Listening to videos about Playboy, I find interesting history, and ideas. Then again one is reminded that the entertainment which Hugh Hefner developed and provided is controversial for many people. (I recently read an Internet comment referring to him as an "appalling swine.")
--------------------- [excerpt from Apropos of Nothing, by Woody Allen - copyright 2020, Arcade Publishing] ----------------
Jean, John, and I hung out sometimes at Hugh Hefner's. Not much but now and then. It was an open house nearly twenty-four hours, hung with Picassos and full of celebrities, sports figures, sexy women.
The sexy women were the whole draw.
Believe me, it wasn't the Picassos. Anytime I hit Chicago I got a call from the Playboy Mansion inviting me to stay there as a guest. I never did, but we dropped in now and then and socialized....
I liked Hefner, and I remember one night he explained to me it had always been his dream as a kid to have a house that was going all the time and you never paid any attention to the clock.
You woke when you liked, ate breakfast when you wanted, did what you wanted. No matter when. If you rose at 2 a.m., your day began there and your schedule worked according to your own time.
Meant nothing to me, as other guys' dreams never do, but if it made Hefner happy to live life that way, and it did, great. All I know is he was a friendly and generous host, rich, successful, and if he enjoyed rising at eleven at night, having breakfast, and then playing Monopoly with celebrities, who am I to gainsay him?
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