Hugh Hefner Accused of Screwing Playboy
Posted Feb 8th 2010 7:50PM by TMZ Staff
Hugh Hefner has been sued for living the good life and refusing to give it up for the sake of his company.
We’ve obtained a class action lawsuit filed by a Playboy shareholder who claims the company is falling apart and Hugh has intentionally sabotaged two potential deals in the last 6 months to sell the company at a decent price.
In the lawsuit, an investment company that analyzed Playboy’s business sent a note stating “we think the wildcard here is Hugh Hefner.” The note continues, “If you were Hugh Hefner, 81, would you give up the parade of busty blonds, the fancy mansion and the reality TV show for a payout?”
The suit goes on … “Hefner has continued to live the good life and make sure everyone knows it. Hefner remains in the limelight, showing up at media events and at the Playboy mansion … with his girlfriends by his side.”
The suit laments, “Today, the price of a Playboy magazine is far higher than the price of Playboy common stock.” In 1999, the stock sold for $36 a share. Today Playboy closed at $3.14. The magazine sells for $5.99 … because of the articles.
The plaintiffs say Hefner runs roughshod over the shareholders and they want unspecified damages.
I am so glad to be able to share two super-special gals with you today. First, brooding and sensitive Cheryl Kubert from earlier in the day (R.I.P. and I wish her many hopefully joyful and educational returns to this earth after her unhappy retirement; that’s what reincarnation is for), the solemn, petite brunette with tall skis and deep eyes, and now — for something completely different! — ebullient and absolutely adorable blonde ray of sunshine Julie Michelle McCullough: model, actress, stand-up comedienne, and maligned-but-triumphant victim of sitcom scandal. Take it away, buttercup!
Photographed by Arny Freytag.
“I’ve always felt that I have little eyes, a mouth full of teeth and ears that I call elf ears. They kind of poke out.” That’s her opinion. We certainly didn’t notice any flaws when Julie McCullough showed up for our salute to The Girls of Texas last February. In fact, we tucked her ears under a Stetson and put her on the cover. It was the first time she’d ever seen a copy of Playboy.
Although she was born in Hawaii, Julie was then, and is now, living in Texas. But as the daughter of a Marine Corps lifer, she has moved around a lot. “It bothered me when I was younger, but as I look back, I appreciate it, because it taught me how to get along with different types of people. If you make good friends, you never lose them.”
During most of her childhood years, Julie thought she wanted to be an artist. “I really love to draw,” she says, “but I could never see myself as a starving artist. So I realized art would have to be more of a hobby than a career. And then, in high school, I started entering pageants, and I got a couple of Miss Photogenic awards. And everybody would tell me, ‘You should try modeling; You should try modeling.’ And all of a sudden, it’s like, ‘Hey!’”
Playboy’s cover picture, and the less covered picture inside the magazine, caused a furor in Julie’s home town of Allen, a rural community 26 miles north of Dallas. A local pastor, announcing that he planned to preach a sermon on the subject, was quoted as saying — we kid you not — “The easiest thing to do is jump on Julie.” He went on to say that he saw her appearance in Playboy as part of a larger problem, that of “general moral disintegration in the fiber of the nation.” (“Return of the Cover Girl,” Playboy, February 1986.)
While working as a model, she was also honing her skills as an actress and had landed a part on television’s sitcom Growing Pains, featuring Kirk Cameron. He unfortunately shared the opinion that the easiest thing to do was jump on Julie, it seems, because he used his pull with the network to have her summarily axed off the show when he learned she had posed for Playboy, accusing the network of tacitly endorsing pornography by continuing her employment.
Because Mr. Cameron was the breakout star of the show and a teen heartthrob who kept the network flush with sponsors (his charming smile conveniently moved hot amounts of Noxzema pads and Snickers bars to both cleanse and satisfy), they went along with his wishes and terminated the object of his objections.
McCullough appeared in eight episodes until she was fired in 1990, which stemmed from series star Kirk Cameron’s conversion to evangelical Christianity, a conversion that, according to “The E! True Hollywood Story” episode focusing on the show, served to alienate him from his fellow cast members, as he did not invite any of them to his wedding. He accused the show’s producers of promoting pornography. (the wiki)
Sez Ms. McCullough now: [Kirk Cameron] thinks if I read science books that I’m going to hell. I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints … the sinners are much more fun.* And a lot more interesting than some book-burner who is still having growing pains! I am at peace with God. Kirk thinks people like me are going to Hell; if I do, then at least I’ll go well-informed and well-read!
(Ms. McCullough’s myspace.)
*That is a reference to the Billy Joel song “Only the Good Die Young,” about young Virginia, a Catholic girl who starts much too late. Rock on with it, Ms. McCullough! Good people quote the Beatles. Great people quote the Beatles, Queen, and Billy Joel.
Contemporaneous with her being fired from Growing Pains, Ms. McCullough was also stripped of her crown as Wilmington, NC’s “Azalea Queen” for posing for Playboy. Sheesh. I try to keep shit to myself, but I really feel the need to address Mr. Cameron’s and the people of Wilmington’s position on this issue. Leaving aside for now the fact that the lord decreed we enter this earth naked and that nudity is a major factor in procreation, which what good man can decry?, let us address the point where it seems people feel it ill befits a person of “good” moral fiber to celebrate the physical gift of their bodies. As a hippy-dippy meditative and soulful Christian who has thought my way deeply and thoroughly through these issues and can confidently and guiltlessly balance both Playboy and my beloved monthly The Way of St. Francis without throwing out the baby with the bathwater, loving-the-Word-but-thanking-God-for-earthly-forms-wise, I can only cite and gently suggest a review of Matthew, chapter seven.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the plank that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a plank is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the plank out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. At Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and the region across the Jordan, Jesus was talking to the multitudes gathered there after hearing of His message and of His healings to beseech them to not become like the pharisees and hypocrites who think they are above sin. (Matthew 7:1-7.)
Mmm-hmm. This a serious issue. I’m not playing about the no more judging stuff. It’s just like Blessed Mother Teresa said: “If you judge someone, you have no time to love them.” And which one do you think Jesus would rather you worked at doing? Get with the program!
Today, Ms. McCullough is a well-received and widely admired stand-up comedienne who continues to act.
Some of her film and small screen credits include The Golden Girls, Beverly Hills, 90210, Jake and the Fatman, the Drew Carey Show, The Blob, and Harry and the Hendersons.
She is also a published poetess, with a number of anthology and private publishing credits to her literary name, and she was on a basketball team with Casper van Dien of Starship Troopers fame (I ♥ Heinlein and Johnny Rico forever). According to the imdb, she began working full time in 2006 as a stand-up comedienne.
In conclusion, it is a widely known but nonetheless truth that, frankly, haters gon’ hate. All love and good wishes to Ms. McCullough and her sunny resilience!
A friend recently emailed me a nude (?) photo of Senator Scott Brown … and while I was staring at the obvious, there was a slight sense of disdain associated with pleasure.
Isn’t it ironic how most “patriotic, true-blooded Americans” who claim to possess “moral values” have a dark side rooted in sex? Also ironic is the masses of morally-just Americans living in this country who are quick to chastise a woman if she appears nude, calling her a tramp, degenerate, or worse. Yet, a man can pose in all his glory without hardly a mention in the press. Scott Brown simply commented, “It’s just something I did” without further explanation. The press – and the public – accepted his response.
Personally, I support nudity in any form – the human body is a remarkable form of art. Exposing oneself shouldn’t carry any weight toward someone’s ability to lead a nation. On the other hand, Scott Brown’s political viewpoint(s) does have weight – to which I oppose wholeheartedly – not because he’s a Republican supported by a party disguised as Indies but because his political direction resists equality for ALL people. With all the free press that he continues to receive, I’m certain he will “rise to the top” (like floating doo-doo) to quickly become the Republican Party’s poster child. Sigh. I’ll hang his [nude] poster right next to one with George Bush – under a banner which reads: ”The Political World’s Most Impressive “Dicks”.
Ancient Greek athletics is often associated with nudity. My knowledge on this subject was always incomplete and fragmentary. Now I’m going to dedicate a few posts to the phenomenon of nudity in Greek athletics in order to arrange the information I found recently. My main source will be the article “The Origin of Nudity in Greek Athletics” by John Mouratidis published in Journal of Sport History, Vol. 12, No. 3 (1985).
Let’s start from the traditional view on the issue.
Thucydides wrote that the Spartans [the Lacedaemonians] “were the first to bare their bodies and, after stripping openly, to anoint themselves with oil when they engaged in athletic exercise.” (see also Realms Of Gold A Journey In Search Of The Mycenaeans by Leonard Cottrell). Dionysios of Halicarnassos (see Roman Antiquities by Dionysius of Halicarnassus) believed that “The first man who undertook to strip and ran naked at Olympia, at the fifteenth Olympiad, was Acanthus the Lacedaemonian. Before that time, it seems, all the Greeks had been ashamed to appear entirely naked in the games…”
Young Spartans exercising by Edgar Degas
The famous painting by Edgar Degas illustrates what is thought to be a typical scene of a coeducated Spartan gym class.
On the other hand, the Megarians were making a counterclaim to Sparta’s and wanted to show that a native of Megara was the first naked victor. Pausanias wrote that it was Orsippos of Megara, “who won a foot-race at Olympia running naked at a time when athletes used to wear loincloths in the old style” (see, for instance, The Archaeology of the Olympics: the Olympics and other festivals in antiquity, p. 158). But another story described Orsippos not as a winner in the race but as a loser because he became entangled in his shorts.
The Athenians also pretended to be the pioneers of nudity in athletics. They told the story about a runner who fell because his shorts floated freely down to his legs. It presumably brought the infamous archon Hippomenes (the fourth decennial archon in 723 BC – 713 BC, last dynastic prytanis of Athens) to enforce, by law, that all men in the future should exercise naked.
J. Mouratidis concludes that
while the majority of traditional sources assign nudity in athletics as early as the 8th century B.C., Plato and Thucydides believed that it happened not long before their own era.
Three citations from the Homeric epics allow to take in that nudity was not a practice in earlier epoch, among the Mycenaean Greeks. But the material evidence shows that nudity was not unknown in Mycenaean Greece. One might suggest that the Homeric references to loincloths in athletics was an anachronism and reflect a practice of the poet’s own time.
The next observation of J. Mouratidis seems intriguing to me, since it could explain why to be seen naked might be considered indecent in the Homeric times. He wrote that
it is possible that Ionia, Homer’s own birthplace, was influenced by the existing practice in the oriental world. In the time of Herodotos (5th century B .C.), the Lydians, and barbarians in general, believed that it was a disgrace for a man to be seen naked. This Anatolian attitude towards nudity was apparently shared, to some extent, by the Greeks who lived in areas under Anatolian influence.
Greek nudity also shocked the Romans. It might be interesting to consider the origin of this barbarian belief.
According to J. Mouratidis, the classical sources tell not the story of the introduction of nudity in athletics, but the much more complex tale of the rejection of loincloths after failed attempt to introduce them into athletic competitions which had been made at the close of the sixth century. In his article he shows that nudity in Greek athletics had its roots in prehistoric Greece.
State Police say a truck driver was watching pornographic movies on a laptop while driving–when he crashed into a disabled car, killing a woman on the NY State Thruway near Pembroke, in America, last month.
Thomas Wallace, 45, of Brook Park, Ohio, was charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Julie Stratton, 33, of Snyder, NY, on December 12.
Police said Stratton had struck a deer, which disabled her vehicle on the Thruway. Her vehicle was then struck by the tractor trailer driven by Wallace. Stratton died from her injuries.
In addition to watching porn while driving, Police saidy Wallace was keeping fictitious log books, and had been on duty for over 27 hours with only about four hours of sleep, when the accident happened.
Wallace was arraigned in Pembroke Town Court and is being held in the Genesee County on $50,000 bail or $200,000 bond.
Den siste trenden innen mote/negleakk er noe de liker å kalle ”mannequin hands” det betyr at man skal ha lakk i en tone som er forvekslende lik hudtonen din, akkurat slik enkelte prøvedokker har det. Jeg er ikke så glad i den trenden siden jeg liker best å ha litt farge på de, men da mannen kjøpte med seg hjem endel av de nye H&M lakkene så måtte jeg jo prøve den på og da fant jeg ut at Latte2Go (39,50 på H&M) nok er min mannequin farge. Ellers synes jeg beskrivelsen nude fremdeles er gangbar. Den ble ikke sittende så lenge, bare så lenge at jeg rakk å leke litt med nail stickers fra Viva La Diva (kjøpt i Sverige).
So.. this mannequin hand trend, I’m not really into it, I like to have som color on my nails. But I saw a picture of this new polish from H&M and had to try it on after my SO went out and bought it for me. And there it was, my version of mannequin hands. It did not stay on for long, just long enough to play with some nail stickers from Viva La Diva.
Amy Winehouse and frankly I really don’t want too. She’s a disgusting crack head and I don’t know why anyone would want to see her topless. Here is Amy on holiday in St. Lucia enjoying the water topless.
Amy Winehouse and frankly I really don’t want too. She’s a disgusting crack head and I don’t know why anyone would want to see her topless. Here is Amy on holiday in St. Lucia enjoying the water topless.
Ellers synes jeg beskrivelsen nude fremdeles er gangbar. Den ble ikke sittende så lenge, bare så lenge at jeg rakk å leke litt med nail stickers fra Viva La Diva (kjøpt i Sverige). 
