High-jumper Amy Acuff reveals some secrets (and more) in Playboy
Posted on 8/9/2004, 1:52:44 PM by presidio9
Praise Zeus: Some athletes are committed to keeping Olympic traditions alive. Just as contestants in the ancient Greek games competed in the nude, a few brave women have seen fit to pose for Playboy. U.S. swimmer Haley Cope tells the mag that she doesn't sweat it if her supertight suit rips at a meet.
"You flash the timers and go," says Cope.
She also doesn't mind pals in the locker room calling her "the Olympic nudist." "I don't walk through the door and strip, but I might paint my nails naked," she says. "People aren't comfortable with themselves. I am.
"I'm a freak. I vote Republican, I worship Martha Stewart, and I don't mind being naked."
Also posing: pole-vaulter Mary Sauer (who makes some wink-wink remarks about how she examines a pole) and U.S. high-jumper Amy Acuff (who sometimes competes in fur shorts).
Acuff suggests why planners stock plenty of condoms in the Olympic Village: "A number of athletes in the Village - people who know they don't have a chance - are there to have a party," she says.
And while we're on the subject: What venerable, super-macho gold-medalist now likes to relax in women's clothing?
We can't say, but he's a perfect 10.
Cleaning up Justice
First, Attorney General John Ashcroft demanded that his department's bare-breasted statue of Justice put some clothes on. Now the DOJ bluenoses are checking staffers' E-mails for naughty words.
Some at Justice are griping about software, called MailMarshal, that blocks messages when it spots "unacceptable language, or inappropriate material."
The Internet morals guardian orders the sender: "Please clean-up or re-phrase the message and send it again."
Stu Smith, president of AFSCME Local 2830, which represents employees in the department's Office of Justice Programs, has asked for a list of the "bad" words and an explanation.
DOJ spokesman Charles Miller tells us the program was installed for virus protection, but that it also rejected E-mails it deemed too vulgar. Miller says the program has been uninstalled since staffers complained.
Maybe the White House should install it on pottymouth Vice President Cheney's laptop.
Who's your daddy?
Darrell Hammond might want to give his Bill Clinton impersonation a rest. The "Saturday Night Live" funnyman told WKTU's Baltazar and Goumba Johnny show that his wife, Elizabeth, was at a supermarket checkout counter when their 6-year-old daughter, Mia, saw Clinton's picture on a magazine. Mia screamed: "Look, Mommy - Daddy!"
All the same, Republicans are hoping Hammond channels Bubba Sept. 1 when he entertains at the the GOP convention party "SNL" producer Lorne Michaels and Angela Hession are hatching at Cipriani 42nd Street. Sen. John McCain is the guest of honor.
Omarosa at sea
"Apprentice" star Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth was roundly booed when she was introduced as a panelist on Tom Joyner's recent Fantastic Voyage cruise, which raised $1 million for historically black colleges and universities.
Omarosa, who charges her detractors $3.95 a minute to gripe at her at 1-900-945-9000, got a better reception at a performance by old-school rappers Doug E. Fresh, Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick. Dressed in a teeny pink halter dress and 5-inch stilettos, she won cheers when she put her rear in gear.
Gavel to gavel
Hugh Hefner is cleaning out the Playboy Mansion closets. Due on eBay on Aug. 13 are a gray rayon and silk robe, a briar pipe and a vintage blue satin Playboy Club bunny costume. Meanwhile, Arlan Ettinger, who runs Guernsey's auction house in New York, just returned from Russia, where officials asked him to help them unload some aircraft.
The sale, to take place in Moscow, will include some fighter planes that have been gathering dust since the Cold War ended. There'll also be supersonic TU-144s - the Russian version of the Concorde.
"They used them to travel quickly between the ends of the USSR," Ettinger tells us. "The Russians made 20. Two are left. I could see an Arab sheik buying one for a party."
Want something bigger? Ettinger says the Russians also want to sell a space shuttle. The minimum bid has yet to be set.
If you'd rather stay on Earth, Prestige Motors of Paramus, N.J., has donated a Mercedes SLR McLaren to a Guernsey's auction to benefit Hackensack University Medical Center. The $459,900 sticker price is meaningless because the waiting list is so long - one buyer recently paid $2.1 million for a leap ahead of the others longing for a McLaren. The auction's Oct. 4 at Tavern on the Green.
Realty bites
Lorraine Bracco is bidding goodbye to her home in the celeb hamlet of Sneden's Landing, N.Y. The "Sopranos" actress, who lived there with Harvey Keitel and then Edward James Olmos, has put the riverfront property on the market for $5.5million. Warwick Country Realty's Molly Samett has the listing. Corcoran's Susie Hayes, who modeled with Lorraine years ago in Paris, is helping her find a pad in Manhattan ...
Kelly Ripa and hubby Mark Consuelos have a place East End. We hear they paid about $3 million for the just-built house in a Bridgehampton cul-de-sac ...
Beyonce Knowles is said to have offered $6 million for a five-story house in the Chelsea section of London.
Surveillance
It was grid-rock at the Peninsula Hotel gym the other day. Minutes after Ozzy Osbourne got off the StairMaster, Rod Stewart came in, and then Dave Matthews. "I never saw them talk to each other," says a spy ...
A female fan plied Bruce Willis with some very expensive booze at the Old Homestead restaurant in Atlantic City's Borgata. A spy says the lady waited till her boyfriend went to men's room, then bought the "DieHard" star a $3,200 glass of McCallum's 1929 Scotch. When Willis politely declined, the woman offered the snifter to her boyfriend ...
Al Gore raised his children according to the gospels of John, Paul, George and Ringo. "My dad had me file his Beatles albums in order," recalls Kristin Gore on Fuse TV's get-out-the-vote show "Electile Dysfunction." It wasn't so bad categorizing "Rubber Soul" and "Magical Mystery Tour," but "I didn't expect to be quizzed on it."
High-jumper Amy Acuff reveals some secrets (and more) in Playboy
Where's the rest of the pics????????!!!!!!!!!!
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Only because I posted it. I have seen you post threads about gerbiling that stayed in Front Page news all day.
To each his/her own, I guess!!!
You need to suck up to the mods more, my friend. ;)
Chat??? I don't think so.
More pics might help us decide.
Whee! Santa got my letter!! :)
Is Svetlana Khorkina on the Russian
womens gymnastic team?
but I'd look anyway
Do you think these sheets match those curtains?
Your humble narrator. . . . UH . . . Yeah . . . Uh . . . I guess so (sweating).
My experience with swimmers is that the spend a lot of time in chlorinated water and the curtains rarely match the carpet.
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou beside me, sweetheart singing in the wilderness . . . ahhh, wilderness were paradise enough.
Plus, I recite love poetry in several languages and give a world-class stark naked back rub.
Note to self: Post picture of Ralphie in Christmas Story looking through department store window at toy display.
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