""When you could sing to me nigger, but you can't talk."" "And then white folks found out we had a voice, that all of us didn't have rhythm, that all of us can't dance." "But we can talk." "And the world's never been the same." "The world has never been the same." "And we print all our secrets." "That's why if I ever go to war," "I'll take a television set with me, put me on one of them long range guns, I'm going to fire it and turn on Huntley and Brinkley and see if I hit." "(Laughing)" "But we doing pretty good in this country." "Bobby Kennedy said, about nine weeks ago, that 30 years from this year, Negro can become President." "So treat me right." "I'll get in there and raise taxes on you." "(Laughing)" "DICK GREGORY:" "It just shows you, one person with courage like Hefner is the majority." "And I don't even know if it took courage for Hefner." "He just never gave it another thought." "HUGH:" "Once Dick was working, then the door was open for a whole line of..." "Flip Wilson and Slappy White and all the rest of them." "MIKE WALLACE:" "He had helped because of the fact that he had people like Dick Gregory and so forth." "He had helped say to America," ""Hey, come on, the time has come."" "It's a little bit like Obama today, honestly." ""Obama?" "Running for President of the United States?" "Give me a break." And yet, when he suddenly came along and began to talk sensibly and he was attractive and he was interesting and hope and change, there was an audience out there." "And I think that Hef helped build that audience for a different attitude about civil rights, despite the fact that he was not a protestor or a loudmouth." "HUGH:" "The next club for me, the wholly-owned club, was New York." "In New York, you needed two licenses:" "the liquor licence and the entertainment licence." "Now, we got our liquor licence, but the guy that ran the entertainment licence operation was a Catholic who had once considered becoming a priest, and he didn't approve of Playboy, he didn't approve of the bunnies." "So, for a year, we didn't have an entertainment licence and couldn't do any..." "We had show rooms with no shows." "It didn't matter." "They filled the rooms from top to bottom, seven days a week, without a show." "They would just hang out in the atmosphere of Playboy, and they loved those bunnies." "*" "You had the bunnies in their bunny costumes." "They were beautiful and great looking." "And of course, the feminists were up in arms about how outrageous that was." "I seem to remember Gloria Steinem even posed as a bunny to get a story about it." "*" "He opened up creativity, internationally, not just the United States, but internationally." "He made everybody say, "Well, why not?"" "MARY O'CONNOR:" "I came at a time where he put on clothes and went out and played." "And the hedonistic-ness of Playboy was right up my alley." "I just thought it was just really fun." "I didn't..." "I don't think..." "I didn't know what my relationship would be with him." "I was standing in the kitchen at the dishwashing table and he walked in to talk to his butlers about something and he said, "You're the new house manager?"" "And I said "Yes."" "He said, "Welcome aboard," and that was it." "So, what do you think of him?" "He was a nice-looking guy, but he wasn't very friendly." "So, it was a long time before I even felt comfortable around him." "CHRISTIE HEFNER:" "I grew up not being with my father, so his commitment to, and focus on, work was just a fact of life." "You know, with the advantage of perspective as an adult," "I think candidly he would never have been able to have created what he created without being a workaholic." "HUGH:" "It was an obsession for me and, you know," "I would go until I was too tired to work any longer and then I would have something to eat and sleep." "He probably was taking a lot of Dexedrine to stay awake and work three days in a row." "RICHARD ROSENZWEIG:" "Taking the Dexedrines, it depended on at what point you were, in taking this medication." "If you have been up for a day or more, he was a pussycat to work with." "When he would crash at the end of a two-day period, or longer, when he got up, you would have to judge what you discussed with him because it does affect your mood." "Thank God he's been off of those for years." "NAT LEHRMAN:" "Hef had a laser eye, and you can picture it when he's looking at something." "His eye, it's like there's something coming out of it." "It's like a laser, like a laser going into it." "One specific story I remember, this was in California later, all the editors were there and I was there too." "I was the publisher then." "And we were discussing a playmate." "And finally, he had a glass over there on his eye, and he goes down and he says, she's a little cross-eyed." "And nobody in their right mind could have noticed that." "And you take that kind of laser eye and apply it to everything, you can imagine how fussy he was, and is." "HUGH:" "This was a fundraiser for Martin Luther King, I think." "It was Jesse who brought Martin Luther King to the mansion in Chicago." "He was there trying to deal with segregation in Chicago." "And what followed was a close friendship with both, particularly with Jesse." "I was attracted to him, basically because he was so committed to Dr. King." "And when Dr. King was killed, I mean, the outpouring of support and affection coming from Hef was significant in my mind at that time." "Also, his political activism." "We published the last piece ever written by Martin Luther King, and we published it shortly after his death." "His widow actually edited it." "There was an outrageous incongruity of it all, of course, that we should be sitting there in the Hef pad listening to Martin Luther King's dream." "Yes, well, people don't recognize or realize the extent to which it was part of my dream too." "I recall so well that he would have, about once every two weeks, at his mansion, these sit-downs at night where he would just sit and listen for hours, invite the top people in to engage in provocative social commentary," "and he would play a kind of Socratic role, just ask certain basic questions." "And so, there's the Hef and the pipe and the robes and Playboy." "That's his brand name." "But then there's Hef the serious thinker, activist." "And the magazine was used as a tool." "HUGH:" "Racial equality was still being fought over on college campuses and in major cities across the country." "The Vietnam War was going on." "At the same time, there was the summer of love, and just an extraordinary change in social sexual values." "My fellow Democrats," "I proudly accept the nomination of our party." "HUGH:" "In 1968, in Chicago, when the Democratic Convention was going on and the young people were out in the streets protesting the Vietnam war," "Jules Feiffer and Bobbie Arnstein and I took a walk when we heard that they were gathering out in Lincoln Park and the police were there." "And we took a walk out there to see what was going on." "It was a bloody scene, and Hef was struck, I think." "And..." "So he became aware of the kind of animal animosity that this reflected." "HUGH:" "It was called crowd dispersal, but it was the police." "And some of them had taken off their badges so they wouldn't be identified." "One of the cops hit me across the back with a billy club, and said, "Get home!"" "And we said, "That's what we were trying to do."" "BARRY MELTON:" "We had been raised on a philosophy of non-violence." "We were the children of Dr. King and the civil rights movement, and had come to demonstrate peacefully." "And we were treated brutally." "Young people really cared about civil rights, sexual values and the Vietnam war." "REVEREND MALCOLM BOYD:" "This was a key part of his continuing education, and he was open to it." "JOAN BAEZ:" "I think it was important in the days of '60s and early '70s for people to have exposure in the right context." "We could all scream our lungs out at different places of different contexts, but the almost magical thing about this show was that it was not my context or the context of a lot of people that I knew." "*" "JOAN BAEZ:" "It really was huge." "It was available to many more people than probably anything I've ever done before." "HUGH:" "With Playboy After Dark, politics were part of it too, just as it was with Playboy's Penthouse." "And people appeared on that show, Joan Baez and others, who were the left of centre." "My surprise about the two sides of Hefner-- the caring side, his politically conscious side, and the bunny side" "Well, nobody could think it was more bizarre than myself because I really was a puritanical twit, as far as boxing people in." "And the bunnies might have been something" "I wouldn't want to spend a whole lot of time with, finding something to talk about, but Hugh was." "I assume that we're kind of looking to the young people to hopefully change some of the problems of today, and I wonder what kind of response you feel you're getting and whether you feel optimistic about it." "I would say that there's one big change everybody has to make, and if we can do that, then we'll survive this century." "If not, I don't think we will." "That would be my idea of revolution, which is when each man realizes that he doesn't have the right to take another person's life, or to take part in that." "* Tears of rage *" "* Tears of grief *" "* Why must I always *" "* Be the thief *" "* Come to me now, you know we're *" "* So alone *" "* And life is brief *" "(Clapping)" "JOAN BAEZ:" "I remember Hugh only as a shadow, you know?" "I remember that he set the stage for me to do whatever I needed to do." "And he seemed to do that with other people." "I mean, maybe that was how..." "Maybe that was his biggest contribution to that era, when people had things they wanted to say and not everybody was going to listen." "We're not looking for social acceptance." "We're not concentrating on integration." "We're concentrating on supplying the two basic things that black people need in this country:" "expertise and financing." "This has never been done." "Until this happens, black people will always occupy a secondary role in the economy." "The only anti-social act is to make an unwanted baby, which people are doing right and left, within marriage, not to mention outside of marriage." "And in the world where the ecological balance of the planet has already been upset through overpopulation, we cannot feed, literally cannot feed, the people now here, much less the coming generation." "I always wonder, as a psychiatrist, who has the credentials, who has the ability, who has the right to decide what is good and bad for the average person, as far as sexuality is concerned?" "I think our society was based on the premise that the individual ought to be able to decide." "It doesn't seem to work out that way, and the guys that are making the decisions for all the rest of us, don't seem to be doing so well in their private lives." "(Clapping)" "And that brings us to, you know, a favourite subject of mine, which is indeed our very repressive sex laws." "90% of the sexual activities that every person engages in are enough to put them in the penitentiary for five years at least." "Now, if the laws are enforced, none of us would be here tonight." "We'd all be in the big house." "HUGH:" "The forum, in combination with the Playboy Foundation, changed the landscape in terms of a lot of social sexual values." "We managed to change a great many hurtful laws, and actually got some people out of prison." "We got a lot of letters to the forum, but they were less important than our answers." "We had a pretty big staff of people, which I was in charge of, who would develop the philosophy, which was not being written as a philosophy anymore, but was being written as a continuing dialogue between the readers and us." "HUGH:" "In one of the letters we received in the forum in 1964 was a West Virginia disc jockey who had been arrested and was serving 10 to 12 years in prison for fellatio." "A young fan had given a blow job, and against all logic and against all odds, they arrested him for sodomy." "And one has to understand that sodomy laws, in all of the 50 states, were the most serious sex laws." "In Georgia, you could get up to 50 years." "He'd been in prison for a couple of years when he wrote to me, wrote to Playboy." "He was outraged by this, and he sent word to me, through his assistant Rosenzweig," ""I want the Playboy Foundation to get behind this." ""I want them to get this man out of jail." "He doesn't belong in jail."" "HUGH:" "We generated a great deal of publicity surrounding the case, and got a lawyer and managed to get him off." "We also played a major part in the changing of laws related to abortion and birth control and a lot of things that are today thought of as women's issues." "Much as the way I've read that there are a lot of black athletes who don't know who Jackie Robinson is and have no idea why they are the beneficiaries of what his pioneering was all about, there are probably a lot of people today" "out there enjoying freedoms who have no idea that Hugh Hefner was the pioneer who got all the arrows." "Give me an "F"!" "F!" "Give me an "I"!" "I!" "Give me an "S"!" "S!" "Give me an "H"!" "H!" "What's that spell?" "Fish!" "What's that spell?" "Fish!" "It was significant for us to be on a national television show where we could do an anti-war song." "It may be the only time we were able to do that song for a national audience on television." "We were told he wanted us to do that song." "* Come on, Wall Street, don't move slow *" "* Hey man, this war, go go *" "* Plenty good money to be made *" "* By supplying the army with the tools of the trade *" "* Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb *" "* They drop it on the Viet Cong *" "* And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?" "*" "* Don't ask me, I don't give a damn *" "* Next stop is Vietnam *" "* And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates *" "* Well, there ain't no time to wonder why *" "* Whoopee, we're all gonna die *" "Some of the lyrics are really inflammatory and wonderful." "Joe McDonald, who was our singer, was an air traffic controller in the United States Navy, stationed in Japan, and saw body bags being unloaded off the planes coming in from Vietnam for eventual delivery to the United States." "And I think that song was in large part a response to that." "* Come on, mothers throughout the land *" "* Won't you pack your boys off to Vietnam?" "*" "* Come on, fathers, don't hesitate *" "* Send your sons off before it's too late *" "* Be the first one on your block *" "* To have your boy come home in a box, hey *" "BARRY MELTON:" "I've talked to many GIs who came back from Vietnam and said," ""We used to sing that song in the foxholes, man," ""when we were being shelled." "We would go," "* One, two, three, what are we fighting for?" "*" "You know, "Whoopee, we're all gonna die,"" "they would just sing it." "* We're all gonna die *" "* I want to know, can someone tell me *" "* How many roads *" "* Must a man walk down *" "* Before they can call *" "* Him a man?" "*" "* How many seas" "* Must a white dove sail *" "* Before she sleeps *" "* In the sand?" "*" "HUGH:" "The call came from Yul Brynner." "Yul Brynner called and said that they were getting these war orphans out of Vietnam and they had transportation from Vietnam to San Francisco, but no way to get the babies to the rest of the country, and would it be possible to use The Big Bunny" "to take the babies, those baby orphans, across the country." "And we arranged it." "The photographs of those babies and those bunnies is really quite remarkable because there were babies everywhere." "And they were being tended by our bunny mothers and bunnies as they travelled across the country." "* Before you can see the sky *" "Father Boyd?" "Hi, Hef." "How are you?" "If your library card hasn't expired," "I can let you have a couple of books." "Okay." "You'll notice we have some of yours here." "Are You Running With Me, Jesus?" "REVEREND MALCOLM BOYD:" "I don't think talking with him on television was different than talking with him at 2:00 a.m. in the Playboy mansion." "And we were involved, in our different ways, in the new morality." "These members of the clergy were looking for the same kind of changes that I was looking for." "I don't think that everybody had the same point of view." "We even had a special subscription rate for members of the clergy because of my encouraging of that kind of debate." "In the 1960s, the magazine grew like Topsy, incredibly, in terms of circulation, from one million to-- by the early 1970s-- seven million copies a month." "SUSAN BROWNMILLER:" "It has never occurred to him that someone who was speaking for this women's liberation would perceive him as an enemy." "The first feminist diatribe against Playboy really came in the Dick Cavett confrontation." "Have you had this reaction before tonight?" "Yes, I think, having been described as an oppressor" "Can I respond just a little bit?" "Go ahead." "I'm more in sympathy than perhaps the girls realize" "Women." "I'm sorry." "Yes, I'm 35." "Than the ladies realize." "I use "Girls" referring to women of all ages." "It was an honour and a privilege, actually, to be able to do that show and to have such an easy target." "At that moment, he was an easy target." "He turned out to be bigger than all of us, Hefner." "I mean, if they thought they were going to decimate him and cut off his two legs, that did not happen." "We've been accused of exploiting women, exploiting sex," "I think Playboy exploits sex, I just think "Exploit"" "is an unfortunate word." "Playboy exploits sex like Sports Illustrated exploits spots." "The role that you have selected for women is degrading to women because you choose to see women as sex objects, not as full human beings." "Well, obviously-- Hold on." "(Clapping)" "Obviously-- I haven't finished." "The day that you are willing to come out here with a cotton tail attached to your rear end... (Laughing)" "(Clapping)" "He has made the degradation of women a condition of employment in the Playboy Clubs around the country." "They have to get into these ridiculous costumes, which deny their humanity and their femininity." "You make them look like animals, yes." "It was only later that I thought," ""Well, if women aren't animals, what's left?" "Vegetable and Mineral."" "Of course we're animals." "And when someone suggests that Playboy turns women into sexual objects, women are sexual objects." "They are a great deal more than that, but if women weren't sexual objects, there wouldn't be another generation." "That's what makes the world go 'round, that attraction between the sexes." "And it doesn't objectify women in that other negative sense." "But I didn't have the language back then." "LORETTA SANCHEZ:" "Certainly he's been on the forefront of individual rights for women." "For example, a lot of women don't understand that, in most states, contraceptives were illegal." "And he was one of the first people out there putting cases before the courts to change that, so that women would have a right to choose, not only issues about choice with respect to abortion or not," "but issues of contraceptives." "I love the old feminists for what they did, because they got, you know, women to that next level." "But then they got a little closed-minded, whereas why the new feminism will, basically, pick what they gave us up, and then push that up to the next level." "* The answer, my friend *" "* Is blowing in the wind *" "* The answer, oh *" "* Is blowing in the wind *" "HUGH:" "We became involved with the launch of NORML in pretty much the same way that we have done over the years with a number of other worthwhile causes." "NORML was formed to decriminalize the use of marijuana." "Putting people in prison for the use of a relatively harmless drug seemed irrational and bizarre to me." "So many people were begging and pleading, as much as life sentences for possession of small amounts of marijuana." "Draconian penalties, and Hef really was concerned." "The executive director, Keith Stroup, built it into a national lobbying force that both helped people that were charged with these violations of drug laws, but also helped to change national policy." "HUGH:" "So, Playboy tried to make a case for that." "And because of that, the government then came to the false conclusion that I was somehow a drug user." "And in the 1970s, actually tried to build a phony case about it, that, in the process, put so much pressure on Bobbie Arnstein, my Chicago secretary." "She was very smart, very dedicated young woman." "And she got involved, as many people did in that period of time, she got involved with drugs." "HUGH:" "She started dating somebody that I'd never met, a kid that also did some drug dealing." "And she took a trip with him to Florida, where he apparently purchased some... cocaine, I think it was." "And in that investigation, when they learned that Bobbie Arnstein lived at the Playboy mansion in Chicago and worked for me as my secretary, then the whole nature of the case changed." "They were no longer interested in the wholesaler in Florida." "They weren't really interested in the boyfriend." "They were suddenly interested in Bobbie Arnstein, who was a user but was not a dealer." "And they built a case around her." "People turned up, these very official people, and bullied staff and questioned them in frightening, scary ways, and threatened them with all kinds of awful things." "HUGH:" "And when she wouldn't give them what they wanted..." "And what they wanted was some kind of incriminating something related to me." "Since there was nothing related to drugs related to me, and since she kept telling them that, they drove her off the cliff." "NAT LEHRMAN:" "I believe that Bobbie was actually told that if she turned in the boss and implicated him in this drug thing, they'd let her go." "HUGH:" "They gave her a provisional 15 year sentence, and then they let the drug dealer in Miami walk." "And that pressure, prompted her to write a suicide note and kill herself." "She was one of the best, brightest, most worthwhile women I have ever known." "She will be missed." "Bobbie's family surprised me by asking me to be one of the pallbearers." "*" "The man who replaced Thompson with the strike force connected to the DEA, reviewed all the evidence and then made a public and personal apology." "But, of course, it was too late." "DAVID STEINBERG:" "In a repressed environment, anyone who has open free thought and new ideas, is dangerous." "And the FBI were after people that weren't dangerous." "They were after John Lennon." "John Lennon and Hefner are sort of the same to the FBI." "Once the DEA and the strike force gave us a clean bill of health, then, coincidentally, we heard from the SEC, the IRS and other federal groups who started harassing us." "It's a lesson in terms of what happens when a government becomes corrupt." "RICHARD ROSENZWEIG:" "Hef was flying to L.A. on The Big Bunny, which was a stretch version of a DC-9, which had overseas capability." "*" "And the milk run, so to speak, was between Chicago and Los Angeles, which is what he was doing for a few years, before he actually made the move to Los Angeles, which was in 1975." "HUGH:" "I have always lived in two cities." "My roots come from Chicago, I was born in Chicago, but my dreams came from Hollywood." "So, I was drawn west from very early on." "And it was Barbi who actually urged me to get a place out here." "When I first saw it, I wasn't sure about it because I wasn't sure that we could throw the same kind of parties that we threw in the house in Chicago." "And then I saw the possibilities in terms of the backyard." "I was able to create an almost lake-like atmosphere, with the grotto and the waterfalls." "You pet him and his comb goes up." "That's like purring." "And was able to stock the property here with exotic birds and animals." "It's a paradise." "It is Shangri-La." "The blows of life are left at the gate, are left in the outside world when he comes here to, you know, recharge his batteries." "That's the same thing for many of us." "It's definitely the same for me." "I leave my troubles outside." "It's a combination of Xanadu and Graceland and the Whitehouse, and Shangri-La." "I mean, nothing could ever live up to it." "The minute I walked in the house, I went," ""Oh yeah, that..." "Oh yeah." "Oh yeah."" "Oh, and in those days, it was jumping." "BILL MAHER:" "It's the people and the man and all the history that went into it and all that stuff," "I think, that makes it so special." "As far as, you know, goings on, you know, to me it's just a great party." "GENE SIMMONS:" "And the Playboy mansion actually showed Hugh Hefner at his home, with his girlfriends, more than one, with past girlfriends, future girlfriends, friends." "Ironically enough, he was being lambasted in the press for treating them as sex objects, and yet former girlfriends were there and they were friendly and they took care of each other and it was completely the opposite of what he was being criticized for." "The parties were wild in that they were parties you didn't see at other homes." "So, in that visual, it was wild, in that people felt free enough to have sex somewhere." "It was, you know, woo!" "Pretty wild." "And sexuality was out of the proverbial closet." "* Heaven, I'm in Heaven *" "Back then, there were, like, 8, 9 girls every week at the house." "It was just very safe and, you know, protected." "There was movie and a dinner." "It was like the best club in the world." "Everyone felt sexually liberated and this became sort of a Mecca for all of the years of repression." "Suddenly, everybody could let go." "With all the liberation," "I don't think that people are all that happier." "That's the irony." "See, without" " Ironically-- without some suppression of the sexual genie, happiness is not possible." "It's possible for Hugh Hefner because he has an unlimited supply of young females to whom he owes nothing." "But that is not available or desirable for the rest of society." "Did I mention that there were a lot of beautiful women there?" "Well, yes, there were, there were, very, very beautiful women." "I noticed that while I was playing foosball." "My father has always enjoyed games, card games, other games of skill and chance, like backgammon, other games, like pinball, but always with a combination of the fun and social side, but also highly competitive." "Whoa!" "Fantastic." "CHRISTIE HEFNER:" "Well, the 50th was special because it was my idea to throw a surprise party." "So, I'm sort of the Godmother of the birthday party du jour." "(Clapping)" "Friendship is a domain, Hef, that you've taken over like pinball and the centrefold, and given it the special Hef imprint." "And there's a lot of creativeness still to come, and I'll promise, Hef, to be at your birthday 25 years from now, if you promise to be at mine." "(Clapping)" "JAMES CAAN:" "He gets moved by personal, real personal things." "I mean, his life is so filled with... being who people expect him to be and being surrounded by..." "But, you know, some of our nicest moments were, you know, quiet, when we'd talk about real issues." "He likes that but, I mean, he's running a magazine and he's got to be who people expect him to be or he thinks he has to be." "There are a lot of things that motivate us and that make life worthwhile, all the usual bullshit things:" "money, power, sex." "Well, sex." "Sex is pretty important." "(Laughing)" "But friendship is as important as anything in the world, and God bless all of you for giving me the best birthday I've ever had in my life." "Thank you." "(Clapping)" "Hugh Hefner, ladies and gentlemen." "HUGH:" "The thing that probably means the most to me is the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, because it is so connected to my childhood and my love of movies." "It was the pinnacle of recognition of an industry that he's adored." "And talking about the Hollywood Walk of Fame," "He's probably the only one who bought a replica to have on his property." "GEORGE LUCAS:" "How I got to know Hef and the thing we have in common is the fact that we both loves movies." "The great thing about Hef is he understands the importance of preserving this new medium." "And it's helped many institutions preserve film, and that's another reason why I have worked with Hef, is with the film preservation society." "JIM BROWN:" "Hugh Hefner was my choice as the person that should receive it." "And the committee agreed with me, and I was able to present it to him." "And it was great for me because he had been such a beautiful human being and I thought to be recognized from an organization that was basically African-American and fought for African-American rights would be something that no one could ever take away from him." "You don't this kind of award easily." "HUGH:" "When one considers the very real impact that Playboy's had on our society over the last three decades, and how much society has changed in that period and how much the Playmates have meant in the dreams and fantasies of American males" "over all the years, we really are sharing an experience here that the likes of which will probably not come again." "As I said at the 25th anniversary, at the Playmate reunion, I said," ""Without you girls, without the Playmates," "I'd be the publisher of a literary magazine."" "This is a real white mink stole that I had on, and it's from Playboy," ""With love and many wonderful memories," "Hugh M. Hefner."" "I think the meaning of love for me has been essentially the same throughout my life." "I don't think that I feel complete when I'm not in love." "So, you will see in my life, a series of relationships of romantic love." "* I love you, yes I do *" "* I love you *" "* If you break my heart *" "* I'll die *" "* So be sure it's true *" "* When you say "I love you" *" "* It's a sin *" "He was romantic and he said things girls want to hear, whether he meant them or not." "But I have a feeling he meant them at the time." "At the beginning, it was an experimental way of life to share your boyfriend." "So, at the beginning when, you know, you're sort of infatuated and want to do everything you can to please this person, and in that environment and, "What harm is it?"" ""He's clearly in love with me."" "And I felt secure and he reassured me, that I was the, you know, "#1 girl," and so on." "But after a while, because I didn't grow up in Shangri-La, you have your standards that you were raised with that creep in, like my work ethic and, like, you know, monogamy." "And I don't share well." "VICKI MCCARTY IOVINE:" "I love watching Hef be in love." "It's like adolescent love." "He likes that." "And I remember when he was in love with Barbi, when he was in love with Sondra, really sentimental and sweet." "WARREN BURGER:" "I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear." "I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear." "HUGH:" "By 1980, organized religion-- particularly more conservative parts of organized religion-- had helped put Reagan in The White House." "Starting with Reagan, the Republicans have allowed the Christian right to become a part of politics." "And that isn't good for politics, and that isn't good for religion." "We discovered very early on that the FBI was taking names and I was one of the names." "It turned out, after the fact-- because of the Freedom of Information Act" "We learned that not only was I under personal surveillance, but I also learned later on that Hoover had assigned one agent to read every single page of the magazine, cover to cover." "And I'm not sure, quite frankly, whether his concern was really about the sex in the magazine or his concern about what we might be saying about the FBI, or about him personally in the magazine." "MIKE WALLACE:" "Politicians have been hypocrites down the centuries." "And I dare say that Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover-- from what we have been told about him-- were fairly hypocritical on the business of sex, sexual freedom... et cetera, et cetera." "JERRY FALWELL:" "Half the persons in prison for committing sex crimes acknowledged that they committed those sex crimes immediately after an experience with pornography." "So, here we find the feminists, we find the families, we find born again believers, Christians in this country, all joining hands together to-- if we could, of course-- put this industry out of business." "HUGH:" "And it was payback to the religious groups that had supported Reagan, and they formed this cross-country witch hunt in which they supposedly were after obscenity, but what they were really harassing were publications like Playboy." "I saw, in what was happening in the 1980s, a direct parallel with what happened with McCarthyism in the 1950s." "The Justice Department, in combination with the Meese Commission, actually sent threatening letters to 7/11 and other convenience and drug stores and places where the magazine was sold, and referred to Playboy, for the first time, as obscene." "PAT BOONE:" "If a society's going to have any kind of moral standard, it needs to have some limits on what are... is allowed." "You can have freedom of expression in a brown paper bag." "You don't have to set it on newsstands in Wal-Marts and Costcos, family places." "So, in response to that..." "We figured the best response was satire, so we ran a pictorial on women of 7/11, a nude pictorial of women who worked at 7/11." "It was a form of Playboy protest and a form of protest by the employees themselves." "Nothing defuses censorship... like humour, because it is, after all, so silly in its premise." "We live in a country and in a world in which obscenity is defined, by and large, by things sexual instead of things related to war and killing and hatred and bigotry." "What kind of world is that?" "Later on, we actually sued Meese because of that and won the suit." "And he publicly apologized and said he didn't mean Playboy." "But the damage had been done." "After Playboy has been dropped from several thousand distributors, finally, the head of the commission comes out and says he didn't mean Playboy and Playboy isn't harmful." "Well, it's nice to hear that, but how do we get our reputation back?" "And how does sex get its reputation back?" "We have been under that cloud ever since, and Playboy is still referred to now as pornography in some quarters, and we do not have the same kind of distribution as we did back in the '50s and '60s and '70s." "GENE SIMMONS:" "There are some people that have called Hugh Hefner a pornographer, but I would only venture the following, that if you go to a museum and you see a Rubenesque painting of a beautiful, naked woman, that's art." "But if it's the same piece of art as in Playboy, it's pornography." "Or if it's in The Bible, then it's the word of God." "Hugh Hefner is a pornographer, always was." "You can call it soft-core if you want, but if you show a nude, absolutely nude, picture of Marilyn Monroe, flushed and lying back and barely covered in any way, looking as if she's either just in heat" "or just has been gratified and still feelings the effects" "I mean, that was the impression" "That was his first..." "that was his introduction to the American public to Hugh and his mindset." "VICKY MCCARTY IOVINE:" "I think what people have a problem with is him making money from it." "And I think he deals in magazine publishing that is intellectual and escapist and titillating and funny and all the things that are interesting in him as a man too." "HUGH:" "What do you think about the name?" "They'll think we invented her." "Well, it's pretty sensational in terms of" "Well, I think, in terms of the body parts." "She's so well-endowed." "How does she look in clothes?" "WOMAN:" "Beautiful." "A body as formidable as this could be a problem dressed." "What kind of education does she have?" "MAN:" "She's student nurse, isn't she?" "WOMAN:" "Senior year." "She has one more year to go in college." "Oh." "BILL MAHER:" "In America, we have a sexual fault line just like we have a racial fault line." "But this country was founded on two traditions:" "one was the Puritans, and there is a Puritan strain in this country, there's no doubt about it." "We still giggle over tits and pee-pees, you know, people are uptight." "But there's also the libertarian strain, the "Don't tread on me" strain of America." "So, those two factions are always and still at war in America." "And it is the right of every individual to speak his or her own point of view that makes this country special." "(Clapping)" "The first amendment guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of press, and you cannot have a free society if you do not have both." "As most librarians and librarians-to-be must feel," "I'm very much against violating anyone's, even teenagers', basic rights through censorship." "* How many years *" "* Must some people exist *" "* Before they're allowed *" "* Allowed to be free *" "Who I am is, as I've said before, an open book with illustrations." "But how one interprets those illustrations is very much an inkblot or a Rorschach test of someone else's values." "* The answer is blowing in the wind *" "The magazine and my life are a reflection of some very controversial subjects." "When you deal with sex and success... controversial, in America." "We went through a dark period throughout the 1980s and a good part of the 1990s." "On a personal level, the other devastating blow was the death of Dorothy Stratten." "To announce her and introduce her as our Playmate of the year," "Canadian-born Dorothy Stratten." "Dorothy, want to come up here?" "(Clapping)" "HUGH:" "She was a beloved Playmate, a beloved friend, and when her death was then used by others for political purposes and for personal purposes, to suggest that Playboy or I were in any way culpable, was devastating for me." "Personal blows in life have always affected Hef a lot worse than business setbacks that would flatten another guy." "Because it's as if he says," ""Okay, we lost that round." "We're not out of this fight."" "Personal stuff, however, I was around and I did see, like," "Good God, you know, there's no question about the fact that the situation regarding Dorothy Stratten gave him a stroke." "To have that experience and come back from that is, as I expressed in a simple statement earlier, something of a miracle, and what I really feel, in a very real sense, was a stroke of luck." "And I expect that it's going to change the nature of focus of my life." "I got you, John." "That'll be $100." "I think that as a result of the stroke and that sense, in terms of mortality, I escaped into a safe harbour." "I did something I never imagined I would do again." "I got married a second time." "PASTOR:" "Give them a fantastic life together." "CROWD:" "Give them a fantastic life together." "Hef says "Yeah" to that." "He probably already married Kimberley one evening under the moon right here by the wishing well." "I really don't know." "But just to make sure that he did that, we now ask them to give each other a hug and a kiss." "(Clapping)" "When I first met Hef back in 1993, it was at the Playboy mansion and he was still married to Kimberley at the time." "So, the house was very different." "There was kids' toys everywhere." "And I just remember seeing Hef from across the room, going like, "Oh my God." "There he is!"" "And he absolutely had this amazing, dynamic energy about him." "HUGH:" "The second marriage started to come apart right after the birth of the second child." "But I stayed with it for another two or three years." "And when it ended, it ended because she decided to leave." "In 1998, you know, I was in my 70s." "10 years older, not much wiser." "Hef had this glow about him again of wanting to experience life and to get out and party." "*" "KEITH HEFNER:" "We play gin rummy, have for years and years." "From out of nowhere, he struck like the phantom." "Just luck." "KEITH HEFNER:" "It's competition." "We have that in us, and the really successful people have it in them more than that." "Come on, come on, come on, come on." "(Phone ringing)" "Children of the Night, this is Diane." "Who would get up at 7:00 and run if we had someone to run with you?" "LOIS LEE:" "I thought, "Who better to help women who were disenfranchised as prostitutes?"" "On the other hand, it couldn't have been a bigger risk for anybody other than him." "It's obviously very important, because it concerns... the concern of runaways and prostitutes of, really, of both sexes and getting them off the streets here in Los Angeles." "Children of the Night, by its very nature, has always been very personal." "Where can you put your money that'll do anything better than that?" "Rich people are not condemned for being rich, but for their indifference to the poor or for their arrogance or contempt towards and for the poor." "Hef has an honourable spirit." "He taught me something very important." "He taught me to hold my head up high and look the world right in the eye." "*" "HUGH:" "I pick every cover, I pick every centrefold," "I edit every layout," "I edit every cartoon." "Playboy's Party Jokes on the back of-- always-- on the back of the Playmate of the Month." "And the cartoon always..." "And that structure, which is so familiar, is intentionally always there." "The magazine should be an old friend." "You know what you're going to find there, but there's always going to be something fresh and different and a surprise." "CROWD:" "Three, two, one, happy New Year!" "I am very grateful that I have lived long enough to see the first black President in the United States." "It gives me a great sense of pride." "This is the first time in the history of the planet, not just America, that black folks, white folks, rich folks, poor folks, young folks, old ones have etched in their memory bank what a black President look like." "And I said to friends that I thought it was really a fight for America's soul." "And it is a confirmation for me of what America's really all about, equal opportunity for everybody." "It was that kind of moment that you want to share with people you're close to." "MARY O'CONNOR:" "Exactly, exactly." "It's a renewal for the world." "It's a whole new beginning." "Yes, hopefully." "What else you got for me?" "Well, let's see." "Over the years, I've grown to know Hef in different ways." "And there's been times when I have absolutely thought he was the worst person in the world to work for." "I mean, he was ruthless in criticism, if you weren't absolutely perfect." "And I've quit a couple times because of that." "You just can't take it anymore." "But in the long run, he's probably one of my best friends." "And I really love him as a person, and now I know that he respects me as a person." "I know how much you love those." "I hate it." "(Laughing)" "MARY O'CONNOR:" "And I feel more comfortable in being familiar with him..." "Come here, you." "MARY O'CONNOR:" "That I don't mind walking up and giving him a hug, which I never would have done before, so it's a whole different relationship." "Oh, yes, absolutely." "Oh, absolutely." "But we're both pretty old, so age will do anything." "When I was married, and I was married for a period of the better part of 8 years," "I was faithful to her that entire time." "Initially, I think there was, of course, an overcompensation for the fact that I'd been in an unhappy marriage." "I started dating not one girl, but two or three girls." "I was living with a actress named Brande Roderick and a pair of twins named Sandy and Mandy Bentley." "So, I was living with Sandy, Mandy and Brande all at the same time." "It was an overcompensation for what I'd been dealing with in the marriage, but following that, when that relationship ended, again, I added multiple girlfriends so that at one point it was literally seven girls living here at the Playboy mansion." "It was not the best way in the world to live one's life." "It got a little..." "The girls got a little... competitive." "From that seven, we got down to a very special, very precious three with Holly and Bridget and Kendra." "And as this relationship also comes to an end, as most things do, I find that even with that," "I'm still alive and very much on top of my game, with, I'm sure, more to come." "I think that relationships with younger women are key to my connection to my own childhood." "Hey, there goes the music." "You sure got a nice gang." "Best in the world." "I'm the luckiest guy." "*" "This is the girl I had a crush on in my summer of '42." "I was 16." "*" "So, my life is continually always filled with young women and young women's laughter, and it is what keeps me alive." "*" "And when you see him today on television, with his covey of companions, he's a very happy, prosperous, decent man." "And you know something," "I trust Hef." "I haven't seen him in a long time." "I like him." "It's actually, in my way of thinking, sad that he mixed up his personal life with his mission." "Because people don't take him seriously." "People that I talk to at the University and my colleagues," "I can't mention Hefner, because they don't think about the free speech." "They only think about his seven women." "Now it's three only." "So, that's sad." "Hefner's lifestyle today is rather interesting." "I don't disapprove of it." "I think he's giving wonderful hope to men over 100." "Hi, Hef." "REVEREND MALCOLM BOYD:" "This could always have been motivating Hef." "And it could be the central mystery of the core of his life, the seeking of love." "someone seeking the love, searching, wanting, needing." "I think it's possible that love is his Rosebud." "Maybe the dream is what it's all about, one of the important words for Hugh Hefner." "He was a little boy with a little dream that came true, not so little, by the way." "*" "HUGH:" "The latter part of my life should have been simply a reflection and looking back on those early days, but now, all of a sudden, the here and now becomes as exciting as what existed back then." "Who knew?" "Who knew?" "*" "* You can't love 'em all, you can't love 'em all *" "* Now the thought may be wonderful *" "* But the chances are small *" "To my brother and to Ray and all the usual suspects." "(Laughing)" "* You can't get each one that passes by *" "* But you can try, you can try, you can try *" "(Clapping)" "That's a closet!" "They let me walk into the closet!" "* You can't kiss 'em all *" "* No, you can't kiss 'em all *" "* Now the thought may be wonderful *" "* But the chances are small *" "You know what I mean, don't you?" "See?" "There's your dramatic moment." "* You can't get each one that passes by *" "* But you can try, you can try, you can try *" "Sometimes I can just sense when there's a place where people are going to talk about Hugh Hefner and my radar brought me here." "Thank you, thank you." "You can remove that." "* They've been able to prove *" "* There are mountains you can-- *" "I feel like Fred Astaire." "* There's a way to make rain and snow *" "Hey, Hef, happy midsummer night's dream." "* But you simply can't love 'em all *" "It's show time, movie time." "It's movie time." "* Can't love 'em all *" "* No, you can't love 'em all *" "* 'Cause one day, that one girl will catch your eye *" "* And you'll know why *" "* You'll know why, you'll know why *" "Wow." "That's from my heart." "Thank you." "I love you." "* Now they've been able to prove *" "* There are mountains-- *" "Remember these kinds of dances?" "* They've been able to show *" "* There's a way to make rain and snow *" ""No, it's okay, be an asshole, Gene." "Everybody else cooperated except you." That's very good." "It is for him, it is his legacy." "Also mine." "Yes, yes." "* But you simply can't love 'em all *" "* No, you can't love 'em all *" "* 'Cause one day, that one girl will catch your eye *" "* And you'll know why, you'll know why *" "* You'll know why, you'll know why, you'll know why *" "* You'll know why, you'll know why *" "* You'll know why *" "You throw a coin there, make a wish." "So, I can do that?" "I can make a wish?" "It'll all come true." "You can wish for something great?" "Obviously somebody believed in it enough to throw in some quarters."