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Playboy's First Film

By Jack Diether
Reprinted from The New York Times

"Macbeth," the film version of the Shakespearean play being
made by Roman Polanski and Kenneth Tynan, is Playboy's first
motion picture financing venture."

— The New York Times

February 28.

Quoth Roman Polanski to Tynan
As at Hugh Hefner's club they were dining:
"A 'Macbeth' rated 'X'
Calls for lots of nude sex,
So let's pick up some bunnies and sign them."
Then Sir Kenneth this wisdom did utter:
"Britain ain't quite as warm as Calcutta.
But the climate we'll beat
With three witches in heat,
And a transparent nightgown to flutter."