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Piss up a rope, Val Kilmer.  If your physical illness got so bad that your life utterly sucked and no end to that suffering was in sight, so that suicide was or seemed to be the best of the available

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12 hours ago, BW Manilowe said:

From multiple sources: Hugh Hefner, Founder of Playboy & Co-Star of E!'s The Girls Next Door, Dead at 91

Like everyone else, Hugh Hefner had his faults & made his mistakes, but I think the good exceeded the bad. Because of Playboy, Hefner made numerous contributions to pop culture. As for those parties at the Playboy Mansion, if those walls (and that grotto) could talk....

RIP, Hef. 

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BW Manilowe

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On 9/22/2017 at 11:44 PM, spiderpig said:

 

Wow!  Stuff we never knew back in the day.  Good work, guys.

Wasn't Michael Landon's ex, along with Leonard Nimoy's, part of another Hollywood ex-wives club?

Jerry sounds like a complete ass. (Not Spock, though.  A flight attendant friend encountered him and Sandi on a flight and said she was a complete beeyotch, but he was a lovely man.  She repeated it - "a lovely man".)

Back in 1971 or early 1972, as part of my March of Dimes Poster Child duties (I either officially was, or was about to be, their 1972 National Poster Child), I did either a March of Dimes, or a joint March of Dimes/Variety Clubs, telethon in Salt Lake City. Leonard Nimoy was 1 of the celebrities on it with me.

Granted, it was something like 46 years ago (& I was like 7 1/2 or 8 at the time), but I also remember Leonard Nimoy  as being a very nice man.

As for Jerry Lewis, we didn't represent the same charity (although, growing up, a number of my friends would think I was 1 of "Jerry's Kids" for some reason--I suppose it was a better known charity, back in the day), so I never had the (dis)pleasure of meeting him & can't vouch for how nice he was(n't).

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IMO this was an excellent farewell to Hugh Hefner: Good Riddance to an Abusive Creep

Fuck him, fuck his abusive, lecherous ways. Fuck him for not giving a shit about the health of his Playmates; fuck him for treating them as nothing but sex toys; fuck him for telling Holly Madison that quaaludes were "thigh openers"; fuck him for reducing Marilyn Monroe to a sexual punchline even in death; fuck him for saying that Playboy only chooses girls from respectable families and never poor girls because "poverty brings sadness with it, a sort of dirtiness that becomes evident even on a naked body"; fuck him for saying, "A girl resembles a bunny. Joyful, joking. Consider the kind of girl that we made popular: the Playmate of the Month. She is never sophisticated, a girl you cannot really have. She is a young, healthy, simple girl – the girl next door. The sex we fight for is innocent sex…we are not interested in the mysterious, difficult woman, the femme fatale, who wears elegant underwear, with lace, and she is sad, and somehow mentally filthy. The Playboy girl has no lace, no underwear, she is naked, well-washed with soap and water, and she is happy."

Fuck him for reducing sexual liberation/freedom to the ability for men to treat women as disposable sexual objects without scorn. 

I hope he rots in hell.

And that's my epitaph for Hugh Hefner. 

(And I don't give a shit that he supported gay rights or Obama. People on the left can be misogynistic assholes, too.)

ETA: We Are Forever Merely Bodies, Eternally Just Things

Finally, Hugh Hefner, the man who'd leaked Monroe's nudes in the first issue of Playboy decades before the phrase 'leaking nudes' was even in the lexicon - he became an instant celebrity; she had to apologize for the photos, and feared for her career - bought the crypt next to Monroe's for $75,000. It was a gruesome joke, "sleeping with" the woman he'd almost ruined, and doing so without her consent - claiming her in death, as he'd claimed the right to exploit her in life. "I'm a sucker for blondes and she is the ultimate blonde," Hefner told CBS Los Angeles. "It has a completion notion to it. I will be spending the rest of my eternity with Marilyn."

"Monroe is exceptional for her beauty, sex appeal and iconic status. But no woman is safe from the dehumanization that comes with being a female in possession of a body in the presence of a man. Every woman has experienced, in one way or another, what it is like to be reduced to parts, like an old Chevy or a broken laptop. ... To be a woman is to be a series of parts. Parts to judge and discuss and to touch, and they are always, always entitled to these parts, our consent acting only as a hurdle, the word yes both optional and perfunctory.... This is our fact of life. And, in the case of Marilyn Monroe, some of us can’t even escape it in death."

My only regret over his death is that I never had an opportunity to punch him in the dick. 

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7 hours ago, galax-arena said:

IMO this was an excellent farewell to Hugh Hefner: Good Riddance to an Abusive Creep

Fuck him, fuck his abusive, lecherous ways. Fuck him for not giving a shit about the health of his Playmates; fuck him for treating them as nothing but sex toys; fuck him for telling Holly Madison that quaaludes were "thigh openers"; fuck him for reducing Marilyn Monroe to a sexual punchline even in death; fuck him for saying that Playboy only chooses girls from respectable families and never poor girls because "poverty brings sadness with it, a sort of dirtiness that becomes evident even on a naked body"; fuck him for saying, "A girl resembles a bunny. Joyful, joking. Consider the kind of girl that we made popular: the Playmate of the Month. She is never sophisticated, a girl you cannot really have. She is a young, healthy, simple girl – the girl next door. The sex we fight for is innocent sex…we are not interested in the mysterious, difficult woman, the femme fatale, who wears elegant underwear, with lace, and she is sad, and somehow mentally filthy. The Playboy girl has no lace, no underwear, she is naked, well-washed with soap and water, and she is happy."

Fuck him for reducing sexual liberation/freedom to the ability for men to treat women as disposable sexual objects without scorn. 

I hope he rots in hell.

And that's my epitaph for Hugh Hefner. 

(And I don't give a shit that he supported gay rights or Obama. People on the left can be misogynistic assholes, too.)

ETA: We Are Forever Merely Bodies, Eternally Just Things

Finally, Hugh Hefner, the man who'd leaked Monroe's nudes in the first issue of Playboy decades before the phrase 'leaking nudes' was even in the lexicon - he became an instant celebrity; she had to apologize for the photos, and feared for her career - bought the crypt next to Monroe's for $75,000. It was a gruesome joke, "sleeping with" the woman he'd almost ruined, and doing so without her consent - claiming her in death, as he'd claimed the right to exploit her in life. "I'm a sucker for blondes and she is the ultimate blonde," Hefner told CBS Los Angeles. "It has a completion notion to it. I will be spending the rest of my eternity with Marilyn."

"Monroe is exceptional for her beauty, sex appeal and iconic status. But no woman is safe from the dehumanization that comes with being a female in possession of a body in the presence of a man. Every woman has experienced, in one way or another, what it is like to be reduced to parts, like an old Chevy or a broken laptop. ... To be a woman is to be a series of parts. Parts to judge and discuss and to touch, and they are always, always entitled to these parts, our consent acting only as a hurdle, the word yes both optional and perfunctory.... This is our fact of life. And, in the case of Marilyn Monroe, some of us can’t even escape it in death."

My only regret over his death is that I never had an opportunity to punch him in the dick. 

I am high fiving you while doing the black lady church fan wave, cuz this is truth.

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Re Mr. Hefner's possible resting place next to Miss Monroe: Two things that need to be kept in mind.

 

1. Her ex Joe DiMaggio had red roses sent to her resting place thrice weekly for over 20 years (only stopping when he discovered folks were stealing them for souvenirs)- and NO move can take away from that gesture of devotion.

 

2. She's been in that spot for 55 years now- longer than she walked this mortal coil (much less had any dealings with Mr. Hefner). Hence; if one believes her spirit were to have any POV re her new neighbor, it could possibly be 'Meh. So what? Who cares that a 91-year-old corpse is next to me when  I had dreams of DiMaggio for decades AND we've settled our differences and have been reunited in the next world'.

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In 1966 one of Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club pimps ("talent scouts") tried to coerce my Mom into becoming a Playboy Bunny at the club in SF. From the arrangements that were being offered, it was clear that she would have to "service" customers in the free apartment that came with the job. She ended up leaving town for her own safety.

Yeah, there's your "feminist hero." As far as I'm concerned, they can dump his corpse in a septic tank.

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1 hour ago, Sandman87 said:

In 1966 one of Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club pimps ("talent scouts") tried to coerce my Mom into becoming a Playboy Bunny at the club in SF. From the arrangements that were being offered, it was clear that she would have to "service" customers in the free apartment that came with the job. She ended up leaving town for her own safety.

Yeah, there's your "feminist hero." As far as I'm concerned, they can dump his corpse in a septic tank.

I know women who were Bunnies and that wasn't true  throughout the  country. Bad managers in SF.

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20 hours ago, cynicat said:

Am I the only one who thought he was already dead?

Maybe? :P

 

But seriously, I knew his death would be a big deal, and there would be no escaping the announcement of his death. 

(I hope I didn't upset you; I was just kidding about the top part. I'll admit I have a better memory for the birthdays/deaths of celebrities--and most things, really--than I should have.)

 

23 hours ago, galax-arena said:

 

"Monroe is exceptional for her beauty, sex appeal and iconic status. But no woman is safe from the dehumanization that comes with being a female in possession of a body in the presence of a man. Every woman has experienced, in one way or another, what it is like to be reduced to parts, like an old Chevy or a broken laptop. ... To be a woman is to be a series of parts. Parts to judge and discuss and to touch, and they are always, always entitled to these parts, our consent acting only as a hurdle, the word yes both optional and perfunctory.... This is our fact of life. And, in the case of Marilyn Monroe, some of us can’t even escape it in death."

The sad thing is, Hugh Hefner being buried next to her isn't even the creepiest burial-related thing about her. There is actually a guy who requested--and got--the crypt above her; he is actually BURIED UPSIDE DOWN, essentially on top on her; his wife spent years trying to sell that burial plot. 

Seriously, what the fuck.

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6 hours ago, UYI said:

Maybe? :P

 

But seriously, I knew his death would be a big deal, and there would be no escaping the announcement of his death. 

(I hope I didn't upset you; I was just kidding about the top part. I'll admit I have a better memory for the birthdays/deaths of celebrities--and most things, really--than I should have.)

 

The sad thing is, Hugh Hefner being buried next to her isn't even the creepiest burial-related thing about her. There is actually a guy who requested--and got--the crypt above her; he is actually BURIED UPSIDE DOWN, essentially on top on her; his wife spent years trying to sell that burial plot. 

Seriously, what the fuck.

EWWWWWWW

Poor Marilyn. Even in death men objectify her.

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UYI

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Even creepier: Said guy, Richard Poncher, told his wife that if he wasn't buried upside down on top of Marilyn, he would haunt her for the rest of her life.

I think I would have taken that risk. 

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12 minutes ago, UYI said:

Even creepier: Said guy, Richard Poncher, told his wife that if he wasn't buried upside down on top of Marilyn, he would haunt her for the rest of her life.

I think I would have taken that risk. 

I would have just cremated his ass and flushed the ashes down the toilet.

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Just two days after what would have been his 70th anniversary and three months after his wife's death, Monty Hall may now trying to consider a deal re the next world.   It was by no means my fave show even back then but it's very tame compared to how folks humiliate themselves on TV these days. In any case, he had more interesting life than one would have thought and it's good he's back with his longtime consort so RIP, Mr. Hall.

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2 minutes ago, Blergh said:

It was by no means my fave show even back then but it's very tame compared to how folks humiliate themselves on TV these days. 

You bet! LMAD and his iconic turn as "TV's Big Dealer," per Jay Stewart and other announcers, helped Monty make a name for himself. 

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Just now, bmasters9 said:

Good point! He lived a good long life and was a television legend, so I'd say it's inconsequential. 

Agreed. That's quite a respectable run, and we should all only be so lucky.

The REAL question is:  When God met him at the Pearly Gates, did Monty choose Gate No. 1, Gate No. 2, or Gate No. 3?

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7 minutes ago, legaleagle53 said:

The REAL question is:  When God met him at the Pearly Gates, did Monty choose Gate No. 1, Gate No. 2, or Gate No. 3?

I predict we're gonna hear that joke for the next week or two.

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UYI

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14 hours ago, legaleagle53 said:

At 96, does it really make any difference?

Well, if I make it all the way to 96, I wouldn't want my end to come in the form of being hit by a bus, getting shot, or dying in a fire (especially the last one, as I'm deathly afraid of fire, even birthday candles can scare me). In that way, I think it WOULD make a difference, just sayin'. 

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11 hours ago, merylinkid said:

RIP Monty Hall.    Let's Make a Deal was iconic.

The way he did it (and the way Bob Barker was on TPIR), you knew for sure one of these days that both those shows and their hosts would be indelibly marked in the pages of classic television history.

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9 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

When I was a kid—before the MMR or Chickenpox vaccines were available—Let's Make a Deal was a wonderful distraction when I was home from school with "childhood" illnesses. Thanks, Monty.

Yes, I think it's hard for the "youngin's" today to understand what it was like to have 3 (!) channels to pick from, and that's it. No Netflix, dvds, Vcr's, nothing. So when something as good (to us, then-- I can't really tolerate game shows anymore) was on the tv, something fun like LMAD, well, it was great. And if you watched with your sister, as I did, whoever was best at getting the "suggested retail price" right, when you had to guess in order to get a chance at a prize, well, then you had bragging rights for the day. Sometimes I wish I could relive a say or 2 from then, as a kid only with an adults perspective. It would be quite interesting. 

RIP Monty.

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Hefner was indeed an icon of sorts but as he got older and porn became more mainstream, he seemed to be an embarrassment - at least to me.

His silk pajama and robe bit with hot chicks on his arm was cute in the 60s and 70s and he was living a fantasy of sorts for many men.  But as the girls soon became old enough to be his grand daughters and even great granddaughters, he just seemed creepy to me.  Like there's a time to grow up and Hef never did - nor had to. 

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Some of the stories the "girls" told about how he ran his bed were just nasty. To me he was lauded as some type of awesomeness that does not exist for other pimps no matter how classy they are. He was just a pimp...

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