Blitz Magazine Issue 51 from March 1987
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MARCH 1987 No.51 £1.10 Raymond Carver Gang Warfare Rupert Everett The Snap Pack Paul Morley on TV Oliver Reed Cybill Shepherd Peter Cook 4 Front: What's Happening 4 Dennis Hopper, Films On Four 6 Isadora Duncan, The Model Gallery 8 Marilyn Monroe, McDonald's, London Daily News 10 Condom Wars, Wranglers 40th Anniversary 12 Lost in America 14 Print 14 Ramsey Campbell, Paperback Choice 15 New Fiction, New Non-fiction 16 Film 16 New Releases 18 On 'Release Cover star Rupert 22 Television Everett, film actor 22 Paul Morley on The Box soon to turn pop 23 Video Reviews singer. 24 Music BLITZ MAGAZINE 24 The Bodines I LOWER JAMES STREET 26 Album Reviews, New Product LONDON WI R 3PN 28 Dancefloor Tel: (01) 734 nil 30 Oliver Reed: another drink, another film, by Mark Brennan PUBLISHER Carey Labovitch 34 Fashion: what a catastrophe MANAGING EDITOR Simon Tesler EDITOR Tim Hulse 40 La Vida Loca: gang warfare in the FASHION EDITOR Iain R. Webb LA barrio, by Laura Whitcomb DESIGNER Jeremy Leslie 46 Fashion: y viva espagna ADVERTISING MANAGER Cherry Austin 48 Rupert Everett: on becoming a GENERAL ASSISTANT Sarah Currie popstar, by Fiona Russell Powell FASHION ASSISTANT Darryl Black 54 Whaling: bloodsport in the Faroe CONTRIBUTORS Fenton Bailey, Tony Islands, by Steve James Barratt, Martine Baronti, Robin Barton, Mark Bayley, Malcolm Bennett, Mark 56 Cybill Shepherd: the fall and rise of Brennan, Peter Brown, Gillian Campbell, Mark Cordery, Richard Croft, Andy Darling, Bruce Dessau, Steve Double, Simon Garfield, Richard Grant, John Hind, David a Moonlighting star, by Hil lmy Hiscock, Philip Hoare, Mark Honigsbaum, Caroline Houghton, Aidan Hughes, Marc Johnson Issue, Steve James, Dave Kendall, Jeremy Lewis, Mark Lewis, Judy Lipsey, Elise 62 Fashion: the newest romantic of all Maiberger. Paul Mathur, Dave McCullough. lain McKell, Hugh Morley, Paul Morley, Peter Moss, Robert Ogilvie, Ian Parker, Simon Potter, Liz Radley, Tim Richmond, Martin 70 Peter Cook: a long way beyond the Shaw, William Shaw, Jim Shelley. Julian Simmonds, Steve Speller, Marcus Tomlinson, fringe, by John Hind Jonh Wilde, Liam Woon, Russell Young. 74 The Snap Pack: life with the NEXT ISSUE OUT MARCH 16th paparazzi, by Hugh Morley 78 Fashion: black power ISSN 0263·2543 84 Raymond Carver: the sudden est ADVERTISING BLITZ sales: (01) 734 8311 fiction writer of them all, by Jonh Wilde FRONT COVER Photograph by Russell Young. Make-up by Pat Hay Hair by Derek represented by Smile Management 88 People 88 Spike Lee BLITZ MAGAZINE is published twelve times a year by Jigsaw Publications Ltd. Reproduction of editorial and pictorial content in whole or In 89 Tom Dixon part is strictly prohibited without written permission of the publisher-ii. Unsolicited material 90 Timothy Spall must be accompanied by iii. stamped addressed envelope if it is to be returned. Jigsaw Publications cannot accept any responsibility for unsolicited material damaged or lost in the 93 Brute! gratuitous sex & violence post. All rights reserved ~' 1987 Jigsaw Publlcationl' Ltd. Printed in Gre"at Britain by QB Ltd., Colchester, Essex. Litho photographic reproduction by Saturn Reprographics. Stevenage. 94 Customer Service: subscriptions & Heru. Phototypesetting by Fraser Hamilton Associates, Lundon WI. Distributed by Quadrant Publishing Services Ltd., Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey. Tel: (01) 6436800 back issues B LIT Z ~ ..'-i "":l.) c ~ I:: ... rIJ j ....... rIJ "" ~ c :; "'0 I:: 0 Co) ........ t: ""0.. ~c.. rIJ ~ z~ ~ ~ z~ > ....... W iF. "'0 ...I c:l a: -c 0 0 Cl I: ;;Col ........ I: ~ 0 Edited by Hugh Morley ~ :) 0 " ::; I: 1:1 >. .. > - CO '"'~ ~ 0 w I 0 w Best-known as a maverick filmmaker and off-beat actor, Dennis Hopper was also something of a dab hand with a still camera. In the days before Easy Rider, he photographed many of the emerging stars of the New York and Hollywood 'scene' - actors, artists and musicians. amongst them Hockney. Jasper Johns. Warhol. James Brown, Ike and Tina, Paul Newman. the Fondas and others. A selection of the photographs are ro be found in the pricey but handsomely packaged Dennis Hopper: Out Of The Sixties (Twelve trees Press). Also available in the Twelvetrees imprint is a beautiful collection of portraits by Alice Springs (wife of Helmut Newton). including studies of Newton himself. Charlotte Rampling. Catherine Deneuve. Anjelica Huston and others. Both books are available from good photographic bookshops at around the £30 mark. or mail-order from GMP. PO Box 247. London N 15 6RW. PETER FONDA PHOTOGRAPHED BY DENNIS HOPPER. Films A-Z On Of Four C&W The current Film On Four season on Thursday evenings, pulling together the As the Country Music revival continues apace, Hank Wangford likes of Letter To Breshnev, My Beautiful Launarette, Company Of Wolves, provides his own personal vision of the genre with a new five-part Another Country, Cal and series, The A To Z Of C&W (Channel 4, Sundays from February Insignificance, provides an undeniable 22nd). Filmed predominantly in Nashville, the series mixes classic testament to Channel 4's commitment clips of the likes of George Jones, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cl ine and to quality, low budget films. All were financed in varying degrees by the Merle Haggard with interviews with Conway Twitty, Dw ight channel, in the process giving writers Yoakam, Loretta lynn and others. Meanwhile back in Harlesden, and directors of the calibre of Neil Hank is joined Jordan, David Leland, Alan Bleasdale onstage by Vassar and Marek Kanievska their first break Clements and on celluloid. A bedrock principle at the Gatemouth Brown, channel's inception, their involvement not forgetting t he in theatre releasing has enabled them appearance of to avoid the union difficuWes which STEPHEN POLIAKOFF'S HIDDEN CITY. contemporary prevent the BBC from releasing the finer moments in their Screen Two series and to pre-empt the three year gap afficionados Billy normally required between screen release and TV showing. Future Channel 4 Bragg and Ji mmy productions number among them Sommerv ille . Stephen Poliakoffs first Wangford himself writer/director role with Hidden City, has a new EP out in a thriller set underneath London; March, the neatly Maurice, Merchant/Ivory follow-up to titled Co wboys Stay Room With A View based on EM On Longer. Forster's novel of the same name; Good Morning Babylon, which follows two Italian brothers who leave their hometown for the States to appear in a film by directing genius OW Griffiths, wr,itten and directed by the Italian Tavianni brothers of Padre, Padrone fame; and The Belly OfAn Architect, Peter Greenaway's typically idiosyncratic follow-up to A Zed And Two Noughts, which tortuously llinks an exhibition of the work of architect Etienne Boulay with an expectant girl and her boyfriend's sympathetic pregnancy (work that one out). Others include Maschenka, pased on the Nabokov novel about two Russian refugees in Berlin; Ken Loache's Fatherland about the life of an East German ex-border guard turned songwriter; and Pi Chich Leorng's Ping GARY OLDMAN AND ALFRED MOLINA Pong based in London's Chinese IN STEPHEN FREARS' PRICK UP YOUR community. Most eagerly awaited of EARS. all, however, is almost certainly Stephen Frears' treatment of John Lahr's biography of Joe Orton, Prick Apparently the fourth most Up Your Ears, with a screenplay by popular game in its mother Alan Bennett and Gary Oldman in the country of Australia, Indoor lead role. Cricket is now staking its claim over here with the launch of the first British National Indoor Cricket League. Sponsored by Fosters to the tune of 000,000 over 3 years, the league numbers 17 teams competing toward, a grand final on April 12th with a prize of 0,000. The game looks like a cross between squash, soft ball and cricke t , though according to Fosters' Ian Spinney, the beauty is that "it's a separate sport in itself - 80 per cent of those who play aren't fans of traditional cricket." Every member of the eight-man team bowls two overs and each pair bats fou . while the 'pitch', a netting enclosure not much bigger tha.ll your average wicket, ensures that all fielders are intensely involved. Played with a ball only marginally more offe nSive than a tennis ball, the game requires no protective gear and COMPETITION WINNERS is much faster than your average village-green knockabout The sport has also proved easy to pick up. " O ne of the guys in our team has only been playing two months," I\l e:! The five winners of the Fa.shion Aid Video competition in the January issue of BLITZ are: Ackerman, captain of Hounslow CBC, told me after his Stuart Roberts, Nottingham; Colin Jenkins, Newmarket; Robert Dzikowski, Edinburgh; Judith team had demolished Tottenham ICS by 12 6 poims [0 28 , Scott, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Samantha McAllen, London SW5.. The prizes will be posted, the first game of the season. However, time al o ne w ill tell ,f the masses give a XXX X for the sport. B LIT Z Love Isadora Around Speaks The World The Macusian Indians of Guinea sew their Recently republished in paperback, Isadora Speaks (City Lights Books, £4.95) men up in hammocks full of fire-ants to is a collection of the writings and sayings of Isadora Duncan, the greatest discover which make the best husbands (the American dancer of the century, who died sixty years ago in her lover's longer the endurance, the better the Bugatti, her neck savagely snapped by the trailing silk scarf caught in its spouse). The Cubeo Indians of Columbia spokes. Just two years before, she had written, "I had always believed that my compel a young boy to have his first sexual end would come in a motor accident." experience with his mother.