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Writing about the afterlife of Hugh Hefner in a Paris Review Blog, Art Spiegelman describes himself as accepting been “a appreciative contributor to Playboy Funnies,” a area of Playboy magazine. In his celebrity days, writes Spiegelman, “Hefner was a force for acceptable — consistently arresting accelerating causes, a best of the First Amendment, civil values, gay rights and women’s abandon of choice. ... He was a bit befuddled by feminism, but his annual was in abounding means a arrangement of the counterculture. Yes, he had aureate accouterments accessories a bearing afore our president, but he had bigger words and he was a hell of a lot smarter.”

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Reading that — which runs adverse to the assessment of abounding — reminded me of conversations with Hefner, who was decidedly accessible to ability on the telephone. In 2001, I had alleged to ask for Hefner’s acknowledgment to account of a woman who’d accounting to Vanity Fair to acquaint the apple that he should accept been a gynecologist and that “sex with him was basically sterile.” The woman wrote in afterwards a contour of Hef had appeared in that magazine.

“I like to anticipate that I’m adult as to genitalia of the changeable anatomy,” Hefner, again 75, said on the phone, “but best of what I do, I do from the heart. I’m a adventurous person.” Hefner was additionally agog about Viagra. “Talk about acceptable timing. It accustomed two months afterwards the end of my marriage. It was fabricated for me. It gives me a affection of performance.”

He said that his activity “seems actual beatnik and nontraditional, but allotment of what it’s been about is a boy’s dream to not alive out what came before, in the activity of my parents. I admired them, but they were archetypal Midwestern purist people. ... My activity is a boy’s life. It’s an adolescent’s dream appear true.”

•Overheard by Andrew Wasserman, bartender at 440 Castro, during the Castro Street Fair: “Enough about racism. I’m amative as hell.”

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•Hot new name for an Asian annoyance queen, appropriate by Robin Sutherland: Szechuan Fire. (Say it aloud.)

•At Cafe DeLucchi in North Beach the added day, Tom Bonk was alert to a brace belief a day-tripper map. “Here’s area we are,” said one to the other. “Here’s Washington Square Park. And here’s that acclaimed church, Peter, Paul & Mary’s.”

The 40th ceremony and barrage affair for the new apotheosis of the Nob Hill Gazette on Sunday, Oct. 1, was at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in the Merchants’ Exchange Building, endemic by Gazette buyer Clint Reilly.

“Everybody knows at atomic one added person,” said Sandra Swanson, attractive about the allowance at the upbeat army of anxiously coiffed women in cocktail dresses and baldheaded guys in blithe sports jackets. The guests included a lot of bodies whose faces are accustomed to longtime readers, and from the podium, Reilly paid beholden admiration to above administrator Lois Lehrman, from whom he’d bought the advertisement about a year ago.

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But in accession to the accustomed faces, and the anxiously adequate faces, there were additionally new ones, adolescent bodies adulatory what architecture administrator Matt Perry said in a contempo account was a “bigger, bolder, added polished” Nob Hill Gazette, with “a little bit of a wow factor.”

It was a actor event, but abounding approved advertisers — including Hill & Co., advertisers for 40 years — had “bought tables”; a allotment of the gain were activity to educational programs at the San Francisco Symphony and Opera.

From the stage, Reilly talked about Gazette’s goals: “Have fun. Try new things. Make ceremony affair bigger than the one before.”

And with all this innovation, some acceptable elements remained. If you appetite to get the Nob Hill army to chow down, there’s annihilation like confined oysters and caviar.

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P.S. Afterwards the big, bouncing Gazette party, we headed over to the applesauce club bench at the Black Cat in the Tenderloin, for some friends’ 25th ceremony party, the affectionate of clandestine break that usually goes unmentioned herein. But it charge be acclaimed that applesauce accompanist Kitty Margolis sang “Heart and Soul,” to her saxophone-playing husband, Alfonso Montuori, with such affection that admirers acquainted they’d never heard the song before.

Leah Garchik is accessible for business in San Francisco, (415) 777-8426. Email: lgarchik@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @leahgarchik

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