You Should Read the New Issue of Playboy For the (Film) Articles
by Matt Singer November 29, 2012 1:24 PM   • |  Leonardo
DiCaprio in "Django Unchained." TWC It was the sort of email a
man waits his entire life to get. "Sounds like there's a lot of
film criticism in Playboy this month," read the subject line
from Indiewire critic and editor Eric Kohn. And with that, I
dutifully trudged down to the local newsstand and bought a copy
of Playboy, the December 2012 issue. For work! God, my life is
fantastic.  And, yes, there's the old line about
reading Playboy for the articles, but you can't tease any
cinephile who says it about this issue: it is absolutely, um,
stacked with film content. The cover story is entitled "The Nude
Marilyn;" reflections on Marilyn Monroe by author John Updike
and film critics Roger Ebert and Kim Morgan. Here's Morgan on
Monroe's brilliance and her enduring appeal:  "She wasn't
stupid. And most self-respecting Marilyn biographers know she
wasn't the dumb blonde. But as much as Marilyn