Maxim publisher Felix Dennis has built a publishing empire by promoting the Maxim Lifestyle™, which consists of hot sex with busty babes, binge drinking, and… Okay, I’m sure there’s more to it than that, but I really don’t know the details. But, to repeat: Felix Dennis has made himself very, very rich by hawking his lad mag to globalized young chavs who a) think this lifestyle sounds way cool; and b) will never, ever live the dream. However, there’s more to Mr. Dennis than this gamma-male fantasy world, and in a Times profile he reveals other aspects of his many-faceted persona. The time he killed a man, for instance.
Of course, a revelation like that needs a little build-up. Mr. Dennis starts off slow and easy, talking about his multiple-hooker orgies and his battle with crack addiction–and by “battle,” I mean “wholesale surrender.” Then he moves on to the hooker he tried to save from a life of sin–not just any hooker, but a hooker:
who could walk around naked as easily as if she was dressed to the hilt and had that insouciance which only comes from tremendous beauty with a kind of rabid intelligence… I could not bear that this orchid was going to be flushed down the lavatory with the dead chrysanthemums.
You won’t hit the man-killin’ part of the interview until paragraph 25 or so, but trust me, it’s worth the trip. Felix Dennis is an inspiration to us all. He shows that being utterly barking mad is no impediment whatsoever to becoming a highly successful billionaire publisher. Heck, it might even help.
(Via Fark.)
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As a former Maxim subscriber I take umbrage — UMBRAGE, sir! — at the suggestion that I never engaged in binge drinking. I assure you that I drank quite a bit at the time, which might have explained my taste in magazines.
They do however have better pictorials than, say, Playboy, which might as well contain cartoon characters for all the photoshopping that goes on.
Okay, you get a partial apology. The bingeing part of the Maxim Lifestyleâ„¢ is available to just about anyone. However, for a full apology you’ll have to send us the cellphone pics of you and Keeley Hazell so we can spread them all over the internet.
She is phenomenal, isn’t she. I’ve got some video.
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Ha!
I do, actually. I’m not in it, unfortunately.