Lucas Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 1926-2017 A legend, trailblazer and icon RIP Hef https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/09/hugh-hefner-dies-dead-playboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted September 28, 2017 Author Share Posted September 28, 2017 Hefner, who died of natural causes at his home—the Playboy mansion—in Los Angeles, could not have imagined that Playboy, the magazine he created in his Chicago apartment in 1953 for $8,000, and its bunny logo would “become a fixture of the cultural landscape as universal as Disneyland and Coca-Cola,” Playboy (original proposed title: Stag Party) was a men’s magazine that challenged puritanical convention, focusing more on indoor pursuits than outdoors. “We enjoy mixing up cocktails and an hors d’oeuvre or two, putting a little mood music on the phonograph, and inviting in a female acquaintance for a quiet discussion on Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex,” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 RIP the HEF! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 THE HEF WAS DEF! BEYOND MOST! A MAVERICK! AN ETERNAL PLAYBOY GHOST! LOVE YOU HEF! Your magazines turned me into a real man! RIP!!!! There used to be a Playboy club in San Francisco in the Sixties. My hip parents had a membership there! Even back then they would bring a phone to your table if you needed to make a call!My parents met Hef once! They still have their Playboy Club Key!!! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union 5-3992 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 I'll steal a joke I read earlier. He's one of the few people that isn't in a "better place" now 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Not Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 I'll steal a joke I read earlier. He's one of the few people that isn't in a "better place" now The viral joke predates his death by a few years, which always was weird. https://www.someecards.com/usercards/viewcard/MjAxMy02MTg1YTc0MDA1NDlmOGY4/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That One Guy Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 I'll steal a joke I read earlier. He's one of the few people that isn't in a "better place" nowcoincidentally I told a version of this joke earlier unless that wasn't a coincidence ;) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That One Guy Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 I'll steal a joke I read earlier. He's one of the few people that isn't in a "better place" now The viral joke predates his death by a few years, which always was weird. https://www.someecar...c0MDA1NDlmOGY4/I mean, he was destined to go one day I don't think anyone was anticipating 100+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Not Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 If Trump doesn't dedicate a RIP tweet to Hef then #notmypresident Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Not Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 I'll steal a joke I read earlier. He's one of the few people that isn't in a "better place" now The viral joke predates his death by a few years, which always was weird. https://www.someecar...c0MDA1NDlmOGY4/I mean, he was destined to go one day I don't think anyone was anticipating 100+ But that's why it's weird, the guy who came up with the joke couldn't just put it on hold for a few years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 THE HEF WAS DEF! BEYOND MOST! A MAVERICK! AN ETERNAL PLAYBOY GHOST! LOVE YOU HEF! Your magazines turned me into a real man! RIP!!!! His magazines gave you a handful of hair and nearly made you blind! RIP Hef! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Hefner, who died of natural causes at his home—the Playboy mansion—in Los Angeles, could not have imagined that Playboy, the magazine he created in his Chicago apartment in 1953 for $8,000, and its bunny logo would “become a fixture of the cultural landscape as universal as Disneyland and Coca-Cola,” Playboy (original proposed title: Stag Party) was a men’s magazine that challenged puritanical convention, focusing more on indoor pursuits than outdoors. “We enjoy mixing up cocktails and an hors d’oeuvre or two, putting a little mood music on the phonograph, and inviting in a female acquaintance for a quiet discussion on Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex,” I sometimes see little kindergarteners and elementary school kids wearing t-shirts with the Playboy symbol on the front. Anytime I knew the parents and slipped in the question of whether they knew where the symbol was from, they usually didn't. It was just a symbol they thought was cute. Childlike. So they bought it for their kid. ((No, I didn't tell the parents that didn't know Playboy where the symbol was from. I didn't want to possibly embarrass them.)) I'm sure Hef never expected little 5 and 6 year old j-kids wearing Playboy t-shirts in the 21st century. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Rest in peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom55 Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 RIP HUGH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Died of natural causes: happiness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiBeers Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 An unapologetic player...but did it with class. Unlike Gene Simmons. RIP Hef. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 How much better could heaven be..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Not really sad about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That One Guy Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 Not really sad about this.It's not inherently sad. An old icon who lived a very lengthy life passed at a ripe old age. Basically just kinda modest news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanadu Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 An unapologetic player...but did it with class. Unlike Gene Simmons. RIP Hef. But did he shag more women than Gene, that's the real question. :P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordgalaxy Posted September 28, 2017 Share Posted September 28, 2017 1926-2017 A legend, trailblazer and icon RIP Hef https://www.vanityfa...es-dead-playboyA lecherous old man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
librarian Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 That^^^^ is about the nicest thing I can say 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted September 29, 2017 Author Share Posted September 29, 2017 In 1959, Hef brought Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole into the interracial party setting of his television show Playboy's Penthouse .. Some outraged white viewers petitioned for the cancelation of the show, which sadly, was short lived .. In 1962, Hef hired Alex Haley ( who would go on to writes Roots ) to conduct interviews for Playboy magazine: Haley conducted the first interview for Playboy magazine. His interview with jazz musician Miles Davis appeared in the September 1962 issue. Haley elicited candid comments from Davis about his thoughts and feelings on racism. That interview set the tone for what became a significant feature of the magazine. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Playboy Interview with Haley was the longest he ever granted to any publication. Throughout the 1960s Haley was responsible for some of the magazine's most notable interviews, including one with George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party. He agreed to meet with Haley only after gaining assurance from the writer that he was not Jewish. Haley remained professional during the interview, although Rockwell kept a handgun on the table throughout it. (The interview was recreated in Roots: The Next Generations, with James Earl Jones as Haley and Marlon Brando as Rockwell.) Haley also interviewed Muhammad Ali, who spoke about changing his name from Cassius Clay. Other interviews include Jack Ruby's defense attorney Melvin Belli, entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., football player Jim Brown, TV host Johnny Carson, and music producer Quincy Jones. Playboy featured writers as diverse as Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquezâ, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, Norman Mailer, etc At a time in this country's history when a fighter for civil right and free speech was need, Hugh Hefner was there, never backing down .. Comedian and activist Dick Gregory: Gregory attributed the launch of his career to Hefner. Based on his performance at Roberts Show Bar, Hefner hired Gregory to work at the Chicago Playboy Club as a replacement for comedian "Professor" Irwin Corey. In 1964, Gregory played a role in the search for three missing civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who vanished in Philadelphia, Mississippi. After Gregory and members of CORE met with Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey, Gregory became convinced that the Sheriff's office was complicit. With cash provided by Hugh Hefner, Gregory announced a $25,000 reward for information. The FBI, which had been criticized for inaction, eventually followed suit with its own reward, and the rewards worked. The bodies of the three men were found by the FBI 44 days after they disappeared 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiBeers Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 In 1959, Hef brought Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole into the interracial party setting of his television show Playboy's Penthouse .. Some outraged white viewers petitioned for the cancelation of the show, which sadly, was short lived .. In 1962, Hef hired Alex Haley ( who would go on to writes Roots ) to conduct interviews for Playboy magazine: Haley conducted the first interview for Playboy magazine. His interview with jazz musician Miles Davis appeared in the September 1962 issue. Haley elicited candid comments from Davis about his thoughts and feelings on racism. That interview set the tone for what became a significant feature of the magazine. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Playboy Interview with Haley was the longest he ever granted to any publication. Throughout the 1960s Haley was responsible for some of the magazine's most notable interviews, including one with George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party. He agreed to meet with Haley only after gaining assurance from the writer that he was not Jewish. Haley remained professional during the interview, although Rockwell kept a handgun on the table throughout it. (The interview was recreated in Roots: The Next Generations, with James Earl Jones as Haley and Marlon Brando as Rockwell.) Haley also interviewed Muhammad Ali, who spoke about changing his name from Cassius Clay. Other interviews include Jack Ruby's defense attorney Melvin Belli, entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., football player Jim Brown, TV host Johnny Carson, and music producer Quincy Jones. Playboy featured writers as diverse as Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquezâ, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, Norman Mailer, etc At a time in this country's history when a fighter for civil right and free speech was need, Hugh Hefner was there, never backing down .. Comedian and activist Dick Gregory: Gregory attributed the launch of his career to Hefner. Based on his performance at Roberts Show Bar, Hefner hired Gregory to work at the Chicago Playboy Club as a replacement for comedian "Professor" Irwin Corey. In 1964, Gregory played a role in the search for three missing civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who vanished in Philadelphia, Mississippi. After Gregory and members of CORE met with Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey, Gregory became convinced that the Sheriff's office was complicit. With cash provided by Hugh Hefner, Gregory announced a $25,000 reward for information. The FBI, which had been criticized for inaction, eventually followed suit with its own reward, and the rewards worked. The bodies of the three men were found by the FBI 44 days after they disappearedThe guy, and the magazine, realized there was more to modern life than T&A. Unlike Larry Flynt who was all about porn in the crudest form. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiBeers Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 An unapologetic player...but did it with class. Unlike Gene Simmons. RIP Hef. But did he shag more women than Gene, that's the real question. :PGene would always insist he did more...unless Shannon was around. If Hef was asked this, he'd probably just shrug off the question with a wink and wry smile. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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