European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                And cult of Cindy Crawford uses her Good  Craig Marine san Francisco examiner flow Cindy Crawford around for a couple of hours and you learn a few things. For one thing she has a Good Arm. Of course she has a lot of other Good stuff too but it was her Arm that propelled her ceremonial first pitch at candlestick Park Well Over the catchers head and almost into the Skull of Ace guitarist Harvey Mandel who was loading up his equipment after performing the National Anthem. Cindy Crawford does not throw like a girl. The Pride of Sycamore iii., was in san Francisco Over a weekend last month to sign autographs for her thousands of assembled fans at the old Navy a clothing co. There is a cult of Cindy out there and you learn quickly just How huge it is. It s big enough that major league ballplayers those bastions of professional Cool turn into babbling boys in her presence. Giants players idled up to her before she tossed her pitch and had her sign a baseball or pose for a picture with them. They looked like 13-Yearold kids at their first dance shuffling across the gym to mumble a request for a dance. Cindy dressed All in. Black from her leather jacket to her boots with four Inch heels was such a draw that actor Tom Selleck in a giants uniform to pro Mote a charitable organization was virtually ignored., _ another thing you learn about Cindy is that she travels with an entourage. She brought More people to the Park than the president of the United Stales did when he came some years Back. A giants a spokeswoman gave the stats president five cars Cindy five cars plus a Limo plus a Winnebago. A then you watch the crowd go nuts when she walks across the baseball Field and especially later when she wades through the crowd of autograph seekers. The staff at the old Navy store was overwhelmed by the crowd maybe 65 percent male which stretched outside for hours before her arrival. Cindy is no Dummy. Sitting in the store for a television interview she talked about How she sees herself As a the president of this huge corporation which is Cindy  she has taken control of her image and has gone from As she puts it a merely a two dimensional image of a perfection a whatever that is a in photographs to a More human and Falli ble person through television a alluding to her mtg House of styles How which displays her sense of humor almost As much As her supermodel looks. Probably the most interesting thing Learned from following Cindy around is that there is a picture circulating out there that she cannot stand Shell sit there and sign copies of the 1988 Playboy Magazine she is featured in or pictures of herself barely in lingerie or bathing suits but twice she freaked when asked to sign a certain picture. A where did you get that a she asked the first Guy who presented it. A hide that done to let anyone see it a the second time she saw it she said a where Are you Guys getting this a and Flat out confiscated it a a from the stunned Guy. She had someone tear it up. Amazingly this offending picture was a simple shot of Cindy in a red and White striped tank top no nudity no spinach in the Teeth no nothing. She just hates it for reasons that she wont talk about except for a mumbled a a it a so  the runway As a to movie stardom by Bob Thomas the associated press. P Retty people with acting ambitions would be Well advised to try modelling first. From Lauren Bacall to Sharon Stone the runway has proved successful. Bacall was spotted on the cover of harpers Bazaar by the wife of director Howard Hawks who was seeking a Siren to Charm Humphrey Bogart in to have and have not. Grace Kelly modelled for the Sears Roebuck Cata fog to pay for her acting classes. During the search for Scarlett of Hara Susan Hayward was brought to Hollywood after being seen in fashion ads. Now supermodel Elle Mcpherson famed for her appearances in sports illustrated a swimsuit Issue enters the Field. She was preceded in More recent times by child Model Brooke Shields cast at 12 As a prostitute in Louis mallets pretty baby and Andie Macdowell who modelled for Calvin Klein before being cast As Jane in Greystoke the legend of Tarzan lord of the apes. Lorraine Bracco became a Model at 16 Ami worked extensively in Paris before turning actress in european films. Geena Davis statuesque Beauty qualified her to Model for new Yorkus Zoli Agency until her first movie break in Tootsie. Stone signed with the Eileen Ford Agency at 19 and worked As a top Model in Italy and elsewhere before Woody Allen started her acting career with stardust memories. Isabella Rossellini and Lauren Hutton Are High fashion models who succeeded As actresses and still Elle Mcpherson and tvs Arsenio Hall Check out playboys May Issue which has Heron the cover. Lend their elegant faces to Beauty products. You be seen Mcpherson on the cover of sports ii Lus rated. Now you can see All of her in the new australian film sirens. She plays one of three models Lor Painter Sam Neill who specializes in shocking allegories with female nudes. Surprisingly Mcpherson looks As though she stepped out of a Rubens painting rather than a fashion and. The director John Duigan told her to put on weight. A that was the hardest part of preparing for the role a said Mcpherson disciplined to maintain 125 pounds on her six foot Frame. She added 20 pounds in a couple of months. Unlike most movie struck models Mcpherson 30, remains ambivalent about an acting career when Duigan sent her the sirens script she allowed it to languish on a shelf for three months. Her agent insisted she meet the director in los Angeles so she hastily read the script the night before a and i  put it  a. Sirens required Mcpherson to appear nude As she posed for Neill. A. A a nudity was the least of my problems a she said. I m sure the press will play on the nudity and i understand that. But the nudity is incidental completely m context. Its void of sexuality in a sense. A it was easy for me to do because i can understand it and intellect Alize it. And in a australian and we re nude on the  models who have turned to acting also include Suzy Parker Iman Twiggy and Jennifer of Neill Fot us of s so a there Are lures among them Jinx Falkenberg in the 1940s and Christie Brinkley in the 1980s. Staytodds65 models urn cd actors Jet prefer to i Don t really have a burning desire to act a Misc a Rita bus Utcy adored three months of mss Quot "1 a it i he a he