Empire Issue 2

This issue was dated August 1989 and cost £1.50.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Regulars
Contents - 2 pages (6-7)

The Danny Baker Column:  - 1 page (108)

Next Month/Subscribe - 1 page (112)

Classic Scene: "I'm as mad as hell..." - Network - 1 page (114)

News
Hollywood - 2 pages (10-11) London - 2 pages (12-13) Paris - 1 page (14)
 * Reshoots for Loose Cannons and Great Balls of Fire
 * Surprise US Box Office success for Scandal and Little Vera
 * The Battle of the Blockbusters
 * Trading Places: Costner and Murray go behind the camera for their next films (Dances with Wolves, and Quick Change)
 * Is Columbia Pictures up for Sale?
 * The Krays to start shooting in September
 * Paul Webster beats Joan Collins to Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool rights
 * Clint to finish work on White Hunter Black Heart
 * Hidden Agenda bu Ken Loach
 * Suggs will appear in The Final Frame
 * Scorsese to appear as Van Gogh
 * Englebert Humperdinck makes movie debut in Chambre A Part
 * 1789 and all that

Features
Bigmouth Strikes Again - David Keeps - 2 pages (18-19)
 * America's new wave of TV and radio talk show hosts are big on putdowns and punch-ups. Morton Downey Jnr. leads the TV brigade. Alan Berg pioneered the radio version until he was shot dead by a listener in 1984. Oliver Stone's Talk Radio looks at life in the mixed-up crazy world of "emotional broadcasting".

By Royal Appointment - Wendy Bristow - 2 pages (20-21)
 * Wall-to-wall rubbernecks, the gentlemen of the paparazzi, carriages at ten. The Royal Film Premiere is now a regular fund-raising stop on the giddy court circular but what do their majesties make of the big-screen pickings set before them? Sometimes, it seems, We are distinctly Not Amused...

Video
This section only contains the reviews that aren't repeats from Empire Issue 1

Other Credits
Art Director


 * Andy Cowles

US Editor


 * Anne Thompson

Reviews


 * Philip Thomas

News


 * Angie Errigo

Editorial Assistant


 * Alison Hughes

Editorial Director


 * David Hepworth

Associate Editor


 * Wendy Bristow