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After I had lunch with some Playboy execs in the dining room, where the waiter was summoned by the push of a button on the table, Hef joined us. He was wearing the smoking jacket and silk pajamas. He looked extraordinarily young for 72, especially his wrinkle-free hands, which made me worry that he had struck some deal with the devil. Then I realized that if he had, he cut the best deal ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in the Swing | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...like doing a movie at Hef's mansion. The bunnies come around with martinis at appropriate hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 2, 1998 | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...with Yeager Co-Author Leo Janos), suffered a mild stroke 13 months ago, and he is taking care of himself a little more now. He has switched from Pepsi to Diet Pepsi, stashed away his once omnipresent pipes and uses an exercycle. "Not my style in the old days," Hef admits. But the fledgling senior citizen can tell the difference: "I feel and look several years younger." Add another thought to the Playboy Philosophy: Not getting older, just getting better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 21, 1986 | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Hugh Hefner is distressed. He does not like his centerfolds to be married: it undermines their girl-next-door image. Besides, it is disruptive to the "family" atmosphere that he likes to believe pervades the mansion in Los Angeles. Hef surely has his self-delusions, but in this case he also has a point. Any would-be father figure might have his doubts about Dorothy Stratten's choice of a mate. Granted, it was Paul Snider who discovered her behind the Dairy Queen counter in Vancouver, B.C., sent the first crude nudes to Playboy's talent scouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Centerfold Tragedy of Manners | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...with rage as he watches his discovery moving up and away from him. Seeing through the hypocrisy of those who build empires on sleaze, he cannot believe they will shut him out just because he wears snakeskin cowboy boots to their revels or drapes a prematurely friendly arm around Hef's shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Centerfold Tragedy of Manners | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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