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♪♪

[Hugh Hefner]
The year was 1968

and America was still reeling from three
major assassinations

and an ongoing war in Vietnam.

♪ I just sit here every day ♪

♪ Wondering what you
have to say ♪

But Playboy was keeping up
with the tumultuous times...

running articles about
politics...

race...

and social justice.

Soon the magazine was earning
a reputation

as the voice of the young,
progressive movement

that was sweeping the country.

[Jason Buhrmester] Hef did a great job
of evolving the magazine

from the '50s suit,
dinner jacket,

cocktail version of Playboy

to the '60s Summer of Love
version of Playboy.

He was always ready
to adapt the magazine

to what was going on in culture.

Most of the time
he was already very far ahead

of where the culture was going.

[Hugh Hefner]
As we evolved...

readership continued to boom.

And by the end of the 1960s,

one in four college men
subscribed to Playboy.

But just because the magazine
had matured

didn't mean we took ourselves
too seriously.

My new TV show,
Playboy After Dark,

showed that,
at the end of the day,

we were still about having fun.

♪♪

[announcer] Playpen After Dark!
with your host...

[Hugh Hefner] In its first year,
the show was popular enough

to be spoofed
by Johnny Carson.

[Johnny Carson]
Each week I'm here on the show

to kinda break down
ancient sex beliefs, you know,

combat puritan morality and get
my hands on some good stuff.

[Hugh Hefner] Between filming Playboy
After Dark in L.A.

and traveling around the world

to meet with Playboy Club
managers and magazine editors,

I was always in the air

and barely spending any time
in my Chicago home.

So I decided it was time
to bring the Playboy mansion...

to the skies.

[woman]
♪ Every little movement♪

♪ Every little thing
you do♪

♪ Is it sleight of hand♪

♪ That commands my heart
to love you?♪

♪ Every little movement♪

♪ Every
little movement♪♪

[Hugh Hefner]
In the spring of 1968,

I tasked my executive
assistant, Dick Rosenzweig,

with an ambitious project.

[Dick Rosenzweig]
Hef came to me one day

and he said he needed
a private aircraft.

And he wanted
a very special one.

He said the plane
should be painted black...

because there is no other
black plane out there,

and we'll put a white bunny
on the tail.

I love it.

♪ I got a song
that ain't got no melody ♪

[Hugh Hefner] It was a status symbol
just to fly private,

but I wanted to take it
a step further,

so I took a commercial
airliner,

gutted it,

and retrofitted it in a style
that was pure Playboy.

♪ Will it go 'round
in circles? ♪

♪ Will it fly high
like a bird up in the sky? ♪

[Hugh Hefner] Before long my jet
became known

as the Big Bunny.

If Hugh Hefner can afford a
personalized airplane like this,

his money must multiply
like bunnies.

♪ I got a story that
ain't got no moral ♪

[Hugh Hefner] That plane cost five and
a half million dollars...

over 38 million dollars today, and it
was worth every penny.

We have a series of buttons here

that can control
the polarized windows.

It can go all the way from light
to grey to total blackness.

It can seat 38,
sleep 16.

And has additional gas facility

so that it can go anyplace
in the world.

[Hugh Hefner] The Big Bunny had
a luxury bedroom,

shower,

a TV and movie theater,

and of course a dance floor.

♪♪

♪♪

[announcer] Constantly surrounded
by gorgeous girls

and beautiful belongings,

Hefner's world may seem enviable
to some.

At 44 he's unquestionably
king rabbit

and certainly he takes every
opportunity to enjoy his dough.

The Big Bunny,
it was an experience.

It was like a house with wings.

I remember the first time
our crew flew with Hef.

He saw our luggage and he didn't
like the way it looked.

So he went and bought everybody
luggage.

"If you're gonna fly with me,
you're gonna have good luggage."

[Hugh Hefner] My every need was
taken care of...

by our jet bunnies.

Jet bunnies did not wear
the traditional bunny outfit.

They wore black mini dresses,
scarves and boots,

very much modeled after
the Bond girls

that were so popular
at the time.

[Hugh Hefner] The Big Bunny became
a media sensation.

It is the only way to fly.

[Don Rickles]
Really?!

Who cares?

These are all people who work
at the A&P.

[Hugh Hefner] But I had no idea that the
next time I flew to L.A.

my life would change forever.

[man]
It's in five minutes.

Thanks for coming
to the set.

-What do you think?
-I like it.

I'm not so sure about
the furniture in front.

We've got an orange sofa
down in the back there,

I know you love that color.

Okay, great.

And I think we should use
the red carpet in the back.

[Hugh Hefner] Every week on
Playboy After Dark,

we packed the sound stage

with great-looking models
and extras.

Well, if you're happy, let me
take you through to make-up.

One day, one of them captured
my full attention.

[Hugh Hefner]
I bought the plane.

I'd already committed to doing
Playboy After Dark.

I was preparing to live a new
adventure and a new experience

in a new time frame,
or a new chapter in my life.

And there she was.

[Hugh Hefner] That wholesome beauty
was Barbara Klein,

who would soon come to be known as
Barbi Benton.

[Barbi Benton] I met Hef on the set of
Playboy After Dark,

and he asked me if I would, uh,

like to go out with him
that night.

How about we go out for
a drink after this?

You and me?

And I said, "I don't know.

I've never been out with anybody
over 24."

And he said, "Neither have I."

♪ Ba da ba ba ba ba ♪

♪ Ba ba ba ba ba ♪

♪ Baa, la la ba ba ba ♪

♪ I remember Sunday morning ♪

[Hugh Hefner] Barbi had been attending
UCLA to become a veterinarian,

but when she realized

she couldn't stand the sight
of blood,

she quickly gave up the career.

She began modeling part-time,

acted in a few small
commercials

and then took a job as an extra on
Playboy After Dark.

I'd been with my fair share
of women,

but from the moment
I met Barbi,

I knew she was different.

♪ I remember Sunday morning ♪

♪ I would meet him
at the park ♪

Hef is the most romantic person
that I've ever been with.

And he put me on a pedestal
and worshipped me.

I hadn't been around anybody

who was that affectionate
and wanted me so badly.

I mean just to be with me.

To sit next to me
and hold my hand.

He was just so excited.
He was like a little boy.

♪ Sunday will never
be the same ♪

♪ I lost my baby's heart ♪

♪ I must be back again ♪

[Richard Rosenzweig] Hef saw her as the
ultimate girl next door,

and he found her refreshing,
coed-like and a lot of fun.

And Hefner really fell for her.

[Hugh Hefner] From that point on,
all my time in Los Angeles

was spent with Barbi...

both off-camera and on.

What kind of color would you be,
Barbi?

Oh, I'd be sexy, I'd be...

I'd have to be red,

because it's sexy
and a little bit mysterious.

Oh, wait a minute.
Burnt orange.

Because that's
your favorite color.

That's my favorite color!

[Hugh Hefner] She essentially became
my co-host.

I notice that Sonny and Cher

are about ready to do
a number for us.

And maybe Barbi would like
to do the introduction.

[Hugh Hefner] And to everyone
who watched the show,

our chemistry was impossible
to miss.

[Brett Ratner]
Hef's girlfriend, Barbi Benton.

I mean, God, Barbi Benton,
I was so in love with her.

She was just a regular girl.
But she had beauty.

[Sonny Bono] Simon says, girls,
arms around the boys.

Simon says, bring your noses
two inches apart.

Simon says, bring you noses
an inch apart.

Simon says, closer.

Simon says, closer.

Simon says, be creative.

Simon says, stop, Hef.

Hef, Simon and Barbara,
please say stop or you'll be...

Simon says, stop!

I'm out of the game.

♪♪

[Hugh Hefner]
With Barbi by my side,

I became a new man.

[Barbi Benton] I think we should
go somewhere.

[Hugh Hefner] Where?

Yes!
What about Europe?

-Europe?
-Yeah!

I did things with Barbi
that I had never done before

and I've never done since.

And I spent a great deal
of my time where she was.

It was almost as if I was
planning for that relationship

before I met her.

It was a wonderful time
in my life.

Africa!

Where would you like to go
in Africa?

Oh, gosh.

[Barbi Benton] I think I managed to bring
him out of his shell.

He was a hermit.
He never got out of his house.

♪ When I loved you so ♪

I got him to do things.

I'm still amazed at the things
we did.

One of the things that I loved
to do with Hef was travel.

We went to 16 different
countries on one trip.

It was romantic.

Everything we did was fun
and exciting.

♪♪

♪ It's an ill wind ♪

Hef and I had a lot of romance
in our lives.

Everywhere we went,
it was an adventure.

♪ ...love like I know
it should ♪

♪ And I say it's a good thing ♪

♪ To love someone ♪

[Hugh Hefner] Barbi was the most intensely
romantic relationship

that I think I had ever
been in.

I said publicly that it was
I thought the first time

I'd really been in love.

I was having the ultimate
high school courtship

in my early 40s.

♪ Ooh, ooh, yeah ♪

I have some news that
I think a lot of you

will be happy to hear.

Starting with the next issue,

it's time for me
to take a step back.

Now, I'm still going to be approving
every page of the magazine,

but this means no more
60-page memos, spec.

[Hugh Hefner]
With the magazine doing so well

and Barbi taking up
more of my time,

I finally decided it was time

to do something
I'd always resisted...

delegate.

I gave Tajiri, Spectorsky
and Kretchmer

more creative control
over the magazine,

and made Arnie Executive VP
of Playboy Enterprises.

But I saved one of
the most important assignments

for Victor Lownes.

♪♪

Over the last several years,

we'd successfully opened 15
Playboy Clubs within the U.S.

and 3 international locations.

But if we were going to become a
worldwide phenomenon,

there was only one place left
to go.

♪ You ought to hear the monkey when
he sings the blues ♪

♪ Monkey, oh yeah,
monkey, oh yeah ♪

London was home
to the swinging '60s,

an economic boom had brought
average earnings

almost twice as high
as the cost of living.

And on top of that,

it had the youngest population
of any city in the world.

With 40% of residents
under 25 years old,

they were all looking
to go out,

spend their money and have fun.

I knew Victor was the only man

who could develop
the London Playboy Club,

so I sent him over
to England

and he wasted no time
setting things in motion.

[Victor Lownes] London was really quite
a hot place.

And it seemed like a good move

and they decided to send me
over to organize it,

which I did.

[Marilyn Cole]
He'd never been to Britain,

but he threw himself
into London life.

When he was researching
everything,

he was taken to clubs
where there were gaming tables.

[Hugh Hefner] Thanks to a recent ruling
in London,

Vic had license to take the
club in a whole new direction.

[Victor Lownes]
Gambling had just become legalized.

I immediately thought
we ought to get into gambling

because it seemed like
a very profitable avenue.

[Marilyn Cole]
He called Hefner and said,

"Listen, Hef, they are gambling
here in Britain.

It's legal."

Because in America,
it was only in Vegas.

So Victor had
this brilliant idea

of opening Playboy as a casino.

♪♪

[Hugh Hefner]
After months of work

and a $2 million investment,
we held our grand opening.

1,500 guests attended
the black tie affair,

which was the most star-studded
in our history.

Sidney Poitier...

James Garner...

and even London royalty
were there.

The opening night guest list
is fascinating to me

because it's such a great
mélange of people.

'Cause he had
the Duke of Bedford,

Rudolph Nureyev was there,
the world famous ballet dancer.

And then of course
Roman Polanski.

Roman and Victor were very,
very close friends.

[Hugh Hefner] But no Playboy Club
would be complete

without top-notch
entertainment.

Luckily, Vic knew all the best
performers,

and we were able to treat
our guests

to a performance from one of the
fastest-rising comedians in America.

It was very sad and I didn't
know what the button was for.

And they told me
that if you lose a button,

you take a button off the inside

and you sew it onto the outside,
you got a button.

And, uh, I had the jacket
for two weeks

and, just my luck,

I lost from the outside
of my jacket, a button hole.

[laughter]

[Victor Lownes]
When we opened the club here,

we were bringing over acts
from America to perform.

Woody Allen opened the club.

He's a personal friend
and he lived right next door.

♪♪

[Hugh Hefner] Vic was in his element,
and just as I expected,

he created the perfect venue

to introduce Playboy
to London society.

♪ I had a girl,
she was my queen ♪

♪ She didn't love me
like I loved her ♪

It was an incredible party

and the club stayed open
24 hours a day,

so the celebration continued
well after dawn.

[Hugh Hefner]
What I saw in London that summer

was a whole revolution
in social sexual values.

The entire lifestyle
from England

was about to explode
across the world.

And I came back from that trip

feeling that I'd seen
the future.

♪ Somebody tell me
what I've done wrong ♪

♪♪

[Hugh Hefner]
In less than a year,

the London Playboy Club under
Victor was making more money

than any casino in Europe
or Las Vegas.

[Dick Rosenzweig]
The London casino was the most

successful casino in the world
for a number of years.

It was a huge celebrity hangout.

When Hollywood came to London,
first stop was the Playboy Club.

It was a once in
a lifetime club experience.

[Dick Cavett]
The ladies they had selected in Britain

to be the British bunnies
were spectacular.

They were not only gorgeous,
they were witty,

they were funny, they had
various regional accents

that were pleasant and fun
to hear.

And they were just great.

[Hugh Hefner]
Of course being the head

of the most successful club
in the world

had other perks.

[Marilyn Cole] I first met Victor when
I became a bunny girl.

And so we were
at the Playboy Club

and a man appeared on the floor.

We didn't know who it was,
but we knew he was somebody

just by his vitality
and his looks and his voice,

it just sounded different.

And it turned out
it was Victor Lownes.

The boss, so to speak.

[Hugh Hefner] Victor was constantly
surrounded by beautiful women,

but soon enough, one particular bunny
stood out among the rest.

♪ I don't know why ♪

And you are?

Marilyn Cole.

It's my first day here.

Mmm, I picked up on that.

But don't worry,
you'll do just fine.

You're a real beauty.

Some people say I'm too tall.

Well, those people don't know
what they're talking about.

Me, on the other hand,
I'm an expert.

And trust me, you're perfect.

Absolutely perfect.

Thank you, Mr. Lownes.

Please call me Victor.

[giggles]

I dated Marilyn because
she was drop-dead gorgeous

when I saw her,

and she was
intelligent and interesting.

[Hugh Hefner] While Victor was
falling in love in London,

my relationship with Barbi
was becoming more serious.

And we were practically
inseparable.

What are you doing up?

I thought you might like
some breakfast.

Oh, sweetheart, come here.

Oh, and a flower!

Yes, I picked that myself.

- No, you didn't.
- I did.

I don't believe you for a second,
but you're still sweet.

Mmm, that's great.

What's that?

I don't know.

♪♪

[Hugh Hefner]
Since Playboy's inception,

the magazine had never faced
any real competition.

But that all changed in 1969

when a publication called
Penthouse

burst onto the scene

and made it its mission
to take Playboy down

♪ Things look bad
from over here ♪

[Carrie Pitzulo] When Penthouse came onto
the scene in the late 1960s,

it really presented a challenge
to Playboy.

It sought to be
a lifestyle magazine.

It talked about things
like fashion and politics.

And so Penthouse was taking
the formula

that Playboy had established.

[announcer] The man who runs it is
44-year-old Robert Guccione,

Brooklyn born but a longtime
European resident.

Penthouse jumped the Atlantic
from England in 1969

with a promotion aimed directly
at Playboy.

The Penthouse Pet of the Year

is Guccione's version of
Hefner's Playmate of the Year.

Guccione has dreams of an empire
to surpass Hefner's.

And he's working at getting it.

♪ Get out of the way ♪

♪ I ain't got much time ♪

[Hugh Hefner] But there was one thing
Penthouse offered -

that Playboy never had.

[Patty Farmer] Penthouse was showing
pubic hair.

That had always been
the line of demarcation

that Hef and most men's
magazines would not cross

in order to avoid the risk

of obscenity charges
by the government.

But then here came Penthouse.

[Hugh Hefner]
Only six months earlier,

the U.S. Supreme Court made
a major ruling on obscenity,

stating that people could view
whatever they wished

in the privacy of their homes,

effectively loosening obscenity
standards in America.

By the early '70s,
you had porn chic magazines

that were, uh, a lot more
explicit than Playboy ever was.

And, of course, you had
hardcore pornography films

running in the neighborhood
theaters.

We've come a long ways, baby.

[Hugh Hefner] The new laws gave readers
access

to a whole new world
of explicit photos.

And Penthouse
took full advantage.

[Hugh Hefner] The government came after me
with guns blazing for Mansfield,

but Penthouse shows bush,
and what? Nothing.

[Arthur Kretchmer]
Times have changed, Hef.

I wouldn't exactly call it
"showing bush."

It's just a glimpse
of her pubic hair.

You know what I mean, Kretch.

You can't find a copy anywhere.

Is that true?

It's completely sold out.

The entire print run was gone
within the week.

Hef, a reporter from Time
just called.

And?

They wanted to get
your reaction.

To what?

To this.

[David Granger] You know, it's
completely natural

for the established brand
to be threatened by outsiders

that are willing to be
much more extreme.

Just like Esquire
was threatened by Playboy,

I'm sure Playboy had to look

and decide whether or not it was
gonna go as far as Penthouse,

or whether it was good enough
to sort of stay the course.

[Hugh Hefner]
Even with the recent court rulings,

I still believed
that our playmates

didn't need to show everything
to be sexy.

But Penthouse, riding the wave of
relaxed standards,

quickly began gaining ground
on Playboy.

They doubled their circulation
from 235,000

to over half a million
in just one year.

♪♪

♪ Yellow diamond in the sky ♪

This was really difficult
for Hefner

because he had spent
his life...

his crusade was mainstreaming
middle class sexuality,

and so to remove Playboy
from that status

would have challenged everything
he had worked so hard for.

♪ Sometimes it seems so heavy ♪

[Hugh Hefner] Penthouse had become
too big to ignore.

Playboy had started
a sexual revolution,

but now we were being
left behind.

[Arthur Kretchmer] Although it is hard
to conceive now,

the idea of the playmate
showing pubic hair

was a hard hurdle to overcome.

But the world recognized that
Penthouse was pushing Playboy,

so he went there.

♪ Yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪♪

[Hugh Hefner] Nine months after
Penthouse changed the game,

a new, more revealing Playboy
hit the shelves.

In the first issue of 1971,

Miss January, Liv Lindeland,

showed more than any playmate
had before.

And our readers approved...

pushing circulation to over
six million issues per month.

♪♪

But competition from Penthouse

wasn't the only opposition
I faced that year.

[newscaster] The battle cry of the
women's liberation movement

rings out down New York's
Fifth Avenue

as more than 10,000
militant feminists

stage a one-day strike
for equal rights.

♪ Just flew in, yeah ♪

[Carrie Pitzulo] When the women's movement
really comes onto the scene

in the late '60's
and early 1970s,

Playboy was a primary target.

Because feminists argued
that the center fold images

were degrading to women
and objectifying.

And so, they really criticized
Hugh Hefner

as a purveyor of patriarchy
and sexism

and the degradation of women.

♪ Your heart's gonna melt ya ♪

[Hugh Hefner] Now, there had always been
groups of women

who disliked Playboy.

But back in the early days
of the magazine,

they were mostly conservative,
religious types.

I knew this was different.

Join us now!

Sisterhood is powerful,
join us now!

[Hugh Hefner] The 1960s had given rise
to a second wave of feminism.

While their predecessors
had fought for things

like the right to vote,

these women were fighting
for access to birth control,

abortion and equal rights.

It's equal rights to have a job,
to have respect,

to not be viewed
as a piece of meat.

We just want what men have had
all these years

♪ Who knows
where the time goes ♪

[Hugh Hefner] Led by women including
Betty Friedan...

This will continue
as a political coalition

to achieve the unfinished
revolution,

to win the unfinished revolution
of women's equality.

[Hugh Hefner]
...Bella Abzug...

We proclaim that we talk
about free abortion on demand,

we need to have it now!

[Hugh Hefner]
...and Gloria Steinem.

Now, thanks to the spirit
of equality in the air

and to the work of many
of my more foresighted sisters,

I no longer accept
society's judgment

that my group is second class.

[Hugh Hefner] Steinem had been a harsh
critic of Playboy for many years.

In 1963, she even went
undercover as a bunny

in our New York club...

giving herself a fake name...

and ultimately writing
an article about her experience

for Show magazine.

[Gloria Steinem]I exposed the working
conditions at the Playboy Club,

which were so horrendous.

If you can only get a job,
you know, in three-inch heels,

falling out of your costume
serving food,

you know, it's not...

I mean, men don't have
to fall out of their costumes

to serve food.

[Hugh Hefner] Her article came out
in May of 1963.

Needless to say, I didn't agree with
her evaluation.

She characterized the experience
as extremely degrading.

As extremely objectifying.

That instead of being an
exciting, adventurous,

well-paying job for young women
in cities like New York,

she said that this was actually
intense labor, exploitation,

and a really sexist place

that was just using women
further for the benefit of men.

[Hugh Hefner] I hadn't paid much
attention to the article at the time,

but now the feminist movement
had made Playboy

one of its main targets,
and I knew I had to respond.

I truly believed Playboy
and the feminists

were on the same side,

and I felt the best way
to explain myself

was to speak with Steinem
face to face.

So what men do you admire?
And why?

Well, I've always admired
Jack and Robert Kennedy.

How about women?
What women do you admire?

Margaret Mead, very much.

Uh, uh, uh...

I can't remember her name
off the top of my head,

but the head of SIECUS.

Mary Calderone.

Mary Calderone, yes.
Very much so.

[Hugh Hefner] The interview got off
to a rough start

and it only went downhill
from there.

What I don't understand is why
feminists don't appreciate us,

appreciate the Playboy
philosophy.

I never picked them out
as special enemies.

They chose me first.

But don't you understand that
you have made women objects?

It's as if we're put
on a meat hook.

And, according
to Playboy philosophy,

women are useless with age.

Now, wait a second, now, I'm all
for women's right to vote,

to own property, all of that.

What I'm saying is that I think
women can be attractive to men.

And I think men should
be attractive to women,

but I wouldn't rest their
entire identity on it.

Let's take a different tact.

If you had one thing to say to
the women readers of McCall's,

what would it be?

Buy Playboy.

That's your whole message?

That's it.

All right, thank you very much,
Gloria.

Now, if you'll excuse me.

[Hugh Hefner] Steinem had recorded
our discussion

for the October issue
of McCall's magazine.

And when the issue
hit newsstands,

it was clear
that I hadn't made my point

as effectively as I thought.

[Arthur Kretchmer] The women's movement
attacking the magazine

certainly caught him up short.

He thought he was doing
a great job for women.

Saying that good girls like sex,

saying that women should have
charge of their own sex lives.

Being in favor of abortion,
placing women in jobs.

[Cooper Hefner]
My dad was carving out a road

for men and women
to say we like sex.

And he was doing it
from the male point of view.

Gloria Steinem was saying,

there really aren't a whole lot
of opportunities out there

that allow women
to pursue a career

that doesn't involve
objectifying one's self.

And that point was fair to make.
Because it's true.

[Hugh Hefner] While I had tried to smooth
over Playboy's relationship

with the movement,

it seemed I had just made
the situation worse.

But I was determined to prove
that Playboy was not sexist,

so I decided to try again.

And this time, I wanted
to do it in prime time.

♪♪

[announcer]
The Dick Cavett Show!

With Hugh Hefner,
Jefferson Airplane...

[Hugh Hefner]
At that time,

The Dick Cavett Show had been
on the air for about two years.

They had a huge audience

and Cavett regularly
brought on guests

who had something to say.

My next guest has created
an empire.

In fact, The London Times said
they always refer to Hefner

as on of the great
empire builders

and they said that he is
as well known a symbol

of American life as Coca-Cola.

Will you welcome
Mr. Hugh Hefner.

[music and applause]

[Hugh Hefner] So when he asked me
to come on his show

with two prominent feminists,
I didn't hesitate for a second.

It looks like a show

that was probably contrived
for controversy.

Will you welcome Susan
Brownmiller and Sally Kempton.

And the show went on from there.

[Susan Brownmiller]
They oppress us as women.

They benefit from oppressing
women, they really do.

Hefner has built an empire
based on oppressing women.

[applause]

Have you had this reaction
before tonight?

- Yes. Can I respond just a little bit?
- All right.

I think that women,
over generations and centuries,

have indeed been oppressed.

I think there's no question
about it.

I think there are still many
areas in society

in which they do not have
equal job opportunity.

But I take issue and separate

in this one rather
fundamental area.

I think whether you are
a male or female

is the beginning of who you are
as a human being.

I think that it's important

and I think that it is important
emotionally

as well as physically.

I think there are differences

and I think there should
continue to be differences.

-Would you like to respond, Susan?
-I certainly would.

-Would you like to respond, Susan?
-I certainly would.
The role that you have selected
for women is degrading to women

The role that you have selected
for women is degrading to women

because you choose to see women as sex
objects, not as full human beings.

-Well, it obviously isn't degrading...
- Hold on now. The day that...

It obviously isn't degrading
to a lot of women.

I want to say...
I haven't finished.

The day that you are willing to
come out here with a cottontail

attached to your rear end...

[applause]

You make them look
like animals, yes.

Women aren't bunnies.

They're not rabbits,
they're human beings.

[applause]

We have to pause.
We'll be back in a moment.

I don't know if Hefner expected
quite as much assault

as he was in for
when he came on.

But it made
for lively television.

I loved it.

♪ If I could show you, Robin,
girl, you'd know... ♪

[Hugh Hefner]
I was starting to realize

this was a conflict
I wasn't going to win.

Hugh Hefner is my enemy.

[Christie Hefner] I do think Hef was
surprised at the harsh critique

in the feminist movement
of Playboy.

He felt, quite justifiably,

that he'd been an ally in a lot
of political battles.

But I think he didn't understand
that there was an element

of the feminist movement
grappling with sexual imagery,

and that part
of the women's movement

was not gonna be happy
with Playboy.

♪ If I could show you, Robin ♪

[Hugh Hefner] As frustrated as I was
with these attacks,

I'd soon have to turn
my attention

to a battle I could fight...

as Penthouse was about
to push the envelope again.

Forcing us to question how far
Playboy was willing to go.

♪ I was weak, I thought
that it would always last ♪

[woman]
♪ Every little movement♪

♪ Every motion of your hips♪

♪ I feel the compulsion♪

♪ To pull you
to my sweet lips♪

♪ Is it a black magic spell♪

♪ You put me under?♪

♪ This miracle moment♪

♪ Never let it end♪

♪ Every little movement♪

♪ Is beyond improvement♪

♪ You are the magician♪

♪ I've been wishing for
forever♪

♪ Every little movement♪

♪ Every little movement♪♪