August of 1991 was just as heavy in Terminator 2: Judgment Day coverage as it was in July, if not even more, and that heavy coverage will continue well into October!
The August 1991 issue of Prevue magazine was its first issue to feature an article/report on T2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which was smashing theaters at the time. Surprisingly, they don't really devote much space to it and the whole thing is just mostly a cut and paste job from the Press Kit, or rather, it's actually a copy/paste job of other publications' cut and paste job from a Press Kit, because they clearly didn't have one. Just like one other publication, Cinefantastique - which was James Cameron's arch nemesis and shameless basher/troll until the late 90's, it didn't even get the 'name' of the villain right, referring to the T-1000 as the Key 1000.
The other thing is, while this issue gave T2 a quick and very basic overview which was already at the time an overused basic overview of the information from the press kit, it devoted nearly half of the issue to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and the other half to The Rocketeer. If not for the latter issue of this publication, which featured great interviews with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, I would have suspected Prevue of not being very objective either. They never did give T2 an extensive coverage though, or a cover.
The photos featured in the brief article are also the most used, common ones at the time, aside from one neat rare shot of the T-1000. To summarize, the article is just a reprint of a summary of the Press Kit featured in other publications, as is the selection of photos used, and somehow they get the T-1000 'name' wrong, just like only one other publication, which had an agenda against Cameron. Suspiciously, they gave the T-1000 the same wrong name, and this mag kind of had T2 in the back and promoted just about every other movie of the time more. Was there something going on here with Prevue and Cinefantastique, or is it just baseless accusations?
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