Playboy September 1982

COVER STORY
California's slim Kym Herrin has come a long way since she serenaded passers-by in Santa Barbara with her flute. She graced our gatefold in March 1981 and stretched her talents in July's Partner Stretching guide. Executive Art Director Tom Staebler designed and photographed this issue's cover to celebrate The Girls of the Big Eight and chose a minimal football outfit for Kym; it was obvious that she didn't need any pads. The fans in the studio, apparently full of college spirit, kept shouting, "Raw, raw!"

5 PLAYBILL
11 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY
15 DEAR PLAYBOY
23 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
Checking In with Father Guido Sarducci; a fundamentalist sex guide.
28 BOOKS
Memorable returns to the wonderful worlds of Pogo and of Red Smith; a new look at Keith Richards.
32 MUSIC
A tribute to Terri Gibbs; debut of a new feature, Trust Us.
36 MOVIES
Summer brings a four-barreled salute to the supernatural.
42 COMING ATTRACTIONS
Gilda and Gene will team again; Simon repeats himself again.
47 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
51 DEAR PLAYMATES
53 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
63 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: CHEECH AND CHONG—candid conversation
Are they this decade's answer to Hope and Crosby or just a Colombian law firm? However characterized, they've smoked the competition and taken the comedy of inebriation to new heights. We got them to sit down just long enough to talk about playing San Quentin, playing Hollywood Squares, playing the movie game and, always and ultimately, playing it cool.
90 2010: ODYSSEY TWO (PART ONE)—fiction ARTHUR C. CLARKE
What happened to astronaut David Bowman, swathed out there in the mysteries of Jupiter? A Soviet/American team wants to find out, but so does someone else. Here's a First Look at a continuing tale of man's learning the key to the music of the spheres.
94 WHY THINGS DON'T WORK—essay JULES SIEGEL
To err is human. To forgive is fine, but maybe it's better to recognize that human frailty underlies most errors. Behind the curtains of every technology, it seems, is a bumbling human wizard.
97 STILL FRAN-TASTIC!—pictorial
Singer, actress, siren of the Sixties—she put the Scarum in Elvis' Harum and had one of the title roles in Sex and the Single Girl—Fran Jeffries looks better than ever today.
102 THE TELETHON—fiction STANLEY ELKIN
Hurry, now, and salve your guilty conscience with greenbacks. Time's running out. The tears are flowing, and so is the bullshit.
104 PERSONAL BEST—accouterments
From a classy corkscrew to a gleaming inkwell to a handsome cigarette case, here are heart-warming gifts to prove that all that glitters is not cold.
106 THE BOMB . . . AND BEYOND—article OTTO FRIEDRICH
When the ultimate game for the penultimate hour is "Button, button, who's got the button?" the next war really looks like the one to end all wars—and everything else. Here's what may happen when all the world goes fission.
110 THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTON—playboy's playmate of the month ..
The lollipop league still asks, "Who loves ya, baby?" but Connie Brighton has a lot more going for her than a past living arrangement with Telly Savalas. She's also a professional star maker who's soon to become one herself.
122 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor
124 THE BOOK OF CREATION—humor . . TONY HENDRA and SEAN KELLY
And on the eighth day, the Lord God made Hendra and Kelly the funniest guys in creation. And He said, "Let there be light humor," and there was, and He leaned back and waited 5986 years for them to tell it like it was.
127 PLAYBOY'S PIGSKIN PREVIEW—sports ANSON MOUNT
And then the Lord God said, "Let there be college football, and let all the fans heed the sermon from the Mount." And there was, and they will, and here it is, for the 25th time.
132 BEHIND THE LINES IN THE NETWORK NEWS WAR—article ROBERT SAM ANSON
While the generals, the foot soldiers and the spies battle to win the dread badge of ratings, the world of news makers and news rakers keeps filling with casualties. Film at 11; story herein.
135 BACK TO CAMPUS—attire DAVID PLATT
School's in—and so are some classy fashions for forays into the groves of academe. Good hunting.
142 20 QUESTIONS: TOM PETTY
Life's not all heartbreak for an L.A. rocker who gets chased by adoring fans and hounded by overdressed music critics. When you're a star, you don't have to live like a refugee.
144 ARCADE GAMES COME HOME!—article DANNY GOODMAN
Now you can defend the universe from the comfort of your La-Z-Boy and never have to worry about running out of fuel—these challenging home games ask no quarter.
146 GIRLS OF THE BIG EIGHT—pictorial
No, we haven't run out of conferences; we've just been working up to this one, a glittery glance at all the gorgeous girls who gussy up the grainfields.
159 THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION—ribald classic
162 PLAYBOY'S ROVING EYE—pictorial
Crossbow and Eros ride high in the new film The Road Warrior.
164 PLAYBOY FUNNIES—humor
196 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI
229 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE
Picture-perfect products; scads of solar stuff; a casual/dressy clothing line; Grapevine; Sex News.