Early Hef with Bonus RAW in The Realist
This 1961 "interview" with Hugh Hefner is amusingly dated but surprisingly prescient on (just) a couple of points, including the always-looming puritan menace (or the perception thereof) and Hef's own future-present (projecting himself in later life: 'I'll have all those "Playmates of the Month" around to keep my interest.').Yet there's no escaping that Hef's pseudo-intellectual, self-styled "masculism" always left him sounding like an inflated dick. A few issues later we have none other than Robert Anton Wilson pointing out Hef's politico-economic naivete, while of course espousing his own socialist-anarchist worldview.
In both cases, these short, fringe-published works are remarkably true to the later-life character of these men. There's a lot of other good stuff in The Realist archive if you poke around.
posted by Rich @ 7/20/2007 01:36:00 PM
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