Playboy's Hugh Hefner Won't Get Chicago Street Named for Him
- Playboy Enterprises Inc.
founder Hugh Hefner, who began publishing his men's magazine in
Chicago in the early 1950s, won't have a street named for him by
the City Council, the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune
reported. Plans for a ``Hugh Hefner Way' in the city's chic
Michigan Avenue shopping district were rejected amid protests from
some alderman, including one who called Hefner ``one of the
world's biggest pornographers.' Playboy Chairman Christie Hefner
defended her father's record, telling the Tribune that Playboy has
``promoted human rights, which include women's rights,' and that
``sexiness and equal treatment are not at odds with each other.'
Playboy, an adult entertainment company, said March 30 it
revised third-quarter results, taking a loss of 5 cents a share
rather than a previously reported profit of 24 cents, after said
it should change the way it accounted for the formation of its
Playboy TV International joint venture.
(Chicago Sun-Times 4/11 1, Chicago Tribune 4/11 2-1)
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