Hugh Hefner was the one handing out presents as his 80th birthday rolled around.

Moved by a plea from a class that watched a film he produced — no, not one of THOSE films — on a 17-year-old television, the founder of the Playboy empire, who turned 80 on April 9, gave a 32-inch color TV to Rockingham County High School in Wentworth, N.C.

English teacher Angela Wilson said the idea sprouted in early March as her class studied Shakespeare. Part of the plan was to view the 1971 film "The Tragedy of Macbeth," produced by Hefner.

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