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...male stars are considered essential to a burly action film, but the actresses who support them are interchangeable, disposable, like blonds in Hef's mansion. From the early James Bond films 40 years ago to this summer, action franchises have relied on new faces and nubile bodies. "We're always looking for new leads," says producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who this summer has Bad Boys II with Gabrielle Union and Pirates of the Caribbean with Keira Knightley. "What happens is the Julia Robertses of the world usually are booked...
...simulation of Hugh Hefner's life. Clad in the trademark silk robe, your aim is to build a mansion cool enough to attract pin-ups and celebrity interviews for your magazine. The better the sales, the better your mansion gets, and the more celebs clamor to get in. Unlike Hef, you get to snap the shutter at the photo shoots. The game was unveiled at the Playboy Mansion itself - which, alas, only served to point out how far videogames have to go to truly catch up with reality...
...better and worse "The Comics Journal" without Groth would be like "Playboy" without Hef. Groth's cranky, anti-establishment-bordering-on-reactionary tone permeates the "Journal." He wrathfully loathes the majority of comics and will ask unwitting interview subjects questions like, "Why are you in favor of the production of more cretinous, illiterate drivel?" While this attitude creates an island of critical freedom against the crushing mainstream, it also isolates the magazine as elitist and intimidates the fence-sitters or casual readers. It signals "Stay Away!" to all but the most determined...