where the heroes were

 

a scene from the 1942 film, Casablanca

        I could hardly believe it when I read a Comment where someone referred to Hugh Hefner as an "appalling swine."

(actual swine:  "Leave us out of this!")

------------------------------- If you put pictures of people with no clothes on in a magazine and publish it, some people are going to like that, and some people are going to criticize.  Or, at least, this was true in the 1950s when Playboy was first invented and published.

Playboy magazine, I'm not an expert on - but when I watch interviews and documentaries about Hugh Hefner, I feel kinship with him because he related to the world through some of the same art forms that I'm interested in - movies, music, and books.

His daughter Christie Hefner says of his love for the movies - "That's where the heroes were, that's where you had the stories of standing up for what was right, that's where he got his sense of romance.  His favorite movie was Casablanca...."

        I totally relate to that.

Hal Wallis, director of Casablanca

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