To whet your appetite for the long-awaited return of our favorite bullwhip-cracking archaeologist/adventurer, Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing new special-edition DVDs of the first three Indiana Jones movies on May 13. Not only will you be able to pick up Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade individually for the first time (they also come bundled together in shelve-saving skinny cases), but each remastered adventure contains new special features and hints about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which opens on May 23.
Our favorite extras include “Indiana Jones: An Appreciation,” in which the cast and crew of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull pay tribute to the original trilogy; “The Melting Face,” which includes a re-creation of the Nazi’s melting face in Raiders of the Lost Ark that freaked you out when you were a kid; “The Women: The American Film Institute Tribute,” in which the actresses who played Indy’s women (Karen Allen, Kate Capeshaw and Alison Doody) reunite for a discussion; and “Friends and Enemies” with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas talking about how they created this iconic character and the new ones in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. If you already have the 2003 box set of all the movies, this well-timed double dip probably won’t tempt you unless you frequently don a fedora yourself and hunt for priceless historical artifacts, or you’re just a completist. If you’re the latter, this is still the Holy Grail of Indiana Jones collections—at least until the Blu-ray version is excavated at some as-yet-undetermined future date.
Josh Brolin is playing George W. Bush in Oliver Stone’s film about our President, which is now in production. This image of Brolin as Dubya was just released.
Dave discusses some of the methods he and his team use to keep mistakes out of the magazine, and the need for cooperation between the research department and the legal department. He also talks about some of the special concerns that come when you’re patrolling Playboy territory.
“We feature comely young women,” Dave correctly points out, and as any young man knows, a comely young woman usually presents her own issues. Way to wave the flag, Dave!
Dave Golokhov, host of Hardcore Sports Radio (Sirius 186), has some questions for the Minnesota Vikings:
Just prior to the NFL draft, the Minnesota Vikings acquired Jared Allen from the Kansas City Chiefs. It seemed like a good deal: Allen is the NFL's reigning sack leader. But he also has had three DUI charges. The impressive 15.5 sacks he amassed last year were totaled in only 14 games because he missed two games because of his issues with alcohol.
Remember, the Vikings have had some issue images. This was the team whose players were involved in the sex boat cruise in 2005. This is also the team that signed wide receiver Koren Robinson to a three-year, $12.4 million contract in 2006, only to release him within months after he registered another DUI.
Robinson isn’t the star Allen is, but Vikings majority owner Zygi Wilf has been so adamant about bringing in clean players that it is surprising that Allen's history didn't serve as a deterrent. If you recall, Wilf sent out a 77-page pamphlet to all of his working bees regarding player conduct after the Love Boat scandal in 2005.
Lovely Texan model Danielle Trixie dropped by to say howdy. You may have glimpsed her in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, or on the film’s website.
Here is a photo of Jake Long, the number one pick in 2008's NFL draft, and David Goodman, one of our photo assistants, taken at the photo the Playboy All-America Weekend last year. The photo has not been manipulated. That’s really the size difference between the two...
By the way, Jake’s signing bonus was reported to be in the 30 million plus range. Last year at this time, he didn’t have enough money to buy me a burger.
Nicholson Baker, a clever and inventive novelist, has written a revisionist history of the origins of World War II called Human Smoke. It has an understated style that is quite gripping, and a view of things that is emotionally involving- but ultimately, it’s a manipulative and almost willful account. It is, in its way, a very dangerous book. My friends at The Washington Monthly asked me to review the book; anyone who would like to read that review can find it here.
In honor of the primaries, we thought we'd check in with what YouTube's coughed up onto our cultural landscape lately, election-wise.
Continuing the tradition of Barack Obama's supporters being 10 times funkier than anyone else in D.C. (letalone his opponents) comes TI$A with his Vote Obama music video. His lyrics may not be the most complex ("This is real and not for play, I'm a vote Obama way"), but the video won us over with its low budget hip-hop psychedelia.
In case you thought Hillary's campaign tactics had left her with no-one to rally to her defense, know that she still has Chris Crocker in her corner. And he means business. Finally, we couldn't help but notice that John McCain seems particularly amused lately at the free ride he's gotten for the last two months. Someone might think about getting him back on his medication, though.
Friendly neighborhood Spiderman has touched down in a big way at the Library of Congress. Through an anonymous donor, the library has acquired the 24 pages of original artwork from Amazing Fantasy #15, the omnibus Marvel title that brought the wistful web slinger into the world in 1962. Drawn by the elusive, mercurial Steve Ditko and co-created by Stan Lee, visitors to the library will soon be able to study HI RES digital scans of all the pages. This is shaping up to be quite a summer for the press shy Ditko. An illustrated biography, Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko, by Blake Bell, is due out in July from Fantagraphic Books. We’ll be reviewing it and revealing more about Steve Ditko in the coming weeks.
When not occupied following Hef, Holly, Bridget and Kendra around the world and filming their antics for The Girls Next Door, four crew members turned the cameras on themselves to create the documentary Livin Free: The Heart of Longboarding. Directed by The Girls Next Door DP Marc McCrudden, the film has been described as a “skateboard odyssey of the mind, body and soul.” What’s most interesting about Livin Free is how relatively serene it is. You might expect a typical doc on skateboarding to feature quick edits, bombastic punk and rap tunes and crazed fans. What we get instead is stunning footage of four guys finding their own personal Zen zones in longboarding as they travel to places like Boston, Chicago, New Mexico, California, Morocco, Australia, South Africa and more for the TV show. “It’s like surfing, but you’re on pavement,” says one of the skaters. “You move across all this hard shit we’ve laid out all over the place. I love skateboarding, especially when you have some other guys you’re riding with. There’s nothing like it.” Along the way the foursome mix with the locals and sometimes get static for doing what this documentary makes seem is such a personal, almost spiritual, experience for the guys. One scene that really makes an impression is a lengthy tracking shot of one of the guys skateboarding down a long, lonely desert highway with no one around for miles. While it has to be fun for these four to film the Girls Next Door at play, Livin Free highlights some surprisingly soulful behind-the-scenes action.
Scott Alexander
Gary Cole
Robert DeSalvo
Leopold Froehlich
Heather Haebe
Conor Hogan
Amy Grace Loyd
Gilbert Macias
Jamie Malanowski
Tim Mohr
Christopher Napolitano
David Pfister
Playboy Staff
Stephen Randall
Rocky Rakovic
Josh Robertson
Chip Rowe
Matt Steigbigel
Jennifer Thiele
John D. Thomas
The Playboy Advisor
To whet your appetite for the long-awaited return of our favorite bullwhip-cracking archaeologist/adventurer, Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing new special-edition DVDs of the first three Indiana Jones movies on May 13. Not only will you be able to pick up Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade individually for the first time (they also come bundled together in shelve-saving skinny cases), but each remastered adventure contains new special features and hints about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which opens on May 23. 
Josh Brolin is playing George W. Bush in Oliver Stone’s film about our President, which is now in production. This image of Brolin as Dubya was just released. 
Playboy’s chief of research David Cohen and our research department get prominent play in a new book by Craig Silverman called, 
Dave Golokhov, host of Hardcore Sports Radio (Sirius 186), has some questions for the Minnesota Vikings: 
Lovely Texan model Danielle Trixie dropped by to say howdy. You may have glimpsed her in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, or 
Here is a photo of Jake Long, the number one pick in 2008's NFL draft, and David Goodman, one of our photo assistants, taken at the photo the Playboy All-America Weekend last year. The photo has not been manipulated. That’s really the size difference between the two...
Friendly neighborhood Spiderman has touched down in a big way at the Library of Congress. Through an anonymous donor, the library has acquired the 24 pages of original artwork from 
When not occupied following Hef, Holly, Bridget and Kendra around the world and filming their antics for The Girls Next Door, four crew members turned the cameras on themselves to create the documentary 
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