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Al Pacino: Playboy Interview (1996)
Al Pacino reflects on his career and latest film "Looking for Richard" in a candid Playboy interview, discussing his life, roles, and enduring…
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Every Playboy interview in the Scraps archive -- decades of long-form conversation with directors, writers, musicians and public figures, in their own words.
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Anne Rice: Playboy Interview (1993)
A candid conversation with the author of The Vampire Chronicles about sex and violence, gays and bloodsuckers, and her helpful fans from the…
Bill Cosby: Playboy Interview (1985)
A candid conversation with America's superdad Bill Cosby, about his revolutionary true-to-life comedy series—and about racism, kids, humor and heroes
Saul Alinsky: Playboy Interview (1972)
Interview by Eric Norden For the past 35 years, the American establishment has come under relentless attack from a bespectacled, conservatively dressed community organizer…
Stephen King: Playboy Interview (1983) – By Eric Norden
In the early winter of 1972, a Maine housewife dusting her husband's makeshift study fished a discarded manuscript out of the wastebasket and…
Al Pacino: The Playboy Interview (1979)
A candid—and very rare—conversation with the enigmatic actor and superstar.
Richard Dawkins: Playboy Interview (2012) – By Chip Rowe
A candid conversation with the controversial atheist about the simple beauty of evolution, the improbability of God and why the pope should be…
Martin Luther King Jr.: Playboy Interview (1965)
In January 1965, Playboy published Alex Haley’s interview with the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., shortly after King received the Nobel Peace Prize.
L’intervista di playboy: Stanley kubrick (1968) – di Eric Nordern
Traduzione italiana della celebre intervista rilasciata nel 1968 da Stanley Kubrick a Eric Nordern per la rivista Playboy
Federico fellini: Intervista A playboy (1966)
Nel febbraio 1966, il regista già autore de La Strada, La Dolce Vita e 8½, dopo aver finito di girare Giulietta degli Spiriti…
Sandro pertini: Intervista A playboy (1982)
Conversazione col presidente italiano Sandro Pertini che parla apertamente di politica, fascismo, droga, terrorismo, guerra, amore
Jean-Paul Sartre: Playboy Interview (1965)
A candid conversation with Jean-Paul Sartre, the charismatic fountainhead of existentialism and rejector of the Nobel prize.
Quentin Tarantino: Playboy Interview (2003)
A candid conversation with Hollywood's punk auteur about doing drugs, getting laid, the secrets of Pulp Fiction and how Kill Bill ended up…
Federico Fellini: Playboy Interview (1966)
Conversation with Italian director Federico Fellini, a few months after he finished filming “Juliet of the Spirits”
Metallica: Playboy Interview (2001)
Playboy sent freelance writer Rob Tannenbaum to interview the last of the big rock bands. He found that although the band members were…
20 Questions: Tom Petty [Playboy Magazine, 1982]
Rock’s hottest heartbreaker, Tom Petty, reveals dark secrets — about record-industry execs, rock-‘n’-roll marriages and what’s in his pockets
Interview with Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut (1992) – By Carole Mallory
Carole Mallory interviews Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller for Playboy magazine in 1992. The article was titled “The Kurt and Joe Show.”
Bob dylan: Intervista A playboy (1978)
Nel gennaio 1978 Bob Dylan rilascia una lunga intervista alla rivista Playboy
John Wayne: Playboy Interview
A candid conversation with the straight-shooting superstar/superpatriot
Orson Welles: Playboy Interview (1967)
Our interviewer is England’s eminent drama critic Kenneth Tynan, whom readers will remember as the author of previous Playboy Interviews with Richard Burton…
Ingmar Bergman: Playboy Interview (1964)
A candid conversation with Ingmar Bergman, Sweden's one-man new wave of cinematic sorcery. Published in Playboy n. 6, 1964
Vladimir Nabokov: Playboy Interview (1964)
Few authors of this generation have sparked more controversy with a single book than a former Cornell University professor with the resoundingly Russian…
Francis Ford Coppola: Playboy Interview (1975)
American director Francis Ford Coppola interviewed by William Murray for Playboy magazine, July 1975 issue
Bob Dylan: Playboy Interview (1978)
A candid conversation with the visionary whose songs changed the times.
Bob Dylan: Playboy Interview (1966)
A candid conversation with the iconoclastic idol of the folk-rock