When was the first Playboy Interview?
Has anyone been interviewed more than once?
Which people have been interviewed as part of a group?
What did Jimmy Carter say that created such a stir?
Have the Interviews ever been collected in one place?
When was the first Playboy Interview?
Alex Haley interviewed jazz musician Miles Davis for the first Playboy Interview, which appeared in our September 1962 issue. The second interview was with Peter Sellers and the third with Jackie Gleason.
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Has anyone been interviewed more than once?
Muhammad Ali (once as Cassius Clay), Mel Brooks, Fidel Castro, Cher, Bill Cosby, Bob Dylan, Jackie Gleason, Jimmy Hoffa, Jesse Jackson, Steve Martin, Ralph Nader, Paul Newman, Ted Turner, Gore Vidal, Masters and Johnson, John Travolta, Chevy Chase, Daniel Ortega, Lorne Michaels, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Robin Williams are among the people who have sat for the Interview twice.
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Which people have been interviewed as part of a group?
Siskel and Ebert, Rowan and Martin, Cheech and Chong, Masters and Johnson, MacNeil and Lehrer and John, Paul, George and Ringo are among the famous partners who have sat together for the Interview. Among the couples have been Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards, Paul and Linda McCartney and Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos. We have also gathered groups such as the casts of Saturday Night Live, Hill Street Blues, 60 Minutes, and thirtysomething, and political organizations such as the Sandinistas and the Irish Republican Army.
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What did Jimmy Carter say that created such a stir?
Carter took a lot of heat for admitting to Playboy's Barry Golson and Robert Scheer that he "lusted in his heart" in our November 1976 issue. Asked about his religious beliefs, Carter replied, "Christ said, 'I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust has in his heart already committed adultery.' I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do -- and I have done it -- and God forgives me for it. But that doesn't mean that I condemn someone who not only looks on a woman with lust but who leaves his wife and shacks up with somebody out of wedlock. Christ says, Don't consider yourself better than someone else because one guy screws a whole bunch of women while the other guy is loyal to his wife." [ Photography by Ken Hawkins ]
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Have the Interviews ever been collected in one place?
Playboy has collected its Interviews on a CD-ROM, Personalities and Profiles, available from the Playboy Store. Many interviews are available in the Cyber Club.
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