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Moreover, despite the rampant nudity, Primal Scream is not about sex. Disappointed students from other Boston-area schools realized that a girl posing for Playboy bears little resemblance to a girl running around in only her hiking boots. Those who trekked out of their way on a cold winter night just to exploit their peers--certain observers brought cameras--have their own personal issues to deal with...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Necessary Nakedness | 1/19/2000 | See Source »

...OCCUPATION:] Talk-show host [MARRIAGES:] 7 [SHORTEST:] less than a year [LONGEST:] seven years [ODDEST MATE:] Two marriages to the same former Playboy bunny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...print this," says Jesse Ventura, eating a banana and a granola bar. He's still miffed about that damn Playboy interview, the one that sent his polls plummeting. "That was my fault in simply not saying 'some,'" he explains. "Had I simply said some religions are a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people, probably not that much would have been made of it." Ventura is peeved that belittlers, like Gary Bauer and Geraldine Ferraro, have dubbed him a bigot. "I looked it up," Ventura says of the word. "It's someone who's intolerable [Jesse's Yogi Berraism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Ventura: Keeping His Eye on The Ball | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Firing Line's heyday, Hugh Hefner could discourse on the Playboy "philosophy" and Groucho Marx on the nature of comedy. From Jack Kerouac to Mary McCarthy, and every President from Nixon through Bush, there are few figures of intellectual significance who didn't submit to Buckley's leisurely sparring. He might open a show, as he did with Norman Mailer in 1967, like this: "I should like to begin by asking Mr. Mailer, who has been sentenced to five days in jail for a march on the Pentagon and is appealing on the grounds that he was sentenced because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Quiet on the Firing Line: William F. Buckley Jr. | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Worst news for strippers and Playboy centerfolds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best People of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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