Femme Fatales Vol. 7 # 6

4 DEBRA HILL: SHE SHAPED-UP "HALLOWEEN"
The producer of sci-fi/horror entertainment (THE FOG, ESCAPE FROM L.A.) recalls her debut film, HALLOWEEN ('78). Article by Jordan R. Fox
8 SANDY KING: JOHN CARPENTER'S "VAMPIRES"
Meet the other female producer of horror films. Tough? She instigated a blood feud on the set of Carpenter's movie. Article by John Thonen
12 CRIS THOMAS PALOMINO: "VAMPIRES"
Meet the stunt woman with bite: she took a flying leap off the TITANIC & cracked her pelvis while shooting THE STAND. Article by John Thonen
14 MARJEAN HOLDEN: "VAMPIRES"
Witch, cyborg, vampire, 4-armed warrior. Off-screen, she's a stunt woman actress, role model (no drugs, no booze). Article by John Thonen
16 SHERYL LEE: "VAMPIRES"
A corpse on TWIN PEAKS, she's almost alive in Carpenter's Grand Guignol. Lee's life support is the indie industry. Article by John Thonen
18 ANITA HART: COMELY CHAMELEON & VAMP
Today, she's one of the VAMPIRES; tomorrow, she'll be Cindy Crawford. Surviving tragedy, Hart doubled-up to the A-list. Article by Laura Schiff
32 A BOMBSHELL: HER STORY
Kara Styler sizzles in sci-fi erotica, cooks as a "Safari Siren" and doesn't give a damn about typecasting. A starlet is born. Article by Craig Reid
38 CHANDRA WEST: "UNIVERSAL SOLDIER"
Cast in Parts 2 & 3 of the sci-fi shoot-'em-up, this PUPPET MASTER vet discusses action epics, stereotypes & sequels. Article by Paul Wardle
42 JAMIE LEE CURTIS: "HALLOWEEN H20"
Call it Roots: An award-winning actress, formerly branded "The Queen of Scream," talks about another HALLOWEEN. Article by Douglas Eby
50 JODI LYN O'KEEFE: "HALLOWEEN H20"
The NASH BRIDGES teen star offers her slant on horror ("the Michael Myers thing"), acting, soaps & Catholic school. Article by Douglas Eby
51 NANCY STEPHENS: "HALLOWEEN H20"
Back & smokin', she drops a clue ("maybe nobody will see") about the relationship between Nurse Marion & Dr. Loomis. Article by Douglas Eby
52 MICHELLE WILLIAMS: "HALLOWEEN H20"
Reflections of the DAWSON'S CREEK actress: Jamie Lee Curtis, horror vs. slasher films, HALLOWEEN & the dark side. Article by Douglas Eby
56 DEBI MAZAR: SPACE TRUCKER
Though cast in extravagant sci-fi pics, she's been crowned the Queen of Cult Films: would Mazar prefer to abdicate? Article by Chaunce Hayden
5 FATALE ATTRACTIONS
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EDITORIAL
11:50 AM. Diet Pepsi for Jenny, sake for me. We're both pretty steamed. See, we just screened a TV retrospect of the 100 films that the American Film Institute has gauged as "the best." Sure, we're elated with CITIZEN KANE and, most especially, dark horses like DUCK SOUP and FRANKENSTEIN. But Jen is ticked that neither Robert Altman's THREE WOMEN nor Rouben Mamoulian's ("very sensuous") DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE qualified. Me, I was incensed that neither SONS OF THE DESERT nor Brian Desmond Hurst's A CHRISTMAS CAROL — nor KISS ME DEADLY—made the cut. Midway through the broadcast, we made a beeline for the kitchen and returned to the TV to see, inexplicably, President Clinton as one of the show's hosts. We later assumed that Clinton tried to politick his faves—most likely PORKY'S and CANNONBALL RUN—into the Top Five.
1:10 AM: During the past 5 years, FF has served as a surrogate William Morris: producers often consult us for casting. The latest request is pretty routine: a Brazilian film unit needs "3 actresses, ages 19-24, for a PG-13 romance with a comic book/ fantasy background. 1 lead, 2 supporting." Demographically, the producers are appealing to the same audiences drawn to Jennifer Love Hewitt as well as this issue's HALLOWEEN H20 players, Michelle Williams and Jodi Lynn O'Keefe. But youthful readers, male and female, don't myopically cling to "teen idols": nope,
they also rhapsodize about hip fortysomethings Jamie Lee Curtis (page 42) and producer Debra Hill (page 4), whose original HALLOWEEN trailblazed a genre that trendily prospered, wore out its welcome and was later reborn and assimilated into a new generation of SCREAMers. Welcome to the crossover.
We're acclimating ourselves to a new schedule: an issue of Femme Fatales will soon bereleased every 3 weeks. I thank our writers for making this possible. One staffer, the lovely Laura Schiff, has somehow managed, only last week, to sit down with Carrie Fisher, Traci Lords, etc. for some absorbing interviews. You go, girl!
See you next month...
Bill George