Hugh Hefner
Summary
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926) is an American magazine publisher, founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him second on the "50 Most Powerful People in Porn" list. Hefner was born in Chicago, Illinois, the elder of two sons born to Grace Caroline (1895-1997) and Glenn Lucius Hefner (1896-1976), both teachers. He went to Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High School, then served as a writer for a military newspaper in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946. He later graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.A. in psychology with a double minor in creative writing and art in 1949, earning his degree in two and a half years.
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Rebuilding Playboy: Less Smut, More Money
At one of Playboy's first big bashes after going private in 2011, much seemed as usual for a brand that has embodied American hedonism for nearly 60 years. Bunnies and Playmates sashayed beneath black crystal chandeliers in The Palms. . .
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Scene Stealers: Larry Flynt, Pornography and Politics
Larry Flynt, the founder of Hustler magazine, has a building and a salad named after him in Beverly Hills, and a close eye on the presidential race.
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Is sexual harassment still rife in the TV industry? | Anne Robinson and Emma Wilson
As the 'groping culture' of the 1970s TV industry is revealed, Anne Robinson and her daughter Emma Wilson discuss misogyny in the media, then and now.
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The Spot: Flirting With Disaster
IDEA: Playboy is introducing a line of men's toiletries worldwide—shower gels, body sprays and fragrances—and kicking off the advertising with a stylish and sexy (some might say sexist) 60-second launch spot from DDB in Paris. The rhythmic spot imagines various fantasies that might occur when a young man abruptly stops the elevator in which he's riding with an attractive woman.
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Ad of the Day: Bavaria
Charlie Sheen steadily clawing his way back from ignominy is one of the quietly notable celebrity stories of 2012. The first teaser for his upcoming FX comedy Anger Management just surfaced. But his rebirth really began in advertising—first in spots for Fiat and DirecTV, and now in a new global commercial for Bavaria beer.
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Terry McDonell Elected to Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame
(Press Release) New York, NY (March 16, 2012)— The American Society of Magazine Editors is pleased to announce the election of Terry McDonell to the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame. Mr. McDonell, the editor of the Time Inc. Sports. . .
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Has Hugh Hefner finally seen the Ghost of Playboy Future?
Snapped at a Playboy party, surrounded by gurgling playmates, why was Hugh Hefner looking so ashen? Could it be he has at last seen the error of his ways?.
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Only Fools and Horses USA: a sneak preview
How will Del Boy, Rodney and Uncle Albert be reimagined for a proposed American version of the show? This is how we imagine it might work.
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“Playboy” Is Abandoning Chicago, But “Ebony”/”Jet” Are Expanding There
Playboy Enterprises Inc. ceo (since July 2009) Scott Flanders officially ending the company’s 58 years in Chicago with the April 30 move of the editorial offices to Los Angeles comes as no surprise, because Flanders, founder Hugh Hefner, and chief content officer (since Jan. 2009) Jimmy Jellinek are. . .
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Playboy Hopping to Los Angeles
In recent years it seems as if almost every industry is moving online. Perhaps no other industry has as large a presence online as the porn industry. Which puts Playboy, the magazine that was hip and edgy when Hugh Hefner founded it in Chicago in the early 1950s, in a.
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