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Contents: Tantric Sex (If you think “splitting the bamboo” and “widely yawning” are just funny ways to say “laying pipe,” you need to go back to the bedroom. These days, 69 is the number of positions you have to master); The Best Bars In America (It took our prestigious panel of critics months of painstaking research, but they finally did it – identified the saloon in your city that’s become a legend. Whatever your poison – funky cocktails or spectacular girls or down-home hooch – here are the places to find it); Showstoppers (Hang on to your handlebars, because these bikes were born to be wild. A preview of the latest moto-missles that are fantastic to look at and formidable to drive); Don’t Worry, We Only Kill Each Other (Which is the real mafia: colorful characters who talk with endearing accents and preach family values, or cold-blooded thugs who’d puncture you with an ice pick as soon as spit? We demystify the mob, from Don Corleone to Tony Soprano); Playboy‘s 2000 Baseball Preview (Is the ball spring-loaded? Final scores sound like football games. Hitters bang out homers like singles. Our seers offer help to beleagured pitchers and pick this year’s powerball winners); 20Q: Michael Palin (Eating snake can be dangerous, particularly when one of the funniest men on the planet – a Python – is trying to make you choke on it. The globe-trotting humorist is re-creating Hemingway’s voyages one laugh at a time); In Defense Of Pete Rose (He’s no saint, but he has endured unprecedented punishment for crimes that remain unproved. And Bart Giamatti, the commissioner who banned him, probably intended for it to be over long ago) Fiction – Old Soldiers (It’s spy versus spy as the government recommissions a Cold War assassin for wet work – the kind where blood spills. Problem is, he’s developed a pacific calm – and fallen in love) Interview – Pete Rose (Charlie Hustle is a hard-nosed roughneck famous for bowling over opponents on the field and for building a list of detractors thick as a Sears catalog. The Hit King, whose life was baseball, crusades for his reinstatement and comments on Jim Gray, race relations and Hillary’s sex appeal) Pictorials – Holy Domino Ivonne Armant inherited world class lungs from her grandfather Placido Domingo); Playmate: Boyz ‘N’ Berry (Handpicked after ripening in Canada and California, Brooke Berry makes us want to swing on a vine); Double Trouble (The Beltley twins have brought a spirit of sharing in the mansion. You’re invited to join the fun) Notes And News – The World Of Playboy; The Year Of The Rabbit (That was the year that was); The Playboy Forum (Why speed limits make no sense; how e-mail can get you fired); Playmate News (Daphnee Lynn Duplaix on the tube; the Playboy Show in Hawaii) Departments – Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Wired; Living Online; Men; The Single Life; Mantrack; The Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes; Where And How To Buy; On The Scene; Grapevine; Potpourri Lifestyle – Golf (Our new columnist salutes the limber-backed youths who rule today’s courses); Travel Gear (New clothes unite form and function, gadgets and good looks); Jock Strapped (Shoes are constantly redesigned for sports use, so why not watches? Don’t just stand there – keep time) Reviews – Music (Indie rockers’ revenge; skiffle live in Belfast; G n’ R live – appetite for resurrection); Movies (The Virgin Suicides; Waking the Dead; Keith Gordon off camera); Video (Sword-and-sandal flicks; Fred Savage and the Chocolate Factory); Books (Joyce Carol Oates riffs on Marilyn Monroe in Blonde; an academic history of shit; the art of gambling)
Issue: May 2000
Condition: Very Good