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In the News (Fri 22 Aug 08)

  
  GREYCELL • Roswell-Alien og Autopsy Billederne
Det var direktøren af Penthouse, Bob Guccione, der offentliggjorde billederne i 1996.
Derimod indrømmer Bob Guccione at have personligt kendskab til kvinden, som har opbevarede billederne i alle disse år.
Bob Guccione er da også en af de mest fremtrædende markeringer, når det handler om at afsløre forsøg på svindel med Roswell sagen, ligeså med afdækningen af sandheden.
www.greycell.dk /aut-billeder.html   (1615 words)

  
  Bob Guccione - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guccione would sometimes take several days to complete a shoot, and, as this was during the days of the sexual revolution, he not surprisingly slept with a lot of his models.
Guccione's efforts to regain sales and get notoriety, which included attempts to get Monica Lewinsky to pose for the magazine and offering the Unabomber a free forum for his views, were not successful in reviving the magazine.
Guccione has in recent years been treated for throat cancer, and must be fed through a tube directly into his stomach.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Guccione   (701 words)

  
 Bob Guccione - Web Developer's Journal Archives
Bob Guccione: Now he says “the reason I'm doing this is because I don't want the Times and the Post to turn to each other and say.
Guccione, what has surprised me about this entire situation is the length of time he's been on the loose.
Bob Guccione: He's got to be published where he agrees to be published.
www.webdevelopersjournal.com /archive/guccione.html   (3322 words)

  
 The Observer | Magazine | Boom and bust
The paintings in Bob Guccione's ballroom, that is. The walls that had been hung with Van Gogh, Matisse, Renoir, Chagall, a couple of Degas pastels, a Modigliani nude and a Rose Period Picasso, and were now hung with...
Bob Guccione, the begetter of Penthouse magazine, has occupied this town house at 12 East 67th Street since he moved from London in the mid-Seventies, the better to do battle with Hugh Hefner's Playboy.
Bob Guccione was born in 1931 in Brooklyn, to parents with Sicilian roots.
observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,1136346,00.html   (2484 words)

  
 Observer | Boom and bust (part two)
Guccione claims that he was incapacitated with cancer at the time and was not a party to the negotiations.
Bob Guccione will be the publisher emeritus for 10 years, and editorial consultant, with a salary of $500,000 a year.
Bob Guccione's East 67th Street palazzo has been unaffected by the travails of Penthouse as his private property, but it had long ago been mortgaged to the lenders on the Atlantic City fiasco.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4849236-110648,00.html   (2272 words)

  
 Caligula (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guccione eventually authorized an R-rated cut released in 1981, 105 minutes long, which earned the film wider distribution.
In 1984, Franco Rossellini, unhappy with Bob Guccione's edit of the final film, re-edited an extended, pre-release print of Caligula, which or may not have been the infamous 210 minute version.
It was essentially the same as the 156 minute version, but lacked all of Bob Guccione's footage (much to his anger.) Those missing bits were the lesbian tryst and a handful of sexual inserts during the imperial bordello sequence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caligula_(film)   (854 words)

  
 Guccione, Bob - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Guccione, Bob
When the first edition of Penthouse was published in 1965, Guccione was served with an indecency writ and had to appear in court, although the event gave him considerable publicity.
Guccione was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of an accountant of Sicilian descent.
In 1976 Guccione produced the controversial film Caligula, which was seized in the USA on suspicion of breaking obscenity laws, impounded by UK customs in 1980, and eventually broadcast in the UK in 1999.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Guccione,+Bob   (403 words)

  
 Bob Guccione
Bob Guccione, the man known for taking skin magazines to a new frontier and freeing uptight Americans to a more authentic vision of their own carnal imaginations, began his venture as a way to fund a more genteel pursuit: he wanted to buy time and supplies for painting.
Guccione, born Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione in 1930 to devoted parents and a close family, had come a long way from his native Brooklyn and a briefly pursued course of study for the priesthood.
Guccione was in his early 30s, well into establishing his second family, living in England and having failed at managing a dry cleaning business was working as managing editor of the weekly newspaper London American.
www.oralcancerfoundation.org /people/bob_guccione.htm   (1415 words)

  
 guccione
Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini "Bob" Guccione was born on December 17th 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, the eldest child of Anthony and Nina.
Bob and Kathy were known to have an open marraige, where Bob was allowed to play with his pets whenever he desired.
It seems that Bob and Kathy may have raised his five children, as they are all (or were) involved in the Penthouse empire at some point in thier lives.
www.caligulathemovie.com /guccione.html   (1009 words)

  
 Bob Guccione
Bob Guccione (born December 17, 1930) was founder and publisher (until November 2003, when he resigned) of the adult magazine Penthouse.
He was born Robert Charles Guccione in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
In 2003, General Media (the publishing company for Penthouse) declared bankruptcy, and Guccione himself resigned as chairman and CEO of Penthouse International, Inc. The magazine (as of December 2003) is still in publication and has an online presence; its circulation is estimated at 500,000, roughly 10% of where it was in the magazine's heydey.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/bob_guccione   (758 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | In Depth | Newsmakers | Bob Guccione: Penthouse king laid low
Bob Guccione built Penthouse magazine on the most fragile of foundations and turned it into a bestseller.
When Guccione met her at a nightclub, where she was a "dancer", it was not so much her balletic talents that impressed Guccione as the fact that she was reading the Financial Times.
In the mid-90s, Guccione responded to the growing threat of digital pornography by making Penthouse more explicit, a disastrous move which led to its withdrawal from newsagents' shelves.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/1926516.stm   (726 words)

  
 the_movie1
Bob was the genius behind Penthouse, founding the magazine in London, England, and moving it to New York City, publishing the first U.S. issue in September 1969.
Bob Guccione and Penthouse had invested in movies before, with "Chinatown" (1974, directed by Roman Polanski), "The Longest Yard" (1974, directed by Robert Aldrich), and "The day of the Locust" (Directed by John Schlesinger, and released on May 7 1975).
Bob promptly had the half finished film smuggled to Paris, the negative was hidden in wrongly labelled film cans to trick the authorities.
www.caligulathemovie.com /the_movie1   (2976 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Daily News Exclusive: For sale: $7m, riverfront manse, 8 bdrms,
w/pool, ...
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Guccione, 73, preferred to hole up in his palatial townhouse on E. 67th St. and seldom visited their estate, now on the block for $7 million.
Guccione was worth an estimated $500 million at one point, but he squandered it on eccentric scientific ventures and bad business moves.
Guccione is supposed to remove all his belongings from the house by Wednesday, but is trying to line up new funding to reclaim the property.
www.nydailynews.com /news/gossip/story/178305p-155057c.html   (649 words)

  
 Bob Guccione resigns as chief executive of Penthouse parent company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Bob Guccione, the flamboyant founder of Penthouse magazine, resigned as chief executive of its parent company but will remain publisher and editor as the magazine struggles to emerge from bankruptcy.
Guccione, 72, was replaced as acting CEO of Penthouse International by 90-year-old Milton Polland, who is head of a California communications company.
Guccione will keep his positions as editor in chief and publisher and also retain his dual titles of chairman and CEO of the subsidiary, General Media Inc.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/a/2003/11/07/national1656EST0696.DTL&type=printable   (213 words)

  
 Bob Guccione   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Bob Guccione, born Robert Charles Guccione, December 17, 1930, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Another area Guccione pushed the envelope was in the pictorials, where Guccione offered more sexually explicit content than was commonly seen in most aboveground "men's magazines" of the era.
In 2003, General Media (the publishing company for Penthouse) declared bankruptcy, and Guccione himself resigned as chairman and CEO of Penthouse International, Inc. The magazine as of this writing (December 2003) is still in publication and has an online presence.
portaljuice.com /bob_guccione.html   (372 words)

  
 VANDAL VEGAS:Beauty and Bob Guccione
Guccione is an artist of key significance: his divided painting career is revealing of the major artistic issues of his time, and his new resolution of those problems is clearly important.
Guccione himself has expressed puzzlement at the apparent absence of a coherent movement, or of a generally accepted explanation thereof.
Bob Guccione is the author, creative director, copyright owner, or profit-seeking instigator of more works of popular art than any other fine-artist in the history of the world.
www.lastplace.com /EXHIBITS/LVAM/vandal.htm   (3543 words)

  
 The Sunday Telegraph : Review Feature: All in the best possible taste Bob Guccione says he hates working on ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Review Feature: All in the best possible taste Bob Guccione says he hates working on `Penthouse', now celebrating its 30th anniversary, and would rather be remembered for his paintings.
Guccione Sr is tall and lean, his hair is gingery-blond and his face is that of a man 20 years his junior.
Read 'The Sunday Telegraph: Review Feature: All in the best possible taste Bob Guccione says he hates working on `Penthouse', now celebrating its 30th anniversary, and would rather be remembered for his paintings.
static.highbeam.com /t/thesundaytelegraph/july251999/reviewfeatureallinthebestpossibletastebobgucciones/index.html   (346 words)

  
 The End of Penthouse?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
What’s more, Bob Guccione could lose his fabled Penthouse Mansion, a century-old residence that is one of the largest private homes in Manhattan.
Bob Guccione has said there is "no future for adult business in mass market magazines." Penthouse magazine will soon cease publication.
Bob Guccione's General Media, has also filed for Chapter 11 protection, although the company's trademark Penthouse magazine continues publishing while the company restructures.
www.thefab.net /topics/social_trivia/st09_endofpenthouse.htm   (568 words)

  
 Bob Guccione
In January 1998, Guccione offered former White House intern Monica Lewinsky $2 million if she would sign over the exclusive rights to her story, and pose nude for Penthouse.
Guccione replies: "I don't think that Dick Nixon or Gerald Ford have the right, the intelligence, the know-how or the talent to control anything other than their own bowel movements, and even that is somewhat in doubt."
Bob Guccione of Penthouse magazine receives a letter in response to a standing offer to publish the work in his magazine.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/pornographers/bob-guccione   (429 words)

  
 Business Wire: ADVISORY/Bob Guccione to Attend Reception May 29th Introducing His Paintings At Long Island's Hillwood ...
WHO: Bob Guccione, most famous as the publisher and editor of Penthouse magazine, is also a fine artist who has been referred to as "the last great Impressionist." His work has been exhibited by leading art galleries and museums around the country.
Bob Guccione founded Penthouse magazine in England in 1965 and brought it to the United States in 1969, where it came to symbolize a fearless brand of journalism and pictorial excellence.
Guccione began exhibiting his artwork in 1992 and has had one-man shows at six museums.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_May_25/ai_75018484   (278 words)

  
 Bob Guccione - Pentouse - Anthony Haden-Guest - Feature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
ob Guccione was born in Brooklyn in 1930.
Guccione had shot many of the Penthouse pictorials using a Nikon 35-mm., and there were always rumors that the Gucciones had an “open” marriage, but many in a position to know doubt that Guccione was predatory.
Guccione was distancing himself from the Hefner style as quickly as he could go.
newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/media/features/n_9815/index1.html   (1924 words)

  
 Guccione   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
From Palm Beach, Florida, Ralph Guccione relocated to Decatur, Georgia in 1991 at the age of 13 with his family in his pursuit of a career in the rap industry.
Guccione released his single "Right Now" off Platinum World label in April of 2000 and achieved recognition and the #1 spot for his single on Atlanta's premiere hip-hop and rap station Hot 97.5's Phat Seven at Seven.
Guccione's hard-core hip-hop lyrics over Southern playalystic tracks communicate his unique abilities and appreciation of the epitome of hip-hop culture and sound.
www.georgiainformer.com /guccione.htm   (434 words)

  
 Bob Guccione - Pentouse - Anthony Haden-Guest - Feature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Bob Guccione, the begetter of Penthouse magazine, has occupied this townhouse at 12 East 67th Street since he moved from London in the mid-seventies, the better to do battle with Hugh Hefner’s Playboy.
Guccione has exhibited in museums, and some 130 canvases and drawings were in a show that opened at the Las Vegas Art Museum on September 6 and ran until November 9.
Bob Junior, who had frequently tried to make contact with his father without success, again tried to visit him when he was being operated on for the cancer.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/media/features/n_9815   (1208 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Penthouse publisher files plan to get out of bankruptcy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Under the proposed plan, Guccione, would remain as the editorial force behind the publication in the new role of publisher emeritus for 10 years.
Guccione will remain as publisher and the vision behind the magazine," said attorney Robert Feinstein of the law firm Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones and Weintraub, which represents the company.
Guccione resigned as chairman and chief executive of parent firm Penthouse International in November.
www.usatoday.com /money/media/2003-12-23-penthouse_x.htm   (391 words)

  
 Bob Guccione, Jr. Summary
His parents separated in 1965, and he lived with his mother in her native England until they moved to New Jersey when he was fifteen.
He launched the magazine in 1985 with a loan from his father, who attempted to wrest control of the magazine from him two years later.
Guccione currently owns and operates Discover Media, LLC which publishes the science magazine Discover.
www.bookrags.com /Bob_Guccione,_Jr.   (452 words)

  
 Did anyone see Bob Guccione on FOX w/ Paula Zahn about Paula Jones feature? [Free Republic]
I've been told that Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse Magazine, was on The Edge with Paula Zahn Friday evening, talking about the upcoming spread with Paula Jones.
Guccione said in response to the question whether the new story would hurt clinton, he said "Oh now, I would never print anything to hurt clinton." Whether it would hurt any other political character, he refused to say.
Guccione epitomizes the sleazy image of the 60ish guy with tired bedroom eyes, open silk shirt, pinky ring,gold medals hanging from his neck and Gucci loafers without socks.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39270eb26011.htm   (2373 words)

  
 Bob Guccione - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Bob Guccione - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 06:35, 13 Apr 2005.
The article about Bob Guccione contains information related to Bob Guccione.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Bob_Guccione   (719 words)

  
 Penthouse Alien - FT093   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In a radical departure from its usual parade of naked starlets, the September 1996 issue of Penthouse magazine declared that a genuine alien was to be unwrapped inside.
Until then, fans of naked earthgirls might not have realised that the flamboyant editor and publisher of Penthouse, Bob Guccione, was interested in the alien question and was partial to the idea of a UFO cover-up bythe US government.
Guccione vowed to keep the woman's identity a secret – "How we got in touch with each other is our business" – out of fear for her safety.
www.forteantimes.com /articles/093_penth.shtml   (666 words)

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