FEATURES
46 FUTURE TENSE
A gaggle of experts including T. BOONE PICKENS, BEN SILVERMAN and SETH MACFARLANE tells us what lies ahead.
54 HI, I'M BILLY MAYS
TV's bearded barker can sell anything. But can he sell himself to PAT Jordan?
70 THE MANLY ART OF GRILLING
Follow SEAN MCCUSKER to barbecue boot camp in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
74 THE CASE OF THE MISSING G-SPOT
CHIP ROWE searches for sex's El Dorado.
92 WHAT'S YOUR HO?
Are you hip or hep? Our quiz knows.
100 A PLAYBOY PAD: MANHATTAN LOFT
Artful lodger: hotelier Jason Pomeranc.
112 SMUGGLER'S BLUES
RICHARD STRATTON is a drug trafficker about to bring tons of hash into the U.S. The feds are onto him. This is his amazing true story. INTERVIEW
29 Alec Baldwin
30 Rock's star vents to Michael FLEMING. 20Q
96 JUDD APATOW
The comedy genius amuses ERIC SPITZNAGEL. FICTION
56 FAHRENHEIT 451 Tim Hamilton adapts Ray Bradbury's classic into a scorching graphic novel.
122 CELL MATES
ROBERTO BOLANO's dark and urgent tale of things that bind and bond us. PICTORIALS
38 WHY WE LOVE THE '70S
It was the last decade of decadence.
50 QUEEN OF CONVERGENCE
Move over, Princess Leia. Olivia Munn is the new nerd crush. The Attack of the
Show! host fulfills their and our fantasy.
64 DOUBLE VISION
In honor of the Shannon twins we look back at more Playmates who are sexy'.
80 PLAYMATES: KARISSA AND Kristina Shannon
What a pair! Miss July and Miss August have doubled the fun at the Mansion, and
now Hef's girls grace our Centerfold.
104 ELECTRIC LADYLAND
Marc Ecko pays tribute to 1980s artist Patrick Nagel in this cutting-edge pictorial
with our models.
115 HOW TO TAKE A BATH
Step-by-step instructions with visual evidence. It's good clean fun.
126 Monica
Lady Godiva? Nope. That's international supermodel Monica Hansen riding bareback. FASHION
116 ENDLESS SUMMER
All you need is tasty waves, a cool buzz and hip shore wear. Photographer Steven Lippman spends a day at the beach shooting surf style. NEWS AND NOTES
9 WORLD OF PLAYBOY
Hef celebrates his 83rd birthday in Las Vegas with both the Girls Next Door and
his three new girlfriends; Denise Richards hunts for Easter eggs at the Mansion;
Mr. Playboy flies to Italy's Festival di Sanremo.
10 SWINGERS' DELIGHT
Call it a tee party. Hef and a posse of Playmates enjoy PLAYBOY'S Golf Scramble
alongside athletes like the 49ers' Patrick Willis and Laker Andrew Bynum.
156 PLAYMATE NEWS
Follow globe-trotting supermodel Victoria Silvstedt on El's My Perfect Life; Kimberly
Holland has advice on skinny-dipping; Jennifer Pershing is all a-Twitter. DEPARTMENTS
3 PLAYBILL
11 DEAR PLAYBOY
15 AFTER HOURS
18 REVIEWS
25 MANTRACK
27 PLAYBOY ADVISOR
90 PARTY JOKES
164 GRAPEVINE THE PLAYBOY FORUM
159 THE END OF THE AFFAIR
After examining the recent banking catastrophe, John Gray explains why the U.S.
was living on borrowed time (and money) and why we won't be able to recapture
the prosperity of those boom years ever again.
