Word: playboyism
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Charley is one of those torpid hybrids, cutesie Broadway vulgarity grafted onto the bones of history. Charley (Joel Grey), later to become Charles VII, is presented as an adolescent playboy too hot for the flesh ("I'm something else/ Unlocking chastity belts") to pursue the crown. Actually, Grey with his wistful, tot-like air acts as if he would be happier in a sandbox than a boudoir...
...There's no starch at his dinners," said one Washington partygoer approvingly of Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi, 46. Once married to the Shah's daughter Princess Shahnaz, Zahedi has since 1973 been cultivating a playboy image. His friends say they are convinced his mission is simply to demonstrate the Iranian way of swinging. Zahedi likes to give lavish parties where he showers his friends with "yum-yum," his favorite word for caviar, champagne and diamonds. His wooing techniques are quaint. Recently, Zahedi startled a blonde with a chorus of "kitchy-kitchy-koos" over the dinner table. And Columnist...
...four-day week, at four days' pay, in order to avoid the elimination of 100 jobs. WTTG-TV, Washington's Metromedia outlet, cut its budget by $500,000 this year and laid off a reporter and a weather forecaster. At Hugh Hefner's Playboy Enterprises, six of Out magazine's 35 editorial employees received notice two weeks ago; the company has a freeze on hiring and raises, and Hef himself has taken a 25% pay cut, from...
...drug allegations are the most sensational of the clouds that have gathered over Hefner's empire of late. The company's annual report last September indicated that earnings for fiscal 1974 fell a staggering 48% from the preceding fiscal year. During the same period, Playboy's circulation fell by a quarter of a million (current circulation: 6.1 million). His fledgling two-year-old Out magazine was holding its own, but not much more. Aside from the Playboy clubs in England (which turn a neat profit thanks to their gambling parlors), the company's hotel-and-clubs...
...Hefner's is said to have changed in recent years. More and more leaving the day-to-day running of his enterprises to others, Hefner, working less, apparently has less need for stimulants. As for use of hard drugs by those around him, the former security chief for Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Allen Crawford, 50, said in an interview in the Chicago Tribune that he was aware of drugs, including marijuana and cocaine, being used in the Chicago mansion. When he warned senior Playboy officials about the drugs and they took no action, he resigned. But even Crawford was careful...