Hugh Hefner passes at 91 years old
Bobo sends us the sad news this morning that the Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner has passed at the age of 91 years.
Wiki tells us that Hefner was a World War II veteran and that he worked as a reporter on a military newspaper from 1944 – 1946.
From Military.com;
Upon graduation in 1944 he enlisted in the Army as an infantry clerk; during Basic Training he won a sharpshooter badge for firing the M1 and made it through “Killer College,” in which troops went through maneuvers while throwing real grenades. Posted at Camp Adair in Salem, Oregon, and Camp Pickett in Virginia, Hefner contributed cartoons for Army newspapers.
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I never got to meet him when I did my photographic internship at Playboy, but respected and even admired his standards on photography and who got photographed. There was still a lot of his philosophy on ‘it’s not what you show, but what you don’t show and how you don’t show it’ at play that continues to influence my shooting. Godspeed.
RIP Hef.
In other news, Viagra stock prices plummetted upon hearing the death of Hugh Hefner.
Good riddance to another asshole.
Didn’t care for him alive, won’t pretend to care that he’s dead.
I sense a background story here.
Just sayin’
Amen.
Concur totally.
Nio issue with him on my end.
Met him years ago.
I get his business, etc., but he seemed alright to me.
Like many of his generation … they saw service as their duty to country first before striking out on their own.
When I was younger and still read his magazine I think I was one of the few that actually read the articles. They were interesting.
Playboy in late ’69 or early ’70 published an article on the background behind the My Lai Massacre that was outstanding.
It was by a former Army CPT or MAJ who served as the district senior advisor of the district in Quang Tin Province, Southern I Corps, where the massacre occurred. The author laid out very clearly the pacification and counter-insurgency situation in that part of Quang Tin Province in 1967-68 which led to Task Force Barker’s operations in that area and eventually to the My Lai massacre. It was one of the best military articles to ever appear in Playboy.
I read them. In the 70’s at least they had top notch writing.
A friend who was a real junkie brought a copy of the issue in which Linda Evans appeared to my house once… I got engrossed in a Travis McGee short story in it instead. For years the interviews and stories really WERE a good reason to read the magazine. (And FWIW, I’m not blind…and can assure John Derek fans that from the neck down, his three wives Ursula Andress, Linda Evans, and Bo Derek were clones. Man knew his ‘type’.)
I always wondered if his mansion would glow in the dark if a black light was shined inside?
Like a Jackson Pollack painting!
Fourth of July on the ceiling
Rest in peace Hef.
Somebody once told me the best way to go was to be shot by a jealous husband at the age of 105. Somehow I always thought that’s the way Hefner would check out…
Roger that.
Good luck on the other side, Hef.
Rest well.
Anecdotal evidence that booze and pussy are good for a man….checked out at 91…
And the proof of that, Hefner’s preserved member, shall be on permanenent display in the medical sciences section at the Smithsonian in its flaccid state. The display case will be of such dimensions as to allow for reasonable expansion upon the approach of any nubile young female,
You rock poe!
And he died on Hump Day.
https://www.duffelblog.com/2017/09/troops-fly-happy-socks-at-half-mast-in-memory-of-hugh-hefner/
Ermahgerd
The Hell with Hefner. The big story here is that this is Blog Post Number 75,000. I had been watching the countdown, and it jumped from 74,986 to this one. Jonn must have several on hold.
I hope that Jonn broke out a good cigar, and a shot, or two, of good, aged, whiskey.
Congratulations Jonn!
The Leroy Neiman art was always one of the favorite parts of my Playboy perusal. Oh yeah, and the breasteses. 😉