Playboy (USA) May 2010

COVER STORY
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "There are no second acts in American lives." Ashley Dupr� is here to prove the novelist wrong. The woman who toppled Eliot Spitzer and who is now starting a new life as a columnist poses for us. Our Rabbit can't wait to see how she wraps up her third act.

FEATURES
40 THE NEW SUPER SPY
The Increment is purported to be an elite group of British spies who fit the mold of IT Aorker more than movie star�no wonder they're so good at infiltration. Meeting in _-=_down, PHIL ZABRISKIE attempts to uncover Her Majesty's new secret service.
54 TOP PARTY SCHOOLS 2010
We raise a plastic cup to the coolest cam-buses in the country.
56 BASEBALL UNPLUGGED
From Ty Cobb to Ken Griffey Jr., TRACY RINGOLSBY gives M LB's past the TMZ Sports treatment. PLUS: Pennant predictions.
72 THE FULL COWARD PACKAGE
DAVE BARRY says in no way should you take a vasectomy like a man.
76 AREA TWO
Jon Burge ran his Chicago precinct like Guant�namo. HILLEL LEVIN and JOHN CONROY take you into his interrogation room.
84 THE ALPHA KITCHEN
Appliances that'd make Julia Child blush.
86 THE SPASM BAND
Legend has it in the late 1800s a group of ragtag white kids created jazz. RICH COHEN chases their echoes around New Orleans to find the soul of the music.
INTERVIEW
33 MATTHEW FOX
The good doctor can't wait to get off the Lost island.
By STEPHEN REBELLO
20Q
74 B.J. NOVAK
The Basterd and Office bad boy tells DAVID HOCHMAN it's just an act.
FICTION
50 LOVE TO ALL
Love triangles are complicated even for the country's intellectual elite. ETHAN COEN offers up a story about academics involved in very liberal arts.
PICTORIALS
44 ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO
Petter Hegre took his camera to Tulum and Playa del Carmen with the mission of capturing birds of paradise and beach bums in their natural habitat.
60 PLAYMATE: KASSIE LYN LOGSDON
Enjoy the great outdoors and indoors with nature lover Miss May.
90 ASHLEY DUPR�
The private lives of public men have made "other women" household names. Ashley's secret was exposed when Eliot Spitzer made a misstep. Now she is ready to step into the spotlight on her own terms.
FASHION
80 A DAY AT THE RACES
JENNIFER RYAN JONES and TONY KELLY go to the Brazilian Grand Prix to shoot high-octane fashion for those who live life in the fast lane.
NEWS AND NOTES
9 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY
Hef watches the Super Bowl with Gene Simmons, Shannon Tweed and Crispin Glover; Marcus Allen and Jim McMahon play the Playboy Golf Super Scramble; Bridget Marquardt crowns Miss Playboy Club.
10 SUPER BOWL BASH
Playboy's spectacular Super Bowl party heats up Miami with guests Tony Gonzalez, Isiah Thomas, Jesse Palmer and the Black Eyed Peas.
120 PLAYMATE NEWS
Miss December 2001 Shanna Moakler debuts her line of cosmetics; Miss February 1990 Pam Anderson stuns on Dancing With the Stars; we go behind the scenes of Iron Man 2 with Miss February 1999 Stacy Fuson and Miss July 2005 Qiana Chase.
DEPARTMENTS
3 PLAYBILL
11 DEAR PLAYBOY
15 AFTER HOURS
20 REVIEWS
25 MANTRACK
29 PLAYBOY ADVISOR
70 PARTY JOKES
128 GRAPEVINE
THE PLAYBOY FORUM
123 THE WIRE GOES TO COLLEGE
ISHMAEL REED subjects the oft-acclaimed drama to a peer review.
124 INVASION OF THE BODY SCANNERS
CHIP ROWE on the TSA's X-ray specs.