Gallery Holiday 1991

DEPARTMENTS 6 RIGHT UP FRONT 8 FEEDBACK 14 THE GALLERY GUIDE About Entertainment On the Beat Driving Ambitions Going Places Book Talk Short Takes: Penis Parade, Screwdevils, Talking Cats, and more... 98 JUST FOR LAUGHS 100 MEN & WOMEN 102 HEROES: THE MILITARY EXPERIENCE 106 PRIVATE LIVES PICTORIALS 22 LEIGH Special 'Girl Next Door of the Year' Pin-up 23 'GIRL NEXT DOOR' ENTRIES 32 'GIRL NEXT DOOR' MONTHLY WINNER 52 JOHANNE Photos by Jim Paris 59 BONUS 'GIRL NEXT DOOR' 1992 PULL-OUT CALENDAR! 91 VICTORIA Photos by J. Stephen Hicks 120 BIANCA Photos by Joanie Allum FEATURES 40 BUY DUE PROCESS Barry Slotnick believes everyone deserves a fair trial. But his brand of justice will cost you. Interview by Gene Ruffini 46 CALL OF THE WILD Getting lost in the land down under. Travel report by Bill Belleville 78 COLLECT CALLS Some guys just don't know when to quit. Fiction by MMMHayes 82 PRESENTS WITH PRESENCE Holiday gifts for people who are naughty and nice. By Robert Edelstein 88 HOLLYWOOD FOR SALE How much would you pay to own a piece of the life-styles of the rich and famous? By Tom Callahan EDITORIAL NOTE Right Up Front IT'S IN THE CARDS I considered myself an average kid when I was growing up. As with most boys in America, baseball was a very big part of my life. I remember going to Shea Stadium in the fall of 1969 to see the "Miracle Mets" beat the Baltimore Orioles in the fifth game of the World Series to clinch the championship. Being there with my two older brothers and my father helped to make it a day I'll never forget. After the game the stands emptied—not into the parking lot, but onto the playing field. Fans took any souvenir they could get their hands on: bases, pieces of the fence, the distance markers in the outfield. My oldest brother took several blades of grass from near the pitcher's mound. It was a day when the players I saw on the baseball cards became real for a while. . I mention this event because I was a baseball-card collector, but not a collector like the ones of today. I collected for the fun of it. Every year, at the beginning of the season, I'd start with 15 or 20 cards and flip them with my friends. By the end of some seasons I had over 1,000 cards. If, as they say, I had 20/20 hindsight, I would have saved them in a safety-deposit box, knowing now how valuable they would become. Instead, at the end of every season, all my cards went into the garbage. Recently, I found about 100 cards that were spared the wrath of the garbage man, some of which were worth quite a bit more than I had paid for them in the late '60s. As a matter of fact, one of the cards is valued at $125. Which makes me wonder about other discarded items and. how much they might be worth today. I'm sure that many of you have similar stories. If so, the article entitled "Hollywood For Sale" will be of special interest to you. As usual if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions regarding Gallery, we would like to hear from you. Thank you. —Russell T. Orenstein President and Publisher