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Playboy Magazine June 2009
Volume 56 Issue # 6 FEATURES
48 THE HILLIKER CURSE
In the second installment of his four-part memoir, author JAMES ELLROY kicks booze,
gets published and continues his hunt for lasting lust and love.
52 WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER
We look at things that make our favorite season sizzle, including shades, boats,
new trends and, especially, sun-kissed beauties.
56 SOUL MAN
Booker T. Jones is famed for the Memphis soul he made in the 1960s. ROBERT GORDON
faces the legend's great new music.
80 THE PLAYBOY BAR: RUM
Yo-ho-ho! Things are tasting tropical around here as we get insane with the sugarcane.
INTERVIEW
31 SHIA LABEOUF
Like the giant robots he shares the screen with in the Transformers movies, there
is more to LaBeouf than meets the eye. DAVID HOCHMAN chats with the disarmingly
frank young actor.
20Q
72 SCOTT BORAS
Boras hits it out of the park for KEVIN COOK as baseball's "avenging agent"
defends his hardball tactics and his stable of well-paid players.
FICTION
82 LOVELY RITA
In MAILE MELOY's elegiac tale of the demise of small-town America, a dead man's
girl becomes a surprising raffle prize after a fatal freak accident at a plant.
PICTORIALS
42 GOD BLESS AMERICA
Feeling patriotic? Get ready to salute actress and singer America Olivo, the star
of the much-buzzed-about movie Bitch Slap.
60 PLAYMATE: CANDICE CASSIDY
Saddle up alongside Miss June as this Midwest farmer's daughter horses around
and makes you feel all right.
86 PMOY: IDA LJUNGQVIST
She is fluent in several languages, has lived in more countries than most of us
will visit in our lifetime and has a goddess's looks that could smooth over any
foreign relations. Talk about global appeal: Ida Ljungqvist is the 50th Playmate
of the Year.
FASHION
76 JIMMY ROLLINS
NEWS AND NOTES
9 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY
Hef, Paris Hilton and other stars help PLAYBOY cover model Aubrey O'Day celebrate
her 25th birthday; Holly Madison cuts a rug on Dancing With the Stars.
10 HANGIN' WITH HEF
Life is a party for Hef. See him tie one on next to his sweethearts, with Playmates
and celebrities like Brody Jenner, Brigitte Nielsen, Santonio Holmes and more.
116 PLAYMATE NEWS
Jayde Nicole fights cancer with her charity, Lengths for Love; the British Royal
Opera House plans a production based on Anna Nicole Smith's life.
DEPARTMENTS
3 PLAYBILL
11 DEAR PLAYBOY
15 AFTER HOURS
18 REVIEWS
25 MANTRACK
27 SEX: SUZY MCCOPPIN
29 PLAYBOY ADVISOR
70 PARTY JOKES
124 GRAPEVINE
FORUM
119 A POSTCARD FROM EUROPE
DUBRAVKA UGRESIC reports political apathy and a deficit of social imagination
are on the rise in Europe.
120 DREAD PIRATE
ALTHEA LEGASPI catches up with Jared Bowser, one of the first people prosecuted
for music-file sharing.
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