Object Lessons

November, 2010

Paul Reubens seems incapable of realizing he is a comedic genius (Playboy Inteniiew, September). Whelher because of modesty, hanging with himself 24-7 or confusion after standing at the cen­ter of a storm, he gives his attackers undue credit. Mark Iwain well knew (as I suspect Hugh Hefner does) that his books were not banned through a sense of true lightness but merely as a convenient device for those who felt morally inferior to elevate their personal status by standing opposed. Whether they we...