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[Hugh Hefner] It was 1962
and America was changing.
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The space program was in full swing,
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and John Glenn became the
first person to orbit the earth.
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Johnny Carson was named the
new host of The Tonight Show,
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and the Cuban Missile Crisis,
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which had kept the
country on edge for 13 days,
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came to an end.
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While American culture was shifting,
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the world of Playboy had exploded.
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Our magazine had over one and a
half million readers each month.
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[man]
The little
girl she looks so...
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And the Playboy Club had become
the biggest party in Chicago
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with over 100,000 key holders.
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Talk a while
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Yeah, I was looking back to see
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If she was looking
back to see if I...
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With the mounting success
of the Chicago Club,
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it was time to take our party national.
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And I knew the perfect location
for the next Playboy Club...
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New York City.
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But the competition was tough.
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New York was home to the
some of the world's hottest
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and most iconic nightlife.
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So I sent Victor Lownes to get
a better feel for the market.
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[Victor Lownes] I
found a perfect location
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on East 59th Street.
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I was staying at the Plaza Hotel,
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and I noticed a "for
rent" sign on a building
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that I could see out of
my window at the Plaza.
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Central Park here.
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Cartier, Tiffany's.
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And you see these picture windows here?
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That's all the advertising we'll need.
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When people walk by and
see that spiral staircase
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filled with a rainbow of Bunnies...
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We got 'em.
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When can renovations begin?
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We should be cleared
to start in two weeks.
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I'm finalizing everything
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with the Department of Buildings today.
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[Bob Preuss] Which reminds me, Victor.
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Preliminary budgeting
has us at 2.5 million.
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Right now we're overextended by a lot.
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We're pre-selling
memberships, that'll help.
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No, it will help, you're right, but...
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Bob, it's New York.
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I know it's New York, but it
doesn't hurt to limit risk.
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[Hefner] This is what I want.
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This design, at this address.
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To me, that's worth the risk.
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[Patty Farmer] They put $7
million into renovations,
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and that was a huge amount at that time.
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And that did not even take into
account the advertising budget.
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So Victor really had
high hopes for this Club
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being really the jewel
in the Playboy Club chain.
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[Hugh Hefner] With our plans in place,
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we started construction.
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And at seven stories high,
the Club would have twice
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the capacity of our Chicago location.
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But I soon realized that
doing business in New York
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had risks I hadn't anticipated.
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To open a club, you
needed a liquor license.
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And to get a liquor license,
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you had to go through the
state's licensing board.
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But no state government was
more corrupt than New York's.
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Albany was since the 19th century
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and continuesto this day,
a cesspool of corruption.
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If you want to get anything
done in New York State,
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you gotta pay somebody.
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You've got to pay some
elected official, right,
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to get the go-ahead.
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That is how things are done in New York.
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[Hugh Hefner] Soon
enough, we were informed
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that in order to open our Club,
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we had to pay a corrupt
government official
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a bribe of $100,000.
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[Hefner] This is blackmail.
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That's how it works.
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Well, we're not paying him.
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We need to open the Club now
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and we can't do that
without a liquor license.
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Plus, we've already
started selling memberships.
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We have over 10,000
customers who already paid.
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How would they react if
we canceled the opening?
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[Hugh Hefner] Arnie insisted that
pay-offs were the cost of doing business.
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But paying a bribe went
against everything I stood for.
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[Victor Lownes] Hefner's
an extremely moral person.
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You had to be, and there were
so many trumped-up charges,
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and efforts to indict us for
things that we didn't do wrong
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that we had to keep our nose clean.
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[Hugh Hefner] I knew it was a risk
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to involve Playboy in
any illegal activity.
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But if we wanted to get our
liquor license to open our club,
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I had no choice.
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So I paid the bribe.
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What I didn't know then was that
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in going against my conscience,
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I was making a decision
that would haunt Playboy
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for years to come.
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[woman]
Every little movement
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Every little thing you do
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Is it sleight of hand
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That commands my heart to love you?
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Every little movement
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Every little movement
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[Hugh Hefner] On December 8, 1962,
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after a rocky start,
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our biggest venture yet,
the Playboy Club New York
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finally opened its doors.
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[man]
Don't cry no more
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Wipe away your tears
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Don't cry no more baby
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Wipe away your tears
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With its spiral staircase,
elevated piano bar,
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and 360-degree fireplace,
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it was even more stunning
than our Chicago operation.
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We had comedians and singers.
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A cue around the block.
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It was a huge success
right from the start.
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[man]
You cried me a river
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You cried me a sea
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And I believed without a doubt
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That you really
really really loved me
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Don't cry no more
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And I had the most
beautiful date in the room.
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My girlfriend, Cynthia Maddox.
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Cynthia wasn't the only woman I dated,
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But anytime I was at the
Club, she was at my side.
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Within weeks, we were averaging
over 3,000 guests a night.
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Not bad, huh?
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Not bad at all.
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You cried me a river
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You cried me a sea...
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And I knew if we could conquer
the New York nightclub scene,
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we could succeed anywhere.
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Within a year, we had Playboy Clubs
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in Miami, New Orleans, St.
Louis, Phoenix, Detroit,
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Baltimore, Kansas City,
Cincinnati and Los Angeles.
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Playboy was on top of the world.
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But just when it seemed like
everything was going our way...
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Don't cry no more baby...
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... a decision I made months earlier
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was about to threaten
the entire Playboy empire.
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[phone ringing]
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[phone continues ringing]
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[Bob Preuss] Hef?
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Hef...
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Bob?
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[Bob] Sorry, I know it's early.
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It's 10:00 a.m.
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It's important.
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[sighs]
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[Hugh Hefner] Just a few months
after the New York Club opened,
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my staff caught wind of
a government operation
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that could shut us down.
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New York Governor, Nelson Rockefeller,
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had announced a corruption investigation
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with a specific focus on
the State Liquor Authority,
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the same organization that
had forced me to pay a bribe
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to get my club open.
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I knew it was only a matter of time
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before Rockefeller's investigation
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would lead directly to Playboy.
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Hefner had apparently given a bribe
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to two New York state officials,
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the Chairman of the
Republican Party of New York
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and the Chairman of
the State Liquor Board.
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In Hugh Hefner's mind,
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he had done what he needed to,
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to get Playboy's liquor
license in New York
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[Hugh Hefner] Practically every
club owner in New York City
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had paid a bribe.
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But I knew our success
made us a big target.
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And if investigators found out,
the Club could be shut down.
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The Playboy name could be tarnished,
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and we could face criminal charges.
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To save Playboy's reputation and my own,
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I decided there was
only one thing to do.
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[Richard Rosenzweig] Once one
succumbs to a bribe transaction,
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you are hooked... forever.
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Anything you need, names, dates,
Playboy will give it to you.
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[Richard Rosenzweig] We went to the
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District Attorney's office in New York,
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and we told them what had occurred.
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And they said they would
work together on this.
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First time, I think that it
ever happened in New York.
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[Victor Lownes] Hefner and Morton,
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the way they felt about
it had a certain rationale.
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And with all the evidence...
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We even paid the bribe with a check.
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And, I mean, so there was
no question about evidence.
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And there was no question
about blowing the whistle.
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[Hugh Hefner] I followed
through with my promise
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and turned over all of our books.
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[Richard Rosenzweig] By handling
it the way we handled the approach
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works out in the end.
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And the word gets out to these
people that you cannot touch us
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with these unlawful suggestions.
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[man]
Go away baby quit
hanging around my bed...
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[Hugh Hefner] After months of
investigation and a high-profile trial,
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Judson Morhouse, the man who
had forced us to pay the bribe,
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was removed from office,
disbarred, and convicted
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on charges of both
corruption and extortion.
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Your love has ruined my...
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Our testimony proved so
vital to the state's case,
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Playboy was forgiven on all counts.
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[James Karmel] Hefner
had, in fact, come clean.
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And then he did whatever he could
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to break the whole scheme of corruption
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by providing testimony
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against these two guys
who were convicted.
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[Hugh Hefner] While I was
dealing with the Clubs,
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the world was changing.
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You gotta leave me baby...
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And I quickly realized Playboy
needed to change with it.
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[Hugh Hefner] The pill came in in 1960.
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And there were topless go-go dancers
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in both New York and, uh, San Francisco.
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And the sexual revolution
had become a reality.
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And with that a permissiveness
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that offered a new possibility
in terms of freedom.
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It was also a time of revolution too,
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and you can't separate that either.
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I have a dream...
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[Hugh Hefner] It was a time of
questioning old mores and values.
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It was a reaction to the
very repressive values
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that had existed in the '40s and '50s.
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It was questioning a lot
of the fundamental views
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that people saw were hurtful.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident
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that all men are created equal.
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[news announcer)] At City
Hall Park another multitude
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welcomes the young
democratic Bay Stater.
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[Hugh Hefner] With John F. Kennedy
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pushing a progressive
agenda in the White House,
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it seemed like America was
on the cusp of a new era.
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And I knew then that
Playboy needed to be
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at the forefront of the revolution.
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Quit hanging 'round my bed
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[man]
Every day in the same old way
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I'm a 9:00 to 5:00...
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We began publishing articles
tackling the changing times.
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We slammed nuclear testing,
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criticized America's
corrupt auto industry,
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and basted America's
outdated government leaders.
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We were even covering social
issues like economic reform.
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Even some of my early
critics had to admit
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the magazine was doing important work.
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The come-on for Playboy in the '60s
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was the fact that you were going to see
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the Playmate of the Month.
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Once you bought the magazine
and began to read it,
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then you understood that there
was stuff worth looking at.
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Worth reading, worth thinking about.
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And some of it was
indeed groundbreaking.
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[Hugh Hefner] Playboy in its tenth year
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was becoming more
influential than ever before.
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[Richard Rosenzweig] Writers,
cartoonists, photographers, artists,
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they all wanted to be part
of this cultural revolutionary
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piece of work that we were doing.
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And some of them, and
many of them actually
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worked for less than their normal fees
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just to be part of it.
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[man]
So much to live...
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[Hugh Hefner] Because I
was the face of the company,
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I wanted to start my own column
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to address topics I cared about.
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From drug law reform to
separation of church and state.
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I called it The Playboy Philosophy.
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But our biggest addition was
inspired by the conversations
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I was having with
celebrities and intellectuals
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at my parties and on my TV show.
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I thought it would be great
to give them a platform
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to talk about the
issues they cared about,
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and I knew our readers would love it.
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We called it The Playboy Interview.
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The first Playboy Interview
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was with my good friend, Miles Davis.
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In an interview that
took place over two days,
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he went beyond talking about music
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and opened up about his experience
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as a black man in America.
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The magazine wanted to prove
itself to be broad-minded.
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Miles Davis was this very important guy.
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The interview was comprehensive,
patient, finely edited.
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[Hugh Hefner] Over the next few months,
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we interviewed Peter Sellers,
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Jackie Gleason,
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and Ayn Rand.
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The interviews themselves could have
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up to 40 hours of material,
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compiled over weeks or months.
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[David Granger] Well, the thing
that makes the Playboy Interview
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completely unique is,
it's incredibly in-depth.
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I mean, who's gonna give,
you know, somewhere between
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ten and 25 hours to an
interviewer, you know?
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I mean, especially now,
when every celebrity
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is so completely
controlled by publicists.
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[Hugh Hefner] By spending so
much time with celebrities,
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we developed a rapport.
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And they shared things with us
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they would never tell
any other publication.
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It was a big status thing
to do the Playboy Interview.
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And I think I answered
some things perhaps
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a little more frankly
than I normally would,
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thinking I'm in the
big time of Playboy now.
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[Hugh Hefner] The Playboy
Interview went on to become
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one of the most iconic features
in the magazine's history.
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[Arthur Kretchmer] The interview
was in the first 20 years,
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you'll see that they are
like a classical symphony.
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One melody leads into the next
melody and the third melody
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is a counterpoint on the first melody.
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There is a comprehensiveness to them.
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Many years later, Steve Jobs said about
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his first Playboy Interview,
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it was the single best thing
in media he had ever done.
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[Hugh Hefner] With all of
our new editorial features,
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there was so much to do at the magazine
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that I had little
time for anything else,
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including my girlfriend, Cynthia.
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I'm bored.
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I've gotta get this done by tonight.
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[woman]
But I'm feeling so sad
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I long to try
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Something I've never had
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Never had no kissin'
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Oh what I've been missin'
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I've, uh... I've gotta
get this done by tonight.
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Lover man oh where can you be?
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The night is so cold
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Cynthia...
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And I'm so alone
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I'd give my soul
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Just to call you my own
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Got a moon above me
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But no one to love
me lover man...
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You're really not
making this easy for me.
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But I have to work, okay?
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I've heard it said
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That the thrill of romance
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Can be...
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[door closes]
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[Hugh Hefner] I knew I
should have been spending
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more time with Cynthia,
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but my devotion to the magazine
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was far from the only
problem in our relationship.
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He dates other girls,
and I don't like it.
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He knows I don't like it.
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And he doesn't like when I date,
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and he feels it's wrong when I date.
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Discussions go back and forth
and we try to work things out,
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but I don't know what's going
to happen if this continues on.
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I'll be right back.
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[Richard Rosenzweig] Cynthia
was a very vibrant young woman.
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And they had a romantic relationship.
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Hefner never indicated
that he was a one-woman man.
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And that was not to Cynthia's
liking, as one can imagine.
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[woman]
Was it done just for fun?
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We have necked till I'm wrecked...
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[Hugh Hefner] Throughout
all the years with Playboy,
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I never had a monogamous relationship.
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I think I was committed
to that lifestyle.
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It was a young man's fantasy.
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I was in a unique position
as the publisher of Playboy.
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[Hefner] Mm-hmm.
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Well, let's set it up.
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Or try to.
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I'll, I'll call you back, Spec, okay.
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Everything okay?
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It's great.
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00:22:30,890 --> 00:22:35,193
These heels, though... they're a killer.
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I'm sure if you talk
to the Bunny Mother,
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she'll let you go back to the
dressing room and take five.
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00:22:40,499 --> 00:22:43,201
Oh, I don't know, she
seems pretty strict.
387
00:22:43,202 --> 00:22:46,137
Plus... it's always
fun to break the rules
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00:22:46,138 --> 00:22:48,207
every once in a while, isn't it?
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[Stephen Martinez] Cynthia
Maddox was really beautiful.
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Hef, uh, fell in love with her.
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They started dating.
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But Cynthia wanted to have
a relationship with him.
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She just didn't wanna be another girl,
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and Hef wasn't prepared for that.
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[Hugh Hefner] In the spring of 1963,
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my relationship with
Cynthia came to an end.
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Part of what my pursuit of
happiness has been all about
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has been an attempt to
walk a different road.
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And when you're walking a
different road without a map,
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uh, you're gonna make mistakes.
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00:23:38,557 --> 00:23:41,927
And, you know, when you're
involved in a, in a series
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of romantic relationships,
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the nature of that is gonna hurt.
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00:23:48,635 --> 00:23:50,902
I was sad to see Cynthia go,
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00:23:50,903 --> 00:23:54,005
but work was a welcome distraction.
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00:23:54,006 --> 00:23:56,374
And soon, bigger issues of the day
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were taking up all of my attention.
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[marchers chanting]
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[Martin Luther King] The
Negro still is not free.
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[Hugh Hefner] The Civil Rights
Movement was gaining momentum,
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but the peaceful
demonstrations advocated
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by Martin Luther King Jr.,
soon gave way to violence...
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00:24:21,300 --> 00:24:23,803
[crowd screaming]
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... as police in Birmingham, Alabama
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brutally assaulted black protestors.
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[Martin Luther King] We
can never be satisfied
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as long as the Negro is the victim
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of the unspeakable horrors
of police brutality.
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[applause]
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Playboy had been involved in
Civil Rights issues for years,
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and we weren't going to stop now.
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[Arthur Kretchmer] We did
everything there was to do
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about Civil Rights.
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It was an overwhelming fact that
black people were badly treated
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and that the magazine should do
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what it could to make that better.
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00:25:10,616 --> 00:25:14,419
The thing about the
magazine that nobody realizes
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is it was the only magazine
in America that was fearless
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on any topic you gave
it, Playboy could cover it
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and could cover it honestly.
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[Hugh Hefner] In early 1963, a new
leader in the Civil Rights Movement
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had captured the nation's attention.
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Malcolm X was a polarizing figure,
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who, unlike Dr. King,
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encouraged violence
as a means of protest.
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[Malcolm X] We need an organization
that no one downtown loves.
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We need one that's ready
and willing to take action,
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- any kind of action...
- [audience reacts]
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Not when the man downtown
sees fit but when we see fit.
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- [audience affirms]
- By any means necessary.
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[Jesse Jackson] Malcolm
X was a black nationalist
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who thought white people were barbaric
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by not allowing us to
use public facilities.
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In that season of fear and polarization
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driven by former slaveholders
and segregationists,
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the argument was that Malcolm
did not deserve a platform.
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00:26:20,086 --> 00:26:22,153
[Hugh Hefner] In the spring of 1963,
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00:26:22,154 --> 00:26:24,924
Malcolm X agreed to sit down with us.
449
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[Spec] We can't publish this.
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"The white man must realize
that the sins of the fathers
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are about to be visited upon
the heads of the children
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who have continued those sins,
453
00:26:39,972 --> 00:26:42,140
only in more sophisticated ways."
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00:26:42,141 --> 00:26:44,175
This is practically
a declaration of war.
455
00:26:44,176 --> 00:26:46,211
If I'm not mistaken, it's what
he's been saying for years.
456
00:26:46,212 --> 00:26:48,914
It is not our place to get
involved in his crusade.
457
00:26:48,915 --> 00:26:51,416
Why not? Because we're white?
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Because we don't like what he's saying?
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00:26:54,186 --> 00:26:57,555
Look, we've fought for years
against censorship of all kind,
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00:26:57,556 --> 00:27:00,258
to be able to express
ourselves the way we see fit,
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00:27:00,259 --> 00:27:03,094
live our life how we want to.
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00:27:03,095 --> 00:27:06,664
Let's not become hypocrites here, Spec.
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00:27:06,665 --> 00:27:08,334
Print this as is.
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[David Eisenbach] Malcolm X,
his message was really important.
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But his rhetoric and language
was definitely threatening,
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00:27:21,547 --> 00:27:25,283
even to those who had
embraced civil rights.
467
00:27:25,284 --> 00:27:27,618
Black people, you cannot
trust the white devil.
468
00:27:27,619 --> 00:27:31,990
The white devil will always
try to keep you in chains.
469
00:27:31,991 --> 00:27:35,526
So the fact that you
would have Hugh Hefner
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giving Malcolm X an
interview in Playboy magazine,
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00:27:39,265 --> 00:27:41,632
whoa, man, now that's wild.
472
00:27:41,633 --> 00:27:43,401
And they were interested...
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00:27:43,402 --> 00:27:45,503
[Jesse Jackson] Hefner
stood almost alone
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in the social, political role,
as a force to be dealt with.
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00:27:49,341 --> 00:27:51,042
It was courageous 'cause
he was being encouraged
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00:27:51,043 --> 00:27:54,245
to not publish the Malcolm X interview.
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00:27:54,246 --> 00:27:56,515
But he did not surrender.
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[Hugh Hefner] We knew that
publishing the interview
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could mean losing subscribers,
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00:28:03,322 --> 00:28:05,857
but I was willing to
bet America was ready
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00:28:05,858 --> 00:28:08,860
to hear his words.
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00:28:08,861 --> 00:28:11,430
As it turns out, I was right.
483
00:28:13,132 --> 00:28:15,466
After the Malcolm X interview ran,
484
00:28:15,467 --> 00:28:18,036
letters poured in from
all over the country,
485
00:28:18,037 --> 00:28:20,006
thanking us for covering his movement.
486
00:28:23,475 --> 00:28:27,212
After nearly a decade,
Playboy magazine was finally
487
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being recognized as much
for its editorial content
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as for its centerfolds.
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00:28:34,453 --> 00:28:37,022
But that was all about to change.
490
00:28:37,023 --> 00:28:41,792
[piano music playing inside]
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00:28:41,793 --> 00:28:44,163
[both panting]
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00:28:47,433 --> 00:28:48,733
[door opens]
493
00:28:48,734 --> 00:28:50,835
- Hef?!
- Bobbie!
494
00:28:50,836 --> 00:28:52,570
- Hef!
- What is it?
495
00:28:52,571 --> 00:28:53,972
The cops are downstairs.
496
00:28:53,973 --> 00:28:57,042
Just tell them I'll
deal with it tomorrow.
497
00:28:57,043 --> 00:28:58,344
They're here for you.
498
00:29:09,721 --> 00:29:10,923
[camera shutter clicking]
499
00:29:13,892 --> 00:29:16,194
[Hugh Hefner] On June 4, 1963,
500
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I was arrested and charged
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00:29:18,530 --> 00:29:22,301
with creating and distributing
an obscene publication.
502
00:29:24,370 --> 00:29:27,272
Newspapers quickly picked up the story,
503
00:29:27,273 --> 00:29:29,674
and I couldn't help wonder
why the city of Chicago
504
00:29:29,675 --> 00:29:31,978
was coming after me now.
505
00:29:33,345 --> 00:29:35,346
We knew the magazine wasn't obscene
506
00:29:35,347 --> 00:29:37,615
because I knew my
plans for the magazine,
507
00:29:37,616 --> 00:29:39,684
I knew that the Supreme
Court had already established
508
00:29:39,685 --> 00:29:41,087
that nudity was not obscene.
509
00:29:42,188 --> 00:29:43,488
The difference with Playboy
510
00:29:43,489 --> 00:29:46,125
is that we went mainstream immediately.
511
00:29:50,696 --> 00:29:55,500
The obscene publication in
question was our June issue,
512
00:29:55,501 --> 00:29:57,835
specifically, an eight-page spread
513
00:29:57,836 --> 00:30:00,605
of actress Jayne Mansfield.
514
00:30:00,606 --> 00:30:03,141
Playboy had published nude photos
515
00:30:03,142 --> 00:30:05,977
of Mansfield twice before,
516
00:30:05,978 --> 00:30:09,680
but our new photos were unique.
517
00:30:09,681 --> 00:30:14,285
Taken on the set of her upcoming
film, Promises! Promises!,
518
00:30:14,286 --> 00:30:16,821
it was the first
mainstream Hollywood movie
519
00:30:16,822 --> 00:30:19,657
to feature a star in the nude.
520
00:30:19,658 --> 00:30:21,216
[Carrie Pitzulo] The
standards of obscenity
521
00:30:21,217 --> 00:30:23,350
were very vague in these years.
522
00:30:23,462 --> 00:30:26,331
Prosecutors claimed that those pictures
523
00:30:26,332 --> 00:30:28,566
were particularly obscene
524
00:30:28,567 --> 00:30:31,702
because there was a full-dressed man,
525
00:30:31,703 --> 00:30:35,473
another character from the film
sitting on the side of the bed,
526
00:30:35,474 --> 00:30:39,344
and they claimed that
the captions were obscene.
527
00:30:39,345 --> 00:30:41,346
They talked about Jayne Mansfield
528
00:30:41,347 --> 00:30:43,715
writhing around in the bed.
529
00:30:51,323 --> 00:30:54,925
After spending the night
in a Chicago jail cell,
530
00:30:54,926 --> 00:30:58,496
I was released on bail
and returned home to start
531
00:30:58,497 --> 00:31:02,268
working on how to fight
these ridiculous charges.
532
00:31:03,969 --> 00:31:07,672
There aren't a whole lot
of things in our society,
533
00:31:07,673 --> 00:31:09,574
not many publications,
534
00:31:09,575 --> 00:31:13,511
that are willing to stand
up and say sex is good.
535
00:31:13,512 --> 00:31:16,547
I'm the guy and Playboy's the magazine
536
00:31:16,548 --> 00:31:20,518
that is willing to say
sex is a good thing.
537
00:31:20,519 --> 00:31:23,354
Sexual imagery is a good thing.
538
00:31:23,355 --> 00:31:26,357
The act itself is a good thing.
539
00:31:26,358 --> 00:31:29,127
And before you can tell
me that it hurts somebody,
540
00:31:29,128 --> 00:31:32,064
you have to make a serious case.
541
00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:36,634
[David Eisenbach] What
makes something obscene?
542
00:31:36,635 --> 00:31:39,537
The Supreme Court still
hasn't come up with
543
00:31:39,538 --> 00:31:42,173
a legit definition,
a specific definition.
544
00:31:42,174 --> 00:31:46,411
It's intentionally
written in a vague way.
545
00:31:46,412 --> 00:31:51,382
So, if you were to try to
publish a national magazine,
546
00:31:51,383 --> 00:31:55,254
you are open, uh, to
prosecution left and right.
547
00:32:01,059 --> 00:32:04,295
[Eldon Sellers] We need to
avoid court at all costs.
548
00:32:04,296 --> 00:32:07,098
I just don't think
we have a choice here.
549
00:32:07,099 --> 00:32:08,899
And we have the money to settle.
550
00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:10,368
You think the city of
Chicago's gonna let us
551
00:32:10,369 --> 00:32:11,669
settle out of court?
552
00:32:11,670 --> 00:32:13,238
[Eldon] You know what? We gotta try.
553
00:32:13,239 --> 00:32:15,140
- I agree with that.
- We can afford it.
554
00:32:15,141 --> 00:32:17,342
[editor] We need to be prepared
for both eventualities, frankly.
555
00:32:17,343 --> 00:32:18,777
[discussion continues indistinctly]
556
00:32:22,848 --> 00:32:24,749
[Nadine Strossen] Hugh Hefner was facing
557
00:32:24,750 --> 00:32:27,785
a criminal sentence, a prison term.
558
00:32:27,786 --> 00:32:31,789
How many people are willing
to risk criminal prosecution?
559
00:32:31,790 --> 00:32:34,559
Even if you're ultimately acquitted,
560
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:39,597
you have enormous expenses,
enormous amount of time drained,
561
00:32:39,598 --> 00:32:43,601
and a big stigma, being accused
of engaging in obscenity.
562
00:32:43,602 --> 00:32:49,407
So you have to be willing
to place your resources
563
00:32:49,408 --> 00:32:51,877
and your reputation on the line.
564
00:32:54,246 --> 00:32:56,247
[Hugh Hefner] Despite my team's advice,
565
00:32:56,248 --> 00:32:59,417
I knew settling wasn't an option.
566
00:32:59,418 --> 00:33:03,221
These charges were
censorship, plain and simple,
567
00:33:03,222 --> 00:33:06,792
and no one was going to take
away my freedom of speech.
568
00:33:10,896 --> 00:33:13,398
[William Ming] I don't
take on cases that are easy.
569
00:33:13,399 --> 00:33:15,266
And I don't take on
cases I don't believe in.
570
00:33:15,267 --> 00:33:17,503
So you're saying this
case won't be easy?
571
00:33:20,506 --> 00:33:23,341
Six years ago, the Supreme Court ruled
572
00:33:23,342 --> 00:33:26,177
that it's not enough to
point to a single article
573
00:33:26,178 --> 00:33:28,579
or image to label a
publication as obscene.
574
00:33:28,580 --> 00:33:31,249
You have to look at
the magazine as a whole.
575
00:33:31,250 --> 00:33:31,799
Well, there you go,
576
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,510
Playboy's primarily focused
on lifestyle, not nudity.
577
00:33:34,786 --> 00:33:36,187
Correct.
578
00:33:36,188 --> 00:33:39,524
So... what's the catch?
579
00:33:39,525 --> 00:33:42,493
Well, when we go to court,
no matter how clearly
580
00:33:42,494 --> 00:33:45,563
we explain it, we'll be
at the mercy of a jury.
581
00:33:45,564 --> 00:33:48,766
[Hugh Hefner] The man I had
chosen to represent mehad already
582
00:33:48,767 --> 00:33:52,136
won some of America's
most controversial cases.
583
00:33:52,137 --> 00:33:54,772
His name was William Ming Jr.
584
00:33:54,773 --> 00:33:57,475
I look forward to seeing
you at the arraignment.
585
00:33:57,476 --> 00:33:59,578
- Thank you, William.
- You're welcome.
586
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,682
[Hugh Hefner] Three years earlier he
had defended Martin Luther King Jr.
587
00:34:04,683 --> 00:34:07,952
on perjury charges,
winning him an acquittal
588
00:34:07,953 --> 00:34:10,154
in front of an all-white jury.
589
00:34:10,155 --> 00:34:14,692
And a few years before that,
he served on the legal team
590
00:34:14,693 --> 00:34:17,528
that won the landmark
U.S. Supreme Court case,
591
00:34:17,529 --> 00:34:20,366
Brown v. The Board of Education.
592
00:34:24,903 --> 00:34:29,940
Ming was also involved
in the NAACP, the ACLU.
593
00:34:29,941 --> 00:34:32,277
Hef's very much into Civil Rights,
594
00:34:32,278 --> 00:34:33,879
so it was a perfect match.
595
00:34:37,916 --> 00:34:39,352
[Mike Wallace] Police yesterday carted
596
00:34:39,353 --> 00:34:41,952
two tons of obscene magazines, films,
597
00:34:41,953 --> 00:34:45,556
and photographs to the city
incinerator and burned them.
598
00:34:45,557 --> 00:34:48,559
[Hugh Hefner] In the weeks
leading up to the trial,
599
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,928
the city of Chicago
stepped up its efforts
600
00:34:50,929 --> 00:34:52,930
to damage our business.
601
00:34:52,931 --> 00:34:57,201
And anti-pornography activists
came out of the woodworks.
602
00:34:57,202 --> 00:35:00,438
[Charles Keating] Men who would
stand by and see their women
603
00:35:00,439 --> 00:35:03,240
degraded and debased as
they are with the breast
604
00:35:03,241 --> 00:35:07,746
and the buttock presentation
by Playboy are not men at all.
605
00:35:09,180 --> 00:35:11,048
[Hugh Hefner] But the
more they attacked,
606
00:35:11,049 --> 00:35:14,084
the more I knew I had to defend Playboy.
607
00:35:14,085 --> 00:35:17,622
In your June issue, you show
Jayne Mansfield unclothed,
608
00:35:17,623 --> 00:35:20,024
lying in bed with a man fully clothed.
609
00:35:20,025 --> 00:35:21,292
Mm-hmm.
610
00:35:21,293 --> 00:35:22,993
It looks like you're asking for it.
611
00:35:22,994 --> 00:35:24,995
- Why?
- Uh, you...
612
00:35:24,996 --> 00:35:28,232
It looks as though the
photograph is designed
613
00:35:28,233 --> 00:35:30,234
since we have both
sexes involved here...
614
00:35:30,235 --> 00:35:31,469
Mm-hmm.
615
00:35:31,470 --> 00:35:33,671
... solely to arouse the viewer.
616
00:35:33,672 --> 00:35:35,940
The difficulty is most
people who get into censorship
617
00:35:35,941 --> 00:35:37,575
really know very little about it.
618
00:35:37,576 --> 00:35:39,410
They don't know much
about it psychologically.
619
00:35:39,411 --> 00:35:41,412
They don't really recognize the effect
620
00:35:41,413 --> 00:35:42,813
that these things have.
621
00:35:42,814 --> 00:35:44,248
And so what we were
really doing was, uh,
622
00:35:44,249 --> 00:35:46,617
reporting on a, on a movie in the making
623
00:35:46,618 --> 00:35:49,420
and, uh, since a name
personality was involved,
624
00:35:49,421 --> 00:35:51,923
the pictures we felt had
legitimate journalistic interest.
625
00:35:54,225 --> 00:35:56,927
[Mike Wallace] This morning
a man is on trial in Chicago
626
00:35:56,928 --> 00:36:00,566
charged with violating that
city's laws against obscenity.
627
00:36:03,034 --> 00:36:06,537
He is Hugh Hefner, publisher
of Playboy magazine.
628
00:36:06,538 --> 00:36:09,139
Many court cases involving
motion pictures, books,
629
00:36:09,140 --> 00:36:12,176
and magazines have left
considerable gray areas
630
00:36:12,177 --> 00:36:14,780
in determining just what
is salacious and obscene.
631
00:36:18,484 --> 00:36:22,620
[Hugh Hefner] The trial
began on November 20, 1963,
632
00:36:22,621 --> 00:36:24,254
and from the beginning,
633
00:36:24,255 --> 00:36:29,193
jury selection put us
at a huge disadvantage.
634
00:36:29,194 --> 00:36:30,115
[Richard Rosenzweig] We discovered
635
00:36:30,116 --> 00:36:33,016
that they essentially rigged the jury
636
00:36:33,098 --> 00:36:35,800
with not only almost all women,
637
00:36:35,801 --> 00:36:40,906
but people from very
conservative organizations.
638
00:36:43,842 --> 00:36:45,710
[Hugh Hefner] The
moment the trial began,
639
00:36:45,711 --> 00:36:49,146
it was clear we were
fighting an uphill battle.
640
00:36:49,147 --> 00:36:50,981
For more than a decade,
641
00:36:50,982 --> 00:36:54,184
Playboy magazine has done
more to damage American values
642
00:36:54,185 --> 00:36:57,922
than any other publication
currently in circulation.
643
00:36:57,923 --> 00:37:01,959
It is up to you, ladies
and gentlemen of the jury,
644
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,662
to protect the basic human decency
645
00:37:04,663 --> 00:37:06,831
that this country stands for.
646
00:37:06,832 --> 00:37:09,800
[William Ming] Your sworn
duty, as members of the jury,
647
00:37:09,801 --> 00:37:13,604
is to defend and uphold the
laws of the Constitution.
648
00:37:13,605 --> 00:37:17,307
A constitution which not only
protects the freedom of Mr. Hefner,
649
00:37:17,308 --> 00:37:20,377
but which also protect the
freedoms of your fellow citizens.
650
00:37:20,378 --> 00:37:23,247
[Jesse Jackson] Hefner's point
was, you had the right not to buy,
651
00:37:23,248 --> 00:37:25,750
but not the right to deny
it to be seen and to be read.
652
00:37:25,751 --> 00:37:28,318
And when he was attacked on that basis,
653
00:37:28,319 --> 00:37:30,989
he would not surrender
his First Amendment rights.
654
00:37:32,991 --> 00:37:36,427
[Hugh Hefner] The prosecution
launched into their case.
655
00:37:36,428 --> 00:37:38,262
Your honor, the prosecution
656
00:37:38,263 --> 00:37:40,165
would like to call its first witness.
657
00:37:41,667 --> 00:37:43,501
In your professional opinion,
658
00:37:43,502 --> 00:37:45,603
do you find these pages to be obscene?
659
00:37:45,604 --> 00:37:47,404
Without reservation.
660
00:37:47,405 --> 00:37:49,840
[John Melaniphy] What do you
think is the aim of all this?
661
00:37:49,841 --> 00:37:53,944
In my opinion, to stimulate or inflame
662
00:37:53,945 --> 00:37:56,514
the sexual appetite
of the average person.
663
00:37:56,515 --> 00:37:59,016
[Hugh Hefner] For nearly three weeks,
664
00:37:59,017 --> 00:38:02,019
the prosecution argued
that the pictures in Playboy
665
00:38:02,020 --> 00:38:05,090
could incite readers
to commit sexual crimes.
666
00:38:07,926 --> 00:38:09,961
Then something unexpected happened.
667
00:38:20,639 --> 00:38:24,910
Kennedy's death was the first
presidential assassination of our time.
668
00:38:27,312 --> 00:38:29,279
It was earth-shattering,
669
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,951
and it would come to
define a generation.
670
00:38:33,952 --> 00:38:38,288
This is a sad time for all people.
671
00:38:38,289 --> 00:38:42,827
We have suffered a loss
that cannot be weighed.
672
00:38:42,828 --> 00:38:45,095
[Hugh Hefner] The world came to a halt.
673
00:38:45,096 --> 00:38:50,334
[Lyndon Johnson] For me, it
is a deep, personal tragedy.
674
00:38:50,335 --> 00:38:54,972
I know that the world shares the sorrow
675
00:38:54,973 --> 00:38:59,044
thatMrs. Kennedy and her family bear.
676
00:39:02,047 --> 00:39:04,081
[newscaster] His firm
commitments to support the cause
677
00:39:04,082 --> 00:39:06,283
of democracies throughout the world...
678
00:39:06,284 --> 00:39:08,519
[Hugh Hefner] Suddenly, the
future of the progressive movement
679
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:09,787
was in question.
680
00:39:09,788 --> 00:39:11,488
[newscaster] Across the country,
681
00:39:11,489 --> 00:39:14,259
a great outpouringof
grief, shock, and revulsion.
682
00:39:16,427 --> 00:39:18,050
[David Eisenbach] JFK's assassination
683
00:39:18,051 --> 00:39:20,951
for the generation of young people
684
00:39:20,999 --> 00:39:23,968
is the same as the
attack on Pearl Harbor was
685
00:39:23,969 --> 00:39:25,803
for the prior generation.
686
00:39:25,804 --> 00:39:28,873
Subsequent generations the
blowing up of the Challenger
687
00:39:28,874 --> 00:39:33,878
and 9/11 in that it destroys
the optimism and idealism.
688
00:39:33,879 --> 00:39:38,949
It is a break with a sense
of security in the past
689
00:39:38,950 --> 00:39:40,951
that everything was fine.
690
00:39:40,952 --> 00:39:44,990
And a reminder that
no one is invulnerable.
691
00:39:48,126 --> 00:39:50,094
[Hugh Hefner] But just as
the country was struggling
692
00:39:50,095 --> 00:39:52,096
to come to grips with the loss,
693
00:39:52,097 --> 00:39:55,833
and life seemed like it would
never get back to normal,
694
00:39:55,834 --> 00:39:58,368
it was finally time to hear the verdict.
695
00:39:58,369 --> 00:40:02,239
And now, the fate of the Playboy empire
696
00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:05,509
was in the hands of the jury.
697
00:40:05,510 --> 00:40:07,311
Everything I had worked for
698
00:40:07,312 --> 00:40:09,815
would be affected by this decision.
699
00:40:12,918 --> 00:40:16,954
[woman]
Every little movement
700
00:40:16,955 --> 00:40:20,991
Every motion of your hips
701
00:40:20,992 --> 00:40:24,094
I feel the compulsion
702
00:40:24,095 --> 00:40:29,600
To pull you to my sweet lips
703
00:40:29,601 --> 00:40:33,604
Is it a black magic spell
704
00:40:33,605 --> 00:40:35,674
You put me under?
705
00:40:37,375 --> 00:40:40,911
This miracle moment
706
00:40:40,912 --> 00:40:44,982
Never let it end
707
00:40:44,983 --> 00:40:47,953
Every little movement
708
00:40:49,020 --> 00:40:52,923
Is beyond improvement
709
00:40:52,924 --> 00:40:55,826
You are the magician
710
00:40:55,827 --> 00:41:00,798
I've been wishing for forever
711
00:41:00,799 --> 00:41:04,902
Every little movement
712
00:41:04,903 --> 00:41:07,973
Every little movement
713
00:41:07,974 --> 00:41:12,974
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