Playboy March 1976

3 PLAYBILL 11 DEAR PLAYBOY 19 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS 22 MOVIES Gene Wilder's directing debut and Stanley Kubrick's long-awaited opus. 28 BOOKS Both John V. Lindsay and William F. Buckley, Jr., have written first novels about the United States Government. Is truth, indeed, stranger than fiction? 30 TELEVISION An Edith Piaf bio headlines a fortnight of PBS specials. 32 RECORDINGS A roundup of top-drawer female vocalists, plus John Lennon's Shaved Fish 34 THE MIDDLE-CLASS SQUEEZE CRAIG KARPEL 35 HELP! PLEH! L. RUST HILLS 41 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 45 THE PLAYBOY FORUM 53 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: NORMAN LEAR—candid conversation TV's greatest impresario (All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, et al.) talks about power and censorship and introduces some new shows in progress. 72 HOW TO DO EVERYTHING—article PETER PASSEL Advice, by a co-author of The Best, on how to repel sharks, how to cure insomnia, how to predict your life expectancy and much, much more. 76 ENCORE EMMANUELLE!—pictorial Next to this steamy sequel, Emmanuelle I looks like a boy-scout jamboree. Sexy Sylvia Kristel resumes, with added kinkiness, her romp through Bangkok. 84 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN—personality JAMES R. PETERSEN The budding superstar from Asbury Park, New Jersey, has been the subject of some pretty strong hype. Our author, a longtime fan, follows this living legend on a cross-country tour and gets to know the real man behind the new myth. 87 JOGGING CAN KILL YOU!—article J. E. SCHMIDT, M.D. So you think running a mile a day will keep the doctor away? No such luck. Our well-informed author gives the definitive low-down on the bodily wreck you can make of yourself in the hallowed name of physical culture. 88 PLAYBOY'S GUIDE TO THE RITES OF SPRING—survey Sure, there are literally thousands of nice, sunny places you can go this season for your college spring break. But where will all those gorgeous bikinied girls be? Read our authoritative survey and find out. 94 SISTER ACT—playboy's playmate of the month Ann Pennington, whose sister Janice was our May 1971 centerfold, proves that beautiful things run in her family. 104 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor 106 WHO CAN ARREST YOU?—article LAURENCE GONZALES Damn near anybody, or so it seems. A scary look at the proliferation of public and private fuzz in this country by one of the biggest paranoids around. 109 STRING FEVER—modern living A positively sensuous, not to mention educational, survey of the best—and we mean the best—guitars (acoustic, classical and electric) money can buy. 114 THE AUTUMN DOG—fiction PAUL THEROUX The author of the best-selling Great Railway Bazaar spins an intriguing tale about a May—November romance and an obscure Chinese sexual position. 117 THE PULLOVER: GET IT ON!—attire A new-old casual look to help you segue handsomely into spring. 118 THE 1976 DEMOCRATIC HANDICAP—article DICK TUCK Ever wonder what really goes on in those smoke-filled rooms? Our author, the most celebrated political prankster of our time, turns his attention to prognostication. Who'll be our next President? Read it here first. 121 FIRE BELLE—pictorial Last April's Playmate, Vicki Cunningham, grew up with a fantasy about fire fighting. Fortunately, she can light fires better than she can put them out. 129 THE CONTRACT—ribald classic 131 SPRING TONE-UP—attire ROBERT L. GREEN Everybody has his favorite color, but how many men would wear monochromatic pants, shirt and jacket? Not only is it possible, it's cool. 134 THE GOLDEN WHATEVER—fiction JORDAN CRITTENDEN A huge conglomerate buys a small neighborhood violin shop—the result is a new violin spin-off and some crazy mayhem. 137 PLAYBOY'S HISTORY OF ASSASSINATION—article .. JAMES McKINLEY Louisiana's Huey "Kingfish" Long was a powerful demagog and possible political threat to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Unanswered questions persist to this day about his assassination. Conspiracy buffs, note. 140 SCI-FFI SEX—humor,, MICHAEL FFOLKES A spaced-out cartoonist's-eye view of extraterrestrial erotica. 148 THINK TAW Quick hits on moonshining, flywheels, organic smoking and biorhythmic betting. 164 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI