Posted on 03/31/2006 6:04:13 PM PST by rhema
As his 80th birthday approaches, Hugh Hefner is proud of his achievements. He shouldn't be.
Hugh Hefner turns 80 next Sunday, and The Mansion is once again the place to be. "A major pajama party" is planned, as he told Maclean's, along with other observances equal to the dignity of the occasion. But this milestone also has "Hef" in a reflective mood, wondering how he will be remembered and trying to sum up "the major message in my life."
The founder of Playboy, says a Reuters profile, has become "utterly obsessed with his own legacy" and lately has "filled some 1,500 leather-bound scrapbooks about his life and history to date." From the first issue of Playboy to appear on Chicago newsstands in 1953 right up to the latest clippings on his current reality show, "The Girls Next Door," no trace of Mr. Hefner's storied adventures will be lost to posterity.
Lest we forget that there was actually a "Playboy Philosophy" to go with the pictures, Mr. Hefner has also reissued, online, all 250,000 words of his early-1960s disquisition on the good life and the evils of sexual inhibition.
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One hesitates to speak harshly of an old man, who somewhere along the way must have done a few worthwhile things. But as to the public legacy of Hugh Hefner, he should have no illusions. All of us have our share of faults and sins to account for. But the lowest of vices and "strangest secret of hell," as G.K. Chesterton called it, is the desire to pervert others, to coax and corrupt them and drag them down with you. And any man who at the age of 80 has that to answer for is by no stretch the luckiest cat on the planet.
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Guys like to look at naked women.
Eeecchhh. I wonder who *has* to blow out his candle? :p
Just stopped by for the pictures.
Not if you count the time he was with Dennis Weaver.
"Hey, hey! Hugh, Hugh! Get offa McCloud!"
BTW: PJ, you may have Petra, but I will always have Roberta Vasquez.
Men have always liked looking at women in as few clothes as possible since the beginning of time. Heff was smart enough to make the photos tasteful, while including articles about stereos, cars, and music.
Believe it or not ladies, the articles ARE VERY GOOD!
Long live King Hef and his great magazine. I myself just read the articles.
LOL...Ask his daughter.
I raise a glass of prune juice to Hef. I'm sending him a gift of a years supply of viagra and a portfolio of naked Osama Bin Laden pics. Happy birthday to Hugh!
Virgin birth?
Your nose is growing. :)
Hefner will be remembered as nothing more than a high-class pimp.
Hef in Bimboland.
Yes his daughter turned the "empire" into a feminist vision of low class stupidity. One major yawn.
I thought the message was "a warm is sperm is a happy sperm"
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