Playboy November 2005

COVER STORY E!'s The Girls Next Door has shown us what life is like at the Mansion for Hef's girlfriends, Bridget Marquardt, Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson. Senior Contributing Photographer Arny Freytag gets into the spirit and captures the blonde beauties after they've doffed their clothes and begun to get playful with one another. They have our Rabbit tied up in knots. FEATURES 64 IN BED WITH ELVIS Fledgling William Morris agent Byron Raphael began working for Elvis Presley in 1956. Among his responsibilities: making sure the King was visited by a steady stream of beautiful women, including stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood. What went on behind closed doors wasn't as steamy—or as normal—as his fans would think. BY BYRON RAPHAEL WITH ALANNA NASH 78 SHOOT TO KILL Get hot for teacher as billiards pro Jennifer "Nine Millimeter" Barretta demonstrates pool tricks that will knock the chalk off your cue. BY SCOTT ALEXANDER 82 THE REAL HARVEY The writer of the autobiographical comic on which the film American Splendor is based contemplates fame and his new book, The Quitter, in a new comic strip. BY HARVEY PEKAR 104 THE STRANGE HERESIES OF THOMAS GOLD In 1980 Cornell astronomer Thomas Gold declared that petroleum doesn't come from fossils but rather has been part of the earth from the beginning of time—and that way down below lies a virtually limitless supply of energy. Scientists scoffed; now they're beginning to think he could be right. BY SONIA SHAH 118 DOWN LINEMAN Barret Robbins of the Oakland Raiders had a beautiful family, a fat salary and a great career. So how did he end up getting shot twice by cops and then charged with attempted murder? Friends and former teammates step forward to ponder the most famous mental meltdown in sports history. BY PAT JORDAN FICTION 86 HARRY AND THE GIRL-GIRL SCENE A video-store owner wins a contest to spend Christmas with one of his favorite porn stars. But instead of spreading some holiday cheer under the mistletoe, his perfectly wrapped present turns out to be broken. BY GLEN DAVID GOLD THE PLAYBOY FORUM 45 GENDER APARTHEID The writer, an acclaimed author and scholar, considers why some feminists have romanticized Islamic terrorists as freedom fighters and condemned America and Israel as instigators of terrorism. BY PHYLLIS CHESLER 20Q 84 STEVE CARELL The man who plays an egomaniacal boss on NBC's The Office and the world's best-known 40-year-old virgin talks about ambushing John McCain and visualizing Will Ferrell during love scenes. BY ERIC SPITZNAGEL INTERVIEW 53 JAMIE FOXX By capturing the best actor Oscar for his extraordinary transformation into Ray Charles, Foxx completed an astonishing career metamorphosis, moving from the comedy club circuit to the A-list with amazing élan. Now he comes clean about how he convinced Michael Mann to make the Miami Vice movie, what caused him to have conflicted feelings about his hometown and why Tom Cruise sometimes scares him. BY MICHAEL FLEMING PICTORIALS 70 DANCING QUEEN Hot-to-trot Playmate Kelly Monaco won ABC's Dancing With the Stars. See her sans costume. 90 PLAYMATE: RAQUEL GIBSON Meet Miss November: half Italian, half Filipino and 100 percent proof that beauty is the universal language. 122 GIRLS NEXT DOOR Come inside the Mansion as Hef's girlfriends, Holly, Bridget and Kendra, turn fantasy into your reality. NOTES AND NEWS 11 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY Hef sponsors Rudolph Valentino's last movie for the L.A. Conservancy; the Man gets immortalized in silicone. 12 FUN ON THE FOURTH No one celebrates independence better than Jillian Grace, Victoria Fuller and other Mansion guests. 117 CENTERFOLDS ON SEX: AUDRA LYNN Miss October 2003 explains how she prevents her lovers from straying. 155 PLAYMATE NEWS Keep it real with Victoria Fuller on E!'s Kill Reality and with her husband, Jonathan, on VH1's Reality Rehab; illusionist Criss Angel sings the praises of his favorite Playmate, Marilyn Monroe. DEPARTMENTS 3 PLAYBILL 15 DEAR PLAYBOY 19 AFTER HOURS 35 MANTRACK 41 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 102 PARTY JOKES 148 WHERE AND HOW TO BUY 159 ON THE SCENE 160 GRAPEVINE 162 POTPOURRI FASHION 108 HIGH FASHION Don't get weighed down by bulky, awkward outerwear. Designers have you covered with jackets and coats that are light in weight, heavy in attitude and versatile enough to play it either formal or casual. BY JOSEPH DE ACETIS REVIEWS 25 MOVIES Director Sam Mendes's Jarhead is a fully loaded Gulf war picture; the masked desperado returns in The Legend of Zorro. 26 DVDS They don't call quadriplegic rugby murderball for nothing; give your surround speakers a time-out with classic silent films. 30 MUSIC No sophomore slump for Scottish neo–new wave quartet Franz Ferdinand; a lost Thelonious Monk concert recording is rediscovered. 32 GAMES Blitz: The League is a pigskin sim that welcomes dirty hits; play God and lord it over other deities in Black & White 2. 33 BOOKS Gabriel Garcia Marquez returns with his first fiction in a decade; 10 things you need to know before you go to hell.