EDITORIAL
THE SLEUTHSAYER
"In reality," observes journalist Tim Dowling, "most celebrities
love being recognized when they're out {though not when they're out of their clothes!}.
They just don't like being mistakenfor someone else {there's no mistaking the
hotties flashing herein!}. In fact, the idea of a celebrity evading a lens seems
a little self-defeating," Dowling declares, "like a plant trying to
avoid sunlight." Thus, our photo synthesis sheds its bare glare on thirty
luminous ladies in the radiant raw!
That makes two hundred stars we've candidly caught in our "Public Spectacles"
specials—this being "Hot Flashers 5!" As V11 N6 covergirl Gillian
Anderson so profoundly put it: "I think five is a nice round number, even
though it's not a round number" {X-cuse me?}.
So why do they do it? Well, Vogue recently remarked: "After the lesson was
learned that a star could do herself and a designer incalculable good or ill with
one dress [or, more often, undress), things got out of control." As Allure
added: "At every celebrity event, at least one starlet gets the bright idea
to steal the spotlight by showing a lot of skin. The lady gets press, all right.
But we're not sure that her publicist {or her mother} would approve of the coverage."
Since Sleuth remains the 'Mother of All Uncoverage,' we applaud this spectacular
show of Naked Ambition...
And no one's shown more of that (and herself) than elegant Beth-hurley-porn-sta">ElizaBeth Hurley, the
girlie who'd attend the opening of an envelope...without the flap closed! Her
bosom buddy Nicole Kidman complained recently that "L.A. is attracting the
sleaziest paparazzi from all over the world. It's a fucking nightmare"—referring
to a report that one French photog "climbed a tree to catch topless ElizaBeth
Hurley sunbathing in her Hollywood garden." Explained one insider: "The
foreign photographers are a lot sneakier. They're real bush jumpers" {which
explains the numerous dark roots sprouting inside}.
"You and me and everyone else is guilty of the crime that killed Princess
Diana tp. 881," Beth-hurley-porn-sta">Liz Hurley harrumphs, "which is morbid curiosity about
someone else's life. But," she notes, "I've learned every trick in the
book when it comes to eliminating the negative." Though we're positive that
we salvaged a few negatives of our curvy covergirl to print from {on pages 60-631.
Days after Diana died, Sleuth's hometown paper, The Washington Post, ran an editorial
titled "The Princess and the Press," which declared: "The public's
right to know (as opposed to its desire to know) need not, we think, extend to
the sight of some celebrity without her blouse." Still, Sleuth's view about
celeb skepdiscretions is simple: Once is an accident; twice is careless; three
times is a career move.
As the Washington Post concluded: "What the public seeks is far different
from what it used to be. People who would be embarrassed to stare through a telephoto
lens at someone in an intimate moment will buy a magazine {hopefully this one}
to see it. Someone else does the intruding, we enjoy the fruits of it." And
ripe they are...
Juicier than Ever.
