Bunny

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'Russell Miller tells this hypnotic tale with style, wft and irony wonderfully funny' |
BUNNY is the astonishing story of an international | empire that started out on a kitchen table and neariyl came to grief on a roulette table. It is the barely I ! credible t^e of Playboy magazine and the man who 1 founded it j Hugh Hefner, who fed his readers the sexuÉ fántasies they wanted, dressed the fantasies up in aT glamorous lifestyle, lived out the fantasies and the J lifestyle himself, and amassed a fortune in doing so. |
At the height of his success - flying in his personal jéf from his home in Chicago to his mansion in Los | Angeles, each complete with live-in mistress - Hefnen was one of the most envied, and also,one of the most | despised men in America.
Whüe he slept all day and played all night his staff Ij would cruise the streets for girls to make up the i numbers at the weekly star-studded parties. While he threw temper tantrums if his gravy was lumpy or his f matches... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'Russell Miller tells this hypnotic tale with style, wft and irony wonderfully funny' |
BUNNY is the astonishing story of an international | empire that started out on a kitchen table and neariyl came to grief on a roulette table. It is the barely I ! credible t^e of Playboy magazine and the man who 1 founded it j Hugh Hefner, who fed his readers the sexuÉ fántasies they wanted, dressed the fantasies up in aT glamorous lifestyle, lived out the fantasies and the J lifestyle himself, and amassed a fortune in doing so. |
At the height of his success - flying in his personal jéf from his home in Chicago to his mansion in Los | Angeles, each complete with live-in mistress - Hefnen was one of the most envied, and also,one of the most | despised men in America.
Whüe he slept all day and played all night his staff Ij would cruise the streets for girls to make up the i numbers at the weekly star-studded parties. While he threw temper tantrums if his gravy was lumpy or his f matches were in the wrong placé, his apparently | successfulcompany was completely out of control, (; riddled with intrigue, hopelessly mismanaged and i inexor^ly crumbling. I
Here then is the real story of Playboy: its meteoric ]Kse| on the crest of the âlScual revolution, and then the I souring of the dream, accompaiiied by suicide and i murder, rumours of Mafîa involvement, and the squali4; corporate politics that spulçd blood on the boardroom floor and brought Playboy Enterprises to the brink of collapse. Vissza