'Hef', who created Playboy magazine in 1953, proves himself to be a master of self-publicity at the launch of his new film venture
Hugh M. Hefner is the son of devout Methodist parents, the creator of "Playboy" magazine, the inventor of Bunnies, and the sort of man who can summon a press conference in which he lets it drop that in his opinion the essence of Judaeo-Christianity is close to the Playboy philosophy.
He held his conference yesterday in the Playboy Club in Park Lane, London, smoking a pipe, drinking neat Coke, and seriously holding the hand of a girl whom he introduced as Barbara, his girlfriend, with whom he was having a serious relationship. Barbara said she had been brought up in an American small town where "The morals went beyond what was real," but now she was doing her own thing.
Before the true confessions, in the suffocating half-dark...
Hugh M. Hefner is the son of devout Methodist parents, the creator of "Playboy" magazine, the inventor of Bunnies, and the sort of man who can summon a press conference in which he lets it drop that in his opinion the essence of Judaeo-Christianity is close to the Playboy philosophy.
He held his conference yesterday in the Playboy Club in Park Lane, London, smoking a pipe, drinking neat Coke, and seriously holding the hand of a girl whom he introduced as Barbara, his girlfriend, with whom he was having a serious relationship. Barbara said she had been brought up in an American small town where "The morals went beyond what was real," but now she was doing her own thing.
Before the true confessions, in the suffocating half-dark...
- 9/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
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