The Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award was created by Christie Hefner " to honor individuals who have made significant contributions in the vital effort to protect and enhance First Amendment rights for Americans.

Teresa Carpenter's " Death of a Playmate " article about Dorothy Stratten's murder was published in The Village Voice and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize, and while Bogdanovich did not criticize Carpenter's article in his book, she had lambasted both Bogdanovich and Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, claiming that Stratten was a victim of them as much as of her husband, Paul Snider, who killed her and himself.

That morning, he had mailed two suicide notes, one to Dorothy ( who at a coroner's inquest testified that he had given his reasons ) and one to his friend and boss, Playboy editor-publisher Hugh Hefner.

Waltham Forest is home to a number of musicians that have found success in the UK, including East 17, Blazin ' Squad, and Indie band Hefner, who formed in Walthamstow.

Tension between Cave and Howard soon came to a head, but it was Harvey who first left the group – their final tour saw Des Hefner on drums.

* Robot Chicken episode 216 included a Playmobil sketch including the " Playmobil Mansion " and a character appearance by Hugh Hefner, who also lent his voice.

In a 1998 interview, Hefner stated that he still disliked the film because it was a poor portrayal of Stratten, although he did commend Eric Roberts for " an excellent portrayal of the sick husband who murdered her.

The Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards, a program of the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation, are given to people who a panel of judges believes have made significant contributions to the protection and enhancement of the rights enshrined in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

However, in contrast to Hugh Hefner ( who threw wild parties at his Playboy Mansions ), life at Guccione's mansion was remarkably sedate even during the hedonistic 1970s.

The British band Hefner released a song titled " Down Street ", on their 2006 album Catfight, according to the sleeve notes of which, it is set in the early 1930s and tells the story of two lovers who meet at the station.

Originally, the guests on these segments were NPR personalities and reporters, but the pool of guests later expanded to include mostly celebrity guests, ranging from former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who was asked questions on the history of Hugh Hefner and Playboy magazine, to author Salman Rushdie who was asked about the history of Pez candy.

That year, Blackwood's main primary opponent was car dealer Sherrill Morgan who was the Republicans ' 1994 nominee to face Hefner.

's Torrie Wilson and Sable, who had recently been featured in a pictorial in Playboy, against Raw's Stacy Keibler and Miss Jackie, who had protested the decision made by Hugh Hefner to not feature them.

In 2004, Hugh Hefner, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Playboy, who had previously worked for Esquire, wrote that " The US Post Office attempted to put Esquire out of business in the 1940s by taking away its second-class mailing permit.

* Discovering that Hugh Hefner has been posing as the " Phantom of the Fens ", a masked highwayman who regularly holds up Aunt Meg in order to steal the supplies of laboratory rabbits that her farm provides for vivisection purposes.

It is named after Robert A. Hefner, who served as mayor of Oklahoma City from April 11, 1939 to April 8, 1947.

Allan John Melvin ( February 18, 1923 – January 17, 2008 ) was an American character actor who appeared in several television shows, including the roles of Corporal Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show ; Alice's boyfriend Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch ; and Archie Bunker's friend Barney Hefner on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place.

Cameo appearances in the movie include Kevin Smith ( filmmaker and comic book writer ), Hugh Hefner ( originator of Playboy ), Stan Lee of Marvel Comics, Lloyd Kaufman ( filmmaker and president of Troma Films ), actor Bruce Campbell, Peter David ( comic book writer ), Paul Dini ( comic book and animated series writer ), Bruce Timm ( comic book and animated series writer ), David Prowse ( who played Darth Vader opposite Hamill in Star Wars ), actor Peter Mayhew ( who played Chewbacca alongside Hamill in Star Wars ), actor Jeremy Bulloch ( who played Boba Fett alongside Hamill in The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi ), actor and voiceover performer Edd Hall, special effects designer Greg Nicotero, and Matt Groening ( creator of the comic Life in Hell and animated TV series The Simpsons and Futurama ).

Dorothy never again spoke with her late husband's family nor with Hefner, and remarried approximately a year later.

* Hugh Hefner ( 1926 -), founder of Playboy Magazine ; future burial site next to Marilyn Monroe

In fact, the beginning of the modern men's glossy magazine ( or girlie magazine ) can be traced to the 1953 purchase by Hugh Hefner of a photograph of Marilyn Monroe to use as the centerfold of his new magazine Playboy.

Ms. Hefner said that the election of Barack Obama as the next President had inspired her to give more time to charitable work, and that the decision to step down was her own.

He retired from the House the next year and became a lobbyist, working alongside his third wife, Stacye, the daughter of fellow North Carolina Congressman Bill Hefner.

Hefner had a minor stroke in 1985 at age 59.

Hefner then began to move an ever-changing coterie of young women into the mansion, even dating up to seven girls at once, among them, Brande Roderick, Izabella St. James, Tina Marie Jordan, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson.

* December – Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy Magazine ; it sells 54, 175 copies at $. 50 each.

Walking trails line Lake Hefner and Lake Overholser in the northwest part of the city and downtown at the canal and the Oklahoma River.

In 1961, while working at the Black-owned Roberts Show Bar in Chicago, he was hired by Hugh Hefner to work at the Chicago Playboy Club after Hefner heard him perform the following material before a largely white audience:

According to the Wall Street Journal, Hefner and his wife announced in March 2009 that they are listing Mrs. Hefner's home for sale at $ US28 million.

The original Playboy Mansion was a 70-room classicizing French brick and limestone residence in Chicago at 1340 North State Parkway, which had been built in 1899 for Dr. George Swift Isham ; it was acquired by Hefner in 1959.

* In 2000, WWF's Eddie Guerrero appeared at the mansion in hopes to speak to Hugh Hefner about stopping the release of girlfriend Joanie " Chyna " Laurer's first photo shoot.

* A similar segment was shot in 2003, when WWE diva Nidia Guenard made an appearance at the Mansion during an episode of SmackDown, where she attempted to get past security in order to speak to Hefner.

* In 2008, WWE Divas Maria Kanellis and Ashley Massaro guest appeared at one of the Playboy Mansion parties hosted by Hugh Hefner.

The magazine featured glossy ( and costly ) production standards and had the misfortune of debuting at the same time that a financial crunch forced publisher Hefner to scale back his non-Playboy publishing interests.

During his monologue at a Friars Club roast of Hugh Hefner three weeks after the September 11 attacks, Gottfried joked that he had intended to catch a plane, but couldn't get a direct flight because " they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first.

Known for his playboy lifestyle, Cornfeld numbered among his acquaintances Victor Lownes, Richard Harris, Al Capp, Tony Curtis, and Hugh Hefner, at whose Playboy Mansion he visited and attended parties.

After receiving a Dallas Cowboys welcome in Texas, stops were made at the Cadillac Ranch ; Santa Ana, New Mexico ; the Grand Canyon ; and Las Vegas, Nevada before the final stop at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills where Hugh Hefner and Playmates awarded trophies.

Upon arriving at the Playboy Mansion with the twisted grille from the first Phantom, Hugh Hefner presented the duo with a fitting trophy, a gumball machine.

With Village People gaining fame, Hughes became one of the icons of the disco era, even appearing in a special television broadcast in Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner.

Germany, Austria and Scandinavia used the Hefnerkerze, a unit based on the output of a Hefner lamp.

The UCLA Film Archive, in association with Turner Entertainment and with funding provided by Hugh Hefner, the original film was restored and released in comparison with the 1946 version in 1996.

Hugh Marston " Hef " Hefner ( born April 9, 1926 ) is an American magazine publisher, founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises.

Hefner was born in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of two sons born to Grace Caroline ( née Swanson ; 1895 – 1997 ) and Glenn Lucius Hefner ( 1896 – 1976 ), both teachers.

On his father's side, Hefner claims he is a direct descendant of Plymouth governor William Bradford.

After it was rejected by Esquire magazine in 1955, Hefner agreed to publish in Playboy the Charles Beaumont science fiction short story, " The Crooked Man ", about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm.

After receiving angry letters to the magazine, Hefner wrote a response to criticism where he said, " If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.

On June 4, 1963, Hefner was arrested for selling obscene literature after an issue of Playboy featuring nude shots of Jayne Mansfield was released.

Hefner called a press conference to allege that she had been driven to suicide by narcotics agents and federal officers.

Hefner further claimed the government was out to get him because of Playboy philosophy and its advocacy of more liberal drug laws.

A documentary by Brigitte Berman, Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, was released on July 30, 2010.

He had previously granted full access to documentary filmmaker and television producer Kevin Burns for the A & E Biography special Hugh Hefner: American Playboy in 1996.

Hefner and Burns later collaborated on numerous other television projects, most notably on The Girls Next Door, a reality series that ran for six seasons ( 2005 – 2009 ) and 90 episodes.

In 1999, Hefner financed the Clara Bow documentary, Discovering the It Girl.

Hefner married Northwestern University student Mildred Williams ( born 1926 ) in 1949.

True Hollywood Story profile of Hefner revealed that Mildred allowed him to sleep with other women, out of guilt for her infidelity and in the hopes that it would preserve their marriage.

Hefner was quick to rebound and soon began dating his new " Number One " girlfriend, Crystal Harris, along with 20-year-old identical twin and models Kristina and Karissa Shannon.

After an 11-year separation, Hefner filed for divorce from Conrad stating irreconcilable differences.

Hefner has said that he only remained married to her for the sake of his children, and his youngest child had just turned 18.

On December 24, 2010, Hefner presented an engagement ring to Crystal Harris, publicly announcing the proposal the following day.