FEATURES
22 PEOPLE: Don Johnson by Mark Rowland
Sonny Crockett knows life inside out—and the sleazeballs tremble.
37 SPECIAL SECTION: BUILDING A BETTER HOLIDAY BASH by Robert Tolf
Celebrate the season in real style by throwing a party they'll talk about for
weeks.
49 THE YEAR IN SEX by Robin Keats
Extra! Extra! Read all about it—the hippest happenings in the arena of
love.
81 EROTICA CONTEST WINNERS
Intriguing tales and fabulous fantasies—the best of your amorous adventures.
86 PLAYGIRL'S 10 MOST ADMIRED WOMEN by Nancy Hill-Holtzman
Our second annual list of the accomplished ladies who make us proud.
94 WOMEN WHO LOVE TOO MUCH by Robin Norwood
Being in love does not mean being in pain. You can avoid a doomed relationship. PROFILE
28 JEANE KIRKPATRICK
The former US. ambassador to the United Nations is now the outsider who's moved
in. WARM BODIES
42 ERIC DICKERSON
Superhot shots of the football whiz kid some call simply "the Franchise."
55 Rhett Routley
Season's greetings from our Man for December, a chill-chaser with smoky sensuality.
71 1985 CENTERFOLD REVIEW
A show-all rerun of the 11 men who stoked your dreams all year round.
102 FLASHBACK: TIM WENZEL
Another peek at the boy-next-door who became our centerfold for October 1981. FASHION
65 SOME ENChanteD EVENING by Shari Geffen
Yuletide glamour means dressing up in the glitz of legendary old Hollywood. FICTION
108 GREETINGS FROM MACKINAC ISLAND by Mark Winegardner
Ready or not, he was taking his place in the family. DEPARTMENTS
4 LETTERS
8 GOSSIP by Bette Noire
11 SEX TALK by Dr. Ruth Westheimer
12 FILM by Molly Haskell
13 MUSIC by Mark Rowland
14 BOOKS by David Thomson
18 WOMAN AT HER BEST
21 LIFESTYLE STRATEGIES by Laurie H. Hutzler
34 QUIZ by Sherry Suib Cohen
62 STARSCOPE by ElizaBeth
63 PLAYGIRL FUNNIES
120 COMING UP
