No longer a Bunny since the temporary closing of the New Orleans Club some months ago, Laura has just finished an on-location shooting as an extra in Dino De Laurentiis' new film, Mandingo, starring James Mason and Susan George. I'll never leave.' This creates a conflict in her life, for she also wants to be a movie star ('Who doesn't?') and most stars have to emigrate to Hollywood sooner or later. 'Except for the humidity,' she says, 'I adore everything about New Orleans. Even today, two years later, she will wax rhapsodic about the delights of the old French city. Within a few weeks, she'd fallen madly in love with the place.
'The next thing I knew, I was in New Orleans with a new job.' She had an idea! 'I dashed off a letter, enclosed a Polaroid of myself and sent it to the New Orleans Bunny Mother, since she was the closest to Tulsa,' Laura recalls.
She pictured herself with rabbit ears and a Bunny tail. Fresh out of high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 18-year-old ex-cheerleader Laura Misch was confronted with that same question that has plagued most new high school graduates: What now? Wandering into a neighborhood drugstore, she happened to pick up a slick paperback entitled Playboy Bunnies.
