MR. PLAYBOY Hugh Hefner and the American Dream By Steven Watts Wiley. 529 pp. $29.95 "Mr. Playboy" is an encyclopedic, reverent, earnest, incredibly boring biography of Hugh Hefner, the man who invented Playboy magazine and, with the help of his daughter Christie, kept it and its empire alive for more than 50 years. This book probably should have been reviewed by a 20-year-old man, but the author got stuck with me. As an older woman, I think I need to state my own biases: I'm not a person who thinks porn is boring (I wrote a book on it). I have nothing ... (more)