Playboy May 1979

COVER STORY
Inspired by The Private Life of Marilyn Monroe in this issue, Executive Art Director Tom Staebler used Chicago model Cheryle Larsen to re-create the blonde bombshell. He gave her a Monroe hair style, beauty mark and glossy red lips, which he asked her to part invitingly. You obviously accepted the invitation.

3 PLAYBILL
11 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY
19 DEAR PLAYBOY
25 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
30 MOVIES
44 MUSIC
48 BOOKS
49 COMING ATTRACTIONS
53 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
61 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
75 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: WENDY/WALTER CARLOS—candid conversation
Composer-performer Carlos—a pioneer of synthesizer music (Switched-On Bach)—underwent sex-change operations seven years ago that he kept secret until now. Having seen both sides, Wendy Carlos frankly discusses her unique case of transsexualism.
110 WHITE LIES—fiction PAUL THEROUX
When playing with African women, a man should be chivalrous—lest one of them curses him with a strange affliction too horrible to mention.
115 DRY MANHATTAN—accessories
Who says rainy days are gloomy? Not the stylish gentleman who carries his good cheer over his head.
118 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF MARILYN MONROE—memoir LENA PEPITONE and WILLIAM STADIEM
In public, she was a goddess, but through the eyes of her personal maid and seamstress, she was a phantasmagoria of lamb chops on greasy sheets, spaghetti-wrapped breasts, dyed hair, irrationality and tears.
125 PHOTOGRAPHY BY: KEN MARCUS—pictorial
Photographer Ken Marcus, a five-year PLAYBOY veteran, selects his favorite portraits from an eye-popping array of beautiful women.
133 PAST THEIR PRIME—sports ROGER KAHN
Top-grade beef when they leave college, pro athletes who survive the cuts go out to be fed to the fans. But the fans always want new meat, and past the age 35, only the truly tough survive.
134 WORKING THE STREET—article JULES SIEGEL
Seen from inside a vice cop's car, the world seems to be made up of hookers, pimps and Johns.
136 SMART NEW HOT-SHOTS—modern living DON SUTHERLAND
A wondrous new crop of computerized 35mm cameras that do just about everything but load themselves.
138 CALIFORNIA GIRL—playboy's playmate of the month
Picture the classic West Coast woman, then open our centerfold. Michele Drake is a perfect example of why so many people pretend to like avocados.
150 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor
152 THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE EATER—article RUDOLPH CHELMINSKI
Eating several hundred dollars' worth of the best food in the world every day requires nerves of steel and intestinal fortitude.
155 PLAYBOY'S SPRING AND SUMMER FASHION FORECAST—attire DAVID PLATT
Pretty Baby Brooke Shields is our tour guide as we take an advance look at the latest in warm-weather fashions.
161 I WAS A MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX—article ARTHUR T. HADLEY
It's not easy to build tanks in a small room in a New York walk-up, but when your Government calls, you do your best.
163 FOREIGN SEX STARS—pictorial essay BRUCE WILLIAMSON
Don't worry if you don't speak any foreign languages. Our subtitles are in English and the language of beauty is universal.
173 YOGURT—food EMANUEL GREENBERG
You shouldn't hold the fact that it's good for you against it.
174 LADY CHASTITY'S LAST STAND—fiction PHILIP CIOFFARI
How can a man preach the Gospel of hell-fire after he's seen the Virgin Mary acting like Gypsy Rose Lee?
179 A TRUE ACCOUNT OF A SWEARING DOCTOR'S MARRIAGE—ribald classic TOM BROWN
182 20 QUESTIONS: DAN RATHER
The co-star of 60 Minutes tells, among other things, what kind of women he thinks are sexy and why.
186 ACTING OUT—article D KEITH MANO
Nineteen people were given the opportunity to turn their sex fantasies into real movies. The results may surprise you.
191 PLAYBOY FUNNIES—humor
199 PLAYBOY'S PIPELINE
Man & woman, bu-ying a used sports car, travel agents, imported brews.
240 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI
285 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE
Watch bands, hi-fi environment, weather reporters.