She’s the Face of Denver. At least for October.
Boulder’s Kem Minnick showed up for a Playboy casting call last month and, along with 10 other women, was picked from the crowd to represent our fair city on a Playboy website. “The whole thing was very tastefully done,” Minnick writes me, “and a great experience!”
In a subsequent interview, Minnick said she was honored to be a 41-year-old picked to pose for Playboy. She’s hoping that the Playboy exposure will lead to a big branding opportunity and help her publish her two books: “Get Off the Phone and into Bed” and “Get Off the Couch and Shut the Refrigerator Door.”
She comes to us with creds. Minnick was a Ms. Hawaiian Tropic in Austin, Texas, as well as a Miller Lite cardboard-cutout girl. She teaches yoga and works for a landscaping business. She has been super-busy doing radio and newspaper interviews this past week. The future awaits.
Spooked in style.
A Denver club called Colorado Movie Cars collects and worships iconic cars that appeared in flicks such as “Ghostbusters.”
So in the “Ghostbuster”/ “Halloween” spirit, the guys have partnered with Children’s Hospital Foundation, Sunset Limo (for scheduling and driving) and five of Denver’s big haunted houses.
For $125 per person (or $400 for four), they load you into the “Ghostbusters” Ecto car (a 1959 Cadillac ambulance) and chauffeur you to the haunted houses, where you’ll be escorted by ghostbusters, in full costume, to the head of each line. Everything goes to Children’s. It’s a frighteningly good idea. Call 970-581-7710.
Riggin’.
It’s not in the upcoming Starz Denver Film Festival, but you can rent a copy of “The Rig” on Netflix.
The monster movie — set on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico (but filmed in 2007, way before the spill) — was directed by Denver’s Peter Atencio, son of jeweler John Atencio and his ex-wife, stylist Sylvia. “The Rig” stars William Forsythe and was made, in the words of Peter, on a “tiny budget.”
Downtown.
Seems like the entire country is up in arms over KFC. Its edgy guerrilla campaign for the Double Down, the sodium-slamming, calorie-heavy sandwich featuring two fried chicken breasts, bacon and cheese — and no room for a bun — is making people hot. And fat.
The fast-food chain is paying coeds $500 each to wear sweat pants at football games with “Double Down” printed on the backsides. It started at Spalding University in Louisville last month — to much outrage from the National Organization of Women.
Now KFC has hired three Colorado State University coeds to wear the sweat pants at Saturday’s homecoming game against UNLV. Denver media is on fire! Are you ready for some football?
City spirit.
Spotted at Phil and Nancy Anschutz’s Tuesday night screening of “Waiting for ‘Superman’ ” at Pavilions: Bill Owens, Bruce and Marcy Benson, Randy Testa, Mike Johnston, Chris Watney, Barbara O’Brien and director Davis Guggenheim . . . Sez who: “It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.” Frank Perdue
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