You might think that Mikhail Prokhorov would have had a not-so-soft case of buyer’s remorse this past spring. A month before the start of the National Basketball Association season, the 45-year-old Russian billionaire struck a deal to buy the New Jersey Nets from the real estate developer Bruce C. Ratner. When the league owners finally […]
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Hugh Hefner Has Been Good for Us
Hefner and Playboy have been around so long that not everyone remembers what America used to be like. It was sexually repressed and socially restrictive. Many people joined in the fight against that unhealthy society. Hefner was one of them, and a case can can be made that Playboy had a greater influence on our […]
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Playboy Interview: Sarah Silverman
It’s a process. When you have an act that’s polished and you’re in the zone, you can’t wait to get out there. But I’m in a place where I’m backstage going, “I have fucking nothing!” I just feel like a loser. But I’ve also realized I can’t go out and keep doing the same fake […]
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Tony Curtis, The Last of the Playboys
For a guy who started life as Bernard Schwartz, son of a struggling tailor in the Bronx, Tony Curtis has done alright for himself.
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Playboy Interview: Bill Gates (1994)
Playboy Interview: Bill Gates (1994) PLAYBOY: What else is Microsoft involved in? We’ve heard about software that can control washing machines, for instance. GATES: [Laughs] The washing machine example is extreme, but people do sometimes kid us that we see an opportunity to sell our software in broad areas. We are involved in a new […]
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Tabloid Takedown
Tabloid Takedown The John Edwards tale began, like so many National Enquirer investigations, with a phone call. When the tip line rang in the paper’s Santa Monica office, reporters often raced to answer it. Rick Egusquiza grabbed it late one afternoon in fall 2007, knowing full well that nine out of 10 calls were worthless, […]
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Alex Pappademas: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
Alex Pappademas is a staff writer for GQ. *** Rules: Nothing not published this year, nothing from GQ, because I work there, and—in the spirit of the assignment—nothing I didn’t first read on my iPhone. (And I realize now, having done this whole thing, that everything on the main list is from a print-based publication, […]
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Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty. John Lennon, in an interview with David Sheff for Playboy; September 8-28, 1980. (via lindsaykap)
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Longreads Topic Du Jour: The Playboy Interview
Longreads Topic Du Jour: The Playboy Interview This morning we posted a classic—Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Martin Luther King Jr. —which served as another reminder of how many great (and, yes, long) interviews Hef’s magazine has published over the years. Here are a few more from the Longreads archive (Jimmy Carter, John & Yoko, Steve […]
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Playboy Interview: Bill Gates (1994)
Playboy Interview: Bill Gates (1994) PLAYBOY: What else is Microsoft involved in? We’ve heard about software that can control washing machines, for instance. GATES: [Laughs] The washing machine example is extreme, but people do sometimes kid us that we see an opportunity to sell our software in broad areas. We are involved in a new […]
