[PW] Re: articles on Dave Foreman in PLAYBOY and a 1986 Australian magazine

[Shari Haber]

Dennis-

I was able to check "The Playboy Index" from 1979-1993. Unfortunately, 
no Dave Foreman or EarthFirst interviews/articles.

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Lien" <Dennis.K.Lien-1 at tc.umn.edu>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:12 PM
Subject: [PW] articles on Dave Foreman in PLAYBOY and a 1986 Australian 
magazine


> I've got a request from someone who believes there was a PLAYBOY 
> interview
> with environmental activist Dave Foreman (of Earth First!), probably 
> in the
> early 1990s.  As my partial preliminary answer (copied below) 
> indicates, I
> can't find a trace of such an interview.  I thought it may instead be 
> a
> case where Foreman was being quoted in a general article on Earth 
> First!,
> but a search of ACCESS in print form (we don't have the online 
> version)
> didn't show any PLAYBOY articles 1975 to date under that subject 
> heading
> either.  (Nor did it show the Mike Roselle piece of some sort that, 
> per
> one website below, apparently appeared in April 1993 issue.)
>
> Does anyone have any other/better indexing to PLAYBOY for the period
> that they could check?
>
> On a longer shot, client also believes Foreman was interviewed or
> profiled by Bill DuVall in a 1986 Australian magazine called SIMPLE
> LIVING.  There's a US magazine of that title, but it had not begun
> in 1986; I can't find any trace of an Australian namesake in WorldCat,
> RLIN, COPAC, AMICUS, or the Libraries Australia database at the NLA:
>
> http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss
>
> Any Wombats from the land of the wombat (or elsewhere) with a lead
> on that one?
>
> thanks as always...
>
> Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu
>
>
>
> my initial reply to client was in part:
> **********************
>
> This site seems to list almost all PLAYBOY interview subjects from 
> 1962 on:
>
> http://www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/pboyintv.htm
>
> but Dave Foreman is not among them.  However, his Earth First 
> colleague
> Mike Roselle was apparently interviewed in the April 1993 issue, and
> talked about Foreman in the interview, per
>
>
> http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/271
>  The following is from an interview with Earth First! co-founder Mike
> Roselle in
> the April 1993 issue of Playboy <snip>
>
> and Roselle doesn't show at msu.edu site either, so I'm not sure how 
> complete
> it is.
>
> PLAYBOY is indexed in the print index (no electronic version) ACCESS:
>
> Title            Access.
> Published       Syracuse, N.Y., John Gordon Burke Publisher, inc. 
> [etc.]
>         Jan./Apr. 1975-
>         Annual, 1999-
> Description     v. 24 cm.
> Other Title     Access (Syracuse, N.Y.)
> Availability    TC Wilson Library Reference AI3 .A23 Non-Circulating
> Availability    TC Wilson Library AI3 .A23 Non-Circulating
>
> Note    "A supplementary index to periodicals."
>
> but I looked through each volume from 1975 to present without finding 
> a
> PLAYBOY entry for Foreman in the subject indexes.  I did find a half
> dozen or so articles about Foreman in other magazines, including at
> least one interview (in OUTSIDE for November 1995; v.20, pp.74-75).
>
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