Maxim # 152 - August 2010

FEATURES 56 Dania Ramirez Entourage's sexy new star gives you a red-hot kissing lesson. BY PATRICK CARONE 62 Icon: Dwayne Johnson The Rock gets slap-happy about being called the Rock. Please don't slap us, Mr. Rock! BY BREKKE FLETCHER 64 Loose Nuts in Thunder Valley One brave writer signs up for the toughest job in sports: working in a NASCAR pit crew. BY ADAM WINER 70 Desert Fox Britain's bodacious Kelly Brook hops across the pond to star in Piranha 3D. BY PATRICK CARONE 76 Twenty Biggest Bitches in Sports The wimpiest whiners in every game from B-ball to boxing. 78 Stuff Your Face It's Maxim's 2010 food awards! Six meals so good you'll eat the paper they're printed on. 88 Master of the Comedy Universe Have you laughed at any point in the past decade? Writer-producer-director Adam McKay is probably the reason. BY NATE PENN DEPARTMENTS 12 Letters Readers thumb their noses at our soccer coverage, and an unlucky intern thumb-wrestles Hulk Hogan! 14 My First Time Step Up 3D's Sharni Vinson wants you to hold her. Really, it's OK. 16 Circus Maximus Curb Your Enthusiasm's JB Smoove brings the ruckus, we bring the rum, and homicides bring some seriously cheap real estate. 27 Rated Scott Pilgrim vs. the World director Edgar Wright on his comic book blockbuster, and Emmanuelle Vaugier starts some sexy trouble. 36 Stuff Pictures of really hot ladies holding cool tools! (Really.) Plus, four pairs of freakin' tough kicks, and totally rad convertibles. 45 Hometown Hotties Meet the 100 semifinalists of our 2010 Hometown Hotties contest! 52 Columns The secrets to better Net sex, and the best meat sticks in the United States (different stories!). 94 Style Jersey Shore's J-Woww wears us out. 110 Twenty-Four Hours to Live Dinner for Schmucks' Ron Livingston imagines his final day on planet Earth.