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March-April 1985

Feature

1985 Oscars Predictions by Film Comment
The Hollywood Novel by Terry Curtis Fox
Bloodlines: Analyzing Blood Simple by Hal Hinson
Hot to Globetrot by Marc Mancini
The Sleaze Factor by Jack Barth
Fanzine Favorites: 4 Ten Worst Best Bets by Billy Landis, Jimmy McDonough, Jim Morton, Rick Sullivan, and Michael Weldon
It Is, Too, Good: The Cotton Club by Richard T. Jameson
I Witness, Eye Confess by Marcia Pally
Tenth Annual Grosses Gloss by Gregg Kilday

Column

Journals: Rio de Janeiro by Dan Yakir
Television: Miami Vice by Richard T. Jameson
Industry: The Woman from Peking by Dan Yakir
Orbits: Sam Peckinpah by Kathleen Murphy
Independents: The Inheritors by Marcia Pally

Interview

Coen Brothers by Hal Hinson
William Kennedy by David Thomson

Midsection

Class of 1985: Tuesday’s Sisters by David Thomson
Karen Allen by Kenneth Turan
Rosanna Arquette by Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese
Ellen Barkin by Owen Gleiberman
Rae Dawn Chong by Carrie Rickey
Sandra Bernhard by David Thomson
Jamie Lee Curtis by Dave Kehr
Daryl Hannah by Harlan Jacobson
Amy Madigan by Michael Sragow
Lonnette McKee by Elvis Mitchell
Michelle Pfeiffer by Richard Corliss
Amanda Plummer by David Chute
Martha Quinn by Jack Barth
Theresa Russell by Jack Matthews
Susan Sarandon by Stephen Kessler
Ally Sheedy by Richard Gehr
Kathleen Turner by Richard Schickel
Sigourney Weaver by Peter Rainer
Dianne Wiest by Christopher Durang
JoBeth Williams by Michael Sragow
Debra Winger by Jonathan Benair

Department

Index to Volume 20, 1984 by Linda Batty
Back Page: Quiz #12 by Film Comment
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