[fr_freak]

I didn’t hate Hefner as much as Ross does, but I never understood why anyone admired him.

I might have admired him in the beginning. After all, he built an empire by publishing a magazine which, way back when, actually had good articles and fiction, as well as the relatively tame pictorials of beautiful women (they were quite artful in the beginning). But he became ridiculous very quickly. A young man might be proud of running around from bottle blonde to bottle blonde, but a man who is 60, 70 and beyond, well, you'd like to think he would mature into something a little more impressive than just your average 25 year old skirt chaser.

He could have gone onto other things (still enjoying the occasional buxom babe of course), and shifted his focus to greater interests. But no, he just kept saying "look at me! look at me ! look how I've got all these hot women around me! I'm a stud!" and he never grew beyond it. It's kind of like that kid who could beat every one in the neighborhood in a particular video game, won tournaments etc, but you see him at age 60 and he's still just playing that same game while everyone else has gone on to business, engineering, medicine.

And, at some point, his magazine really started to suck. Last time I looked, it was nothing more than dumbed-down PC crap through and through.

[Cecily]

Once Hefner divorced his first wife and fully embraced the “Playboy” philosophy and lifestyle, why did he get married two more times, and have more children with the second wife? It goes without saying that he was a very mixed up man.