Maxim # 146 - February 2010

FEATURES 44 Amanda Bynes The all-American beauty is our Valentine's Day gift to you. See, we care! By Patrick Carone 50 The 25 Best New Beers in America We selected, sipped, and stamped the top brews of our nation's beer renaissance. 56 Icon: Benicio Del Toro The Academy Award-owning actor attempts the hirsute role of a lifetime in The Wolfman. By Dan Bova 58 Tiger's Temptress Sext message pro Jaimee Grubbs opens up on her affair with golf's master of the longball. By Dan Bova 62 Thirty-One Things You Didn't Need to Know Chronically oversharing celebs and their worst autobiographical blunders. 64 Funny Man on Fire Bacchanalian Brit Steve Coogan paved the way for comic countrymen like Sacha Baron Cohen. Now it's his turn. By Josh Eells 70 The Empire Strikes Back British bombshell Keeley Hazell Tmally makes her Maxim (and American) debut! By Jesse Brukrran 74 Welcome to Cybergate Computer whiz Michael Connell was a God-fearing family man who may have died to cover up a stolen election. Dv Simon Worrell DEPARTMENTS 12 Letters A Ping-Pong pro stops by the office, stoners have a bowl to pick with us, and we manage to piss off 99 percent of the U.S. Navy. Go, us! 14 Circus Maximus Maxim Italy generously lends us model Camila Tavare, while we teach you how to live off the grid, spy-style. Plus, how you'll likely die in 2010 and a hamster hotel! 27 Rated Return to the deep with BioShock 2, ancient Rome with Starz' new series Spartacus, and the funktastic '70s with blaxploitation parody Black Dynamite. 36 Stuff Scope the specs on Lexus' new Ober-car, the $375,000 LFA. Then throw your big game blowout in style with our Super Bowl gear guide. La-Z-Boys? Oh, hells yeah! 42 Sex Column Unlock Valentine's Day sex! Here's a hint: You won't need a girlfriend or flowers to get laid. 81 Style Come in out of the cold with this season's freshest, dopest, and other 'B0s terms for "good" hats, jackets, sweaters, scarves, gloves, boots, and more! 96 Twenty-Four Hours to Live Bawdy yet still incredibly babe-y comic savant Sarah Silverman opens up about her last day on planet Earth.