somehow, i am not moved. i mean, i am 100% a 1960's rock out, dad's Playboy drawer, quest-for-the-cool kinda kid. i even got suspended & sent back to Catholic school for dealing cut-out Playboy pix and ran peepshows of an early-blooming Portuguese girl i knew in an abandoned warehouse in the neighborhood. Hef was my idol, esp with the Playboy After Dark show.
now that i realize that the spoiled brat of the 60s has waaaay won out over the peace corps kid of the 60s, i kinda see that the ol perv with matching pre-fab blondes is more Hef than the social crusader was and i'm sad.
well, Mr Hefner did do wonderful & courageous things getting black & white folks to understand each other better, so there's that. thanks, Hef. RIP -