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12/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Played Out?"

Posted by steve @ 09:26 AM EST [Link]

AGING: Personally I believe that a woman who ages gracefully is one of God's gifts to the planet. Unfortunately, the lady known as Playboy is beginning to look a trifle worn. So says Andrew Stuttaford who reviews the shambles that is the 50th anniversary issue.

However good the party, the morning after is always depressing. There will be cigarette ash on the carpet, half-empty glasses in the sink, and, usually, a baleful selection of uneaten snacks on the kitchen table, curling and discoloring as they begin to decay. Seen in the unforgiving light of the hangover dawn, even the memories soon start to spoil. Was that conversation truly so witty, that woman really so attractive? And so it is that studying Playboy’s 50th Anniversary Issue (yup, yet another tough assignment for NRO) left me, well, a little bit sad. Oh, Melba Ogle (July 1964, and was that really her name?), where are you now?

Read on.