My review was written in December 1988 after watching the show on HBO video cassette.
Inevitably as fashion models have become more voluptuous in recent years, Playboy magazine meets the trend halfway with its "35 Anniversary Video Centerfold" cassette, spotlighting tall Fawna MacLaren with fashion model credentials.
Lengthy program provides a jumbo showcase demonstrating her beauty in various poses and antics typical of a fashion shoot. Drawback is her interview material which reveals little about MacLaren and generally is too facetious to reflect her personality as intended.
Tape also includes briefer photo segments on 35th anni runner-ups Jennifer Jackson and Erika Eleniak, but is disappointing in its cursory approach to the extensive search process that attracted 4,302 applicants. Attractive photo layouts in the magazine did the job, but the video offers little more than a few women showing up in bikinis.
Fans of the magazine will dig a capsule history of the last 35 years, produced by Steve Silas, that spotlights publisher Hugh Hefner's points of view (and his changing hair/clothing styles), plus mainly stills to illustrate pictorial features over the years, culminating in a time capsule montage displaying every centerfold run to date. That marks the tape's collectibility factor for sell-through purposes.
Inevitably as fashion models have become more voluptuous in recent years, Playboy magazine meets the trend halfway with its "35 Anniversary Video Centerfold" cassette, spotlighting tall Fawna MacLaren with fashion model credentials.
Lengthy program provides a jumbo showcase demonstrating her beauty in various poses and antics typical of a fashion shoot. Drawback is her interview material which reveals little about MacLaren and generally is too facetious to reflect her personality as intended.
Tape also includes briefer photo segments on 35th anni runner-ups Jennifer Jackson and Erika Eleniak, but is disappointing in its cursory approach to the extensive search process that attracted 4,302 applicants. Attractive photo layouts in the magazine did the job, but the video offers little more than a few women showing up in bikinis.
Fans of the magazine will dig a capsule history of the last 35 years, produced by Steve Silas, that spotlights publisher Hugh Hefner's points of view (and his changing hair/clothing styles), plus mainly stills to illustrate pictorial features over the years, culminating in a time capsule montage displaying every centerfold run to date. That marks the tape's collectibility factor for sell-through purposes.