Free Preview: Playmate of the Month May 1989 - Monique Noel

Monique Noel remembers being three (she remembers even further back - a couple hundred years further, in fact - but more on that later). She recalls being a toddler who resented the gray skies over her native Orgeon. Miss May, even then, was a sun worshiper. "Oregon is beautiful," she says, "but it's wet and gray. I had to get out of the rain." The year she turned 18, she folded her umbrella and fled south. It seldom rains in her Souther California stomping grounds. She plays on Venice Beach and works in Hollywood. A New Ager who believes in reincarnation and recalls a past life or two, Miss May was not about to spend this one looking for silver linings in storm clouds. "When the time came to move, I didn't just move, I <i>ran</i>!" she says. "Life is too short to <i>wait</i> for what you want." She plans to devote this life, or at least the next decade, to her budding career as an actress. A chance meeting with a casting director led to her first screen bit, as a member of a beauty bevy in the upcoming Patrick Swayze vehicle <i>Road House</i>. Next up is a Carl Reiner comedy, <i>Bert Rigby, You're a Fool</i> - her first speaking role. "I was so nervous driving to the audition, I was trying to remember the title. <i>Stanley Clark, You're an Idiot</i>? No! The part called for a girl in a swimsuit - I think the swimsuit took precedence over acting credentials. Anyway, I got the part. I play Corbin Bernsen's date, and my one line is counting his sit-ups." Asked if Bernsen is a s...