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  Biography of Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner was born on 9 April 1926 in Chicago.
Hefner had worked in the circulation department of Esquire, but when they were moving from Chicago to New York they refused to agree the $5 a week raise that Hefner requested.
Although Hefner is still in charge of editorial at Playboy, with a crucial role in selecting the covers; his daughter, Christie, is in charge of the business side, which is skewed nowadays towards TV, the web and other products.
www.biogs.com /famous/hefner.html   (498 words)

  
 Hugh Hefner Relationships
Hugh Hefner is extremely compassionate and cannot bear to see any fellow creature - be it human or animal - suffer.
Hefner also has a deeply ingrained tendency to want to improve or "fix" other people's lives, which can be annoying to the person who has no desire to be changed or "helped" in this way.
Hugh Hefner insists on bringing feelings between people out into the open, for he wants real closeness and intimacy in his relationships, without barriers or secrets.
www.topsynergy.com /famous/Hugh_Hefner.asp   (581 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Hugh Hefner
We chose Hugh Hefner as the Man of the Week, because deep down at one point or another, we've all fantasized of being Hugh and living the bachelor life he has so eloquently demonstrated as a lot of fun.
Hugh Hefner is the founder of the famous "Bunny" magazine and his lifestyle is legendary.
Hugh Hefner was born on April 9th, 1926, in Chicago, Illinois to Glenn and Grace Hefner.
www.askmen.com /men/feb00/12_hugh_hefner.html   (390 words)

  
 Hugh Hefner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois), also referred to colloquially as "Hef," is the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine.
Hefner saw his first brush with the law come in 1958 when he, a teenager named Elizabeth Ann Roberts, and her mother were arrested in Chicago after photos of Roberts appeared in Playboy.
Hefner purchased the crypt in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California, beside Marilyn Monroe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugh_Hefner   (1421 words)

  
 Hugh Hefner Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Hugh Hefner (born 1926), founder and publisher of Playboy magazine, helped usher in a new era of openness in American Culture.
Playboy was an instant sensation, mainly because Hefner had shrewdly purchased a nude photograph of actress Marilyn Monroe; it had been taken before her success in Hollywood, and Hefner used it as the centerfold of his first issue.
Hefner's devotion to the magazine in its early years precipitated the breakup of his marriage: Hefner and his wife Millie were separated in 1957 and divorced in 1959.
www.bookrags.com /biography/hugh-hefner   (786 words)

  
 Hugh Hefner - StarIQ.com
Hugh Hefner (born April 9, 1926, at 4:20 pm in Chicago, Illinois), founder of Playboy magazine and the Playboy empire, announced recently that he’s looking for a publisher for his memoirs.
Hefner, a Mars-driven Aries, displays a strong male-dominated attitude toward sexuality and a mantelpiece view of women.
Almost exactly at the time of Hefner’s announcement of this publishing action, the lunar nodes returned to the location of Hefner’s natal nodes.
www.stariq.com /Main/Articles/P0001692.HTM   (771 words)

  
 Salon People | Hugh Hefner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
And Hefner answered the call: He worked all hours, dutifully attending photo shoots with beautiful naked women and gradually mining the unexplored realm of swinging life.
Indeed, Hefner seems to have belonged to that segment of the population raised down the street at the movie theater.
The reborn Hefner spent his last two years of high school in a whirl of charisma, charm and popularity.
www.salon.com /people/bc/1999/12/28/hefner/index1.html   (1102 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- AP Interview: Hugh Hefner reflects on life at 80
That is Hefner's point – that Playboy with its mission of sexual liberation is as relevant as ever in these days of federal government crackdowns on television content that some consider indecent.
The invitation to Hefner's birthday party Saturday – he turns 80 Sunday – unfolds to show three photos of him: one as a toddler, one holding his new magazine in 1953, and one showing a smiling young Hefner with wavy fl hair and his iconic pipe.
As Hefner reflects on his life and career, he recalls that he first reinvented himself at 16, when he was rejected by a girl he had a crush on.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20060408-1644-hefnerat80.html   (753 words)

  
 Hefner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hefner were a British indie rock and "urban folk" band.
Hefner began as a live band in 1995 and, after several line up changes, became a solo project of Darren Hayman.
Hefner had, at this point, recorded a large number of singles and EPs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hefner   (717 words)

  
 Salon People | Hugh Hefner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Whatever Hefner believed respect for the fairer sex actually entailed, it was a respect he held at the core of his company's enterprises.
Hefner's impact on notions of domesticity and single life, on male and female identity, on fashion, on publishing, on corporate branding wisdom -- even on our understanding of the postal system -- his impact on all of these are abundantly evident.
In 1953, creating Playboy was scarcely a stretch for Hefner: In high school he'd written an essay criticizing the lack of frank discussion about sex in America, and in his college newspaper he'd praised the recently released and controversial "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," aka the Kinsey Report.
www.salon.com /people/bc/1999/12/28/hefner   (1015 words)

  
 NPR : A Visit with 'Playboy' Founder Hugh Hefner
Weekend Edition Saturday, September 6, 2003 · In 1953, Hugh Hefner was a 27-year-old freelance cartoonist when he pasted up the first issue of Playboy on the kitchen table of his South Side Chicago apartment.
Hefner and his editors like to point out his magazine has printed stories from some of the world's most highly regarded authors, and has scored exclusive interviews with some of the most famous and infamous figures of modern history.
Hefner championed the caustic -- and groundbreaking -- satiric observations of Lenny Bruce.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1421585   (678 words)

  
 Hugh Hefner’s Legacy - Prison Fellowship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Hugh Hefner, sitting in his mansion in his bathrobe, thinking over his life, ought to consider the effect of his life’s work on kids like Justin Berry.
If Hefner wants to be remembered for his good deeds, he ought to start right now funding programs to help people damaged by his twisted view of sex—programs that help men who are enslaved to sexual addiction.
The picture of Hefner on his eightieth birthday sitting in his mansion in his bathrobe, in the company of “girlfriends” paid to be there, and his jars of Viagra tablets, is a pathetic, tragic one, and it exposes his true legacy.
www.breakpoint.org /listingarticle.asp?ID=2035   (685 words)

  
 Hugh Hefner on brand building, keeping focus
Hugh Hefner: I think from very early on, the way the magazine is viewed has been pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Hugh Hefner: Bring it to a conscious level.
Hugh Hefner: First and foremost, see what it is you really want to do.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/investing/20040823a1.asp   (924 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80 - John Gibson | Judge Napolitano | John Gibson | Big Story Weekend
HEFNER: Well, it is certainly true that at a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school.
HEFNER: I don't know if it's truly being obsessed with a legacy, although I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time.
HEFNER: Well, I think it works out very well because I think, you know, they are part of what keeps me young.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,190979,00.html   (815 words)

  
 ABC News: Hefner at 80: Playboy Relevant As Ever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is photographed at the Playboy Mansion in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles Friday, April 7, 2006.
That is Hefner's point that Playboy with its mission of sexual liberation is as relevant as ever in these days of federal government crackdowns on television content that some consider indecent.
The invitation to Hefner's birthday party Saturday he turns 80 Sunday unfolds to show three photos of him: one as a toddler, one holding his new magazine in 1953, and one showing a smiling young Hefner with wavy fl hair and his iconic pipe.
abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=1822031   (478 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - Hugh Hefner Biography
Hugh Marston Hefner joined the army after graduating from High School and, after discharge, studied art at the Chicago Art Institute.
Hitting newsstands in December 1953, it carried no cover date because Hefner was not sure when or if he would be able to produce another.
Hefner, now seventy eight, currently lives with seven blonde mistresses, whose ages range from eighteen to twenty eight.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/486:0/Hugh_Hefner.htm   (277 words)

  
 Playboy After Dark / Playboy's Penthouse / Hugh Hefner on TV
Not as well-known is the fact that there were two earlier attempts by Hefner to create a television spin-off of his famous magazine.
Hugh Hefner was making a point on his very first outing, tackling subjects never touched upon in 1950s television culture.
Hefner was not your typical slick TV host, he had a nervous, disarming quality that worked to the benefit of the proceedings.
www.tvparty.com /recplayboy.html   (1330 words)

  
 Salon People | A conversation with Hugh Hefner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Hugh Hefner has that friendly, peaceful thing in his voice that says he's enjoyed a long, rewarding life.
Hefner has a sense of its history in America as another man might have a sense of his own hand.
Rumor has it that, of Hefner's countless loves over the years (rumor also has it that this number exceeds 1,000), only a handful have anything ugly to say about the guy.
www.salon.com /people/feature/1999/12/28/hefnercon   (1092 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Hugh Hefner pics
Hugh Hefner was born on April 9, 1926, in Chicago, Illinois to Glenn and Grace Hefner.
Hefner, however, possessed a genius IQ (152), individualizing himself instead with his extracurricular activities such as starting a school paper, writing, drawing animation, and serving as president of the student council.
From putting on what is considered "the greatest single weekend in the history of jazz" at the first ever Jazz Festival at Chicago Stadium, to organizing Hollywood's stars to refurbish "Hollywood's Eiffel Tower" of the Hollywood sign, Hefner is truly a man worthy of admiration.
www.askmen.com /men/feb00/12c_hugh_hefner.html   (629 words)

  
 Salon.com Directory | Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner, the Emmys and the breathless "24" At Hef's roast, Comedy Central bleeps every other word; Ellen DeGeneres does her best on the pointless Emmys; and "24" rocks hard.
A conversation with Hugh Hefner "A whole generation has grown up that was waiting for me to come out and play."
Hugh Hefner The 20th century's indefatigable swinger is still mixing martinis, cavorting with naked women, encouraging men to play indoors and reinventing himself.
archive.salon.com /directory/topics/hugh_hefner   (359 words)

  
 Hugh Hefner Bio - Hugh Hefner Biography - Hugh Hefner Stories
Hugh Hefner (1926—) has built a publishing empire on the backs of naked women and bunny rabbits.
A man who likes to dress in pyjamas and who has a rare species of marsh rabbit named after him (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri), Hefner broke the boundaries of sexual permissiveness in US society when he launched Playboy magazine in 1953.
When Hefner handed the control to his daughter Christie in 1982, Playboy was an industry comprising magazines, cable television, videos, and clothes.
www.tv.com /hugh-hefner/person/3477/biography.html   (146 words)

  
 Hugh M. Hefner News
Posted Oct 3rd 2006 9:04AM by Deidre Woollard Filed under: Journeys They were all the range in the 1960s, now the Playboy Club is back and will be open for business as of this Friday, October 6.
Jack Spadaro, former director of the National Mine Safety and Health Academy, is one of eight winners of the 2006 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award s for their personal achievements in defending the First...
By GARY GENTILE The Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Playboy creator Hugh M. Hefner was in the middle of an interview about his 80th birthday when a TV cameraman asked him to move a statue of former girlfriend...
www.topix.net /who/hugh-m-hefner   (264 words)

  
 Biography for Hugh M. Hefner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Hefner had a Genius IQ of 152 in H.S. but was described as an "unenthusiastic" student.
Hefner and Jenna Jameson share the same birthday (April 9th).
Is portrayed by Mitch Ryan in Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981) (TV), by Cliff Robertson in Star 80 (1983) and by Randall Batinkoff in Hefner: Unauthorized (1999) (TV).
www.imdb.com /name/nm0005005/bio   (689 words)

  
 Hugh M. Hefner — Infoplease.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Hefner, Hugh M. Hefner, Hugh M., 1926–;, American publisher and businessman, b.
Hefner's daughter Christie has been chief executive of Playboy Enterprises since 1988.
Hugh M. Hefner, su creador, abre a los lectores el mundo de Playboy.(TT: Hugh M. Hefner, its founder, reveals to readers the world......
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0823192.html   (249 words)

  
 Hugh Hefner | MTV | news : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Hugh Hefner may be pushing 80, but that doesn't mean he can't be the leader of a worldwide crime-fighting team.
That's the premise of ''Hef's Superbunnies,'' a half-hour cartoon in which the Playboy founder runs a secret squad of curvy commandos from deep within his lair at the Playboy Mansion.
Hefner and his collaborator, Marvel Comics guru Stan Lee, have been shopping around the pilot for more than a year, and finally, according to the Hollywood Reporter, it's been picked up by MTV.
www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,693887_10_0_,00.html   (404 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Playboy: 50 Years: The Cartoons: Books: Hugh Hefner,Chronicle Books,Michelle Urry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Handpicked by Hugh M. Hefner himself, the pages are filled with the distillation of the entire cartoon archive, offering insightful commentary on topics from the sexual revolution to relationships, money, and politics.
Hugh Hefner is the founder of Playboy magazine, whose paid circulation is larger than that of Esquire, GQ and Rolling Stone combined.
Capitalizing on Playboy's global recognition, he now produces international editions of the magazine in 19 different countries, including Brazil, Japan and Taiwan.
www.amazon.ca /Playboy-Years-Cartoons-Hugh-Hefner/dp/0811839761   (759 words)

  
 Celebopedia - Hugh Hefner
Famous as the founder of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner developed into a cultural icon with his high profile lifestyle that aptly fit the playboy name.
Hefner has a species of rabbit named in his honor-- the Sylvilagus Palustris Hefneri.
This site is not endorsed by Hugh Hefner or any organization Hugh Hefner is, was or will be associated with.
www.celebopedia.com /hugh-hefner   (143 words)

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