Maxim # 99, March 2006 Magazine

FEATURES
118 COVER GIRL KRISTEN BELL
She solves mysteries on TV's Veronica Mars and tries to prevent the end of the world in the film Pulse (it's good to have goals!). Kristen tells us about snooping, show tunes, and why an ideal date involves unbuttoning your pants.
94 HAPPY HOUR! BOTTOMS UP! THE 20 GREATEST MOVIE DRINKERS
Coach Buttermaker."Bluto" Blutarsky. E.T. Maxim honors those special characters who make us take pity on the sober.
98 FSU COWGIRLS YEEHAW!
Check out three coeds who prove it's not whether you win or lose, but which team's fans have the skimpiest outfits.
106 CONSPIRACY THEORIES WHAT REALLY BROUGHT DOWN THE TOWERS?
It's four and a half years after 9/11, and there's still much unknown about that day. We examine the theories, from remote-controlled planes to our own government's intentionally letting it all go down, no matter how absurdly bat-shit crazy they happen to be.
112 THE BIG GAME MAXIM'S DATING PLAYBOOK
We teach you how to use everything from spilled drinks to those useless friends of yours to score with the ladies. (See, you knew those losers were good for something!) And when you sober up the next day and realize she pulled a Crying Game, we show you the way to make a graceful escape.
126 WE WANT ANSWERS! JORGE GARCIA
The big man on Lost dishes about skinny-dipping, forcing people to pick up Ping-Pong balls with their butt cheeks, and why sometimes a woman should be trapped under a gigantic belly.
88 SLOW BURN AUTUMN REESER
Uptight Taylor Townsend from The O.C. lets loose about cheating on her high school beau, making a Burger King ad with Shag, and why she loves her body. Join the loving crowd, missy.
REGULARS
20 READERS' LETTERS WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?
We proudly offer Hometown Hotties, cell phone snaps, late-night musings, misstatements, and contests galore, plus the usual ramblings from you good people.
26 THE FUNNIES LAUGH, STUPID!
Don't know the one about the six 25-pound king crabs? Let us correct that.
52 HOT ZONE BACK FROM THE DEAD
We dig up four whacked Sopranos to get set for season six, then check out the reunited Fugees, talk with A History of Violence director David Cronenberg, and hear what's on the Strokes' jukebox.
70 EXPERT SPORTS BETTING
Our new section reveals all worth knowing, from ways to wager wisely to the
most recent developments in weaponry to ensure that yoCkr welshin' pal pays.
28 CIRCUS MAXIMUS CAMPUS CUTIE
We quiz Columbia College's finest, theet find out what occurs when electrodes are implanted in a rat's head (it creeps us out), chat with a guy with one serious hair collection, and see a lot of Katie Couric.Yeah, you heard right.
82 CAREER CHANGE ROUND TWO
Kendall Gill might just be the only pro athlete ever to leave the NBA and decide,"Now it's time that I got my ass in shape."The former basketball star turned boxer tries to go the distance with our scrapper Diane Hill.
129 MAXIM STYLE 100 ESSENTIALS
From suits to shoes to cameras to kayaks (canoes are so last century), we show the items everyone is going to want. And once you've made your buds jealous, check out what Major League Soccer's stars are sporting.
156 IDIOT NATION ACROSS THE USA
Our brand-new back page celebrates the dumbest feats performed by people across this great yet surprisingly stupid land. (We say that based on the number of police Tasering their partners and mayors using city-owned laptops to cruise gay Internet chat rooms we encountered). See what you've done, Ohio!
46 TOTAL HOTNESS KELLY BROOK
Meet a lady who makes us wonder if breaking away from England was a good idea after all, then crash some all-American bedrooms.