Playboy November 2003

COVER STORY Daryl Hannah made waves playing a mermaid in 1984's Splash. Now she's storming theaters in Kill Bill, in which she plays a one-eyed assassin. For photographer Tony Duran she takes off her tail, eye patch—and clothes. Our Rabbit steals the seat with the best view. FEATURES 64 GOD AND SATAN IN BENTONVILLE Headquartered in small-town Arkansas, Wal-Mart shrouds itself in a cult of the rural. But beneath the aw-shucks facade, the world's biggest corporation is changing America the same way it changed its company town: one underpaid but smiling employee at a time. BY DAN BAUM 76 THE HEDGEHOG AT 50 With more than 1,800 flicks under his ample belt, Ron Jeremy is the world's most famous—and well-endowed—adult star. And he just hit the half-century mark. Celebrate with him as we take you into his Hollywood home, his standing-room-only bedroom and his straight-to-video world. BY ERIC HEDEGAARD 82 PLAYBOY'S YEAR IN VIDEO GAMES Warm up your gamer thumbs by flipping through our definitive 2003 wrap-up. We've got the year's 10 best titles, the history of sex in video games and the 411 on celebrity players who could kick your ass. 88 THE STRAIGHT DOPE There are more urban legends about drugs than there are about psychos on deserted highways. Did the CIA spread crack through inner cities? Did Nixon get dosed with LSD? Did Keith Richards get a full blood replacement to kick the big H? Find out here. BY STEPHAN TALTY 112 THIS ONE TIME, AT ROCK CAMP... It's Fantasy Fulfillment 101. Our reporter hung out with the grown-up campers who paid $6,000 to sing, strum and strut with the aging stars of bands such as Night Ranger, Grand Funk Railroad and the Ramones. Warning: This may be the one rock-and-roll story that doesn't involve sex and drugs. BY DAVID PEISNER 125 CENTERFOLDS ON SEX: PENNELOPE JIMENEZ Pennelope likes it doggy style. We're panting already. 126 20Q BILL MURRAY The most popular Saturday Night Live alum talks seriously about his roles in such comedy classics as Groundhog Day and Rushmore. His new movie, Lost in Translation, was filmed in Japan and gave him plenty of new material—which he shares ,exclusively with you. Plus, a true story that begins, 'A priest walked into a convent and made a pass at a nun...." BY WARREN KALBACKER FICTION 108 DENT ISLAND When a Harvard schoolteacher moves to a tourist town with just one electrician, the locals drive her loco. BY PETE DEXTER INTERVIEW 59 QUENTIN TARANTINO After a six-year hiatus from filmmaking, the auteur behind Pulp Fiction returns with Kill Bill. In an Oscar-worthy Playboy Interview, the Hollywood hood explains why he expects this movie to KO all box office records with a one-two punch, what it's like to drop ecstasy at the Great Wall of China and how it feels to become a rock star in your 30s. BY MICHAEL FLEMING PICTORIALS 70 WORLD-CLASS BEAUTIES Forget Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower. The most beautiful sights overseas are the models in our 18 foreign editions. 94 PLAYMATE: DIVINI RAE This Alaskan beauty once started a magazine in Australia. Now she gives us a peek at her outback. 128 DARYL HANNAH Kill Bill's best supporting actress takes off her support bra and makes a splash! NOTES AND NEWS 15 WORLD OF PLAYBOY 16 FIREWORKS AND FISTICUFFS Thora Birch, Crispin Glover and Bill Maher celebrate July 4, and a boxing match between Jeff Lacy and Richard Grant. 51 THE PLAYBOY FORUM Banned art and a new generation of radar guns. 163 PLAYMATE NEWS Shauna Sand and Lorenzo Lamas don't kiss but still make up, A.J. McLean gets high on Playmates. DEPARTMENTS 7 PLAYBILL 19 DEAR PLAYBOY 23 AFTER HOURS 38 PLAYBOY TV 40 PLAYBOY.COM 43 MANTRACK 47 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 106 PARTY JOKES 162 WHERE AND HOW TO BUY 167 ON THE SCENE 168 GRAPEVINE 170 POTPOURRI FASHION 118 CLOTHES TO THE EDGE Professional snowboarders model winter clothes that make big air debonair. BY JOSEPH DE ACETIS REVIEWS 31 MOVIES Eastwood and his stellar cast make Mystic River flow, Halle Berry in the scary Gothika, and a dwarf who stands above the rest. 33 MUSIC Peaches is mmm mmm good, Sting loses his sting, and Dave Matthews still matters. 34 DVD Replay The Matrix Reloaded, don't fuhgeddabout The Italian Job, and have a peek at Amanda Peet's perky parts. 36 BOOKS Frederick Forsyth's Avenger thrills, get drunk in James Lee Burke's fictional New Orleans, and a short review about infinity.