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Article: As his magazine heads for 57, the old devil's still a Playboy at heart
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- Belfast Telegraph
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- November 7, 2009
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It's easy to forget that, in his day, Hugh Hefner was something
of a visionary. The louche, laconic 82-year-old, best known these
days for lounging around his luxurious California mansion dressed in
silk pyjamas and velvet loafers, spent his youth devouring the
culture of Depression-era America.
He read, watched, saw whatever he could, and then copied,
transformed and invented.
When the first copies of Playboy appeared in November 1953, the
magazine read like a literary who's who (with the odd titillating
photograph thrown in).
Sherlock Holmes was nestled alongside Ray Bradbury, F Scott
Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov and John Updike.
This month sees the publication of Hefner's magnum opus: a ...