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Post by snsurone on Sept 28, 2017 23:07:12 GMT
The founder of the Playboy Empire died yesterday at age 91.
I wonder if the Playboy Mansion will be turned into a museum featuring a display of centerfolds over the decades.
Which begs the question: is it art or porn?
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Post by politicidal on Sept 28, 2017 23:57:38 GMT
As a man named Jack Napier once said, is that it doesn't matter if it's art so long as you like it.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Sept 29, 2017 4:12:24 GMT
I guess Hef's gone on to that great Playboy Mansion in the sky.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 29, 2017 15:36:48 GMT
RIP Hugh! For showing that erotica doesn't have to be pornografic. Beeing a supporter of jazz music with jazz festivals.  Hugh with Ella Fitzgerald. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 29, 2017 16:01:34 GMT
Which begs the question: is it art or porn? Those two terms have long been among the most amorphous and subjective in the English language, and I wouldn't say that they're necessarily mutually exclusive. |
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Post by vegalyra on Sept 29, 2017 16:47:15 GMT
I'm a classic car buff and once read Jim Wangers' autobiography. Mr. Wangers was a marketing/advertising whiz who in collaboration with Pontiac's General Manager John DeLorean (of 1980's Back to the Future DeLorean car fame) developed the idea and production of the Pontiac GTO back in 1964. Anyways, in his book, he discusses his early years when he worked at Esquire magazine in the early 1950's. Hugh Hefner was one of his co-workers at the magazine. Hefner asked him to leave Esquire with him and help him start up Playboy magazine. Wangers said that he didn't because he believed that Hugh was full of himself and he couldn't see working with him on something that at the time seemed risky. I always thought that was interesting anecdote and also interesting how two very creative people went on to extremely different careers.
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