Word: hef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black mother in the sky," Hef calls it. A regular DC-9 jetliner can carry 115 passengers; Hefner's will seat 50 and sleep 15-or maybe 16, if there are two in the elliptical bed in Hef's own compartment. The compartment, which also boasts a stereo console, a movie screen and a step-down Roman bath, is reached through a special entrance in the underside of the plane...
...Playboy After Dark, a new 26-week variety series that so far has been syndicated in 23 cities. Filmed at the CBS-TV studios in Hollywood on a special $35,000 set that includes a den, living room and rumpus room, PAD pretends to be an impromptu party, just Hef and 39 close friends (20 girls, 19 guys) turning on for the tuners-in. "Actually, there are two purposes behind the show," says Hefner. "One is to force me to change my life style; to do it, I had to get out of my mansion and go to Los Angeles...
...stands there woodenly in his tux and clipped-on bow tie, clutching a blonde model who is dressed in a yellow piece of chiffon stuck together with three safety pins. The model also acts a little camera-shy, probably because she has no bra on. "Good evening," huffs Hef. "I'm Hugh Hefner. Welcome to the party." On one typical show the two comic acts were Shari Lewis, a ventriloquist who looks like a Playboy bunny, and a duo called Yvonne Wilder and Jack Colvin-a sort of Skid Row Mike Nichols and Elaine May. The singers were Buddy...
...mass producer of plastic-wrapped sex, the purveyor of pop hedonism, the great anti-Puritan who is out to make every square feel that he too can be a swinger, is looking for a heaven less in the style of Playboy than the Saturday Evening Post. "You know," says Hef wistfully, "in the next ten years I would rather meet a girl and fall in love and have her fall in love with me than make another hundred million dollars." He really means it, or thinks he does...
...poured through the magazine's columns, the Playboy philosophy was often pretentious and relatively conventional. Hefner is a kind of oversimplified Enlightenment thinker with what comes out as an almost touching faith in the individual's capacity for goodness. Release a man from repression, thinks Hef, and he will instinclively pursue a "healthy" life in business and sex alike. Hefner also exhibits a tendency to "situation ethics," which calls for judging acts within their special context rather than by a more fixed morality. Some use this formula to justify homosexuality, but Hefner firmly draws a heterosexual line. He does...