[joe-frank-list] Lisa Lyon: The body-builder turned model Gregory Poe talks about in 'Don't know mind'

[rbell at alumni.caltech.edu]

	In 'Don't know mind' Gregory Poe tells Joe about a close
friend, a daughter of an oral surgeon to the stars.  The surgeon
bequeathed Poe their dental x-rays, which he made into a dress.  She
became a body-builder, then a model.  They had further adventures.
	Redditor u/AdmiralRay suggested it's Lisa Lyon, and it seems
he's right.
	https://calisphere.org/item/37b6dc9005612437c1f65c185bdda79c/
says:
	'Lisa Lyon was the first woman bodybuilding champion in 1979,
becoming a symbol of the new woman of the 80s: strong, muscular,
athletic.  The 1983 black and white photo book by Robert Mapplethorpe,
"Lady: Lisa Lyon", explores the many facets of a woman's body and
soul.  In 1983 Lisa models the clothes by Gregory Poe, a direct
descendant of writer Edgar Allan Poe.  Lisa Lyon, first woman
bodybuilding champion in 1979, models clothes by Gregory Poe.  Los
Angeles 1983.'

	A 'Spy' magazine profile of her in 1991 October, 'Little miss
dangerous', (not to be confused with the Ted Nugent album) begins:
	'Meet Lisa Lyon.  John Lombardi explains how, in one lifetime,
she could be the female Schwarzenegger, the druggy muse (and
girlfriend) of Robert Mapplethorpe, the national sweetheart of Japan
and the adoptive daughter (and girlfriend) of the famous, druggy
scientist who talks to dolphins.  In other words, how the seventies
became the eighties, and the eighties became the nineties.
	None of her friends have seen Lisa Lyon in weeks.  Not Gregory
Poe, the custom-clothing entrepreneur from Tokyo via Westwood with his
blond Armani crop, brown Armani tan and the cosmetic blue coating on
his tongue ("Picks up my eyes, don't you think?")...'
	

russell bell