Playboy (USA) Magazine Back Issue, March 2005
Playboy March 2005 Magazine ISSN: 0032-1478
COVER STORY
This year, after successful performances in prime time, on the best-sellers'
list, in modeling and in heiressing, Paris Hilton indubitably ranks as the girl with whom we'd most likely want to succeed. It explains her appearance on top of our list of the sexiest celebrities of the year, surpassing some bare and bountiful competition. Our Rabbit worked his way into this photo taken by Odette
Sugerman. He's convinced we've netted a lovely catch.
FEATURES
70 STOLEN SCREAMS
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is world famous. It's been called "the
primal image of urban alienation" and is a symbol of Norwegian national
pride. In slightly over a decade, it has also been stolen twice by daring thieves.
Here is the suspenseful story of how cunning detectives versed in the international
art-theft game found the painting and nabbed the culprits the first time—and
how that case may suggest who has The Scream today. By Simon Cooper
90 THE YEAR IN MUSIC 2005
Thousands of you voted—and we listened! Velvet Revolver snags the award
for best rock album, Kanye West wins for best hip-hop, and David-bowie-musician">David Bowie is (finally!)
inducted into the Playboy Hall of Fame. Who else won? You'll be surprised. Also:
an ode to music goddesses from Gwen Stefani to Christina Aguilera, Q&As
with Scott Weiland and the Streets, and first-hand tales of how your favorite
rock stars lost their virginity. It's enough music to blow your speakers.
98 SOUND + ART
Looking for $200,000 worth of sound? PLAYBOY shows you how to get a premium
audio system on the cheap. By Kyle Kolbe
116 VANITY VINYL
Your series ended, your movie went straight to DVD, and not even Vegas is calling.
When all else fails in Hollywood, cut a record. PLAYBOY assembles the best of
the worst in our own version of Celebrity Idol. By Jake Austen
FICTION
86 PUNCHDRUNK
Two Army veterans set off cross-country in drag, lip-synching to Babs, Celine
and Bette. Their stages are rodeos, redneck bars and gun-show parking lots.
The mission: a slugfest to save the world. The outcome: dubious. By Chuck Palahniuk
THE PLAYBOY FORUM
53 TOWN VS. COUNTRY
Call it blue state vs. red state, but in fact it's city vs. country. The friction
can be seen in microcosm in Washington, where urbane Seattle is fighting with
the rugged individualists out in the hills. By Jonathan Raban
128 KID ROCK
The Kid reveals how he's bedded some of the hottest women to grace the pages
of PLAYBOY, the joys of pimping in identical duds with his 11-year-old son and
why he supports Bush whether he agrees with him or not. By Alan Light
61 THE ROCK
The world always needs an action hero, and former wrestler the Rock—who
gave up his defensive-lineman spot at the University of Miami to Warren Sapp—is
happy to serve. But he's no grunting Stallone clone. In his new movie, for instance.
he plays a gay bodyguard. In the Playboy Interview he talks about steroids in
sports (and his own use of them), when to brawl with fans and how he lost his
virginity—both on-screen and in high school. By Michael Fleming
PICTORIALS
76 PLAYBOY'S 25 SEXIEST CELEBRITIES
Hubble, Hubble! PLAYBOY goes stargazing. This month we pay homage with a constellation
of the hottest women imaginable.
102 PLAYMATE: Jillian Grace
Howard Stern's sexy discovery fulfills her childhood fantasy to become a Playmate.
132 DEBBIE DOES PLAYBOY
Deborah Gibson gets comfortable with her sexuality, and we get lost in her eyes,
among other places.
NOTES AND NEWS
15 WORLD OF PLAYBOY
16 LA VIDA HEF
Steven Tyler, Tara Reid, Hunter S. Thompson, Dennis Rodman and many beautiful
women stop Hef from singing "'O Sole Mio."
127 CENTERFOLDS ON SEX: Colleen Marie
Colleen Marie dislikes giving direction in bed, but she makes sure her requests
are heard.
159 PLAYMATE NEWS
Playmates get physical on the Playboy X-Treme Team, and Krista Kelly recalls
the first time she read PLAYBOY.
DEPARTMENTS
5 PLAYBILL
19 DEAR PLAYBOY
23 AFTER HOURS
45 MANTRACK
51 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
114 PARTY JOKES
147 WHERE AND HOW TO BUY
163 ON THE SCENE
164 GRAPEVINE
166 POTPOURRI
FASHION
120 SEX, DUDS AND ROCK AND ROLL
Mick Rock rocks the fashion and music world! The celebrated photographer captures
today's coolest performers in the hottest new styles. By Joseph de Acetis
REVIEWS
35 MOVIES
Umma-porn-star">Uma-thurman-porn-star">Umma-porn-star">Uma Thurman heats up Be Cool; Kevin Costner is The Upside of Anger; Naomi Watts
electrifies The Ring Two.
36 DVDS
How to find the hidden treasures in DVDs; Saw is on the cutting edge of filmmaking.
41 MUSIC
The rambling melodies of the Mars Volta; the Kills are frighteningly good.
42 GAMES
Why PlayStation Portable is the first must-have from Sony since the Walkman;
Oddworld Inhabitants creates another world.
43 BOOKS
John Edgar Wideman works out some quirky stories in God's Gym; confessions we're
all Not Proud of.
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