03.29.07 5:05 AM CDT
• Letters
• Chip Rowe
Whenever a magazine runs a list, it generates commentary. It’s why we do it! Our compendium of the 25 Sexiest Celebrities in March has proven to be no exception. Here, then, is a list of celebrities that a great many of our readers thought ought to have made the cut:Jessica Biel
Christina Ricci
Maria Sharapova
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Salma Hayek
Jessica Simpson
Jordan
Here’s the one whose inclusion provoked the greatest protest:
Paris Hilton
DOING THE XANGO
We received a number of angry emails from XanGo reps before Jonathan Black’s March article on the fruit juice even appeared in print. A typical missive accused him of “the highest form of ignorance.” Criticizing an article you haven’t read seems to top that. Tony Belmont of Los Angeles, who wrote *after* he read the article, points out an interesting website that he says “describes very well how MLM companies work. This, in addition to Black’s article, may save many of your readers a lot of time and money. There are now juice blends which contain mangosteen, acai, noni and wolfberry. I wonder what will be next?” We’ll have more letters about the XanGo piece in our June issue.
FAN LETTERS
Like anyone, we love fan mail. Cheri Kass of Benton, Pennsylvania tell us, “I have been reading the magazine for 20 years and especially love the interviews, cartoons and jokes. Thank you for sticking with your high standards.”
Dane Marx of Jacksonville, North Carolina writes “I am a 21-year-old Marine who has just recently returned from the Middle East. I wanted to tell you how much your magazine helped me on this deployment. I could not wait for each month to pass so I could see the next issue. Not only did Playboy offer me these pictures of beautiful, classy women, it also allowed me to keep up to date with what was happening back in the States. So thank you for giving me something to look forward to in a place where I was surrounded by death and destruction. It helped me feel more at home just by reading your magazine.”
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Comments on this entry:
Paris Hilton is neither celebrity nor sexy. Sexed, yes; but sexy? No.
Playboy and celebrity aren't quite the fit it would seem: sure, it's always nice to see Marylin Monroe's movies and then the Playboy photos. But no one ever moved like Marylin moved, and no one ever posed like Marylin posed. Hef will say again and again that he might or might not favor a playmate over another. But even if you stacked all of the sexiest celebrity playmates on top of each other, they still don't add up to Marylin.
Not having read the article on XanGo, I will boldly say that Orange Juice will always hold the title of most remarkable juice, only because of the smoothness of the texture when the fruit is freshly squeezed.
Celebrity is like that; Paris Hilton is far from freshly squeezed, and the smoothest celebrity is always the one who seems still yet undiscovered.
As for high standards, no one is more remarkable in his cartooning in the world of Playboy than Hef, and thanks to you, Hef, for covering the topic in your video blog. We would like you to give yourself a second chance and pick up the pen again for the magazine.
Funny to hear the word "classy" again. As a closing note, not since Rosanne Barr spoke with her brassy rude character to legions of slacker suburban moms with her tv show has there been such a remarkable response to a need for civil standards to return with excruciating force. The exacting nature of the Marine in the realm of death and destruction will stand as example of what we know as home in these times of war: no matter how dirty we get, we still know how to clean up.