keesan@BBNCCI.ARPA (08/15/84)
From: Morris M. Keesan <keesan@BBNCCI.ARPA> Someone in a recent issue of SF-LOVERS commented that the illustrations of Cirocco in Varley's TITAN looked a lot like Cher, and wondered whether the author or artist had intended this. I wrote to Freff, the artist, asking him about this. His response was, "Interesting notion, Cher...but nothing that Varley ever said to me or that I ever thought." He goes on to say that Cirocco as drawn was modeled on two people, one whom he was visiting while reading the manuscript, "and aside from hair and skin color her features were an exact match for Varley's description." The other, the model for the body, was "the only six foot tall, slinky, essentially flat-chested ex-ballet dancer" he knew.