Playboy (USA) Magazine Back Issue, November 2005
Playboy November 2005 Magazine ISSN: 0032-1478
COVER STORY
E!'s The Girls Next Door has shown us what life is like at the Mansion for Hef's
girlfriends, Bridget Marquardt, Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson. Senior Contributing
Photographer Arny Freytag gets into the spirit and captures the blonde beauties
after they've doffed their clothes and begun to get playful with one another.
They have our Rabbit tied up in knots.
FEATURES
64 IN BED WITH ELVIS
Fledgling William Morris agent Byron Raphael began working for Elvis Presley
in 1956. Among his responsibilities: making sure the King was visited by a steady
stream of beautiful women, including stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Natalie
Wood. What went on behind closed doors wasn't as steamy—or as normal—as
his fans would think. BY BYRON RAPHAEL WITH ALANNA NASH
78 SHOOT TO KILL
Get hot for teacher as billiards pro Jennifer "Nine Millimeter" Barretta
demonstrates pool tricks that will knock the chalk off your cue. BY SCOTT ALEXANDER
82 THE REAL HARVEY
The writer of the autobiographical comic on which the film American Splendor
is based contemplates fame and his new book, The Quitter, in a new comic strip.
BY HARVEY PEKAR
104 THE STRANGE HERESIES OF THOMAS GOLD
In 1980 Cornell astronomer Thomas Gold declared that petroleum doesn't come
from fossils but rather has been part of the earth from the beginning of time—and
that way down below lies a virtually limitless supply of energy. Scientists
scoffed; now they're beginning to think he could be right. BY SONIA SHAH
118 DOWN LINEMAN
Barret Robbins of the Oakland Raiders had a beautiful family, a fat salary and
a great career. So how did he end up getting shot twice by cops and then charged
with attempted murder? Friends and former teammates step forward to ponder the
most famous mental meltdown in sports history. BY PAT Jordan
FICTION
86 HARRY AND THE GIRL-GIRL SCENE
A video-store owner wins a contest to spend Christmas with one of his favorite
porn stars. But instead of spreading some holiday cheer under the mistletoe,
his perfectly wrapped present turns out to be broken. BY GLEN David GOLD
THE PLAYBOY FORUM
45 GENDER APARTHEID
The writer, an acclaimed author and scholar, considers why some feminists have
romanticized Islamic terrorists as freedom fighters and condemned America and
Israel as instigators of terrorism. BY PHYLLIS CHESLER
20Q
84 STEVE CARELL
The man who plays an egomaniacal boss on NBC's The Office and the world's best-known
40-year-old virgin talks about ambushing John McCain and visualizing Will Ferrell
during love scenes. BY ERIC SPITZNAGEL
INTERVIEW
53 JAMIE FOXX
By capturing the best actor Oscar for his extraordinary transformation into
Ray Charles, Foxx completed an astonishing career metamorphosis, moving from
the comedy club circuit to the A-list with amazing élan. Now he comes
clean about how he convinced Michael Mann to make the Miami Vice movie, what
caused him to have conflicted feelings about his hometown and why Tom Cruise
sometimes scares him. BY Michael FLEMING
PICTORIALS
70 DANCING QUEEN
Hot-to-trot Playmate Kelly Monaco won ABC's Dancing With the Stars. See her
sans costume.
90 PLAYMATE: Raquel Gibson
Meet Miss November: half Italian, half Filipino and 100 percent proof that beauty
is the universal language.
122 GIRLS NEXT DOOR
Come inside the Mansion as Hef's girlfriends, Holly, Bridget and Kendra, turn
fantasy into your reality.
NOTES AND NEWS
11 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY
Hef sponsors Rudolph Valentino's last movie for the L.A. Conservancy; the Man
gets immortalized in silicone.
12 FUN ON THE FOURTH
No one celebrates independence better than Jillian Grace, Victoria Fuller and
other Mansion guests.
117 CENTERFOLDS ON SEX: Audra Lynn
Miss October 2003 explains how she prevents her lovers from straying.
155 PLAYMATE NEWS
Keep it real with Victoria Fuller on E!'s Kill Reality and with her husband,
Jonathan, on VH1's Reality Rehab; illusionist Criss Angel sings the praises
of his favorite Playmate, Marilyn Monroe.
DEPARTMENTS
3 PLAYBILL
15 DEAR PLAYBOY
19 AFTER HOURS
35 MANTRACK
41 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
102 PARTY JOKES
148 WHERE AND HOW TO BUY
159 ON THE SCENE
160 GRAPEVINE
162 POTPOURRI
FASHION
108 HIGH FASHION
Don't get weighed down by bulky, awkward outerwear. Designers have you covered
with jackets and coats that are light in weight, heavy in attitude and versatile
enough to play it either formal or casual. BY JOSEPH DE ACETIS
REVIEWS
25 MOVIES
Director Sam Mendes's Jarhead is a fully loaded Gulf war picture; the masked
desperado returns in The Legend of Zorro.
26 DVDS
They don't call quadriplegic rugby murderball for nothing; give your surround
speakers a time-out with classic silent films.
30 MUSIC
No sophomore slump for Scottish neo–new wave quartet Franz Ferdinand;
a lost Thelonious Monk concert recording is rediscovered.
32 GAMES
Blitz: The League is a pigskin sim that welcomes dirty hits; play God and lord
it over other deities in Black & White 2.
33 BOOKS
Gabriel Garcia Marquez returns with his first fiction in a decade; 10 things
you need to know before you go to hell.
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