Premiere Magazine

Premiere magazine, one of the first entertainment news magazines to cover the inner workings of Hollywood, will fold. On Monday, Jack Kliger, chief executive of publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., announced that the April issue of the Los Angeles-based magazine would be the last print edition. Hachette plans to provide daily Hollywood news, interviews and access to video trailers through Premiere.com and Premiere Mobile.

Its stars were ruthless agents and powerful moguls, temperamental actors and megalomaniacal directors. It told stories of troubled productions and exploding box office to a readership of industry insiders, \o7cineastes\f7 and a general public that seemed riveted by it all. In its glory years -- from the late '80s to the mid-'90s -- nobody \o7got\f7 Hollywood better than Premiere magazine.

When the writers of the NBC television hit "West Wing" decided to flash back during this season's opening episode to show what C.J. Cregg, the president's press secretary, did before she came to Washington, they focused on her last day in a Hollywood public relations firm.

In the movies, action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger never needs rescuing. But at the surreal intersection of Hollywood, the media and California politics, where a star's popularity at the box office has been known to translate into success at the ballot box, it's another story. The muscular actor, who has recently been putting out tiny feelers about his prospects as a future Republican candidate for governor, has been mugged, his Hollywood friends say, by an article in the March issue of Premiere.

Premiere magazine Editor in Chief Susan Lyne has been hired as a top executive at Walt Disney Co.'s Motion Pictures Group, where she will acquire and develop material for films. Lyne, who will be based in New York, plans to buy books, screenplays and stage plays for Disney. Her formal title in the newly created job will be executive vice president in charge of acquisition and development of intellectual material and new opportunities.

Reflecting a drastic change in the editorial direction of one of the movie industry's most widely read publications, Premiere magazine's two top editors abruptly resigned Tuesday afternoon in protest after a controversial investigative story about Sylvester Stallone and Planet Hollywood was killed by the magazine's owner.

Few Americans have heard of Diesel jeans--let alone stuck their legs into a pair. At nearly $90 each--about three times the cost of Levi's--these Italian-made jeans are not found in the denim bin at Kmart. The sole department store that stocks them in New York City is Bloomingdale's. And in Los Angeles, they're sold only at a handful of chic boutiques.

No one would ever accuse the Church of Scientology of not being vigilant about its press coverage, especially when it comes to its famous Hollywood members. One of the latest cases in point was the 2,000-word response in Premiere magazine after a recent story about Scientology's ties to the entertainment industry. This was followed by the publication of a 16-page booklet dubbed "Premiere Propaganda." "Premiere's reporter was not interested in writing a fair story on the church.