Playboy (USA) Magazine Back Issue, March 1983
Playboy March 1983 Magazine ISSN: 0032-1478
TABLE OF CONTENTSCOVER STORY
Women of Olympian proportions—if not immense athletic prowess—Kim
McArthur, Kelly Tough and Karen Witter stood out among 20 gifted performers in
our first annual Playmate Play-offs. Contributing Photographer Arny Freytag and
West Coast Photo Editor Marilyn Grabowski got this month's cover shot and spirited
it away before Sports Illustrated could nab it.
5 PLAYBILL
13 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY
15 DEAR PLAYBOY
21 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
Checking In with Valerie-bertinelli">Valerie Bertinelli; the ultimate cuke-and-taco-joke compendium.
25 BOOKS
Matthiessen has reservations about our treatment of the Indian; the newest in
the New Sun tetralogy from Gene Wolfe.
26 MUSIC
Test your knowledge of doo-wop, do.
32 MOVIES
A batch of blockbusters reviewed; among them, Sophie's Choice, Frances and Tootsie.
36 DIVERSIONS
How to be a good sport in video.
37 COMING ATTRACTIONS
The boys from the Great White North head for the silver screen; ABC Motion Pictures'
Karen Silkwood bio shapes up with Meryl Streep in the title role.
39 MEN ASA BABER
41 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
45 DEAR PLAYMATES
49 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
57 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: SAM DONALDSON—candid conversation
He has alienated more Presidents than Begin and made a jerking-off joke out of
Reagan, but he remains one of the most forceful and successful electronic journalists
on earth. This most articulate of talking heads talks with us about playing hardball
with the current White House team and staying sane by playing his act to the hilt.
78 THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL—fiction JOHN LE CARRE
Yanuka is a well-placed P.L.O. bombsman; Kurtz is the Israeli operative who intends
to invade his soul and bring back its secrets in a characteristically thorough
and brilliant tale by the spymaster of novelists.
82 TAKING STOCK OF MARINA—pictorial
A heartbreaker of a stockbroker, E. F. Hutton's Marina Verola talks—and
people gape. Whether or not you play the market, you'll want to appraise her assets.
90 THE PLAYBOY READERS' SEX SURVEY, PART II—article
This month: Is there sex after marriage? Of course there is, but it's like Mexican
food: Singles seem to have it more often. This second chapter in the biggest sexual
happening since Masters met Johnson reveals who's getting the best of it and suggests
that most of us are finding partners different from the ones who came before us.
94 PERSONAL BEST—accouterments
Glittering gifts for the man who already has what he needs.
96 NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN.... —article ... R. M. KOSTER
Will Fritz inherit Teddy's torch? Will Hart (or Cranston) spark Glenn to new heights?
With Kennedy out, the nomination is up for grabs. The Democratic convention is
almost a year and a half away, and already the party's front runners are burning
up the hustings like chariots afire.
98 WINTER WONDER—playboy's playmate of the month
Alana Soares: She's a sentence unto herself. A mountain miss with her own mix
of magic and Mystery, Alana has highflying ambitions and a celestial body to match.
110 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor
112 MR. MIKE'S AMERICA—personality PAUL SLANSKY
A pillar of the early Saturday Night Live and National Lampoon, Michael O'Donoghue
decided to pick up stakes and drive cross country to a new life on the Left Coast.
Turns out Mr. M.'s America is just as strange as America's Mr. M. The author,
who rode shotgun on O'Donoghue's uneasy ride, offers a profile of a guy who's
as subtle as a needle in the eye.
115 BEDTIME KICKS—attire David PLATT
Good guys don't always wear black, at least not in bed. Fistic phenomenon Chuck
Norris has martialed all his art to take on some of the most striking sleepwear
ever to see the dark of night.
119 QUARTERLY REPORTS: YOUR OWN BEST INTEREST—article ANDREW TOBIAS
If you invested a shiny new dime at eight percent interest today, your heirs could
collect 2.3 trillion dollars in 2383. Sound bizarre? It is, but that's the geometric
genius of compound interest. Here's the best getrich-slowly scheme we know, as
explained by our new financial columnist in the first of a continuing series.
120 BEHIND HOLLYWOOD'S MIRRORS—article ASA BABER
Hollywood's wheelers and dealers depend.on people who are only the latter: Today,
cocaine is what supplies the tinsel to Tinseltown. Bober went behind the scenes
for the inside dope; his report is a chilling picture of the snowmen of Los Angeles.
Plus: Will De Lorean Deliver Hollywood?— a look at the case of the man charged
with dealing more than cars.
124 20 QUESTIONS: ARTHUR JONES
Never heard of him? Well, he's the Captain Nemo of the Nautilus exercise system.
In this month's score of answers, he shares his recipe for success: younger women,
faster airplanes and bigger crocodiles.
127 TO THE TABLES DOWN AT MORY'S. . .. —drink ..EMANUEL GREENBERG
All the lore and lure of college bars, college drinks and craaazy customs.
128 THE FIRST PLAYMATE PLAY-OFFS—pictorial
They're the superstars of physical development, and they went to Hef's place for
a three-day sporting celebration. Twenty of your favorites are here, and they
just may be enough to give the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat a good
name.
142 PLAYBOY FUNNIES—humor
186 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI
205 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE
Video gear for the height of high-tech fashion; shirts and ties; a Roving Eye
on Robin Love; Grapevine; Sex News.
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