Playboy July 1985

COVER STORY Why do cover girls wear red-white-and-blue suspenders? To keep your hopes up. We can't give away everything on the cover, after all. Otherwise, you would never turn to this page and learn that our Fourth-of-July cover photo—produced by West Coast Photo Editor Marilyn Grabowski and shot by Contributing Photographer Stephen Wayda—features Miss October 1983, the star-spangled Tracy Vaccaro. Oh, say, have you ever seen anything better? 5 PLAYBILL 11 DEAR PLAYBOY 15 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS 37 SPORTS BY DAN JENKINS 41 TRAVEL BY STEPHEN BIRNBAUM 43 MEN BY ASA BABER 45 WOMEN BY CYNTHIA HEIMEL 47 AGAINST THE WIND CRAIG VETTER 49 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 51 DEAR PLAYMATES 53 THE PLAYBOY FORUM 61 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: ROB REINER—candid conversation 78 WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?—article SUSAN SQUIRE 82 AMAZING GRACE—pictorial 88 HEIRS OF THE PERISPHERE—fiction HOWARD WALDROP 91 AND THE HEAT GOES ON—fashion HOLLIS WAYNE 94 BREATHE DEEP—fiction DONALD E. WESTLAKE 96 JUST HAVING FUN—playboy's playmate of the month 110 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor 112 AMERICAN HERO—memoir CHUCK YEAGER and LEO JANOS 114 PLAYBOY BY DESIGN—modern living 116 THE SUMMERTIME BREWS—drink MICHAEL JACKSON 120 THE VCR ATE MY BRAIN—article PAUL SLANSKY 122 VOLLEYBALL GODS—sports MIKE SAGER 126 SHEER MADNESS—pictorial 139 SWIMMING TAUGHT SCIENTIFICALLY—humor MARK O'DONNELL 140 AND THREE TO GO!—modern living 142 20 QUESTIONS: JAMIE LEE CURTIS 148 THE GIRL WHO WENT TO WAR—pictorial 153 PLAYBOY FUNNIES—humor 205 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE