Hints and tips:
...Of course Hugh Hefner’s Playboy mansion featured a “conversation” pit, an orange monstrosity with mirrored walls....
...Hugh Hefner’s original name for Playboy was Stag Party, which was only dropped at the last minute....
...The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show first aired in 2001, while Hugh Hefner’s bunnies got their own reality TV series....
...Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is regularly asked to testify before Congress, while YouTube’s content policies are an issue of widespread public debate....
...I ask for an example and he recalls reading a story a quarter of a century ago about Marks and Spencer selling thong bikinis in the UK. “They’ve got them in all sizes....
...Undeterred, the group founded the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which opened, thanks to the largesse of none other than Hugh Hefner, who died last month, in a former Playboy building in 1967....
...With hindsight, 2016 feels like a high-water mark of black visibility. The era of a black president, with all its symbolic potency, is over....
...The likes of Sergey Brin from Google and [Facebook’s] Mark Zuckerberg . . . they have replaced the Newhouses and Wenners.”...
...The former Hefner frontman decided to visit each of them, write a song, make a film and paint a picture....
...Mark Boyar, of Boyar Asset Management, which owns about 1 per cent of Playboy shares, said the offer price was far too low. “We believe this is a totally unacceptable price,” he said....
...“It has been mismanaged for 10 years,” said Mark Boyar, president of Boyar Asset Management, which owns shares in Playboy....
...Ghosts of Girlfriends Past ★★★☆☆ (Mark Waters) Is Anybody There?...
...- Hold-to-Maturity is the new Mark-to-Myth....
...Paul Raymond, who has died aged 82, was the self-made king of seedy Soho and Britain’s answer to Larry Flynt and Hugh Hefner....
...Mark Fields, head of the embattled carmaker’s north American operations, used his weekly webcast on Thursday to tell fellow-workers that he will no longer use the company’s aircraft for personal reasons....
...Everything flickers and blurs on the edge of definition: identities and boundaries are ambivalent, even as each mark, drizzle and staccato stab is nuanced and weighted....
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