56 HOLLYWOOD WALLAH
BY NANCY GRIFFIN
Despite Dirty Dancing and Ghost, Hollywood was shocked when Patrick Swayze was
chosen for the lead in Roland Joffe's serious drama City of Joy. "He was
not very articulate," says Joffe. "But as he started talking to me,
I thought, 'This really smells good, this feels right.'
68 TIME STANDS STILL
BY BRUCE BIBBY
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RODDY McDowall
As ElizaBeth Taylor approaches 60, she poses in a towel turban, just as she did
27 years ago.
70 ON A SCHWING AND A PRAYER
BY ROB MEDICH
Can Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar make ii out of Wayne's basement on Saturday
Night Livs and onto a back lot at Paramount? Way! says Wayne, alias Mike Myers,
who came from Toronto comedy troupes through SNL to a major studio release of
Wayne's World. "There are a few things that come out of Saturday Night Live,"
says SNL's Lorne Michaels, who's also producing the film, "that can go longer
than the sketch."
76 MAKING IT IN HOLLYWOOD
BY JOHN H. RICHARDSON
The road to Hollywood success is paved with the aspirations of beautiful young
women. This is the dark side of that street—the provocative, often shocking
story of Hollywood's high-class prostitutes. The night before her visits to a
well-known producer, one hooker had nightmares that she was swimming across a
beautiful pool—filled with crocodiles.
84 SMART COOKIE
BY JOHN CLARK
A Different World and Oscar helped prepare Marisa Tomei for her showy role as
a "tough chick" in My Cousin Vinny.
86 UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS
BY HARRY STEIN
Scott Rudin, the 33-year-old producer of Little Man Tate and The Addams Family,
is bemused by people speculating about what makes him tick. "Look, I've been
through ten years of analysis trying to figure that out myself" Still, his
notorious temper and raging tantrums are already part of Hollywood legend. DEPARTMENTS
13 IN THE WORKS
BY RACHEL ABRAMOWITZ
Gabriel Byrne trots Into the West; John Cusack helps fill James Cameron's Crowded
Room; John Turturro scripts, shoots, and stars in Mac.
16 SHORT TAKES
A quick guide to Hollywood cliches; catchy, desperate ways of getting your script
read.
23 PLAYERS
BY Peter Biskind Nora Ephron's directing debut, This Is My Life, is clearly just that.
29 ON THE SET
BY LAWRENCE CHUA
Coping with post-Tiananmen scrutiny of his films, China's premier director, Zhang
Yimou, struggles with Raise the Red Lantern.
33 9042B Rio LA PLATA
BY Dan Aykroyd Dan Aykroyd unveils his new column with a look at studio "housekeeping deals."
37 LEGAL TROUBLES
BY ELIZA BERGMAN KRAUSE
It's not often a first-time director sues for creative control—all the way
to the Supreme Court.
41 INDEPENDENTS
BY J. HOBERMAN
In Titicut Follies, Frederick Wiseman exposed the conditions at the Bridgewater
mental institution while creating a musical version of Dante's Inferno.
45 CAMEOS
Comic writer-director Dale Launer; exuberant young actor Elijah Wood; A-list haircolorist
Louis Licari.
55 FADE-IN
BY JAMES RYAN
The rebels who survive L.A.'s fast lane with- out ever getting behind the wheel.
93 VIDEO GUIDE
Adrian Lyne on David Lean's Brief Encounter; how to eat . . . anywhere; Thelma
and Louise's forerunner.
100 IF You ASK ME
BY LIBBY GELMAN-WAXNER
Libby rewraps the big Christmas releases. MISCELLANY
8 LETTERS
10 MOVIE CALENDAR
101 CLASSIFIEDS
104 FILMOGRAPHIES
