Paul Snider In 1979, Snider partnered with Somen Banerjee and attorney Bruce Nahin to form what would become the male strip club format of Chippendales. In 1980, Stratten was named "Playboy"s Playmate of the Year and was cast in a motion picture, "They All Laughed" (1981) directed by Peter Bogdanovich, with whom she began an affair. Stratten and Snider separated and he hired a private investigator to follow her. On August 14, 1980, Stratten, aged twenty nine, was shot and killed in the West Los Angeles house they had shared. Snider's body was found next to hers. Police believed he raped and
Clifton Snider had been unfair to her by giving her a "B" on a paragraph she wrote on the film Fahrenheit 9/11 when she had been achieving a "straight-A record" in the class. Snider wrote he had "the grade book" for the class which proved she was not telling the truth. Neither she nor Horowitz ever contested what Snider said, and indeed neither she nor the male student ever followed university policy regarding complaints against professors. All of Snider's books of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism have been critically acclaimed. Cadence Collective has called him "one of the most magnificent and prolific