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title = "American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story" |
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date = 2020-11-05 |
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tags = ["reviews", "series", "playboy", "amazon", "hugh hefner"] |
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[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5968748/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3): |
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The Amazon Original Series draws from unprecedented access to more than 17,000 |
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hours of footage and over 2,600 scrapbooks from Hefner's personal archives, |
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chronicling the life of an American icon and the history of the brand he |
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A series about Hugh Hefner, creator of the "Playboy" magazine. And, more than |
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than, a series *for* Hugh Hefner. |
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One sided documentary/docuseries is not something new, but I can remember |
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something so blatantly for the subject like this before. |
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Oh sure, Hefner came with an idea for a entering-adulthood-male magazine and |
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managed to interview some important personalities, give tips on wines and music |
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and clothing. And have naked women on them. |
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But, oh look, Playboy interviews Malcolm X, look like progressive they are! Oh, |
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look, they are showing a black woman naked on their pages! Oh, look, Penthouse |
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shows up, showing more risqué content, but Playboy won't do that with their |
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women, 'cause they are not about this. Oh no, poor Hefner is being attacked by |
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feminists for showing women as objects, and he can't understand, 'cause he |
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feels he's liberating and empowering them! |
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(Although I reckon feminists are right on this one, one can't stop thinking how |
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Playboy also treated men as objects: buy this, drink that, listen to this; |
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otherwise, you're not cool. Not in the same proportion, I understand, but |
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still...) |
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Oh, and Hefner? Focused on his business and not his (first) family, but that's |
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a problem with the way he was raised, not his. Oh, bad things, Hefner divorce, |
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but they are still friends. But fret not, one model caught his eyes and BLAM! |
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Love at the first sight! But it didn't last. Poor Hefner. But oh look, another |
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model! Another love at first sight! They are really meant to be together. |
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Except they don't 'cause she turned singer and he went to have afairs. How can |
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Hefner be happy if there isn't a woman near him? But don't be sad, they are |
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still friends. ANOTHER model caught his eye! They immediately fall in love. And |
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it lasts till they divorce, but hey, there are still friends! Another model! |
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(Rinse, repeat). |
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The love life of Hefner is one of the things that made me really pissed. He |
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openly admits he can't be alone, his affairs are sidelined, ex-wifes always say |
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he's so loving, just *one* admits she didn't like that he wanted an open |
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marriage for him and not for her and one you can clearly see that she does not |
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want to have Hef around, looks annoyed in the filming, but the narration said |
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they divorce and are "friends". |
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This is the kind of thing that push a documentary down. There are no downsides |
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of Hefner: He's loving, he's successful and he got ideas. Things he did wrong? |
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No, no things wrong, he's perfect! |
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The series is interesting around the initial episodes, showing the steps in the |
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creation of the Playboy magazine. But then it gets into this "social aspect" of |
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the magazine, and doesn't pip a thing about Hefner affairs, and it gets |
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annoying as fuck. |
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