Playboy March 1977

COVER STORY This month's cover, featuring January Playmate Susan Kiger, was shot by photographer Phillip Dixon at a beach in Santa Monica, California. Susan's wet suit was custom-designed by Ron Talsky, Raquel Welch's ex-boyfriend and clothes designer. Ron also designed the clothes for the movie The Deep. 3 PLAYBILL 11 DEAR PLAYBOY 21 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS 24 MUSIC Thin Lizzy's latest, Tony Bennett, the gang at CBGB's reviewed. 26 DINING & DRINKING In new Philadelphia, the culinary action's in the storefronts. 28 TELEVISION Scenes from a Marriage, unexpurgated; socko Rock Follies. 30 MOVIES Nickelodeon: nifty nostalgia. King Kong and A Star Is Born: inferior remakes. 38 BOOKS All about Dalton Trumbo, poker, politics, baseball and rock 'n' roll. 40 ALARMISTS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT JIM DAVIDSON A compilation of pessimists who turned out to know the score. 41 HOW TO PLAY STUART SYMINGTON JON MARGOLIS A crazy, goofy game, invented by the author, in which the most common response, after learning the rules, is, ''Why bother?" 45 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 49 PLAYBOY SEX POLL ... HOWARD SMITH and BRIAN VAN DER HORST This month's question is, "What would you most like to see in a live sex show?" 53 THE PLAYBOY FORUM 63 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: PAT MOYNIHAN—candid conversation The new Senator from New York, who served under the last four Presidents, speaks on his impressions of Nixon, Kennedy, Johnson and Ford, discusses New York City's financial plight and reveals how Kissinger knocked him out of the United Nations. 80 ROCKY MOUNTAIN HYPE—opinion D KEITH MANO A revisionist look at Colorado, especially Aspen, where the city fathers are est graduates. 182 A FEW KIND WORDS ABOUT ASPEN—opinion . . . CRAIG VETTER Offered by a guy who doesn't entirely agree with D. Keith Mono. 84 SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO—from the play .... DAVID MAMET Boy meets girl (but what a girl!) in a play excerpt by the much-heralded author of American Buffalo. 87 COMEBACK FOR CASANOVA—pictorial On and off the set of the sexy new Tony Curtis movie, featuring Playmate of the Year Lillian Muller. 94 THE MOTEL TAPES—part three of a new book MIKE MC GRADY Final installment of erotic, comic dialogs "overheard" in a motel room. 97 WHO IS THOMAS PYNCHON AND WHY DID HE TAKE OFF WITH MY WIFE?—memoir. . JULES SIEGEL An unusually personal view of America's most reclusive writer. 98 LET THEM EAT SODIUM STEAROYL-2-LACTYLATE—article NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN Food for thought on the agribiz that may make you sick to your stomach. 100 TOP SHAPE—playboy's playmate of the month One of Nicki Thomas' main passions is keeping in shape. She has succeeded. 112 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor 114 SET OF TWO: LOSER WINS and THE TENNIS COURT—fiction PAUL THEROUX A brace of Malaysian tales by the author of The Great Railway Bazaar. 117 GOING HOLLYWOOD!—attire DAVID PLATT New warm-weather garb fresh from the Coast. 123 GETTING IT UP FOR A PORN MOVIE—article RONAN O'CASEY A blow-by-blow account of the trials and tribulations of making a blue film. 124 THE UNITED STEAKS OF AMERICA—food EMANUEL GREENBERG Take that, you vegetarians. 127 THE FIRECRACKER VS. THE BCMB—essay HENRY MILLER An appeal for sanity and soulfulness by the master. 129 CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN—pictorial There are times when a wisp of garment is sexier than nothing at all. 137 THE FLEA WHO BECAME A KING—ribald classic 139 JIMMY CARTER AND US—an editor's notebook G. BARRY GOLSON An out-front and behind-the-scenes look at the reverberations from, ramijications of and art and artifice caused by PLAYBOY'S historic interview. 146 RIGHT TRACK—modern living Ail aboard a railroad car that's been converted into a stationary, but luxurious, business-pleasure berth. 151 PORTRAIT OF DICK CLARK AS AN ETERNALLY YOUNG DEEJAY—personality JON CARROLL A profile of the man who brought you American Bandstand, which is, incidentally, celebrating its 25th year on the air. 198 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI 209 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE A European fashion forecast, when to leave a job and much, much more.