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NBC's 'The Playboy Club' previews and Ken Burns' interview

By April MacIntyre Aug 16, 2011, 18:54 GMT

Playboy Club star - Amber Heard - Beverly Hills, CA, USA © Donald Carlile / PR Photos

NBC's "The Playboy Club" is one of the network's most discussed series to air this fall.

Not everyone is thrilled. Feminist icon and publisher Gloria Steinem is asking viewers to boycott the series.  Steinem went undercover in 1963 as a Bunny to report on the conditions of the club.

In a new interview with Reuters, the 77-year-old feminist icon said, "I hope people boycott it. It's just not telling the truth about the era."

Steinem says the Club, "normalizes a passive dominant idea of gender. So it normalizes prostitution and male dominance ... I just know that over the years, women have called me and told me horror stories of what they experienced at the Playboy Club and at the Playboy Mansion."

Bonus: Historian Kenny Burns discusses his view of the charm of the original club, and now he takes you to the American Black Film Festival to chat with Naturi Naughton!

Hear why Bunny Brenda is excited for the premiere on Monday, September 19 in the included clip!

THE PLAYBOY CLUB

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Meet Bunny Brenda

As long as she's in The Playboy Club, she's one of the luckiest, safest richest women in the world.

Meet Bunny Maureen Inside The Playboy Club, she can be anyone she wants to be and leave her past behind forever.

Meet Bunny Alice It doesn't matter who you are outside The Playboy Club, it's who you are behind those doors that counts.

The Playboy Club at ABFF

Kenny Burns interviews Playboy Club star Naturi Naughton at the American Black Film Festival.