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Penthouse Pets
''Penthouse'' is a List of men's magazines, men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione and published by Los Angeles–based Penthouse World Media, LLC. It combines urban lifestyle articles and Softcore pornography, softcore pornographic pictures of women that, in the 1990s, evolved into Hardcore pornography, hardcore pornographic pictures of women. Although Guccione was American, the magazine was founded in the United Kingdom in 1965, and first published simultaneously in the UK and the U.S. in March 1965. From September 1969, an "American Edition" was made available in the United States. Since 2016, ''Penthouse'' has been under the ownership of Penthouse World Media (formerly known as Penthouse Global Media Inc.), which filed for bankruptcy in 2018. Its assets were subsequently acquired in June of that same year by WGCZ Ltd., the owners of XVideos, when it won a bankruptcy auction bid. Later on, Penthouse Global Media was spun off from WGCZ and rebranded as Penthouse World Media. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Men's Magazines
This is a list of men's magazines from around the world. These are Magazine, magazines (periodical print publications) that have been published primarily for a readership of Man, men. The list has been split into subcategories according to the target audience of the magazines. This list includes Adult magazine, adult magazines. Not included here are magazines which may happen to have, or may be assumed to have, a predominantly male audience - such as magazines focusing on cars, trains, modelbuilding and gadgets. The list excludes online publications. General male audience These publications appeal to a broad male audience. Some skew toward men's fashion, others to health. Most are marketed to a particular age and income demographics, demographic. In the United States, some are marketed mainly to a specific ethnic group, such as African Americans or Mexicans. Americas Canada * ''Sharp (magazine), Sharp Magazine'' Europe Others * ''For Men'' * ''Vi Menn'' Asia Japan * ''Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dale Davidson
James Dale Davidson is an American private investor and investment writer, co-writer of the newsletter ''Strategic Investment'', and co-author with William Rees-Mogg of ''Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad'' (1987), ''The Great Reckoning'' (1991),Tom LucasBook Review - The great reckoning - A global warning on wealth ''Management Today'', May 1, 1992 and ''The Sovereign Individual'' (1997). He wrote ''The Plague of the Black Debt - How to Survive the Coming Depression'' in 1993 in which he predicted that as part of a "deep depression...Clinton is going to be a one-term president...I am as sure of this as I am that the sun will rise tomorrow" and that the US national debt would increase by a trillion dollars during Clinton's "one-term" presidency. He further wrote in the book that Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, would lose his job and that Russia will come under the control of a nationalist, militarist regime. He has been credited wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Goldman
Albert Harry Goldman (April 15, 1927 – March 28, 1994) was an American academic and author. Goldman wrote about the culture and personalities of the American music industry, both in books and as a contributor to magazines. He is known for his bestselling book on Lenny Bruce and his controversial biographies of Elvis Presley and John Lennon. Early life and education Albert Goldman was born in Dormont, Pennsylvania, and raised in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Goldman briefly studied theater at the Carnegie Institute of Technology before serving in the U.S. Navy from 1945 to 1946. He earned a master's degree in English from the University of Chicago in 1950; under the chancellery of Robert Maynard Hutchins, students who were not enrolled in the generalist "Chicago Plan" undergraduate degree program were designated as master's students and received the higher degree after five years of study. Upon matriculating in the English doctoral program at Columbia University, Goldm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chet Flippo
Chester White "Chet" Flippo (October 21, 1943 – June 19, 2013) was an American music journalist and biographer. Biography Born in Fort Worth, Texas, he graduated from Sam Houston State University in 1965, serving thereafter in the U.S. Navy in intelligence. He also worked for local newspapers in Texas before gaining a master's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974. He joined the staff of ''Rolling Stone'' as a contributing editor, becoming its New York bureau editor in 1974, and senior editor in 1977 when it moved its headquarters to New York. Eric R. Danton, "Chet Flippo, Former 'Rolling Stone' Editor, Dead at 69", ''Rolling Stone'', June 19, 2013 Retrieved 24 March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Jay Epstein
Edward Jay Epstein (December 6, 1935 – January 9, 2024) was an American investigative journalist and a political science professor at Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Early life and education Edward Jay Epstein was born in New York City on December 6, 1935. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in government from Cornell University. One of his professors at Cornell was Vladimir Nabokov. In 1973, he received his PhD in government from Harvard University. Career Epstein taught courses at these universities for three years. While a graduate student at Cornell University in 1966, he published the book ''Inquest'', an influential critique of the Warren Commission probe into the John F. Kennedy assassination. After teaching at Harvard, UCLA, and MIT, Epstein decided to pursue his writing career back in New York City. Epstein wrote three books about the Kennedy assassination, eventually collecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz ( ; born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law, U.S. constitutional and American criminal law, criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst. Dershowitz has taken on high-profile and often unpopular causes and clients. As of 2009, he had won 13 of the 15 murder and attempted murder cases he handled as a Criminal law, criminal appellate lawyer. Dershowitz has represented such celebrity clients as Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Leona Helmsley, Julian Assange, and Jim Bakker. Major legal victories have included two successful appeals that overturned convictions, first for Harry Reems in 1976, then in 1984 for Claus von Bülow, who had been convicted of the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny von Bülow, Sunny. In 1995, Dersh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don DeLillo
Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, television, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports. DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of ''White Noise (novel), White Noise'' brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He followed this in 1988 with ''Libra (novel), Libra'', a novel about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for ''Mao II'', about terrorism and the media's scrutiny of writers' private lives, and the William Dean Howells Medal for ''Underworld (novel), Underworld'', a historical novel that ranges in time from the dawn of the Cold War to the birth of the Internet. He was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Crowe
Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American filmmaker and journalist. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Grammy Award as well as a nomination for a Tony Award. Crowe started his career as a contributing editor and writer at ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in 1973 where he covered numerous rock bands on tour. Crowe's debut screenwriting effort, '' Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' (1982), grew out of a book he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student at Clairemont High School in San Diego. Later, he wrote and directed the romance films '' Say Anything...'' (1989), '' Singles'' (1992), and '' Jerry Maguire'' (1996). Crowe directed his seminal work, the autobiographical film '' Almost Famous'' (2000), which is loosely based on his early career as a teen writer for ''Rolling Stone''. For his screenplay, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His later films have received varying degrees of success. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Crews
Harry Eugene Crews (June 7, 1935 – March 28, 2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He often made use of violent, grotesque characters and set them in regions of the Deep South. Life Harry Crews was born June 7, 1935, during the Great Depression to two poor tenant farmers in Bacon County, Georgia. His father died while he was still a baby, and his mother soon remarried to his father's brother. Crews was unaware that this man was not his biological father until years later. As a child, he suffered two near-death experiences. When he was just five he contracted polio, causing his legs to fold up into the back of his thighs. He was originally told by doctors that he would not be able to walk again. After about a year of being immobile, except crawling with his hands, his legs straightened again and he was able to walk. Soon after this experience, he then fell into a vat of nearly boiling water, which was being used for soaking dead hogs before they w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Claud Cockburn ( ; 6 June 1941 – 21 July 2012) was a Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer. Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland, but lived and worked in the United States from 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter ''CounterPunch''. Cockburn also wrote the "Beat the Devil" column for ''The Nation'', and another column for ''The Week'' in London, syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Background Alexander Cockburn was born on June 6, 1941, in Scotland and grew up in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland. He was the eldest son of journalist Claud Cockburn, a former Communist author, and his third wife, Patricia Byron, née Arbuthnot. (She wrote an autobiography, ''Figure of Eight''). His ancestral family included Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, who was responsible for the burning of Washington, DC in the War of 1812. His two younger brothers, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick, are also journalists. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Bockris
Victor Bockris (born 1949) is an English-born, U.S.-based author, primarily of biographies of artists, writers, and musicians. He has written about Lou Reed (and The Velvet Underground), Andy Warhol, Keith Richards, William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Blondie, Patti Smith, and Muhammad Ali. He helped write the autobiographies of John Cale and Bebe Buell. Life and career Bockris was born in Sussex, England in 1949; his family moved to Pennsylvania when he was four years old. He attended the British boarding school Rugby and Philadelphia's Central High School. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the Philomathean Society, with a BA in Literature in 1971. While still in Philadelphia, he founded Telegraph Books along with Andrew Wylie and Aram Saroyan. He also published two books of his own poetry, ''In America'' and ''Victor Bockris''. He moved to New York City in 1973 to work with Andrew Wiley as a writing team called Bockris-Wiley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Blum
Howard Blum () (born 1948) is an American author and journalist. Formerly a reporter for ''The Village Voice'' and ''The New York Times'', Blum is a contributing editor at '' Vanity Fair'' and the author of several non-fiction books, including the ''New York Times'' bestseller and Edgar Award winner '' American Lightning''. Career In 1986, Blum began working as a reporter for the ''New York Times'', where he earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations. Since 1994, Blum has been a contributing editor to '' Vanity Fair.'' Several of his books were non-fiction bestsellers, including ''Gangland'', ''Wanted'', ''The Gold of Exodus'', and ''The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and WWII''. Additionally, a number of his works have been optioned for film. Miramax Films purchased the rights from Blum for six figures to turn ''The Brigade'' into a major motion picture, although it seems the movie was never made. Personal life Blum is the son of Harold K. Blum (1917–1984), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
