Playboy (USA) Magazine Back Issue, December 1976
Playboy December 1976 Magazine ISSN: 0032-1478
COVER STORY
The neon Rabbit head behind March Playmate Ann Pennington (standing) and July
Playmate Deborah Borkman is the longest continuous piece of neon ever constructed
by Gabor Kadar, who specializes in oddball neon structures. It's so long, in
fact, that Kadar passed out while blowing the air into the tubing during the
cover shooting. He's fine now, thank you, if somewhat out of breath.
3 PLAYBILL
13 DEAR PLAYBOY
21 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
24 MUSIC
Adrift in teeny-bopper paradise, a Bay City Rollers concert; the latest ,frc--
Country Joe, Dion, Earthquake and Asleep at the Wheel reviewed.
34 MOVIES
The television industry takes its lumps in The Front and Network.
47 BOOKS
Umma-porn-star">Uman-capote">TrUmma-porn-star">Uman Capote talks about Umma-porn-star">Uman-capote">TrUmma-porn-star">Uman Capote; gay history is recorded.
56 GOODBYE, JOEY ERNST EDGAR SMITH
The author, an ex—death row convict, recalls the last days of the second-to-las-
man to be executed in New Jersey.
57 TO TELL THE TRUTH THOMAS PLATE
Presidential press secretaries get paid peanuts to lie for their bosses; so
wh. do they do it?
61 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
65 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
77 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: O. J. SIMPSON—candid conversation
Simpson tells his side of the Buffalo brouhaha, what it was like growing up
the ghetto and how he feels about becoming a movie star.
104 GAY—fiction Joyce Carol Oates
A sardonic yarn about the misadventures of an eccentric, homosexual professor
108 MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE COLONEL—memoir DICK GREGORY with JAMES R.
MC GRAW
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book Up from Nigger, the noted blac•
comedian tells how, with the aid of Drew Pearson, Sammy Davis Jr. and others
he got tons of holiday turkeys to Mississippi poor folks.
111 PORTFOLIO: Pompeo Posar—pictorial
The second in this series in which PLAYBOY photographers display some c-their
favorite shots.
121 TRIAL OF THE WARLOCK—fiction Norman Mailer
A scarifying screenplay, based on J. K. Huysmans' notorious 19th Century novel
La-Bas, that makes The Exorcist look like Bambi.
127 CASANOVA—pictorial
A sneak preview of some of the steamier scenes and foxier women in Fellini's
new film featuring Donald Sutherland as the classical sexual athlete.
134 ARE YOU SEXUALLY LIBERATED ENOUGH?—quiz BARBARA NELLIS and JAMES R.
PETERSEN
So your ladyfriend wants to invite her ladyfriend over so the three of you can,
uh, get to know one another better? Can you handle it?
139 WORKING OUT—article Bruce Jay Friedman
Putting in 6000 hours in a gym is no bed of roses—in more ways than one.
140 PLAYBOY'S CHRISTMAS CARDS—verse JUDITH WAX
Our yuletide versifier concocts a batch of satirical missives.
142 MAKING TRACKS—playboy's playmate of the month
Afraid of flying, Karen Hafter took a train from New York to California. She
was discovered waitressing on Sunset Boulevard. Does that sound familiar?
154 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor
156 ALL THE PRESIDENTS' WOMEN—article
J.F.K. wasn t the first one to play around. A lively catalog of the ladies who
have been our Chief Executives' privileges in bed.
159 PLAYBOY'S CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE—gifts
Gear and gadgets for the man you just thought had everything.
165 WHAT IS LIFE?—fiction ROBERT SHECKLEY
A humorous tale about what appears on the surface to be a mystical experience.
166 HONEY—article HONEY BRUCE with DANA BENENSON
In this segment from her new autobiography, Honey Bruce talks about her sex
life, her career as a stripper and her tumultuous marriage to Lenny.
170 PARTY FAVORITES!—attire/food and drink David PLATT and EMANUEL GREENBERG
How to prepare the compleat holiday bash: what to wear, what to serve as hors
d'oeuvres and how to make some spirit-raising libations.
177 SEXUAL CONGRESS—article PETER ROSS RANGE
Willing women are the most highly valued commodity in Washington. Our author
hangs out with Liz Ray and investigates the well-established channels through
which women are procured.
178 STANDING UP FOR LAS VEGAS—article Mario Puzo
An inveterate gambler in his own right, the author of The Godfather reminisces
about his adventures in America's gambling mecca.
180 SEX STARS OF 1976—article ARTHUR KNIGHT
It's getting harder to make it into Hollywood's big league, but there are some
hot prospects to go with the familiar names.
192 THE VARGAS GIRL—pictorial Alberto Vargas
194 THE 1977 PLAYBOY MUSIC POLL—music
It's your turn to play critic—vote for your favorites in jazz, pop/rock,
country-and-western and rhythm-and-blues.
198 YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS—humor
The sexual proclivities of one Kriss Kringle as seen by our crew of cartoonists.
201 WHEN RAGTOPS WERE IN FLOWER—article BROCK YATES
Come with us back to those glorious days of the Thirties and those lavish larger-than-life
roadsters.
206 THE INDISCREET JEWELS—ribald classic DENIS DIDEROT
209 LITTLE Annie FANNY—satire HARVEY KURTZMAN and WILL ELDER
223 WORD PLAY—satire ROBERT CAROLA
268 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI
294 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE
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