COVER STORY This year, give yourself a gift and celebrate Cupid's holiday with a red-hot valentine—Playmate of the Year and movie star Anna Nicole Smith in her steamiest pictorial yet. Our cover was produced by West Coast Photo Editor
Marilyn Grabowski, styled by Lane Coyle-Dunn and shot by Contributing Photographer Stephen Wayda. Anna's hair and makeup stylist was Alexis Vogel. We overheard our Rabbit hum the Rolling Stones tune Under My Thumb.
3 PLAYBILL
9 DEAR PLAYBOY
13 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
21 NIGHTLIFE: ROCK AND THE SPOKEN WORD by DEAN KUIPERS
33 MANTRACK
35 THE OFFSPRING OF THELMA AND LOUISE—guest opinion JOE BOB BRIGGS
36 MEN by ASA BABER
37 WOMEN by CYNTHIA HEIMEL
39 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
41 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
49 REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: THE DRUG WAR'S A BUST—opinion Robert Scheer
51 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: PETE TOWNSHEND—candid conversation
62 TO LIVE & DIE IN L.A.—article Ice-T
66 MY SUDSY VALENTINE—pictorial text by CHRISTOPHER NAPOLITANO
76 SHE WAS GOOD, SHE WAS FUNNY—fiction David MARUSEK
79 PLAYBOY'S AUTOMOTIVE REPORT—article KEN GROSS
82 A RING IN HER NAVEL—article VICKI GLEMBOCKI
84 A TREASURY OF COLE—portfolio
90 PRECIOUS JULES—Playboy's Playmate of the Month, Julie Cialini
102 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor
104 KING OF THE WORLD—playboy profile JIM HOUGAN
106 GETTING THE BOOT—fashion HOLLIS WAYNE
110 THE YEAR IN SEX—pictorial
120 20 QUESTIONS: CHRIS BERMAN
122 Lord Byron—pictorial
157 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE