MCorps0311
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R.I.P.Hugh Hefner,passed at the age of 91.
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Hugh Hefner.R.I.P.
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Targets Guy
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What a life he led. RIP.
I knew all that....
I knew that all those women and that partying would kill him.
I knew that all those women and that partying would kill him.
When I was a kid my mom found my Playboy and tried to have an impromptu "talk" with me.
She told me she wanted to let me know that, "these aren't real women." To which I replied, "then I don't want a real woman."
It went down hill from there. Thanks Hugh, from that pimple faced teenager. R.I.P.
She told me she wanted to let me know that, "these aren't real women." To which I replied, "then I don't want a real woman."
It went down hill from there. Thanks Hugh, from that pimple faced teenager. R.I.P.
DWalt
Member
I went to only one Playboy Club - in New Orleans, about 1963 or 1964, with a guy I knew slightly who was a member. What a disappointment, nothing like I expected. Pretentious and super expensive (at least compared to my usual haunts and my financial means). I think I had one drink and left. Back in my early college days, I was living in a dorm. I remember one guy had most of the wall space in his room covered with Playboy centerfolds. I haven't even looked at a Playboy magazine for at least 30 years, maybe more. I was briefly a subscriber (just to read the articles of course), but Hefner (or his staff) went off on a gun control crusade and started publishing anti-gun articles and opinions in about every issue (I think it was sometime in the later 1970s), and as I remember, Playboy Enterprises also made a large contribution to Handgun Control Inc. (later to become the Brady Campaign) and began running HCI ads in the magazine. As a result I cancelled my subscription, never to re-start. Playboy was dead to me from that time on. I am not very tolerant or forgiving of such affronts.
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Texas Star
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It is true that Playboy, like virtually all "big, slick" magazines had an anti-gun stance. But it has been one of the very few such mags that also allowed pro-gun letters in The Forum pages. They printed some of mine and one from an editor for whom I wrote gun material for many years. Another gun writer also had his letter printed.
And they had columnists like Travel Editor Robert C. Ruark and ran a nice safari article by him shortly before his 1965 death. Nice guns in the photo spread, too. The German edition had a terrific article on a couple of gunsmiths and one on custom knifemaker Dietmar Kressler. That was the most dramatic, best done knifemaker profile I ever saw, and I personally wrote a bunch of those. Their photography was remarkable, given the topic.
I got some photo hints from their man David Chan in line at the bank one day. His tip about bouncing light (flash) off the ceiling helped my own articles.
And they excerpted Fleming's Bond novels. I liked much of the magazine, while condemning the pro-drug stance and certain other elements that I can't discuss here.
I've met three Playmates and talked extensively with two of them in a grocer and in a bookstore. They were intelligent and helpful when I asked about writing for women's magazines. They weren't doing appearances, just shopping, and I got to talking and soon realized who they were. My son chatted up Julie McCullough. I just watched from a couple of aisles away in a bookstore as my then-teen flirted with a girl whom he soon realized was a Playmate and actress. I'm still mad that blue - nosed arch conservatives cost Julie her TV role as a nanny just because she'd appeared in, Playboy! My then-teen daughter later saw an appearance in that same shop by another Playmate. I think she was amazed at the LONG line of admirers waiting for autographs. And amused...
The magazine sponsors a college fiction contest that encourages young writers and has some useful interviews.
My heart goes out to Crystal in the loss of her husband, and to Cooper, Marston, Christie, and David in the loss of their father.
I hope that Cooper can keep things on track and improve sagging circulation. He's the seemingly annointed heir to his dad as publisher.
Hugh M. Hefner was born on April 9, 1926 and died on Sept 27, 2017. He passed peacefully at the Playboy Mansion, with family on hand and died of natural causes, the exact type yet to be announced. He didn't own the Mansion, which was corporate property. He actually paid rent there! A year or three ago, a friend of his bought the home but agreed to let Hef live there until his death.
Crystal has a $5 million home nearby, bought a few years ago for her and her mom by Hef, so they'd have a place to live when he passed. I presume she'll move there now. I don't think any of the adult children lived in the Mansion.
Whatever one thought of HMH, he was a remarkable man who largely redefined some of our cultural norms. He was an astounding success as a publisher, starting, Playboy with very limited funds. His success in that venture is probably a singular achievement.
I'm curious to see if Holly Madison will release a public statement on Hef's death. I read her book, "Down the Rabbit Hole", and when they parted, she had no love left for the man whom she considered to have manipulated her life for about seven years. I think he was the man she described, but was much more, and a great help to some, and a philanthropist.
In a way, his passing is the end of an era that he provided and lived. My experience with, Playboy began with reading copies at my uncle's house; my parents would have been quite upset had they known he let me see them. During my time in the USAF, Playmate centerfolds sometimes adorned my locker door, and I continued to read the magazine in college and visited two Playboy Clubs, in Chicago and in Dallas. The Chicago visit was actually on a sponsored Journalism class field trip. Yes, I had to write an article, but it wasn't a dreaded assignment. I think I still have that story, with a photo of our Bunny Patty, a student at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, if I recall the name of that institution.
Hefner will be interred next to Marilyn Monroe, his first Playmate, who he largely credited with the success of his young magazine.
Whatever one thought of HMH, he was a giant in his field, and his passing is an historic event.
In 1980, heartbroken at the murder of Dorothy Stratten by her estranged husband, he said in an interview, "The only thing about death that makes it acceptable is that it's universal." And so it has caught up to him, as it will to us all. But few have lived as well as he did while here.
And they had columnists like Travel Editor Robert C. Ruark and ran a nice safari article by him shortly before his 1965 death. Nice guns in the photo spread, too. The German edition had a terrific article on a couple of gunsmiths and one on custom knifemaker Dietmar Kressler. That was the most dramatic, best done knifemaker profile I ever saw, and I personally wrote a bunch of those. Their photography was remarkable, given the topic.
I got some photo hints from their man David Chan in line at the bank one day. His tip about bouncing light (flash) off the ceiling helped my own articles.
And they excerpted Fleming's Bond novels. I liked much of the magazine, while condemning the pro-drug stance and certain other elements that I can't discuss here.
I've met three Playmates and talked extensively with two of them in a grocer and in a bookstore. They were intelligent and helpful when I asked about writing for women's magazines. They weren't doing appearances, just shopping, and I got to talking and soon realized who they were. My son chatted up Julie McCullough. I just watched from a couple of aisles away in a bookstore as my then-teen flirted with a girl whom he soon realized was a Playmate and actress. I'm still mad that blue - nosed arch conservatives cost Julie her TV role as a nanny just because she'd appeared in, Playboy! My then-teen daughter later saw an appearance in that same shop by another Playmate. I think she was amazed at the LONG line of admirers waiting for autographs. And amused...
The magazine sponsors a college fiction contest that encourages young writers and has some useful interviews.
My heart goes out to Crystal in the loss of her husband, and to Cooper, Marston, Christie, and David in the loss of their father.
I hope that Cooper can keep things on track and improve sagging circulation. He's the seemingly annointed heir to his dad as publisher.
Hugh M. Hefner was born on April 9, 1926 and died on Sept 27, 2017. He passed peacefully at the Playboy Mansion, with family on hand and died of natural causes, the exact type yet to be announced. He didn't own the Mansion, which was corporate property. He actually paid rent there! A year or three ago, a friend of his bought the home but agreed to let Hef live there until his death.
Crystal has a $5 million home nearby, bought a few years ago for her and her mom by Hef, so they'd have a place to live when he passed. I presume she'll move there now. I don't think any of the adult children lived in the Mansion.
Whatever one thought of HMH, he was a remarkable man who largely redefined some of our cultural norms. He was an astounding success as a publisher, starting, Playboy with very limited funds. His success in that venture is probably a singular achievement.
I'm curious to see if Holly Madison will release a public statement on Hef's death. I read her book, "Down the Rabbit Hole", and when they parted, she had no love left for the man whom she considered to have manipulated her life for about seven years. I think he was the man she described, but was much more, and a great help to some, and a philanthropist.
In a way, his passing is the end of an era that he provided and lived. My experience with, Playboy began with reading copies at my uncle's house; my parents would have been quite upset had they known he let me see them. During my time in the USAF, Playmate centerfolds sometimes adorned my locker door, and I continued to read the magazine in college and visited two Playboy Clubs, in Chicago and in Dallas. The Chicago visit was actually on a sponsored Journalism class field trip. Yes, I had to write an article, but it wasn't a dreaded assignment. I think I still have that story, with a photo of our Bunny Patty, a student at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, if I recall the name of that institution.
Hefner will be interred next to Marilyn Monroe, his first Playmate, who he largely credited with the success of his young magazine.
Whatever one thought of HMH, he was a giant in his field, and his passing is an historic event.
In 1980, heartbroken at the murder of Dorothy Stratten by her estranged husband, he said in an interview, "The only thing about death that makes it acceptable is that it's universal." And so it has caught up to him, as it will to us all. But few have lived as well as he did while here.
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I wonder if they are going to be looking for homes for all those bunnies? I have some spare room.... 
misswired
Absent Comrade
Dug out a couple issues to thumb thru and honor his memory, alas....the pages were stuck together....must of been improper longterm storage in the humidity.
(As the Preacher stated : Right or Wrong; it needed to be said)
Does anyone really know the symbolism of the multiple stars located in the "P" of Playboy on the magazine covers of each issue?
(As the Preacher stated : Right or Wrong; it needed to be said)
Does anyone really know the symbolism of the multiple stars located in the "P" of Playboy on the magazine covers of each issue?
Texas Star
US Veteran
Yes. The stars denoted various regional distribution copies. The ad content varied somewhat by where the subscriber lived.
This is the official explanation I read. It had nothing to do with how many times a given Playmate had been intimate with Hef. That was just a widespread rumor.
Speaking of Bunnies, have you seen the pics Online with Alessandra Ambrosio attending a party as a Bunny and her husband coming as Hef? Worth a look...
Not that Alessandra needed a real job as a Bunny. I've read that her income/fortune is about on par with Hefner's, about $45 million USD.
Texas Star
US Veteran
Yes, I was sad to see who she ended up marrying after I turned her down.
Don't take it personally. I imagine that she just wanted a fellow Brazilian..with a lot of money! And they do have a couple of kids together.
CAJUNLAWYER
Member
Told my wife this morning. She responded "Had he been sick?" to which I responded "No. He had been 91."
For a while a few years ago I subscribed to the digital edition of Playboy for my iPad. (At the time anyway, one could not buy an app for the magazine as it violated Apple’s iTunes proprietary regs. This may well still be true.)
Playboy’s website was nicely organized. In addition to the latest magazine, a subscription got you access to all previous Playboys, so you could go back and reread the ones that impressed you as a teen. Kinda fun. I let the subscription lapse after a year as I found I was not reading it very much. (Too much time on the S&W Forum, I suppose...
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RIP, Hef. And thanks for the memories...
Playboy’s website was nicely organized. In addition to the latest magazine, a subscription got you access to all previous Playboys, so you could go back and reread the ones that impressed you as a teen. Kinda fun. I let the subscription lapse after a year as I found I was not reading it very much. (Too much time on the S&W Forum, I suppose...
)RIP, Hef. And thanks for the memories...
Arik
Member
Arik
Member
For a few years in the late 90s I had a night shift job where we kinda shared an office with the Philadelphia police sub station. The station was unmanned at night so we would use their bathroom. It was a large room for a bathroom, so much so that the cops stationed there stored some unused filing cabinets in there. One night someone (not me) was nosy enough to go looking through the cabinets. What they found was those filing cabinets were 3/4 full of Playboy magazines ranging from the 60s to the early 90s! Made for great reading material pre smartphone days!!!
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As has been posted in many other threads.............................
"This thread is worthless without pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"This thread is worthless without pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I met a Playboy Playmate once while building a Chilli's restaurant in Nashville. Some of the guys were talking about her and looking at her photos in the magazine and she walked up and they quickly hid the magazine. Honestly, she didn't look that great and had a pretty bad complexion. I thought whoever the guy is that touches up the photos is the real reason for Playboys success.
Hugh, R.I.P. For better or worse you helped to define the "good life," and a generation.
I can only hope your enjoyed your life half as much as the rest of us were led to believe.
I can only hope your enjoyed your life half as much as the rest of us were led to believe.
