Zing!

He continued: “He, as I have tried to do over the years, defied the limitations in terms of age and it was more than simply – he was young for his years and he had as many female friends as males, but he had a great many male friends, too. What he brought to the game as I say was unique and he will be truly missed.”

More transcripts here if you don’t feel like listening.

[Photo of Buss at October 30, 2006 Hollywood Walk of Fame induction ceremony: s_bukley/Shutterstock.com]

H/T Deadspin

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Patricia Krentcil, better known as the “tanning mom,” was caught on camera saying she would be interested in posing for Playboy if they ever called — which immediately sent chills down my spine.

Hugh Hefner‘s people caught wind of this story and immediately squashed the idea of the 44-year-old New Jersey woman taking her clothes off for the men’s publication.

According to TMZ:

One source says, “It wouldn’t even be considered” — Hef wouldn’t let TM pose in the magazine or ANY Playboy outlet. Simply put — Tanning Mom just isn’t Playboy material.

Playboy later went on the record and said, “It would definitely never happen.”

Whew.

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Chicago shaped Playboy in ways I didn’t realize at the time. New York City seemed a world away from the rest of America, sophisticated and socially advanced, detached from the remainder of the country. Chicago stood as the most significant representation of true, post-war America. The high-rises and subways brimmed with urban men who returned to the city after their experiences abroad and found themselves receptive to ideas that challenged their socially conservative surroundings.

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Marston Hefner

The son of Hugh Hefner was sentenced to a 52-week domestic violence program and ordered to stay away from Sinclair for three years, according to the Pasadena City Prosecutor’s office.

If convicted in a trial, Marston Hefner faced more than a year behind bars.

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Marston Hefner, 21, was charged with battery on a spouse and was released from jail after posting $20,000 bail. No court date has been set.

According to E! News, the police arrived at the couple’s home in Pasadena before 11 p.m. and Sinclair suffered minor injuries.

Sinclair will drop the charges if Hefner makes a public apology and attends counseling. continued…

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The company’s headquarters are relocating from Chicago to Los Angeles on April 30. In December, the magazine announced the publishing team would move to the new Beverly Hills office by May, but now everyone from the Chicago office is packing up and headed west.

Chicago is the birthplace of founder Hugh Hefner and is where the magazine was created in 1953.

“Playboy’s executives have made the difficult decision to close the company’s Chicago office and move its headquarters to Los Angeles,” the company said in a statement. “The company’s roots began in Chicago, and the city will always be connected to the brand’s beginning.”

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Actually, Shaw is still in the beautiful women business, but now operates without the troublesome constraints of “bum crack” edicts or allowable breast exposure decrees. In 2011, he launched his own quarterly magazine Treats! (NSFW), to immediate buzz and acclaim:

The new title has grabbed the attention of influential tastemakers and industry icons around the world for its tasteful displays of female full-frontal nudity, luxe-y aesthetic, and underpinning of fashion-world credibility. And now subscriptions are flooding in as far away as the Netherlands, Russia, Brazil, and Malaysia, as well as such entrenched style hubs as London and Tokyo.

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The Playboy publisher tweeted Sunday that “the Lindsay Lohan January-February Double Issue is breaking sales records.”

TMZ.com reported that newsstands have had to re-order the issues multiple times. But when CNN called a dozen newsstands in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and New York, only one location was sold out of the issue.

Considering the entire spread was leaked online and that the world is no stranger to Lohan’s assets, I find it hard to believe that this issue is breaking sales records.

But for $1 million, I hope Hefner has made his money back at least.

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Playboy‘s editorial, art and photo departments will be based out of the company’s new Beverly Hills office by May 2012, according to Time Out Chicago.

“Some of the magazine’s Chicago employees have been asked to relocate, while others have been asked to stay on in Chicago to ensure a seamless transition,” Playboy spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey said Tuesday in a statement.

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“Because of the interest & the Internet leak, we’re releasing the Lindsay Lohan issue early,” Hefner tweeted Friday. “Lindsay Lohan was the top search name on the Internet yesterday. Her issue goes on sale late next week. Hot. Hot. Hot.”

If you can’t wait until next week, you can find the photos by doing a quick Google search.

Not bad, LiLo. Not bad at all.

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Playboy will rent 45,000 square feet from Tishman Speyer and occupy a floor and a half of space at what’s now called the Office at Beverly Hills (9336 and 9346 Civic Center Drive). Terms of the lease were not disclosed.

The move to Beverly Hills, which should be completed by May 2012, is a serious consolidation for Playboy, as they currently rent more than 75,000 square feet of office space in Santa Monica and outside Glendale.

The new office will not only be home to Hefner but to writers, editors and the magazine’s photo studios.

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The awards will be held November 17 at the Biltmore Hotel–where none other than Hugh Hefner will be there to receive a lifetime achievement award.

Full list of finalists after the jump.

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A source told TMZ Harris “couldn’t bear to look at the ring anymore because it brought back bad memories.” Guess it didn’t occur to her to give the ring back.

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The 76-year-old Rosenzweig is currently the executive vice president of Playboy Enterprises, a member of the company’s board of directors and chairman of Alta Loma Productions, Playboy‘s mainstream production company. He’s been at Playboy since 1958 and wanted a reduced role with the company.

“Dick’s decision is bittersweet for all of us at Playboy and for me in particular,” Hefner said in a statement. “Dick has worked with me since the early days of the magazine in Chicago, and since that time he has been my trusted advisor and business partner.  I understand and applaud Dick’s desire to devote more energy to his many philanthropic and civic interests as well as to spend more time with his wife Judy Henning, and I am pleased that he has agreed to continue providing insight and strategic counsel to me and the company on a part-time basis.”

Rosenzweig will remain on the board of directors and keep his role as executive producer of NBC’s The Playboy Club.

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There’s not much new to be written about Hef at this point, especially in the wake of Brigitte Berman‘s solid 2009 documentary. However, reporter Stephen Galloway does share what FishbowlLA thought was a very interesting tidbit about that long-rumored Hollywood biopic of the Holmby Hills icon:

Brian Grazer still wants to make a biopic, but says the main problem has been locating “a central conflict in a charmed life. He’s one of the most influential people [in our society], but finding that conflict is hard.”

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