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...often it's the men who'd be reformed. Playboy Cary Grant, in the 1957 An Affair to Remember, meets chanteuse Kerr on a long cruise and, at nearly the first stop, takes her ashore to meet his aged mother. By the end of the voyage they've agreed to test their love by waiting six months before meeting again at the top of the Empire State Building ("the nearest thing to heaven"). The ending, which I'll just say involves painting and walking, makes this film all-time romantic soaper, and Kerr and Grant the ideal middle-aged lovers...
...world of female athletics. The use of beauty, by athletes anyway, as a tool to get ahead in the world has drawn the ire of many a commentator, both male and female. Such was the case with Amanda Beard, who bared all in the July issue of Playboy. Many claimed that she was demeaning herself as a person, not to mention sending the wrong message about her sport. However, I’d venture to guess that Beard was pretty content with her choice: “It’s just a business decision, a career decision...
Following the media hype from less sexy publications like Newsweek and The Boston Globe, H-Bomb printed two issues in 2004 and 2005, warranting praise from Playboy: “Harvard—not as square as we remember it.” After featuring an essay written by a S.L.U.T (Sexually Liberated Urban Twenty-something) and a piece on free Trojans and those who “continue to use such shitty condoms on a regular basis,” the magazine then folded for a year due to lack of leadership when many of its earliest contributors graduated...
...Elah is based on a Playboy investigative article, Mark Boal's "Death and Dishonor," about a returned Iraq vet whose body was found near an Army base, hacked to pieces with dozens of stab wounds...
...Elephant Vanishes, 2001 This collection of short stories, many packing the kookiness of Murakami's novels into less than 20 pages, was written over six years. Several stories in the book made their first appearances in magazines such as The New Yorker and Playboy. The title piece inspired a play that toured New York and London...