Highlights from the December 2012 Issue of Playboy Magazine Marilyn Monroe, Miss December Amanda Streich, Gus Van Sant, Sex in Cinema, How to Party Like a Gentleman, The Secret Life of Whitey Bulger.

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Celebrities

12/03/2012 Playboy Interview: Quentin Tarantino
Michael Fleming sits down with the maverick director to talk about Django Unchained, turning 50 and why he's no longer a Hollywood...
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- Rating: 5/5
Sex and Dating

12/03/2012 How to Party Like a Gentleman
There are holiday parties, and then there are for-the-record-books, refined yet raucous, Playboy-level holiday parties. To make...
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- Rating: 5/5
girls

12/02/2012 Girl on Film: Miss December Amanda Streich
From Poland to Playboy comes model Amanda Streich, Miss December
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- Rating: 4.5/5
entertainment

11/27/2012 Why Women Watch Such Crap
Joel Stein comes to grips with the evils of reality TV.
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- Rating: 3.5/5
Celebrities

11/25/2012 Francofile: Talking with Gus Van Sant
James Franco ponders mainstream success with the independent director.
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- Rating: 3/5
lifestyle

11/25/2012 No Smoking
A poet laureate defends his nasty, filthy, thoroughly enjoyable habit.
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- Rating: 4.5/5
sports

11/16/2012 Rebel Nation
Vegas never had a big-time sports team—until Jerry Tarkanian recruited a band of unproven nobodies for his UNLV Runnin’ Rebels...
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- Rating: 4/5
entertainment

11/15/2012 The Secret Life of Whitey Bulger
Until the feds busted him in 2011, Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was the FBI’s most wanted man, the greatest criminal mastermind...
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- 3 Comments
- Rating: 4.5/5
Celebrities

11/15/2012 20 Questions: Padma Lakshmi
The sexiest judge in cooking-show history talks about modeling, eating and how she's a truck driver caught in a woman's body.
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- Rating: 4/5
entertainment

11/02/2012 Law and Disorder
Adam Reposa just might be the best damn legal mind in Texas. But can the courtroom outlaw pull himself together before he ends...
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- Rating: 4/5
lifestyle

11/02/2012 Sugar On Top
Money and sex are especially sweet in sugar land. The adventures of wealthy sugar daddies and their hot young girlfriends.
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- 2 Comments
- Rating: 4/5
entertainment

11/01/2012 Artist Leroy Neiman
A look back at the expressionist who sketched the world for Playboy.
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- Rating: 3/5

Also in this issue

Features All Wrapped Up These timeless gifts will outlast any gadget or gizmo on your list. Check it twice. Fiction Blind Call When his 20-year-old unsolved murder case is reopened, LAPD vet Harry Bosch begins to untangle strings that could prove he’s still worth his badge. By Michael Connelly Cover Story Marilyn Monroe Who better to warm up a wintry night than the fiery Marilyn Monroe? Playboy Forum Reader Response Playboy banned from airplanes and prisons: an attack on our rights? The issues aren’t as simple as you may think. Columns Closing the Deal the Old-Fashioned Way Lisa Lampanelli’s guide to the postdate touchdown. Elegantly Wasted Rufus Wainwright shows off his cool, eclectic style. Fashion by Jennifer Ryan Jones

Pictorials 2012 Sex in Cinema Who is pushing the boundaries on the silver screen? The women (and men) behind this year’s raciest scenes. The Nude Marilyn She was at once glamorous and melancholic, a tragic beauty like no other. Is that why she still intrigues us? News & Notes World of Playboy The cast of 90210 visits the Playboy Mansion 90024; the premiere of How Playboy Changed the World. Celebrations at the Mansion Hef’s brother, Keith, gets hitched; Cooper’s star-studded birthday—with Jeff Ross, Pamela Anderson and more. Playmate News Shannon Tweed salutes our vets; Tiffany Fallon rocks with Rascal Flatts; Kassie Lyn Logsdon sends us a sexy mirror pic.