BLITZ issue 93 Sept 1990 Tenth Anniversary Issue - BLITZ magazine

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SEPTEMBER 1990 No. 93 £2.00
TE H ANNIVER A V PECIA OITIO

plus THE GODFATHER PART 3 09
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THE HUMAN LEAGUE • THIERRY MUGLER IN MOSCOW
CLIVE BARKER'S NIGHTBREED

COVER: ten of the best-selling cover stars
REGULARS from the last ninety-three issues of BLITZ:
Jack Nicholson, Madonna, Alexei Sayle,
8 FRONT simon costin, bootsy coliins, theatre de complicite, vintage launch Daniel Day Lewis, Steve Martin, Robert
20 FILM new releases De Niro, Andy Warhol, Matt Dillon,
Morrissey, Boy George.
24 ADS reviews Credits: Lee Crum/Outline (Nicholson): Nick
26 ART reviews Knight (Sayle): Marcus Tomlinson (Day Lewis);
Terry O'Neill (Martin): S. Sands/Outline/Scope
30 TV reviews (De Niro); Nat Finkelstein (Warhol); Richard
34 PRINT reviews/michael herr Croft (Dillon); Russell Young (Morrissey); Paul
Gobel (George)
38 MUSIC reviews/primal scream/first offence
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130 OBSCURE OBJECTS OF DESIRE nick rhodes on dat
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66 HOT TO TROTSKY by brad branson/fritz kok
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FEATURES SUB-EDITOR Joh n Honderich
EDITORIAL SECRETARY Julia Herbert
44 ALL IN THE FAMilY the troubled mak,ing of the final part of
the godfather trilogy by peter cowie ART DIRECTOR Christophe Gowans
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50 IT'5 AliVEI clive barker's nightbreed is alive and kick,ing by john hind
58 WHO DARES WINS how will the human league fare in the altered star systems of ADVERTISEMENT MANAGIR Clive Jordan
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72 A SLICE OF LENIN the thierry mugler circus hits the streets of moscow by kim bowen
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82 INTRO how did we do it?
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84 TEN BY TEN one to ten pictured by BLITZ photographers

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96 WE ARE TEN special birthday offer

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98 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO••• ? the hits and misses of the BLITZ decade

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104 BLITZ RETRO a look back at the best of the last ten years
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exquisite corpses
At the age of 11 Simon Costin
became a member of the Natural
History Club at the Natural History
Museum and decided to specialize
In taxidermy. The rest, naturally, is
history. Using parts of dead
creatures that range from skulls
and claws to birds' wings, Costin's
visually striking work challenges
notions of taste and decency.
Making masks, brooches, head­
dresses, chandeliers, necklaces,
chokers and multifarious other
pieces 01 Jewellery and sculpture,
Costin lirst gained notoriety in 1987
when his Illcubus necklace ­
which featured vials of human
sperm - was exhibited at the Silver
jewellery shop in Piccadilly. This
raised a few eyebrows, not least of
the police, but charges against him
were eventually dropped because
the piece wasn't proved to be
graphically obscene.
Despite having no formal train­
ing Costin first exhibited his gilded
fishheads and skull brooches in
1986. Thiswas followed last year by
'Curiouser and Curiouser' at the
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, which
featured boxes of stuffed animals
enacting strange, anthropomorphic
scenes. This year has seen 'Love,
Letters and Taxidermy', an exhibi­
tion of jewellery, someof which was
designed lor the genitals, at the
Royal Festival Hall.
Further afield, his work is
currently on show in Los Angeles at
the Security Pacific Gallery and
next summer will be exhibited at the
Pace/MaCGUI Gallery, New York.
Most exciting of all is a project
pencilled in for Spring 1992 at
Hamiltons Gallery, Wl, which will
soe Costin's work pictured by
twenty photographers, including
Herb Ritts and Nick Knight.
Pho ography Wilde and Behrendt
Jewellery Simon Costin
Fashion and make-up Sascha
Hair Ozzle at Carol Hayes
Model Tara at Take Two
R 'R I I T 7
thrush (stand-in for m~lt1tlng.tleJ
theatre de complicite
Numbering Kafka, Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers as
major influences, mime group Theatre de Complicite are a
universe away from the usual Marcel Marceau-type image
kiss lOOfm of their craft. Formed in Paris in 1983, they've created a
unique physical style which embraces tragedy and comedy,
can work with any number of performers and attempts to
Launching on September 1st, KISS 100 FM
demolish barriers of language.
finally goairborne after the prolonged agonies Their latest show, Help! I'm Alive, carries the company's
stylistic stamp yet marks a new departure. As ever, the
of their birth. Playing quality music aimed at
company work within the conventions of the commedia
the feet, the station should find dell'Arte, the theatrical style where emotion is expressed by
its popularity boosted by the the outsized actions of archetypal characters in ridiculous
situations. "The Commedia stories have a universality;
current boom in dance music. In
they're about people who are poor, who are hungry, who
celebration of the station's want sex," says Simon
launch, Paul Smith has produced McBurney, founder member
of Complicite and one ofthe
a limited edition of 100 T-shirts.
show's directors. "They're
We have ten to give away. To win things that will always be
part of life."
one send a postcard naming your
The story - based on a
Top Ten dance tracks of all time. text by Ruzzante - has
Answers must reach us by been uprooted from its
original Venetian setting
September13th addressed to KISS
and replanted in contem­
100 FM, BLITZ MAGAZINE, 40-44 porary London, where a
woman has been kid­
NEWMAN STREET, LONDON W1P 3PA.
napped by an old, rich, ugly
Thefirstten entries out ofthe hat
American. Herviolentltalian husband follows her, facing the
on that date win. MUlltiple humiliation of being a lower-class immigrant. She faces the
The Paul Smith/Kiss 100 FM T-shirt entries will be disqualified. choice of returning to his wife-beating clutches orstaying in
a country where she too is an alien. The production is the
brainchild of co-founder Marcello Magni, who plays the
husband. "Our main aim in rehearsal has been to make it
visual," he says. "The prologue is spoken in Greek. I describe
huxley revisited my journey to London in Italian. Lilo Baur, who plays my
wife, sometimes speaks in Swiss German and sometimes in
French. But it's much more about images than actual text."
'Brave New Worlds The Those images, like much of Complicite's previous work,
Rebellious Generation' is an are at once funny and grotesque. They are a company who
thrive on crowding the stage with loathsome, ludicrous
exhibition looking at the work of
gargoyles. Their last text-based show, Friedrich
artists, writers and composers
Ourrenmatt's The Visit in 1988, was a stark black comedy in
FRONT active between 1945 and 1968. Re­ which a crippled millionairess bled dry the town which cast
assessing the period that produced her out when young, insisting that the townsfolk murder
the angry young men of Britain and the middle-aged shopkeeper who had caused her
the American Beats will be Richard pregnancy and dishonour.
"It's comedy with monstrous jokes about being human,"
Rogers, Bridget Riley and Sir
says McBurney. "There's a feeling today that profound or
Stephen Spender, who get together
good theatre has to be
for aspecial roundtable discussion.
boring, but Commedia pre­
Amust tor revisionists. sents a massive image of life
at its most grotesque and
'Brave New Worlds' is at the urgent." It also ties in with
South 'Bank Centre Londo" SE1, Complicite's belief that
theatre must be physical,
Blue InteriorWith Dice September 7th - November 5th
partly to transcend reliance
by Cerl Richards
on language, and partly to
celebrate its existence as a
live art form. "In the
theatre, if an actor farts, the
audience are going to smell
it. In Commedia, wedrawon
those things happening."
NICK CURTIS
Help! I'm Alive arrives at
london's Almeida Theatre in
December, after an interna­
tional tour including Mexico and
Brazil.
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