B.I.P. Hugh Hefner

[MikeInWimbledon]

People just don't appreciate how hard it was for him. Great journalist.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dies aged 91

 

[dog68]

Indeed, a good innings though,

 

[Ted]

I always found him to be creepy. Certainly not someone I will miss.

 

[grober]

PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP.

 

[Darrell]

PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP.

He didn't like Trump at all.

 

[Deleted member 113659]

I always found him to be creepy. Certainly not someone I will miss.

Spot on Ted.

Although I always loved the part in 'Beverly Hills Cop 2' where the police trio joined the party at the Hefner mansion. Very funny clip.

 

[brucemillar]

He certainly broke new ground with Playboy. That has to be seen in the light of the times he brought it to the shelves. He made 'pornography' (in some senses) acceptable and Playboy became a measuring stick, for many to gauge what 'acceptable pornography' should look like. Perhaps most importantly, he brought very strong and well written journalistic stories to people who may never had found it/them. I suspect (maybe wrongly) that the whole Playboy Mansion was a caricature that he enjoyed and used to his advantage. But one thing is for sure. Not many people will not at some in their life have either heard of Playboy, looked at Playboy or referred to Playboy. Now that is cool.

 

[markjay]

Talking about breaking new ground, well we had our very own Raymond Review..... but then Hugh Hefner did it BIG, as they do in America.

 

[neilrr]

I only ever read it for the articles.

 

[GeeJayW]

I only ever read it for the articles.

There were usually at least two 'articles' worthy of consideration....

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Certainly a game changer - I can't really think of a big mens' leisure magazine before Playboy - Esquire and New Yorker were mundane in comparison.

Pure "Mad Men," even down to being a bit bonkers in the final episodes.

I hope you've gone to a better place, Hugh, but it's hard to know what it could possibly look like.

 

[E55BOF]

Hmmmmm.... That picture of two bowls is curiously reminiscent of certain Playboy pictures, somehow...

Very J. Alfred Prufrock.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

We try.
Wonder if anyone worked out "B.I.P Hugh Hefner ?"

But it did run some brilliant fiction and social commentary. I'm sure I read people like Heller, Vidal, Mailer, Bradbury, Thurber, Persig and Kerouac there first, before I came across their books

 

[E55BOF]

Well, I haven't yet. And it's not Prufrock, it's Whispers of Immortality. Doh!

I was never keen on Playboy; the nudes were invariably airbrushed, soft-focussed, and oiled to the point where they appeared to be made of plastic. Very American; all facade, no substance, what you see IS what you get - and ALL you get...

I was reading Bradbury and Thurber at school in the early Sixties, but not the rest. I never actually bought a copy of Playboy, ever, and certainly never considered it as worth actually reading. My loss, perhaps.

 

[markjay]

...the nudes were invariably airbrushed, soft-focussed, and oiled to the point where they appeared to be made of plastic. Very American; all facade, no substance...

Unlike our very British "Readers' Wives"

 

[AMGeed]

 

[LTD]

A man that will appear at Heaven’s Gates and God will announce

“You won”

 

[Druk]

We try.
Wonder if anyone worked out "B.I.P Hugh Hefner ?"

I presumed it rhymed with 'Honk'?


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[Darrell]

We try.
Wonder if anyone worked out "B.I.P Hugh Hefner ?"

Yes, a ten year old told me. Snigger snigger.

 

[Allan AMG]

I presumed it rhymed with 'Honk'?
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I read it as 'Breast In Peace'