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...toddlers either: Mailer (80), Hunter S. Thompson (66), Frank Gehry (74), George Plimpton (76 when he died last year). The Interview subject is Jack Nicholson (66). The main profile is of Alfred C. Kinsey, the sex researcher whose ?Sexual Behavior of the Human Female? was published the year Playboy first hit the newsstands...
...Organization Man (as long as it was his organization). His careful conversation and tight smile reminded me of any number of Midwestern businessmen, politicians, anchormen, clergymen. Hefner was raised a Methodist and remained methodical, at heart and at head. In a second A&E special, ?Inside the Playboy Mansion,? he shows off his Holmby Hills estate; it?s a sort of Neverland, with the wildlife preserve and the video-game rooms (but with older kids). He?s proud to have organized it all, all the parties and Playmates. But it?s not just his pleasure, his image...
...Hefner at 77, Playboy at 50: both are aging rou?s, the kind Dedini used to draw in his cartoons. The iconic bunny (a rabbit in an ascot) is today as much an anachronism as the New Yorker?s Eustace Tilley (a fop with a monocle). Or as Hefner, in his silk pajamas and red smoking jacket, when billionaires wear T shirts. Hef, with his interchangeable sex partners (two are twins) and his trademark pipe traded in for Diet Pepsi and Viagra, has become what we are all in danger of morphing into as we grow old: parodies of our younger...
...attends the unveiling of his own likeness at the Hollywood Wax Museum, and it?s, no kidding, impossble to tell the man from his effigy. The magazine, too, has the waxy buildup of age - my age. In the Sacramento Bee, Syracuse University Professor Robert Thompson notes that Playboy ?was so successful at communicating and advocating a new lifestyle and set of values, that by 2003 it?s made itself unnecessary...
...lads, sneak off and buy a copy of Playboy. May it offer you the same gilded ticket to puberty that it did to me long...