Contents Thy Neighbour's Television (article by Edwin Diamond); The New Season: Promises, Promises (article by Robert Sklar); Coming: Soaps And Spin-Offs (article by Jay Eldridge); The Aesthetics Of Fright (article by Morris Dickstein); John Huston At 74: No Formulas (article/interview by Bernard Drew); Interview with Tony Bill; About Television (article by Martin Mayer; Letter From Rio (article by Mark Ginsburg); Lehman At Large (column by Ernest Lehman); Robert Breer's Animated World (article by J. Hoberman); Book Reviews: including reviews of Penelope Gilliatt's "Three Quarter Face" and Sidney Poitier's "This Life"; AFI News (regular column).

Contents COVER:

ISABELLE HUPPERT & KRIS KRISTOFFERSON


FEATURES :

MICHAEL CIMINO 's Way West - The director of The Deer Hunter has turned to the Johnson County War for a western called Heaven's Gate (Pix include Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston).

What WILL H. HAYS Begat - Fifty years of the Production Code (Pix include Mae West, Maggie McNamara, Jon Voight).
Waiting for GRETA GARBO - At seventy-five, the legend and the enigma remain.
The Non-Hollywood Hustle - For independent filmmakers, raising the money is more of a struggle than shooting the film.

GREGORY NAVA & ANNA THOMAS - They Made Their Films Their Way (Pix include Sheelagh Gilbey, William Bryan, Susannah Macmillan).

All the News That Isn't the News - Is television overplaying the news?

A Five-Year Sampler - Highlights from American Film (Pix include Faye Dunaway, John Wayne, Alec Guinness).


DEPARTMENTS:

Letters

Lehman at Large: I Can Dream, Can't I?

About Television: View From a Room In Tel Aviv

Take Two: Pagnol's Marseilles Trilogy

The Video Scene (Developments in programming & technology affecting the home viewer): A Premiere Approach / Have Video Camera, Will Travel

Books: Take Two: A Life in Movies and Politics by Philip Dunne / Moving Places by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

AFI News: Special Report - A new home for AFI-West

Periodicals.