Cinefantastique gave very little coverage for Terminator 2: Judgment Day other than the unprofessional, out of the blue hateful trolling they kept giving the movie before it was released, claiming it's going to be a terrible, mindless flop. Of course, reasons behind it are that they screwed over Cameron in the mid 80's and since then they were always refused interviews and any press material from Cameron films.
I suppose in this December, 1991 issue, they either gave up as they had no choice seeing what a success T2 became, and that they were looking foolish for having it bashed so hatefully and unprofessionally before its release, or they fired the chief Cameron hater, Frederick Clarke for making them look stupid - all the magazines, and especially sci-fi mags were giving full covers and special issues on T2 all over the globe, while they had virtually no coverage at all other than their trolling. They also stopped calling the T-1000 a "Key 1000"
In here though, for whichever the reason, they did turn around and there isn't a hint of malevolence or meanness. Since nobody from T2 wanted to talk to them, they only managed to get one of the Lightstorm Entertainment presidents, Larry Kasanoff who kindly give them his time for a page and a half interview.
Kasanoff talks about the reasons behind the record breaking budget for T2 at the time, about the new formed company with Jim Cameron, meeting Jim and the involvement of Gale Anne Hurd as an executive producer in the movie which he does not to go into much detail about other than confirming her involvement in some capacity.
An insert on the second page talks about omitted and deleted scenes from the film. It's basically a summary of most of the deleted scenes which they definitely read about in the Illustrated Screenplay book, because since they weren't given any press material, they clearly printed pics from that book in this article
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