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Contents: Seven Dearly Disasters (Killer lakes? Asteroids from space? Yellowstone erupting, Nashville collapsing and Manhattan under the sea? Last December’s tsunami was one of the most devastating disasters on record – but worse is possible); 25 Easy Pieces (Tech toys have been transformed from high-maintenance nightmares to the chill, helpful companions you hoped they could be. From GPS navigation to digital cameras to the high-definition TV with the best picture ever, we have the tech you need to live the life you want); High In The Canadian Rockies (Transporting the 250 pounds of top-quailty marijuana over the Canadian border in a helicopter during an orange alert seems like a scene from a comedy, but this is no Cheech and Chong movie. We gained access to the inner workings of a Canadian smuggling operation that nets a $20 million annual profit by providing Americans with triple-A vanity weed from British Columbia. The demand is for 2,000 to 3,000 pounds a day); The Fall Of The House Of Brando (Eccentric screen legend Marlon Brando was no stranger to tragedy, having endured his son Christian’s conviction for murder and his daughter Cheyenne’s suicide. Only 13 days before his death last year, Brando signed a codicil that changed the executors of his estate and alienated longtime friends. If you thought Brando’s life was bizarre, you won’t believe what has gone down behind the scenes since he died) Fiction – The Fall (A young couple embarks on a weeklong backpacking trip through Maine’s deep woods, but their romantic nature walk is cut short when it takes a calamitous turn) The Playboy Forum – The End Of Oil (Is the world’s oil supply nearly exhausted? Geophysicist M. King Hubbard predicted we would run out soon; economist William Stanley Jevons said black gold is plentiful. Who to believe?) 20Q – Scarlett Johansson (Everyone still wonders what Bill Murray whispered into her ear at the end of Lost In Translation. The 20-year-old actress stops short of spilling, but she does explain what makes a lovely ass, tells us why she’d like to have sex in the backseat of a car and identifies the movie scene she wishes had been cut) Interview – Owen Wilson (He appears to be an off-kilter slacker in Starsky & Hutch and Zoolander, but the actor-writer has won critical praise and even an Oscar nomination for his work in such films as Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and Bottle Rocket. The impossible-to-categorize Wilson discusses why gyms are creepy, the appeal of 7-Elevens and why picking up women at weddings (as his character in Wedding Crashers does) is like fishing with dynamite) Pictorials – Karina, Karina: A Delicious Double Exposure (Karina Lombard, who played a lesbian temptress on Showtime’s The L Word, gets sapphic with herself. People of all orientations will do a double take); Playmate: Giana Chase (The statuesque model and makeup artist has been told her legs “go from here to heaven.” Prepare for divine inspiration); Super Krupa (Joanna Krupa, the planet’s premier swimsuit model, sidelines her bikini and shows off her birthday suit as she returns to the beach to radiate more heat) Notes And News – World Of Playboy; Mardi Gras Mansion Madness (The bead slingers who celebrated Fat Tuesday with Hef included Paris Hilton, Luke Wilson and the always colorful Painted Ladies); Centerfolds On Sex: Karen McDougal (The 1998 PMOY recalls good and bad pickup lines and praises the erogenous power of the hip bone); Playmate News (Jennifer Walcott plays a sexy counselor in American Pie: Band Camp; Courtney Rachel Culkin bowls for charity with the New York Knicks; actress Christina Moore explains why Jenny McCarthy is her favorite Playmate) Departments – Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Mantrack; The Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes; Where And How To Buy; On The Scene; Grapevine; Potpourri Fashion – Men In Blanco (The secret to Latin cool lies with the white suits and shirts whose chic urbane style might send your Hawaiian prints into retirement); The White Stuff (Accessories, too, turn a whiter shade of pale) Reviews – Movies (Tim Burton cooks up a trippy Charlie And The Chocolate Factory; hear the voice of doom – Doctor Doom – in Fantastic Four); DVDs (The duo of Swank and Eastwood packs a punch in Million Dollar Baby; the best sports DVDs); Music (Chew on the tasty beats of Missy Elliot’s Cook Book; Coldplay transcends its glum perspective with X&Y); Games (Be the gray alien in Destroy All Humans!; ingenious accessories for your Sony PSP); Books (Authors Umberto Eco and Paul Theroux flesh out the inspirations for their latest novels; go to school with Andre de Dienes’s Studies Of The Female Nude)
Issue: July 2005
Condition: Very Good