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...nickname the "fifth Beatle"; of a lung infection, after being hospitalized for a prescription-drug reaction; in London. Long before David Beckham, Best injected sex appeal into soccer, leading Manchester United to its first European Cup win in 1968. But he earned his reputation as a trouble-seeking playboy. Unable to stop drinking, even after a 2002 liver transplant, he called alcohol the "only opponent I've been unable to beat...
...Schindler's List An unlikely, enigmatic hero -- a playboy industrialist -- rescues 1,100 Polish Jews from the Holocaust. In retelling this true story, Steven Spielberg's austere but monumental film re-creates, with chilling immediacy, a central horror of 20th century life and death. Epic cinema, tragic drama, it is also an act of remembrance and conscience that ultimately transcends the ordinary critical categories...
...practice in the 1960s and ’70s. Most photos have since been destroyed for privacy reasons, much to the relief of alumni including FDR, Meryl Streep, and Hilary Rodham Clinton. Now, the remaining posture pictures reside in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Playboy apparently wasn’t interested...
...following months, I began making plans to start a magazine of my own. From spring 1953, when I started planning what became Playboy, to the publishing of the first issue at the end of the year, it was as if I were possessed. Playboy was profitable from the very first issue, and by 1959 we were printing a million copies a month. That same year, our marriage having failed, my wife and I got divorced...
...reinvented myself again. Instead of simply editing the magazine, I came out from behind the desk and started living the life. I became the personification of the prototype that I was describing in the magazine. I became, in effect, Mr. Playboy. I started smoking a pipe. I bought a Mercedes-Benz 300SL--the coolest car. I hosted a syndicated TV show called Playboy's Penthouse, bought the first Playboy mansion and opened the first Playboy Club. In the space of a year, I became world famous...