Premiere January 1992

48 I, BUGSY<br>
BY JAMES TOBACK<br>
Writer-director James Toback assured Warren Beatty that he could write Bugsy in
ten days. Six years later, he completed a workable script. &quot;I was writing,&quot;
says Toback. &quot;And rewriting. And revising my rewritten rewrites of my original
draft.&quot;<br>
54 CHRONICLE OF A LIFE UNTOLD<br>
BY PETER BISKIND<br>
Warren Beatty, Hollywood&#39;s most famous bachelor, candidly discusses impending
fatherhood, Disney&#39;s Jeffrey Katzenberg, the making of Bugsy, and his relationship
with his directors, including himself: &quot;The difference between directing
yourself and being directed is the difference between masturbating and making
love.&quot;<br>
64 MAMBO PRINCESS<br>
BY CHRISTOPHER BAGLEY<br>
&quot;I had a tendency to be disagreeable,&quot; says the beautiful Dutch actress
Maruschka Detmers. But a starring role in the upcoming Mambo Kings taught her
something about lightening up.<br>
66 OLIVER STONE TALKS BACK<br>
BY OLIVER STONE<br>
Continuing his cinematic exploration of the &#39;60s with JFK, the Oscar-winning writer-director
addresses the controversy surrounding his new movie, which summarily dismisses
many Warren Commission findings.<br>
74 SHOT BY SHOT: &#39;RUSH&#39;<br>
BY SEAN MITCHELL<br>
Director Lili Fini Zanuck filmed the climactic shoot-out in Rush in only one take.
After all, she says, &quot;I was going to shoot my leading man.&quot;<br>
78 THE LAST TIME WE SAW RICHARD<br>
BY DAVID HANDELMAN<br>
&quot;If Richard Pryor had not come along,&quot; says Keenen Ivory Wayans, &quot;there
would not be an Eddie Murphy or an Arsenio Hall&#8212;or even a Sam Kinison.&quot;
But the career of the brilliant artist who defined comedy for an entire generation
has been ravaged by drugs and bad choices.<br>
93 SPECIAL SECTION<br>
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO GUIDE<br>
Reasons to go on being a couch potato: Ted Turner introduces CNN Video; Eastern
European video takes off; Spike Lee describes his influences (and defends his
dad); SkyPix goes on line.<br>
<b>DEPARTMENTS</b><br>
13 IN THE WORKS<br>
BY RACHEL ABRAMOWITZ<br>
Eddie&#39;s back after two years; Arnold directs; De Niro and Lange are together again
in Night and the City.<br>
16 SHORT TAKES<br>
A Madonna watch in Chicago; the Coen brothers befuddle the Gaffe Squad; the top
ten movies of all time (adjusted for inflation).<br>
22 CALIFORNIA SUITE<br>
BY JOHN H. RICHARDSON<br>
A squabble at Disney and a deathwatch at Paramount.<br>
25 READERS POLL BALLOT<br>
Vote for your 1991 favorites in the fifth annual PREMIERE Readers Poll.<br>
26 ON THE SET<br>
BY JOHN CLARK<br>
Steve Martin replaces Spencer Tracy as the frantic Father of the Bride.<br>
29 BUSINESS<br>
BY JEFFREY GOODELL<br>
For the past decade, the movie industry was fat and happy. But in 1991, the bottom
fell out. Suddenly the only things those huge blockbusters were busting were pocketbooks.
Here&#39;s why Lala Land&#39;s fallen on hard times&#8212;and some suggestions from Hollywood
bigwigs about how to solve the problems.<br>
35 INDEPENDENTS<br>
BY J. HOBERMAN<br>
A look at the cinematic history of beatnik legend William Burroughs as his &quot;unfilmable&quot;
novel Naked Lunch hits the screen.<br>
39 CAMEOS<br>
Breathless actress Jennifer Tilly; zealous costumer Wayne Finkelman; Brit directors
of past and future Peter Medak and Isaac Julien.<br>
47 FADE-IN<br>
BY GRAHAM FLASHNER<br>
What exactly does a &quot;senior vice president, worldwide production&quot; do?
The musical chairs and dastardly politics of executive titles.<br>
105 IF YOU ASK ME<br>
BY LIBBY GELMAN-WAXNER<br>
How Libby and Josh stack up against other Hollywood couples.<br>
<b>MISCELLANY</b><br>
10 MOVIE CALENDAR<br>
106 CLASSIFIEDS<br>
108 FILMOGRAPHIES