Playboy Interviewer: Murray Fisher
October, 2002
On a Chicago afternoon in 1962, Hugh Hefner told Playboy's then–Editorial Director A.C. Spectorsky he wanted to launch an interview feature that would treat subjects in unusual depth. In the office inventory was a half-finished interview with Miles Davis, a sometimes raging document about being black in America. It was originally commissioned for Show Business Illustrated, an entertainment magazine Hefner had recently folded. The interviewer was a struggling writer named Alex Haley.Spectorsky as...
