Playboy August 1983

COVER STORY
Cover girl Sybil Danning's the most beautiful barbarienne in business. Caught in one of her infrequent moments of repose by Contributing Photographer Ken Marcus, she stands poised to launch a new golden age in cinema. The chain-mail outfit is not just decorative—metal's the best conductor of heat.

5 PLAYBILL
13 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY
15 DEAR PLAYBOY
23 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
Geoffrey at the Bat: There is weird joy in Modville..
28 MUSIC
A visit with Marshall Crenshaw; timeless jazz performances.
32 BOOKS
Chuckle warning: Peter De Vries is at it again.
33 MOVIES BRUCE WILLIAMSON
The Jedi return; Gere finds a new leading lady; Aykroyd still hitless.
40 TELEVISION TONY SCHWARTZ
True confessions: Our columnist is a People's Court junkie.
41 COMING ATTRACTIONS JOHN BLUMENTHAL
Mel turns Mutinous; Timothy Hutton on ice.
43 WOMEN CYNTHIA HEIMEL
45 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
49 DEAR PLAYMATES
53 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
59 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: TED TURNER—candid conversation
He's Atlanta's Captain Outrageous, the man who skippered Courageous to yachting's America's Cup, got kicked out of his own team's dugout by baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn and turned a local TV station into the nation's fourth network. Now our interviewer trades questions and answers with Terrible Ted.
70 MUNDO'S SIGN—fiction BOB SHACOCHIS
A marine biologist sees his ideas about life in the Caribbean turn turtle.
74 PERMANENT VACATION—pictorial
It wasn't always as sweet as a Florida orange, but there were plenty of navels to contemplate.
82 TODAY'S NAVY—NOT A JOB, AN ADVENTURE—article BRUCE HENDERSON
Paul Trerice died aboard the U.S.S. Ranger in 1981 after being "exercised" by members of the ship's own Correctional Custody Unit. His father wants to know why.
84 NO-SWEAT SWEATS—attire HOLLIS WAYNE
Anybody who thinks warm-ups are only for the gym should turn in his Walkman.
87 BERNARD AND HUEY—satire JULES FEIFFER
88 A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE—article JAMES R. PETERSEN
Follow our tour guide on an eye-popping trip through the outposts of New York's sexual frontier. Bet you never knew nails were a sex aid.
91 BEER CHIC—drink MICHAEL JACKSON
In which the British-born author of The World Guide to Beer presents a thorough, informed survey of the world's indubitably bitchin' brews.
92 FIRST PERSSON SINGULAR—playboy's playmate of the month
Carina's from Sweden, where sex is rumored to come before 'rithmetic, 'ritin' and readin'. She came to the U.S. to find broader horizons.
106 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor
108 TIMOTHY HUTTON HAS GROWING PAINS—personality BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
How does it feel to be 22 and on the come, to have young girls and their mothers dreaming of you? Maybe it's not all it's cracked up to be, but it's not all bad, either. Ask Tim.
110 THE SHUTTLE TO SHORT WAVE—modern living.... DANNY GOODMAN
Time was, short wave was for studious types who couldn't hold their beer. Now it may be the best way to keep your ear to the world.
113 THE ART OF SEX—pictorial
This Blue Book has nothing to do with high society and everything to do with eroticism.
116 20 QUESTIONS: JAN STEPHENSON
Her front nine is as good as her back nine, which is why people keep making sexist golf jokes about her. But she's quick and sharp—and the sex symbol of professional golf.
118 THE PERSONAL TOUCH—fiction CHET WILLIAMSON
Have you gotten one of those "personalized" pieces of junk mail lately?. Was it from a surveillance magazine?
120 PLAYBOY'S PRO FOOTBALL PREVIEW—sports ANSON MOUNT
Our peerless pigskin pundit has been perspicacious for years, picking more near-perfectly than all the competition. This time, he likes Dan Fouts and San Diego.
124 SYBIL—pictorial
Most of her films have been B-level thrillers, but Sybil Donning is too fierce (and too beautiful) to stand still for long.
136 PLAYBOY FUNNIES—humor
180 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI
193 LITTLE ANNIE FANNY—satire HARVEY KURTZMAN and WILL ELDER
197 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE
Samurai cycles; second-generation personal stereos; a Roving Eye on Brazil's Sonia Braga; Grapevine; Sex News.