COVER STORY
Hef's three girlfriends-Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt-return for our cover as E!'s top-rated series, The Girls Next Door,
starts season two. Senior Contributing Photographer Amy Freytag orchestrated
the simultaneous shooting of the front and back cover photos. Our Rabbit
laces up on the front, then morphs into his distant German cousin on the
back cover for a rear-window view. Features
54 INSIDE DEEP MINE 26
The U.S. is still the OPEC of coal, the cheapest and most plentiful energy
source known to man. Descend into a Virginia coal mine with the workers
who gamble their lives every day but make headlines only when it looks
as if they'll lose. BY PAT Jordan
64 SMASHING WINDOWS
Last year Hunter S. Thompson's ashes were shot out of a cannon. Now comes
another blast: a missive fired off 25 years ago to Ralph Steadman, his
friend and illustrator, after Steadman complained about his own son's
behavior. The good doctor's bizarre parenting advice somehow still resonates.
BY RALPH STEADMAN WITH Hunter S. Thompson
68 ARTISTIC LICENSE
We rounded up a garageful of sports cars so exotic and exceptional that
you are unlikely ever to see one. These ultra-exclusive beauties, crafted
by small companies such as Pagani, Bugatti and Saleen, make Lamborghinis
seem affordable. BY KEN GROSS
92 PLAYBOY'S 2006 PIGSKIN PREVIEW
As we celebrate 50 years of selecting the Playboy All America Team, we
tackle such crucial college football matters as our picks for the top
25 squads, our 2006 Anson Mount Scholar/Athlete winner and our Coach of
the Year, Penn State's Joe Paterno. BY GARY COLE Fiction
74 THE UNLUCKY MOTHER OF AQUILES MALDONADO
A successful major league pitcher discovers the price of success when
guerrillas in his native Venezuela kidnap his saintly mother. He soon
learns that once something is forcibly taken from you, it is seldom returned
intact. BY T.C. BOYLE The Playboy Forum
43 POWER PLAY
Our government has a system of checks and balances to keep President Bush
from overreaching and becoming decider in chief. If Congress continues
to let the president blatantly ignore the law, this balance of power could
be thrown out of whack forever. BY MICKEY EDWARDS 20Q
108 Eva Longoria
She became a household name by playing a seductive schemer on TV's top-rated
Desperate Housewives. We ask Wisteria Lane's hottest resident
how San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker wooed her, who should have a lesbian
fling on the show and whether monogamy is overrated. BY STEPHEN REBELLO Interview
49 Michael BROWN
The maligned former FEMA chief became the fall guy for the disaster following
Hurricane Katrina. The Bush administration wishes Brown would quietly
disappear, but he keeps on fighting to clear his name. His gloves are
off as he explains why Department of Homeland Security secretary. Michael
Chertoff should be canned, how unprepared he thinks we are for a major
disaster and which congressman can, as he says, "bite me." BY
David SHEFF Pictorials
58 ONE NIGHT AS PARIS
Check out everyone's favorite hotel heiress in the nudesort of-when our
look-alike checks in as Ms. Hilton.
78 PLAYMATE: Janine HABECK
Miss September, who was crowned Deutschland's Playmate of the Year 2005,
is a testament to the power of German engineering.
110 LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
The Girls Next Door are back for more, this time in fantasy themes of
their own devising. Notes and News
11 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY Tiffany Fallon and Joe Don Rooney sing at Kara Monaco's PMOY party; Cooper
Hefner's band plays the Whisky a Go Go.
12 HANGIN' WITH HEF
When David Letterman asks the question "Will It Float?" the
Man and his girlfriends respond; Al Pacino sizes up the Mansion.
107 CENTERFOLDS ON SEX: Christine Smith
Before joining the mile high club Miss December 2005 practices with sex
in some tight spaces.
147 PLAYMATE NEWS
Miss February 1991 Cristy Thom makes the transition from Playmate to painter;
PMOY Kara Monaco plays Willie Wisely's wife in his music video. Departments
3 PLAYBILL
15 DEAR PLAYBOY
19 AFTER HOURS
35 MANTRACK
39 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
90 PARTY JOKES
127 WHERE AND HOW TO BUY
151 ON THE SCENE
152 GRAPEVINE
154 POTPOURRI Fashion
98 DRESS SMART
Witness the power of mind over matter: These are sharplooking suits and
jackets that only a savvy guy would buy. BY JOSEPH DE ACETIS Reviews
27 MOVIES Brian De Palma revisits an infamous murder Mystery in The Black Dahlia;
hype-heavy Snakes on a Plane slithers onto screens.
28 DVDS Hugh Hefner's groundbreaking Playboy After Dark series debuts on DVD;
United 93 proves it's not too soon for 9/11 films.
30 MUSIC
Tennessee leads the way for American music; Radiohead's Thom Yorke takes
his emo solo.
32 BOOKS
Tom McGuane defends country life and the short-story form; our editors
pick the best latePLAYBILL summer reads.
