{"id":21923,"date":"2010-07-30T13:04:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T21:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21923"},"modified":"2010-07-30T13:18:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T21:18:03","slug":"new-hugh-hefner-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21923","title":{"rendered":"New Hugh Hefner Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/gog\/movies\/hugh-hefner-playboy-activist-and-rebel,1163675\/critic-review.html#reviewNum1\">The Washington Post says<\/a>: Hugh Hefner is an American hero. And not just to 14-year-old boys.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the message of &#8220;Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel.&#8221; Part hagiography and part history of the girlie-magazine-turned-literary-journal known as Playboy, the documentary by Brigitte Berman takes a mostly uncritical look at the man known almost universally as Hef. In the movie&#8217;s view &#8212; and in the views of the vast majority of its talking heads &#8212; the now-84-year-old publisher should be remembered not for his iconic skin mag, but as a tireless champion of gay and civil rights, free speech and liberty, and as a ferocious opponent of censorship, violence, war and religious persecution.<\/p>\n<p>Those few unlucky souls who appear on camera badmouthing him &#8212; mainly feminist Susan Brownmiller, singer Pat Boone and conservative talk-radio host Dennis Prager &#8212; end up sounding like humorless nerds at best, and puritanical killjoys at worst. &#8220;Without some suppression of the sexual genie,&#8221; Prager sniffs, &#8220;happiness is not possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ON HIS RADIO SHOW TODAY, DENNIS PRAGER SAYS: &#8220;For the left, any suggestion that we should in any way suppress our sexual desires drives the cultural left into a fit. The left is undermining of liberty but there is one area where if you suggest you not act out every sexual desire, the cultural left goes bonkers. He could&#8217;ve chosen any line.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post says: Hugh Hefner is an American hero. And not just to 14-year-old boys. That&#8217;s the message of &#8220;Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel.&#8221; Part hagiography and part history of the girlie-magazine-turned-literary-journal known as Playboy, the documentary by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21923\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[23048,29761,23049,20243,23051,23050],"class_list":["post-21923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-sex","tag-14-year-old-boys","tag-dennis-prager","tag-hefner-documentary","tag-hugh-hefner","tag-religious-persecution","tag-tireless-champion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21927,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923\/revisions\/21927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}