A few years ago we ran across a pictorial that claimed the model was none other than CSWC favorite Linda Boyce, but it turned out said model looked NOTHING like Ms Boyce! And the real clincher was that later in that same magazine we found another pictorial that actually was shot in the real Linda Boyce’s apartment! We suggest you go brush up on that post, and in doing so you’ll hopefully agree that we made a fairly strong case to back up the theory that if you find a pictorial from the mid-to-late 1960s in a NYC-based magazine and it has a zebra print background there is a very strong likelihood that it was shot in Ms Boyce’s apartment in the Camelot Building.
And now today, as a kind of coup de grâce to nail that theory home, we have found a pictorial from a NYC based magazine [check], Caper (the June 1969 edition to be exact [check]), with a zebra print background [check], and this time it’s actually LINDA BOYCE herself!
Although Ms Boyce is of course NOT using the name “Linda Boyce” here[1], rather she’s called Monique Van Rutenn [2] [3] Upon further review it seems that the photos aren’t necessarily all from the same shoot, so it’s most likely just a collection of Ms Boyce’s pictures that the editors of Caper had laying around the office and may have just needed to put a quick pictorial together to pad out the mag. That’s just a guess, but that very well could also explain the earlier Faux Boyce anomaly as well. In fact, on even further scrutiny, it looks like at least one of the pictures referenced in our earlier post, which BTW appeared in the 1970 MR Annual[4], is reused here. And looking even closer (yeah, we have a problem, we know) that pink background we see in picture of Ms Boyce reclining is almost exactly the same as the one we find in the Faux Boyce pictorial, which could mean that one WAS actually taken at Ms Boyce’s apartment as well, or at least in the same studio…or it could just be a coincidence.
In any case, here it is, for your consideration, in all its late 1960s glory.
- We do have it on very good authority that “Linda Boyce” was in fact also not her “real”, or birth, name either, but it is the one she used professionally throughout the 1960s, in films at least. She also ran a talent agency out of her Camelot Building apartment which we’ve now confirmed was named Boyce-Stone (Stone being a friend who evidently didn’t last long), so maybe that does mean her “real” name actually was Boyce(?). If anyone does know for sure and wants to whisper it in our ear, or send us an email, there’s a coupon for a years supply of free popcorn at the Capri Show World Center World Famous Snack BarTM pending in it for you…[↑]
- Monique Van Rutenn – we’ve done the expected research into that name and turned up nothing. But if you can prove that incorrect see the above offer.[↑]
- Monique is of course a name we love around CSWC, but for reasons that have nothing to do with Ms Boyce. Besides, that’s a West Coast thing.[↑]
- The 1970 MR Annual pictorial was first brought to our attention on the Something Weird Video Facebook group by the late, great Howie Pyro: https://www.facebook.com/groups/32868747680/permalink/10153007269087681[↑]
