Dudes could live to be 1000 and never get as much action as that guy.
RIP.
dab00g
September 28, 2017, 7:35am
3
I know hugh probably stopped having a working dick 30 years ago, but he lived a charmed life
He must have been a saint in a past life
Thank you Mr. Hefner…your magazines was a way of passage that eventually led me to hardcore porn media.
Rest in Power.
Oh, man. RIP. Hope his life in heaven is as charmed as it must have been down here.
Messed-up part was I was thinking about him when a series was being done about his job and stuff?
sadboy
September 28, 2017, 8:30am
8
(makes a toast in remembrance) Even though, I only read them for the articles.
About fukkin time
beesuit
September 28, 2017, 9:12am
10
Sex kills. Let this be a lesson to all of you.
Actually…I think sex gave him a very long life.
beesuits stupid neet smashboydont shower ass
acting like he ain’t out there slanging sex too
https://i.imgur.com/JvzXOlT.jpg
LITERALLY, EMP|MARN-MAN
NAKOLULU WAIFU, NOT LOLI. LULU, FINE YOU WANNA CALL HER LOLI I DONT CARE YOU BUYING OR NOT?
https://i.imgur.com/FDj9hKZ.jpg
But I came around as race men such as Jesse Jackson, Jim Brown and Dick Gregory popped up among the documentary’s talking heads to testify about the many things Hefner had done to help advance the movement of African Americans into the U.S. mainstream.
Of course, Hefner first pushed himself into that mainstream in 1953 when he published the premiere issue of Playboy, an unabashed celebration of the male libido in all its manifestations. Men may have bought Playboy for the nude centerfolds and the naughty cartoons, but they also eagerly consumed the magazine’s philosophy on such things as how to dress, what to drink, which music was cool and even how to think about controversial subjects.
The Playboy Interview became the primary vehicle for the latter, and the very first one, which appeared in the September 1962 issue, included a candid exchange about racism between the writer Alex Haley and jazz great Miles Davis. At a time when few black journalists were breaking into white publications, Hefner made Haley Playboy’s chief interrogator, and he didn’t restrict the writer to black subjects.
Haley did go on to interview icons such as Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King Jr. for Playboy, but his subjects for the magazine also included The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson and, memorably, George Lincoln Rockwell, the racist leader of the American Nazi Party. In a film clip shown in the documentary, Haley recalled how he told Rockwell, “I’ve been called [mechwarri er my sonichedgehog name means swift squi… ] before, and this time I’m being well paid for it. So go ahead and tell us why you hate us.”
But Haley’s most significant assignment for Playboy was the interview he did with Malcolm X, which led to some 50 later conversations between the two men that eventually evolved into Haley’s first book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Gregory credits Hefner with giving him his own big break in show business. The comedian had been playing small, predominantly black clubs until Hefner hired him to perform at the Chicago Playboy Club in 1961, and kept bringing him back even when Gregory’s material became increasingly political.
Hefner had opened the nightclub just a year earlier. Playboy Bunnies — women dressed in skimpy costumes with a fuzzy tail on the rear end and rabbit ears on their heads — greeted guests and served drinks. Big-name acts supplied the entertainment. The club was an instant success, and franchise branches opened in cities around the country and abroad.
Men paid a $25 fee to purchase a membership “key,” which quickly became a coveted status symbol. But key holders were guaranteed access to all Playboy Clubs, and that created a problem in the segregationist South. When the clubs in Miami and New Orleans turned away blacks who had bought their keys elsewhere, Hefner bought back those franchise licenses and defiantly maintained an integrated policy in all his clubs.
Hefner also selected African-American women to be Playmates, as the magazine’s nude centerfold models are called. A young woman named Jennifer Jackson became the first black Playmate in the March 1965 issue. That, again, may seem a dubious distinction, but it came at a time when the larger society regarded very few black women as beautiful or desirable. The pioneering black supermodel Naomi Sims didn’t make her breakthrough on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal until three years later. Sports Illustrated didn’t put a black woman on the cover of its influential — and controversial — swimsuit issue until it chose Tyra Banks in 1996, more than 30 years after Jackson appeared in Playboy.
RIP You fucking God of a Man.
So whens the movie?
back in the day before everyone had “the net” i had a issue of i think it was…Hustler magazine, yeah, it was hustler. Anywho…
RIP. your pimp hand will be remembered as one of the greatest.
RIP Hugh. You lived a life and had an empire Men would kill for, possibly do even worse just to have what you created.
Alas…in the age of the internet, your main appeal which was beautiful nude women eventually wasn’t relevant anymore. This while the main appeal, however wasn’t the only thing you had. You had class in those pages and in your TV show decades ago. Insightful information within various articles and a sprinkle of manly information in each issue. Something that is sorely missed in this day and age.
Damn. One by one the heroes go away. R.I.P. Heff. The man did his work and left when it was done.
-Starhammer-
Gimpy
September 28, 2017, 4:43pm
18
R.I.P. to OG Hugh Hefner!!!
Sad sad sad news. Even though Playboy itself is dated as fucked, it really did change the world.
BRB, going to read some old Playboys for the articles memories
Fuck you Shug! Sure am jealous but IDGAF, hope the old bastard wasted his fortune on penis pills and ole Millie will need to throw herself out a window.