Hugh Hefner, leader of the sexual revolution, dies at 91
September 28, 2017 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — Hugh Hefner turned silk pajamas into a work uniform, women into centerfolds and sexual desire into a worldwide multimedia empire that spanned several generations of American life...
Borscht Belt comedian Freddie Roman dies at age 85
November 27, 2022 GMTComedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. He was 85.
Roman died Saturday afternoon at Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida, his booking agent and friend Alison Chaplin said Sunday.
One man’s Playboy: Encounters with Hefner through the years
September 30, 2017 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — It is time to confess something I did as a teenage mail handler in the late 1960s, when Playboy reigned supreme, its rabbit-head logo stamped on a voluptuary empire of publishing, television, restaurants and bunnies...
Was Hefner oppressor or liberator? Women debate his legacy
September 28, 2017 GMTOppressor or liberator? Feminist in a silk robe, or pipe-smoking exploiter? Opinions were flying a day after Hugh Hefner's death over just what he did — and didn't do — for women...
Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2017
December 31, 2017 GMTThey made music that inspired legions of fans.
Rock 'n' roll founding fathers Chuck Berry and Fats Domino, rockers Tom Petty and Gregg Allman, grunge icon Chris Cornell, country superstar Glen Campbell and jazz great Al Jarreau were among the notable figures who died in 2017, leaving a void in virtually every genre of music...
The Playboy Mansion played a starring role in Hef’s mystique
September 28, 2017 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — Apart from the White House, there's probably not a more storied home in the world than the Playboy Mansion...
Quotes from the life of the late Hugh Hefner
September 28, 2017 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — Quotes from the long life of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who died Wednesday at 91...
When it came to nudes, Playboy changed and stayed the same
October 2, 2017 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Think what you think about Hugh Hefner and his magazine but know one thing is certain: The only arbiter of the It factor for all those women who made the centerfolds was Hef himself...
Stars, former Playmates react to death of Hugh Hefner
September 28, 2017 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — Reaction to the death of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner:
Hugh Hefner’s company lives on, though as a shadow of itself
October 1, 2017 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Playboy Enterprises has outlived the founder of its iconic magazine, though largely as a shadow of its former self...
Playboy’s interviews were models of the art form
September 30, 2017 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — When Jann Wenner was preparing to launch Rolling Stone in 1967, he had some ideas about how to make the magazine's interviews stand out...
Hefner’s Bunny business bared in Amazon ‘Playboy’ docuseries
April 5, 2017 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Most Americans would hate living in a world untouched by Hugh Hefner. That's a message from NEW YORK (AP) — A Dali watercolor of a reclining nude that hung in Hugh Hefner's bedroom was among 125 artworks Playboy magazine offered at Christie's on Wednesday. It was one of 11 works chosen for "The Playmate as Fine Art" pictorial for the magazine's January 1967 Playmate review issue that asked artists to create Playmate-inspired art.Playboy art sold at NYC auction
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