Carly Simon, that sassy, sexy Foxy Lady with the fabulous Mick Jagger look-alike pouty mouth and T-shirt teasing body, has become the new symbol of foxy freedom, sensual beauty, incredible talent, and a rare macho gutsiness. She's grabbed headline action from Hollywood to Hong Kong for her super smash album, No Secrets, and for her marvelous love match with singer Sweet Baby James Taylor. Star went to Carly's hip younger brother, Peter Simon, for a "no secrets" scoop on the new lifestyle of Mrs. Taylor.
 

Peter, a friendly fun-to-rap-with dude, is a freelance photographer who has published two photographic books, Mov- ing On, Holding Still and Decent Expo- sure, and is currently in the midst of a photo essay book on Carly's life, which I will be out in November. Peter's Carly I book will include the earliest photos I snapped of her by her father when she was a vamply little tot, to Peter's most recent photos of Carly at home with James.

When we called on Peter, he was at home in Kailua, Hawaii, where he's been busy printing and assembling all the black and white photos that will appear in the Carly book, which he has entitled, You're So Vain You Probably Think This Book is About You. (Sound familiar?) Peter:

"I got the idea of doing a special photographic book on Carly and her life story about a year ago. I knew that Carly was going to be popular, but I honestly didn't think she was going to be as hot as she has become in the last couple of months. . . and neither did she! You know, Carly is really very humble about her success. She keeps saying to me that she doesn't think she deserves a whole book about her- self. . . she thinks she just isn't famous enough and that the public wouldn't be interested in a book just about her."

"But in working with me on the book, Carly enjoys having her picture taken when she's relaxed or not in a bad mood! Lots of times she'll get pretty mad at press photographers who --- want her to fall into some sexy pose and then portray her as simply a sex symbol and not as the creative, talented lady she is! I guess she feels that those type of people are just interested in her success, and not in her as a person."

"I just spoke with Carly by telephone yesterday, all the way from here in Hawaii to her and James' home on Martha's Vineyard Island off Cape Cod. Carly's really my closest sister . . . she's a beautiful person. and I really love her a lot. Unlike most brothers and sisters, we've never had a point when we were growing up where we weren't really close with one another. I guess she's always thought of me as the family hippie cause I used to live on a commune in Vermont. She thought that was really far-out and beautiful-but it wasn't her kind of lifestyle!"

"But since Carly's been married, it seem that she's kind of cooled down on her singing career and ambitions, and seem to be devoting a lot  time to her married life. . . I think she'd like to be more of a homebody than she has been. She really wants to have kids and raise a family of her own. I get the feeling that she's not going to be putting as much energy into her career as she has in the past. More than anything else right now, Carly and James are sorting out their feelings about their individual careers, and it's affect on their marriage. I guess they'll have to come to terms with their career and marriage identities, so that Carly can balance her time as a mother versus the time she spends on her music. It's hard to work out that kind of stuff, but I think it's especially difficult because they reall1 don't want to merge their acts."

"In terms of their individual careers, they want to stay Carly Simon and James Taylor. They have no interest in doing a tour together or even cutting a record together. Carly's musical thing is more rock and roll, and sort of gutsy, whereas James' is more a soft, countrified rock sound. They're definitely not the new "Sonny and Cher" duet, and they don't want to be thought of that way. But, of course, they influence each other in their writing. It's bound to happen when you're as close to someone as Carly and James are, and in the same musical bag. Not only has James affected Carly in her writing and thinking, but even in little ways, like the way she talks and the way she walks. James has a special southern twang to his voice, since he is from the south. For example, whenever Carly says "tunes'" it now comes out "tewns" in the same slow twangy drawl, which is the way James talks."
 

"It's hard for our family to get to visit Carly or James this time of year because their home on Martha's Vineyard is 100 inaccessible because it's so snowy and cold. They live in a comfy, country-styled wooden house that James helped design and build. It has its own recording studio, so Carly and James can rehearse and record right there. Lots of times strangers and fans will just drop by and knock on their door, without any regard for their privacy. That kinda bugs Carly, but what's she going to do?"

"This last spring they've both been working on composing songs for new albums; Carly has one scheduled to come out in November. It's hard to believe, but Carly's really insecure about her music. Whenever she puts out an album, she doesn't know objectively whether it's good enough or not. She likes people close to her to say, 'Oh Carly, it's fine. . . don't worry.' But it's funny, she's' especially afraid of my opinion because she says I'm her harshest critic. Actually, I thought her hit single, You're So Vain, was the greatest thing I'd ever heard from her. . . I flipped out the first time' heard it, and I still do. I get off on it whenever I hear it!"
 

"As far as coping with her success, Carly sometimes gets bugged at people who haven't stuck with her all along; the kind of people who are your best friends all of a sudden just when you have a hit-people like promotional agents. She feels as though those people want a piece of her action. "A lot of people ask when Carly's going to do a television show, but it's hard to say. There was a TV Special in the works a couple months ago, but she cancelled it because she and the director couldn't get together on how it' should be done. But that's kind of Carly's nature, she really doesn't like to perform in public because it frightens her! She feels it isn't worth all the tension she feels before she's ready to go on and the whole rigamaroll of touring and one-night stands. But I sort of wish she would perform because I think she has a lot to offer her audience."
 

Carly's Wedding
 

"Carly and James's wedding was a very small, quiet family affair at Carly's apartment. James had given a concert that night at Radio City Music Hall, and right after the performance we had a big reception on the top floor of the Time-Life Building in New York City. The reception went on till four in the morning. . . and I took quite a few pictures Carly and James are now going over the photos I took at their reception because they'll all be included in the Carly book. The book is actually going to be a photographic documentary on a person's life, Carly's, and the pictures will be chosen for their photo- graphic quality, and because they express the meaningful changes as She emerged into her own creative, expressive person. It won't be a "fan book' with just snapshots; each picture, hope, will represent something significant and meaningful in Carly's life There will also be a caption accompanying each photo, which will be written by close friends of Carly's or by some- one in our family. James is writing some of the captions and so will Carly. We'll also print some of Carly's song lyrics that relate to the pictures. For example, the wedding pictures of Carly and James will be captioned with "That's the way I always heard it should be . . . " the lyrics from her hit song."

"Next month, I'll be visiting them at The Cape to shoot more casual type photos of Carly and James at home. And at the same time, we'll be sorting through boxes of over 500 pictures to decide on the 100 that will be put into the Carly book. In fact, many of the photos that accompany this article will be published in the book... and, as you can guess, there's a lot of excited "anticipation" from both Carly and James on how the book will turn out. I think Carly's fans will dig it, and I hope you do too."