As written in
the Review Journal's View on
May 1,
2002....
Scout Has Eye for Female Form
By GINGER MIKKELSEN
VIEW STAFF WRITER
Polly Peluso has
worked the kind of jobs any guy would love. From judging beauty pageants
and managing models to scouting for Playboy bunnies, the Las Vegas woman
is constantly surrounded by the finest of the feminine form.
In her current work
as a newspaper and magazine columnist, Peluso rubs shoulders with the
rich, famous and beautiful in Las Vegas and Hollywood.
Peluso's Hollywood
career began in the Columbia Studios mail room. Service men would send
in $1 and a request for a photo of Rita Heyworth. Peluso and the mail
room staff would grant the requests.
Eventually Peluso was
discovered in the mail room. She did a bit of acting and worked as
Heyworth's stand in. The stand in's future career was jump-started when
her kids got into acting.
The mother of three
found herself working part-time, for free, for children's agent Lola
Moore. With the agent's help, Peluso's daughters and son were featured
in countless commercials from the first Cran-apple juice spots to the
first Barbie doll advertisement.
The kids had guest
shots on television shows such as "J. McPheffers," "Leave It To Beaver,"
"The Dinah Shore Show," "The Untouchables" and "Lost in Space," and
daughter Joy had a lead role in the pilot for "Window on Main Street."
With all the
experience Peluso gained, she and a partner opened a talent agency in
California called Lane Peluso. Within no time, her reputation had
expanded and she got a call from Playboy. They wanted her to help start
a Playboy Models West Coast office. Peluso had never even peered between
the pages of Playboy, but still she went for it.
Life in the Playboy
empire was no picnic. Peluso was always afraid for her own safety and
that of her girls. She constantly screened callers to make sure they had
legitimate credentials, real offices and weren't after pornography.
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