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707. RT Rewind: June 1997 Ads & Features

Smart Podcast Trashy Books Romantic Times RewindAmanda and I are traveling back to June 1997 to discuss:

  • Touring inside author’s homes and whether we think it’s kinda intrusive and uncomfortable
  • Neverending reader hate for “the F word”
  • The fans used to blow back cover models’ hair
  • And speaking of, what’s on the Cover Model Pageant contestant’s heads?

And more!

We DO have a video episode for this one with images – you can find it on our YouTube channel. And you can find the visual aids for this one below.

 

 

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Here is the cover, which could have shown off the books a LOT better.

The cover of the issue with Love Lust Laugh in big letters and two tiny book covers announcing the launch of Genesis

 

The full page ad for Connie Mason’s Shadow Walker on the inside cover:

INside cover full page full color ad for Shadow Walker with John DeSalvo and a woman with off the shoulder eyelet lace top about to get jolly rogered in the grass. The text reads "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" "KISS YOU?" COLE SHRUGGED. "BECAUSE YOU WANTED ME TO, I SUPPOSE, WHY ELSE WOULD A MAN KISS A WOMAN?" But Dawn knows lots of other reasons, especially if the woman is nothing but a half-breed whose father sells her to the first interested male. Defenseless and exquisitely lovely, Dawn is overjoyed when Cole Webster kills the ruthless outlaw who has been her husband in name only. But now she has a very different sort of man to contend with. A man of unquestionable virility, a man who prizes justice and honors the Native American traditions that have been lost to her. Most intriguing of all, he is obviously a man who knows exactly how to bring a woman to soaring heights of pleasure. And yes, she does want his kiss...and maybe a whole lot more

And in case you were wondering: here is the HAUNCH-TASTIC COVER:

A blurry image of Shadow Walker by Connie Mason featuring John DeSalvo in a loincloth displaying a LOT of haunch, shirtless with dinner roll muscles, a bow and arrow, and feathers in his hair

There’s a LOT of wind in many of the DeSalvo pictures in this issue, and it is a blessing for him that no wind machine was present whilst he was wearing a loincloth.

Behold: Mustache.

Screenshot from the magazine: Model Joe Brown, Jessica Wulf, Julie Griffith and the incomparable illustrator Pino at the cover shoot for Jessica's March 98 release Joseph's Bride Joe is shirtless, has a long fluffly mullet and a MASSIVE mustache.

LOOK how uncomfortable that must be, and they have to act like they’re super into each other while perched on some stairs.

And then there was this discomfort from the I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter launch party:

A black and white image from the cover shoot with the male model perched on the edge of a staircase with a blonde long haired model sort of woven between his legs so her head rests right on his chin. The mustache is mustaching.

The senior brand manager at Lipton dipping Susan Paul – this makes me so very uncomfortable on a professional level.

What is on John DeSalvo, and where is that wind coming from?

Close up of a cover with John DeSalvo's hair blowing backwards at a high velocity. DeSalvo is shirtless and covered with something drippy, wet, and shiny.

I LOVE THIS IMAGE OF JANE AUSTEN BY A POOL!

The Genius of Jane Austen - a color photograph of a model dressed as Austen in period garb and bonnet seated at a pool with a giant cell phone and copy of variety in her hand

Here is how it appeared in the magazine – inside a browser window!

Inside the magazine, Jane Austen by the Pool was featured inside an image of a browser window, possibly AOL. The buttons across the top read Back, forward, home, reload, images, open, print, find, and what's new, what's cool, destinations, people and software

Time for some 90s covers!

What’s going on with her neck? Is she ok?

From the Mist by Saranne Dawson - a man is embracing a woman who is below him, and her head is bent so far back it looks like her cranium is about to detach

That hair color is green, and that dog is very cute.

Best in Show - a blonde jaundice looking DeSalvo embraces a woman with clouds of dark hair. in the bottom right is a dog of indeterminate breed inside a show ribbon

 

WHENCE doth this WIND ARRIVE? Also, I’d like to know the conditioner regimen here.

Heart's Magic by Flora Speer featuring DeSalvo yet again with long, luscious hair being blown backwards while a woman in a white nightgown looks like she's about the pass out. They're pictured inside a crystal ball or a snowglobe

Slightly blurry, but FULL O’ SMARM is Cleve.

No shirt, no idea on shoes, full mullet – I wouldn’t serve him.

The Mackenzies: CLEVE by Ana Leigh a showgirl in a corset, ruffled skirt and purple lace up boots is sitting on a bar while a man with no shirt a giant mullet and jeans has one hand on her knee and appears to be smarming all over her

 

Again with the conditioner, but ouch that tree bark.

Wild Irish Skies by Nancy Richards-Akers featuring a woman with long blonde hair in a cobalt gown being embraced by a shirtless DeSalvo with long hair, his back against a tree (ow). Behind them a horse looks bewildered.

That poor horse wants to be elsewhere.

I’m really not sure what this was all about, but you could buy these photos.

Stratos - you can buy images of this person but we're not sure why. Heavenly Bodies seems to be two pictures, one of him in some sweats shirtless and one of him entirely naked. The naked pic is weird - see next image

 

It looks like he was sawed in half, right? What is up with his mid-section?

A clsoe up of the naked photo of Stratos, in which it appears a portion of his midsection is missing. His torso is too short and his legs are too long

You can see why I thought at first glance that these were Indigenous American headdresses and was aghast. They’re mardi gras masks, which, thank heavens.

The cover model pageant contestants, all shirtless wearing jeans or sweats, most wearing feathered mardi gras masks there are a LOT of nipples

Also, all the pleated jeans and baggy sweats! Oh, my, the 90s were a time.

 

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