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...sale of contraband cigarettes. But the price hikes are at last inspiring French smokers to kick butts. Last year, the number using nicotine patches grew by 30% to 2 million; antidepressants prescribed for quitting smokers rose by 20%. A big year for France 's tough-love tax. - By Bruce Crumley Work Longer! Troubled Commerzbank, Germany 's third-largest bank, announced an end to company pension schemes for its 26,000 employees by 2005. Meanwhile, German insurer Gerling plans cuts of up to 50% in retirement plans for around 5,000 of its own employees...
...Hefner built an empire. He boldly expanded and accessorizing the magazine?s concept of ?entertainment for men? into a multimedia conglomerate. TV: he created and hosted two syndicated TV shows, ?Playboy Penthouse? and ?Playboy After Dark.? Books: Playboy Press published collections from the magazine and original material like Lenny Bruce?s ?How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.? Nightclub-restaurants: Playboy Clubs soon straddled the globe and franchised his centerfold Playmates into real live (but clothed) Bunnies. Movies: Playboy Productions financed Roman Polanski?s ?Macbeth? and Monty Python?s ?And Now for Something Completely Different,? and Hefner negotiated with screenwriter...
...Lenny Bruce called the pre-Hefner girlie magazines ?stroke books? - instruments of onanism, marital aids for those far short of marriageable age and barely on the cusp of puberty. The typical girlie mag was tatty, printed on coarse paper, with only a few pages of runny color; they were the Ace paperbacks of voyeurism. Their meager, TV Guide-size dimensions meant that any model on display in their cramped surroundings had no acuter definition than a woman undressing across the courtyard, behind a screen, in the dark. I suppose that the dingy quality of the girlie pix, like the furtive...
...comic writing, The New Yorker had the edge with (to choose four names spanning seven decades) S.J. Perelman, Woody Allen, Bruce McCall and Steve Martin. But I had a fondness for Playboy?s comedy stars - Jean Shepherd, Harvey Kurtzman, Jules Feiffer, Lenny Bruce, Arnold Roth, Shel Silverstein - in part because I?d followed and loved their earlier work from, respectively, WOR radio, Mad, the Village Voice, Fantasy LPs, Humbug and Look. They were the guys I?d have chosen if I were Playboy?s humor editor. (In which case, I?d have dropped the designation of ?humor? heading each piece...
...siliconing of women?s breasts. No longer was the Playmate a triumph of good genes, a pretty smile and a light workout. Now when you looked at a Playmate you had to think of the plastic surgeon who made her that way. Bette Midler once made a joke about Bruce Springsteen in his 80s buff phase: ?Nice body, Bruce. Where?d you buy it?? Same goes for many of the Playmates of the past 20 years. The 50th Anniversary Playmate, Colleen Shannon, is a Pamela Anderson clone, a pneumatic cartoon drawn by Alberto Vargas or Frank Frazetta...