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Unbelievable Look at 60's Pop Culture...Cool, May 17, 2007
This review is from: PLAYBOY AFTER DARK - 2ND COLLECTION (DVD)
Just got volume two (after loving volume one) and its even better than the first! The Grateful Dead and Deep Purple really take you back to that "moment in time". I also particularly like that they have stuff from "[...] Penthouse"-- Tony Bennett, Joe Williams, and Count Basie are outstanding!
I know that there are tons of episodes out there, so please keep 'em coming, they're terriffic!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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And Playboy's Penthouse, February 28, 2008
This review is from: PLAYBOY AFTER DARK - 2ND COLLECTION (DVD)
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
I lay no claim to "a first-rate intelligence," but I do subscribe to this F. Scott Fitzgerald dictum about a functioning mind. And so I can call myself a feminist and still think Playboy After Dark is a delicious pop culture artifact.
This three-disc set (Volume Two) begins in the lounge-era cool of the very early sixties and winds up in "groovy" territory at the end of the decade. Highlights (for me): Disc 1 = Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie performing with Joe Williams and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Pete Seeger leading a living room sing-along, close-up magic tricks, Cal Tjader; Disc 2 = Johnny Mathis, The Modern Jazz Quartet, George Carlin, Don Adams, Brenton Wood ("Just give me some kind of sign, girl..."), and the hair-do on the bass player in the group Hef introduces as "The" Deep Purple; Disc 3 = fewer delights and some actual irritations, though Sid Caesar gives one of his "multilingual" performances, and Jerry Garcia wears a gigantic poncho that Deadheads may appreciate in any glimpses that aren't obscured by some ill-considered "psychedelic" camera effects.
Included on Disc 1 is a worshipful short documentary about Hefner, circa 1963, showing us that one of the secrets of his success is an ability to look into the camera with a straight face and declare himself "a genius."
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Junk Mail, November 5, 2011
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I ordered "Playboy After Dark", a television show from the sixties. Right after that I started receiving pornographic
advertisements in the mail. It appeared someone sold my address to a porn distributor. I called the company to
stop the junk mail and the operator told me they had a affiliation with Amazon. As for the DVD I enjoyed seeing
all the old actors and musicians from he sixties. But I was not happy about having my home address sold to a
pornographic company.
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