Word: playboyism
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...with his drinking? Can Rita deal with his drinking? Can she accept his fame as a songwriter, singer and movie actor? Is she furious because he restaged some torrid love scenes from the film The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea with Actress Sarah Miles for a Playboy photographer? What's this? Rita has a hit album and a smash single, Higher and Higher. What will her success do to his ego? Last week everybody in the pop world was tuning in to find out as Kris and Rita took to the road for a two-month...
...Playboy's announced decision to give up those readers primarily interested in porn [July 4] is hardly the same as not staying in touch with society's "shifting sexual standards." In response to the more personal part of TIME'S patronizing putdown ("surrounded by young beauties, he looks a dour sybarite"), I can only say that Contributor Thomas Griffith obviously has his own very personal definition of "square." Oh to be as hip as you swinging newsmagazine men in New York...
Most readers of Playboy and Penthouse are between 18 and 35 years of age, come from higher-income families and have one or more years of college-exactly the male market most sought by Madison Avenue. Caught in a conflict between opportunity and conscience, or perhaps just worried about what their wives might think, most manufacturers and advertisers for a long time shied away. Liquor and tobacco advertisers, and makers of foreign cars and cameras have no such qualms, and their ads fill the magazines. Detroit-and General Motors in particular-has held off. Playboy attracts twice the advertising revenue...
Engaged in the great American game of trying to have it both ways, Playboy and Penthouse try to distance themselves from their gamier rivals. Both run serious critical departments on films, books and records. Playboy carries fiction, though not often the best work, by top writers, who are paid top prices because their presence, in the jargon of Hollywood, "authenticates" the magazine...
...Playboy's current interview with Andrew Young has made headlines, and its most notable coup, the 1976 interview with Jimmy Carter, is surely the most candid self-analysis ever volunteered by anyone about to become President. (Playboy has been capitalizing on Carter's famous word ever since, assuring advertisers that the Playboy reader's "lust for life" makes him an impulsive big spender.) Within the past year, while Penthouse in particular has made its inside text more blatant and kinkier, both Playboy and Penthouse have toned down the nudity of their covers. Guccione, whose Penthouse makes more...