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Contents: Why The Military Never Learns (In 1997 this Colonel called the Vietnam War a failure. Now he believes the war in Iraq is an even bigger military blunder. The two are surprisingly similar: We went in under false pretenses, using ineffective conventional tactics and without an exit strategy. Will the outcome of the war in Iraq be as awful as that of Vietnam? No, he says: it will be much worse); Rip. Burn. Die (It wasn’t easy to coordinate, but we arranged for a dream team of music experts from all sides – artist, industry and technology – to butt heads. Perry Farrell, Moby, Rick Rubin, Charles D., Sharon Osborne, iTimes’ Chris Bell and 13 others discuss why the music industry is seen as evil, whether the quality of music has deteriorated, why some live concerts are no longer hot tickets and, most important, what they predict for the future of music); Gaming Grows Up (The video game industry has finally admitted that games aren’t just for kids. In a PLAYBOY exclusive, we carefully select our favorite pixelated vixens and have them reprogrammed them as you’ve never seen them before – nude. Plus, the must-have games in every category: war, driving and fighting); Fatal Legacy (Caviar is emblematic of the good life. But selling “Black Gold” can be a dirty business, as the rise and fall of the Sobol family epitomizes. In 1992 two brothers inherited a caviar business from their father. The younger son took the helm and began buying sturgeon roe from questionable suppliers while driving the expanding business deep in debt; his older brother struggled to rescue their father’s dream. By August 2003 both were dead); Centerfolds On Sex: Sandra Hubby (We eavesdrop on Sandra’s erotic fantasies); 20Q – Jimmy Fallon (Many comedians who leave Saturday Night Live are cursed with unsuccessful films. Jimmy Fallon’s new movie, Taxi, proves he won’t be one of them. The former SNL anchorman goofs around about dancing with Jagger, his gifts for impersonations and his childhood desire to become a priest) Fiction – Aqua Velva Smitty (A man kills his mentally challenged mistress. Even worse, his nosy neighbor sees the whole thing go down through a hole in the wall) Interview – Donald Trump (He has weathered near-bankruptcy, two tabloid divorces from blonde bombshells, countless cracks about his comb-over and renewed fame with the success of The Apprentice. In a Playboy Interview in which no one gets fired, we ask the real estate mogul how much money he carries in his wallet, it he’s sick of hearing the catchphrase he made famous and wether he’d bet on his own casinos) Pictorials – The Rael World (The group of UFO believers wants to clone its most beautiful members. We believe!); Playmate: Kim Holland (This sexy coed knows the As, Bs and Cs of sex appeal); Girls Of The ACC (We like college football. But we love college girls) Notes And News – World Of PLAYBOY; It’s All Happening At The Mansion (Hef parties with Charismo Carpenter, Quentin Tarantino and the cast of HBO’s Entourage); The PLAYBOY Forum (John A. Dean reveals the paper trail that connects the torture room at Abu Ghraib to the White House; Why a radical reading of the bible fuels U.S. support for Israel); Playmate News (Teri Harrison could be the next Jenny McCarthy; Hiromi Oshima plays a geisha) Departments – Playbill; Dear PLAYBOY; After Hours; Mantrack; The PLAYBOY Advisor; Party Jokes; Where And How To Buy; On The Scene; Grapevine; Potpourri Fashion – Student Lounge (You have an infinite number of opportunities to impress women around campus, so don’t huddle in the library or the laundry room without looking your best) Reviews – Movies (Go back to the future in Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow; Bernie Mac is Mr. 3000; don’t fear A Sound Of Thunder); DVDs (You must see Fahrenheit 9/11 before you head into the wrong voting booth. The Day After Tomorrow can be on your TV’s screen today); Music (The Black Keys blow the doors off the blues; Steve Earle courts new controversy; Interpol’s gloom and doom hits its stride); Games (Hip-hop artists duke it out in Def Jam Fight for NY; the Force is with Star Wars Battlefront); Books (Ha Jin locks readers inside Korean War POW camps; Hurricane Camille’s deadly history)
Issue: October 2004
Condition: Very Good