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Ef4TERTAINMENT FOR MEN OCTOEtER 1967 7:6 *,„4.1\11.5 1 ' 1 741 & 'hViN Ii i. itc UN .MPPIES • • • BALLOT . - • .; : SINCE FEBRUARY of 1958, when we pub- his research by taking a cram course in computer program- PLAYBILL lished a tripartite takeout on the beat ing: "I seem to have passed, and the course taught me to he world, the striving of youth to transcend ethical, social and happy in my career as a writer; I'd rather be almost anything artistic convention has become a far-flung and highly diver- than a computer programmer." sified phenomenon, often referred to as a "revolution." Our lead fiction, The Pop-Op Caper—a private-eye Some of the avant-gardesmen of 1958, however, are still on stunner that spoofs its own genre—comes from the busy to what's happening. Herbert Gold, who authored one of pen of William F. Nolan, whose novel Logan's Run (his 15th the pieces in our survey of the Beats, provides us with book since 1958) was recently published by Dial. Nolan has the insightful text for The New Wave Makers, this month's finished a screenplay based on the book and is writing a novel portrait (with ten pages of photos by Eugene Anthony) of the about the exploits of Bart Challis, The Pop-Op Caper's hard- self-styled Love Generation—the hippies who fight the estab- nosed hero. Also at work on a screenplay is Ray Russell, lishment by dropping out of its constrictive mores. Gold— whose Ripples—a sci-fi tale with a surprise ending, crafted in whose fictional evocation of the Bay City hippie scene, Pea- less than a thousand words—provides us with another memo- cock Dreams, appeared in last June's PLAYBOY—claims to have rable fancy. Ray's been helping MGM adapt Washington witnessed not only "the first great be-in" (with his onetime Irving's classic Rip Van Winkle for the screen. fellow college student, now grand guru Allen Ginsberg) but The lighter side of this month's PLAYBOY includes Would also "the first rock-dance-light-show celebration where acid was You Do It for a Penny?, in which Harlan Ellison and Haskell put in the Jell-o." During recent travels in North Africa, Barkin describe the wiles of a young man who picks up, in Europe and the U.S. S. R., Gold explored the global aspects addition to his victuals, a companion at his neighborhood of this upheaval, on which he touches in his impressionistic supermarket; and Cleaner than Dirt, wherein D. G. Lloyd prose portrait. shows how Supreme Court rulings on prurience can work for The Crazy One, an eloquent account of the brief, mercurial or against lit'ry classics, real and imaginary. Barkin has been career of a magnetic, maladroit Mexican bullfighter, bears the fashioning a novel while writing public-relations material by-line of Norman Mailer, the adult terrible of American for a land-investment firm; co-author Ellison—author of 15 letters. Mailer's latest novel, Why Are We in Vietnam?, a books, more than 500 stories and articles and an tipper-echelon scathing survey of our national neuroses, was released last TV and movie scriptwriter—was recently selected by Cosmo- month by Putnam; he is currently laboring on another major politan, for whatever it may be worth, as one of Hollywood's four most eligible bachelors. Lloyd is a comedy writer for the New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, whose investi- Johnny Carson show and has just finished a play that he gation of an alleged plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy has modestly claims is "being scrutinized with feverish apathy by made him a messiah to some and a madman to others, is the any number (one) of producers." subject of our exclusive, explosive Playboy Interview. Garrison Enough? Hardly. Herein are the ballot for our annual was quizzed by free-lance writer Eric Norden, who helped us Jazz Poll, revised, renamed—it's now the Jazz and Pop Poll interview Mark Lane last February. —and expanded this year to include the stars of superpop; Diverse opinions about man's mechanical servants in the Robert L. Green's Fall csr TVinter Fashion Forecast; the latest age of automation are examined in Ernest Havemann's in leather accessories: and a guide to the gustatory glories of Computers—Their Scope Today and Max Gunther's Comput- the English breakfast. In addition to The New Wave Makers, ers—Their Built-in Limitations. Havemann began work on our pictorials include an uncensored preview of The Fox, his article the day after sending two manuscripts to his editor the Mark Rydell–directed film version—starring Anne —a volume on birth control and a college psychology text. He Heywood, heir Dullea and Sandy Dennis—of D. H. Law- found his subject "a refreshing change not only from contra- rence's probing tale of awakening libidos and erotic libera- ceptives and conditioned reflexes but also from horse racing, tion; plus an unhurried rendezvous with our statuesque the subject of my last PLAYBOY piece" (June 1967). Gunther October Playmate, Reagan Wihon. Altogether, a tidal wave —author of The Sonics Boom in last May's issue—augmented of delights from our own estimable gang of wave makers. 3 S1 ff04./C. NOK0c."1 SLE t.3 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: JIM GARRISON a candid conversation with the embattled district attorney of new orleans On February 17, 1967, the New him "pegged as the getaway pilot in an Shaw, a wealthy New Orleans business- Orleans States-Item broke a story that elaborate plot to kill Kennedy." Ferrie, a man and real-estate developer, on would electrify the world—and hurl bizarre figure who wore a flaming-red charges of conspiring to assassinate John district attorney Jim Garrison into a wig, false eyebrows and make-up to con- F. Kennedy. One of New Orleans' most bitter fight for his political life. An enter- ceal burns he had suffered years before, prominent citizens, Shaw was a founder prising reporter, checking vouchers filed denied any involvement in a conspiracy and director of the city's prestigious with the city by the district attorney's to kill the President. Garrison, he said, International Trade Mart from 1917 office, discovered that Garrison had spent was out to frame him. Four days later, to 1965, when he retired to devote his over 138000 investigating the assassina- Ferrie was found dead in his shabby time to playwriting and restoring his- tion of President Kennedy. "Has the three-room apartment in New Orleans, district attorney discovered valuable toric homes in the old French Quarter. ostensibly of natural causes—though he additional evidence," the States-Item The day after Shaw's arrest, Garrison left behind two suicide notes. asked editorially, "or is he merely saving declared that "Shaw was none other some interesting new information that The press had greeted Garrison's ini- than Clay Bertrand," the shadowy will gain for him exposure in. a national tial claims about a conspiracy with a queen bee of the New Orleans homo- magazine?" Stung, Garrison counter- measure of skepticism, but Ferrie's death sexual underworld, who, according to attacked, confirming that an inquiry into was front-page news around the world. attorney Dean Andrews' testimony be- Kennedy's assassination was under way Garrison broke his self-imposed silence fore the Warren Commission, called and charging that the States-Item's "irre- to charge that Ferrie was "a man who, in him the day after the assassination and sponsible" revelation "has now created a my judgment, was one of history's most asked him to rush to Dallas to defend problem for us in. finding witnesses and important individuals." According to Oswald. Shaw heatedly denied his guilt: getting cooperation from other witnesses Garrison, "Mr. Ferrie was one of those "I never heard of any plot and I never and in at least one case has endangered individuals I had in mind when I said used any alias in my life." But New Or- the life of a witness." there would be arrests shortly. We had leans society, which had long counted On February 18, newsmen from all reached a decision to arrest him early Shaw one of its own, was stunned. over the world converged on New Orleans next week. Apparently we waited too On March 14, a panel of three judges to hear Garrison announce at a press long." But Garrison vowed that Ferrie's heard Garrison's case in a preliminary conference: "We have been investigat- death would not halt his investigation, hearing to determine if there was ing the role of the city of New Or- and added, "My staff and 1 solved the enough evidence against Shaw to bring leans in the assassination of President assassination weeks ago. I wouldn't say him to trial. Perry Raymond Russo, a 25- Kennedy, and we have made some this if we didn't have the evidence year-old life-insurance salesman from progress-1 think substantial progress. beyond a shadow of a doubt. We know Baton Rouge who had once been Ferrie's What's more, there will be arrests." As the key individuals, the cities involved "roommate," testified that in mid-Septem- reporters flashed news of Garrison's and how it was done." ber of 1963, he had attended a meeting statement across the world, a 49-year-old On March 1, Garrison eclipsed even the at Ferrie's apartment where Shaw, Lee New Orleans pilot, David Ferrie, told headlines from his previous press confer- Harvey Oswald and Ferrie discussed newsmen that the district attorney had ence by announcing the arrest of Clay means of assassinating the President in a "To read the press accounts of my investi- `A number of the men who killed the "President Kennedy was killed for one gation, I'm a cross between Al Capone President were former employees of the reason: because he was working for a rec- and Attila the Hun—bribing, threaten- CIA involved in its anti-Castro under- onciliation with the U.S.S.R.