BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!

Subject: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 08:35 AM

What is the world coming to???




Hugh Hefner opens up about Holly Madison breakup

By DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer
2 hours, 15 minutes ago



LOS ANGELES - Hugh Hefner is down a girlfriend. Hefner and Holly Madison, one of E!'s "The Girls Next Door," are no longer dating. Hefner said he's been "down in the dumps" about the split.

The 28-year-old model-actress stars in the reality series with Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt as one of the 82-year-old publisher's girlfriends who live with Hefner in the Playboy Mansion.

"If Holly says it's over, I guess it's over," Hefner said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "She's still here in the house. Until a few days ago, we were still sharing the same bed."
(more at clicky)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_en_tv/people_hugh_hefner

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 08:42 AM

Gee, that's too bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 08:50 AM

Hugh Hefner on Holly: "It's Over!" Marc Malkin
Wed Oct 8, 11:48 AM ET



Los Angeles (E! Online) - It's really over.

Hugh Hefner confirms he and Holly Madison are no longer.

"If she says it's over, it's over," Hefner tells me. "But like I've said before, she is the love of my life, and I expected to spend the rest of my life with her."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20081008/en_tv_eo/33112

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 09:41 AM

Rest of his life huh! Maybe she was looking for a long term relationship.

XG

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 12:45 PM

It is SO good that folks care enough to keep me current on important news like this that I may otherwise miss!
(gee..I have not followed poor Hef since Barbi Benton!)

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 12:47 PM

We care, BillD.



We care.

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: gnu
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 01:37 PM

The poor lad is distraught. Cut him some slack, eh! I mean, I know he'll eventually get over his puppy love, but right now, he needs support.

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 02:01 PM

It is tough, I admit..only TWO ditzy, buxom, fawning blondes in his bed...how WILL he cope?

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 02:03 PM

I was in tears when I first heard about it...

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 02:10 PM

I've always admired Hef. His contribution to changing culture is enormous.

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 02:26 PM

To say nothing of his contribution to the North American male's obsession with large bustlines.

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 03:00 PM

more than that, he helped change attitudes about sex and relationships.

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: gnu
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 03:11 PM

Only Two? I thought whatshername (how soon they forget) made five, which would leave him with four. Acceptable... but, only two? Should we circulate a sympathy card?

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 03:40 PM

....I just can't go on...

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 05:09 PM

Hef was doing it with Dolly Madison? Ew, in't she daid?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 05:13 PM

The trick, when reading a story like that, is to try NOT use your mind's eye to imagine what they must look like in bed. . .


















Ewwww. I looked.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 05:15 PM

Bill, Bill, Bill (hi Bill),

WHY were you following Hefner, at all?!?!? Was that before you knew Rita or sumopin'?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: gnu
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 06:11 PM

I looked, but I wasn't lookin at he!

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 07:11 PM

Hey, c'mon!! We aging Lotharios need love too, you know!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 07:15 PM

(hi Susan)... Once upon a time, Playboy was relevant part of American culture. I found fascinating stuff in it even if I skipped the pulchritudinous parts. I think I still have a stack of old Playboys somewhere. I never was 'opposed' to seeing an occasional pretty girl wearing very little, but Hef's specific tastes ain't mine, and I got tired of it....hmmmm... about the same time I worked in an 'adult' bookstore where the gamut of choices were available...(and soon was jaded & tired of most of THOSE, too.)

But before I quit even looking, Barbi Benton was an issue that was in regular news, not just in Playboy. Couldn't avoid hearing about her!

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 07:17 PM

Sarah Lowndes was also a Playboy Bunny in her youth...

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 Oct 08 - 11:27 PM

I'm amazed to hear that Hefner is still alive. I haven't heard anything of him for decades.

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 12:07 AM

Don, no denying nookie to "aging Lotharios." It's the 50+ year age gap that is so unappealing. Like Anna Nicole Smith and her ancient hubby. Not exactly peer to peer.

Bill, I heard a great line from Erica Jong on Fresh Air a couple of years ago. She said if she looked at porn for 10 minutes she wanted to go make love, but if she looked at it for 20 minutes she never wanted to have sex again. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 06:44 AM

Obviously few are reading the entire article. I do not think Hef has anything to worry about in terms of the future.



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"The Girls Next Door" premiered on E! in 2001 and is in its fifth season. Hefner said he and the three women are committed to a sixth season, but he plans to seek out new live-in lovers. Hefner said 19-year-old Playmate twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon are living in the mansion, but they're aren't his girlfriends — yet.

"It's now apparent there will be some new faces in my personal life and on the show," he said. "There's been moments that I've been down in the dumps about all this, and (personal assistant) Mary (O'Connor) told me to cheer up and pointed out that there are girls lined up outside the front gate. At my age, that's hard to believe, but it seems to be true."

Hefner's relationship with his remaining two girlfriends — Marquardt, 35, and Wilkinson, 23 — may also be in flux. Hefner said Marquardt is in Europe filming the new Travel Channel series "Bridget's Beaches," and Wilkinson may soon move out of the mansion and get her own apartment. Hefner said E! is interested in spin-offs with all three women.

The Playboy mogul expects to maintain a business relationship and friendship with Madison, who — along with Marquardt — originally was one of seven girlfriends living with Hefner in 2001 after his separation from Kimberley Conrad. Wilkinson was later asked to move into the Playboy Mansion in 2004. Hefner said he may again seek out seven — or more — girlfriends.

"It's a big house," he said. "And I'm not going to live alone. I'm definitely not going to live alone."

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Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: gnu
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 06:51 AM

I read Playboy from cover to cover for years. The interviews were amazing... Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro... you get the pic. And the humour and fiction and fact and social concience. As for the girls, well, gorgeous, but they were/are just pictures.

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: artbrooks
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 07:05 AM

Herself gives me a copy for Christmas every year. I read it only for the cartoons, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 09:00 AM

my gay friend used to buy it for the articles! He bought other magazines for the pictures!!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: meself
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 10:15 AM

Heard a comedian talking Hefner's inevitable demise: "You gotta figure heaven could only be a bit of a disappointment for Hugh Hefner" ...

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 01:46 PM

Review: Hefner biography full of sex, fun

Story Highlights
"Mr. Playboy" had cooperation of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner

Among revelations: Hef almost died choking on sex toy

Book is fun, but sometimes author's style gets in the way

By Michael Hill
Associated Press
   
(AP) -- In 1953, Hugh Hefner was a young man in Chicago with an unimpressive resume and big plans. He would start a men's magazine geared toward young urbanites such as himself with lifestyle tips and racy pictures.

He would call it "Stag Party."

A legal snag forced a last-minute name change to "Playboy," but Hefner stayed true to the idea. The magazine quickly became a huge success and gave new meanings to the words playmate, bunny and centerfold. Hefner -- with his pipe, his pajamas and a girl on each arm -- became a symbol of the sexual revolution. But a symbol of what? Hefner is either the swingingest hep cat, a pornographer, a sexual liberator or a lecher, depending on the observer.

Watts aims to give a full account of the man, his magazine and their place in social history. Hefner cooperated, giving the author access to everything from his personal scrapbooks to a 1972 memo from a Playboy administrative assistant on the Rolling Stones' four-day romp at the old Chicago Playboy mansion (they left behind burned towels and clogged pipes; it's unclear why).

Watts presents Hefner's life as a sort of X-rated Horatio Alger story. A boy growing up in the Midwest falls in love with the fantasy world of movies. As a young striver, he creates his own fantasy world with Playboy. Then he moves into the world he created, leaving a wife and kids for the swinging life.

Fact Box
"Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream"
Author: Steven Watts
Publisher: Wiley
$29.95, 544 pages

Watts argues that Playboy is more than a girlie magazine: It "comprised a historical force of significant proportions." It's arguable whether Hefner mostly made waves or rode them. But it's clear that Hefner took seriously his role in offering a philosophy to counteract Puritanism.

When Hefner calls himself a missionary, he's not punning. Along with the naked women, Playboy early on featured the likes of Dave Brubeck on jazz, Evelyn Waugh on abstract expressionism and an interview with philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

Try to find one of those guys mentioned in the current crop of dumbed-down "lad mags."

Oh, and Hefner really, really likes sex. Women come and go from his round bed like the sheets were made of Flubber. It just never stops. Even into his old age, the Viagra-fueled magnate stays on the prowl. Watts reveals that Hefner narrowly avoided an ironical death when he almost choked on a partner's sex toy. A quick-thinking Playmate saved him with a chest compression.

This is a fun book. How could it not be? But it bogs down occasionally. Watts tends to over quote the many news articles he has researched, and too many sentences sound as like they should be read by the narrator on "Behind the Music," such as this one on the 1980s: "But the haven of female companionship provided no refuge from the storm of this dark decade."

If nothing else, the reader comes away admiring the staying power of Hefner, now 82. Playboy is no longer the cultural force it used to be, but it made a stamp on society. Conservative columnist George Will got it right. Watts reports that when he greeted Hefner for a 2003 interview, Will said, "Congratulations. You won."

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 04:54 PM

his theme song all along: "I GOT MINE"

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: bobad
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 08:05 PM

There's someone up in Alaska who will be looking for a new gig after November 4th. Might make Hef forget all about Holly.

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: Beer
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 09:36 PM

I think Hef would have a problem with her high winding pitch voice Bobad.


I have to say that the centerfold never disappointed me. But the part I always looked to was the old lady at the back in the cartoon clip. Can't remember her name and I don't have a playboy under the mattress.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 12:38 PM

Hollywood Style Awards Highlight: Holly Madison Out With Hef's New Girlfriend!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:50:52 AM

Just days after confirming her split with Playboy guru Hugh Hefner, Holly Madison stepped out at Hollywood Life's 5th Annual Hollywood Style Awards with a new date - one of Hugh's new twin girlfriends!

Holly looked ravishing on the red carpet Sunday night and showed up with one of the busty blonde 19-year-old twins that have reportedly replaced her.

We're not sure if she was with Karissa or Kristina Shannon - like it matters anyway.

The frenemies kept to themselves and we have to say that Holly didn't look particularly thrilled to be hanging out with her replacement and sources say she secretly "can't stand" her.

Publicly, Holly insists that she isn't jealous and, in fact, she introduced Hef to the twins this summer after she directed their Playboy pictorial.

Holly explains, "They're a lot of fun."

"I would never try to personally pick Hef's new girlfriend. I would like him to take his time and actually get to know somebody -- which he never does!"

The girls pleaded no contest in August to felony battery and were ordered to pay restitution after double-teaming a girl at a party and beating the crap out of her.

And what does Holly think of their criminal past?

"I think that they're in a good place right now and hopefully will stay out of trouble."

"They are a little young and definitely like to have a good time. I just hope that they can take this new fame with a level head."

They're 19 and bimbos.

Holly's going to be a hard act to follow.

Subject: RE: BS: Say it ain't so, Hef!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Oct 08 - 02:20 PM

But, ya know... with all his coin, ya think he could afford his own advertising. Then again, if it's free.... bend over eh?