Saturday, February 06, 2016

Centerfold Who Kissed and Told Dies at 89


Every so often I read an obituary and fall in love with someone I'd never heard of -- and boy is this one of those times!

Alice Denham, a writer and former Playboy centerfold who left a vivid chronicle of her literary and sexual adventures in her 2006 memoir, “Sleeping With Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-All of Literary New York in the Fifties and Sixties,” died on Jan. 27 at her home in Manhattan. She was 89. 
The cause was complications of ovarian cancer, her husband, John Mueller, said. 
Ms. Denham came to New York in the early 1950s, fresh from the University of Rochester, with two things on her mind: literary fame and romance. The city held forth the promise of both, in abundance. “New York in the fifties was like Paris in the twenties,” she wrote in her memoir. 
A stunning beauty with a talent for repartee, she made her way easily into Manhattan’s literary salons, and her presence did not pass unnoticed by a long list of editors, publishers, film producers, actors and writers — most of whom made a play for her, quite a few successfully. 
“Manhattan was a river of men flowing past my door, and when I was thirsty, I drank,” she wrote.
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1 comment:

das buut said...

So, that's where the word came from. A thirsty ho can now thank this woman for being able to identify that aching need for something dick-shaped.

She deserves a slow clap.