UPDATED EVERY
FRIDAY
Last Update:
Friday 11th November, 2005
 
PUBLICATION
 
ISLINGTON
WEST END EXTRA
 
SECTIONS
MUSIC - CLASSICAL
MUSIC - GROOVES
THEATRE
RESTAURANTS
HEALTH
 
NAVIGATION


With Google
 
 
 
Centrefolds exposed in playful Heff’s world

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has created an aura of mystique, and no little envy, by spending his days surrounded by beautiful, scantily-clad women, writes Mark Blunden
MOST men of Hugh Hefner’s age would be spending more time in their potting sheds than running a global pornography empire.
But at 79, the founder of Playboy magazine lives in a huge mansion with an endless string of nubile young beauties at his fingertips.
The pipe-smoking gent even has enough energy to host twice-weekly orgies, if a recent reveal-all autobiography by an ex-Playmate bunnygirl is anything to go by.
This “secret” is one of the few to slip from the Playboy mansion, home to hedonistic parties for Hollywood’s glitterati.
Playboy recently celebrated its 50th anniversary and regardless of your opinion on the ethics of the operation, it has undoubtedly produced iconic and memorable images. And not just the mucky ones, mind, for this is not a readers’ wives kind of operation.
Marilyn Monroe, Ursula Andress, Jane Birkin and Pamela Anderson are among the subjects tastefully captured by some of the biggest names in 20th-century photography.
Someone had the slavish task of picking 150 of the best photographs of some of the world’s most beautiful women from a picture library of 15 million.
Full Story...
OTHER HEADLINES
Documentary dips its toe into ponds drama
FEATURE
Plenty of comedy, but a shortage of laughs
BOOKS
Almost every street has a gruesome story to tell
BOOKS
Untold love story from the Spanish Civil War
BOOKS
Why is poetry so rare on today’s battlefield?
BOOKS
A flowing lyrical tale
MOVIES
Too earthy
MUSIC: CLASSICAL
R‘n’B aristocracy
MUSIC: GROOVES
Classical and Grooves listings
MUSIC LISTINGS
A Norwegian take on capitalist peril
THEATRE
Theatre listings
THEATRE
Cava out a chunk of bubbly market
THE WINE PRESS
On the great bakery trail
THE GOOD LIFE
Best the Boot has to offer
RESTAURANT REVIEW
I’m very fondue of Christmas pudding
THE GOOD LIFE

 



Cava out a chunk of bubbly market

CHAMPAGNE, it’s the wine of the elite. Its reputation built on its special cuvees (blends) created for a French emperor and a Russian czar...
FULL STORY




Let's teach our kids a bit of respect

I’VE been surrounded by fighting talk this week. Purely on a professional level of course...
FULL STORY
   
   
 
All content © New Journal Enterprises, 2005