

Nope, he let it all hang out, resting on the edge of a grand piano, inexplicably standing on a spiral staircase, looking thoughtfully out a bay window, jauntily leaning on a candelabra, and posing on the obligatory animal-skin rug. Jim didn't do the normal celebrity Playgirl cover up. The September 1974 issue of Playgirl featured a four-page foldout of the former Cleveland Browns football player-turned-actor Jim Brown. Sure, he could have tried to top himself in Playgirl, but really, why mess with perfection? He already had - not for Playgirl, but for the famous 1972 Cosmopolitan shoot, which featured a hirsute Reynolds naked (his left arm strategically placed), reclining on a bear-skin rug, a cigarette dangling from his mouth.


David grew up in a small city on San Francisco Bay after surviving physical and emotional abuse in his early years by an alcoholic father. Featuring Tom Selleck on the cover, it was the bestselling issue at that time. In 1981, everyone's main mustachioed stud Burt Reynolds appeared on the cover of Playgirl and gave an interview, which included the topic: "His Love Affair With Sally Is Not Over." It would be one year later. David Peters was the October 1982 Playgirl centerfold.
