Posted on 04/11/2016 6:49:33 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Keith Hefner, Credited with Playboy 'Bunny Dip,' Died Friday
Born in Chicago, Hugh Hefner's younger brother was a longtime executive with Playboy and played a role in creating the Playboy Club.
Chicago, IL By Dennis Robaugh (Patch National Staff) - April 8, 2016 10:54 pm ET
BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- Keith Hefner, an entertainer, Playboy executive and the younger brother of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, died at his Beverly Hills home Friday following a battle with cancer. He was 87.
The younger Hefner was a fixture on the reality TV show about Hugh's life with his three girlfriends, The Girls Next Door. And like his older brother, he also enjoyed the company of women decades younger than he.
His death came one day before Hugh Hefner's 90th birthday.
"This morning, my dear brother and best friend passed away. I love you, Keith. Rest in peace," Hef posted on Twitter.
Born in Chicago on Jan. 5, 1929, Keith was also a long-time executive for Playboy, responsible for recruitment and training of personnel, including Playboy Bunnies, for the Playboy Clubs. He was credited with creating the "Bunny Dip" — the provocative way Bunnies served drinks.
(A Vanity Fair article on the history of the Playboy Clubs once noted Keith Hefner no doubt would be credited with that in his obituary, and so it has come to pass.)
The very first Playboy Club stood at 116 E. Walton St. in Chicago. Eventually, a chain of clubs and resorts opened in American cities, and abroad, too.
The Hefner brothers were exacting and precise in their vision for Bunnies. Playboy Bunnies would become pop culture icons representative of a time and shifting cultural attitudes. Keith Hefner wrote the 44-page code of conduct for the women who became Bunnies.
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For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
A: It doesn’t !
E! Channel’s ‘I Am Cait’, Bride of Transition
By Dylan Gwinn | April 11, 2016 | 12:08 AM EDT
Very little needs to be said about Sunday night’s edition of ‘I Am Cait,” other than the fact that the ratings must be every bit as bad as reported if the producers felt the need to pull this stunt.
While Caitlyn and the Trans friends that the E! Channel provided him with, were walking down the street, they noticed a place called “The Bridal Boutique.” And then this happened:
BURN IN HELL!
I was thinking the very same thing...
What’s it to you?
Not your call.
Barf Alert!
Barbara Walters learns the secrets of Playboy Bunnies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqBBsN8jxi0
It’s a big deal to me, because along with his brother, they have had a big hand in leading scores of thousands into lives of bondage and destruction. And, he was revered as living the very life every man desires to attain.
The Hefner’s are, in part, responsible for creating a corrupt infrastructure in American society (and worldwide) that there are no consequences to living a life pursuing self gratification as one’s highest aim. Many countless souls succumbed to this lie from the pit of Hell and have been ruined.
This guy lived a life of fabulous wealth and never ending pleasure. He derived as much as any man can hope to gain from his short stay on Earth, but now he will spend eternity — forever — reaping the destruction he has insidiously sown among his fellow man.
So unless he had a death-bed repentance and sought the only One who could save him, tragically he will spend eternity paying for a mere 87 years of earthly pleasure.
I consider his life a stark warning to all whose lives are drawing to a close.
I wonder how he explained himself in front of the throne of God?
There are a great many people who don’t share your beliefs. I assume he’s one and so your handwringing only serves yourself.
That’s funny. I skipped to the end and saw Hugh Downs wrapping up the segment with her. “You make a cute Bunny” and “I enjoyed seeing you as a bunny”. Barbara sort of cringing and mumbling thanks. And he’s all leaning in towards her and she’s leaning away with a look on her face like “get me outta here!” Ah, the 60s!
You are correct, most do not share in this belief. However, there are certain immutable truths which are inalterable regardless of denial. I do not wring my hands for Keith Hefner; I wring my hands for the scores who may continue being deceived into thinking his life was a life worth pursuing or worth emulating.
Thanks, stormer.
With all the comments said above by others I will just say the best Playboy years were the 1970’s and 80’s........ : )
RIP. Condolences to Hef on his loss.
I never saw Playboy as evil... they didn't venture into the realm of porn, just images of beautiful women. Easier to make magazines than to carve statures and paint paintings of nude women like they had to do centuries ago.
My wife worked at the Beverly Hills Playboy club way back in the day, and got to do a centerfold shoot (they didn't even do nudes back then). She chickened out when it came time to sign the release paperwork (her mean dad was the shrink to the stars and would have killed her), but we sill have the contact sheets from the shoot. Beautiful pictures.
I have a Playboy collection that goes back to the ‘60s, and I agree, there was never anything ‘porn’ about them. Besides the pictures, the coolest things were the ads of the time.
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