A 2-page article about the First Former Playboy Bunny International Reunion held earlier this week in Las Vegas begins on the front page of today's L.A. Times Calendar section.
To read the entire article online, go to
http://www.latimes.com/la-et-lipton21apr21,1,4412416.story. A free registration is required. Here's an excerpt in which KLS is mentioned:
Many of the bunnies have matured into savvy women. Seeing a cluster of them perched around the lobby, a middle-age hotel guest is prompted to stop Kathryn Leigh Scott, a Los Angeles publisher and actress who worked in the New York club in the early '60s. "Hi, Bunny Kathryn," he says impishly. "My God, it's a hotel full of beautiful women my own age," he adds. Scott thanks him, then notes: "Some women here haven't seen each other in over 40 years."
The fact that they are together is due in part to Scott, who in 1998 wrote "The Bunny Years," which chronicled life at the Playboy clubs. She was inspired to write it, she says, after running into a dismissive Gloria Steinem at a publishing party. In 1963, the pioneer feminist worked undercover at the New York Playboy Club in order to pen a famously derisive magazine expose about gender inequality.
Though Steinem wasn't alone in seeing the bunnies as an artifact of society's rampant sexism, Scott and many of her former coworkers felt betrayed by the article. They claimed that it did not reflect their handsome wages and the strict management guidelines that protected them from sexual harassment. Many of them, like [Joyce] Woodward of the Chicago club, say they used the money to pay for college- in her case, Cornell.There are 4 photos taken at the reunion that accompany the article, but none are of KLS.
