Maxim's 'Dennis The Menace'

Brian Sorgatz bsorgatz@hotmail.com
Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:09:28 -0800


On Wednesday, November 19, CBS aired a 60 Minutes II segment on Maxim 
magazine founder Felix Dennis:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/17/60II/main584067.shtml
Below is a copy of my email to CBS news.


>From: "Brian Sorgatz" <bsorgatz@hotmail.com>
>To: 60II@cbsnews.com
>Subject: Maxim's 'Dennis The Menace'
>Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:55:46 -0800
>
>As an aficionado of Playboy magazine, I take objection to Bob Simon's 
>description of Felix Dennis as "a modern-day Hugh Hefner."  One does not 
>describe person A as a modern-day version of person B unless person B has 
>been dead for some time.  Hefner, needless to say, is still alive.  And 
>when Simon asked Dennis his opinion of his competitors in the men's 
>magazine market, he failed to mention Hefner or Playboy at all.  This shows 
>an astonishing ignorance of pop-cultural history, since Maxim has obviously 
>been influenced far more by Playboy than by GQ or Esquire -- although, if 
>you ask me, Dennis' magazine is a soulless johnny-come-lately.
>Brian Sorgatz (rhymes with cats)
>Sacramento, California