Playboy January 2003

features 72 BIRTH OF THE MOB It's taken Martin Scorsese a quarter century to bring his epic Gangs of New York to the screen. The movie is all about the mean streets of the 19th century but is it worth the wait? BY MICHAEL FLEMING 92 THE PLAYBOY OFFICE SEX SURVEY Talk about spreadsheets. Today's workplace is a hotbed of lust. But you knew that. Did you know more women than men have boffed an intern? That women are more likely to get laid on their lunch breaks? We did our research. 98 MONSTER'S BALL Playboy rounds up Euro mud-busters from Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, VW and Volvo, as well as some American cousins. They're big, fast brutes. BY KEN GROSS 102 THE DEATH OF NETWORK NEWS In the past two decades the Big Three nightly news shows have lost 40 percent of their viewers. A star of the wired explosion levels a simple charge: cowardice. BY BILL O'REILLY 124 W George W Bush's happiest adult moment was watching Nolan Ryan punch Robin Ventura. Maybe that's why he's so eager to nail Saddam. BY MIKE SHROPSHIRE 128 VENGEANCE IS MINE Think again about Judgment Day. God has some nasty tricks up his sleeve. BY SHEL SILVERSTEIN 139 CENTERFOLDS ON SEX: LEXIE KARLSEN Lexie loves to give head?but if you want her best job, trim down under. 140 SANTA'S NAUGHTY CEOs With all the empty 401(k) stockings this year, it's time to dole out the coal to the corporate ho, ho, hos. A troubling report from the Pole. BY ARIANNA HUFFINGTON 148 THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS It's our annual no-holds-barred poetry slam. This year it's corporate crooks, while Michael Ovitz and John Ashcroft get the beatdown. BY ROBERT S. WIEDER 150 20Q RON INSANA The co-anchor of CNBC's Business Center went bullistic in the Nineties. We ask where the money is now, what's Al Qaeda investing in and who's faster on the draw, him or the I-Man? BY WARREN KALBACKER 174 TEXAS MONEY Making a personal profit on loser oil wells, Enron-style off-balance-sheet transactions, hitting up family friends for millions?it's all part of the Dubya way to wealth. BY DANIEL FISHER interview 63 HALLE BERRY Her Best Actress Oscar acceptance speech sailed over the tap. Few expected anything less from the striking talent whose life has been haunted by abuse, bad luck, a bad ?marriage and?talk about over the top?Bills Bob Thornton. Now she is Bond's girl. BY LAWRENCE GROBEL cover story Tia Carrere?the effervescent star of Wayne's World and ass-kicking archaeologist on TV's Relic Hunter?grew up frolicking on the black sands of Hawaii. No wonder that for Tia, life is a beach. In PLAYBOY, her life is a nude beach?and we got Phillip Dixon to shoot a photo diary. Our Rabbit's got himself in a tangle.