That he had been rumored to be dead this most recent recording released last year u. S. Officials say theyre working to verify the authenticity of the message. Hugh heffner the founder of Playboy Magazine has died at the age of ninety one credited with helping assure in the one nine hundred sixty s. Sexual revolution with His Groundbreaking Mens Magazine Hefner was also known for his hedonistic lifestyle which he kept up well into his eightys his critics said he just peddled pornography and several of his female employees called bunnies said they were raped at parties in his Hollywood Home the Playboy Mansion. Currents in iraq vote yes for independence but iraq isnt going to let them go without a fight and turkey is threatening to get involved in the conflict as well im sorry im in berlin this is the day. So that the people of kurdistan have made their decision and entered a new phase different from anything in the past. That nobody blame us for this but that they took advantage of the
and put on a pair of pants. with a cafferty crafted mix of nude photos highbrow articles and big name fiction have struck a chord with playboy more than sixty years ago the men s magazine quickly became a roaring success half not his girly bag and his lifestyle was symbols of the sexual revolution and shook out puritanical american values really brought the pop culture to life you know it during a time when it was very conservative and this was something that kind of went against the grain but he did it in a very tasteful way and you know and he s just created so many great things as a result the do we know it really bringing pop culture as well whole new level others condemn techno for degrading women treating them as objects of male fantasy just as many were fighting for basic rights and equal opportunities the internet age so playboy circulation plummet but by then half turned his bunnies had already
it s about how the bible was put together particularly my area of study was the new testament so to learn about how these various stories were were compiled in call aided and then later seen as the word of god is you know very reverent tory you know you learn that jesus had no brother to which i m catholic dogma is really not allowed so going from that cuts a verse of thought to something like playboy believe it or not there are a lot of catholics drawn to this kind so i was not alone i think i can believe that you know it is that you know it s a very sad but playboy it s been around for what like sixty years it s survived and magazine publishing crisis the advent of internet pornography how do you manage to stay relevant and just stay in business. what s interesting i think was the first magazine to be a brand i mean it was the precursor to what all magazines are talking about today
we re not a magazine we re brand we re online grown social well playboy was very social it had clubs you know it had hotels it tried to bring to life at every turn even in my tenure there was relaunched a playboy club in las vegas that was wildly successful so any time you could try to capture and make real the fantasy that was present in the magazine you had a hit so that kind of branding and extension of that rabbit had logo was sort of built into the d.n.a. from the very start and you were at it and i. am sorry go ahead. no and that s allowed it to go on in various incarnations you were editorial director from two thousand and five to two thousand and nine i m sure you ve heard your share of criticism how do you respond to people who say playboy objectifies women well you know i think that the women who appear in the magazine can address it best. and
objectification goes on and almost every aspect of our lives. we re not immune to the criticism and people make it so so all right with me it s kind of a question to say at this point oh i read playboy for the articles but playfully has over the decades published some of the best writer is that each generation what do you personally most proud of from the time you were there. well we did a lot of good things i mean we really presented a lot of i worked with norman mailer john updike publishing those guys was great. one thing i m very proud of is sending mark boal to iraq and publishing the story the man in the bomb suit and he later took those experiences and turned into the hurt locker. we had an acclaimed writer here dennis johnson who. came off winning the national book award and he wanted to write