Playboy magazine March 1999

Cover: Lead singer Gene Simmons of rock band KISS, with various models in Kiss makeup and garb. Shot by Arny Fretag.

Playmate: Alexandria Karlsen

Interview: Drew Carey

Pictorials: The Girls of Kiss - 12 pages of luscious ladies in Kiss makeup and little else; She'll Take Romance - 6 pages of Cindy Guyer, a model of passion who poses for the covers of popular romance novels.

20Q: Gerry Adams.

Features: Playboy Music 1999 various articles, including The Absolute Power of Lauren Hill, by Kevin Powell; They Can't Kill Rock and Roll, But They're Trying, by Dave Marsh; Beastie Boys to Beastie Men, by Charles M. Young; Girls of Kiss and The Year in Music; Profile of Rudy Giuliani by Paul Schwartzman; Reporter's Notebook by John W. Dean of watergate fame; fiction: Return of Little Big Man, by Thomas Berger; Carson Daly models latest fashions; Keith Olbermann decries the steroid epidemic in MLB in What Have You Done For Us Lately; plus regular departments: World of Playboy, Letters, After Hours, Advisor, Forum, Party Jokes, Playmate News, On the Scene and Grapevine with Chris Rock and Julie Strain.

PAGES: 172.