Premiere March 1992

56 HOLLYWOOD WALLAH<br>
BY NANCY GRIFFIN<br>
Despite Dirty Dancing and Ghost, Hollywood was shocked when Patrick Swayze was
chosen for the lead in Roland Joffe&#39;s serious drama City of Joy. &quot;He was
not very articulate,&quot; says Joffe. &quot;But as he started talking to me,
I thought, &#39;This really smells good, this feels right.&#39;<br>
68 TIME STANDS STILL<br>
BY BRUCE BIBBY<br>
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RODDY McDowall<br>
As Elizabeth Taylor approaches 60, she poses in a towel turban, just as she did
27 years ago.<br>
70 ON A SCHWING AND A PRAYER<br>
BY ROB MEDICH<br>
Can Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar make ii out of Wayne&#39;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&#39;s World. &quot;There are a few things that come out of Saturday Night Live,&quot;
says SNL&#39;s Lorne Michaels, who&#39;s also producing the film, &quot;that can go longer
than the sketch.&quot;<br>
76 MAKING IT IN HOLLYWOOD<br>
BY JOHN H. RICHARDSON<br>
The road to Hollywood success is paved with the aspirations of beautiful young
women. This is the dark side of that street&#8212;the provocative, often shocking
story of Hollywood&#39;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&#8212;filled with crocodiles.<br>
84 SMART COOKIE<br>
BY JOHN CLARK<br>
A Different World and Oscar helped prepare Marisa Tomei for her showy role as
a &quot;tough chick&quot; in My Cousin Vinny.<br>
86 UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS<br>
BY HARRY STEIN<br>
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. &quot;Look, I&#39;ve been
through ten years of analysis trying to figure that out myself&quot; Still, his
notorious temper and raging tantrums are already part of Hollywood legend.<br>
<b>DEPARTMENTS</b><br>
13 IN THE WORKS<br>
BY RACHEL ABRAMOWITZ<br>
Gabriel Byrne trots Into the West; John Cusack helps fill James Cameron&#39;s Crowded
Room; John Turturro scripts, shoots, and stars in Mac.<br>
16 SHORT TAKES<br>
A quick guide to Hollywood cliches; catchy, desperate ways of getting your script
read.<br>
23 PLAYERS<br>
BY PETER BISKIND<br>
Nora Ephron&#39;s directing debut, This Is My Life, is clearly just that.<br>
29 ON THE SET<br>
BY LAWRENCE CHUA<br>
Coping with post-Tiananmen scrutiny of his films, China&#39;s premier director, Zhang
Yimou, struggles with Raise the Red Lantern.<br>
33 9042B Rio LA PLATA<br>
BY DAN AYKROYD<br>
Dan Aykroyd unveils his new column with a look at studio &quot;housekeeping deals.&quot;<br>
37 LEGAL TROUBLES<br>
BY ELIZA BERGMAN KRAUSE<br>
It&#39;s not often a first-time director sues for creative control&#8212;all the way
to the Supreme Court.<br>
41 INDEPENDENTS<br>
BY J. HOBERMAN<br>
In Titicut Follies, Frederick Wiseman exposed the conditions at the Bridgewater
mental institution while creating a musical version of Dante&#39;s Inferno.<br>
45 CAMEOS<br>
Comic writer-director Dale Launer; exuberant young actor Elijah Wood; A-list haircolorist
Louis Licari.<br>
55 FADE-IN<br>
BY JAMES RYAN<br>
The rebels who survive L.A.&#39;s fast lane with- out ever getting behind the wheel.<br>
93 VIDEO GUIDE<br>
Adrian Lyne on David Lean&#39;s Brief Encounter; how to eat . . . anywhere; Thelma
and Louise&#39;s forerunner.<br>
100 IF You ASK ME<br>
BY LIBBY GELMAN-WAXNER<br>
Libby rewraps the big Christmas releases.<br>
<b>MISCELLANY</b><br>
8 LETTERS<br>
10 MOVIE CALENDAR<br>
101 CLASSIFIEDS<br>
104 FILMOGRAPHIES