Femme Fatales Vol. 6 # 5

4 CLOSE-UP: JUDY DAVIS' NAKED LUNCH
Serious talk with an Oscar-nominated "extremist," whose directors include Cronenberg, Eastwood and Allen. / Article by Laura Schiff
5 FATALE ATTRACTIONS
8 MILLA JOVOVICH: FROM SOFTCORE TO SF
Back in '91, she was a sarong-clad model: this year, she's 5TH ELEMENT's comeback kid. /Article by Sue Feinberg & Judd Hollander
12 JULIANNE MOORE: DINO DESTROYER
The raptorous femme recounts last summer's LOST WORLD, and her steamy role as an X-film celebrity. / Article by Chuck Wagner
16 SPAWNIN' A NEW BREED OF FEMME FATALE
Xena's nemesis has wielded a KILLER TONGUE, played a dead S&M addict and scorched SPAWN. /Article by James Van Hise
20 "SPAWN": THERESA RANDLE
The Spike Lee vet makes her s-f debut via this year's sleeper; she's Clown's pawn & Spawn's soul mate. / Article by James Van Hise
24 PRE-"SPAWN": DELECTABLY "DEAD" PART 3
Directed by RE-ANIMATOR's producer, Melinda Clarke, SPAWN siren—juiced the genre as a dead Juliet. / Article by Steve Biodrowski
28 "POLTERGEIST" STAR TURNS DIRECTOR
Helen Shaver, star of the series, reaches for Outer Limits; applying a female imprimatur to erotic scenes. / Article by Dan Scapperotti
32 DIRECTOR BRIAN YUZNA: RE-ANIMATED
More lust and Lovecraft: his films are about very scary sex...and sample the stuff strewn on his cutting room floor. /Article by Craig Reid
42 TOP 10 FEMMES: SALUTE TO THE 50's & 60's
Fuming over our sexiest surveys, the Emperor of Exploitation lists his faves—and each qualifies for two reasons. /Article by Jim Wynorski
48 MOVE OVER, JESSICA RABBIT
Meet the femme fatale who toons-up SPICY CITY, an HBO series touted as Ralph Bakshi's return "trip." / Article by Patrick Legare
50 CANADA'S S-F SIREN: HEIDI VON PALLESKE
Helmed by the likes of Cronenberg, her roles include galaxy goddess, supermom and a couple of S&M sovereigns. /Article by Gary iGmber
54 EILEEN DALY'S "RAZOR BLADE SMILE"
Cast as a bisexual vampire, the British actress/libertine professes a fondness for "big women & horror films." / Article by Tim Greaves
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EDITORIAL NOTE
Assembling each issue of a magazine is akin to editing a movie; there's "outtakes"—i.e. articles and photo spreads that didn't make the final cut. Here's a couple that I swept from the cutting room floor—if you dig Japanese anime, visit that genre's living embodiment, Apollo Smile (http://apolloites.org). By the way, I appreciate 99.9% of the e-mail; your suggestions are very welcome and we try to delegate staffers to comply with personal requests. But the organization that identifies itself as TARBA? Enough already! Stop asking the same question, 'Who's stronger, Batman or Tarzan?" How the hell would I know? Get a life.
Well, it's 2:20 AM. Upon wrapping this issue, three hours ago, yours truly and editor Bill George embarked on our monthly voyage to Nichi Bei Kai. Bill slugged down a couple belts of sake. Me, I'm a Diet Pepsi person. We debated. Should we relocate Femme Fatales to L.A. in the fall?—or early '98? (our home office is in Baltimore, "the city that reads"—right. The regional literati have approved MacDonald's comic books as remedial education. Learn to read the Nike billboards and you instantly earn a diploma). Baltimore used to be a happenin' town for sci-fi & fantasy, but the passing of Rick Neff concluded that era; now all that's left are forgotten armchair relics (like Blottoman...the blimp and the ventriloquist dummy that she masquerades as the Singing Nun...the Son of Cochise). Yep, time for Bill and me to roll.
And here's my message for critics who have persecuted Mick Garris for his miniseries, THE SHINING: get bent. Garris' vision was superior to Stanley Kubrick's narcissistic ode to inertia (but thanks, Stan—whenever I need the sleep, I'll pop your version into the VCR). And, yes, I loved Stephen King's sentimental epilogue to the teleplay; so crucify me. Furthermore, King, Garris & actress Rebecca De Mornay turned 'Wendy Torrance" from a distaff Barney Fife (Kubrick's version) into a role model.
Back to work, Danny Scap just interviewed Angie Dickinson who, at 66, still has legs—like you wouldn't believe!
Jennifer Huss