Word: hefners
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...about his legal vexations, but Lenny was still a spieler who could mesmerize his audience for two hours plus ? a great gig. (There was to be another series of Village concerts in November, canceled after pressure from city authorities.) I also followed the installments of his autobiography that Hugh Hefner (like Krassner and Steve Allen, a prime Bruce stalwart) published in Playboy. It was a good time to be a Lenny fan. But not to be Lenny...
...Like the foreign films of the time, which offered both snob appeal (subtitles and chess games with Death) and sex appeal (the occasional exposed bosom), Eros hoped to be a status symbol for the would-be liberated. Ginzburg, just 31 when he launched his dream book, would be Hefner with a higher IQ and a permanent pass to the New York Public Library's back room of naughty classical literature...
...problem. Hefner, in his robe, pipe and ascot, a blond on each arm and around each leg, really looked like a playboy. Ginzburg, unfortunately, was Central Casting's idea of a pornographer: shady, you might say shifty, with a thin, sallow face and a small mustache. But he, unlike Hefner, wasn't selling himself as the face of his magazine. And Eros was so gorgeous, it made the sex appeal of its editor-publisher irrelevant...
...anecdotal evidence that Levy collects is meant to demonstrate the fallacy of the FCP’s approach to liberation. For instance, Playboy CEO Christie Hefner claims that the magazine provides a forum for female self-expression and, by extension, is an empowering force...
Style icon: Hugh Hefner...