The Stars' EARLIEST Nudes Laid Bare! SAME TIME, LAST YEAR 4 The Piano Holly Hunter 8 The Remains of the Day Emma Thompson 10 Six Degrees of Separation STOCKARD CHANNING 12 What's Love Got to Do With It ANGELA BASSETT 14 Fearless ROSIE PEREZ SLEEPING WITH THE DIRECTOR
16 Mrs. Steven Spielberg Kate Capshaw
18 Yentl's List Amy Irving
20 Unforgiven TRANCES FISHER
22 Bugsy Annette Bening
24 A Woman Under the Influence GENA ROWLANDS
26 Starting Over Candice Bergen
28 Seven Beauties LINA WERTMULLER ON A PEDESTAL
30 Pretty Woman Julia Roberts
32 The Accidental Tourist Geena Davis
34 Lady Sings the Blues Diana Ross
36 Working Girl Melanie Griffith FOREIGN INTRIGUE
38 Camille Claudel Isabelle Adjani
42 Indochine Catherine Deneuve
44 Face to Face LIV ULLMANN
46 Enemies, A Love Story LENA OLIN Golden GirlS
48 The Miracle Worker Patty Duke
50 Paper Moon Tatum O'Neal
52 The Exorcist Linda Blair
54 Cape Fear Juliette Lewis
56 My Cousin Vinny Marisa Tomei ENCORE PERFORMANCE
58 Five Easy Pieces Karen Black
60 The Last Picture Show CLORIS LEACHMAN
62 Children of a Lesser God Marlee Matlin
64 Anna SALLY KIRKLAND
66 Husbands and Wives JUDY DAVIS
68 Damage MIRANDA RICHARDSON OSCAR MIRE
70 Marlon's Mouthpiece SACHKN LITTLEFEATHER
72 Burt's Blurter Sally Field
74 The Crying Dame? JAYE DavidSON
76 The Statue-esque Stripper Edy Williams
78 The Rubens-esque Stripper Anna Nicole Smith THE WRITE STUFF
80 Lovers and Other Strangers BONNIE BEDELIA
82 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden KATHLEEN QUINLAN
84 All That Jazz DIANE VENORA
86 Tender Mercies Ellen Barkin
88Witness Kelly McGillis
90 Moonstruck OLYMPIA DUKAKIS
92 Mississippi Burning Frances McDormand
94 Sleepless in Seattle Meg Ryan
96 Green Card Andie MacDowell
98 Back Issues Available
99 Special Offers
EDITORIAL
THE SLEUTHSAYER
"It's awful. It's embarrassing," moans a top Hollywood director discussing
decades of Oscar mire. "We try and we try to be perfect like the Tonys, but
we're too shallow. You know it and I know it. It's our curse." We prefer
to view it as spellbinding...
Many Oscar winners have toasted their success with a "fifth" of something...but
nothing compares to the five volumes of "The Anatomy Awards" with which
we've quenched your thirst for the most statue-esque strips of film. The trophies
we've bagged above bring the total of winners and nominees we've uncovered to
an even two hundred—a lifetime achievement worthy of award considering that,
during last year's so-called "Year of the Woman," Premiere proclaimed:
"The reality is that out of 2,030 Oscars awarded, only 273 have been won
by women" (with many multiple victors}.
"Surprise has been part of the Academy Awards since the prizes were first
handed out in 1929," a recent retrospective began, "and now millions
of viewers all over the world tune in to the ceremony lit was again #1 in the
Nielsen's in '94}—knowing the only thing they can expect is the unexpected."
That's why we figure you're here, since as Academy attendee Andrew Dice Clay noted
in 1994: "You know the Hollywood bullshit. Everybody applauds and everybody's
happy. And everybody's going, 'Why isn't it me?" I have nudes for you...it
is!
Yet, concludes Entertainment Weekly, "In the most cynical of industries,
the Academy Award is one thing that still inspires reverence." Adds longtime
voting member Sharon Farrell {uncovered in V5 N3}: "It's like the Constitution
of the United States. It's, like, the only thing in the world that can't be bought."
Unless you've got $4.99...
Pushing the Envelope Again,
