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Contents: God And Satan In Bentonville (Headquartered in small-town Arkansas, Wal-Mart shrouds itself in a cult of the rural. But beneath the aw-shucks facade, the worlds’s biggest corporation is changing America the same way it changed its company name: one underpaid but smiling employee at a time); The Hedgehog At 50 (With more than 1,800 flicks under his ample belt, Ron Jeremy is the world’s most famous – and well-endowed – adult star. And he just hit the half-century mark. Celebrate with him as we take you into his Hollywood home, his standing-room-only bedroom and his straight-to-video world); Playboy‘s Year In Video Games (Warm up your gamer thumbs by flipping through our definitive 2003 wrap-up. We’ve got the year’s 10 best titles, the history of sex in video games and the 411 on celebrity players who could kick your ass); The Straight Dope (There are more urban legends about drugs than there are about pshcyos on deserted highways. Did the CIA spread crack through inner cities? Did Nixon get dosed with LSD? Did Keith Richards get a full blood replacement to kick the big H? Find out here); This One Time, At Camp Rock (It’s Fantasy Fullfillment 101. Our reporter hung out with the grown-up campers who paid $6,000 to sing, strum and strut with the aging stars of bands such as Night Ranger, Grand Funk Railroad and the Ramones. Warning: This may be the one rock-and-roll story that doesn’t involve sex and drugs); Centerfolds On Sex: Pennelope Jimenez (Pennelope likes it doggy style. We’re panting already); 20Q: Bill Murray (The most popular Saturday Night Live alum talks seriously about his roles in such comedy classics as Groundhog Days and Rushmore. His new movie, Lost In Translation, was filmed in Japan and gave him plenty of new material – which he shares exclusively with you. Plus, a true story that begins, “A priest walked into a convert and made a pass at a nun…) Fiction – Dent Island (When a Harvard schoolteacher moves to a tourist town with just one electrician, the locals drive her loco) Interview – Quentin Tarantino (After a six-year hiatus from filmmaking, the auteur behind Pulp Fiction returns with Kill Bill. In an Oscar-worthy Playboy Interview, the Hollywood hood explains why he expects this movie to KO all box-office records with a one-two punch, what it’s like to drop ecstasy at the Great Wall of China and how it feels to become a rock star in your 30s) Pictorials – World-Class Beauties (Forget Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower. The most beautiful sights overseas are the models in our 18 foreign editions); Playmate: Divini Rae (This Alaskan beauty once started a magazine in Australia. Now she gives us a peek at her outback); Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill’s best supporting actress takes off her support bra and makes a splash!) Notes And News – The World Of Playboy; Fireworks And Fisticuffs (Thora Birch, Crispin Glover and Bill Maher celebrate July 4, and a boxing match between Jeff Lacy and Richard Grant); The Playboy Forum (Banned art and a new generation of radar guns); Playmate News (Shauna Sand and Lorenzo Lamas don’t kiss but still make up, A.J. McLean gets high on Playmates) Departments – Playbill; Dear Playboy; After Hours; Playboy TV; Playboy.COM; Mantrack; The Playboy Advisor; Party Jokes; Where And How To Buy; On The Scene; Grapevine; Potpourri Fashion – Clothes To The Edge (Professional snowboarders model winter clothes that make big air debonair) Reviews – Movies (Eastwood and his stellar cast make Mystic River flow, Halle Berry is the scary Gothika, and a dwarf who stands above the rest); Music (Peaches is mmm mmm good, Sting loses his sting, and Dave Matthews still matters); DVD (Replay The Matrix Reloaded, don’t fuhgeddabout The Italian Job, and have a peek at Amanda Peet’s perky boots); Books (Frederich Forsyth’s Avenger thrills, get drunk in James Lee Burke’s fictional New Orleans, and a short review about infinity.
Issue: November 2003
Condition: Very Good