As Mr. McClarey puts it, "a pro-Playboy troll comes to Open Book." A commentor at Amy Welborn's blog sings praises of the Playboy track to stardom. He cites Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, and Tara Patrick (Carmen Electra) as examples.
My reply follows...
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Oh, it's a little bit of centerfold gamesmanship, is it?
Well, I'll call your Pamela Anderson, and raise you a Colleen Applegate.
What? You've never heard of her? Oh, that's probably because she's dead. Although she gathered more fame as a dead porn star, she's largely forgotten now. The young 20-year-old girl came from Nowhere, Minnesota and struck out for Hollywood, California for her 15 minutes of fame. People Weekly describes her first steps to stardom:
A few weeks after leaving, Colleen called with an odd piece of good news: She was working as a model and earning $100 a day, more than her father was making. She didn't mention that she'd answered a newspaper ad for the World Modeling Agency in Van Nuys and had begun posing nude for magazine photographers.
PBS is more antiseptic, they can't be bothered to reveal her name:
She was from Minnesota. Young, pretty, and fresh. She went to Hollywood in search of a dream and found herself in X-rated movies, on drugs, and estranged from her family and friends.
Yeah, she made it to the "top." One week she's clinking champagne glasses with Francis Ford Coppola at the Erotic Film Awards, and the next week, well... "Two years to the month after she left Farmington, Colleen Applegate came home to be buried."
Such are the wages of the culture of death.
Posted by Bob at May 12, 2005 11:38 PMThat is so sad about Coleen. I saw themovie, on her life and it was very sad. The thing that probably made it worse, was that she was actually getting "screwed" on camera, and I,m sure in her heart she knew it was wrong, but she had allready been enticed into it, and It was difficult, for her to get out of it. When I was in hollywood, around 1986, I met a guy that kept asking me if he knew her, and back then I had no idea who she was. He said she shot herself, and that she had posed for "Playboy". He also said he was her boyfriend. I guess, he was that last one, that had been, put in jail, in fact he said he had just gotten out. He didn,t seem too sad about her death, he seemed like he was bragging more than anything else. I go, "aren,t you sad, don,t you miss her?, and I think it finally registered with him, that he should have missed her. He kept talking to me, and my friend, but we quickly dismissed him, after I guessed,he was a drug dealer. He then admitted to it. He was good looking, but void of emotion. That,s my story!
Posted by: Susan Rasanen at October 8, 2005 01:02 AMBy the way, who won "Dancing with the Stars?"
Posted by: jay at November 9, 2005 10:01 AMMost of America has no idea of the absolute evil that the entertainment industry dishes out to us. Come to the gutters of America where the beer and wishes of being cool still blind those riveted with liver diease, lung cancer and numerous infections. They will still wish to be part of the "Bud Lite" commerical groupies although that is the very thing that has lead them to the doorstep of their death. May those [as I did by the Grace of God] cry out to God for forgiveness, recalling those stories we were forced to listen to in "Church" so long ago as children.
Posted by: Roy at December 1, 2005 07:12 PM