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Contents: The Toughest Lawyer In America Is On Your Side (Michael Hausfeld makes courtroom history, as Neal Gabler reports, by defending and protecting the world’s legal underdogs); Mission Out Of Control (Pat Jordan embeds with a team of eccentrics seeking the impossible: contact an abandoned NASA satellite and bring it back to Earth); Straight Outta Compton (Hugh Garvey meets the chefs of Ghetto Gastro, who blaze more trails with their luxe cuisine than they do blunts); That ’90s Show (Kevin Cook relates moments from players and fans that define the NBA’s greatest era, from Magic’s retirement to Jordan’s comeback); Silverstein Around The World (The writer-artist-genius traveled the globe for Playboy, and the result is a uniquely skewed vision of life abroad) Fiction – Miss Mary’s Room (Killing a man is one thing. Getting away scot-free is, as Sleepy discovers, the hard part) Interview – Joaquin Phoenix (Stephen Rebello uncovers the roving childhood neurotic celebrity and Zen mind-set behind an actor who defies typecasting) 20Q – Charlie Day (After a decade on TV, the acerbic actor reveals to Taffy Brodesser-Akner the lessons he’s learned about Hollywood, critics and himself) Pictorials – Art & Soul (Lindsay Jones sunbathes as she pleases. On this Brooklyn roof, that’s a blessing); First Mate (Miss December’s radiance does little to curb global warming in our Artic fantasy); Garden Of Earthly Delights (Lauren Estrada and Polina Putilova give flowers a vision of beauty to aspire to) News & Notes – World Of Playboy (Playboy photographer Tony Kelly shows off his toys; Cooper Hefner bundles up for a good cause); Playmate News (Shelby Chesnes turns heads in Horrible Bosses 2; Crystal Hefner debuts a line of intimate apparel) Cartoons – Classic Cartoons Of Christmas Past (Good cheer abounds in our ode to the absurdities this season has to offer) Departments – Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours, Entertainment; Raw Data; Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes Playboy Forum – Clarence Thomas’s Theocracy (Mark Joseph Stern dissects the befuddling opinions of a Supreme Court justice bent on rewriting our relationship with religion); Reader Response (Merit and defect found in a theory about climate and capitalism; a Mafia insider’s view of criminality); Makers Into Takers (NCAA athletes generate billions but earn low wages. Patrick Henry asks: Should taxpayers pay?) Columns – When Nerds Go Bad (Why do dorks go power crazy? Who better than Joel Stein to answer that question); “Let Me Eat Cake” (Hilary Winston wants to remind you: If you tell a woman what not to eat, she will destroy you) Service – Holiday Gift Guide (‘Tis the season to give loved ones what they really want: not the latest or flashiest, but the best)
Issue: December 2014
Condition: Very Good