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[PML1] Q&A: Hugh Hefner

Mister Coke
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:37:25 -0800

Q&A: Hugh Hefner

'My most treasured possession? A rotating round bed'

   - *Rosanna Greenstreet<http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/rosannagreenstreet>
   *
   - The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian>, Saturday 21
   November 2009

 [image: Hugh Hefner]

Hugh Hefner: 'My guiltiest pleasure? My life, probably.' Photograph: Lionel
Deluy/Contour/ Getty Images

Hugh 
Hefner<http://www.playboyenterprises.com/home/content.cfm?content=t_template&packet=00061D22-C172-1C7A-9B578304E50A011A&MmenuFlag=profile>was
born in
Chicago <http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/home.do> in 1926. He
served in the army during the second world war, and went on to study
psychology at university. In 1953, he launched Playboy
magazine<http://www.playboy.com/>,
and by 1971, when Playboy Enterprises
<http://www.playboyenterprises.com/>became a public company, it was
selling 7m copies. He remains
editor-in-chief. He is twice divorced and has four children. His illustrated
autobiography is published this month by
Taschen<http://www.taschen.com/?utm_id=101>
.

*When were you happiest?*
Now: I just passed my 83rd birthday and look back on a life well lived.

*What is your earliest memory? *
When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I
grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

*What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? *
Crankiness.

*What is the trait you most deplore in others? *
Deceit.

*Property aside, what's the most expensive thing you've ever bought?*
A McDonnell Douglas DC-9 <http://www.boeing.com/commercial/dc-9/>.

*What is your most treasured possession?*
My rotating round bed.

*What would your super power be? *
Immortality.

*What makes you unhappy? *
Not being in a loving relationship.

*What do you most dislike about your appearance? *
I am losing my hair.

*Who would play you in the film of your life?*
They are talking now about Robert Downey Jr<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000375/>
.

*What is your favourite book? *
The Great Gatsby<http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/>
.

*What would be your fancy dress costume of choice?*
My pyjamas.

*What is your guiltiest pleasure? *
My life, probably!

*What do you owe your parents? *
My ideals.

*What or who is the greatest love of  your life? *
Probably my girlfriend, Crystal Harris <http://www.myspace.com/Crystalxoxo>.
She's an upcoming Playmate.

*What does love feel like? *
It completes me.

*Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?*
I don't have dinner parties – I eat my dinner in bed.

*Which words or phrases do you most overuse?*
"What the fuck?"

*If you could edit your past, what would you change?*
That's a very dangerous game.

*If you could go back in time, where would you go? *
To my childhood.

*When did you last cry, and why? *
Last weekend, at a screening of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist And
Rebel<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1503776/>
.

*How do you relax? *
With my girls, in bed, watching a movie, just having a good time.

*How often do you have sex? *
Two to three times a week.

*What is the closest you've come to death?*
There was a moment when I was having sex with four Playmates and I almost
swallowed a Ben Wa ball.

*What do you consider your greatest achievement?*
To have had a positive impact on the social-sexual values of my time.

*What keeps you awake at night? *
The need to go to the john several times a night – that comes with age.

*What song would you like played at your funeral?*
As Time Goes By <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX2ECjlyMoI>, Frank Sinatra.

*What is the most important lesson life has taught you? *
To hold on to your dreams.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/21/hugh-hefner-interview/print
-- 
Mister Coke


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