Maxim # 128, August 2008

FEATURES
76 Amber Heard
I ntroducing the breakout bombshell of smokin' stoner comedy Pineapple Express. Attention: Amber alert is in full effect until further notice!
82 Summer Heat Wave
Our cover girl isn't the only starlet burning through celluloid right now. Prepare to obsess over Mila Kunis, Liv Tyler, Zooey Deschanel, and other big-screen beauties.
90 Icon: Billy Bob Thornton
The most eccentric living Oscarwinner (sorry, Marlon!) on Heath Ledger, haunted houses, and his heavenly ex-wife. By RUTH HILTON
93 The Maxim Food Awards
Get in touch with your gluttonous side as we scour the U.S. for the greatest dishes, eateries, and cocktails, all for your culinary enjoyment (and inevitable gastric bypass)!
106 The Unconventions
From the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs to Sex Addicts Anonymous, welcome to the world of wonderfully weird conventions! By STEVEN RUSSELL
108 Anonymous vs. Scientology
A real-life battle between an underground online army and the most feared and controversial religion on Earth is ushering in a strange new world of 21st-century warfare. A report
from the front lines. BY DAVID KUSHNER
DEPARTMENTS
16 Letters
We serve up a heaping helping of your props and put-downs, with a side order of absolute indifference!
20 Incoming
Stalking the paps who hound Britney, Autumn Reeser's first time, and our medal-worthy Olympics quiz!
35 Rated
Ben Stiller blows up with his new VietnamWar farce, Tropic Thunder, and Rainn Wilson's final 24 hours to live.
52 Stuff Style
Revisit vinyl with high-tech turntables, and discover Brit bully Vinnie Jones' odd aquatic obsession.
63 Columns
Golfer Rory Sabbatini, one entrepreneur invests in Internet infidelity, and the unfairer sex's secret signals!
117 Expert
How to buy hardcore muscle cars on the cheap, and enjoying the last Communist paradise on Earth!
126 Style
We spend the last rays of summer dressing up— and feeling appropriately down—with fashionably gloomy N.Y.C. indie rockers the Bravery.
140 The Decider
What Olympic sport should you play? Sorry, beer pong is not an option. Fingers crossed for 2012, though!