Playbill

January, 1989

When the Editors of Playboy suggested to Hugh Hefner that we celebrate our 35th Anniversary with a grand retrospective issue, his response caught us up short. "Sounds promising," Hef said, "but watch yourselves. Don't do a magazine that'll just show how smart we think we are. Do an issue that will get the essence of Playboy without any pretense. Do an issue," he said, "that a reader will savor, not one that an editor will gloat over."You, naturally, will be the judg...