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Contents - Features - The Persecution Of Barry Bonds (Baseball's greatest home-run hitter is scheduled to go on trial for perjury this month in the climax of the nastiest sports scandal in decades. Is Bonds the real villian? Investigative reporter Jonathan Littman reveals the dirty details in this Playboy exclusive); Road Killers (Drop the extra two wheels with James R. Petersen as he checks out the latest motorcycle manna); The Playboy Bar: Gin (Jumping juniper! Ot's time to toast the liquor that still leaves our martinis shaken); The Hilliker Curse (In the first of a four-part memoir, literary legend James Ellroy offers his treatise on the male romantic urge and chronicles his pursuit of the fairer sex); Liars, Cheats & Thieves (Jamie Malanowski calls out the high-powered financial players who sent us screaming into economic collapse) Interview - Seth Rogen (He got her knocked up, he has been superbad, and soon this stoner hero will inleash his inner superhero as the Green Hornet. Eric Spitznagel laughs along with our cover boy about his unlikely meteoric rise) 20Q - Amy Smart (The sexy Crank star cranks it up a notch for Stephen Rebello with off-the-cuff remarks about pole dancing, kissing girls, public sex and more) Fiction - The Last Bachelor (A socialite stud who had bedded well-bred women has one last fling with an ex-flame before he gets married, in this story by Jay McInerney) Pictorials - The Swedish Supermodel (Nineteen-year-old Aleksandra Eriksson shows how martial-arts training does the body good); Remembering Bettie Page (The iconic pinup goddess's best photos reveal a sexual playfulness that is timeless and unforgettable); Playmate: Hope Dworaczyk (Come backstage with Miss April as the TV host gets ready for her close-up); Coming To America (We import the sexiest international Playmates for a heated global summit) News And Notes - The World Of Playboy (The Girls Next Door sign copies of their new book at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas; Hef and the girls hang with Magic Johnson at a Lakers game; the Man and his party posse take a trip to Disneyland); Black Tie And Lingerie (Hef toasted the New Year at the Mansion with his girlfriends, as well as celebrity friends like Sarah Silvermann, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Maher and many more); Playmate News (Sara Jean Underwood stars in the film Miss March; Dasha Astafieva sings a different tune with her girl group, NikitA; Monica Tidwell produces a play) Departments - Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Reviews; City Guide; Mantrack; Success: Bob Parsons; Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes; Grapevine Forum - Our New Prohibition (Author Lawrence Lessig urges lawmakers to create a copyright system in which music artists get paid instead of one that renders kids criminals); Reader Response: Special Edition (Your reactions to January's The 55 Most Important People In Sex ranged from passionate to pissed off) |
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| May |
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Contents - Features - A War Of Speed (For the 1960s no race was more dangerous or prestigious than the 24 Hours at Le Mans. Now A.J. Baime re-creates 1964's historic first face-off between Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari, the outcome of which would forever alter the global auto industry); Paradise Lost (John Bowe reports that guys eager to work at Saipan's tropical resorts for the Asian hotties find paradise is complicated); The Drinking Man's Guide To Cinema (Watching The Big Lebowski without a white russian insults the Dude. Let us pair the right cocktail with your movie main course); Playboy's 2008 Baseball Preview (Tracy Ringolsby predicts which teams have a winning combination of players); Playboy's Top Party Schools (Dust off your togs and tap the keg. We calculate the top 10 colleges for tying one on); High-Tech Hi-Fi (Scott Alexander shows you six ways to park your iPod for some sonic excitement) Interview - Chuck Palahniuk (David Sheff probes the Fight Club author's twisted mind and the strange upbringing that fuels his imagination) 20Q - Zachary Quinto (David Rensin mind melds with the actor who fills Spock's pointy ears in Star Trek) Fiction - Minotaur (In this story by Jim Shepard, two military black-ops men meet by chance and realize how stranded they each are) Pictorials - Women Of Wall Street (What recession? It's a bull market with these hot assets available); Playmate: Chrystal McCahill (Meet the genetically gifted daughter of Miss August 1968 Gale Olson as she strikes her mother's classic pose. For us, it was a natural selection); Loving Lisa (Sexy TV personality Lisa Rinna first hit it big on Melrose Place and Days Of Our Lives before making a lasting impression on Dancing With The Stars. Now Lisa acts our your Mrs. Robinson fantasy in a high-rise room with a view. Here's to you, Ms. Rinna) News And Notes - The World Of Playboy (Hef returns to the big screen in Miss March; Bridget Marquardt finds the hot spots on TV's Bridget's Sexiest Beaches; Playmates and Dave Navarro are the perfect ingredients for a Rock-N-Babes party); Super Bowl Bash (Hef puts his spin on fantasy football at the Mansion with a team of party players including AnnaLynne McCord, Brande Roderick, Denise Richards and more); Playmate News (Take notes as we analyze Playmate cup- and bust-size trends; a Lil' Lillian Muller does the body good) Departments - Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Reviews; Mantrack; Sex: Suzy McCoppin; Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes; Sports: Bill James; Grapevine Forum - Who's Your Daddy? (Biotechnology expert Lori Andrews looks at the complications of anonymous sperm donation); How To Build A Better Baby (Clinics strive to produce smarter children by cataloging sperm and egg donors by IQ and SAT scores. But geniuses can't be manufactured in labs) |
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| June |
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Features - The Hilliker Curse (In the second installment of his four-part memoir, author James Ellroy kicks booze, gets published and continues his hunt for lusting love and lust); Wet Hot American Summer (We look at things that make our favorite season sizzle, including shades, boats, new trends and, especially, sun-kissed beaches); Soul Man (Booker T. Jones is famed for the Memphis soul he made in the 1960s. Robert Gordon faces the legend's great new music); The Playboy Bar: Rum (Yo-ho-ho! Things are tasting tropical around here as we get inserted with the sugarcane) Interview - Shia LaBeouf (Like the giant robots he shares the screen with in the Transformers movies, there is more to LaBeouf than meets the eye. David Hochman chats with the disarmingly frank young actor) 20 Q - Scott Boras (Boras hits it out of the park for Kevin Cook as baseball's "avenging agent" defends his hardball tactics and his stable of well-paid players) Fiction - Lovely Rita (In Maile Meloy's elegiac tale of the demise of small-town America, a dead man's girl becomes a surprising raffle prize after a fatal freak accident at a plant) Pictorials - God Bless America (Feeling patriotic? Get ready to salute actress and singer America Olivo, the star of the much-buzzed-about movie Bitch Slap); Playmate: Candice Cassidy (Saddle up alongside Miss June as this Midwest farmer's daughter horses around and makes you feel all right); PMOY: Ida Ljungqvist (She is fluent in several languages, has lived in more countries than most of us will visit in our lifetime and has a goddess looks that could smooth over any foreign relations. Talk about global appeal: Ida Ljungvist is the 50th Playmate of the Year) Fashion - Jimmy Rollins (Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins is a smooth major league player who comes out swinging in cool summer fashions) News And Notes - The World Of Playboy (Hef, Paris Hilton and other stars help Playboy cover model Aubrey O'Day celebrate her 25th birthday; Holly Madison cuts a rug on Dancing With The Stars); Hangin' With Hef (Life is a party for Hef. See him tie one on next to his sweethearts, with Playmates and celebrities like Brody Jenner, Brigitte Nielsen, Santonio Holmes and more); Playmate News (Jayde Nicole fights cancer with her charity, Lengths For Love; The British Royal Opera House plans a production based on Anna Nicole Smith's life) Departments - Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Reviews; Mantrack; Sex: Suzy McCoppin; Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes; Grapevine Forum - A Postcard From Europe (Dubravka Ugresic reports political apathy and a deficit of social imagination are on the rise in Europe); Dread Pirate (Althea Legaspi catches up with Jared Bowser, one of the first people prosecuted for music-file sharing( |
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| October |
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Contents - Features - Pirates Of Somalia (This is the story of terrorists on the high seas. Somali pirates have received much ire in the media, but do you really know their side of the story? Shashank Bengali traverses troubled waters to ask them face-to-face why they maraud); Bad To The Bone (The 1970s Oakland Raiders were part Hells Angels, part rock stars. Kevin Cook gathers an oral history of the baddest team ever. Plus: we give you this season's winners); Andy Richter Grows Up (Richter takes a hike in the Hollywood Hills (yes, seriously) with Eric Spitznagel and doesn't look back); Venus On The Half Shell (New Orleans is Leopold Froehlich's oyster as he samples the city's best bivalves); Sex On Campus 2009 (An intimate look at the secret life of college girls, compiled by Stinson Carter, plus our College Sex Poll results); The Golden Age Of Pills (Can't focus? Want to stay awake for days? Do Scott Alexander and Rocky Rakovic have an Rx for you); The Weird World Of Gahan Wilson (Eight quirky cartoons from the master) Interview - Woody Harrelson (Woody lies back, fires up a joint and discusses sex, marijuana, the man and other heavy stuff with David Hochman) 20Q - Shawne Merriman (Lights Out has been rebuilt - better, stronger, faster, he tells Jason Buhrmester) Fiction - Light, Sweet Crude (Oil futures can be risky business. By Christopher Feliciano Arnold) Pictorials - Girls Of The ACC (Hot Hokies, sexy Seminoles, divine Blue Devils and more cute East Coast coeds let you into their dorm rooms); Playmate: Lindsey Gayle Evans (How she introduced herself to us: "I'm a former Miss Louisiana Teen USA, and I'm tired of being good. Are y'all interested?" We are!); Love Bites (Nude models vamp it up in a fiery, bodily-fluid-swapping (blood) pictorial. It's a fantasy with fangs) News And Notes - World Of Playboy (In the wedding of the summer, Kendra Wilkinson marries Hank Baskett at PMW; the Shannon twins earn roles in Sofia Coppola's new movie; the two-day Playboy Jazz Festival celebrates one of America's truest art forms at the Hollywood Bowl); Hangin' With Hef (Hef takes his girls to catch a Laker play-off game at the Staples Center, attends the unveiling of the USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex and watches his son Cooper accept his high school diploma); Playmate News - Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Reviews; Mantrack; Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes, Grapevine The Playboy Forum - Think Again (Wrap your head around this: Steven Pinker argues that we have changed the way humans process thoughts); Big Boom Theory (We once feared the bomb. Now Bill McKibben notes the fuse is even shorter on the environment) |
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| November |
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Contents - Features - A Weird Calm At The Edge Of The Abyss (Luis Alberto Urrea stands over the Rio Grande, straddling heaven and hell. On one side sits El Paso, a classic American boomtown that's still flourishing. But a piedra's throw away is Juarez, where 326 people were murdered - in August); Burn After Reading (Think long fillers are filibusters or stud extras in porn movies? Aaron Sigmond's cigar guide has you covered); The Hilliker Curse (James Ellroy delivers his final installment of love, loss and literature. Can our hero shake the jinx and find the right girl?); Playing For Keeps (Scott Alexander follows video game Brutal Legend's design team into battle); The Woman Who Could Think Herself Off! (We dispatch John H. Richardson to witness a bona fide mind fuck) Interview - Benicio Del Toro (The star talks with Stephen Rebello about Hollywood - old (films) and new (sex with Scarlett Johansson in an elevator) 20Q - Tracy Morgan (Eric Spitznagel gets jewels like "I'm into bike riding and breaking women's water") Verse - The Bone Church (Grab a bar stool next to Stephen King and listen to his chilling new tale) Columns - French Dish (Toni Bentley finds herself a female lover in Gay Paree); Making Your Pathology Pay (How Dr. Drew Pinsky made his problem work for him) Pictorials - A Farewell To Farrah (A celebration of Farrah Fawcett's feathered hair, big smile and iconic images); The Devil In Marge Simpson (Springfield's hottest housewife serves up cheesecake photographs); Playmate: Kelley Thompson (We found our little rose of Texas); Alina Puscau (Brett Rather, his Victoria's Secret model girlfriend and a plastic body double pay homage to Helmet Newton) Fashion - The Comfort Of Strangers (A Hollywood tryst! Actor Gilles Marini's affair with clothes! Catch the action! Fashion by Jennifer Ryan Jones, photography by Tony Kelly) News And Notes - World Of Playboy (Hef and his girls watch Holly Madison perform in Peepshow, but when called onstage, Hefner steals the show; the Shannon twins autograph their centerfold in Las Vegas; Playmates crack jokes for HBO (don't you love a girl with a sense of humor?); Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt peddle Playboy); Aces And Angels (Who knew Kim Kardashian, Shannon Elizabeth and Billy Burke were players? The Playboy Mansion hosts two big poker tournaments); Playmate News (Christi Shake looks for the soap star of her dreams on My Antonio; Jayde Nicole wants us to eat our vegetables; Sara Jean Underwood geeks out on G4) Departments - Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Reviews; Mantrack; Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes. Grapevine The Playboy Forum - Untrue Confessions (Would you willingly confess to a crime you didn't commit? You might. Joshua Tepfer investigates interrogators' dodgy head games); No Photos Allowed (Cops hate cameras. So, Tim Mohr asks, who watches the watchmen?) |
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| December |
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Contents - Features - Brothers In Arms (Gore Vidal remembers his hero, his stepbrother); Chelsea Handler's Guide To The Holidays (Our favorite comic on hosting a good yule time); Dope (T.J. English discovers that one DEA agent's smoke and mirrors put scores of innocent people in jail); Playboy's 2009 Music Poll (Cast a vote for your favorite music); Tip-Off '10 (David Kaplan and Rocky Rakovic provide full-court coverage of the NCAA basketball season); No Reservations (The tasty digs of Chicago restaurateer Jerry Kleiner. A Playboy Pad by Steve Garbarino); Dust In The Wind (If you love a book, let it go, says Paulo Coelho, whose The Alchemist has sold 65 million copies); The Triumph Of The Conservative Underground (Thomas Frank notes that the ultra-right wing is back - and it's leader is Glenn Beck); The Book Of Genesis (An illustrated cartoon from the Bible of R. Crumb); The Great South Florida Python Scare (Writer Pat Jordan tracks snakes on a glade); Playboy Gift Guide (Cool toys for older boys) Interview - James Cameron (The big-money director of Avatar and Titanic raps with Stephen Rebello) 20 Q - Quinton "Rampage" Jackson (Jason Buhrmester goes 20 scary rounds with the volatile MMA champ and actor) Pictorials - Lolita (Roger Ebert tells us about the film they said could never be made. And we recast Sasha Grey as you know who); Sex In Cinema (Jennifer's (Megan Fox's) Body and other hot scenes from the big screen); Crystal Harris (Hef's playmate is the Centerfold); Cheeky (Select shots by the randy Rankin); How To Undress For Your Man (Last-minute gift idea, ladies: Take off your packaging - slowly); Joanna (The showstopping Miss Krupa gives you a private dance) Fashion - "Suit Up" (Neil Patrick Harris and the bros from How I Met Your Mother give our fashion editor Jennifer Ryan Jones a single-breasted high five) News And Notes - World Of Playboy (Hef and 11 Playmates shoot Guitar Hero 5 commercials with superdirector Brett Ratner, for the premier of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist And Rebel, the Man and his girlfriends travel to the Toronto International Film Festival; the good times keep rolling during the Mansion's 1970's roller-skating party); Dream A Little Dream (Midsummer's Night's Dream is the hottest pajama party on the planet. See stars like Shannon Elizabeth, Shaquille O'Neal and our girls in their sleepwear); Playmate News (DeDe Lind gets flown to the moon and back; Pam Anderson debuts her fragrances; Jennifer Walcott and her finance on E's THS: Football Wives) Departments - Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Reviews; Mantrack; Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes; Grapevine The Playboy Forum - The Confidence Man (After the recession we won't get fooled again, right? Don't be too sure, explains Jackson Lears. We have blindly been giving away our money to financial hucksters long before and after 1929. It's the sorry downside of the American dream) |
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