'Hef" is gone.

Woodsman

RIP Famous Pipester Hugh Hefner has died at 91 years of age.  He really had a large impact on Pipe Smoking on the US young generation at the time.

xDutchx

He had an even larger impact on the sexual revolution. RIP Hef.

motie2

Hugh Hefner: Pipe Smokin' Man

Anthony

They used to sell a Playboy pipe with a bunny on the stem for $15.00! RIP, Hef

Londy3

Wow really?! Likely way before my time but interesting chap indeed.

ghostsofpompeii

I really enjoyed his after midnight TV shows "Playboy After Dark" and I can't remember the other one at the moment - but they were more like pajama parties with scantly clad beautiful woman, important celebrities of the era, and some amazing jazz musicians performing. His show was my introduction to jazz. As well as other things young impressionable teenage boys find of interest.

motie2

motie2

Wow, two articles in the morning paper, one by Ross Douthat and one by Susan Brownmiller, one an op-ed piece, tearing Hefner and his career to shreds.

mseddon

I have a friend who wrote an award-winning BA history thesis on the decline and fall of Playboy. Wrote it in 1990. Hefner actually read it and sent a letter to my pal telling him why he was wrong. I was, for a brief period of time from 1990-2017 at one degree of separation from Hef.

PappyJoe

Ah! Those 2 or 3 degrees of separation... One of the guys I went through bootcamp with told us he was married to a former Playboy bunny. We were both stationed in Seattle afterwards and he was indeed married to a model who had been in Playboy. I also visited the Playboy club in Dallas once. 

But the best was I spent 3 hours with Alex Haley in 1988. Haley was a the first Chief Journalist in the Coast Guard and after retirement was frequent contributor to Playboy magazine. I was a Chief Public Affairs Specialist (what had been a journalist at one time). It was a fascinating assignment to escort him around Governors Island and buy him a drink in the Chiefs club.

motie2

I had a buddy from Cleveland, grew up on the street together, went to the same elementary, junior high, and high school. He married a Playboy bunny. Took her over an hour each day to put on her make-up and do her hair for work. She looked fake, but hot, ya know?

BTW, it didn't work out.

buflosab

I only read the articles in playboy.