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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

      2. When I wrote about Hefner for TNR, I tried to strike a balance between recognizing his importance but also dark side of his legacy.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

      3. One thing I didn't go into was Hefner's undeniable gifts as an editor -- which is also a very complicated story!

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

      4. There's no question Hefner was one of the most important USA editors -- just a notch below William Shawn, Harold Hayes or Tina Brown

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

      5. Interesting skill Hefner had as an editor was he fused highbrow with low. Playboy famous for publishing Nabokov, Updike, Atwood etc

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

      6. But Hefner also had an eye for the pulps & comics, where he got Jack Cole, Harvey Kurtzman, Theodore Sturgeon, Gahan Wilson & others

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

      7. As a meeting ground for High & Low culture, for girlie pin-ups & Nabokovian prose, Play was early example of post-modernism.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

      8. And yet, unlike Katharine White or William Shawn, I'm not sure Hefner got the best out of the undeniably gifted people he hired.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

      9. The paradigmatic case for the problem with Hefner as editor is how he used & abused Harvey Kurtzman.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

      10. Kurtzman, the creator of MAD magazine & much else, was down on his luck in 1960s.He had cut ties with Mad &other ventures failed

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

      11. Hefner both saved Kurtzman's life & ruined his talent by giving him a regular gig. Alas it was the T&A strip Little Annie Fanny.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

      12. It was to Hefner's credit that he recognized (decades ahead of the critics) Kurtzman's gifts. But he deployed those gifts in dumb way

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Sep 2017

          13. In sum: as editor Hefner had tremendous eye for talent but wasn't always the best at cultivating that talent.

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        1. Daniel Meersand‏ @DanMeersand 30 Sep 2017
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          He hired Harold Ramis as the “Party Jokes” editor.

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        1. TeaKaGee‏ @TeaKaGee 30 Sep 2017
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          As comics editor how does he compare w Al Goldstein?

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        2. Kevin J. Maroney‏ @womzilla 1 Oct 2017
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          Hefner did support Kurtzman on two independent projects (Trump and Humbug). After series of failures, Kurtz went to Hef for a sinecure. +>

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        3. Kevin J. Maroney‏ @womzilla 1 Oct 2017
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          It is, however, to the credit of your argument that Hef convinced Kurtz to turn Goodman Beaver into Little Annie Fanny.

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