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...tribute to her part in Speed, she was asked to diffuse a “bomb” while riding an exercise bike—not by keeping the bike above 50 miles per hour, but by imitating Hugh Grant...
...DIED. ALAN BULLOCK, 89, historian who wrote the 1952 best-selling biography Hitler: A Study in Tyranny; in Oxfordshire, England. Bullock and fellow Oxford historians A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper formed a triumvirate of gifted scholars whose efforts to understand the turmoil of the 20th century widely influenced modern thought. After spending World War II as a BBC correspondent, Bullock produced his Hitler biography from a detailed review of the minutes of the Nuremberg trials. He was modest about his talents. "I couldn't write great literature," he said, "but I could do a workmanlike job as a historian...
...HOLLYWOOD HIT] X-MEN Now he's exposing Hugh Jackman's fingernails in the cartoon-superhero movies...
...always read Playboy for the articles. And in his Playboy Philosophy, which began in 1962 and lasted for a decade or so, Editor-Publisher Hugh Hefner did his best to convince a skeptical public that he was a serious guy, closer to Plato and Socrates than to Guccione and Flynt. The Playboy Philosophy, available on the magazine?s website, is a reminder of a day when even skin publishers thought they had to show brains along with bodies...
...Playboy is surely the most robust of these golden-age magazines, its legacy the longest-lasting. Not only did the Bunny Book make a fortune and an empire for its founder and true mascot, Hugh M. Hefner, but it left a smudged thumbprint on American society. That?s because Hefner had more than a business model; he had a Philosophy, which he expounded in his magazine each month for more than a decade. He may have been after something more enlightened than an empire. A republic. Playboy?s Republic...