Playboy (USA) Magazine Back Issue, June 1977
Playboy June 1977 Magazine ISSN: 0032-1478
COVER STORY
The T-shirt worn by Playmate of the Year Patti McGuire was not custom-made for
PLAYBOY; it was spotted by Patti and Staff Photographer Pompeo Posar in a small
shop in Florida. Patti and Pompeo were in Miami in January, trying to shoot the
cover, when, of all things, it began to snow. While waiting (unsuccessfully) for
the sun to come out, they went shopping and came upon the T-shirt, bought a few
and finally did the shooting—in L.A. Are you listening, California Chamber
of Commerce?
3 PLAYBILL
11 DEAR PLAYBOY
23 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
26 BOOKS
Breezy banalities from Dan Wakefield; Roger Angell bats .350; Marine-turnedcorrespondent
Phil Caputo tells how it really was in Vietnam.
30 MUSIC
Mid-Sixties rock 'n' roll resurrected; Stokowski hits 95; tunes swept up off Hollywood's
cutting-room floors.
36 TELEVISION
Out in California, somebody's sweaty palms may be picking your newscasters.
40 MOVIES
Black Sunday, scores; a pair of unheralded films—Communion and Fraternity
Row—prove seeworthy sleepers; the latest enigma from Robert Altman.
53 THEATER
PLAYBOY writers' Illuminatus! makes it to Britain's National Theater.
55 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
59 PLAYBOY SEX POLL ....
HOWARD SMITH and BRIAN VAN DER HORST
This month's question: "What trait do you most envy in the opposite sex?"
65 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
77 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: ROBERT BLAKE—candid conversation
The star of Berretta talks about what's right (and wrong) with the show and with TV in general, dope, shrinks, his marriage, the good old days in Hollywood, the Our Gang gang and why he digs Umma-porn-star">Uman-capote">TrUmma-porn-star">Uman Capote.
102 GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINZE—article
PETER GREENBERG
What made the 22-year-old star of Chico and the Man do it? An examination of the
drives and obsessions that resulted in the comedian's suicide.
106 BONDED BARBARA—pictorial
A loving look at Barbara Bach, Roger Moore's co-star in the latest of the 007 film capers, The Spy Who Loved Me.
111 SO LONG, OLD BUDDY—fiction
ROBERT F. YOUNG
On a visit to the old, long-abandoned homestead, Sharpe unlocks the macabre secret of a childhood relationship.
112 SUDDEN MONEY—symposium
ROBERT KERWIN
What would you do if you earned a lot of bread in a hurry? Telly Savalas, Johnny
Miller, the creators of Pong and Pet Rocks, Neil Simon and others tell what they
did (and do) with their wealth.
117 WATER SPORTS—attire
David. PLATT
The next-best thing to bareass at the beach.
122 OLD-FASHIONED GIRL—playboy's playmate of the month
Virve Reid is fascinated by both the past and the future—but with her as
our centerfold, well settle for the present.
134 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor
136 BERNSTEIN IN MEXICO—fiction
GERALD GREEN
The tragicomic story of a gringo who goes bonkers in Mexico.
139 THE SINGLES BUSINESS—article
LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
There's plenty of profit to be made catering to the unattached.
140 PLAYBOY'S GIFTS FOR DADS AND GRADS—merchandise
A contemporary treasure-trove for men of achievemeet.
146 PLAYMATE OF THE YEAR—pictorial, Patti McGuire
Here she is, the lady you waited six months for. She was worth the wait.
159 FURTHER DEFINITIONS—ribald classic
160 A PROPER PICNIC—food and drink
EMANUEL GREENBERG
An outdoor menu that ought to make your date, and the ants, ecstatic.
163 FLAGRANTE DELICTO!—humor
ALDEN ERIKSON
A cartoonist's-eye view of getting caught in the act.
167 ILIE THE TERRIBLE—personality
Mike Lupica
There's a good Nastase and a bad Nasty rattling around inside the complicated
young man who's one of the world's top tennis players.
169 TOUGH WHEELS—modern living
BROCK YATES
Utility chic has become an American passion. Vans, four-wheel drives, R.V.s, pickups
and a special kind of wagon. Sedans need not apply.
174 THE MANY DR. STRANGELOVES—article
THOMAS GORDON PLATE
Want to get your finger on the button? All you need is a funny name (Zbig or Kisty,
for starters) and/or a foreign accent.
178 CHEATING—memoir
WILLIAM ROY SMITH
When a happily married man feels those juices running, he indulges in a minor
deception. When the wife gets a little, that's cuckoldry.
226 THINK TANK
234 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI
252 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE
TV games, exotic vehicles, a nifty pool, personalities, etc.
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