Hugh Hefner

Posted September 23, 2008, 5:33 pm


Hugh Hefner
Born: April 9, 1926

Iconic founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy, the grandfather of men's magazines. Hefner grew Playboy Enterprises internationally to include Playboy clubs, resorts, hotels, and casinos.

After The Age Of Seventy

• At age 70 (1996), Hef bounced back as a swinging senior citizen
• At age 79 (2005), appeared on the sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm,
  
• At age 82 (2008), appeared prominently in the film The House Bunny
• At age 82 (2008), remains editor-in-chief and chief creative officer of Playboy
• At age 82 (2008), regularly appears on The Girls Next Door, a reality show he helped create about his three live-in Playboy Bunny girlfriends

Quotes:

• “Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.”
• “Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.”
• “The big surprise for me is that age is just a number, ... It's a number without meaning. A person who dies at 40 -- through cancer, a car accident, what have you -- how old is that person, really, at 38? He's near the end of his life, whether he knows it or not. And what about a person who dies at 100? How old is that person, really, at 78?”
• “Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.”
• “In many ways, I'm younger than I was 20 years ago,”
  

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