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From: grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Here she is...Miss ex-America
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 12:42:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 26 12:42:06 1984
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bip.

    Well, here we have a human interest story where just about everybody
    screwed up.  If you don't mind my waxing judgemental for a moment,
    here I go:

    Vanessa Williams:  Probably a mistake 2 1/2 years ago to have posed
    for those shots.  Not that I have anything against people posing nude,
    but clearly it was not for her.  Instead of avoiding the problem, she
    should have contacted the guy who took the pictures and made sure she
    had the negatives & rights to them.  Overall, she comes out the best
    of the lot.

    Hugh Hefner:  Well, Hugh showed some class by refusing to print the
    pictures in Playboy, but if he really wanted to be charitable to 
    Vanessa, he should at least have warned her that there was someone
    out hawking nude photos of her.  If he really wanted to be nice, he
    could have bought the rights to the pictures and then just sat on
    them.  He could afford to take the loss.  He certainly could have
    figured that if he didn't buy them they'd only be sold to a sleazier
    publication.

    The Miss America Pageant:  These guys really burn me up.  They
    acted in an unsensitive and unforgiving manner, and were considerably
    more judgemental even than I am being now.  To make the announcement
    to the press & to Vanessa's lawyer, but not tell Vanessa herself,
    is totally lacking in class.  Furthermore, they had told Vanessa that
    nothing would happen to her, and not to worry, then two days later
    pulled the plug.  They certainly didn't come off as people making
    a stand for morality.

    The Photographer: (I forget his name).  Well, this guy's a sleaze,
    and furthermore, he's a sleaze-in-hiding.  This is the guy who talked
    her into doing the photos in the first place, and apparently promised
    they'd never be published.  He probably got himself a tidy sum from
    Penthouse, and Vanessa didn't even get a modeling fee.  I'm sure
    he knew what this would do to her carreer.  The only thing I can say
    in his favor (and it's not much) is that he waited until Vanessa
    was almost done being Miss America.

    Bob Guccione: My award for second-biggest sleaze.  He took advantage
    of this opportunity to the hilt, and he's making a BUNDLE, and still
    manages to claim that it was his "duty to his readers" to print those
    pictures.  Well, I didn't expect any better from him at least.

    The buying public: The award for all-around-biggest-sleaze is a
    two million way tie for all of the people who went out and bought
    this month's Penthouse just to get in on the sensationalism and
    to make Bob Guccione richer.  Absolutely no class.


					-Glenn