Celebrity Sleuth by Volume Vol. 10 # 3

THE 25 SEXIEST WOMEN OF 1997: The Cream Rises...
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04 25 SAMANTHA FOX
08 24 LAURA BAILEY
10 23 KATARINA VASILISSA
14 22 HILLARY RODHAM CLNTON
18 21 HELEN HUNT
20 20 ARIELLE DOMBASLE
22 19 IMAN
26 18 REBECCA DE MORNAY
28 17 VALERIA MARINI
32 16 GWYNETH PALTROW
36 15 VERONICA WEBB
1440 ASHLEY JUDD
44 13 TIFFANI-AMBER THIESSEN
48 12 ANNA FALCHI
52 11 JENNIFER ANISTON
54 10 RHONDA SHEAR
58 9 GILLIAN ANDERSON
62 8 CYNTHIA ROTHROCK
68 7 JULIE STRAIN
74 6 HALLE BERRY
76 5 JUNE WILKINSON
82 4 CAMERON DIAZ
86 3 PRINCESS DIANA
90 2 MIMI ROGERS
94 I TERI HATCHER

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EDITORIAL
THE SLEUTHSAYER
"So why do women pose nude?" asks Allure magazine. "Some have argued that the young girls in skin mags pose nude because society makes them do it. But if this is the cause, then why do successful, rich women—who don't have to do it in order to stave off eviction and starvation—pose nude for photographs or do nude scenes in films? What would make them DO such a thing?" Perhaps a shot at a spot in Sleuth's annual "25 Sexiest" tribute?
As US magazine noted in '96 while making "Taking It Off" its number one story of the year: "Birthday suits became power outfits as stars undressed for success. Drew Barrymore flashed David Letterman and stripped at a Manhattan Club. Naomi Campbell peeled at a New York bar. Showgirls and Exotica turned cineplexes into peep shows. Demi Moore did exhaustive 'research' for Striptease. At a time when stars complain about having no private life, it's surprising they would be so eager to reveal their private parts. We remember when artists were happy just to bare their souls." And now they've 'gotten into the Sleuth spirit.
Hollywood image doctor Michael Levine pinpoints the reason: "Fame is something more valuable than money in America. Notoriety has become the most addictive substance in America in the late 20th Century—more than drugs, more than sex." And fame for one's frame produces the notorious "high" we induce by inclusion.
"Sexy people are never sexy. They are the least sexy people," scoffs Sandra Bernhard {and she should know}. But even the most downloaded dame in cyberspace, Teri Hatcher doesn't know why: "I don't know HOW people on the Internet are perceiving me as 'sexy' or whatever," she wonders. "What they're judging me on is not me. Now, say you were someone with whom I was out on a date {in that case, we'd tell your husband!} and you were thinking, 'She's really sexy.' That would make me feel good because you're experiencing me eating, drinking, talking, listening, finding what I say passionate {we're definitelytelling her husband!}, and noticing that I'm swearing or not swearing—all those things that make me me. So, if you thought I was sexy, it would be like, 'OK, you get me.- Get her on page 94...
Picking My Spots,