Playboy to stop printing nude images because of easy access to porn on the internet

Playboy has had to redo its marketing strategy because photos of nudes in between its pages is no longer paying dividends. Much more pornographic material is now available over the internet – hence, Playboy is losing out. Its print circulation that had once been in millions is now down to about 800,000. When he had created Playboy way back in 1953, Hugh Hefner had described it as the magazine whose contents would appeal to men aged 18 to 80. But – times have changed.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 13 October 2015.

Hugh Hefner is now 89-year-old and he has agreed to the changes proposed by Playboy's chief content officer Cory Jones. Mr Jones had indicated that the time was right to shift focus from nudity. Of course, women in provocative poses will continue to feature.
Other editorial changes on the anvil to rebrand Playboy include a "sex-positive female" writing a sex column, art and more coverage of alcoholic drinks.
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Hollywood loses Wes Craven (76), the director who gave us horror movies like Scream

Hollywood lost writer-director Wes Craven (76) to brain cancer at his home in Los Angeles. He was famous for the Nightmare On Elm Street and the Scream films.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 31 August 2015.

Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 2 August 1939 and, after earning a master's degree in philosophy and writing from John Hopkins University in Maryland, he briefly taught as a college professor.
He entered the movies through pornography – he worked here under a pseudonym. And, his mark on Hollywood came in 1972. It was his first film The Last House On The Left. The film was a horror film about a group of teenage girls who got abducted and taken into the woods.
Then, in 1984, he made a mark with the film A Nightmare On Elm Street – he wrote and directed it and gave a break to Johnny Depp. It seems he got the concept from his own life – as a youth in Cleveland, he lived next to a cemetery on an Elm Street.
Anyway, he cemented a place in the horror genre in 1996 after directing Scream and went on to its three sequels. (Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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