3. Hefner & WFB both sold versions of the goodlife. Hefner: mansion, responsible decadence, sport cars, bunnies. WFB: yachting, Bach, GOP.
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4. WFB told story about Swedish diplomat who saw photos of Hefner & WFB, assumed Hefner was responsible conservative & WFB the pornographer
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5. Much of National Review was a form of political pornography: if only the right could take charge we could kick commie ass.
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6. Political fantasies of Nat. Rev. not that different from Playboy's promise that with the right pad you could bag all the bunnies.
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7. Unjustly forgotten novelist D. Keith Man wrote for both Hefner & WFB, appreciated both as editors with taste for good prose.
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8. Hefner & WFB were good talent scouts & gave space to many fine writers (sometimes overlapping like Mano or Theodore Sturgeon).
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9. There's an early Woody Allen movie where National Review is kept in a plastic bag among the porn magazines.
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10. The way some National Review writers dabbled in sexually explicit writing (Mano, Sturgeon, Davenport, WFB himself) perhaps related.
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@evankindley Really complicated. Too much so for Twitter!
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