Watch it, you'll put somebody's eye out with those!
Struggling Playboy magazine has an eye-popping new trick to attract readers - put its centerfold in 3-D.
The magazine's June edition, which hits newsstands on Friday, features centerfold Hope Dworaczyk in a 3-D pictorial. It will include a pair of classic blue-and-red glasses so you can an eyeful of Dworaczyk's... uh, extra dimensions.
If they'd done this back when my friends and I were, um, looking at the cartoons and reading the interviews in Playboy, it might have seemed startling and innovative. But today? Playboy founder Hugh Hefner says this will help the magzine compete with all those "racy images" on the Internet: "This particular picture is one example of how books and magazines are different (than computer images)," Hefner added. "You can hold it in your hands, save them, and as Dad used to, put them under the mattress." Don't think so. How the Internet differs is that it leaves nothing to the imagination. Hefner is a romantic if he thinks voyeurs still want to look at his magazine to conjure up pictures in their minds. A dirty, old man, sure, but a romantic dirty, old man.
