COVER STORY
It's a double-barreled treat this month as our spectacular pair take a time-out
at the Mansion to show what all the fuss is about. Hef found them at the Garden of Eden (it could easily have been heaven). Stephen Wayda photographed the twins. Our Rabbit loves to neck.
FEATURES
78 TANTRIC SEX
If you think "splitting the bamboo" and "widely yawning"
are just funny ways to say "laying pipe," you need to go back to the
bedroom. These days, 69 is the number of positions you have to master. BY AMANDA
GREEN
94 THE BEST BARS IN AMERICA
It took our prestigious panel of critics months of painstaking research, but
they finally did it—identified the saloon in your city that's become a
legend. Whatever your poison—funky cocktails or spectacular girls or down-home
hooch—here are the places to find it. BY GERRY DAWES
96 SHOWSTOPPERS
Hang on to your handlebars, because these bikes were born to be wild. A preview
of the latest moto-missiles that are fantastic to look at and formidable to
drive. BY JAMES R. PETERSEN
116 DON'T WORRY, WE ONLY KILL EACH OTHER
Which is the real mafia: colorful characters who talk with endearing accents
and preach family values, or cold-blooded thugs who'd puncture you with an ice
pick as soon as spit? We demystify the mob, from Don Corleone to Tony Soprano.
BY JAMIE MALANOWSKI
122 PLAYBOY'S 2000 BASEBALL PREVIEW
Is the ball spring-loaded? Final scores sound like football games. Hitters bang
out Homers like singles. Our seers offer help to beleaguered pitchers and pick
this year's
powerball winners. BY LEOPOLD FROEHLICH AND GEORGE HODAK
126 20Q Michael PALIN
Eating snake can be dangerous, particularly when one of the funniest men on
the planet—a Python—is trying to make you choke on it. The globe-trotting
humorist is re-creating Hemingway's voyages one laugh at a time. BY WARREN KALBACKER
143 IN DEFENSE OF PETE ROSE
He's no saint, but he has endured unprecedented punishment for crimes that remain
unproved. And Bart Giamatti, the commissioner who banned him, probably intended
for it to be over long ago. BY BILL JAMES
FICTION
98 OLD SOLDIERS
It's spy versus spy as the government recommission a Cold War assassin for wet
work—the kind where blood spills. Problem is, he's developed a pacific
calm—and fallen in love. BY BRENDAN DUBOIS
INTERVIEW
67 PETE ROSE
Charlie Hustle is a hard-nosed roughneck famous for bowling over opponents on
the field and for building a list of detractors thick as a Sears catalog. The
Hit King, whose life was baseball, cruSades for his reinstatement and comments
on Jim Gray, race relations and Hillary's sex appeal. BY MARK RIBOWSKY
PICTORIALS
82 HOLY DOMINGO Ivonne Armant inherited world-class lungs from her grandfather Placido Domingo.
102 PLAYMATE: BOYZ 'N' BERRY
Handpicked after ripening in Canada and California, Brooke Berry makes us want
to swing on a vine.
130 DOUBLE TROUBLE
The Bentley Twins have brought a spirit of sharing to the mansion. You're invited to join the fun.
NOTES AND NEWS
13 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY
14 THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT
That was the year that was.
57 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
Why speed limits make no sense; how e-mail can get you fired.
175 PLAYMATE NEWS Daphnee Lynn Duplaix on the tube; the Playboy Show in Hawaii.
DEPARTMENTS
5 PLAYBILL
21 DEAR PLAYBOY
27 AFTER HOURS
37 WIRED
44 LIVING ONLINE
46 MEN
49 THE SINGLE LIFE
51 MANTRACK
55 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
114 PARTY JOKES
166 WHERE AND HOW TO BUY
179 ON THE SCENE
180 GRAPEVINE
182 POTPOURRI
LIFESTYLE
48 GOLF
Our new columnist salutes the limber-backed youths who rule today's courses.
92 TRAVEL GEAR
New clothes unite form and function, gadgets and good looks.
128 JOCK STRAPPED
Shoes are constantly redesigned for sports use, so why not watches? Don't just
stand there—keep time.
REVIEWS
32 MUSIC
Indie rockers' revenge; skiffle live in Belfast; G n' R live—appetite
for resurrection.
40 MOVIES
The Virgin Suicides; Waking the Dead; Keith Gordon off camera.
43 VIDEO
Sword-and-sandal flicks; Fred Savage and the Chocolate Factory.
45 BOOKS Joyce Carol Oates riffs on Marilyn Monroe in Blonde; an academic history of
shit; the art of gambling.
