PLAYBOY welcomes the summer season with a feature-packed issue this March 2009!  Cover model SARA POLVERINI starts things off with a yacht-based pictorial that will have fans of the former child star out to sea, while Playmate of the Month JESSIE MEDINA shows off her wild side in a shoot we couldn’t keep in the studio (we tried!).  Before the Final Set concert, Eraserheads drummer and all-around musical wunderkind RAIMUND MARASIGAN answers this month’s 20 Questions on his pre-gig rituals, why U.P. should allow skateboarding on campus, and what really happened after the first E-Heads reunion.  The second installment of RICKY LEE’s para kay B fiction selections continue this month, and maverick Virgin billionaire RICHARD BRANSON reveals his secrets to success in an in-depth PLAYBOY Interview.  Meanwhile, Jenna Jameson hits the beach and international DJ TAMARA SKY shows us what she’s been hiding behind the turntables in an exclusive PLAYBOY pictorial.  To further get you in the mood, we’re also featuring fashions no beachgoer should go without, as well as our first SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW. Summer’s just starting, ladies and gentlemen, and PLAYBOY’s here to start things off in style.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

March comes rolling in.

The sun bears down hard, making every move a struggle. Sweats pour down, making you want to down a cold one or two. There are a couple of upsides, though. After all, ‘tis the month where girls get to show more of themselves as they find clothes that are breezy, comfortable. Plus more sun equals more partying as usual haunts compete for your attention by coming up with good entertainment and value for your money.

Here at PLAYBOY, it’s business as usual. Though you should excuse us, as we are out to make summertime sizzling than usual. Check out our steamy hot pictorials with our cover girl Sarah Polverini and Playmate Jahziel. We also got exclusive images of superstar Jenna Jameson and DJ Tamara Sky. All these are guaranteed to raise temperatures even higher. So do grab a cold one, sit down, relax. The entertainment is on us. Enjoy!

MIKE DIEZ,

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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PLAYBOY FACTS

In 1953, Hugh Hefner created PLAYBOY and, in the process, set the standard by which all subsequent men’s magazines would be judged. 

Irreverent, yet never immature; Sexy, yet never lewd, PLAYBOY would deliver on its promise of being the ultimate men’s lifestyle magazine, featuring entertainment, politics, culture, humor and sex - all presented with a sophistication and intelligence uncommon to men’s publications before or since.

EDITORIAL CONTENT

PLAYBOY’s groundbreaking combination of lifestyle and editorial content has featured contributions from some of the most important names of the journalistic, business and entertainment worlds, including Marshall McLuhan, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Alex Haley, Martin Luther King, Jr. (his last published work before his death), Shel Silverstein, Lenny Bruce, David Halberstam, Nat Hentoff, P.G. Wodehouse, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Herbert Gold, T.C. Boyle, Ken Purdy, W. Somerset Maugham, Vladimir Nabokov and Gore Vidal, as well as local writers and Palanca Award winners, Butch Dalisay, Krip Yuson, Mike Marasigan and Susan S. Lara.

Literary icons who have had their works published in the pages of PLAYBOY, many exclusively, include Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Clancy, Margaret Atwood, Michael Crichton and John Updike.

WOMEN

PLAYBOY has featured some of the most beautiful women in the world, from its girl-next-door Playmates to celebrities like Marylin Monroe, Cindy Crawford, Charlize Theron, Jessica Alba, Denise Richards, Mariah Carey, Pamela Anderson, Ursula Andress, Kim Basinger, Shannen Doherty, Brooke Burke, Gena Lee Nolin, Charisma Carpenter, Drew Barrymore, Daryl Hannah, Naomi Campbell, Bo Derek, Katarina Witt, Stephanie Seymour, Farrah Fawcett and Sharon Stone.

INTERVIEW SUBJECTS

PLAYBOY Interview and 20 Questions subjects are the movers and shakers of their chosen fields.  Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, Jimmy Hoffa (Hoffa's last interview before his disappearance), Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, Muhammad Ali, John Lennon, Miles Davis, Edu and Luis Manzano, Ryan Cayabyab, Atty. Felipe Gozon, Chavit Singson, and Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos, have all taken their turns, speaking candidly on anything and everything that came to mind.

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