Before George Lois went to work at Esquire and became a giant of the magazine industry, he was a giant of the advertising industry. Thus it makes sense that for its August issue, Playboy would turn to Lois for some comments on Mad Men, which begins its fourth season on Sunday. Now, this does not …
Yesterday in The New York Times Book Review, Slate‘s Internal Affairs Correspondent Jack Shafer favorably reviewed A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America, by Peter Richardson. “Ramparts stands with a handful of 20th-century American magazines–Playboy, the Harold Hayes-era Esquire, Rolling Stone, Spy and Wired–whose glory days continue …
On January 29th, Larry Dubrow wrote an article on AdAge.com called “Magazines Worth Saving,” among which he included Playboy: Playboy has featured some wonderful journalism in recent months (true-crime profiles don’t come much darker and more enticing than Richard Stratton’s recent piece on James “Whitey” Bulger) and continues to showcase as many A-list journalists as …
I was recently interviewed by Dan Schawbel for his blog Personal Branding, and here it is. Jamie, how does one get a really cool job like being the managing editor of Playboy? In a specific way, I knew the right guy at the right time. Prior to being hired, I had contributed to Playboy for …
Got the bad news that thanks to huge deficits, Playboy and I will be going our separate ways. Too bad. I enjoyed my job and the people I worked with. But onward and upward. (Above, I say goodbye to my friend Joseph DeAcetis, who lost his job as Fashion Director. Joseph and I first worked …
A word of encouragement from Mr. Hugh Cook: “I want to thank you for posting your book reviews and author interviews on the Playboy Blog (blog.playboy.com). This longtime Playboy reader appreciates your efforts and commitment to the printed word.” Thanks, Hugh!
It turns out that the 2001 Playmate of the Year, Brande Roderick, is competing in the upcoming season of The Celebrity Apprentice. Since the 2005 PMOY Tiffany Fallon was unceremoniously booted off the on the first episode of last season’s show, the high command dispatched all the troops onto 57th Street this morning to buy …
We got a visit at the office yesterday from the great James Ellroy, the author of L.A. Confidential, American Tabloid and other classic too numerous to mention. The classy Ellroy brought champagne for the staff, regaled us with memories of his favorite Playboy jokes and cartoons, talked about recording pornographic grunts for Velvet magazine in …
The New York premiere of the documentary In the Family was held at the Paley Center in Manhattan the other night. Underwrtten by the Playboy Foundation, the film examines the emotions and issues that arise when a woman learns that she has a genetic predisposition to breast or ovarian cancer. With intelligence, anger, sadness and …
Perks of the position: got to go down to the West Village to a restaurant called Sushi Samba to have lunch with supermodel Carol Alt, and to interview her for an upcoming pictorial in Playboy. She is a very accomplished woman, and we spoke about her new novel, working for Bob Fosse, dating hockey players, …