FEATURES
20 PEOPLE: JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP by Mark Rowland
He's a singer-songwriter, a wise-guy punk and a rock 'n' roll survivor.
33 SPECIAL SECTION: PLAYGIRL'S 1986 STARSCOPE GUIDE by ElizaBeth
What to do, where to go, who to love and when, are all revealed for you.
38 THE 10 BEST BODIES ON TELEVISION by Neil Feineman
Fitness experts pick the tube's most beauteous bods. You'll be surprised!
82 FEMALE NEWSCASTERS BATTLE THE SYSTEM by Leslie Gourse
In a cutthroat industry it takes more than brains and talent for women to succeed.
86 SOPHISTICATED SEX SELLS IN THE '80s by G.E. Kelly
Ohhh, baby, baby, the advertisers know what turns you on and makes you buy. ON LOCATION
26 BEHIND THE SCENES ON OUT OF AFRICA by Kathy Eldon
Hollywood royals Robert Redford and Meryl Streep team for the very first time. WARM BODIES
42 MARK GASTINEAU by Crystal Chow
The most sack-happy New York Jet gets a lot off his chest—and what a chest!
49 Brian Buzzini
Gorgeous & Exciting: Our Man of the Year is these things and a lot more.
67 STAR-TRACKING
Come relive the fantasies with our biggest and best celebrity nudes. FASHION
60 SKIN DEEP by Shari Geffen
For cold winter days, the hottest leather looks will bring out the animal in
him. FICTION
90 ABIDING HAPPINESS by Edra Ziesk
Before she could accept his love, she had to believe she was entitled to it. DEPARTMENTS
2 INSIDE PLAYGIRL
3 PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT
4 LETTERS
6 SEX TALK by Dr. Ruth Westheimer
8 WOMAN AT HER BEST
11 LIFESTYLE STRATEGIES by Laurie H. Hutzler
12 BOOKS by David Thomson
13 FILM by Molly Haskell
14MUSIC by Mark Rowland
18 GOSSIP by Bette Noire
24 QUIZ by Sherry Suib Cohen
30 PLAYGIRL FUNNIES
37 STARSCOPE by ElizaBeth
77 EROTICA
