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Hefner’s love knowledge

Thursday, January 8th, 2009


The founder of Playboy has divulged the source of all his love knowledge: it was the movies. As he says it in his own words: “Everything I learned about love, I learned from the movies. The reality is because I was not shown affection, I escaped into an alternate universe, and it came right out of the movies.” He also believes that it’s the same place where his fascination for blondes comes from: “I think my fascination with blondes is directly connected to the impact the platinum blondes had in the movies of the 1930s. Jean Harlow, Alice Faye, all of those Busby Berkeley showgirls. You can’t go wrong. Well, you probably could, but what fun.” Still, I can’t really understand how he came from that to founding Playboy. Or maybe Playboy was just a marketing decision and it had nothing to do with his real sentiments about the world. I mean, it must have been considering the other stuff he says about himself: “And I do take some pride, in fact, that I remain friends with the majority of former wives and girlfriends. I am a romantic.” A regular Byronic man, you have to admit.

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