Hugh Hefner and the Success of Playboy | The Dick Cavett Show

Hugh suggests TV is the cause for several magazine companies shutting down.
Date aired - 15th January 1969 - Hugh Hefner
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@AMAINE207]

He was very intelligent and extremely well spoken.

[@TrashHeapHedonist]

Hefner was the real thing.

[@julianmcdonald5157]

Most people were back then

[@annamillan2903]

Extremely intelligent.

[@scottborenstein8291]

He was college educated at the university of Illinois and Northwestern. You don’t get to be what he became by being ignorant. I would say he was a genius.

[@TheLaurajlee]

Undeniàbly charming and fooled the world.

[@moniquelacosta5170]

I always admired him. He is the perfect example of Intelligence, Glamour, Business, A Jet Set Lifestyle, and I think that he was a True Gentleman. He appreciates women and the expression of sexuality. He creatively tapped into the healthy way the modern man (and woman) thinks about an active life and a good sex life.

[@lorig1087]

Umm, they had orgy's and were given, qualudes! Sound's sophisticated!

[@lauriewagner-hess6862]

I read my fathers Playboys in 1976. The magazine did have good articles. Not about sex. About life.

[@KD400_]

But u know what he was using it for right lol

[@commraiders5]

50 years later and now and there's about 2 magazines left, amazing.

[@badhival3779]

Benjamin George what do you mean

[@russiaprivjet]

they discuss the magazine business being in turmoil due to tv

[@ufophil91]

I still think of 1970 as 30 years ago, I wish we could slow down time.

[@chuckstevens2672]

Phillip Kendrick more like 50 years ago

[@ufophil91]

Chuck Stevens You misread what I typed.

[@Vistafy]

Of course this is aired in ‘69

[@robertwiegman1]

The American entrepreneur at the very best.

[@johnklinger943]

The magazine that everyone starts reading from the middle! 😂😂

[@garywilliams7306]

Pimping Aint Easy!!!

[@MrMysterious420]

3:44 TV killed print, then the internet killed TV.

[@clarkestatham1298]

and video killed the radio star, then dvd killed vhs and then.......... infinitum. lol

[@flipsidetruly1669]

I wonder what will come after internet... Maybe VR

[@swim_ad]

@@flipsidetruly1669 augmented reality is already here.

[@rogerparis]

I loved and admired Hugh Hefner as a young guy growing up in the 60’s. It is a shame that a man that was so brilliant and helped bring to light so many social issues of the time allowed himself to degenerate to the level of embarrassment in his old age. He pretty much destroyed what should have been and which was mostly an incredible legacy.

[@MrMysterious420]

5:00 Built in 70s Acid visuals on the Dick Cavett show.

[@ronflatter1235]

The camera taking the two-shot was going south. but since it probably looked just fine in black and white, they went ahead and stayed with it.

[@jeffkyler5660]

This was a bright, capable guy who was frankly kind of average looking who literally laid more extremely beautiful women in a month than nearly any man on earth encountered in his life. Incredible and worth it.

[@fifthbusiness1678]

You know this how?

[@jakartaman3365]

I noticed that around the two minute mark, Dick C. asked Hef if he'd ever consider giving up it all up and going into a monastery. Of course Hef said no, but if he DID decide to do that, he could still have carried on publishing his magazine; All he would've had to do was change the name to PRAYBOY. lol

[@seloh4050]

Jakartaman your an idiot

[@tonyd8715]

Jakartaman I think the Catholic Church has dibs on that magazine

[@andy2550]

That's what it's called in Japan.

[@TrashHeapHedonist]

Shots fired!

[@frankrivera-cortes3887]

seloh 40 You're* the idiot.

[@nparekh79]

He looks so much like Bono !!

[@daliacorreia3085]

There are also many books written on the Topic Of Human Sexuality - Available at: College book stores(Health classes, the Library, general book stores).

[@CC-lv3yk]

except TV Guide... ahaha oh how that ship has sailed

[@fifthbusiness1678]

Didn’t realize Hugh was so short! He’s not much taller than Cavett.

[@prismatica2389]

Ended at the wrong time

[@MrEab2010]

much like William R. Hearst, Hefner went a little crazy in his old age.

[@daliacorreia3085]

Aries! Handsome, Dark-Hair-Man!

[@BaileySchoelen]

Why do I get such strong Tarantino vibes from him?

[@LeoMidori]

I'm a big Tarantino fan and I don't; Tarantino has a much higher energy level and is a bit more "twitchy" for lack of a better word. Why do you think so?

[@Gannooch]

I have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Art Carney or Jackie Gleason?

[@Gannooch]

How about any Honeymooners actors that were a part of the main cast?

[@randomupdates4013]

Why it look like Luke Skywalker hosting a talk show? 🐉

[@StreetcornerPhilosopher]

"a complete man" ... lmao

[@glenngrinter6818]

Most of the foreign editions no longer publish.🐇

[@Gannooch]

have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other Cavett ones.

[@patrickvogel3929]

I wonder if Charlie Sheen is related to the Hef 🧐

[@sydneywebbe7737]

Charlie Harper is Hef's cousin.

[@n3wcastle644]

моргенштерн

[@denniskuznetsov8704]

Kost 😂

[@looptheloopish]

For some reason he gives off a vibe of gayness.

[@johnrotten3268]

Called charisma kid.

[@DanLetts97]

looptheloopish you’d know bud

[@QueenBeeTV88]

Sexuality is not black and white. It is a series of grays. That being said, Hugh Hefner was said to have been a bit bisexual, as someone would be who is willing to try anything sexually at least once.

[@LordDrstein]

It's the legs, isn't it?

[@MarsKvaratskhelia]

QueenBeeTV88 a bit?😂😂😂 how does it work

[@erikshoffman]

When talk shows had real interviews. Real entertainment. Now it the host being a bafoon. The audience loves a joke, but they also much more need conversation.

[@casey-capri2914]

1/4 is a woman my ass...

[@nataliedelagrandiere4022]

He talks of the women as the GIRLS. How condescending!

[@merricat3025]

@P K i have always found him digusting. 80 year old man having sex with 19 year olds. Yuck

[@americancitizen748]

What - you never watched the show "Golden Girls"?

[@americancitizen748]

@@merricat3025 - Why is that disgusting?

[@superhotdolls1744]

@@americancitizen748 because they are young enough to be his granddaughter maybe? Wtf is wrong with you

[@darkpoetik5375]

how is that condescending ?

[@roxannemoser]

What are those fat pouches around Hef's nose? Pre-rhinoplasty? Now, I know why he started it. He couldn't get a girl.

[@OAwesomeO]

He was married before he started the magazine and she was beautiful lol

[@thefakenewsnetwork8072]

Long live communism and social darwinism

[@user-nw6qp1ki2n]

Unethical 👎🏻 Creepy 👎🏻 Money-worshipper 👎🏻 I wonder why American Society didn’t oppose him and abandon his shameful infamous woman objectification business back then ??

[@123rockfan]

Mohammed Qabazard people like sex, it’s kind of simple

[@henrywadsworthswole-fellow8936]

Mohammad who gave you internet in Guantanamo Bay?