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Contents: 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 suspensful 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); The Year In Music 2005 (Thousands of you voted – and we listened! Velvet Revolver snags thr award for best rock album, Kanye West wins for hest hip-hop, and 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 Aguillera. Q & A’s with Scott Weiland and the Street, and first-hand tales of how your favorite rock stars lost their virginity. It’s enough music to blow your speakers); Sound + Art (Looking for $200,000 worth of sound? Playboy shows you how to get a premium audion system on the cheap); 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) Fiction – Punchdrunk (Two Army veterans set of 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) The Playboy Forum – Town vs. Country (Call it blue state vbs. 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) 20Q – 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) Interview – 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) Playboy‘s Sexiest Celebrities – Hubbie, Hubbie! Playboy goes stargazing. This month we pay homage with a constellation of the hottest women available(; Playmate: Jillian Grace (Howard Stern’s sexy discovery fulfills her childhood fantasy to become a Playmate); Debbie Does Playboy (Deborah Gibson gets comfortable with her sexuality, and we get lost in her eyes, among other places) Notes And News – World Of Playboy; LA Vida Hef (Steven Tyler, Tara Reid, Hunter S. Thompson, Dennis Rodman and many beautiful women stop Hef from singing ‘O Solo Mio’); Centerfolds On Sex: Colleen Marie (Colleen Marie dislikes giving direction in bed, but she makes sure her requests are heard); Playmate News (Playmates get physical on the Playboy X-Treme Team, and Krista Kelly recalls the first time she read Playboy) Departments – Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Mantrack; The Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes; Where And How To Buy; On The Scene; Grapevine; Potpourri Fashion – 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)
Issue: March 2005
Condition: Very Good