Playboy January 1997 Magazine

COVER STORY
Is there a more timeless beauty than Marilyn Monroe? We don't think there is. And John Updike, who wrote the text for this special pictorial, agrees. Photographer Bert Stern, who shot some of her famous nudes, labels Marilyn "a living spirit." We'd call that a Monroe doctrine for the 20th century and beyond. Our cover was photographed by Milton H. Greene, © 1994 The Archives of Milton H. Greene, L.L.C. Our Rabbit knows there's no hare apparent.

5 PLAYBILL
17 DEAR PLAYBOY
21 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
24 STYLE
25 MOVIES by BRUCE WILLIAMSON
27 VIDEO
28 WIRED
30 MUSIC
32 TRAVEL
33 BOOKS by DIGBY DIEHL
34 HEALTH & FITNESS
36 MEN by ASA BABER
37 WOMEN by CYNTHIA HEIMEL
39 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
41 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
51 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: WHOOP! GOLDBERG—candid conversation
60 BLAST FROM THE PAST—fiction RAYMOND BENSON
66 MAFIA MOLE—article BOB DRURY
182 KLAN BUSTER
68 THE NUDE MARILYN—pictorial text by JOHN UPDIKE
84 A SEX BESTIARY—humor GEORGE PLIMPTON
88 DOES GOD HAVE ORGASMS?—article DEEPAK CHOPRA
92 TUX REDUX—fashion HOLLIS WAYNE
98 THE PORT OF ST. TROPEZ—fiction HAROLD ROBBINS
102 TUCK US IN—playboy's playmate of the month
114 PARTY JOKES—humor
116 CON DOCTOR—fiction JAY MCINERNEY
119 PLAYBOY GALLERY: SALVADOR DALI NUDES
120 PARTY TOYS—entertaining
125 PLAYMATE REVISITED: LISA WINTERS
128 SAVE MONEY, CUT CRIME, GET REAL—symposium
130 THE YEAR IN SEX—pictorial
141 THE ELEVENTH-HOUR SANTA—gifts
146 PLAYBOY'S PLAYMATE REVIEW—pictorial
158 THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS—humor ROBERT S. WIEDER
161 BILL MAHER, P.I.—humor BILL MAHER
162 PLAYBOY JAll & ROCK POLL
168 20 QUESTIONS: MIKE JUDGE
184 WHERE & HOW TO BUY
201 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE