Saturday, January 24, 2009

Homogenous ...

... Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story.

The centerfolds never did it for me. They just seemed like real-life Vargas illustrations. And the gospel of high-end consumerism always struck me as somehow provincial. As for Hefner himself, he's the kind of person who gives shallowness a bad name. But to give credit where it's due:
As Watts puts it, Hefner "edited Playboy for himself." He was a work-obsessed, bunny-centric monomaniac, the "editor, publisher, and, at the same time, audience" of the magazine.

And that is why, whatever else you may think of him, he was a great editor.

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