Playboy Park

Mark Deklin in "Lone Star"Mark Dekln as Trammell Thatcher
IMG_9857Scenes from a reading of "A Hair of the Dog You Walked In With".
February 16, 2008
Gas Pump Girls
Family
At the MansionDwyer and Parmley enjoying the end of another PMOY shoot circa 1986 with Playmate of the Year Donna Edmondson
Playboy PlaymatesDeanna Brooks and Pilar Lastra enjoying themselves in Monterey representing the Mazda MX-5 Cup
The VineyardKarl-Heinz Teuber as a modern day Charon with Karen Witter (left) and Lars Wangberg (center) his unsuspecting fare in The Vineyard. "In the pink," Lars wont be.

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YouTube excerpts:
The Vineyard (wine auction scene)
The Vineyard (the arrival at Doctor Pos)
The Vineyard (Party on Po!)
Scintillating Conversation
dania loves georgia
solar system
Playboy lensI bought this classic old Nikkor-P 105mm f/2.5 lens on eBay from former Playboy photographer Robert Scott Hooper. Hooper used to shoot Playmates with this lens, and he threw in a signed, uncirculated copy of September 1977 Playboy that included his award-winning pictoral of Debra Jo Fondren, shot with this lens. She went on to become Playmate of the Year. The lens itself has a long and successful history, and has been loved by photographers for more than 50 years. First launched in 1959 as a pre-AI lens, it underwent various changes until around 1990, but the optics remained the same. In 1977, Nikon launched the new Ai (Automatic Indexing) lenses, and at the same time it offered to upgrade older lenses to AI. This is one such pre-AI lens factory upgraded to AI by Nikon. Many other old copies of the lens have been crudely upgraded to AI by do-it-yourselfers. The lens gained great reputation for its sharpness and for its smooth "bokeh" (out-of-focus background blur). They still work beautifully with todays Nikon DSLRs, though they must be manually focused.
Lingerie Bowl Kick Off @ Ritual NightclubThe Lingerie Bowl halftime extravaganza kicks-off each year with a celebrity-studded red-carpet event that has become one of the most exclusive events in Hollywood featuring hundreds of models, Lingerie Bowl teams, celebrities, former/current NFL greats and worldwide media. This year the party is hosted in Feb in Arizona.
Cake in Oakland-49
DSC_0016Dr Troy Stuckey, Laura Stuckey, Anna Clark, Mike Clark
In the Natural World, there is no resting on your laurels.Taken by Debbie Hooper 7/04/05. One week later, Hurricane Dennis swallowed these dunes along with this loggerhead turtle nest I found.
DSC_2274051292 King WAN %26 Gwen WONG
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Buzz Oats No Excuses 5KMemorial Day 2010

The paper and stickers came from Karen Fosters Running collection. Ive had it for about five years -- figured Id use someday it to document my race series.

Blogged.
blair from the facts of life
Ibeji party
Julie McCullough
WI: Superior Labor Walk, July 16, 2008 WI: Superior Labor Walk, July 16, 2008

Dave Hahn, BAC 2WI;
Jeffrey Daveau, UA 11;
Dave Carlson, UA 11;
Julianna Zunker, USW 2-224;
Ken Pittsleg, USW 2-224;
Steve Meyer, USW 2-224;
Vance Anderson, Roofers and Waterproofers 96;
Norm Voorhees, IRON 512;
(backs of heads)
Mary Theurer, AFL-CIO;
Darlene Schmid, AFT 202;
Marilyn Lange, AFT 202;
Richard Lange, AFT 202.

(Photo credit: Phil Freedman)
ThrillerMichael Jacksons Thriller.

This one took me about 9 hours to draw. Im so pleased with how it turned out.
I think this is my best drawing so far! ;)
e3_2005-31Lauren Michelle Hill
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Joan Bennett1936 publicity photo with her cocker spaniel Duke
Sharon Clark@ Billie Holiday tribute at Artscape 2010.
Sharon, you looked smashing!
Smash Mouth
Sarah Kemp, Richard Adams %26 Elaine ReynoldsThe Declining Winter Live @ Popcentrale, Urban Explorers, Dordrecht Friday May 21st 2010
Barnes group 1983
Shannons Graduation
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Michelle Hamilton at the little BM TOG outreach. If you are visiting, i encourage you to listen to her moving and powerful testimony here.
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DeannaMembers brunch at the Boabo Center
Ann Penningtonphotograph by the George White Studios, sometime between 1913 and 1924.
04.02.08 Playboy Launched in ManilaPlayboy playmates Weng Santos, Priscilla Meirelles, Raquel Gibson and Joy Pagurayan (L-R) are surrounded by Playboy bunnies wearing rabbit ears as they hold a copy of the magazines first issue for photographers in a news launch at a hotel in Manila April 2, 2008.
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Dorothy Stratten"If people bring so much courage to this world, the world has to kill them to break them so of course it kills them. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry."

Ernest Hemmingway

Dorothy Stratten (February 28, 1960 – August 14, 1980) was a Canadian model and actress. Stratten found fame as the Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1979 and subsequently Playmate of the Year for 1980. She was the second Playmate (after Lee Ann Michelle) to be born in the 1960s. However, Stratten is remembered for the circumstances of her murder at age 20 by her estranged husband, an act that was the basis of two motion pictures.

Stratten was born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten in a Salvation Army hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Simon and Nelly Hoogstraten, Dutch immigrants. In 1961, her brother John Arthur was born, and her sister Louise Stratten followed in May 1968.

She attended Centennial High School in Coquitlam. In 1977, while working part-time in a local Dairy Queen, she met a Vancouver-area promoter and pimp named Paul Snider (then 26), who had nude photos taken of her and eventually sent them to Playboy. Because she was underage, she had to obtain her mothers signature to have the photos taken.

In 1979, after having her surname shortened to Stratten, she became Playboys Miss August, and found work as a Bunny at the Los Angeles Playboy Club. She also played the role of Miss Cosmos in the Buck Rogers television series.

In June 1979, she married Snider in Las Vegas, Nevada. The couples relationship quickly deteriorated, as Snider became prone to fits of jealousy and controlling behavior.

In 1980, she became Playboys Playmate of the Year. Her original pictorial was photographed by Mario Casilli.

Hugh Hefner reportedly encouraged Stratten to sever ties with Snider, calling him a "hustler and a pimp". Rosanne Katon and other friends warned Stratten about Sniders behavior. By August 1980, Sniders grandiosity gave way to obsessive jealousy as he lost control of Strattens "rocket to the moon". Around this time Stratten began an affair with the director of her first major film, Peter Bogdanovich. Snider hired a private detective to follow Stratten and report back to him everything she did. Snider and Stratten separated, and Stratten moved in with Bogdanovich. Stratten had also made plans to file for divorce from Snider.

On 14 August 1980 around noon, Snider and Stratten met at Sniders house, in which the couple had once lived in Los Angeles, along with their friend, Dr. Stephen Kushner. They met to discuss a financial settlement regarding the divorce.

Shortly after 11:00 p.m., Kushner entered Sniders room after receiving no response from knocking. There he discovered Stratten dead from a gunshot wound to the head and Snider from a self-inflicted gunshot.

Dorothy Stratten is buried at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California. Stratten and Carol Willis are the only two Playmates to die within a year and a half of their Playboy appearances. At 20 years of age, they were also the youngest.

Jamie Lee Curtis portrayed Stratten and Bruce Weitz played Paul Snider in the 1981 television film Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story.

Strattens story was portrayed in Bob Fosses 1983 film Star 80 starring Mariel Hemingway (Stratten) and Eric Roberts (Snider). The movie was filmed in the very same house and room where the actual murder/suicide occurred.

Peter Bogdanovich wrote a book about her titled The Killing of the Unicorn that was released in the summer of 1984. Four years later, at the age of 49, he married Strattens sister, Louise, who, at age 20, was 29 years younger than Bogdanovich, who had earlier, following her sisters death, paid for Louises private school and modeling classes. They divorced in 2001 after 13 years of marriage.

Bryan Adams co-wrote two songs about Stratten. The first, titled "Cover Girl", became a hit for the band Prism in 1980. The second was titled "The Best Was Yet to Come" and was written with Jim Vallance; it appeared on Adams 1983 album Cuts Like a Knife and was later covered by Laura Branigan.

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park %26 Mortuary
www.dignitymemorial.com
1218 Glendon Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90024-4914
(310) 474-1579
Pennybacker Bridge, Austin TXFrom the underside of the Pennybacker Bridge. Nothing was actually removed or cropped from the photo. After adjusting the IR color, blew the exposure up to create the look.
Lisa at the Cambie
Erika EleniakErika Eleniak at the Ocean City Convention Center. I met Erika today and she was very nice and a lot of fun. Erika was in Baywatch, Playboy, and some really good bad movies.
Photo: March 14, 2010.
Jake %26 Susie by the Painting of JakeTheyre holding the original photo taken in the Hohfluh house. The painting was done by an old girlfriend of Harrys (Jakes Dad), Paige Young. Paige was a Playboy centerfold who also had a talent for painting.
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Bebe Buell
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