Playboy May 2000, Canadian Cover

COVER STORY Dorothy Stratten, Shannon Tweed, Pamela Anderson Lee-get the picture? If not, you will, because we sought out some of Canada's vaunted natural beauty. In the rough and in the buff. Hit the north with us, and you'll become a believer in NAFTA. FEATURES 78 TANTRIC SEX If you think "splitting the bamboo" and "widely yawning" are just funny ways to say "laying pipe," you need to go back to the bedroom. These days, 69 is the number of positions you have to master. BY AMANDA GREEN 94 THE BEST BARS IN AMERICA It took our prestigious panel of critics months of painstaking research, but they finally did it—identified the saloon in your city that's become a legend. Whatever your poison—funky cocktails or spectacular girls or down-home hooch—here are the places to find it. BY GERRY DAWES 96 SHOWSTOPPERS Hang on to your handlebars, because these bikes were born to be wild. A preview of the latest moto-missiles that are fantastic to look at and formidable to drive. BY JAMES R. PETERSEN 116 DON'T WORRY, WE ONLY KILL EACH OTHER Which is the real mafia: colorful characters who talk with endearing accents and preach family values, or cold-blooded thugs who'd puncture you with an ice pick as soon as spit? We demystify the mob, from Don Corleone to Tony Soprano. BY JAMIE MALANOWSKI 122 PLAYBOY'S 2000 BASEBALL PREVIEW Is the ball spring-loaded? Final scores sound like football games. Hitters bang out homers like singles. Our seers offer help to beleaguered pitchers and pick this year's powerball winners. BY LEOPOLD FROEHLICH AND GEORGE HODAK 126 20Q MICHAEL PALIN Eating snake can be dangerous, particularly when one of the funniest men on the planet—a Python—is trying to make you choke on it. The globe-trotting humorist is re-creating Hemingway's voyages one laugh at a time. BY WARREN KALBACKER 143 IN DEFENSE OF PETE ROSE He's no saint, but he has endured unprecedented punishment for crimes that remain unproved. And Bart Giamatti, the commissioner who banned him, probably intended for it to be over long ago. BY BILL JAMES FICTION 98 OLD SOLDIERS It's spy versus spy as the government recommission a Cold War assassin for wet work—the kind where blood spills. Problem is, he's developed a pacific calm—and fallen in love. BY BRENDAN DUBOIS INTERVIEW 67 PETE ROSE Charlie Hustle is a hard-nosed roughneck famous for bowling over opponents on the field and for building a list of detractors thick as a Sears catalog. The Hit King, whose life was baseball, crusades for his reinstatement and comments on Jim Gray, race relations and Hillary's sex appeal. BY MARK RIBOWSKY PICTORIALS 82 HOLY DOMINGO Ivonne Armant inherited world-class lungs from her grandfather Placido Domingo. 102 PLAYMATE: BOYZ 'N' BERRY Handpicked after ripening in Canada and California, Brooke Berry makes us want to swing on a vine. 130 THE WOMEN OF CANADA Free trade is one thing. But imagine our good fortune when beautiful Canadian girls dropped more than their tariffs. Harmoni Everett. NOTES AND NEWS 13 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY 14 THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT That was the year that was. 57 THE PLAYBOY FORUM Why speed limits make no sense; how e-mail can get you fired. 175 PLAYMATE NEWS Daphnee Lynn Duplaix on the tube; the Playboy Show in Hawaii. DEPARTMENTS 5 PLAYBILL 21 DEAR PLAYBOY 27 AFTER HOURS 37 WIRED 44 LIVING ONLINE 46 MEN 49 THE SINGLE LIFE 51 MANTRACK 55 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 114 PARTY JOKES 166 WHERE AND HOW TO BUY 179 ON THE SCENE 180 GRAPEVINE 182 POTPOURRI LIFESTYLE 48 GOLF Our new columnist salutes the limber-backed youths who rule today's courses. 92 TRAVEL GEAR New clothes unite form and function, gadgets and good looks. 128 JOCK STRAPPED Shoes are constantly redesigned for sports use, so why not watches? Don't just stand there—keep time. REVIEWS 32 MUSIC Indie rockers' revenge; skiffle live in Belfast; G n' R live—appetite for resurrection. 40 MOVIES The Virgin Suicides; Waking the Dead; Keith Gordon off camera. 43 VIDEO Sword-and-sandal flicks; Fred Savage and the Chocolate Factory. 45 BOOKS Joyce Carol Oates riffs on Marilyn Monroe in Blonde; an academic history of shit; the art of gambling.