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Article Excerpt
"Maxim, the raucous men's magazine, has never been shy about putting its name out there. But nothing compares to its latest brand extension, which will affix the Maxim name to a new hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip."
--"Lad Mag and a Brand in Las Vegas," by Lorne Manly, The New York Times, June 5, 2006.
I WAS IN a truly crappy mood that night. I had been demoted to the ranks of the third-tier showgirls in the "Hotties of Zenna Henderson's The People Revue" just because I had shown up for rehearsal drunk three times in a row. And a pay cut just added to the sting. But even though I was so far back on the big stage that the rubes in the audience could barely make out my pasties, I still had to force an unending cheek-stretching smile. The thong of my spacesuit costume was riding up my butt and my feet hurt in my battered Capezios. But I kept up with the other girls anyhow, kicking and prancing to beat the band.
The last thing I wanted was to lose my job here at the F&SF Casino. Vegas was a cruel town, crueler than ever since the New York publishers had moved in, and I knew that if I blew off this position, after all my other notorious...
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