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08-08-2005, 03:31 PM
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer Mon Aug 8,12:13 PM ET
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Things are not what they seem to be at the Playboy Mansion.
The blonde sidling up for a pat turns out to be Archie, a male mutt living the good life at Hugh Hefner's estate. A bubbly woman clad in a T-shirt (tight), shorts (very short) and heels (very, very high) is an official G.O.F. — Girlfriend of Hef — but also holds two college degrees.
And Hefner, who founded an empire on the allure of an unavailable nude making eye contact from a magazine page, says he's a misunderstood romantic who created a world befitting his own comfortably elastic definition of the term.
This world is on view in "The Girls Next Door" (premiering 9 p.m. EDT Sunday on E!), an eight-part series from executive producer Kevin Burns that promises to introduce viewers to "the secret side of an American legend."
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TV review: The Girls Next Door
By Ray Richmond Sun Aug 7, 9:42 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If you're 79-year-old Hugh Hefner, paradise these days means sharing your life with three young blondes who spend an inordinate amount of time primping in front of a mirror and playing with their dogs.
That's what it's come to inside the Playboy Mansion, where Hefner girlfriends Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson fawn all over the man of the house while pretending to like one another. Such is the dynamic of "The Girls Next Door," an oddly unreal collection of sound bites and vignettes that purports to show us what it's really like behind the closed doors of "the world's most famous English Tudor."
Producers have apparently been lining up for a couple of years for the opportunity to capture the spectacle of Hef at home, but what we get from executive producer Kevin Burns is notably shallow and ludicrous. Not that we were expecting Merchant Ivory-style quality here or anything, but even by E! standards this proves a spectacularly brainless excursion.
more (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050808/review_nm/television_girls_dc;_ylt=AoTVQegvMIG.bZHkbxnMlrVxF b8C;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Things are not what they seem to be at the Playboy Mansion.
The blonde sidling up for a pat turns out to be Archie, a male mutt living the good life at Hugh Hefner's estate. A bubbly woman clad in a T-shirt (tight), shorts (very short) and heels (very, very high) is an official G.O.F. — Girlfriend of Hef — but also holds two college degrees.
And Hefner, who founded an empire on the allure of an unavailable nude making eye contact from a magazine page, says he's a misunderstood romantic who created a world befitting his own comfortably elastic definition of the term.
This world is on view in "The Girls Next Door" (premiering 9 p.m. EDT Sunday on E!), an eight-part series from executive producer Kevin Burns that promises to introduce viewers to "the secret side of an American legend."
more (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050808/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_hugh_hefner;_ylt=AjpULMGU4ca5.lVp7reollpx Fb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl)
TV review: The Girls Next Door
By Ray Richmond Sun Aug 7, 9:42 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If you're 79-year-old Hugh Hefner, paradise these days means sharing your life with three young blondes who spend an inordinate amount of time primping in front of a mirror and playing with their dogs.
That's what it's come to inside the Playboy Mansion, where Hefner girlfriends Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson fawn all over the man of the house while pretending to like one another. Such is the dynamic of "The Girls Next Door," an oddly unreal collection of sound bites and vignettes that purports to show us what it's really like behind the closed doors of "the world's most famous English Tudor."
Producers have apparently been lining up for a couple of years for the opportunity to capture the spectacle of Hef at home, but what we get from executive producer Kevin Burns is notably shallow and ludicrous. Not that we were expecting Merchant Ivory-style quality here or anything, but even by E! standards this proves a spectacularly brainless excursion.
more (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050808/review_nm/television_girls_dc;_ylt=AoTVQegvMIG.bZHkbxnMlrVxF b8C;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl)