Playboy April 1982

COVER STORY In Robert Towne's new movie, Personal Best, Mariel Hemingway plays an athlete, so it wasn't hard for Contributing Photographer Arny Freytag to get her into sweat clothes for this month's cover shot. When West Coast Photo Editor Marilyn Grabowski sprayed her with water to simulate sweat, playful Mariel grabbed the sprinkler and sprayed back. 5 PLAYBILL 11 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY 15 DEAR PLAYBOY 21 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS More heirs to Howard Hughes; a visit with John (Pink Flamingos, Polyester) Waters. 28 MOVIES Costa-Gavras crafts a Chilean chiller; sparks from Keaton, Finney. 34 MUSIC The wit and wisdom of Peter Wolf and Warren Zevon; the return of Chubby Checker. 40 BOOKS Perfection from John Cheever; a family for the Eighties from Anne Tyler. 41 COMING ATTRACTIONS Lily Tomlin's latest; Pirates wars. 43 MEN ASA BABER First look at our new column devoted exclusively to the complexities of being male. For openers, a pensive assessment of role models. 45 PLAYBOY'S TRAVEL GUIDE STEPHEN BIRNBAUM Lunch in Lyons and dinner in Paris, thanks to the high-speed Train a Grande Vitesse. 49 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 55 DEAR PLAYMATES 57 THE PLAYBOY FORUM 67 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: ED KOCH—candid conversation New Yorks audacious mayor often asks—and here answers—his favorite question: -How 'm I doin'?- 100 WHAT DO WOMEN WANT?—fiction DAN GREENBURG When his wife is having an affair with his best friend, what's a fella to do? Lance thinks he knows. 104 PERSONAL BEST—pictorial essay Screenwriter Robert (Chinatown, Shampoo) Towne chose Mariel Hemingway to star in his directorial debut, an erotic new film about female jocks. He tells why he made the film, and how. 108 PERSONAL MARIEL The young star of the Towne film reveals more than ever! 110 ONE FOR THE ROAD—fiction GARDNER DOZOIS All he wanted to do was unwind with a drink, so he went out to a bar. It's a night he can't forget. 114 PLAYBOY'S SPRING AND SUMMER FASHION FORECAST, PART II—attire DAVID PLATT What's up for summer? New colors and styles for casual cool. 118 SUNSHINE BOY—personality ROGER KAHN To Tommy Lasorda, managing the L.A. Dodgers is more than crunching the Yankees; it's a year-round lifestyle. 120 SMALL WONDER—Playboy's playmate of the month: Linda Rhys Vaughn is lithe, lovely and mischievous. This month, we've captured her on our gatefold, but nothing can restrain Miss April. 132 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor 134 THE WAR ON DRUGS: A SPECIAL REPORT—article LAURENCE GONZALES Nationwide public concern over drug abuse is escalating. Down in Texas, they're calling it a war—and you know what happens to constitutional rights under martial law. An alarming dispatch from the front. 136 THE CASE AGAINST THE BILL OF RIGHTS The spokesmen of the war on drugs succeed only in reducing rights. 137 THE DRUG-ABUSE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Fed by propaganda and Federal money, the agencies' power keeps growing. 138 HOLD THE PHONE—article DANNY GOODMAN You no longer have to use a telephone from the Bell system. What's more, you can choose an instrument that does more than transmit voices. Here's a selection of what's available and what's coming. 143 MAN AND WOMAN, PART IV THE SEX CHEMICALS JO DURDEN-SMITH and DIANE DE SIMONE Hormones, researchers have found, determine sexual behavior much earlier than you think. 147 LE ROY NEIMAN SKETCHBOOK—pictorial 148 PARIS MATCH—pictorial Henriette Allais, Miss March 1980, went to France—and seduced a nation. 157 THE OPTICAL ILLUSION—ribald classic JEAN DE LA FONTAINE 159 PLAYBOY MUSIC '82—survey In which we rate the high points of the year, discuss promising new rages and reveal how readers voted in our annual Music Poll. 170 20 QUESTIONS: JAMES WOODS One of our favorite offbeat actors contemplates Hollywood and his own fate. 174 PLAYBOY FUNNIES—humor 224 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI 245 PLAYBOY PUZZLE Famous for their popular TV and movie roles, these mechanical marvels have been around for half a century. Do you remember which ones came first? 249 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE Neat storage for audio and video cassettes; computerized watches offer entertaining timekeeping; under-it-all briefs and boxers; Grapevine; Sex News.