still, we're delighted to have given 
Stephanie Seymour, with her famous 
friend's help, a chance to shed the in- 
hibitions of commerce and show our 
readers a supermodel in the very pri- 
vate, vitally personal act of modeling 
nothing but herself, This exhibition, 
like the Cherish video Ritts directed for 
his pal Madonna, is a rare commin- 
gling of talents. We think it’s one of the 
best recent examples of the photogra- 
pher's art. It is also—let's be honest—a 
rare chance to trump Sports Illustrated's 
near-perfect swimsuit issue (Stephanie 
makes her third SJ. splash in early 
February). Asked whether she has a fa- 
vorite S.J, bikini, Stephanie says, “No. I 
don’t think about them, I just wear 
them.” To her, clothes are clothes. The 


real Stephanie Seymour, says Steph- 


anie Seymour, is the one you see here. 


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hooting this pictorial wasn't easy. Ritts, Seymour and company had to hire a fleet of jeeps 

and go off road, bouncing over scrub and ancient lava, to reach their empty beach. Soon 

another obstacle intervened. The local kelp was all wrong. It was too stringy and thick—too 

ordinary—to suit Ritts's vision of “a sea goddess." As his goddess waited, he ordered a ship- 

ment of seaweed from Marina del Rey, California. “Stephanie's a trouper,” he says. “She 
was patient.” When the California kelp arrived, it was slimy and cold. The thoroughly modern mermaid 
endured “two ridiculous hours,” says Stephanie, smiling at the memory, while stylists festooned her with 
the accouterments of Venus rising from the deep. From morning until last light, she played Venus for 
Ritts's lens. “Some jobs are hard work, 
but when you're with someone you 
like, there's nothing to be afraid of," 
she says. “That's the kind of intimacy I 
have with Herb. When we started this 
shoot, 1 knew it would be fun—and it 
was" Models are often their own 
toughest critics; Stephanie admits that 
years of seeing hyperglamourous im- 
ages of herself on hundreds of glossy 
pages can make a woman “picky.” But 
when she saw these photos, “I fell in 
love with them. They were creative 
and different. They were . . . beauti- 
ful” Looking back on his idyl with 
Stephanie, Ritts cites a singular detail: 
“Her eyes. In different lights, they 
change color, from blue to green.” 
Asked what makes a supermodel 


super, Ritts says, "I can answer that 


in two words—Stephanic Seymour.” 


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GEORGE JETSON, EAT YOUR HEART OUT! 


HOME, 
SMART 


HO 


XCITING ADVANCEMENTS in home electronics 

in recent years have led to a host of new 

products designed to transform even the 

humblest home into a technological won- 

derland. High-LO. television sets, VCRs 

and stereo equipment—even tiny black 
boxes that virtually run the house—these indentured elec- 
tronic servants provide preprogrammed, mixed-media, 
multiroom audio and video entertainment, and they per- 
form such mundane tasks as opening the door, lighting the 
fire and drawing the bath. Sorry, you'll still have to peel 
your own grapes. 

If you'd like to give your home added brain power, read 
on for some great ideas. We've covered some of the best and 
brightest products on the market, as well as explored efforts 
being made in this country and abroad to create homes so 
smart they seem more the stuff of science fiction than of 


real-world ingenuity. 


modern living * By 


HOME IS WHERE THE SMART IS 


A dream house is growing in the Pacific Northwest, near 
Seattle. It’s a multimillion-dollar palace (with a 28-car un- 
derground garage!) for one of the heaviest hitters in com- 
puter software, Microsoft's William Gates Ш. Truc to his 
stature and vision, Gates is investing a bundle on computer- 
ized systems to automate his sophisticated dwelling. Report- 
edly, electronic wands will be issued to each visitor as a 
means of unlocking doors and systems—and as a way of 
keeping in touch with guests. An electronic library of thou- 
sands of CD-ROM disks will be accessible at audio/video sta- 
tions integrated into every room. Project designers have 
been told to avoid whimsical, world's-fair-style, home-of-the- 
future gimmickry such as robots that serve tea. 

Meanwhile, on the opposite shore, the National Associa- 
tion of Home Builders and The Smart House Limited Part- 


nership, a for-profit organization based in Maryland, are 


JONATHAN TAKIFF 


ILLUSTRATION BY STEVE BOSWICK. 


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126 


working with a consortium of utility 
companies and  houschold-product 
manufacturers to build a prototype 
home of the future with modern elec- 
ironic conveniences specified on the 
blueprint. Key features in the works in- 
clude energy-saving heating systems, 
burglar alarms, lawn sprinklers and 
kitchen appliances operated via a cen- 
tralized computer. Eventually, they'd 
like to develop a complete line of home 
appliances that carry their own Smart 
House brand endorsement. To date, 
investments in the project have totaled 
$60,000,000, with no firm completion 
date in sight. 

Atlanta home buyers will soon have 
the chance to bid on the nation's first 
Electric Smart House, a 3000-square- 
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growing number of audio/video manu- 
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multiroom audio/video entertainment 
systems that can be customized to your 
listening and viewing whims. 

The Danish manufacturer Bang & 
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house, one-brand audio installations 
for more than a decade. Its Beosystem 
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system with master links, offers state- 
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that's simple to operate and great to 
look at. 

Aside from accepting basic com- 
mands such as signaling ıhe VCR to 
record while you’re away from home, 
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morning, switch from one source to an- 
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entire partys musical environment. 
You can program an easy-listening ra- 
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Best of all, not only is the remote con- 
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the house. You just point an infrared 
controller at a Beo-linked TV or a wall- 
mounted sensor. A four-room hookup 
starts from $4000, excluding link 
wiring and labor. 

Nakamichi, another leader in home- 
audio design, recently unveiled a new 


line of products especially suited to 
multiroom entertainment. Its corner- 
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sells for about $900. Aside from boast- 
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high-end component comes with a 
hand-held remote that operates as 
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memory presets. When hooked up to 
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control signals to as many as three 
rooms. 

If you're considering Nakamichi's 
multiroom audio system, check out its 
new top-of-the-line CDPlayer2 ($649), 
featuring the ingenious MusicBank 
System. Its internal mechanism stores 
as many as seven discs, and loads, in- 
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tray. This unique engineering marries 
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Ifall you desire is to switch а stereo's 
program source or lower the volume 
from another room, Pioneer is now 
manufacturing a full line of rack sys- 
tems and audio receivers with remote 
commands for as little as $300. The 
gear can be activated from more than 
one room when you wire the receiver 
to a signal-relay system. Onkyo and 
Sony also market close variations of re- 
ceivers that can be controlled from a 
distance. 

But Pioneer’s top-end VSX-DIS au- 
dio/video receiver with Dolby Pro-logic 
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VSX-DIS has enough power and ver- 
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multaneously. That means Aerosmith 
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bedroom. 

All of the previous installations call 
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221. Chicago's second North Side gang leader, 

Hymie Weiss, is remembered for: 

A. Inventing the “one-way ride" 

B. Sending a ten-car motorcade of gunmen 
down the main street of Cicero to shoot up 
Al Capone's headquarters 

©. Getting machine-gunned in front of the 
Holy Name Cathedral 

D. Elevating Capone to prominence by 
shooting John Torrio 

© All of ihe above 

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came known as the Night of the Sicilian Vespers 


after a new generation of Mobsters led by 


N “Lucky” Luciano “Americanized” the Mafia in a 
nationwide blood bath that eliminated nearly 
40 old-time “Mustache Petes.” 
© False. Don Salvatore Могопгопо wos killed on that 
dote, but otherwise, this most enduring of Mafia legends 
seems to hove no bosis in fact. 
23. Which firearm inventor said, shortly 
before he died, “I have given my valedictory to 
arms, as | want to pay more attention now to 
saving human life than destroying it. May the 
deadly always speak for God and 
country. lt has worried me that the gun has 
been so stolen by evil men and used for pur- 
poses outside our motto, ‘On the side of law 
J 0 and order"? 
A. Browning 
B. Thompson 
C. Maxim 
D. Nobel 
ranak: 


E. Vickers 
F. Colt 
“Tm sorry, Priscilla, but Pve met someone else.” G. Garand 


140 


+ (8) Thompson, in 1939, regretting that the 1.5.116. 
had become synonymous with gangsters. 


— 


24. In the early Seventies, the silenced 22 
automatic acquired popularity with hit persons 
because it caused so little commotion in parking 
lots and didn't wake up neighbors. While the 
modest .22 could be deadly, it did have a deflec- 
tion problem, as demonstrated by the attempt- 
ed hit on: 


A. Allen Dorfman 
в. Ken Eto 

©. Sam Giancana 
D. Jimmy Hoffa 


se” (5) In o Chicago parking lot on February 10, 1983, 
several .22 bullets fired al close range bounced off the 
thick skull of gangster Ken Eto (no offense, Mr Eto). Con- 
vinced that he wos out of favor with the Mob, Eto become 
а Government witness. 


— 


25. In the ordnance community, the proper 
name for a silencer is a: 


A. Muffler 
в. Compensator 
©. Suppressor 
D. Attenuator 


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— 


26. Contrary to the usual movie cliché, si- 
lencers work poorly on revolvers because: 


A. Barrels are too short for gases to be- 
come trapped. 

B. Calibers larger than .22 are difficult to 
silence. 

С. Gas escapes through the gap between 
the cylinder and the barrel. 

D. Silencers work fine on revolvers. 


= All of the above. (() is most ohen the case, but si 


fencers e, suppressos—will work on revohers if they 
are large enough for the caliber (maybe п foot long ond 
three inches in diameter for a .357) and the cylinder is 
gunsmithed to eliminate the gop. 


— 


27. How much does a silencer cost? 


A. $50 to $150 

в. $150 to $500 

C. $500 to $1000 

D. $10,000 and ten years in prison 


= (D) The nosy Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fireoms 
wants to hear everything that’s going on. 


26. Match the Mobster with his moniker: 


А. Топу Accardo 
B. Joey Aiuppa 
C. Albert Anastasia 
D. Paul Ricca 

E. Felix Alderisio 
F. frank Costello 
С. Al Capone 

H. James fratianno 
1. Топу Spilotro 
J. Abe Reles 
Frank Nitti 

L. Charles Luciano 
WI. Louis Buchalter 
loseph Masseria 
O. Abner Lwillman 
Р. Vincent Alo 
Q. Sam Giancana 
oseph Bonanno 
Vincent Drucci 


a. Doves 

b. The Waiter 

©. The Enforcer 

d. Вір Tuna 

е. longy 

f. Lucky 

g. The Weasel 

h. Lord High Executioner 
i. Momo 


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THE CLONE ZONE 
(continued from page 110) 
to return had been a mi 


Aristegi 
fou are su prised, ar are you not? 
Are you amazed with joy?” 


. 

They had made no attempt to restore 
his lost possessions or to undo the 
nges that had come to the house 
е he had lived there. The villa now 
was furnished in standard upper 
Peruvi yle comfort of the ea 
of the century, everything 
unexceptional, vei 
He was provided with a staff of four—a 
housekeeper, a cook, a driver, a garde 
er Wandering through the airy, ri 
bling house, he felt less pain than he had 
anticipated. His spirit was long gone 
from it; it was just a house. There were 
caged parrots in the garden and a white- 
and-gray cat was slinking about outside 
as if it belonged there; perhaps it was the 
cat of the forn mer re it and had found 
its way back in the night. 

He bathed and rested and had a light 
lunch. In the afternoon, the driver came 
to him and said, “May I take you to the 
Palace of Government now, Señor Dr. 
Mondschein? The minister is eager. 
The driver must be a Guardia man also, 
Mondschein realized. But that was all 
ight. All of it was all right, whatever 
they did now. 

The Palace of Government hadn't 
been finished in Mondschein's time. It 
was a huge sprawling thing made of 
blocks of black stone, htted together dry- 
wall fashion to give ita massive pseudo- 
Inca look, and it was big enough to h; 
housed the entire bureaucracy of the 
Roman Empire at its pi Relays of 
functionaries, some i 
some not, led him through gloomy high- 
vaulted corridors, across walled court 
yards and up grand and ponderous 
Stone staircases, until at last an officious 
florid-faced aide-de-camp conducted 
him into the wing that was the domain of 
the Mini: of Scientific Development 
Here he passed through a 
outer offices and finally w idmitted to 
a brightly lit reception hall lined with 
somber por in oils. He recognized 
Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci and 
guessed that the others were A 
Darwin, Galileo, perhaps Isaac Newtor 
And in the place of honor, of cou 
ion of the Maximum 
loo! 


“His Excellency, 
aide-de-camp, 
paneled with da 
far end of the reception hall. A tall man 
in an ornately brocaded costume worthy 
of a bullfighter rose from a glistening 


again at the unforgei 


able face of Diego 


Alvarado. One of the clones, Mond- 
schein thought. It had to be. 

All the same, it felt like being clubbed 
in the teeth. The Mini: of Scientific. 
Development had Alvarado's hard, icy 
blue eyes, his thin lips, his broad brow, 
his jutting cleft chin. His smile was Al- 
varado's cold smile, his teeth were Al- 
varado's perfect, glistening teeth. He 
had the coarse curling bangs—graying 
now—that gave the Maximum Leader 
the look ofa youthful, indomitable Cae- 
sar. His lanky body was lean and gaunt, a 
dancer's body, and his movements were 
a dancer's movements, graceful and pre- 
cise. Seeing him awoke long-forgotten 
terrors in Mondschein. 

“President Alvarado asks me to convey 
his warmest greetings,” the clone said. It 
was Alvarado's voice, cool and dr: 
will welcome you personally when his 
schedule permits, but he wishes you to 
know that he is honored by your deci- 
sion to accept his hospitality." 

The aging had worked very well, 
Mondschein thought. Alvarado would 
be about 70 now, still vigorous, still in his 
prime. There were lines on this man's 
face in the right places, ch 
lines of his cheekbones and jaw, exactly 
as should have happened in 25 years. 

“It wasn't any decision at all," Mond- 
schein said. He tried to sound casual. “I 
was ready and eager to come back. Your 
homeland, your native soil, the place 
where your ancestors lived and died for 
three hundred years—as you get older, 
you realize nothing can take its place.” 

“I quite understand,” said the clone. 

Do you? Mondschein wondered. Your 
only ancestor is a scrap of cellular mate- 
rial. You were born in a ussue-culture 
vat. And yet you quite understand. 

He said, 
return came as an immense surprise. 

“Yes. No doubt it did. But the М: 
mum Leader is a man of great compas- 
sion. He felt you had suffered in exile 
long enough. One day he said, “We have 
done a great injustice to that man, and 
now it must be remedied. As long 
Rafael Mondschein y Gonzalez dwells 
foreign lands, our soul can never rest.” 

“Only a man of greatness could have 
done such a thing," said Mondschein 

"Indeed. Indeed. 

Mondschein's crime had been one of 
overachievement. He had built Alvara- 
do's cloning laboratories to such a level 
of technical skill that they were the envy 
of all the world; and when eventually the 
anticloning zealots in North America 
and Europe had grown so strident that 
there was talk of trade sanctions. and 
the laboratories had to be shut down, 
Mondschein had become the scapegoat. 
In return for a waiver of trial, he accept- 
ed exile for life. Of cou the laborato- 
ries had reopened, this time secretly and 
illicitly, and before long, ten or 11 other 
countries had started to turn out A and 
even AA Class clones and the industry 


'Of course, the invitation to 


had become too important to the world 
economy to allow zealotry to interfere 
with it any longer; but Mondschein re- 
mained overseas, rotting їп oblivion, 


purposelessly wandering like a wraith 
from Madrid to Prague 
Stockholm, 


от Prague to 
Stockholm to Ma 
num Lead- 
elented. 
“You know we have 
made vast si n the biological sci- 
ences since you last were here. Once you 
have had some time to settle in, we will 
want vou to visit our laboratories, which, 
as you may be aware, are once again in 
legal operation." 

Mondschein was aware of that, yes. 
Throughout the world, Tierra Alvarado 
was known informally as the Clone 
Zone, the place where anyone could go 
to have a reasonable facsimile manufac- 
tured at a reasonable price. But that was 
no longer any concern of his. 

“I'm afraid I have very little interest in 
cloning technology these days,” he said. 

The minister's chilly Alvarado eyes 
blazed with sudden heat. “A visit to our 
laboratories may serve to reawaken that 
interest, Dr. Mondschein.” 

“I doubt that very much.” 

The minister looked unhappy. “We 
had hoped quite strongly that you would 
be willing to share the benefits of your 
scientific wisdom with us, Doctor. Your 
response greatly disappoints us. 

Ah. It was very clear now, and very ob- 
vious. Strange that he hadn't foreseen it 

“1 have no scientific wisdom, really,” 
said Mondschein evenly. “None that 
would be of any use. I haven't kept up 
with the state of the art.” 

“There are those who 
pleased to refresh your- 

“Pd much prefer to remain in retirc- 
ment. Um too old to make any worth- 
while contributions 

Now the thin lips were quirking. “The 
national interest is in jeopardy, Dr. 
Mondschein. For the first time, we are 
challenged by competition from other 
countries, Genetic technology, you un- 
derstand, is our primary source of hard 
currency. We are not a prosperous land, 
Doctor. Our cloning industry is our one 
great asset, which you created for us vir- 
tually singlehandedly. Now that it faces 
these new thr urely we may speak 
to your sense of pal m, if not to you 
onetime passion for scientific achieve- 
ment, in asking you The minister 
broke off abruptly, as though seeing his 
answer in Mondschein's expression. In a 
different tone, he said, “No doubt you 
are tired after your long journey, Doctor. 
I should have allowed you more time to 
rest. We'll continue these discussions at a 
later date, perhaps." 

He turned away. 
appeared as though from the 
showed Mondschein out. His driver 
waiting in the courtyard. 

Mondschein spent most of the night 


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trying to sleep. His mind was s 
Swiss time, and what was the night in 
Tierra Alvarado was in Switzerland the 
beginning of a new day. His thoughts 
went on ticking, hour after hour. Sleep 
finally took him toward dawn, like a cur- 
tain falling, like the blade of a guillotine. 
. 

Colonel Aristegui of the Gu 
me to him, phoning first for 
appointment, saying the matter was u 
gent. Mondschein umed that this 
would be the next attempt to put pres 
sure on him to take charge of the cloning. 
labs, but that did not appear to be what 
was on Aristegui's mind. The wide- 
shouldered litle man looked remar 
ably ill at ease; he paced, he fidgeted, he 
mopped his sweating forehead. with 
lace handkerchief. Then he said, as if 
g the words out, “This is extreme- 


rdia de la 
n 


You 
elf extremely well, Doctor 
I mark your restraint in re- 
gard to the president. You speak of your 
gratitude to him for allowing you to re- 
turn. But inwardly, you must hate him 
very much 

“No,” Mondschein said. "It's all an- 
cient history. Гт an old man now. What 
does any of it matter any more?" 

*He took away the scientific work that 
was your life. He forced you to leave the 
land of your birth. 

“If you think you're going to get тето 
launch into an attack on him, you're to- 
tally mistaken. What's past is past and 
m happy to be home again and that's 
all there is to it." 

Aristegui stared at his brilliantly 
gleaming patent-leather shoes. Then he 
sighed and raised his head like a diver 
coming up to the surface and said, “Fhe 
country is dying, Doctor.” 


“Of the Latin-American disease. The 
strong man comes, he sees the evils and 
injustices and remedies them, and then 
he stays and stays and stays until he is the 
evils and the injustices. President Alvara- 
do has ruled here for thirty-five years. 
He drains the treasury for his palaces; he 
ignores what must be done to preserve 
and sustain. He is our great burden, our 
great curse. It is time for him to step 
aside. Or be thrust aside.” 

Mondschein's eyes widened. “Y 
trying to draw me into some sort of con- 
acy? You must be out of your mind.” 
k my life telling you this.” 
You do. And I risk my life listen- 


You're 


e essential to our succ 
sential. You must help us." 

"Look," said Mondschein, "if Alvarado. 
mply wants to do away with me, he 
doesn't have to bother with anything as 
elaborate as this. Nobody in the world 
cares whether 1 live or die. It isn’t neces- 
sary to inveigle me into a fantastic plot 


on his life. He can just have me shot. All 
right? All rightz" 

his is not a trap. As God is my wi 
ness, Lam not here as part of a scheme to 
ensnare you. I beg you for nce. If 
you wish, report me to the authorities. I 
will be tortured and the truth will come 
out and I will be executed, and you will 
know I was honest with you 

Wearily, Mondschein said, 
all about?” 

“You possess the ability to distinguish 
between the brothers of Alvarado and 
Alvarado himsel 

“The brothers: 
“The clones. There is a secret method, 
known only to you, that allows you to tell 
the true Alvarado from the false.” 

Don't be silly." 

“Itis so. You need not pretend. I have 
access to very high sources. 
fondschein shrugged. “For the sake 
rgument, say that is so. What then 

"When we aim our blow at Alvarado, 
we want to be certain we are assassinat- 
ing the real one.” 

“Yes. Of course you do.” 


“What is 


thi 


of 


“You can guide our hand. He often 
appears in public, but no one knows 
whether it is really he or one of his 


Ке down one of 
illed the 


brothers. And if we st 
the brothers, thinking we have 
true Alvarado— 

Yes," Mondschein said. “I see the 
problem. But assuming that I’m able to 
tell the difference, and Fm not conced- 
ing that I can, what makes you think Ud 


want to get mixed up in your plot? If 


you're not sure whether you're killing 
the right one, kill them all. Kill them one 
by one until there are none at all left. 

1 could kill you," Aristegui said. 
"Right now. I should. After what I have 
told you, you own my life." 

Again, Mondschein shrugged. “Then 
kill me. For whatever good it'll do you. 
I'm not going to inform on you 

“Nor cooperate with me. 

"Neither one nor the othei 

“АП you want is to live in peace," said 
Aristegui savagely. "But how do you 
know you will? Alvarado has asked you 
to work for him again, and you have re- 
fused." He held up a hand. "Yes, yes, I 
know that. I will not kill you, though 1 
should. But he might. Think about that, 
Señor Doctor." 

He rose and glared at Mondschein a 
moment and left without another word. 

Mondschein's body clock had caught 
up with Tierra Alva ado. time by then. 
But that night, once again, he lay until 
dawn in lucid wakefulness before е 
haustion at last brought him some rest. 
It was as though sleep were a concept he 
had never quite managed to under- 
stand. 


P 
The next summons came from Alvara- 

do himself. 

е Presidential Palace, which Mond- 

schein remembered as a compact, some- 


what austere building in vaguely Ro 
style, had expanded in the course of a 
quarter of a century into an incompre 
hensible mazelike edifice that seemed 
consciously intended to rival Versailles 
in ostentatious grandeur. The Hall of 
Audience was a good 60 meters long, 
with rich burgundy draperies along the 
walls and thick blood-red carpeting. 
There was a marble dais at the far end, 
where the Maximum Leader sat en 
throned like an emperor. Dazzling sur 
light flooded down on him through 
a dome of shimmering glass set in 
the ceiling. Mondschein wondered if he 
were supposed to offer a genuflection. 
There were no guards in the room, only 
the two of them. But security screens in 
the floor created an invisible air wall 
around the d Mondschein found 
himself forced to halı by subtle pressure 
when he was still 15 meters short of the 
throne. Alvarado came stiffly to his feet 
and they stood facing each other in si- 
lence for a long moment. 

It seemed anticlimactic, con- 
frontation at last. Mondschein felt none 
the tecth-on-edge uneasiness that the 
man had always been able to engender 
in him. Perhaps having seen the clone 
Alvarado earlier had taken the edge off 
the impact. 

Ivarado said, "You have found all the 
arrangements satisfactory so far, I hope, 
Doctor?” 

“In the 
Rafael.” 
Rafel, yes. It was so long ago. How 
good it is to sce you again, Ralael. You 
look well.” 
do you.” 

Yes. Thank you. Your villa is satisfac- 
tory, Rafael?” 

‘Quite satisfactory,” said Mondschein 
“I look forward to a few last years of qu 


old days, you called me 


et retirement in my native country.” 


“So Lam told,” Alvarado said 

He scemed overly formal, weirdly re- 
mote, hardly even human. In the huge 
hall, his crisp, cool voice had a buzzing 
androidal undertone that Mondsch 
found unfamiliar. Possibly, that was 
atmospheric diffraction effect caused T 
the security screens. But then it oc 
curred to. Mondschein that this, too, 
might be one of the clones. He stared 
hard, trying to tell, trying to call on the 


n 


intuitive sense that once had made it 


possible for him to tell, even without 
running the alpha-wave test. The AAA 
Class clones had been intended to be 
distinguishable from the original to nine 
decimal places, but nevertheless, when 
you collapsed the first 20 or 30 years of a 
man's life into the three-year accelerat- 
ed-development period of the cloning 
process, you inevitably lost something, 
and Mondschein had always been able to 
detect the difference purely subjectively. 
at a single glance. Now, though, he 


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me that the national genetic laboratories 
are facing new competition from abroad, 
that you want me to step in and pull 
things together. But I can't do it. My 
technical knowledge is hopelessly out of 
date. Tm not familiar with current work 
in the field. IFI had known that the rea- 
son you had decided to let me come 
home was that you wanted me to go back 
into the labs, I never would have" 

"Forget about the labs," Alvarado said. 
“That isn't why I invited you to return." 

"But the Minister of Scientific Devel- 
opment said" 

"Let the Mi er of Scientific Dev 
opment say anything he wishes, The 
minister has his agenda and I have 
mine, Doctor" He had dropped the 
first-name talk, Mondschein noticed. “Is 
it true that there is a method of deter- 
mining whether a given individual is an 
authentic human or merely a highly ac- 
curate clon: 

Mondschein hesitated, Something was 
definitely wrong here. 

“Yes,” he said finally. “There is. You 
know that there i 

“You are too certain of what I know 
and what 1 do not know. Tell me about 
this method, Doctor. 

He was more and more certain that he 
was talking to a clone. Alvarado must be 
staging one of his elaborate charades. 

t involves matching brain rhythms. 
When I created the AA A С 
clones, | built a recognition key 
using a 


-wave patterns from yours. I did 
this at your request, so that in the case of 
a possible coup d'état attempt by one of 
the clones, you'd be able to unmask the 
pretender. The method uses my own 
brain waves as the base line. If you jack 
my E.E.G. output into a comparator cir- 
cuit and overlay it with yours, the two 
patterns will conflict, the way any two 
patterns from different human beings 
will But if my EEG. gets matched 
against one of your clones, the pattern 
l drop immediately into alpha 
rhythms, as if we're both under deep 
hypnosis. It amazes me that you've for- 
gotten this.” He paused. “Unless, of 
cou you're not Alvarado at all but 
simply one of his—whar's the word?— 
one of his brothers. 
“Very good, Doctor.” 
"Am 1 right?’ 
"Come closer and see for you 
1 can't. The security sere 
“I have switched them off. 
hed. "There was 
no air resistance. When he was five me- 
ters away, he felt the unmistakable click 
of recognition 
"Yes, | am 


elf." 


al Alvarado too busy for me 
it that he doesn't have the 


146 courage to look me in the eye?” 


“I will tell you something very strange, 
which is a great secret," said the clone. 
“The real Alvarado is no longer in com- 
mand here, For the past several months, 
I have run the government of Tierra Al- 
ado. No one here is aware of this, no 
one at all. No one except you 


ria 
that?" he said at last. 

The clone managed a glacial smile. 
"During the years of your absence, there 
have been several internal upheavals in 
Tierra Alvarado. On three occasions, as- 
sassination plots resulted in the deaths of 
Alvarado clones who were playing the 
role of the Maximum Leader at public 
ceremonies. Each time, the death of the 
clone was successfully covered up. The 
conspirators were apprehended and 
things continued as if nothing had oc- 
curred. On the fourth such occasion, an 
implosion grenade was thrown toward 
the Maximum Leader's car while he was 
en route to Iquique for a ceremony of 
rededication. I happened to be accom- 
panying him on that journey so that I 
could double for him in the riskier parts 
of the ceremony, when the general pub- 
lic would be present. The impact of the 
grenade was tremendous. In the confu- 
ion afterward, I was mistaken for the 
e Maximum Leader. I quickly under- 


tr 
stood the situation and began to act ac- 


And so it has been ever since.” 
realized that he was 


cordingl 

Mondschein 
trembling. 

"So Alvarado's dead?” 

The clone looked smug. “Hi 
over, His time is finished, 

What a strange concept that was. Al- 
varado dead! His old enemy was really 
dead! Mondschein felt a flash of satisfac- 
tion and surprise—and then a curious 
sense of loss. 

“Why are you telling me all this?” he 
asked after a moment. “Assuming that 
it's true, and not just some game that 
your master is playing with me, why do 
you want to take chances this way? What 
if 1 tried to expose you and bring the 
whole crazy system down? 
fou would not do that," said the 
clone. 
Why not?” 

You have said it yourself: You want 
only to live out your remaining years in 
peaceful retirement. If you denounced 
me, who would believe you? And even if 
you were believed, would things be bet 
ter in 7 Alvarado in the wake of my 
overthrow? No, Doctor, the status quo is 
your only hope. Lam the status quo. 

Mondschein nodded. "Even so, why 
con n me at all?” 

“So that you may protect me 

"How could I do that?” 

"You hold the key to identification, 
this alpha-rhythm thing. Your posses- 
sion of it gives you great power here. И 
there were a challenge to my legitimacy, 


reign is 


you would be the only arbiter of the 
truth, do you see? 

Cyr id Mondschein. “Yes, 1 do 

“There are twenty-one other surviv- 
ing clones. One of them might take it in- 
to his head to overthrow me, thinking 
that he could rule the country at least as 
well. It i5 quite a comfortable existence, 
being a clone of the Maximum Leader, 
but it is not always pleasant to serve as 
his double, exposed to all the risks of 
public appearances. It is a much better 
life, believe me, to be Maximum Leader 
and have others double for you than to 
be a double yourself, never knowing 
when the bullet w come. Besides 
which, there is the wielding of authority 
for its own sake. That is a highly desir 
able thing, if you are of the sort who de- 
sires such things, and we are. After all, 
we are all of us Alvarados to the core, as 
you know better than anyone else.” 

“So you think that if one of your vat 
brothers suddenly tried to say that he 
was the real Alvarado, not you, then Га 
be willing to come forward and test him 

nd expose him as a clone for you?” 

“So I hope and trust.” 
“Why would I want to take the side of 
one clone against another? It's of no im- 
portance to me which one of you calls 
himself president here.” 

"But I am the one who calls himself 
president just now. I might kill you if 
you didn't cooperate." 

"And if I don't car 


whether I live or 


“You probably care how you die,” the 
Alvarado clone said. “You would not die 
in an easy or gentle way, that 1 could 
promise you. On the other hand, if you 
pledge diat you will aid me, when and if 
the need arises, I will see to it that you 
live out the remaining years of your life 
in the most complete happiness that 1 
can make available, It scems to me a very. 
reasonable offer.” 

"It is," Mondschein said. “I see that.” 

“You protect me, and 1 will protect 
you. Do we have a deal? 

“If I say no, what are my chances of 
leaving this building alive today? 

The clone smiled. It was the pure Al- 


varado smile. “Th would be quite 
poor. 

Then we ve a deal,” Mondschein 
said. 


. 

The weeks went by. June gave way to 
July and the year descended toward its 
winter depths. Often there was fog; 
some nights there was frost; always the 
, harsh wind blew from the west. 
Mondschein slept poorly He heard 
nothing from the Maximum Leader or 
any of his minions, Evidently, all was 
uanquil in the ruling circles. 

He rarely left the villa. His meals were 
prepared for him according to his wish- 
es, which were uncomplicated. He had a 
few books. No one came to see him. 
Sometimes, during the day, he went out 


with his driver to explore the city. It was 
larger ıhan he expected, spreading long. 
thin tentacles of slum toward the north 
and the south—as in any impoverished 
country, everyone from the villages was 
moving to the capital, God only knew 
what for—and shoddy everywhere ex- 
cept in its grand governmental district. 

On two of these excursions, Mond- 
schein was granted a glimpse ofthe sup- 
posed President Alvarado. The first 
time, his car was halted at a police road- 
block and he waited for half an hour in 
an immense tie-up until at last the presi- 
dent passed by in a motorcade coming 
from the airport, with the Directo 
ral of the Republic of the Orinoco, here 
on a state visit, riding beside him in the 
armored bubble-roo! car, while the spec- 
tators who lined the boulevard offered 
sullen acclaim. On the second occasion, 
far in the outskirts, Mondschein stum- 
bled upon the ceremonial dedication of 
what he was told was the Grand Sanita- 
tion Facility of the Northeast, and there 
was the familiar figure ol the Maximum 
Leader on high in the reviewing stand, 
surrounded by hierce-eyed, heavily 
armed bodyguards and orating bravely 
into the biting wind. 

At other times while trav ng the 
city, Mondschein caught sight of various 
of the clones going about some business 
of their own. It was not unusual to en- 
counter one. Doubtless, the populace was 
quite used to it. Wherever you looked. 
you could find one or two of the Ma 


n- 


mum Leader's brothers. Five or six of 
them headed government ministries—a 
of the cabinet must have been 
like a hall of mirrors—and the others, 
apparently, simply stood by to serve 
presidential doubles when needed, liv 
g as private citizens the rest of the 
ne. The real Alvarado, if there still was 
one, could probably have passed in the 
streets without causing a stir, with ever 
one assuming he was just a clone. It was 
a fine kind of shell game. 

Colonel Aristegui came to the villa 
again, eventually. 

“We are ready to make 


move, Doc- 


“Move, then. I don't want to know 


Aristegui looked te grim, right at 
the breaking point. "We need very litle 
from you. Station yourself in the crowd, 
and when our man asks you, ‘Is this one 
the real one? simply nod or shake you 
head. We want no more from you than 
that. Later, we'll ask you to examine the 
body to confirm that it is the body of the 
dictator and not one of the imitations. A 
small service, and you will live forever in 
the hearts of your countryn 

“There's no way I can give you the 
kind of information you want just by 
looking at him from a distance." 

“It can be done, and you are the one 
who can do it. This much I know." 

“No,” Mondschein said. “What you 
think you know is wrong. I can't help 
nd, in any case, I don't want to. I 


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Bonn. 


told you that before, Colonel. I'm not in- 
мей in joining your conspiracy. It 
isn't any allair of mine.” 


“Iris an affair of every loyal citizen of 
this country.” 
Mondschein looked at him sadly. 


He could at least warn Aristegui, he 
thought, that there was no real Alvarado 
there to shoot, that they were all clones. 
But would the colonel believe him? In 
any case, what Aristegui was trying to do 
was fundamentally futile. Kill one Al- 
varado, another would move into his 
place and announce that he was the au- 
thentic article. istegui couldn't. get 
them all. This country was going to be 
ruled by Alvarados for a long time. 
“They took my citizenship away twen- 
five years ago,” Mondschein said, а 
era pause. "I'm here purely as a guest of 
the nation, remember? Good guests 
don't conspire against their hosts. Please 
go away, Colonel, I haven't heard a thing 
you've said to me today. Im beginning 
10 forget even that you were here.” 

Aristegui glowered at him in a way 
that seemed to mingle anguish and fury. 
For a moment, Mondschein thought the 
a was going to strike him. But then, 
with a visible effort, the colonel brought 
himself under control. 

“I thank you for your continued si 
lence, at least,” said Aristegui bitter 
“Good day, Senor Dr. Mondscheir 

. 

Late that afternoon, Mondschein heard 

voices from below, shouts and outcries 


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in the servants! quarters. He rang up on 
the housekeeper's intercom and said, 
“What's going on? 

“There has been an attack on the pres- 
ident, Señor Doctor. At the Palace of Gov- 
ernment. We have just seen it on the 


egui had been telling the 
ith, it seemed, when he said that they 
were ready to make their move. Or else 
they had decided it was too risky to wait 
any longer, now that. Mondschein had 
been told that an assassination attempt 
was impending. 
And?" Mondschein said. 

“By the mercy of the Vingin, he is safe, 
señor. Order has been restored and the 
criminals have been captured. One of 
the others was slain, one of the brothers, 
but the president was not harmed. 

He thanked her and switched on his 
television set 

They were in the midst of showi 
replay of it now. The president arrivi 
at the Palace of Gov 
ular midweek meeting of the ministers; 
the adoring populace obediently waiting: 
behind the barricades to hail him as he 
emerged from his car; the sudden scuffle 
in the crowd, evidently a deliberate dis- 
traction, and then the shot, the screams, 
the slim, long-legged figure beginning to 
sag into the arms of his bodyguards, the 
policemen rushing forw: 


ga 


And then a cut to the Hall of Audi- 


ence, the grim-faced Maximum Leader 
addr g the nation from his throne in 
broken phrases, in a voice choked with 
emotion: “This despicable act . . . the 
bestial attempt to overrule the will of thc 


people as expressed through their cho- 
sen president. . .. We must root out the 
forces of chaos that are loose among 
us.... We proclaim a week of national 
mourning for our fallen brother. . . 
Followed by an expl 
unrulfled-looking official 
The Guardia de la Patria, he said, 
received word of a possible plot. One of 
the president's brothers had coura- 
geously agreed to bear the risk of enter- 
ing the Palace of Government in the 
usual way; the Maximum Leader himself. 
had gone into the building through a se- 
cret entrance. The identities of the main 
conspirators were known; arrests had al- 
ready been made; others would follow. 
Return to your homes, remain calm, all 
is well. 
Allis well. 


. 
I he executions took place a few weeks 
later. They were shown on huge televi- 
sion scrcens sct up before great throngs 
of spectators in the main plazas of the 
city and relayed to home vi 
where. Mondschein, despite earlier reso- 
lutions to the contrary, watched along 
with everyone else in a kind of horrified 
fascination as Colonel Aristegui and five 
other officers of the elite guard, along 
with three other men and four womet 
all of them members of the Popular A: 
sembly, were led to the wall one by one, 
faces expressionless, bodies rigid. They 
were not offered the opportunity to ul 
ter last words, even of carefully re- 
hearsed contrition. Each name was 
spoken and the prisoner was blindfolded 
and shot, and the body taken aw and 


Hg vi a 


“Would you mind taking your feet off my desk?” 


the next conspirator brought forth. 

Mondschein felt an obscure sense of. 
guilt, as though he had been the one 
who had informed on them. Bui, of 
course, he had said nothing to anyon 
The country was full of governmental 
agents and spies and provocateurs; the 
Maximum Leader had not needed 
Mondschein's help in protecting himself 
against Colonel Ari 

"The days went by. The season bright- 
ened toward spring. Mondschein's driv- 
er took him up the mountain roads to 
sec Lake Titicaca, and north from there 
to Cuzco and its grand old Inca relies, 
and up beyond that to the splendors of 
Machu Picchu. On another journey, he 
went down to the fog-swept coast, to 
Nazca, where it never rains, where in a 
landscape as barren as the moon's he in- 
spected the huge drawings of monkeys 
and birds and geometrical figures that 
prehistoric artists had inscribed in the 
bone-dry soil of the plateaus. 

On a brilliant September day that felt 
like midsummer, a car bearing the in- 
signia of the Guardia came to his villa 
and a brisk young officer with thick h; 
that was like spun gold told him that he 
was requested to go at once to the Palace 
‚of Justice. 

“Have 1 done something wrong? 
Mondschein asked mildly 

“It is by order of the president,” said 
the blond young officer, and that was all 
the explanation he gave. 

Mondschein had been in the Palace of 
Justice only once before, during the 
weeks just prior to his exile. Like most of 
the governmental buildings, it wi 
massive, brutal-looking stone structur 
two long parallel wings with a smaller 
one set between them at their heads, so 
that it crouched on its plaza like a pon- 
derous sphinx. There were courtrooms 
in the upper levels of the two large 
wings, prison cells below; the small cen- 
tral wing was the headquarters of the 
Supreme Court, whose chief justice, 
Mondschein had recently discovered, 
nother of the clones. 

His Guardia escort led him into the 
bui g on the lower level, and they de- 
scended even below that, to the dreaded 

y area in the basement. Was 
he to be interrogated, then? For what? 
eader, in full uniform 
and decorations, was waiting for him ina 
cold, clammy interrogation cell, under a 
ncandescent bulb of a ki nd that 


smile as benign as that sharp-edged face 
was capable of showing. 

“Our second meeting is in rather less 
grand surroundings than the first, eh, 
Doctor?” 

Mondschein peered closely Th 
seemed to be the same clone who had 
spoken with him in the Hall of Audience. 
He felt quite sure of that. Only intui 
of course. But he trusted i 


"You remember the agreement we 
reached that day?" the clone added 
“Of course. 
bday I need to invoke it. Your spe- 
cial expertise is now essential to the sta- 
bility of the nation.” 

The clone gestured to an aide-de- 
camp, who signaled to a figure in the 
shadows behind him that Mondschein 
had not noticed before. A door opened 
at the rear of the cell and a gurney bear- 
ing electronic equipment. was wheeled 
in. Mondschein recognized the familiar 
intricacies of an electroencephalograph. 

“This is the proper machinery for 
your brain-wave test, is it not?" the Al- 
varado clone asked. 

Mondschein nodded. 

"Good," the clone said. "Bring in the 

prisoner. 
The door opened again and two 
guards dragged in the ragged, di- 
sheveled-looking figure of an Ah lo. 
His hands were shackled behind his 
back. His face was bruised and sweaty 
and smeared with dirt. His clothes, 
rough peasant clothes, were torn. His 
eyes were blazing with fury of astonish 
ing intensity, Mondschein felt a tremor 
of the old fear at the sight of him. 

The prisoner shot a fiery look at the 
Alvarado clone and said, “You bastard, 
Jet me out of here right now. You know 
who I am. You know who you are, too. 
What 

Mondschein turned to the clone. “But 
you told me he was dead!” he said 

“Dead? Who? What do you mear 
the Alvarado clone said calmly. “This 
clone was gravely injured in an attempt 
on my life and has hovered close to 
death for many weeks, despite the finest 
care we could give him. Now that he has 
begun to recover, he is exhibiting delu 
sional behavior. He insists that he is the 
true Maximum Leader and I am noth- 
ing but a genetic duplicate. I ask you to. 
test the authenticity of his claim, Senor 
Doctor." 

“Mondschein! Rafael Mondschein!” the 
ragged Alvarado cried. А convulsive 
quiver of amazement ran through his 
shoulders and chest. “You here? They ve 
brought you back 

Mondschein said nothing. He stared 
at the ragged man. 

The prisoners eyes gleamed. "All 
vight, go on! Test me, Rafael. Do your 
mumbo jumbo and tell this fraud who I 
am! Then we'll see if he dares keep up 
the masquerade. Go on, Rafael! Plug in 
your machine! Suck the electrodes on 
me!” 

“Со ahead, Señor Doctor,” the Alvara- 
do clone said. 

Mondschein stepped forward and be- 
gan the preparations for the test, won- 
dering whether he would remember the 
procedure after so many years. 

The prisoner looked toward the Al- 
varado clone and said, “He'll prove that 


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Lam who I say Lam. And you won‘ 
the guts to carry the pretense any fur- 
ther, will you, you test-tube fraud? Be- 
cause hall the staff in the hospital knows 
the real story already, and the truth will 
get ош. And irll bring you down. Once 
the country finds out that you're a fake, 
that you simply seized power when the 
motorcade bomb went ої. Once word 
gets around that 1 didn't die, that you've 
had me hidden away in the hospital all 
this time with people thinking I was you 
and you were me, what do you think will 
happen to your regime? Will anyone 
take orders from a clone?” 

You mustn't speak now.” Mondsch 
told him. “ITI distort the test result: 
“All right. Yes. Listen, Rafael, no mat- 
ter what you tell him, he'll say that you 
identified me as a clone, but you know 
that it’s a lie. When you get back ошый 
you tell people the true story. You hear 
me? And afterward, I'll sec to it that you 
get whatever you want. Anything. Mon- 


Ey, Women, country estates, your own 
laboratory, whatever.” 
“Please,” Mondschein said. “I ask you 


not to speak.” 

He attached the electrodes to himself. 
He touched the dials. 

He remembered, 
technique. He had written these person- 
ality-organization algorithms himself. 
He closed his eyes and felt the data come 
flooding in. The prisoner's brain waves 
met his own—collided, clashed, clashed 
violently— 

То the Alvarado clone, Mondschein 
said, “The alpha match is perfect, Señor 
President. What we have here is a 
clone.” 

“No, Rafael!” the prisoner roared. 


now. The entire 


“You filthy lying bastard, no! You know 
it isn't so!” 
"Take him 
said. 
“No. You wont do 


the Alvarado clone 


nything to me. 


I'm the only legitimate president of 


Tierra Alvarado." 

“You are nothing,” the clone told hi 
“You are a mere creature. We have sci 
entific proof that you are simply one of 
the artificial brothers. Dr. Mondschein 
has just demonstrated that." 

"Balls." the prisoner said. “Listen, 
Mondschein, I know he has vou intimi 
dated. But when you get out of here, 
spread the word. Tell everyone what 
your real reading was. That there's a 
usurper in the Presidential P. 
he must be overthrown. You'll be a na- 
hero, you'll be rewarded beyond 
your wildest dreams- 

Mondschein smiled. “Ah, but I already 
have everything that I want,” he said. 

He looked toward the Alvarado clone. 
“TI prepare а formal report and sign it 
Señor President. And I will be willing to 
attest to it at the public t i 

“This has been the tial, Doctor,” the 
y the ceil- 
ing of the cell, where Mondschein now 
saw an opening through which the snout 
of a television camera protruded. “All 
the information that we need has been 
recorded. But I am grateful for your of- 
fer. You have been extremely helpful 
Extremely helpful, Señor Doctor. 

. 

That night, in the salety and comfort 
of his beloved villa, Mondschein slept 
soundly for the first time since his return 
to Tierra Alvarado—more soundly than 
he had sleptin years. 


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CINCINNATI 


(continued from page 76) 
he tells them to “guard these moments 
with your life.” 

H is clear that he considers this the tri- 
al of a lifetime. Each morning, he hears 
the docker of civil infractions wearing 
sweater or a charcoal-gray suit. He 
tens dispassionately to stories of auto- 
mobile accidents, ignored sior sig 
discharged shotguns. blow jobs offered 
to vice cops for $25. He passes sentence, 
the bailiff removes the offender, a re- 
porter sinks into the vacated seat. When 
the riffraff has been replaced by re- 
porters, Albanese retires to his chamber 
to put on a long black robe. He dresses 
up for the show trial. 

The best take on Albanese comes from 
Barrie's son. When I ask Barrie's wile, 
Dianne, how the children are faring dur- 
ing the trial, she tells me, “It is not so 
bad. You can imagine that the level of 
s class at the breakfast table is a little 
dillerent from that in most homes. We 
try to explain pretrial motions in terms 
that an cleven-year-old and an eight- 
year-old can understand. Our son listens 
ad says, “Oh, I get it. The judge is a 
jerk. 

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mary of the case as you'll h 
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THETRIAL 


The Supreme 1 ruled that for a 
work to be denied the protection of the 
irst Amendment, it must meet three 
tests: "Using contemporary community 
standards, does the work as a whole de- 
pict sexual conduct in a patently offen- 
sive way? Does it appeal to prurient 
шегем?” No one involved with the case 
gues that the photos aren't deeply 
troubling. But the case rests on the third 
prong: “Using national rather than com- 
munity standards, would a reasonable 
person find that the work taken as a 
whole lacks serious artistic, litera’ 
entific or political value? 

In his opening remarks, Sirkin pl 
If] tell you that 
to have three ingredients in it 
n apple pie, and you taste on- 
ly two ingredients in it, then it's not an 
apple pie. Right?” 

Prou nply says, "You know ob- 
ity when you sec it, right?” 

Juries like this have allowed the local 
good old boys to ride roughshod over 
adult bookstores, video stores, X-rated 
cable companies, nude dancers, gays. 
Most local verdicts on obscenity cases are 
overturned on appeal, but the crusade 
works. The prosecution is not interested 
in freedom; it is interested in the social 
use of fear. When The Last Temptation of 
Christ opened, not one theater owner in 
Cincinnati booked the film. The prose- 
cution says this case costs the city only 
$14,450. It puts Barrie and the С.А.С. 


sc 


$350,000 into debt. The defense of frec- 
dom is not cost effective. 

My colleague Joseph and I debate the 
circus in several settings. The conversa- 
tion starts in a restaurant across the river 
from this bright jewel of a city. “What 
you have to ask yourself,” says Joseph, 
“is why Cincinnati is the birthplace of all 
the purity movements. Charles Keating 
[now under indictment for massive theft 
in the S&L scandal] started Citizens for 
Decency in Literature here. John Wilke 
started the National Right-to-Life Com- 
mittee. Jerry Kirk started the National 
Coalition Against Pornography. The lo- 
cal C.C.V. has a two-hundred-filty-thou- 
sand-dollar-a-year budget. The local 
power structure came into office for 
busting adult bookstores, video stores, 
theaters. Yet you talk to people and most 
of their friends have seen adult movies. 
For a good time, you simply have to 
drive across the into Newport, 
Kentucky. What is it about this city that 


makes appearance more impe than 
personal freedom? Respectability more 
important t 


"Keating and his clones have perfect- 
ed the packaging of sex and decency,” 1 
argue. “You join the crusade for twenty 
dollars, get access to the. Keating sam- 
pler of smut and feel outraged at the 
ame time you feel disgust and shame at 
whacking off in the bathroom. 

“You still have access to sex in Cincin- 
nati; you just have it on Keating’s terms. 
If you are raised to be ashamed of sex. 
you will be unable to experience it in the 
absence of shame. So they allow a red- 
light district across the river where you 
1 get sex, but you also get the sleaze. I 
you grow up ina family that is outraged 
by childhood sexuality and punishes 
your attempts at se 
bine outrage, punishment and se 

Joseph dwells on the ironies of the 
law: “Why is it that an elegant descrip- 
tion of fellatio is protected, but a crude 
account is vulnerable? Why are words 
entitled to protection, but images aren't? 
The elite have always had access to sexu- 
al materials in museums. Why is it that 
when the same material finds its way to 
the newsstand, it loses its protection?” 

‘That is exactly the point of the Cincin- 
nati show trial: The local vice squad is at- 
tacking the citadel. 

We resume ou 


com- 


discussion the next 
morning over breakfast. Our waitr 
joins the conversation: “I have mixed 
bout this. On the one hand, I 
te the idea ofthe state coming into my 
bedroom. Most of my friends have seen 
X-rated movies. Most of my friends have 
driven across the river. Around here, 
is acceptable as long as it's underground. 
I have misgivings about putting pictures 
of SM into a museum, of taking them 
aboveground. It seems to legitimize 
those activities. It desensitizes people 
She thinks that the Mapplethorpe 
photos are temple carvings in the public 


consciousness. “Desensitize?” 1 reply 
“Whatever those photos did, they did 
not produce numbness. People came 
away outraged, shaken, puzzled, en- 
lightened—they were made sensitive to 
a world outside the boundaries of their 
lawn. Over each of those photos— 
whether 


sofa lily or of some bizarre 
sexual act—hovered an intelligence, а 
questioning, artistic vision that had the 
name Robert Mapplethorpe. Education 
can be challenge, not indoctrination." 

б 

The trial is cutand dried, simple. The 
prosecution shows seven photographs 
and presents three policemen who say 
they have scen those very photographs 
at the С.А.С. 

Sirkin and Meziboy have the burden 
of presenting an affirmative defens 
nust show that the work has se 

value. Other affirmative defenses 

include a plea of insanity and a plea of 
self-defense. Artistic value, indeed; all 
art falls somewhere between insanity 
and sell-defense. 

They choose five experts with care to. 
avoid local prejudices. (No one from 
New York City, no one from Columbus 
or Dayton and no artists. As one С.А.С. 
supporter tells me, “Artists aren't credi- 
ble.") One witness has a stutter. Two are 
local art critics who have spoken to and 
lor the community for 20 years. The 
mother of the two children pho- 
tographed by Mapplethorpe says the 
photos were taken with their consent, 
that they sweet treasures 10 be 
shared with the world. The defense puts 
Barrie on the stand to explain the im- 
portance of the exhibit. 

The prosecution asks Barrie if it 
wasn't a publicity stunt. “Given the past 
seven months, the hardship my family 
has gone through, if we intended to do 
something as a publicity stunt, we could 
e come up with something better. 
The prosecution tries to bring the tes- 
timony back to the content of the pho- 
tographs with a shrill harangue: "Can 
you tell me what artistic value a forearm 
up the rectum has?” 

The experts speak of intent, the 3 
rangement of forms in general, the ten- 
sion between the physical beauty of the 
photograph and the brutal nature of 
what's going on in it, One admits that 
the pictures are troubling but insists that 
there is something to be learned. ‘They 
remind him of Vincent van Gogh's self 
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an acquittal because the prosecution has 
not introduced evidence that the pic- 


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clines. 

The prose asks to call Reisman 
for rebuttal. 


The defense objects strenuously 
Mezibov tries to explain to the press 
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late for the prosecution to start a new 
line of testimony. “She was here [during 
the prosecutions turn]. She was on 
rth, her starship had touched down." 
п can't legally discuss violence . 
(her supposed arca of expertisc), since. 
that hasn't been raised, or prurience 
(she is not a sex гезе: only a media 
analyst) or child abuse (the issue has not 
been raised). She cannot discuss commu- 
nity standards, since she's not from thi 
community. The defense feels that she is 
unqualified to comment on artistic val- 
ue, since she has had only minimal art 
training. They feel, correctly, that. Reis- 
man is an apologist for the National 
Federation of Decency, also known as 
the American Family Association. "She 
serves no purpose other than to pollute 
the jury with unqualified testimony." 
The judge puts his hand over his 
brow, appears to deliberate and decides 
low testimony 
Joseph tells Mezibov that he has some- 
thing that may prove useful—a copy of 
the income-tax return of the American 
тси- 


late Xeroxed copies of a series of Playboy 
ticles on Reisman. By the time she 
takes the stand, they have a clear unde 
standing of her bias. The question is, 
What will the jury see? 
е 

Reisman, а 56-year-old former song- 
writer for Captain Kangaroo, takes the 
stand. She is dressed in a wispy dress 
with a scarflike collar that looks like a 
bib. She dons half-shell reading glasses 
nd studies the nine-page ré 
career, which lists every speech she has 
given and every article she has written 

Prouty leads her throu her list 
of purported professional i 
ments. In a singsong voice, she recites 
her areas of pseudo expertise: mass-me- 
dia techniques, content analysis, Ar 
totelian analysis, female imaging, work 
t brain-left brain theory, She 
sounds as if she's reading the table of 
contents of Psychology Today or Parade. 

Prouty elicits her supposed contribu 
tion to law enforcement—the study pr 
pared for the Justice Department on 
nages of children, violence and sexuali. 


né of her 


"Any breakthroughs today, guys?" 


ty in Penthouse, Playboy and Hustler. She 
says that she served on the Meese com- 
mission (she was called as a witness). 
lo support her artistic credenu 
Reisman says that she has had *demon- 
strable success as performance artist. 
Members of the press corps snicker. 
Does Reisman cover herself with Jell-O 
and read statistics from her Justice De- 
I nt study, which was repudiated 
by both the Justice Department and 
American University? Is her entire life 
an arústic fraud? Bilking the Govern- 
ment out of $743,371 to count cartoons 
in Playboy puts to shame any NEA grant 
Today, Reisman presents herself as an 
expert in content analysis: “It’s a whole 
field of research, built on the work of 
Krippendorf.” The name dropping 
sends a ripple of resentment through 
the courtroom; she is the first witness to 
condescend to the jury. 
You may be familiar," she says, “with 
content analysis of TV shows that shows 
an increase or decrease in violence.” 
Content analysis is the bean counte: 
guide to art. It turns loose on the playing 
fields of the mind zebra-striped offic 
with an eye for violation: Reisman is out 
to red-flag what is offensive, not what is 
meaningful 
She reveals the antisexual prejudice of 
the pressure group. lf it has sex in it 
(content), it is bad (analysis). 
Prouty: “In the direct examination, 
Robert Sobieszak defined art as the cre- 
ation of perceptible form expressing 


s, 


s 


human feeling. Do you agree with that 
definition? 
Reisman: “Yes, 1 clo. 


Prouty: “Do you believe from the per- 
spective of content analysis that the five 
sexual pictures are expressive of human 
emotion? 

Reisman: “No.” 

And then the dance begins. The pho- 
tos lic on the r n front of her. Reis- 
a stares at the photos through her 
ding glasses and uses her hands to 
describe the pictures. “If one looks at the 
photograph, one sees what appear to be 
the buttocks of a male." Her hand traces 
the buttocks of a male. “And we have a 
highlight coming here and lighting the 
head of the penis. . . . It almost cameos 
the head of the penis.” Her hand deli- 
cately traces a monstrous penis, caresses 
the cameoed head. 

A supporter for the C.A.C. tells a re- 
porter from The Village Voice that Reis- 
man doing “pornography for the 
hearing impaired. 

As her hands move along imaginai 
buttocks and monstrous penises, I re- 
member an exercise from an acting class 
If you want to identify with a person, 
mimic his or her gestures. I try to make 
my hands move in concert with Reis- 
man’s and experience an overwhelming 
creepiness. (1 am not the only person 
captivated by the hands. That night 
in the hotel bar, I watch the report 


from The Village Voice huddle with her 
photographer, going over the days 
events. I see her hands e those ob- 
scene patterns, her lips mouth the ques- 
tion “Did you get that?”) 

man protests that the figures are 
ed, anonymous. 

Prouty: 71 want to direct your atten- 
ly to each picture. With re- 

showing the for 


arm 


There is no face, there 
no eyes. There is no indication in any as 
pect of the human body that would tell 
us anything about the emotion or feeling 
in this image.” 

Pror "Is there any indication of the 
presence or absence ol pain?” 

Reisman: "That's very important, be- 
cause human emotion as identified by 
nd Preesman, who are the pre- 
eminent authors on cross-cultural ex 
sions of emotions, on the unmasking 
of the face . . . would require that there 
be some expression of joy, anger, fear 
horror, shame, surprise or happiness or 
sadness or, perhaps, interest or distress 
I challenge anybody to find joy, anger, 
fear. horror, shame, surprise or happi- 
ness or sadness or, perhaps, interest or 
distress in this particular photograph. It 
can't be done.” 

The prosecutor leads the witn 
through the photos. A photo of a 
ng into the mouth of another elic- 

this descripi from Reism 
here's another aspect, which 
the person who is receiving this a 
ally—excuse me, but uri 
someone's mouth is just not something 
that most people consider to be highly 
dignified. so that the individual who is 
eceiving that is the individual who is be- 
ng debased.” 

She strips the pictures of their art and 
reduces them to content: “You see, with 
the absence of emotion, with the absence 
of pain, with the absence even of joy, if 
you will, with the absence of distress, 
with the absence of any huma 
n these photographs, one then receives 
the information that this is appropriate 
activity. Certainly so because i 
museum. A museum would not honor 
an abusive photograph if it did not have 
some redeeming value.” 

When Reisman turns her attention to 
the photos of the children, the full ugli- 
ness of her visión becomes apparent. She 
is trying to suggest that the composition 
of the photographs emphasizes the g 
itals. (The law requi r the pic- 
tures to be child porn, there has to be a 
lewd exhib graphic focus on the 
genitals.) Again, her hands move as she 
“If you follow the line of the lit- 
tle girl's leg going down, and the line of 
the second leg coming out, and the flat 
foot, the foot is Hat . . . turned directly in- 
to the genitalia, The genitalia are ex- 
tremely visible. . . . You have to look at 


an 


the photo very carefully. And when you 
look at the photo very carefully, you 
have to look at the child's face, the way 
it's tucked into the shirt. And when you 
look very carefully and just relax and 
pay attention . . . in the normal kid's po- 
sition, the child would be centered over 
ildren do not sit in 
It indicates some degree of 
real strain, because children do not sit in 
that manner." 

The picture of the boy reveals the 
same “triangular focus.” Her fingers join 
and form a triangle in the ai 

1 lean to Joseph and whisper, “If God 
had not wanted the legs to draw atten- 
Чоп to the genitals, he would have had 
them grow out of your back. 

Reisman summons the dark specter ol 
the child molester. 

Prouty: "What is the ha 

Reisman: “By placi 
dren that are focused on the genit 


gans are clearly visible, on the walls of 


our museums, what we are doing is le 
imizing the taking of these photographs, 
and you are legitimizing the public dis- 
play of the photogra nd I think you 
are then putting at delitional chil- 
dren. Many people view themselves as 
photographers, and many use the tech- 
nique of telling children this is appropri- 
ate, because this has been in a museum. 
That this is appropriate, beca 
been in a book. That happens to be a 
standard technique for getting children 
nto a child-abuse situation.” 
Prouty: “In your opinion, are these 
ictures morally innocent 
No, they are not.” 
Mezibov begins the cross-exa 
questioning her credentials. 
He asks if her study has been pub- 
lished by the Justice Department. “It is 
on the shelf. It was published. You can 
buy copies.” A series of truths, not 
adding up to the truth. 
Mezibov pulls out the pretrial testimo- 
"You said before that there was a six- 
year delay, that the study was published 
not by the Justice Department but by 
Huntington’ Press. Would you like to 
ange your answer? 
Mezibov turns to Joseph. “Mr. Joseph. 
1 believe you have something for me? 
Joseph hands him a copy of the A.EA. 
ах return. Meziboy shows it to Reisman, 
uses it to establish that she has received 
thousands of dollars from the Reverend 
Wildmon's antiporn group. Showing her 
a copy of an article that appeared in The 
Washington Times, a review in which she 
labeled Mapplethorpe a fascist artist, he 
points out that it is signed “Judith Rei 
man, associate research. director. of the 
American Family Association." She is an 
apologist for the pressure groups that 
provoked this trial, as loathsome to the 
the woman who blotched. 
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skeleton costumes with skull masks. The 
Bill of Rights is carried in a casket by 
four pallbearers. Some wave placards 


reading, SIMON Is А DORKBUTT ONLY А DORK 
BUTT WOULD BURY THE BILL OF RIGHTS. 
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t credible, but god- 
damn it, you have to admire their balls 
County sheriffs study images taken from. 
the video tape ol the earlier demonstra- 
tion. When a protester removes a mask, 
they serve a warrant. 

The spi in the hotel that night is 
grim. A reporter tells Sirkin and Mezi 
boy: “You blew the cross-examinatior 
would have taken a 357 Magnu 
walked up to her and said, “Judith, 
you're history 

There is a sense tl 
has been released into the m 


Maybe artists ar 


something dark 
nds of the 


jurors. І ask Sirkin about past witnesses 
n obscenity cases. “They used to throw 
Victor Cline, Ph.D. [another pseudo 


ized the oi 


researcher, who cri ginal, 
favorable President's Commission on 
Pornography], at me. I beat him si 


seven times. He would just get so strange 
on the stand, Га let him run on and 
eventually he'd turn the jury. Now 
they're trying Reisman. | think she was 
strange ci I think between the 
pretrial te and today’s perform- 


ance, we have enough to discredit and 
neutralize her." 

But the comparison with Cline is not 
totally reassuring. Cline used to babble 
on about masturbation leading to mur- 
der, about pornographys being addic- 
tive, leading to harder and harder scuff, 
stranger and stranger thrills. Since, pre- 
sumably, the jury 1 ma bated and 


not killed, personal experience was 
enough to dismiss the crackpot theory. 
Reisman is more subtle. She invokes a 
threat not based on mere experienc 
rather, it is the specter of harm to other 
children by sophisticated abusers with 
standard codified techniques 
The only hope is the rejection of her 
obscene vision. The trust that parents on 
the jury know that the photos of chil- 
dren taken by Mapplethorpe were not 
pornographic, Reisman seems outraged 
at the absence of shame—in the childr 
depicted and in the same children who 
are now grown. She keeps mentioning 
blackmail—as though to say that if the 
children weren't ashamed then, they 
could be made to feel that way 1 
She is oddly pathetic, oddly preposter- 

but nonetheless dangerous. If she 
gets her way, her opinion could mean 
prison for someone whose opinions dif- 
fer from her own. 


THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS, 


Pros 


/ addresses the jury first. He 
apolo; s g that the 
state has presented the case as it intend- 
ed to, without any changes. He has an 
unfortunate smile—it resembles the look 
you would get by placing fishhooks in a 
cadaver's mouth and lifting until the up- 
per teeth were exposed. He smiles and 
hands over the floor to Mezibov. 
Mezibov's courtroom voice undergoes 
a change: When cross-examining Reis 
man, it was the firm voice of intellect. 
Now it is modulated, warm, wondering. 
He explains freedom, the system, and 
opens a door to the outrage of a system 
abused by law enforcement. He tells of 


the efforts of the C.A.C. to obtain a cou 
ruling in advance of the exhibition. How 
the С.А.С. was set up, bilked by law- 
enforcement. ollicers who were pawns 
for the nameless and faceless pressure 
groups, the people who wrote anony- 
mous letters of complaint. 

He speaks of the exploitation of the 
two children by those pressure groups, 
who distributed copies of the photos, 
trying to ignite an outrage. 

“I think adults can be exploited. It 
dawned on me last night that there are a 
million and a half people living in the 
Greater Cincinnati area, of which maybe 
seven hundred fifty thousand are ей 
een years or older. The kind of people 
who, if they chose to, could get into a car 
and drive across the river into Kentucky 
or down Four Seventy-one or down Sev- 

nty-five. I was taken by the fact tha 

eighty-one thousand did do ji that, 
that eighty-one thousand adults went 
down to the Contemporary Art Center 
to stand in line. So who's being exploit- 
ed? I can think of only ten people [eight 
jurors and two alternates] who were ever 
required to see any part of the Map- 
plethorpe exhibition, not out of any ir 

terest but because they were particularly 
required to do so. Were you? Think of 
what happened here. . . . Go back six 
months. The record will tell you that two 
weeks before the exhibit was scheduled 
to open, there was a hearing ed 
not by the state, not by law enforcement 
but by the Contemporary Art Center 
and Mr. Barrie, And the purpose then 
and there was to lay to rest any question, 
any doubt, that may have cropped up as 
to whether this exhibition violated i 

any measure the obscenity law of this 
state. What better opportunity for any- 
body—including those nameless, face- 
less people—to have his say before the 
exhibition opened? And you know what 
happened? Law enforcement passed. 
This isnt some bridge game where, 
when it comes your turn, you pass. Peo- 
ple's lives are at stake. 

Sirkin follows: For most of the trial, he 
has played net. I notice his reaction time 
more dian his eloquence. Now he touch- 
es on some things important not to the 
case but to the way we see ourselves. 
“John E. Kennedy once said to some stu- 
dents at Amherst, "Society must set the 
artist free to follow his vision wherev 
takes him. We must never forget, art i 
not a form of propaganda: it is a form of 
truth. . . . The highest duty of the wri 
the composer, the artist 
to himself.’ We must be 
and to show things il 
don't like. Because if we all say 
ybody else likes, then there is no rca- 
son to protect free speech. We are a 
country that was designed to let that 
voice out in the wild give his dream, his 
feelings and his innermost thoughts 
to the pictures of the childr 
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you when you go back and you look 
clos in. Il you think those picti 
are frightening or that they are a lewd 
ion that concentrates on the ge 
s of those children, tl y 
thing more than the display of moral 
nocence. . . . | dont believe the people 
of this city have that kind of evil eye. 

“If you take things and try to turn 
them the way the state wants vou to dò, 
the way Judith Reisman wants you to 
do, to turn something human into some- 
thing dirty and ugly. . . . The human 
body is not ugly; it is ugly only if you t 
it that way." 
stands before the jury for the 
last time. He brings up the two pictures 


of the children: “Are these pictures 
morally innocent? Think about it. You 
take pictures of your children in the 


nude. Some of us do, or you do not have 
the pictures. Would you want the picture 
of your child in the nude displayed? 

“Some would say that I'm not 
much of rt. But you 


too 
the 


? expert on 4 


jury, decide what 


or is not art. Are 
these five pictures Van Goghs? No! 
“Forearm rammed up a rectum. Art 
“A finger stuck in the head of a pen 
Is that art? 

‘A canister or something stuck up 
your rectum is art? 

Another picture w here you have a 
ti 
Ys ЖЕШ Is this art? 

All five pictures. Think of it. Art 
th that soliloquy ze who 
could play Prouty. Whenever he says the 
word art, his voice an octave, recall- 
ing Don Knotts or maybe John Cleese in 
a Monty Python skit: "Man with Tape 
Recorder Up Nose." 

. 
Ik out of the courtroom. Cit 3 
d Riverfront Stadi- 


у stand on every corner 
offering tickets. 1 walk five or six blocks 
to the Contemporary Art Genter—it is 
a second-floor walk-up museum across 


“Sure, Pm qualified. I studied all 


the normal subjects: laying on of hands, miracle 
talking in longue: 


the street from the Federal courthouse. 
Huge banners hang on the Federal 
building, celebrating the 200th anniver- 
sary of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. 
courts, the Bill of Rights. 

1 walk around the center: Whereas 
the courtroom is circular, adversarial, 
cramped. the gallery is spacious. Where- 
as the courtroom is muted, with carpets: 
halfway up the wall and industrial- 
strength oak furniture, the gallery 
bright and inviting, with huge rooms, 
white walls, a single sofa for the contem- 
plative. Whereas the courtroom forces 
you to consider the facts—statements, 
photos, law—the gallery presents a 
grander, more speculative vision. I me- 
ander through an artist's creative proc- 
ess. This is Barrie's office, his offering to 
Cincinnati. Whereas the courtroom 
es decision, the gallery invites the 
opposite, the consideration of possibili 
ties. I feel this way in museums, book- 
stores, v Jeo stores, magazine racks and 
ated peep shows. 

. 
A few days later, I meet with Joseph. 
ation of freedom has been de- 
ction of the jury. "Who 
е troubling?” 

“We see it all the time in First Amend- 
ment cases. A juror has to put aside 
his deepest feelings—disgust at Nazis 
marching in parades, at the К.К.К. 
burning crosses, at porn stars coming on 
5 at lorearms rammed up 
rectums—to side with the higher princi- 
ple. The combat happens internally; it is 
They are the heroes in this 
or any other case." 

When some of the jurors finally speak 
to the press, their comments reafhrm the. 
principle. Anthony Eckstein, the eng 
ncer in stcel-rimmed glasses, says, “We 
thought the pictures were lewd, 
grotesque, disgusting. But, like the de 
fense s 't doesn't have to be beauti- 
ful or pretty." 

Stacey Burton, the forewoman/secre- 
tary says, “I think there's something to 
ned by these picture 
imony of Judith Reisman 
ied. The jurors look at the pic 
tures of the children. Jennifer Loesing. 
the blonde X-ray technician who was vis 
ibly st “That didn't take that 
long. We could not see where they had 
done anything wrong.” 

In the first vote, the jury was seven to 
one in favor of acquittal. The holdout, 
who cited moral and religious reasoi 
came around. Then, says Eckstein, came 
the hard part. “We all had to go home 
nd face our families and relatives. We 
were saying to ourselves, ‘Oh, my gosh, 
how are we going to explain this to peo- 
ple? What will everybody think? 

In the end, it wasn't easy. If freedom 
were easy, the whole world would be do- 
ing it. 


I ask. 


devas! 


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once the capital of the island and a city 
with buildings dating back to the carly 
16th Century. And evervwhere we saw 
the great old American cars—Buicks, 
Cadillacs, Chevys, Studebakers; red 
ones, green ones, yellow ones. Some 
were being driven, but many sat on 
blocks as if sunning themselves, waiting 
for a wheel or just passing the time. 
Many had names proudly inscribed on 
their hoods: marta, Kosa, ANGEL. They 
looked like happy characters out of 
some children's book 

We noticed a general shortage of hot 
water, but. otherwise, all of our accom 
modations were dean, relatively modern 
and safe. Cuba's policía, it seems, have 
little patience with criminals, and sen 
tences are swiftly handed out. Knowing 
that their jails are occupied by the is 
land's real low lifes, most Cubans keep 
10 the proper side of the law. 

Cuban cuisine is hot, spicy and, after 
my experience in the Soviet Union, a 
gourmets delight: tropical fruits, fresh 
grilled fish, poultry, beans, rice and pas 
ties, plus strong, flavorful coffee that 
kicks you upside the head if you have 
more than one cup. We celebrated each 
sunset with a batch of mojitos, the island's 
official drink. Rum, mint, mineral water, 
lemon juice and a touch of sugar mingle 
in a libation that helps you lambada till 
you drop. 

A visit to Havana's Tropicana night 
dub affords an experience rivaled only 
by a Busby Berkeley extravaganza. ( 
brating 50 years of performances, 


(continued from page 74) 


the 
Tropicana provides a spectacle under 
the stars for tourists and Cubans alike. 


On multilevel stages and platforms 
suspended in trees are semiclad danc- 
ers—their bodies swaying beneath head- 
dresses like enormous  chandeli 
studded with twinkling electric lights— 
moving to the beat of a 32-piece orches- 
tra. Male and female dancers simulate 
sex to the staccato pulse of strobe lights 
And later, after the nightly performance, 
the stage turns into a disco, where 
young Cubans get down. 

We were enjoying our red-carpet tour 
immensely, but, we kept asking our 
hosts, where are the girls? They seemed 
reluctant. to discuss the subject. At the 
outset of our visit, in fact, an official had 
warned us we shouldn't expect to take 
nude photographs. Sexy, yes; see- 
through, maybe—but not nudes, 

“But, senor,” 1 argued, “¿por qué? The 
Soviet women were very cager to have 
glamourous photographs taken of them 
Why not the beautiful women of Cuba? 

“Señor Cohen," was the reply, “the 
women of Cuba are very proud. And 
ninety-two percent of them belong to the 
Federación de Mujeres de Cuba.” The 
М.С. is an alliance of feminists working 
to reverse the macho attitude that has 


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had a surprise for us: an exclusive fash- 
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fessional models. Patrick and I selected 
cight who we thought had the potential 
to represent the beauties of their coun- 
try in our pictorial. 

After that, I had to get back to Chica- 
go and the office, but Patrick was able to 
return to Cuba for the best of it. Much 
the best of it, as it turned out: Not only 
was he able to travel freely around the. 
countryside in a rented car, minus escort 
and with eight beautiful women, but he 
fell in love with one of them: The lovely 
Idolka de Erbiti is now ensconced in his 


house in Paris. He was also smitten by 
the country and its people. The only 
thing that annoyed him was the govern- 
menr's perhaps predictable red tape. 

“In September, when I went back to 
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minute—we have to go and sce so-and- 
so.’ And then so-and-so would say the 
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up tourism, you have to open up every 
thing to promotion.” 

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memory of Ci astro reputa- 
tion. “Before the revolution, there were 
a hundred thousand prostitutes in Ha- 
vana alone," Patrick says. "Batista would 


"Boy, Ruthie—did I ever trade up!" 


young girls taken from the 
countryside and. put into brothels, and 
Cuba became known as the bordello of 
the U.S. So now the Cubans want to 
open up tourism, but you know what 
they're afraid of? They re afraid of pros- 
ütution and they're afraid of casinos 
They wanted to make sure that we 
ir women with respect." 

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confess that I was thinking less about the 
political impact of our prospective picto- 
rial than about how I was going to get 
through U.S. Customs with a box of Co- 
hiba cigars, a bottle of Havana Club 
rum, my Ché Guevara T-shirts, a set of 
Cuban toy soldiers and some native jazz 
tapes, all of which could spell trouble 


even though my passport indicated 
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course, have justified Playboy s interest in 


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out brand names (which are not re- 
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toms agent looked. me straight in the 
eye. "Are you declaring all the goods you 
purchased?" she asked. 

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“Are you flying in from Mexico City?” 

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That's il, V thought. Pue made it. No sweat. 
No problem 

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most to the door when two other Cus- 
toms officers, making random checks, 
approached and asked to see my decla- 
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other asked, “Who do you work for? 


“Playboy,” 1 said, in a tone meant to 
signify male bonding 
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iet Union and wrote about smug- 
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magazine?” 


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come home." 

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as ^Enter the channel 
time 

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movie channel or sports event at eight 
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PHONE NETWORKING 1991 


You wouldn't open yoür front door 
before 


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shouldn't you have the option of know- 
ing who's calling on your phone before 
you pick it up? That's the rationale for 
Caller ID—the top of the CLASS (Cus- 
tom Local Area Signaling Services) now 
extending across the country 
phone companies equipped with digital 
switching facilities. 

Alter signing up for the service (it's 
about seven dollars per month), you 


from 


plug in a special Caller ID phone, such 
as the Northern Telecom Maestro 


($160), or add a small telephone accesso- 
ry unit from Colonial Data Technologi 
Bell Atlantic, Bell South, AT&T or Ly 
Automation ($59 to $129). On all € 
ID products, a liquid-crystal display re- 
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ringing. These smart devices also offer 
recall atthe touch of a button. 

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invasion of privacy, since the service 
exposes unlisted phone numbers. Tele- 
phone companies can shield callers with 
an LD. block 

Other new species of smart phones 
talk to one another in ways that avoid 
extra installations and monthly carrying 
charges. The AT&T Intercom Speaker- 


phone, for example, delivers paging and 
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) And Phonex has devel- 
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through your home's electrical wiring to 
special phone taps installed on power 
outlets. Adding or moving a phone (or a 
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Want to pretend you're sweating at 
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thing electric we now own. CEBus appli- 
ances will speak a universal language 
over the home's highways—traveling 
through the A.C. power lines, phone 
wiring, low-power radio, infrared light, 
coaxial TV cable or combinations there- 


of. Most likely, you'll control the system 
via an infrared remote de 
a TV screen. Who knew the boob tube 
would grow to be so bright? 

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meaning of life. But these talkative pow- 
er tools are sure to improve the quality 


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ESS THAN A MILE from the clubs and discos of 

Tokyo's Roppongi district is an elegant two- 

story house. From the outside, there is little to 

distinguish it from the neighboring buildings. 

But three days a week, when it's open to the 

public, the year-old home draws a crowd any 
dub owner would envy. 

The TRON (The Real-time Operating-system Nucleus) 
Intelligent House is a $7,000,000 experiment in advanced 
technology. Not just a showease for high-tech gadgetry, 
a demonstration of how electronic sensors, appliances, per- 
sonal computers, lights, climate-control equipment and 
other devices can work in fully automated harmony to sim- 
plify our lives. 

The mastermind behind the system is Ken Sakamura, a 
39-year-old associate professor of information science at the 
University of Tokyo. What this technology whiz considers a 
computer goes far beyond the familiar basic box and key: 
board. With computing power being built into everything 
from microwave ovens to VCRs, Sakamura says, we now 
have a wide range of intelligent objects that could effective- 
ly exchange information if properly interconnected. 

Although the TRON house is one of the most advanced 
home-automation systems in the world, one would never 
know it from appearances. The interior reflects the spare, 
dean lines of contemporary Japanese architecture. Wood 
and natural fabrics in neutral colors exude warmth. One 
side of the house is given over to a spectacular plant-filled 
m. Yet no effort has been spared to keep this home 
front comfortable. Sensors monitor temperature, humidity, 
air flow, human presence and even carbon-dioxide levels 
inside the house. If skies are clear and temperatures fair, 
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drop of rain, windows close and the HVAC establishes an 
optimum temperature based on the occupants’ activities. 
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perature to decrease a few degrees; watching television in 
the dark will raise it slightly. 

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nd convenience. If one chooses to dim the lights, not every 
lamp must be adjusted individually, All features within a 
room—lighting, temperature, even curtains—can be con- 
trolled from a single centralized wall switch. 

Other controls protect the entire house—and its owner, 
An “out” mode sets the burglar alarm and turns the en- 
trance lights on when it gets dark. In a “good night" mode, 
infrared lights detect when someone gets up in the middle 
of the night and respond by switching on subdued lighting 
to guide the way. 

The entire system is programmed and users can change 
the instructions from any of the home's three personal com- 
puters. To override the program—keep the windows open, 
even—just hit a wall switch. 

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cypress-paneled room, the whirlpool-fitted bath can be pro- 
grammed to be filled and waiting at any time and at any 
temperature. Different temperatures can be programmed 
for different users. An adjoining herb-fragrant sauna fea- 
tures similar programmable controls 

For home entertainment, not only does this house have 
the latest gear but it's all laced into highly synchronized net- 
works. Video signals from any of seven cameras, VCRs or 
laser-disc players inside the house, or from television, satel- 
е or cable stations outside, can be viewed on any of the 
home's 33 television monitors. A person watching a movie 
can periodically check on someone in another room or see 
who's at the door just by switching channels. The monitors 
also can display information such as lighting scenarios, 
room temperature and humidity, outdoor weather condi- 
tions and utility use. 

The video system also plays a role in keeping things or- 
ganized. An automated storage system takes gym-locker- 
sized bins from four access ports on the first and second 
floors to and from the basement. Video cameras mounted 
above the ports record what's loaded into each bin and 
keep an inventory, which can be viewed on any monitor 

Audio signals also can be routed to any room in the house 
via its intercom, FM receiver or ten-disc CD player. The liv- 
ing room and one of the bedrooms are fitted with speakers 
to take advantage of a digital signal processor that can mim- 
ic the acoustics of 16 settings, from a large concert hall to a 
movie theater. 

In the kitchen, a computer-controlled laser-disc player is 
linked to the oven and cooking rings. Discs guide chefs 
through meal preparation, controlling cooking tempera- 
tures and times for perfect results. 

The emphasis of the TRON house is on whole-house au- 
tomation. But more specialized intelligent eq! i 
cluded throughout to increase comfort and efficiency. 
sensor-controlled watering system keeps the atrium green 
and a high-frequency sound generator keeps it pest-free. 
Lights on the dressing table can be set at the level of a typi 
cal office, night club or restaurant. With the press of a but- 
ton, the bathroom faucet can be adjusted to provide just the 
right amount of water to wash your face or brush your 
teeth. There's even a toilet that checks the user's pulse and 
blood pressure and performsa basic urinalysis. 

Although the TRON house has taken home electronics 
beyond most normal expectations, it is just the first step in 
Sakamura's long-range plans. Using the home as their lab- 
oratory, he and electronics manufacturers are working to- 
gether to develop a line of products built specifically for 
whole-house automation, as well as to explore the possibili- 
ty of extending the TRON network outside the home. The 
information collected by the intelligent john, for example, 
could be relayed directly to a doctor's computer. 

Ultimately, Sakamura sees networks of intelligent objects 
encompassing regions and entire countries in an effort to 
improve world-wide communications. How's that for reach- 
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MADONNA 

(continued from page 84) 
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L hate her! I absolutely hate her! But I 
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professions in the world, and I could 
never do this, I think, How does she get 
away with this? But she is positive fc 
women, WI saying and doing 
lutionary. No one takes women seri- 
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point of Madonna’s art is artifice. She is 
hot a singer or a dancer, except inciden 
tally, What she's really selling is herself in 
various tableaux of good and evil and 
vice and virtue. She is, not to get fancy 
about it, a performance artist, no less so 
than the chocolate-smeared Karen Fin- 
ley. Unlike Finley, though, she is seeking 
a mass audience. And if she is to make 
ny impact in a popular culture that ev- 
year sets new levels in reduction to 
ssible denominator, he 
de, so trite 
and so exaggerated in its artífice that no 
one but critics can fail to get it. 

At the heart of her artifice is the 
uniquely American gift for packaging. 
Some students of tlie phenomenon like 
to exaggerate Madonna's own exaggera- 
tion and say that, like Jay Gatsby, she in- 
vented and frequently reinvents herself 
(a beloved pop- notion), but thi: 
gain misses the point; her permutations 
are variations on a theme, not metamor 
phoses. Reinventing yourself is dying 
and being reborn, not dyeing your hai 
In truth, Madonna, like other artists, 
mply mines and refines the same mate- 
rial over and over, drawing from whatev- 
er wells there are within 

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her are hardly de than a puddle, 
and they have been plumbed many 
nes befo but that doesn't make 
m any less real. 
Her performance comes from her own 
life, from her 
from the 
her father's betrayal by remarrying, 
from the conflict between her strict 
Catholic upbringing and her sexual de- 
es, from her great natural hunger for 
attention. Her act, both on stage and off, 
one long teenage dissertation on these 
ordinary things. She is mad at her daddy 
and at the nuns and the priests of her 
uncompromising church and at boys 
who want only to fawk you and dont 
even do a very good job at that. She 
woukl like, theoretically, to be loved by 
good man, but so far, the good men are 
dull and the bad men are exciting but 
soon grow tiresome. She alternates from 
despair to rebellion to nihilism, all felt 
terribly, terribly deeply but not for long. 

It's all banal, of course, which is exact- 
ly why it is so right. Profundity is as 
necessary for our popular art as is intel- 
ligence, which is to say, not at all. Warhol 
new that, and so does Madonna. It i. 
the very shallowness of her vision, 1 
the very obviousness with which she 
processes herself in that vision, that 
makes her art accessible to the people 
she is trying to reach. Banality is an ap- 
propriate tone in contemplating mod- 
ern life, and if the critics don't know 
that, Madonna does, and so do all the 
teenage girls who are mad at their mean 
daddies and their embarrassing mothers 
and all those nasty, unkind boys 

Indeed, banality is key. A real reinven- 
tion of self would be understandable to. 
very few, but a dye job and a costume. 
change are easily grasped by all. With 
every redo, Madonna has olfered a new 
and improved self, but never so new that 
it cannot be assimilated nor so improved 
that it cannot be imitated. The young 


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woman who posed nude for photogra- 
phers in 1979 and 1980 was pretty and 
sexy but not impossibly so. Her face still 
d a touch of baby fat, her body. a 
touch of awkwardness, The Boy Toy of 

few years later was much more poised 
and posed but still a little pudgy, still not 

o impossibly beautiful that a teenager in 
Brooklyn or Brighton couldn't see her- 
self in that bustier and miniskirt. Now she 
is the playgirl of the Western world, 
bleached and costumed and sıylized and 
sculpted into something much large 
than life but still oddly, carefully accessi- 
ble. She employs cartoon effects that r 
quire almost no imagination or skill to 
ape. The costumes she wears are hyper- 
bolic in their whole but commonplace in 
their parts. If you are ned 
young woman, you can find a corset and 
a bicyde jacket in your town. The make 
up is bold and brassy and cheap, the 
platinum hair is known by all to come 
from a boule. Any girl can buy the same. 
Strap on a crucifix, let the world see 
your bra and learn to say fawk and you 
100, can become glamourous, exciting, a 
. And much more: a woman—no bet- 
ter looking when she began than you, 
р; » makes Ше men grovel and 
the boys pant, a woman who calls the 
shots, a woman who breaks all the rules 
about what good girls do and gets away 
with it, a woman in control in a world 
full of rude and threatening men 

“I think women should look like her 
ke her,” says Dawn, groping her 
way through a thicket of thought. "If 
you dress in a way that makes you feel 
good about yourself, it tends to make 
men look at you but not bother you. IF 
you don't look good, they bother you, 
because they can see that you are vulner- 
able. But if you are looking good, they 
respect you. So I personally feel I should 
put on lots of make-up and dress the w 
Ido.” 

When the young Madonna-ettes talk, 
you can hear the lure and the promise of 
the miracle vibrate in their voices. 
Melanie Parson and Kelly Jeffries are 12 
years old. They dress as much like 
Madonna as they can get away with, 
which is not very much. 
three or four hours a day listening to 
Madonna's music and working on their 
Madonna scrapbooks. They are conv 
tional middle-class girls and they will 
probably grow up to be conventional 
middle-class women and like it well 
enough. But tonight, under the smoggy 

ies of Wembley, they watch the plat- 
inum tramp up on the floodlit stage and 
they know that anything is possible. A 
new hairdo, a bit of hot lipstick, a daring 
dress and there isa new you, wicked and 
bold and remaking the world. 

Why do you like Madonna, Kelly? 
She changes. She changes all the 
time.” 


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GRAPEVINE 


The Cats in the Hats 

They're blues legend WILLIE DIXON (left) and musician pal DR. JOHN, hanging out backstage 
at the Benson & Hedges Blues Festival. The Doctor collaborated with the late Art Blakey on 
the hot jazz LP Bluesiana Triangle, and the original Hoochie Coochie Man co- 
wrote and sang Long Legged Goddess on Willi Jones's recent debut al- 
bum. Singing the ( blues is still good news. 


LeeAnn 
Does Her 


E Sleight of 


and 

Did you see 
actress LEEANN 
MAHONEY in The 
Adventures of 
Ford Fairlane? 
Or in the epi- 
sode of 
Cheers 
when 
Sam got 
the mea- 
slest 
We're 
proud 

to have 
LeeAnn 
holding 
up her 
corner of 

| Grapevine 
S with a grin 
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PAUL NATKIN/PHOTO RESERVE INC. 


© 1990 MARK LEIVDAL 


Caution: Curves 
Actress SUSAN PETRICONE worked behind the cam- 
eras on Arnold Schwarzenegger's current pic, Kin- 
dergarten Cop. Here, she gives us the soft shoulder. 


Gee 
A Bat, a Ball 
and Some Gall 
The Yankees need help, but 
this is ridiculous! TOM SEL- 
uited up for Tokyo 
Diamond, in which he plays 
an on-the-skids ballplayer. 
Sounds like a real Yankee. 


ri 
© 1990 MARK LEVDAL 


Sea Nymph 

There's more to diving than fish and shipwrecks. 
TRACY MILLHOLION, for example: She is an 
actress/correspondent on TV's Scuba World. Want 
more? Get Tracy's video Dream of a Mermaid and 
blow bubbles 
at home. 


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Better Dread than Dead 
Have you checked out DREAD ZEP- 
PELIN? It plays old Led Zep songs to a 
reggae beat and the lead singer looks 
like Elvis during his Las Vegas days. 
Whole lotta love, mon. 


© SUE PLUMMER 


PAULNATKIN/PHOTO RESERVE INC. 


is the name of rocker COLIN JAMES’s \ [ SCL 
new LP not the state of his career. ^ WOI 
Opening for Robert Plant's U.K. tour н 

and duetting with Bonnie Raitt оп суў 
vinyl, Colin pulls out all the stops. 


PAUL NATKIN/PHOTO RESERVE INC. 


DOUGLAS MAGBY 


There Was (Not Wasn't) a Party Going On 
Was (Not Was) singers DONALD RAY MITCHELL (left) and SIR HARRY 
BOWENS (right) took the stage with Tears for Fears’ CURT SMITH at 
the Was record-debut party for Are You Okay? 


PO TEPE ONUR AR Penna 


NEW LANDSCAPE 
In December's Christmas Gift Guide, we featured GET 
a signed sterling-silver puzzle titled Landscape \ SCREWDEVILED 


Variations by renowned sculptor Richard Hunt. 
Priced at $1500, it was a great buy that was 
bound to go up in value. But if your bank bal- 
ance is on the small side, you can own the 
8'/4 x 8'/:" puzzle nestled in a walnut base and 
not have to hock your Rolex to do so. The 
bronze version pictured here is available for 
$160, postpaid, by calling 800-345-6066 and 
asking for item HK-3198. They're selling fast. 


We seldom feature 
fishing lures in Poipour- 
ri, but when you 
chance upon one 
named Screwdevil and 
when the company that 
manufactures it also 
sells T-shirts picturing 
“The Original 
Screwdevil” and Old 
Scratch himself, well, 
you just go to the Devil. 
D and N Enterprises, 
PO. Box 473, Whitewa- 
ter, Wisconsin 53190, 
markets the Screwdevil 
lures for $3.95 each, 
postpaid. But the 
Tshirts are what most 
of D and N's customers 
are hooked on. They 
are available in sizes 
small through extra 
large for $13.95, post- 
paid. D and N claims 
that its lures "do catch 
fish." Think we'll bite? 


JOLLY GOOD LISTEN 


Р С. Wodehouse may have gone to that great 
Drones Club in the sky, but his most beloved 
characters, Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, live on 
in a new one-hour audio tape, Jeeves Takes 
Charge, read by Edward Duke. (The selections 
are from Duke's triumphant Wodehouse stage 
tour in which he played all the characters.) The 
price: $8.50, postpaid, from Buckingham Clas- 
sics, PO. Box 597441, Chicago 60659. If Wode- 
house isn't your cuppa, old bean, Buckingham 
also offers a tape of Fanny Hill. 


INCA DO 


If you've followed the sun from Agadés to Zamboanga and are 
still seeking new worlds to conquer, do we have a destination 
for you! Hanns Ebensten Travel, Inc., 513 Fleming Street, Key 
West, Florida 33040, is offering 12 adventurous travelers the 
chance to visit remote Vilcabamba, Peru, the last refuge of the 
Incas. The tour, July 14 to 26, which costs $3645 per person, 
not including air fare, begins in Lima. Then it's on to Cuzco 
and the ruins of Vilcabamba, where you'll camp for two 
nights. From there, you proceed to such name-droppable nir- 
vanas as Nusta Hispanan, Quillabamba, Machu Picchu and 
Cuzco again. Just hope that someone at the office asks what 
you did on your summer vacation. 


MAD AVE GOES TO THE DOGS 


Buster Brown's four-footed friend, 
Tige, and RCA's cocked-headed Nip- 
per weren't the only spokesdogs to be- 
come howling successes. In the $12.95 
soficover The Dog Made Me Buy It!, by 
Alice L. Muncaster and Ellen Sawyer, 
ads for Great Dane coal, St. Bernard 
sardines and Greyhound moving vans 
are depicted among 130 photos of 
dogs in advertising. 


INSIDE LOOK AT LONDON 


You don't have to be an Anglophile to 
lo 


yourself in London Living Style, a 
oli coffee-table book containing 
250 color photos of such diverse resi- 
dences as an artist's studio in K 
Town and a town house in Belgravia. 
There are shots of foyers, bedrooms 
and kitchens. The price: $40. Not into 
London? Rizzoli's companion book, At. 
Home in France, also $40, takes you 
from a Paris pied-à-terre to a country 
cháteau. Tiés bien. 


POWA PLAY 


PowaKaddy Remote, "the 
world's first remote-con- 
trolled golf caddie," is about. 
to emerge from the club- 
house to accompany well- 
heeled duffers over hill and 
dale. No, it won't throw clubs 
into the air the way the cart 
in Caddyshack did, but users 
will be able to guide the bat- 
tery-powered PowaKaddy 
from-hole to hole via a hand- 
held control. When fully 
charged, the —which will 
sell for about $1400—is good 
for 18 holes. For more infor- 
mation, call PowaKaddy 

USA, Inc., at 800-648-7222. 
Play through! 


ALL THAT JAZZ! 
The first general-merchandise catalog geared to the jazz com- 


postcards, photoprints, 


only two dollars sent to The Jazz Store, 
y 07097. Or if you really have the hots for 
cool sounds or merchandise, there's also a phone 
the number to note. 


Garwood, New Je 
some v 
service: 901-9. 


33-952 


s out and you'll find plenty of jazzy stuff in its 41 
pages—including videos, books, CDs, audio с 


tes, poster: 
ts and much more. The price is 
-L Beech Avenue, 


PRINTS CHARMING 


Seen a poster or a reproduc- 
tion of a work of art that you 
can't live without? Contact 
Print Finders, a service that. 
researches and quotes the 
price of the picture you're 
seeking. All you do is supply 
Print Finders with the name 
of the artist and the title of 
age and they'll let you 
ize and 
cost. (Print Finders sells the 
image at retail, without 
adding a search fee.) Their 
address is 15 Roosevelt P 
Scarsdale, New York 1058: 
The Wagon-Bar poster pic- 
tured here is only $40. Nice. 


NEXT MONTH 


“UNCLE ANDY GEE'S FAREWELL SHOW"—IT SURE 
AIN'T HOWDY DOODY TIME WHEN A SMALL TV STA- 
TION'S TERMINALLY ILL KIDS-SHOW HOST ASKS TO 
TAPE HIS ULTIMATE FAREWELL—FICTION BY STEPHEN 
RANDALL 


“POACHING”—YOUNGER WOMEN, OLDER MEN. ONCE 
CALLED CRADLE ROBBING, THIS GAME OF SEXUAL 
MUSICAL CHAIRS MAY JUST BE DEVELOPING INTO THE 
DATING TREND OF THE NINETIES. FOR THOSE WHO 
DARE, PLAYBOY EXPLORES THE PLEASURES AND PER- 
ILS OF THE SPORT WITH THE POACHERS AND THEIR 
POACHEES—BY DAVID SEELEY 


“CALL OF THE WILD”—GET SET FOR THE NEXT REVO- 
LUTION: IT'S ABOUT HANGING TOUGH WHILE STAYING 
SENSITIVE. A VIEW OF THE NINETIES MALE—BY MEN 
COLUMNIST ASA BABER 


"GIVE US A BREAK!”—ENJOY THE SIGHTS OF AN UN- 
RESTRAINED AND UNIQUELY AMERICAN BACCHANA- 
LIAN FREE-FOR-ALL AS OUR PHOTOGRAPHERS HIT 
SPRING'S HOTTEST SPOTS: EAST, WEST AND DOWN TO 
THE GULF OF MEXICO 


“IS STEVE MARTIN A NATIONAL TREASURE?"—IN 
A DOZEN GREAT FUNNYMAN ROLES, AMONG THEM 


WOMEN'S WOMEN 


A MODERN-DAY CYRANO DE BERGERAC, A JERK, A 
ROCK DENTIST, A PRIVATE EYE AND A LONELY GUY, 
MARTIN HAS DEMONSTRATED WHY HE MAY BE THE 
GREATEST COMIC GENIUS SINCE CHAPLIN. A PLAYBOY 
PROFILE BY BRUCE JAY FRIEDMAN 


“THE WITLESS PROTECTION PROGRAM"—WHEN CA- 
REER CRIMINALS JOIN FORCES WITH THE JUSTICE 
DEPARTMENT TO COMBAT CRIME, MAYHEM RESULTS. 
WELCOME TO THE WITNESS-SECURITY PROGRAM: NO 
BAD DEED GOES UNREWARDED-—BY Т. J. ENGLISH 


MARTIN SCORSESE, OUR MOST PROVOCATIVE COM- 
MERCIAL DIRECTOR, WHOSE FILMS INCLUDE TAXI DRIV- 
ER, RAGING BULL, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST 
AND THE KING OF COMEDY, COULD TAKE AN OSCAR 
FOR GOODFELLAS. HE GOES OFF CAMERA, AND ON 
THE RECORD, IN AN INTENSE PLAYBOY INTERVIEW 


PLUS: PLAYBOY PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE WOMEN OF 
WOMEN'S COLLEGES IN A VERY SPECIAL NEWS-MAK- 
ING PICTORIAL; YOU WON'T NEED THAT CRYSTAL BALL. 
TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF WHAT'S IN VOGUE WHEN 
YOU CHECK OUT "PLAYBOY'S SPRING AND SUMMER 
FASHION FORECAST," BY HOLLIS WAYNE; KEN 
GROSS REVVVS UP "PLAYBOY'S AUTOMOTIVE RE- 
PORT"; AND MUCH, MUCH MORE 


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Since 1865, not a penny's wages have peen paid to 29 
volunteer crews ofthe Roy: Senna 
in the port of Anstruther. 

Simply the profound respect 
and que of the men who 
sail the North Sea. 

The good thingsin 
life stay that way. 
Dewars never varies. 


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