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  Hugh Hefner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine.
Hefner purchased the crypt in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California beside Marilyn Monroe stating that he wishes to be interred next to her.
The Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards were created by daughter Christie in 1979, "to honor individuals who have made significant contributions in the vital effort to protect and enhance First Amendment rights for Americans," to quote from Playboy.
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 Station Information - Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9th, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) was the founder of Playboy magazine and became its leading archetype -- the sexually open and financially well-off swinger, the "man's man.The idea of playboy sprung from Hugh while he was in college.
Hugh decided to give his "baby" the name he new he was himself.
He purchased the crypt in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California beside Marilyn Monroe stating that he wishes to be interred next to her.
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 Hugh Hefner . Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award . December 28   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hugh Marston Hefner born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States USA is the founder and editor of Playboy magazine.
His daughter Christie Hefner Christie, born in 1954, is from this marriage.
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The awards were established in 1979 by the Playboy Foundation to “honor individuals who have made significant contributions in the vital effort to protect and enhance First Amendment Rights for Americans.” Other award categories include: education, broadcast journalism, publishing, government and arts and entertainment.
The award is for those who “gave freely of their time, their energy and their compassion, defending our liberties and preserving our democracy.
The award, presented by The Interfaith Alliance, “recognizes individuals whose courageous actions have embodied the values of civility, tolerance, diversity, and cooperation in the advancement of public dialogue and public policy on traditionally controversial and divisive issues.” The seven-member selection committee included Gerald R. Ford, Bill Moyers, Andrew Young and Cokie Roberts.
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 Lenny Bruce - The Trials of Lenny Bruce: About the Book
On May 24, 2004, Ronald Collins and David Skover were presented with the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award for Book Publishing at a New York City reception.
The First Amendment Awards were established in 1979 by the Playboy Foundation to honor individuals who have made significant contributions in the vital effort to protect and enhance First Amendment rights for Americans.
If the First Amendment is the principle, then our lives – like that of Lenny Bruce – must be the practice that gives meaning to that great experiment that we call democracy.
www.law.seattleu.edu /fachome/skover/trialsoflennybruce/hefner.htm   (414 words)

  
 Forum The Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Although the First Amendment has been part of the Constitution since 1791, it was not truly part of the American experience until this century.
Co-chairs for the award are: Christie Hefner, President and Chief Operating Officer, Playboy Enterprises, Inc.; Stanley Sheinbraum, immediate past chair, A.C.L.U. Foundation of Southern California; and Burton Joseph, chair, the Playboy Foundation.
Harry Kalven, Jr., Jamie's father, was among the country's "most perceptive First Amendment commentators, known for his insights into the law and for the grace with which he expressed them." When he died in 1974, he was at work on this book.
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 bernie :: article :: Patriots In Vermont   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In fact, his amendment gathered a majority of votes when the time for voting expired Thursday, but Republican leaders held open the vote for twice as long as scheduled to persuade Republicans to change their votes.
Trina Magi, a University of Vermont librarian, was among the first in the nation to draw attention to the threat that parts of the Patriot Act pose to basic freedoms.
Largely as a result of her actions, the Vermont Library Association was the first such group in the nation to go on record seeking revisions in the Patriot Act.
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 Encyclopedia: Michael Moore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Michael Moore is also an Eagle Scout, which is the highest rank awarded by the Boy Scouts in the United States, and an achievement of which he is still proud.
Roger and Me: Moore first became famous for his controversial 1989 film Roger and Me, a documentary about what happened to Flint, Michigan, after General Motors closed its factories and opened new ones in Mexico, where the workers were paid much less.
Fahrenheit was awarded the Palme d'Or, the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival; it was the first documentary film to win the prize since 1956.
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 Hugh Hefner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9th, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) was the founder of Playboy magazine and became its leading archetype -- the sexually open and financially well-off swinger, the "man's man".
The idea of Playboy sprung from Hugh while he was in college.
Hugh decided to give his "baby" the name he "knew he was himself".
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 Hugh Halkett - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hugh Halkett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hugh Halkett - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hugh Halkett.
General Hugh Halkett, GCH, CB, (1783 – 1863) British soldier and general of infantry in the Hanoverian service.
He held many foreign orders, including the Prussian order of the Black Eagle and pour le Mrite and the Russian St Anne.
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 Hefner, Hugh M. on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hugh Hefner inaugura el salón de la fama del Museo Erótico
Hugh Hefner: Playboy Enterprises IN 1953 I DIDN'T REALLY FULLY APPRECIATE WHAT I HAD CREATED.
The Creative Coalition Joins the Playboy Foundation in Presenting the 25th Anniversary Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards.
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 Michael Moore - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Roger & Me: Moore first became famous for his controversial 1989 film Roger & Me, a documentary about what happened to Flint, Michigan, near Detroit and his hometown of Davison, Michigan, after General Motors closed its factories and opened new ones in Mexico, where the workers were paid much less.
It was awarded the Palme d'Or, the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival; it was the first documentary film to win the prize since 1956.
The 2004 Academy Awards opened with a satirical short film in which the host, Billy Crystal, re-enacted the most memorable scenes of 2004.
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 ALA | Librarian, bookseller receive First Amendment Award
CHICAGO - Vermont librarian Trina Magi and bookseller Linda Ramsdell have been named winners of a 2004 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award for their leadership in the campaign to amend the USA PATRIOT Act.
The Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards were established in 1979 by the Playboy Foundation to honor individuals who have made significant contributions in the vital effort to protect and enhance First Amendment rights for Americans.
Nominees have traditionally come from the areas of print and broadcast journalism, arts and entertainment, education, publishing, law and government, and winners are selected by a panel of distinguished judges.
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 Signs of the Times - Winners of 2001 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The awards have traditionally been given in the areas of print and broadcast journalism, education, book publishing, arts and entertainment, law, and lifetime achievement.
Each 2001 Award winner will receive $5000 as well as a specially designed plaque describing their achievement in defending the First Amendment.
Since its inception in 1965, the Foundation has awarded more than $14 million in grants and in-kind contributions to organizations concerned with First Amendment freedoms, civil liberties and social justice.
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 Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award.
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 Boston.com / News / Local / Vt. / Librarian gets awards for opposition to Patriot Act   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Trina Magi received the Vermont Library Association's Sarah C. Hagar Award and the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award last week.
The state association became the first in the nation to go on record opposing the legislation.
A letter from the group opposing the act gained the attention of Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that seeks to scale back parts of the Patriot Act.
www.boston.com /news/local/vermont/articles/2004/05/30/librarian_gets_awards_for_oppositiont_to_patriot_act   (362 words)

  
 The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC): WAKE PROFESSOR EARNS AWARD; THE HUGH M. HEFNER FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD IS ...
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For now, the Greensboro constitutional scholar is savoring the prestige and the $5,000 that comes with being the 2001 winner of the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award.
Famous for its nude centerfolds, Playboy has been a zealous crusader for the First Amendment, which guarantees free speech.
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 Saul Landau / Movies
There are also interviews with people who live near and work in several government facilities around the nation, as well as with government scientists, some of whom were fired when their research indicated the dangers of low-level radiation.
This film won the 1980 EMMY Award for best TV program, the George F. Polk Award for investigative journalism on TV, the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for journalism, and the Mannheim Film Festival first critics' prize.
The film was shot in only two days, the first together with his wife and family and the next day in Washington DC, where he had spied on people and institutions.
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 Encyclopedia: Christie Hefner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Playboy is an adult entertainment magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc....
Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country.
A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television.
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 Bookselling This Week: Linda Ramsdell and Trina Magi Win Hefner First Amendment Award
On Monday, May 24, at a ceremony at Chelsea Piers in New York City, two women who helped organize a grassroots campaign to amend Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act will be among those honored with the Playboy Foundation's 2004 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award.
Trina Magi, past president of the Vermont Library Association (VLA), and Linda Ramsdell, owner of the Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick, Vermont, will receive the First Amendment Award in the field of Education.
The other winners of the Hefner First Amendment Awards are:
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 Hugh hefner - HUGH HEFNER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hugh Hefner quotes The Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards were created by daughter Christie in 1979,
LOS ANGELES -- When Hugh Hefner prays, which he admits is not with any regularity, Their image of him is simple: Hugh Hefner, sinner extraordinaire.
Source Hugh Hefner, Publisher Born: 9 April 1926 Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois Best Known As: Founder of the Playboy magazine empire Hugh Hefner.
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 A First Amendment Hero Took Her Paper to Freedom
He said that Buford’s appreciation of the First Amendment and “her understanding of it is beyond her years.”
First Amendment Award in print journalism from the Playboy Foundation.
The NABJ Student Journalist of the Year award will be presented at this year’s Unity: Journalists of Color conference, to be held Aug. 4-8 in Washington.
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 Author : works by Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9th, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is the founder and editor of Playboy magazine.He has since become an icon for the hedonistic ideals associated with the periodical.He reportedly has an IQ of 150, and he has certainly been very adept at human management skills.
During this period, Hefner lived monogamously.He has also had a long line of ladyfriends including several Playboy Playmates of the Year.
This artikel Hugh_Hefner is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
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 HEFNER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Search the HEFNER Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the HEFNER Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named HEFNER at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
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 Creative Coalition Joins the Playboy Foundation untitled 6 copy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The awards have traditionally been given in the areas of print and broadcast journalism, education, book publishing, arts and entertainment, government and law.
Honoring the men and women who are on the front lines protecting that freedom is more important than ever." Each 25th Anniversary Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award category winner will receive $5000, as well as a specially designed plaque describing their achievement in defending the First Amendment.
Since its inception in 1965, the Foundation has awarded nearly $16 million in grants and in-kind contributions to organizations concerned with First Amendment freedoms, civil liberties and social justice.
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 Michael Moore - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1999 Moore won the prestigious Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in Arts and Entertainment for being the executive producer and host of The Awful Truth.
It's rumored that Tim Commerford's (RATM) stunt at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards where, urged on by Michael Moore, he climbed on one of the fixtures on stage.
When he accepted the Oscar, he created a stir when he took the oppurtunity to loudly denounce US President George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq which was met with boos from a portion of the audience.
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 BookWeb: Bookselling This Week: “Muggles for Harry Potter” Creators Honored with First Amendment Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On May 18, two Michigan women who played an instrumental role in organizing a grassroots effort among parents, teachers, and young readers to oppose a ban on the use of the Potter books in their school district were honored for their work fighting censorship.
Dana told BTW that Christie Hefner, chair and chief executive of Playboy Enterprises Inc. and the Playboy Foundation, which sponsors the award, "was as generous and as kind as could be" during her visit to New York City, where she received the award at a luncheon ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria.
This is the second significant award for Dana and Zennie.
www.ambook.org /news/btw/4691.html   (434 words)

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