Playboy's Famous Interviews

NEW YORK – Playboy magazine turns 50 next year, but its famous Q&A interview turns 40 next month. Here's a list of some those interview subjects over the years.

1962: Miles Davis, Jackie Gleason, Peter Sellers

1963: Frank Sinatra, Helen Gurley Brown, Malcolm X, Billy Wilder, Jimmy Hoffa
 
1964: Vladimir Nabokov, Ayn Rand, Jean Genet, Ingmar Bergman, Salvador Dali, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)

1965: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The Beatles, Sean Connery, Al Capone

1966: Princess Grace (Kelly), Federico Fellini, Bob Dylan, Sammy Davis Jr.

1967: Fidel Castro, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Johnny Carson

1968: Alex Haley, Truman Capote, Ralph Nader

1969: Marshall McLuhan, Lee Marvin, Gore Vidal, Bill Cosby, Joe Namath

1970: Ray Charles, Tiny Tim, Joan Baez, William Kunstler

1971: Mae West, John Wayne, George McGovern, Charles Evers

1972: Howard Cosell, Germain Greer, Sam Peckinpah, Jack Nicholson
  
1973: Joe Frazier, Tennessee Williams, Walter Cronkite, Pete Rozelle

1974: Clint Eastwood, Groucho Marx, Hank Aaron, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt

1975: Billie Jean King, Dustin Hoffman, Joseph Heller, Erica Jong

1976: Elton John, Norman Lear, David Bowie, Robert Altman, Jimmy Carter

1977: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Saturday Night Live cast, Barbra Streisand

1978: Don Meredith, David Frost, Anita Bryant, Sylvester Stallone, Geraldo Rivera

1979: Marlon Brando, Neil Simon, Pete Rose, Al Pacino

1980: Steve Martin, Gay Talese, George C. Scott, G. Gordon Liddy

1981: John and Yoko Ono, Ed Asner, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, James Michener

1982: George Carlin, Lech Walesa, Billy Joel, Luciano Pavarotti

1983: Dudley Moore, Gabriel Garcia Marqez, Sam Donaldson, Ansel Adams

1984: Paul Simon, Calvin Klein, Jesse Jackson, Dan Rather, Paul and Linda McCartney

1985: Steven Jobs, 60 Minutes team, Wayne Gretzky, Sting

1986: Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Sally Field, Kathleen Turner, Carl Bernstein

1987: Don Johnson, Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos, John Scully

1988: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oliver Stone, Don King, Yasser Arafat

1989: Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks, The Irish Republican Army, Gary Kasparov

1990: Tom Cruise, Donald Trump, Quincy Jones, Leona Helmsley

1991: Lee Iacocca, Martin Scorsese, Robert Maxwell, Robin Williams

1992: Lorne Michaels, Liz Smith, Michael Jordan, William Safire, Sharon Stone

1993: Steve Martin, Anne Rice, Barry Bonds, Jerry Seinfeld

1994: David Letterman, Howard Stern, Ron Howard, Bill Gates

1995: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, David Mamet, Joyce Elders, Cindy Crawford

1996: Bruce Willis, Salman Rushdie, Mike Wallace, Nicolas Cage

1997: Saul Bellow, Christopher Walken, Brett Favre

1998: Mike Tyson, Matt Drudge, Jerry Springer, Paul Reiser

1999: Michael Crichton, Samuel L. Jackson, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.)

2000: Hugh Hefner, Jon Stewart, Pete Rose, Drew Barrymore

2001: Vince McMahon, Bobby Knight, Dale Earnhardt Jr, The West Wing cast

2002: Bill O'Reilly, Brit Hume, Lennox Lewis