~~~~"""J r,~ LJ.J>­ --' ?i S CD a:~ <{ ~ E en>­ a: LJ.J ~ u p <{ >­ I ~ ~ T PUBLISHER Carey Labovitch EDITOR Simon Tesler ASSISTANT EDITOR Tim Hulse ADVERTISING MANAGER Shauna Lovell 4 DESIGN Jigsaw Jeremy Leslie luc besson /jane FRONT DESK/BACK ISSUES & snowden/lason bl atby/sheda smith SUBSCRIPTIONS ian pye/the ralOr's edg e/ revenge ki t Tabitha Coote starlustlprint FASHION EDITOR 20 lain R. Webb Kathy Acker FASHION ASSISTANT in hype city Hellen Campbell 26 CONTRIBUTORS Matt Dillon Tony Barratt, Mark Bayley, Mark Brennan, local hero Peter Brown, Gillian Campbell, Mark Collicott, Mark Cordery, Richard Croft, Simon Garfield, 28 Marc Issue, Adrian Jones. David ­ y Tom Korb Kate Bush Nick Knight, Judy Lipsey, Paul Mathur lao n "til w uthenng after all these years McKell. Hugh Morley. Paul Morley, Morrissey, Peter Moss, Mike Owen, Simon Potter, Stuart 30 Redler. Tim Richmond. 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Now that'. what we call eighth wonderi zeke manyika/ value for money! colourbox/dante W .th 1I1lncreasingly var ied selection of films filmed once ,, ~ ­ rna 109 It onto Videotape now, you wouldn' t serious tale o f a be blamed for seemg one o f the major salvation, a path tha: :: ben fits of ;l eo recorder as providing the experiences in the F,r s! opportllll y [0 catch up with all the movies reject his moneyed upbn ngl 0 that. for one ~son or another, never made of poverty in Paris and subseque It IntO [he cmemas here Competition for search of spiritual enlightenment cinema attendatlces and the high coS( of For Murray it's a considera e c producmg mu up e phys.u copIes of a film style, and one that he appears to be e. and th n promoung t mean that an quite strongly, despite his self-effacIng C increasmg numbe- of new releases are to the contrary. Indeed, Murray agreed 0 shunted off nto the cheap and cheerful make Ghostbusters only on condition that Video market nstud In most cases, it's the same Hollywood studio fir st finance ~ really a question not of w hether a film is Razor's Edge. Of course the malor P"'" good or bad, but hat kind of audience­ with such a project is that, d pulling power .ts Star has. A bad Clint Eastwood film wi ll always get released: a good mm starring unknowns may not. Ironically, despite the astonishing worldwlde success of Ghostbusters, its star B;II Murray is a household name only in the States, la rgely as a result of the incredibly successful Saturday Night Live TV series that also launched John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy, His 'new' movie, The Razor's Ed.e, actually made before Ghostbusters and something of a fail ure in the States (a sure-fire sign that a fil m WIll e up on video), has been deemed unOt for cinema audiences and has been conslg T hose awfully clever people ot Ross Electronics pop pickers keep their radios tuned to a single video-only release by RC A I C olumbo~ reckon they've built a better radio and even now station and only bother fiddling with the on /off In a lot of ways, though, it's an ,nt~ are waiting for the world to beat a path to their switch. Which is why Ross's knobs are on the flop, if only because it reveals the s door. The "simplistically beautiful" no radio inside. Don't touch that dia/1 Can't even find side of Bill Murray. Based on Somersl: was designed, by Brand New, on the basis of the bloody thing.T'm K if Y Maugham's novel of the fort.es, a an research which revealed that nine out of ten 4 Happy Birthday to us - this time last year we were boasting our biggest ever issue of BLITZ (64 pages) and promising great things in the future. Well this is one of them, our fifth anniversary issue, weighing in at 96 pages, and with more than a third of them in colour. Five years ago this month BLITZ had its humble beginnings as a quarterly magazine run by two students from a college room and a local payphone. BLITZ grew so rapidly in circulation and reputation, winning the Guardian/NUS Best Graphics Award in 1981, that by the Autumn of 1982 the obvious thing to do was to relaunch the magazine on a professional basis from offices in ILondon. In September 1982 BLITZ became a glossy colour magazine, and went monthly the following April. In five years, withou any financial backing, and with a staff all aged 2S or under, BLITZ has grown into an international magazine reaching more than 60,000 people all over the world. During that time we've built up a team of some of the best young journalists and photographers in the country, and, despite a slight price increase this month, at 80p BLITZ is still better value than any other similar magazine on the market. Last year we promised you great things in the future. Well we've only just started . .. "Fragrance to suit your mood .. at the touch of a switch." According to the Charles of the Ritz group, the future of the fragrance market lies in its being airborne. As if to prove it, their subsidiary company, Environmental Fragrance Technologies, are about to introduce the patented Aroma D~sc system, consisting of a 'compact Aroma Disc player diffuser' and a selection of nine Aroma Disc fragrance 'records' Hard to believe, I know, but absolutely genuine. What you do is insert a scented aroma disc in the 'player', and within a few minutes it will begin to emit clouds of perfumed smoke that will rapidly spread throughout your residence, creating the olfactory illusion that you are living in a very large toilet. At the moment the choice of odours is a little limited, with six 'country blossom perfumes', including "Imperial Blossoms' ("a complex rich floral bouquet dominated by ylang-ylang and orange flower with a rich jasmine note...") and 'Flowering Woods' ("a beautiful, romatntic, innocent fragrance ... "), as well as three 'novelty' smells - no, not 'Armpit', 'Burning Rubber', or 'Methane', as you might have hoped, but actually the grotesque 'After Dinner Mints', the smoky 'Fireplace', and the decidedly woody 'Christmas Tree'. The future possibilities for mood enhancement are endless, of course - imagine 'Pepperoni Pizza' ("... for when you're feeling peckish ... ") or 'Spliff' ("Hard day at work l Why not mellow out with a marijuana aroma disci"). The Aroma Disc system is in the shops from October 1st, priced £15.95, and the discs cost £2.95 apiece. Me, I'll stick to my Glade air freshener. ro mElwl I; I II / 5 PEOPLE =-.(!:: ... told my mother I was leaving z to make a movie. She said, 'Oh, that's nice, dear'. So I said, 'No, you don't understand: I'm leaving o to morrow morning to go and make a lit movie!u It wasn'tso much theabruptness lit ofthis announcementthat rocked Luc 8~5S0 n's mother as his very tender years. Such precocious 1.11 resolve has proved the undoing of m any a callow seventeen year-old a:a and, indeed, despite six months' diligent canvassing for scripts and badeing, Besson was no exception. U Nine years on, however, he is in London to pro mote his second ~ feature film, Subway. His break had ~ eventua lly comein the modest but significant form of two days' .... unpaid work on the set of a short film, from which he graduated to roles ofconsiderable diversity and ever-Incruslng responsibility. "I just thought it was the only t hing I coulddo. W hen I went o n a shootfor t"efirst time it was really tosee if I liked itornot. When I saw, I said 'that's what I want to do'.