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Pulp International - National+Spotlite
Vintage Pulp Dec 6 2014
SHINE A LITE
National Spotlite isn’t exactly illuminating but at least it’s entertaining.

This National Spotlite was published today in 1971. Betty Flenders graces the cover and centerfold, the beautiful Mary Weston, aka Venecia Day, brags about her sexual prowess inside, burlesque dancers Ava Braniff, Gid-Jet, and Rita Atlanta pose for insets, and Swede Barbara Klingered tries to keep her balance on a Zündapp motorcyle in a photo that gives us a trifecta of rare images from that session. The issue concludes with a sexual horoscope from resident seer Celestia. For more from the rare National Spotlite click its keywords at bottom. 

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Hollywoodland Jul 31 2013
REGALLY BLONDE
Raquel Welch represents a high water mark for the low rent National Spotlite.


Her body drives men wild. But it isn’t Raquel Welch being quoted on the cover of this National Spotlite published today in 1967, though the juxtaposition of text makes it seem so. No, the line came from a little known actress named Donna Selby, who National Spotlite scribe Hugh Wells interviewed in London. The story is rather amusing, as Wells tells readers how Selby appeared in only a bathrobe, made a pass at him, gave him an unwanted kiss and even licked his ear. He claims to have fled the room, saying to the actress, “I predict that you’ll go places—and quickly too!” But he was wrong about that—try as we might, we can’t find mention of an actress named Donna Selby anywhere.

But getting back to Raquel Welch, the cover shot comes from one of her most famous photo sessions, the same one that produced this excellent image and many others. Welch had gone briefly blonde, and the resultant photos are the only ones we’ve seen of her with golden hair. You know what would make her presence here even better? An interview. But no such luck. National Spotlite is simply making good use of a handout photo. Moving on, readers are treated to a nice shot of Patsy Ann Noble, aka Trisha Noble, just below, who we discussed back in 2009, and alsoappearing in the issue is German actress Dagmar Hank, who acted in several movies between 1958 and 1965. Lastly, in the centerfold you get Molly Peters, who was a Harrison Marks model and whose most notable cinematic output was a bit part in Thunderball.

You have to give National Spotlite credit—unlike many middle tier tabloids of the period this one managed to actually feature relevant and semi-relevant personalities. That comes as a surprise, since it was owned by the infamous Beta Publications of Spotlite Extra and Close-Up Extra fame. But as the flagship paper, National Spotlite doubtless had a higher budget. The masthead tells us it even had offices in New York City and Montreal, which is kind of impressive. Within a few more years, though, the paper regressed to the same form as Beta’s cheaper imprints and was reduced to putting out issues like this one. Like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, for a while National Spotlite coulda been a contenduh. It just never quite made it.

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Vintage Pulp Feb 28 2013
SPOTLITE ON CREATIVITY
The possibilities were simply endless.


At National Spotlite headquarters, probably about a week before this issue hit the streets, the editors were in crisis mode. They had no ideas for the cover. None at all. They had a photo. It’s the photo you see above. But they were blocked for headers.
 
Editor 1: “Woman desperate for husband says she’ll parade naked through town until someone marries her!”
 
Editor-in-Chief: “The Lady Godiva routine’s been done. Show some imagination. What the fuck am I paying you for?”
 
Editor 1: “This white beauty only makes love to blacks!”
 
Editor-in-Chief: “What, do you live in a cave? Can’t you see we’ve finally achieved a post-racial utopia where people don’t even see ethnic differences? Hell, I banged practically a rainbow of girls at last week’s love-in.”
 
Editor 2: “Doctors baffled! White beauty’s breasts give chocolate milk!”
 
Editor-in-Chief: “What did I just say?”
 
Editor 2: “But I’m emphasizing the science angle more than—”
 
Editor 1: “How about this idea? Hitler’s secret hippie granddaughter Sunflower Braun.”
 
Editor-in-Chief: “Bold, but Hitler doesn’t push sales anymore. Listen, what do I always explain? The photo tells the story. The girl is already naked, right, so how did she get that way?”
 
Editor 1: “Well, because that photographer guy Morty told her she needed nude shots if she was ever gonna break onto Broadway.”
 
Editor 2: “Pro photographer reveals ways you can lie to make desperate actresses strip for dirty pictures!”
 
Editor-in-Chief: “Not bad. Now listen to me edit-in-chief it. Take out “lie” and “desperate actresses.”
 
Editor 1: “Genius, boss.”
 
Editor-in-Chief: “Yup. That right there is why I make the big bucks.” 

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History Rewind
The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
March 28
1910—First Seaplane Takes Flight
Frenchman Henri Fabre, who had studied airplane and propeller designs and had also patented a system of flotation devices, accomplishes the first take-off from water at Martinque, France, in a plane he called Le Canard, or "the duck."
1953—Jim Thorpe Dies
American athlete Jim Thorpe, who was one of the most prolific sportsmen ever and won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football at the collegiate and professional levels, and also played professional baseball and basketball, dies of a heart attack.
March 27
1958—Khrushchev Becomes Premier
Nikita Khrushchev becomes premier of the Soviet Union. During his time in power he is responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, and presides over the rise of the early Soviet space program, but his many policy failures lead to him being deposed in October 1964. After his removal he is pensioned off and lives quietly the rest of his life, eventually dying of heart disease in 1971.
March 26
1997—Heaven's Gate Cult Members Found Dead
In San Diego, thirty-nine members of a cult called Heaven's Gate are found dead after committing suicide in the belief that a UFO hidden in tail of the Hale-Bopp comet was a signal that it was time to leave Earth for a higher plane of existence. The cult members killed themselves by ingesting pudding and applesauce laced with poison.
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