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âThe Honors are the greatest weekend of the year  and it is also the bane of our existence  â Deborah Rutter  said with a laugh. For the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  the annual Kennedy Center Honors  airing on CBS on Dec. 26 and honoring dancer Carmen de Lavallade  rapper LL Cool J  television producer and writer Norman Lear and singers Gloria Estefan and Lionel Richie  is a welcome national spotlight on the memorial to the late president. But thatâs all anyone seems to know about the the white jewel box on the Potomac.
âWe really like to think about the other 364 days of the year  and all of the programming that happens on those days â  Rutter  told me in the latest episode of âCape Up.â âWhat I love about being here at the nationâs cultural center is that we have really a mandate to welcome all of the performing arts. It is not just a performing arts center for one assumed art form or another.â
I bet you didnât know that hip hop was one of those art forms at the Kennedy Center and that Q-Tip is its artistic director. âThis is a first â  Rutter  said. âAnd as far as I know  there is no other artistic director for hip-hop â¦ anywhere in probably the world. And weâre very proud to have Q-Tip here leading  guiding and inspiring us.â
While she didnât need much convincing   Rutter  allowed that there could be others who might â for fear of what it could mean for the other arts. âJust because we are bringing in more programming that includes hip-hop artists  it does not mean that weâre doing less dance or less international programming or less of the National Symphony Orchestra â she said. âIt just means that weâre doing more  that we have thrown open the doors of the Kennedy Center  and we are ensuring that all are welcome here.â
 Deborah Rutter   president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  talks with The Postâs Jonathan Capehart on the âCape Upâ podcast on Nov. 28 in her office at the Kennedy Center. (Jonathan Capehart/The Washington Post)
There are nine performance spaces at the Kennedy Center that are in use all year. In addition to the orchestra and  the Washington National Opera  Rutter  noted the 46-year-old institution has âa magnificent  world-recognized ballet season. We have contemporary dance  we have jazz  we have a huge jazz series  chamber music  recitals  comedy  international programming.â
Listen to the podcast to hear  Rutter  talk further about the work of the Kennedy Center and how it fits into the cultural life of Washington.  She  goes into what it is like to be the local performing arts center for members of Congress  foreign diplomats and âquite a number of justices from the Supreme Court.â But  Rutter  insists none of those constituencies tries to exert influence over programming.
âHere at the center we have no limits on what we could present â  Rutter  told me. âThe problems I always describe is how to say no  when to say no  and how to not be really  truly overwhelmed by the extraordinary limitless richness of what happens here.â
Deborah Rutter

American Icon and Playboy Founder  Hugh M. Hefner  passed away today.  He  was 91. #RIPHef
Born in Chicago   Hefner  served in the military and worked in journalism before founding Playboy  at age 27  with a small loan. The first issue featured Marilyn Monroe in the centerfold  with images taken for a nude calendar four years earlier  before she became famous. In 2011   Hefner  bought the crypt next to Monroe at the West Hollywood Cemetery  though the two never met.
"You know I'm a sucker for blondes  and  she  is the ultimate blonde " he told CBS2  calling Monroe "the definitive sex icon of our time."
 Hefner 's magazine began publishing its now-iconic centerfold in 1955 — a two-page spread with a titillating photo of a woman. As the magazine took off in the '50s   Hefner  shed a marriage to  his  former classmate Mildred Williams and embraced the sybaritic life depicted on those glossy pages. In 1962  the magazine introduced the "Playboy Interview " which was lauded for its great writing  starting a long-running joke that people read the magazine for the articles  rather than the pictures.  Hefner  also hosted television shows related to the brand  including Playboy's Penthouse in 1959 and Playboy After Dark in 1969.
 Hefner  was married three times  and while  he  himself grew older  his bride was always twentysomething as  she  walked down the aisle. Hailing from a Methodist family in the Midwest   he  styled  himself  as someone who transcended the sexual puritanism endemic in the United States  despite  his  carefully tailored embodiment of an old-fashioned form of masculinity.  He  read Alfred Kinsey's research enthusiastically and experimented with bisexuality in the 1950s;  he  claimed to be a proponent and an instigator of the "sexual revolution"; and yet  he  acknowledged in  his  autobiography that Playboy was "a romantic reflection of earlier times." Although the Playboy fantasy was inherently conservative  the philanthropic Playboy Foundation was a financial supporter of the fight for abortion rights. "Women were the major beneficiary of the sexual revolution "  Hefner  said in Esquire in 2007. "Unfortunately  within feminism  there has been a puritan  prohibitionist element that is antisexual." In the same piece   Hefner  called himself a feminist. Playboy's circulation peaked at 7 million in the '70s  around the time  Hefner  moved from Chicago to the storied Playboy Mansion  where he continued to live and work for the rest of his life.  His company  took a dive in the 1980s  when many of the Playboy Clubs were shuttered  and again in the 1990s  with the rise of easily accessible internet porn  which made his pornographic magazine seem irrelevant. In 2015  the magazine abruptly announced that it would stop publishing nude photos  although it reversed that decision earlier this year. Hefner and a collection of his live-in girlfriends also managed to reach a new audience  starring in an E! reality TV series called The Girls Next Door from 2005 to 2010. He married one of those girlfriends  Crystal Harris  in 2012. It was at this time that he also announced his youngest son  Cooper  would take over Playboy Enterprises.
 Hefner  is survived by  his  wife  Crystal Harris;  his  three sons  David  Marston  and Cooper Hefner; and a daughter  Christie Hefner.
Hugh M. Hefner

Lately  weâve been seeing a boom in TV dystopias. Two of the most successful premieres in the past few years have been HBOâs Westworld and Huluâs The Handmaidâs Tale: the former a solemn  plodding update of Michael Crichtonâs 1973 film  in which subjugated androids revolt and take over a theme park; the latter a stylish and compelling adaptation of Margaret Atwoodâs 1985 novel  in which the United States becomes a patriarchal theocracy. Other recent examples include Amazonâs The Man in the High Castle (based on Philip K. Dickâs 1962 novel about an alternate reality in which the Axis powers have won World War II)  HBOâs The Leftovers (about a world in which 2 percent of the population has mysteriously disappeared)  and Netflixâs new Altered Carbon (a cyberpunk gorefest based on a 2002 novel by Richard K. Morgan). Stretching the criteria a bit  one could perhaps include the long-running zombie odyssey The Walking Dead and its spin-off  Fear the Walking Dead  and sitcoms that play with dystopic elements  like The Good Place and The Last Man on Earth.
The success of Black Mirror is the proximate cause for the existence of  Philip K. Dickâs  Electric Dreams  also produced by Channel 4 and available here on Amazon. Dick  of course  is one of the past masters of the dystopia genre: His 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was the basis for the seminal Ridley Scott film Blade Runner  and his work has been mined by Hollywood countless times ever since.  Electric Dreams  adapts 10 of  Dickâs  short stories  including âThe Hood Makerâ (which imagines a class war between telepaths and normal citizens  who resent their mindsâ being invaded) and âThe Father Thingâ (in which a childâs father is replaced by a sinister alien doppelgÃ¤nger).
 Electric Dreams  is slickly made and intermittently effective  but despite some half-hearted attempts to reimagine or update the material (the boy in âThe Father Thing â upon uncovering the alien conspiracy  posts a video on the Internet with the hashtag â#RESISTâ)  it doesnât really feel of our moment. Part of the problem is that Dickâs work has been adapted for film so many times already that itâs hard to watch a given episode of Electric Dreams  however well executed  and not compare it unfavorably  if unfairly  with Blade Runner  or Paul Verhoevenâs Total Recall  or Steven Spielberg âs  Minority Report.  Dickâs  sensibility is idiosyncratic and sui generis  but at this point it feels more like a piece of intellectual property than the amphetamine-fueled gnostic vision it once was. Is anybody âs  mind really blown by the is-our-world-real-or-just-a-simulation conundrum posed by âReal Life â for example  after weâve seen not only Total Recall but The Matrix and Westworld and a hundred other iterations of it?
The problem  however  isnât just overfamiliarity. Dystopias draw their power from an analysis of the present  and  Dick âs once-radical vision of the future is now as far in the past as H.G. Wellsâs was for  Dick  when  he  began writing. This is what Black Mirror  for all its flaws  has over Electric Dreams: The series feels like itâs about things that Brooker is genuinely worried about  not a dutiful tribute to what someone was worried about in the 1960s; itâs the future as seen from the 21st century  not the 20th. This problem is endemic to many of the recent dystopian shows. The fact that Westworld is based on a movie from 1973  and The Handmaidâs Tale on a novel from 1985  doesnât invalidate their value as entertainments or as cultural commentaries. But it does introduce concerns alien to the dystopiaâs imperative to take the worst of the present day and amplify it.

Philip K. Dick