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Hugh Hefner offers to take Playboy private, Penthouse owner vows competing bid for bunny brand. Hefner wants to buy out the portion of the Playboy empire he doesn’t already own in a bet that the iconic brand can still bring in profits even if the ink-on-paper magazine is past its prime. Hefner, who founded Playboy magazine more than a half-century ago, is apparently not alone in thinking Playboy …
JOURNALISM/BLOGGING: Poll: Is Roger Ebert Correct to Dismiss Modern Architecture As ‘Totalitarian’?
Roger Ebert is giving a big thumbs-down to modern architecture. The Chicago Sun-Times film critic uses his blog to sound off on a variety of hot-button topics, from the Catholic Church to Wall Street greed. On Tuesday, Ebert posted a blog entry in which he expresses his personal aversion toward modern architecture and what he calls the children of Mies van der Rohe…
JOURNALISM/BLOGGING: Hefner’s Move to Take Playboy Enterprises Private Could Put It in Play
Founder of the struggling adult publishing empire, in an effort to reassert control, proposes to buy all outstanding shares he doesn’t own. But rival Penthouse’s owner is preparing a competing bid. Hugh Hefner is 84, but he isn’t about to go quietly into the night. Faced with a tepid stock price and growing pressure from Wall Street, Hefner startled the media world Monday by announcing a bid to …










