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Morality in Media Calls on NBC to Halt Playboy TV Series

June 10, 2011

WASHINGTON — Morality in Media says NBC is contributing to the sexual exploitation of women and encouraging greater acceptance of porn with its new series “The Playboy Club.”

Morality in Media, the lead organization in the War on Illegal Pornography Coalition, has launched a full-scale campaign to stop the show from being profitable.

“Since the ‘50s, Hugh Hefner and his Playboy Magazine has pushed a philosophy which dictated that, to the ‘sophisticated man,’ the female is a mere toy to be used, abused and discarded. That philosophy has inflicted unimaginable harm to our society,” said Patrick Trueman, president of Morality in Media.

He added that with NBC and the network’s use of public airwaves, Playboy “is poised to cause even more harm.”

Free Speech Coalition’s Executive Director Diane Duke told XBIZ that Morality in Media shouldn’t preech their values to others.

“It’s unfortunate that Trueman and the folks at Morality in the Media insist upon imposing their puritanical values on the rest of us,” Duke said.

“Clearly these folks haven’t taken the time to get to know any of the women they purport to be exploited. As a long time feminist, I can tell you that the women in this industry are some of the most powerful women I have ever met. Trueman insists that these performers are exploited because they don’t fit into the good-little-girl, patriarchal box they have set up for women. Have you ever noticed that they never make these arguments about the men in the adult industry? Hmmmmm.”

“The Playboy Club,” which centers around Playboy bunnies in the 1960s amid political and moral changes of the decade, will get the 10-11 p.m. Monday night timeslot in September, going head to head with CBS’ top-rated drama “Hawaii Five-O,” whose renewal hasn’t yet been inked for the 2011-2012 TV season.

“The Playboy Club,” is set in the famous Playboy nightclub chain and follows Nick Dalton (played by Eddie Cibrian), a mob-tied lawyer and man of the town, and Playboy Club waitress Maureen (played by Amber Heard).

The series is executive produced by Academy Award-winner Brian Grazer.

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Former Playboy Playmate Found Mummified in Her Benedict Canyon Home

May 4, 2011

via the LA Times

Yvette Vickers, an early Playboy playmate whose credits as a B-movie actress included such cult films as Attack of the 50-Foot Woman and Attack of the Giant Leeches, was found dead last week at her Benedict Canyon home. Her body appears to have gone undiscovered for months, police said.

Vickers, 82, had not been seen for a long time. A neighbor discovered her body in an upstairs room of her Westwanda Drive home on April 27. Its mummified state suggests she could have been dead for close to a year, police said.

The official cause of death will by determined by the Los Angeles county coroner’s office, but police said they saw no sign of foul play.

Vickers had lived in the 1920s-era stone and wood home for decades, and it served as the background for some of her famous modeling pictures. But over time it had become dilapidated, exposed in some places to the elements.

Susan Savage, an actress, went to check on Vickers after noticing old letters and cobwebs in her elderly neighbor’s mailbox.

“The letters seemed untouched and were starting to yellow,” Savage said. “I just had a bad feeling.”

After pushing open a barricaded front gate and scaling a hillside, Savage peered through a broken window with another piece of glass taped over the hole. She decided to enter the house after seeing a shock of blond hair, which turned out to be a wig.

The inside of the home was in disrepair and it was hard to move through the rooms because boxes containing what appeared to be clothes, junk mail and letters formed barriers, Savage said. Eventually, she made her way upstairs and found a room with a small space heater still on.

She was looking at a cordless phone that appeared to have been knocked off its cradle when she first saw the body on the floor, she said. Savage had known Vickers but the remains were unrecognizable, she said.

She remembered her neighbor as an elegant women in a broad straw hat, dressed in white, with flowing blond hair and “a warm smile.” In his book, Stephen King: On Writing, King has cited her as one of his movie matinee idols.

“She kept to herself, had friends and seemed like a very independent spirit,” Savage said. “To the end she still got cards and letter from all over the world requesting photos and still wanting to be her friend.”

Savage said the neighbors felt terrible.

“We’ve all been crying about this,” she said. “Nobody should be left alone like that.”

NBC’s ‘The Playboy Club’ Pilot Stirs Controversy Over Nudity

April 4, 2011

NEW YORK — The NBC series “The Playboy Club” hasn’t even aired yet and is already creating controversy over a nudity clause the actors signed in their contracts.

Variety magazine said that the stipulation is unheard of for broadcast TV, but it’s believed that the clause is intended for domestic and foreign cable syndication.

Industry insiders said there is no nudity in the pilot episode and that there are no plans to include nudity if picked up for a series run. If there was a scene that involved nudity, the actors would be able to approve or decline it.

Meanwhile, the TV watchdog group the Parents Television Council is taking shots at the network over the nudity clause saying the Comcast/NBC merger is trying to “obliterate any remaining standards of broadcast decency.”

During last year’s public comment period for the merger, Tim Winter, the group’s president called on the Federal Communications Commission to “force Comcast to stipulate that it absolutely will not use the public airwaves to distribute pornographic material.”

The drama pilot for the 2011–2012 season centers around Playboy bunnies in the 1960s amid political and moral changes of the decade.

Pamela Anderson Lands 11th Playboy Cover

October 25, 2010

HOLMBY HILLS, Calif. — Pamela Anderson will notch 11 Playboy covers when January’s issue is published.

On his Twitter.com page, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner writes, “Pamela Anderson is in the Mansion swimming pool, posing for the January cover in a tribute to ‘La Dolce Vita’.”

Anderson first graced Playboy’s cover in 1989, later being named as Playmate of the Year in 1990.

Anderson, who will be 43 in January, last posed for Playboy’s cover in 2007.

Three years later, Anderson is prancing around naked in a pool as an homage to Anita Ekberg’s infamous scene in Rome’s Trevi Fountain with Marcello Mastroianni in the 1960 movie classic “La Dolce Vita.”

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