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Playboy News
THE UNEXAMINED LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING . . .
Famed television producer David Wolper is developing a six-hour miniseries on the
life of the man behind the Playboy empire. "Hugh Hefner: The Man and the Myth"
(working title) will be filmed in Chicago, Los Angeles, and select cities for
airing on CBS early next year. In addition, the Arts & Entertainment channel is
currently finishing up a two-hour program on Hef for their "Biography" series,
which will air later this spring.
CELEBRATING THE FIRST AMENDMENT
The 1996 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards Luncheon will be held on
Wednesday, April 24th at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. This year's winners,
former "Washington Post" investigative reporter Morton Mintz, Parents for Rock
and Rap founder Mary Morello, Mark Twain scholar Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua, "San
Francisco Examiner" investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld, Oregon Coalition for
Free Expression co-founder Tom Hull and Association of Forest Service Employees
for Environmental Ethics founder Jeffrey DeBonis will be honored and presented
with a $5,000 check to celebrate their achievements.
UPDATED PLAYBOY INTERVIEW CD-R0M DEBUTS
More than 380 movie stars, politicians, artists, and athletes bare
their souls in Personalities and
Profiles, a new Playboy Interview Collection CD-ROM. The
updated version of the former Playboy Interview -- Three Decades contains 30 more
full-text interviews than the original edition, plus additional audio clips and
video footage from the actual interviews.
LEAVING THE CLOSET AT SUNDANCE
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's documentary "The Celluloid Closet" received
the 1996 Playboy Foundation
Freedom of Expression Award at the Sundance Film
Festival in Park City, Utah. Narrated by Lily Tomlin, the film explores
Hollywood's portrayal of homosexuals in cinema history through hundreds of
classic film clips and interviews with many performers, writers and directors.
Jeffrey Friedman (left) and Rob Epstein (right) with Lily Tomlin.
Photography by Ken Sax/HBO. Courtesy of HBO.
PLAYBOY HOME VIDEO GETS TOP HONORS IN "BILLBOARD"
For the first time, Playboy Home Video clinched the #1 spot on "Billboard"
magazine's 1995 Top Video Sales Labels Chart, beating out second-place Walt
Disney Home Video. Playboy Home Video dominated 20% of "Billboard's" overall
chart titles last year.
FICTION AND FLESH FOR THE STAGE
Chicago-based City Lit Theatre Company has adapted five short stories from the
"Playboy Stories Anthology" for the stage. Beginning February 23 at the Chicago
Cultural Center, the six-week run of
"Playboy Stories: Forty Years of Fiction in
the Flesh" will include Charles Beaumont's "Black Country" (the first original
story published in Playboy), Shirley Jackson's "A Great Voice Stilled," John
Irving's "Brenbar's Rant," T. Coraghessan Boyle's "Modern Love" and Ursula Le
Guin's "Unlocking the Air."
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