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At 81 years old Hugh Hefner is set to hit the big screen with his Playboy lifestyle. The film, which will be named Playboy, will be directed by Brett Ratner and it will be produced for Universal Pictures by Brian Grazer. Reports say that the Playboy founder, Hefner sold the rights to his story to Grazer several years ago and he approved the movie project last week.

Hef came from a puritanical upbringing and reinvented himself to be the godfather of the sexual revolution. He also used his magazine to advocate civil rights and free speech, and put James Brown on his show ‘Playboy After Dark’ when they didn’t put black performers on national television. He broke all kinds of taboos, especially in sexuality. I want to show it all, from the First Amendment struggles to his first orgy to the stroke in the 1980s that almost killed him.
- Ratner was quoted as saying by Daily Variety -

According to the news, the German military have banned Tom Cruise’s new movie to be filmed in their country because they claim the actor’s Scientology religion is not recognized as a church in Germany, and also claim the controversial religion is a “money-making cult”. This comes as a bad joke to Tom Cruise who was set to begin filming the movie Valkyrie in Germany this summer. The Hollywood actor has vowed Scientology will have no impact on the movie or any character, but Tom’s promises were in vain because the permission to film scenes has been denied by the country’s Defence Ministry.
In the movie Tom Cruise plays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, leader of an unsuccessful plot to kill Adolf Hitler during World War II. (more…)