Steve Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 Didn't see Frank Vincent. 4/15/37 - 9/13/17 Great roles in a variety of movies, notably Sopranos and that classic scene in Goodfellas "go get your shine box' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 How do you think he felt about JFK? DdiMaggio probably didn't lose any sleep over the JFK and RFK Assassinations. I just think it's weird that he wants to lie in a mausoleum next to Marylyn Monroe for eternity. More power to him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passingthru69 Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 RIP Hugh Hefner, The man made it to 91 years old. Wonder how many ladies he had during his life... In his time he was the man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 Yep, if you're male, Hugh did a good thing, if you're female in Middle Earth, not so much. In the international press coverage, Hefner's demise, seems fairly balanced between lauding him and some feminist detraction. But here in the bastion, of women spitting tacks, about anything, there's only denigration of the man, who it must be said, changed the world, and perhaps a good way, depending on your outlook. But as usual the feminazis there can't even get their vitriol right. One, comments at length, on how "dehumanised" the women became. I can't think of anything more humanising, that getting yer kit off for millions of eyeballs. It's not like the models dressed up in transformer metal and plastic now is it? it's not like they were trying to portray machines now is it? Another, goes on at length about young women being "held hostage" at the playboy mansion as bunnies.... I fail to see the connection between young aspiring, models/actresses/porn-stars/rich men's wives, taking advantage of a lucrative contract deal that involved prancing around in relative luxury, instead of working in a factory, as being "hostages". See Pamela Anderson, amongst many others. You could even argue that Gloria Steinem's career benefited from her time as a Bunny. Deborah Harry, Lauren Hutton, Attorney General Kimba Wood, Carol Cleveland et al. In my view of the world, hostages are imprisoned and exchanged for large amounts of money, or other such exchange, on their release, or killed if no one pays. Hostages, in my view do not get big money and a leg up or over in Hollywood. Exploited, certainly, probably. Last time I was in Cowboy, many, many, beautiful women, competed for my attentions, in order to be rewarded with a large sum of money, the ugly ones, spitting tacks, didn't get a look in and ever it shall be so. Hostages and dehumanised, not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 He also subjected us to his "philosophy", apparently considering himself intellectual. What he did was show us how poorly educated he really was. But nobody bought Playboy to read his thoughts. We bought it for the babes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 What you said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 From Pamela Anderson: Goodbye #Hef Mr Hefner I have so many thoughts, I have no brain n right now to edit I am me because of you You taught me everything important about freedom and respect. Outside of my family You were the most important person in my life. You gave me my life... People tell me all the time That I was your favorite... I'm in such deep shock. But you were old, your back hurt you so much. Last time I saw you You were using a walker. You didn't want me to see. You couldn't hear. You had a piece of paper in your pocket you showed me - with my name Pamela with a heart around it. Now, I'm falling apart. This feeling is so crazy. It's raining in Paris now. I'm by the window. Everything anyone loves about me is because you understood me. Accepted me and encouraged me to be myself. Love like no one else. Live recklessly With unfiltered abandon. You said the magazine was about a girl like me. That I embody the spirit you fantasized about. I was the one. You said. I can hear you say - Be brave. There are no rules. Live your life I'm proud of you. There are no mistakes. And with men - Enjoy ... (Your wonderful laugh) You have the world by the tail You are a good girl And you are so loved - You are not crazy. You are wild and free Stay strong, Stay vulnerable. ... "It's movie time" You loved my boys ... You were always, always there for us. With your love Your crazy wisdom. I will miss your everything. Thank you for making the world a better place. A freeer and sexier place. You were a gentleman charming, elegant, chivalrous And so much fun. Goodbye Hef ... Your Pamela (lipstick lips emoji) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted September 28, 2017 Report Share Posted September 28, 2017 Hardly the words of an oppressed and exploited woman. Let's hear Hilary say that about Bill when he goes :... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 The Kansas City Star Hugh Hefner had a thing for blondes. You could see it if you spent Sunday nights watching him on the hit E! reality show “The Girls Next Door†from 2005 to 2009. The co-stars living with him in the Playboy Mansion looked like Barbie pinups — Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt. But Marilyn Monroe? She was his “first†blonde. And if the plans Hefner laid many years ago come to pass, he will spend eternity next to her. The Playboy publisher died Wednesday at age 91. The Daily Mail reported that Hefner’s body was driven away from the Playboy mansion early Thursday morning “to begin the journey to his final resting place next to Marilyn Monroe.†In 1992 Hefner spent $75,000 to buy the crypt next to Monroe’s at Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles. The actress died in 1962. “I’m a believer in things symbolic,†Hefner told the Los Angeles Times. “Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up.†The two reportedly never met. But when he launched Playboy in 1953, Hefner bought a nude photo of her for a reported $500 from a Chicago calendar company and used her as his first “Sweetheart of the Month,†or Playmate, as it later became known. She appeared on the magazine’s first cover, too, wearing clothes. “First time in any magazine, FULL COLOR, the famous MARILYN MONROE NUDE,†the cover exclaimed. Monroe, he would say years later, “set the standard†for the magazine. “I’m a sucker for blondes, and she is the ultimate blonde,†he once said. In 2008 he told E! News the story behind that nude Monroe photo, taken four years before Hefner published it. “The picture was something that had been shot before,†Hefner told E! “It was a calendar photo shot by (pinup photographer) Tom Kelley. Most people had heard about it, but almost nobody had seen it, and nobody had seen it because the post office had taken the position that you couldn’t send nudity through the mail. And I’m the kid that didn’t think the post office had that right.†In grand understatement, he said the Monroe nude, which she never gave Playboy permission to use, “caused a sensation.†In 2011 The New York Times Magazine wrote that Hefner’s “greatest piece of luck was his choice of the first centerfold. It remains by far the sexiest of all Hefner’s pinups.†“It was a brilliant purchase for a magazine just being born — America’s newest star caught lushly in the nude, posing coyly on a red velvet drape,†journalist David Halberstam wrote in a 1993 story on Monroe. In her 2016 book “Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock and Fear, and Why,†author Sady Doyle noted the toll that nude picture took on the actress. It turned Hefner into an instant celebrity, Doyle wrote, but Monroe had to apologize for it and “feared for her career.†Her acting career took off a year after she posed for the nudes, which she did as a 23-year-old struggling actress needing money. She was so embarrassed that she reportedly signed the release form “Mona Monroe.†She later said her photos made their way into a pinup calendar that made millions after she became famous when all she got was a $50 modeling fee — enough for a monthly payment on her secondhand car, Halberstam noted. Doyle called Hefner’s purchase of the crypt next to Monroe’s “a gruesome joke ... ‘sleeping with’ the woman he’d almost ruined, and doing so without her consent — claiming her in death, as he’d claimed the right to exploit her in life.†Monroe herself seemed to have mixed thoughts on her famous Playboy appearance. “I never even received a thank-you from all those who made millions off a nude Marilyn photograph. I even had to buy a copy of the magazine to see myself in it,†she said in “Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words†by George Barris. “I admitted it was me who posed for that nude calendar even when the Fox executives became nervous and believed this would cause the ruination of any films I would appear in and also the end of my movie career. “Of course they were wrong. The fans, my public, cheered when I admitted it was me, and that calendar and that Playboy first-issue publicity helped my career.†Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted September 30, 2017 Report Share Posted September 30, 2017 My biggest brush with a celibrity was sharing a table with Hugh at a nightclub in Beverly Hills. And yes he had 3 or 4 bunnies with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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