Playboy April 1983

COVER STORY It didn't take a Congressional committee to uncover this month's cover story. We caught model Carry Lee in our lingerie department and found that Art Director Tom Staebler was behind both the plot and the camera. Have you ferreted out the hidden Rabbit Head yet? Maybe there isn't one. It could be an April Fools' joke. On the other hand. . . . 5 PLAYBILL 13 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY 15 DEAR PLAYBOY 23 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS The Networks Fight Back; Checking In with Jeff Bridges. 26 BOOKS Shana Alexander's perspective on Jean Harris; we meet detective Spenser; some tips on high-tech talk. 30 MUSIC The Stray Cats make nouveau rock-a-billy hot; a little help for Charlie Daniels from his friends (us). 36 MOVIES A month with Robert De Niro, Jon Voight and Robert Duvall on the screen—in separate pictures—can't be all bad. 44 COMING ATTRACTIONS Valley Girl meets Romeo and Juliet (sorry, Will); fun and games with the weapons industry. 49 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 55 DEAR PLAYMATES 57 THE PLAYBOY FORUM 65 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: PAUL NEWMAN—candid conversation Fresh from a phenomenal case called The Verdict, one of the world's favorite actors finds himself winning more often than Perry Mason ever did. His hands are cool as ever, whether wrapped around a can of Bud or the wheel of a racing machine. He speaks frankly about wife Joanne (Woodward—you've heard of her, too), his son's death by drug overdose and the stings he stages with that other good-lookin' idol the one with the sandy hair. 78 ANCIENT EVENINGS—fiction NORMAN MAILER In this excerpt from his long-awaited "Egyptian novel," our most controversial major novelist begins his speculations on life, death and reincarnation in a land full of sand and mysterious gods. Menenhetet, a soldier in the Egyptian army, gets the tempting and terrifying job of guarding Pharaoh's harem. In the process, he finds himself involved with a little queen of the Nile. 84 GOING NATIVE—pictorial Pamela Bellwood is Dynasty's Claudia Blaisdel, but you'll never see her this way on TV. At least, not unless the network liberalizes its standards and lands an affiliate in Kenya. 94 THE HARDER THEY FALL—article AL GOLDSTEIN Editor and publisher of Screw and ubiquitous gremlin of the sexual scene, the author always envied the equipment of John C. "Johnny Wadd" Holmes. Then porn's biggest stud went on trial in a murder case, and Goldstein found that more than Holmes's feet was made of clay. 97 ROAD WARRIORS—modern living These days, turbo is the prefix that puts the charge in motor sports. A fast look at some bikes that go from 40 to 100 before you can say, "Holy shit!" 102 CHRISTINA'S WORLD—playboy's playmate of the month Miss Ferguson is no painting by Wyeth. She's art of a more kinetic kind, and anyone who wants to keep up will find that—like lightning—she never seems to light up the same place twice. 116 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor 119 PLAYBOY'S SPRING AND SUMMER FASHION FORECAST—attire DAVID PLATT It's no sweat for our heavyweight of haute couture to make the picks to keep you slick when the hot months roll around. 125 THE ULTIMATE ATHLETE—article MARK KRAM With Bob Beamon's "impossible" long-jump record in danger of falling, will we soon see records that are made never to be broken? Here's a Kram course on the final frontiers of athletic achievement: Tomorrow's stars may kick 80-yard field goals, toss 150-mph fastballs and run two-hour marathons. But they may not be human. 126 PERSONAL BEST—accouterments Gifts for the man who needs to have it all. 129 A WPA FOR THE EIGHTIES—humor JOHN TIERNEY Great Depressions beget great ideas; here are some of the mutations. Why not a national War on Horniness or a Tuxes for Tots Program? If unemployment gets any worse, maybe we'll see a nationwide Tennessee Valley Authority, or some dam thing like that. 132 20 QUESTIONS: AL MC GUIRE The man who took Marquette to the N.C.A.A. title and Billy Packer to the mat gets 20 free shots at the burning questions of the day. Such as: How come today's cheerleaders offer so many provocative places you'd like to hang your hat? 135 BERNARD AND HUEY—satire JULES FEIFFER 136 LADIES OF SPAIN—pictorial In which some of the most beautiful women on any continent provide good reasons for the abolition of the Spanish fly. 148 PLAYBOY MUSIC '83—survey Is The Who through? We sent Vic Garbarini, managing editor of Musician magazine, to find out, and he brought back the word according to Townshend, Daltrey, Entwistle and Jones. Plus: Results of this year's Music Poll and the induction of an aging outlaw into the Playboy Music Hall of Fame. 159 PLAYBOY FUNNIES—humor 192 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI 217 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE Highlighting lamps; linen habits; a Roving Eye on Donna King of Cats; Grapevine; Sex News.