The LOST GIRLS, One famous band. One huge secret. Many lives destroyed.
The horrifying story of the Runaways......Sometimes I am not proud to be a male human. This is one of them.
It was the only time she could be on the water and not have to deal with the catcalls and the teasing, the good-natured gibes that gradually shaded into something harder and meaner. Before sunrise, she was just another surfer, her back to the sand, waiting for the right wave. She liked being the only girl out there.
Tall and slender with bright blue eyes and brown hair down to her shoulders, Jackie could have passed for Mary Tyler Moore’s daughter. The surfer dudes called her “Malibu Barbie.” One editor of a surfing magazine struck up a correspondence and sent her letters addressed to “Maliboobie.” “You had better get hot and send some good photos,” he wrote to her in black marker. “Your competition in photos is getting tough! You should see what some girls are sending in!” She could never tell how seriously to take the attention. In a letter to the editor published in June 1974, Jackie admonished one magazine for its skin-deep coverage of female surfers: “If they’re so hot, why don’t you show them surfing? Some of us chicks have more than just hot bods! Awoo!”
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Particularly if you grew up back then. 
Too many horror stories; gay young men and I.V. drug users dead of AIDS, and now the alcoholic-tobacco-prescription-drug-abusers among us starting to check out.
My parents met working in Hollywood, but they left for more ordinary work.
Two of my siblings tried to get into acting, my sister occasionally playing tough surfer girl bit parts, but they quit Hollywood too.
Much of the entertainment industry is horrible and always has been.
My first major in college was television production and engineering, I was really excited about the new digital television technology, but after two years of that, and a few very sordid Hollywood experiences looking for summer jobs, and the fact there were few, sometimes no women in my classes because the environment was so hostile toward them, that's why I changed my major to biology and never looked back.
