At the heart of it all was a very unique character who helmed this ship to the heights of worldwide publishing before seeing it dashed on the rocks of a changing market and extreme financial missteps. It’s a story that could only happen against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960’s, the sexual revolution of the 1970’s and the resultant backlash of the more puritanical 1980s. The Penthouse magazine story is a unique tail of rags to riches and back. You Can click on any image to view details) THIS INTERVIEW ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE AUGUST 1988 ISSUE OF INTERVIEW.(Included is a view of Penthouse Playmates from 1969 to 2016 at the end. I had a red Corvette before this, and it caused me nothing but trouble.”) A cautionary memoir, Out of the Blue, and perhaps an autobiographical television movie for which she’s already been offered the lead, lie ahead for the unstoppable Lords. What’s next for the girl in the gray Camaro? (“Not red. But his protégé Jim Wynorski scrambled to prove him wrong. In 1987 Corman wagered that the film couldn’t be remade of the same shooting schedule and budget (adjusted for inflation) as the original. The movie is a remake of a 1957 Roger Corman film about a space vampire in search of blood for his dying planet, and platinum blonde Nadine Story, played by the new version of Lords, on whose starched shoulders rests the fate of the Earth. In 1986, when she was barely 18, Lords’ career took a nose dive as her entire oeuvre-some 100 films-was pulled from the shelves, and former associates found themselves under Federal indictment for child pornography.īarely 20, Lords resurfaced this year as a tarnished angel in the aptly named “Date with an Angel” episode of television’s Wise Guy, and in Not of This Earth, her “mainstream” motion-picture debut. At 13 she was still Nora Louise Kuzma in Steubenville, Ohio, sneaking out of the house at night in search of “booze and boys.” A year later she migrated to Redondo Beach and, in her search for “bigger booze and bigger boys,” became one of the adult-film industry’s hottest stars. The precocious porn nymphet concocted her pseudonym long ago from Traci, her preferred Christian name, and the surname of her favorite television actor, Jack Lord. We first met Lords in 1988, as she was transitioning from adult entertainment to acting. Today, Lords is most famous for her roles in cult movies such as John Waters‘ Cry-Baby, Nowhere, and Blade. After turning 18, Lord’s true age was discovered, and she became infamous her films were taken out of circulation, and she retired from pornography to become an actress, fashion model, and singer. Soon after, she began appearing in adult films.
In the mid-80s, when she was just 15, Traci Lords modeled nude for Penthouse using a fake ID. There are plenty of familiar faces in the campaign-from iconic model Alek Wek, to filmmaker Larry Clark, designer Shayne Oliver, and writer Chris Kraus-but one that stands out in particular, however, is actor Traci Lords.
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