'For it's a subtle craft, the art of the playboy--the creation of a life of tasteful public and private pleasure--and it's one that is completely lost on the rich of today. Many men think they're playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts is the very definition of the word "loser." (It's the same with men who purchase high-tech boats, private planes, and tall Russian women. They think they're Bond, but really, they're Blofeld). True playboys love women--they love being around them, and they especially love the chase. [Gunter] Sach's pursuit of Bardot, then the most sought-after woman in the world, included flying over her house in St. Tropez in a helicopter and dropping thousands of red roses down to her.'
'Potemkin Playboys,' Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair, July 2011
Helicopter and roses you say? Duly noted.
ReplyDeleteSurrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts is the very definition of the word "loser."
ReplyDeleteThere are quite a few of these in my part of the world (Eastern
Europe), that's for sure. They always provide a good laugh or two.
"Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts is the very definition of the word "loser." Agreed. Still more comfortable though then surrounding yourself with canned Budweiser, a trailer park and considerably less expensive, though uglier and more likely infectious escorts, no?
ReplyDeleteAs the late investment guru Andre Kostolany once said: "Money doesn't make you happy. But when you are sad, it is still more agreeable to cry in a taxi than to do so in the underground"
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'True playboys love women--they love being around them, and they especially love the chase'
ReplyDelete---On the other hand, Aleister Crowley noted that women were something that should be delivered with the milk. Why chase them--I mean you can't mount their heads in the trophy room without negative comment amongst the servants.