Playboy magazine December 2005

Cover: Marilyn Monroe (photo by Bert Stern during Marilyn's last photo session)

Playmate: Christine Smith

Interview: Pierce Brosnan

20 Questions: Al Pacino

Pictorials: $ex in Cinema 2005 features stars including Natalie Portman, Bill Murray, Shaon Stone, Clive Owen, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Bacon, Mimi Rogers, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Kirsten Dunst, Keanu Reeves, Jessica Simpson, Carla Gugino, Jane Seymour, Owen Wilson, Charlize Theron, and others; Rachel Goes to Band Camp Rachel Veltri.

Features: The Strange, Still Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe by Lisa Depaulo examines more evidence from the decades-old controvery; The Ticket Masters by Jonathan Littman looks at Super Bowl ticket hawkers; Lolita 50 Years Later compiles opinions of 13 authors and artists on the importance of Vladimir Nabokov's seminal work, including Joyce Carol Oates, Donna Tartt, Paul Theroux, and others; 2005 Music Poll enshires Chuck Berry, The Band, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, and Tom Petty; Nothing But Net is Playboy's NCAA Top 25 college basketball preview with Duke on top; fiction, A Christmas Story: Three Quarters of the Way to Hell by T.C. Boyle and memoir, "My Father's War" by Scott Turow, recounts childhood in the home of a WWII veteran, an exerpt from his Ordinary Heroes novel; Centerfolds on Sex: Lani Todd; Eva Mendez, Jose Canseco, Katie Lohmann in Grapevine segment.

Pages: 210