Premiere February 1994

FEATURES 54 Geena Soars 
BY RACHEL ABRAMOWITZ 
As Callie Khouri says, Geena Davis is "a feminist spirit trapped in the body
of a goddess." (Even her new husband, director Renny Harlin, looks like a
Norse god.) The star of Angie coos about her domestic bliss—yes, there is
a marital tattoo—and weighs her image ("When did I become the female
Rip Taylor?") against Hollywood's sexual politics. So what if she wears froufrou
to the Academy Awards? "I can't be a feminist and be sexy?" she groans.
"Oh, please, that's so '80s." 
62 The End of the World 
BY ELIZA BERGMAN KRAUSE 
There's on location, there's remote location, and then there is Kevin Reynolds
and the cast and crew of Rapa Nui on Easter Island, the most isolated inhabited
place in the world. "It was a nightmare," the director admits. 
70 Dust Busters 
BY MARTHA SOUTHGATE 
When Donna Summer sang about "Bad Girls," she could have meant these
pistol-packin' sirens of the West. Here' a look at four cowgirls who don't have
the blues. Drew Barrymore (right), Mary Stuart Masterson, Madeleine Stowe, and
Andie MacDowell. 
72 Anthony Hopkins, for Your Approval 
BY ELIZABETH KAYE 
There was a time, before the Hannibal Lecter and Merchant Ivory accolades, when
Anthony Hopkins found himself to be both a perfectly adjusted Welshman (a chip
on both shoulders) and a mere tumbler away from the self-destructive drunk-genius
scenario that plagued his idol, Richard Burton. "I was crazy and tired and
frightened," says the star of Shadowlands, "and my wife was frightened
of me." He didn't need an Oscar to redeem himself, but it helped. 
80 Have Hoop, Will Travel 
BY KITTY BOWE HEARTY 
Nigeria gave basketball Olajuwon; the Sudan produced Bol; and now ... from Kenya,
meet the latest jump shot from the Dark Continent! He's Charles Gitonga Maina,
star (with Kevin Bacon) of The Air up There, the story of a college coach's far-flung
search for the next big man. 
85 Wrap Party 
Wrap it up; we'll take it. Here's our season-ending potpourri of hits, misses,
and madness. And—surprise!—only one mention of Heidi Fleiss! 
DEPARTMENTS 
23 In the Works 
BY ELIZA BERGMAN KRAUSE 
Robin Williams is not starring in Corrina, Corrina, a story about a man who falls
in love with his housekeeper. (Try Ray Liotta and Whoopi Goldberg.) Meanwhile,
Penny Marshall's Renaissance Man stars DeVito, not da Vinci. 
29 Rushes 
EDITED BY HOLLY MILLEA 
The return of a former Hitchcock scribe, one (large) man's tattooed ode to Walt
Disney, and a look ahead to Sundance, the snowiest and showiest of the indie 
film fests. 
40 Breaking the Board 
BY CORIE BROWN 
It wasn't quite the legislation of morality, but the taxpayer-supported film board
in Dallas was the last bastion of local censorship 
44 Cinemascoping 
BY MARCELLE CLEMENTS 
The raw power of Mike Leigh's Naked brilliantly redefines the "English grimness
genre." 
46 Independents 
BY J. HOBERMAN 
Following the breakup of the U.S.S.R., the latest attempts to define post-Soviet
cinema find an odd focus: the era of the czars. 
49 If You Ask Me 
BY LIBBY GELMANWAXNER 
After seeing Robin Williams drag out Mrs. Doubtfire, Libby sticks a fork in Mork. 
93 Home Guide 
The best movies about spies, the sounds of sci-fi, and Disney disses Madonna to
Ted Casablanca. 
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104 FILMOGRAPHIES 
 
SILENCE = DEATH 
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED OF AIDS LAST YEAR 
LIKE THE NEW ADMINISTRATION in Washington, Hollywood in 1993 said all the right
things and decorated itself with red ribbons that stood for good intentions. TriStar
released Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia, the first major studio film to deal with
AIDS, which, though praised for its groundbreaking efforts, was criticized for
playing it safe. This paradox tugged at an underlying question: Are entertainments
about AIDS what people really need? Could the goal of all the protest of the past
few years have been to get Tom Hanks nominated for an Oscar? The painful truth
is that good intentions won't stop this disease. Bush has been ousted, and with
the crucial support of Hollywood, an infinitely more sympathetic president has
been elected. But AIDS keeps winning, as our annual list of people in the filmed-entertainment
industry whom it has killed proves once again. (The names, culled from obituaries
in Daily Variety and elsewhere dated November 1992 through November 1993, represent
only a fraction of likely AIDS deaths.) Somehow we thought Barbra Streisand having
sleep-overt at the White House was a signal that something new was about to happen.
But when the problem is essentially biological, the concept of influence is meaningless.
For many in Hollywood, their recent heady flirtation with power has only served
to demonstrate their ultimate powerlessness. The enemies have retired, but the
war is still being lost. 
JESSE GREEN 
Robert Decker, 30, public relations executive 
Gary Abrahams, 48, festival executive 
G. Luther Whitington, 35, entertainment journalist 
Michael Firmature, 36, publicist 
Jeffrey Earl Goodman, 36, stage manager 
Jay Garvin, 55, set decorator 
Robert Tanella, 42, costumer 
Gary Essert, 54, festival executive 
Alan Peterson, 54, dancer-choreographer 
Stephen Harvey, 43, film curator 
John Dorr, 48, video artist 
David Harnish, 38, set designer 
Rudolf Nureyev, 54, dancer 
Leslie Raddatz, 81, entertainment journalist 
Kenneth Cory, 51, actor 
Norman West, 31, set decorator 
Dudley Stevens, 57, actor-director 
Steve Merritt, 48, director-choreographer 
Art Bauman, 53, dancer-choreographer 
Douglas Edwards, 44, 
AMPAS administrator 
Axel Vera, 41, actor 
Robert Edmonds, 42, actor 
David Gallegly, 42, actor 
Donald Phelps, 61, actor 
Jim Lamb, 29,actor 
Stephen Sapuppo, 33, actor 
Gerald Grant, 52, actor 
Timothy Proser, 37, casting director 
Carl Sautter, 44, screenwriter 
Robert Arch Braithwaite, 46, producer 
Cyril Collard, 35, actor-director 
John Outlaw, 37, actor 
Adam Corey Balzano, 29, actor 
Anthony Cortino, 44, hairstylist 
Kenneth Siminski, 41, stage manager 
Louis Falco, 50, choreographer 
Douglas Leopold, 49, entertainment journalist 
Richard Schmiechen, 45, filmmaker 
Richard Rothenstein, 35, publicity director 
Anthony Sabatino, 48, art director 
Bruce Fiigen, 39, entertainment lawyer 
Thomas Aguilar, 41, actor 
Daniel Paredes, 46, costume designer 
Ronald Haver, 54, film historian 
Howard Goldberg, 40, agent 
Merritt Sticker, 53, studio executive 
Ray Sharkey, 40, actor 
Milton Tatelman, 50, ad consultant-critic 
Greg Auer, 53, special-effects manager 
Don Maderich, 52, actor 
Thomas Lindsay Fleming, 40, story editor 
Donald Havens, 43, producer 
Swen Swenson, 61, dancer 
Eric Steiner, 47, director 
Robert Currie, 45, set designer 
Richard Rorke, 40, actor 
John Falabella, 40, set designer 
John Beaird, 40, screenwriter 
Donald Dudley, 40, production supervisor 
Patrick Lippert, 35, political organizer 
John West, 37, publicist 
Nephi Jay Wimmer, 33, actor 
Jay Scott, 43, entertainment journalist 
B.J. Turner, 44, actor 
Leo Murphy III, 36, propman 
Roy London, 50, acting coach 
Larry St. John, 52, branch manager 
Tom Fuccello, 55, actor 
Alf Bold, 47, festival programmer 
Dorian Corey, 56, drag performer 
Peter Schifter, 44, director 
Charles Washabaugh, 33, production manager 
Kenneth Nelson, 63, actor-singer 
Robert Krueger, 36, production coordinator 
Steven Pezza, 37, studio executive 
Thomas Mark Fortuin, 48, studio executive 
Bruce Seaboch, 43, buyer 
Mark Hayden, 37, actor 
Marc Berman, 39, entertainment journalist 
Spencer B. Henderson III, 44, dancer-choreographer 
Richard B. Kaplan, 50, entertainment lawyer 
Richard DeFabees, 46, actor 
Emile Ardolino, 50, director

Title: Premiere February 1994

Series: Premiere

Item Number: PREMIERE199402

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