Letters

Re “Bunny man,” Patt Morrison Asks/Hugh Hefner, May 9

I was nothing if not elated to see Patt Morrison’s Op-Ed interview with Hugh Hefner. “Hef” has suffered from a severe lack of media coverage during his 83-year life, and it’s really great to see The Times pick up the slack now that he no longer runs Playboy. Morrison has really performed a service too, in breaking the news of the release of Hefner’s biography. What a scoop!

George Girton

Sherman Oaks

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One reason I’ve held on to my lifelong subscription to the fading Times has been the wit, humor and enlightened musings of writer Patt Morrison.

Left with a handful of worthy writers, The Times’ assignment of Morrison as Op-Ed “interviewer” was disheartening to say the least.

Two things though ... the interview did reveal Hef as the shallow, self-absorbed geezer he is, and that his brain resides somewhere below his waist.

Sylvia Lewis

Thousand Oaks

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OK, let me see if I have this right.

Newspapers are struggling. Younger readers are getting their news online. Older readers (myself included) are trying to be loyal, because ... well, just because.

So the new “Patt Morrison Asks” column features an 83-year-old has-been hedonist, Hugh Hefner, who denigrates half the population -- women.

This is how The Times expects to multiply subscribers? Yikes!

John Pearson

San Clemente

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Morrison has been transformed from a pithy, refreshingly in-your-face social commentator with views on a variety of timely subjects to interviews with the likes of Hefner.

Please, let her go back to doing what she does so well.

Carol Hamlin

Irvine

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So, Hefner is taken aback at the notion that there are negative psychological effects on women who are not as beautiful as those in his magazine?

Is he familiar with anorexia and bulimia, or are these unique notions also?

He pretends he is striving for a social ideal of sexual liberation. But he does not care about social ideals -- Playboy was just glamorized pornography, seeking to cash in on the desires of men.

Michael Kreutzer

Santa Ana