Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these days of feature-oriented newspapers and vitamin-supplement television, the magazine industry is deathly sick. Only T.V. Guide and Playboy are thriving; Coronet has just gone the way of Collier's,and the Post is en route to financial ruin...
...friend with a highborn brat who promises to make her a movie star. After five days of fun and games, the young nob suddenly gets bored, takes what the Italians call English leave. Furious, the girl pursues him, finds out where he lives, rings his doorbell. Appalled, the playboy tells his 16-year-old brother (Jacques Perrin) to answer the door and get rid of the dame. But the boy is everything big brother is not: innocent, sensitive, idealistic. He is horrified at his brother's subhumanity, dazed by the young woman's luminous loveliness. He carries...
Peeking out from newsstands across the U.S. this week were 500,000 copies of a gaudy new biweekly magazine called Show Business Illustrated. Its first issue was 156 pages thick, and it bore a family resemblance to a grown-up girlie magazine called Playboy. SBI is the latest publishing venture of Chicago Playboy Hugh M. Hefner, 35, who is also Playboy's proprietor...
...surrounding the undraped female form with a salable mixture of intellectualia, Hefner pushed Playboy to the top of its field (circ. 1,223,228) in three years. He clearly hopes to do the same with Show Business Illustrated...
...plows tired ground: feature articles on Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Marlon Brando, plus reviews and listings of coming events that, together with the ads, occupy most of the first 53 pages. SBI's potential readership, says Associate Publisher A. C. Spectorsky (who holds the same title on Playboy), lies somewhere between magazines that cater to movie addicts and those that appeal to longhaired readers who can follow an operatic score. "They leave hundreds of thousands of people behind," says Spectorsky. "We want those people...