Playboy November 2003

COVER STORY
Daryl Hannah made waves playing a mermaid in 1984's Splash. Now she's storming theaters in Kill Bill, in which she plays a one-eyed assassin. For photographer Tony Duran she takes off her tail, eye patch—and clothes. Our Rabbit steals the seat with the best view.

FEATURES
64 GOD AND SATAN IN BENTONVILLE
Headquartered in small-town Arkansas, Wal-Mart shrouds itself in a cult of the rural. But beneath the aw-shucks facade, the world's biggest corporation is changing America the same way it changed its company town: one underpaid but smiling employee at a time. BY DAN BAUM
76 THE HEDGEHOG AT 50
With more than 1,800 flicks under his ample belt, Ron Jeremy is the world's most famous—and well-endowed—adult star. And he just hit the half-century mark. Celebrate with him as we take you into his Hollywood home, his standing-room-only bedroom and his straight-to-video world. BY ERIC HEDEGAARD
82 PLAYBOY'S YEAR IN VIDEO GAMES
Warm up your gamer thumbs by flipping through our definitive 2003 wrap-up. We've got the year's 10 best titles, the history of sex in video games and the 411 on celebrity players who could kick your ass.
88 THE STRAIGHT DOPE
There are more urban legends about drugs than there are about psychos on deserted highways. Did the CIA spread crack through inner cities? Did Nixon get dosed with LSD? Did Keith Richards get a full blood replacement to kick the big H? Find out here. BY STEPHAN TALTY
112 THIS ONE TIME, AT ROCK CAMP...
It's Fantasy Fulfillment 101. Our reporter hung out with the grown-up campers who paid $6,000 to sing, strum and strut with the aging stars of bands such as Night Ranger, Grand Funk Railroad and the Ramones. Warning: This may be the one rock-and-roll story that doesn't involve sex and drugs. BY DAVID PEISNER
125 CENTERFOLDS ON SEX: PENNELOPE JIMENEZ
Pennelope likes it doggy style. We're panting already.
126 20Q BILL MURRAY
The most popular Saturday Night Live alum talks seriously about his roles in such comedy classics as Groundhog Day and Rushmore. His new movie, Lost in Translation, was filmed in Japan and gave him plenty of new material—which he shares ,exclusively with you. Plus, a true story that begins, 'A priest walked into a convent and made a pass at a nun...." BY WARREN KALBACKER

FICTION
108 DENT ISLAND
When a Harvard schoolteacher moves to a tourist town with just one electrician, the locals drive her loco. BY PETE DEXTER

INTERVIEW
59 QUENTIN TARANTINO
After a six-year hiatus from filmmaking, the auteur behind Pulp Fiction returns with Kill Bill. In an Oscar-worthy Playboy Interview, the Hollywood hood explains why he expects this movie to KO all box office records with a one-two punch, what it's like to drop ecstasy at the Great Wall of China and how it feels to become a rock star in your 30s. BY MICHAEL FLEMING

PICTORIALS
70 WORLD-CLASS BEAUTIES
Forget Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower. The most beautiful sights overseas are the models in our 18 foreign editions.
94 PLAYMATE: DIVINI RAE
This Alaskan beauty once started a magazine in Australia. Now she gives us a peek at her outback.
128 DARYL HANNAH
Kill Bill's best supporting actress takes off her support bra and makes a splash!

NOTES AND NEWS
15 WORLD OF PLAYBOY
16 FIREWORKS AND FISTICUFFS
Thora Birch, Crispin Glover and Bill Maher celebrate July 4, and a boxing match between Jeff Lacy and Richard Grant.
51 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
Banned art and a new generation of radar guns.
163 PLAYMATE NEWS
Shauna Sand and Lorenzo Lamas don't kiss but still make up, A.J. McLean gets high on Playmates.

DEPARTMENTS
7 PLAYBILL
19 DEAR PLAYBOY
23 AFTER HOURS
38 PLAYBOY TV
40 PLAYBOY.COM
43 MANTRACK
47 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
106 PARTY JOKES
162 WHERE AND HOW TO BUY
167 ON THE SCENE
168 GRAPEVINE
170 POTPOURRI

FASHION
118 CLOTHES TO THE EDGE
Professional snowboarders model winter clothes that make big air debonair. BY JOSEPH DE ACETIS

REVIEWS
31 MOVIES
Eastwood and his stellar cast make Mystic River flow, Halle Berry in the scary Gothika, and a dwarf who stands above the rest.
33 MUSIC
Peaches is mmm mmm good, Sting loses his sting, and Dave Matthews still matters.
34 DVD
Replay The Matrix Reloaded, don't fuhgeddabout The Italian Job, and have a peek at Amanda Peet's perky parts.
36 BOOKS
Frederick Forsyth's Avenger thrills, get drunk in James Lee Burke's fictional New Orleans, and a short review about infinity.