To hear Scott Brown tell it now, he never would have gone to school but for the money he earned from his Cosmo photo spread..
But not for having that opportunity, I never would have been able to pay for school, and never would have gone to school, and I wouldn’t probably be talking to you.
Never mind that the timing seems a bit odd – Brown had already finished a year of law school when he found out that he would be in Cosmo. Anyway, back in 1982 when Scott Brown was Cosmo’s Sexiest Man in America, he had other ideas for where his modeling money might go.
Mr. Brown … recently invested $5,000 to print 10,000 colored posters of himself bare to the waist. He said if the posters sold well and he continued to get modeling jobs, he wouldn’t return to law school until next January.
Apparently, though, the poster business didn’t work out very well.
[H]e wasn’t exactly shy about posing and its potential. “Are you kidding me?” [Brown’s long-time friend Michael] Quinn says. “He had posters made of himself — not that Cosmo picture — but one of him in jeans with the top button undone, and he was shirtless.” Quinn says that Brown tried, without much success, to sell them for something like $5 a pop. “He was always very entrepreneurial,” he says.
Oh, the humanity.
Some additional details from David Bernstein are here.
lynne says
There’s a compelling story here for Brown, about his choices and being mature. He is going along, getting into law school, with a nice life. Then WHAM is stuck in the glam life, the fab life, a road which so many take and wind up in a worse place afterward. But it’s an alluring life, and many people would choose it at that age.
But instead, he decides to go back to school and finish his degree, and stick to the ROTC. To me, THAT would be the story I tell.
However, what he chooses to do to LIE about the context of that famous photo shoot and its aftermath. Exaggerate the direness of his situation. And so therefore, gives more fodder for the truth tellers. Because his little pride was wounded by the response to a question one of HIS guys asked!
If that doesn’t tell you everything you everything you need to know about Scott Brown, I don’t know what will.
Laurel says
Wherever s*e*x is implied, Republicans run and hide.
massmarrier says
Republicans run and hide from sex? That is the party that claims Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton were the only playboys out there when it seems all of their leaders were in adulterous relationships, sleeping around when their wives were deathly ill, trading one wife for the new model when the old one wrinkled, and using staff like plastic blow-up dolls. I don’t think Republican pols have any problem with sex. It’s honesty that’s an issue.
Laurel says
All I can say is, LOL.