Neil Patrick Harris, who has been named as one of Out magazine’s Out 100 folks for 2009, is featured in the pages of the new issue of Playboy magazine alongside his How I Met Your Mother co-stars Josh Radnor and Jason Segel in celebration of HIMYM‘s 100th episode. Here is NPH‘s solo (and fully-clothed) Playboy photo along with some excerpts from their Playboy interview:

Neil, Josh Radnor, and Jason Segel suited up in Hickey Freeman, Paul Smith, Hugo Boss, Isaia and more for the December issue of Playboy (on newsstands now!!). Be still my heart! Here’s a Playboy I may need to seek out. The 4-page pictorial is in celebration of How I Met Your Mother’s 100th episode and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate. Ok… now I just sound creepy. But, seriously, three of my favorite comedy guys getting all dressed up for a photo-shoot? I do approve. And the guys have got some fashion advice to share as well, including these tidbits…

Neil Patrick Harris: “If you can afford it, I’d recommend having your own wardrobe department.”

Jason Segel: “Right after Sarah Marshall, the publicist said to me, ‘Listen, you’re kind of successful now, so you really have to step it up. You can’t keep dressing like this.’ Now my costume lady for that film and I Love You, Man puts outfits on hangers for me marked MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY…It’s embarrassing, but I kind of love it.”

Josh Radnor: “I have fond memories of parachute pants!”

LOL. I don’t know that this is enough to get me to rush out and buy the new issue of Playboy magazine but I can appreciate that these guys prolly gave a great and funny interview and it is prolly deffo worth reading. NPH looks pretty damn good in his suit … but he’s wearing far too much clothing for me to be inspired to purchase a nudie mag ;) After the jump, check out the Playboy photo of NPH with Josh and Jason …

Fans of Sex and the City have new reason to celebrate today … People magazine brings us our first look at the book cover for the new Candace Bushnell SaTC prequel titled The Carrie Diaries which introduces us to the Carrie Bradshaw character before she was all sexy in the city:

Sex and the City 2 may not be scheduled to hit theaters until May 28, 2010 – but for fans clamoring for anything new and Sex-related, there’s good news ahead: Candace Bushnell is releasing the new book The Carrie Diaries, a teen prequel to her famous franchise. Set during Carrie Bradshaw’s high school years, the book details the budding fashionista’s early relationships and how she began her career as a writer. According to the publisher, The Carrie Diaries will also focus on Bradshaw’s first love, while the cover art specifically references an incident between the character and her mother. The Carrie Diaries will be published on April 27, 2010.

HMMM … it’s unclear if this book is aimed at adult fans of Sex and the City or new, young fans who are unfamiliar with the SaTC book and/or TV series. I hope the book is written in such a way that adult fans of the original can enjoy the story … and I can’t help but feel it’s weird to aim a book like this at kids. In any event, anything from Candace Bushnell is welcome to me and I am really looking forward to reading this book when it is released next year. I like how the cover has a Louis Vuitton/Stephen Sprouse feel to it … I wonder how LV feels about the homage? Are any of y’all lookin’ forward to the release of this book?

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Last night Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson and many, many others were joined at Mann Village Theatre in Westwood, CA for the grand Hollywood premiere of the sequel film The Twilight Saga: New Moon. As you might expect, the premiere was a lavish and raucous event filled with hordes of screaming fans and the Twilight celebs on the red carpet eating up all of the attention. Here are a few photos from the red carpet arrivals last night along with some deets on the event itself:

“Twilight” fans have taken over the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Thousands of fans filled the streets near UCLA on Monday, hoping to catch a glimpse of their favorite undead stars attending the evening premiere of “New Moon’ — the second film in the “Twilight’ vampire saga. Some “Twi-hards” — as they call themselves — arrived as early as Thursday afternoon to secure a place in line for tickets allowing them to watch the stars’ arrivals on the red carpet. The 800 available tickets were all distributed by Monday morning, but the line still stretched for blocks well after lunchtime. Nicole Zamora, 36, was sixth in line after getting to Westwood on Thursday afternoon. She and her three sisters wore “New Moon” T-shirts they’d made for the occasion and said they spent the weekend “reading, listening to the iPod and trying to sleep — anything to pass the time.” Christina Fuentes and four of her friends traveled from New Jersey for the “New Moon” premiere. The 24-year-old wore vampire teeth (“They just clip on,” she said) and carried a home-made sign that read, “We flew in from NJ! We’ve been camping out for three days just to see you!” She pasted her airline boarding pass to the poster as proof. They were number 313 in line, she said. The weekend warriors were rewarded with appearances by some “Twilight” stars. “Less than an hour ago we saw Peter Facinelli drive by on his Harley, looking hot,” said 19-year-old Kelley Metoyer, referring to the actor who plays the vampire patriarch in the series.

Metoyer had camped out with six friends since Friday Scores of other fans — mostly young women — crowded onto street corners near the Mann Village and Bruin theaters, where the premiere will be held. They sat on beach chairs, displayed homemade signs and wore T-shirts proclaiming their allegiance to Team Edward or Team Jacob — the handsome vampire (Robert Pattinson) and his werewolf rival (Taylor Lautner). Michelle Cueva carried a sign identifying her group as the “Twi-hard Grannies.” “We’re representing a different generation,” said the 38-year-old, who recently became a grandmother. She and her two friends said they “planned for a whole year” and took a vacation day from work to be part of the excitement, arriving in Westwood at 5 a.m. Monday. “You see it on TV, but to see it in real life, it’s crazy,” she said. “It’s worth it to have taken the day off.” Elizabeth Rios, 20, came to the “Twilight” premiere last year and won a spot on the red carpet. This year, she was on the sidewalk across the street from the theaters. “This is like three times as crazy as last year,” she said. But not everyone was excited about the “New Moon” premiere. “I’ve never seen so many Gothic 12-year-olds in all my life,” grumbled one man as he tried to make his walk through the crowded street. “New Moon” opens Friday.

LOL! I knew this premiere was going to be crazy but … wow … it sounds really crazy. I totally understand that some young women want to be part of the hoopla and choose to camp out for days to be a part of this craziness but I cannot, for the life of me, understand the fanatical mothers and grandmothers! I mean, seriously? You’re 50 years old and you want to fight for position on the sidewalk with a bunch of teenage girls just to get near a movie premiere? Really? That’s so weird. BUT … fans are fans, I suppose. After the jump, check out a couple pics of The Twilight Trinity posing for photos at the New Moon premiere after party …

We have been hoodwinked … bamboozled … straight up lied to, y’all. Levi Johnston‘s manager Tank Jones insisted that he was “90% sure” that Levi would be showing his penis in his much ballyhooed Playgirl photospread (due out this week) but today we are learning that, in fact, Levi‘s photospread falls in that dreaded 10% land of no penis. According to Gawker, there will be no penis … I repeat, there will be no full frontal penis shown in Levi Johnston‘s Playgirl photospread:

Playgirl’s seen the results of last week’s photo shoot, and while there may be glimpses of Levi Johnston’s baby maker, there is no full-frontal shot. Let the blame game begin! Playgirl spokesman Daniel Nardicio has released a statement blaming Levi’s manager Tank Jones. “He did not give ‘full-frontal’ as his manager Tank Jones reported he would. We’re thrilled with the photos we got, and are confident people will love them. Although there may be glimpses, we did not get full on frontal nudity.” That is very sad news indeed. Playgirl had one job to do: get a photo of that famous hockey stick and it failed to do so. Maybe ironically-named photographer Gregory Weiner couldn’t make an intimate connection with his model and convince him to bare all. Maybe Tank Jones was trying to keep him covered to protect his client’s image. Maybe Levi just got shy at the last minute and couldn’t go through with it. Still, after all the hype Tank created about how “fearless” Levi is and how he was ready to show us everything, we feel very let down and a little bit lied to. Tank was totally the madam that said we would have the full run of all the girls in the house, but when we arrived, all we got was a scratchy hand job from a buck-toothed cross-eye in a closet. That said, we still can’t wait to see the pictures.

Yep … this is a bunch of bullshizz, y’all. Last week we learned that Levi would be brandishing a hockey stick prop in his photospread but that sounds about the extent of any stick action we’ll be getting in these photos. On the one hand, I can’t say that I’m very surprised … even with the promise of “90%” certainty that he’d be showing his wang I wasn’t totally convinced it would be on full display. Not for nothing but I’m still curious to see how well this issue of Playgirl is received. I say, No wang? No way! What a rip off.

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