European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse were the top 10 videocassettes in . Rentals last week according to billboard Magazine. 1 another 48 mrs paramount.2 total recall Carol co Home video.3. Bird on a wire Mca Universal. 4 the Hunt Lor red october Paramount 5 pretty woman Touchstone. 6 Back to the future Iii Mca-Universal.7 Cadillac Man Orion Home video.8 Rob Ocop 2 Orion Home video. 9 gremlins 2 the new Batch Warner Home video. A a 10 Betsy a wedding Touchstone the top 10 videos sales were a 1 pretty woman 2 total recall Carol co Home video. 3 Peter pan Disney 4 teenage mutant ninja turtles the Quot movie family. 5 the Little Mermaid Disney. 6 All dogs go to heaven Mem a. 7 the sound of music lbs Fox. 8 Madonna the immaculate collection Warner. 9 Madonna justify my love Warner. 10 Star wars trilogy lbs Fox video. The top 10 children s video sales were 1 Peter pan Disney. 2 the Little Mermaid Disney. 3 All dogs go to heaven Mem a. 4 Jet sons the movie Mca Universal. 5 Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer family. A a 6 How the Grinch stole Christmas Mem a. 7 Bambi Disney.8 frosty the snowman family. 9 Cinderella Disney.10 Santa Claus is coming to town family. Mon better blues rated r. Spike Leeds iat est about a talented jazz trumpet player Denzel Washington willing to sacrifice every relationship to his music is by turns seductive engaging and finally maddening. It becomes almost a guide to writer director producer Leeds strengths and weaknesses today after four feature films. He a still exercising his own visual brashness but his writing has always been his weak spot made Clear v Here. Eleanor Ringel a Cox news service Rainbow drive rated r. All the familiar ingredients Are there mass murder High level coverup crooked cops and one Tough cookie who wont be warned or scared off a and they re mixed rather Well in this engrossing crime thriller based on a Roderick Thorp novel. Peter Weller without his Rob Ocop Armor plays Mike Gallagher the no nonsense homicide chief who stumbles onto the brutal slaying of five people in a quiet residential neighbourhood. Other cops arrive sooner than they should one of the bodies vanishes and Gallagher is ordered by higher to stay off the Case. When he refuses his partner is killed and he himself becomes a target. Naturally. However that seems of with Gallagher who takes on the bad Guys on their own turf and As you might guess they re no match for mad Mike. 1990. Vid Mark entertainment a Jacke. Wilkinson United press International a Cannon a Delta Force 2�?� is Chuck Norris a latest. Virgin High rated r. Traci Dali gets yelled at by her dad for coming Home from a Date with All the buttons on her Blouse missing. Her. Punish mint is a Fate worse than death a she a Catholic school. The rest of the movie is about How her Boyfriend Richard Gabai dresses up like a priest and infiltrates the Academy of the blessed Virgin while also directing and producing this movie from his own screenplay. Features eight breasts toilet jokes and a gratuitous Elvis Impersonator. A two Star drive in film. Joe Bob Briggs j a creators Syndicate the freshman rated pm. Marlon Brando is wonderful doing a sly parody of his Vito Corleone from the godfather. Matthew Broderick is a York University film student who gets mixed up with the mob. Uneven but some major laughs. A los Angeles times the Lemon Sisters rated pg-i3. Diane Keaton Carol Kane and Kathryn Grody play lifelong friends who Harbor a vague shapeless desire to become a nightclub singing act in Atlantic City but something keeps getting in the Way. The movie As a whole also is a bit vague and shapeless As it focuses on the various problems befalling the Trio individually and As a team on an impossible quest. It does have a few sparkling moments mostly generated by Keaton a Flaky Eloise whose it museum like Home is packed with cats nude statues and a pile of Vintage to Memorabilia. 1990. Hob video by Jack e. Wilkinson a United press International Delta Force 2 operation stranglehold rated r. When a Rich sadistic drug lord kidnaps three Dea agents and spirits them away to his South american stronghold its up to that super secret super fierce commando unit Delta Force to retrieve them. Chuck Norris is Back As Scott a Mccoy Delta forces unflappable unbeatable Boss and they carry out their wreck and Rescue Job in predictable overkill fashion. Norris plays his usual Low key High kick hero in an escapist done to think about it a movie action piece that As such is not bad at All. And Billy Drago who Kevin Costner threw off the roof in a the untouchables a a makes a nifty Slimy villain. 1990. Media Home entertainment Jack e. Wilkinson a United press International a a a v. ,.a. A Young guns ii rated pg-13. Forget Young guns Ever existed. This sequel is so vastly Superior it deserves a whole new title. In the further adventures of Billy the kid Emilio Esteve we learn How his former Saddle mate Pat Garrett William Petersen became the Man most Likely to kill him. Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips Are Back joined by Christian Slater hilarious As a showy killer and Alan Ruck touching As a quiet Farmer. New Sealander Geoff Murphy director of the remarkable the quiet Earth has an outsiders appreciation for the slap leather traditions of our Frontier myth. In his capable hands the formulaic becomes vivid. There Are some lapses Phillips still ludicrous Indian mysticism but Overall \ Oung guns ii is gangbusters. And Estevez is just extraordinary As the gun crazy cow Punk. He a a cocky Glamor boy on a dead end Star trip As tantalizing As he is dangerous. 1990. Eleanor Ringel. A Cox news service Page 6 c to plus sunday january 13. 19g1back Home super bowls a super ads Michael Levi new York times v when the super bowl Breaks for halftime two weeks from today Walt Disney world arid coca cola will take the Field with a 12-minute commercial show featuring new kids on the Block and thousands of sing. Ing and dancing children. And throughout the game television viewers will be bombarded with 28 minutes of network commercials. When the game ends the most valuable player will be Given a Buick part of a frenzy of product tie ins involving everything from computers to Beer. And super bowl is expected to be the most popular show on television this year seen by More than 100 million people in the United. States and hundreds of millions More abroad. The super bowls drawing Power seems unshakeable despite the soaring Cost of commercials a about $800,000 for a 30-Sccond spot from $275,000 10 years ago. Products like . Gears catapult shoes and Nike a air 180 will be introduced in super bowl commercials. And plenty of familiar brands will be Back. Budweiser and its sister Brand Bud Lite will fight it out for their own championship title in Bud bowl Iii. Apple computer inc. Is credited with raising super to its showcase status when it created the futuristic �?o1984�?� commercial fur the game that year. 1 a a the provocative and involving a sledgehammer wielding woman which introduced the company a line of macintosh computers left the viewing Audi enc gaping and burnished the macintosh name in the minds of millions. Since then commercials seen during the game have grown steadily More elaborate and expensive a often to no Avail says the ads creator copy writer Steve Hayden. A vast millions have been wasted since the �?T1984�?T commercial a said Hayden. A for this to work you have to have some astounding news that will Stop the world in its tracks. You can to just have Shock Hayden said the same and Agency Chiat Day Learned that lesson a year later when it created the grim a a lemmings commercial for the 1985 super bowl. This one showed blindfolded executives marching off the Side of a Cliff. One Man saved himself by lifting his Blindfold As the commercial announced the concept of the macintosh office. The problem Apple was not marketing any new macintosh equipment to fill office. While it wanted viewers to think about the existing computer in a new setting it instead created a demand for a More advanced Model that it did not have. A a a lemmings became a focus of dealer anger at not having a new product a Hayden said Dure in the in business. But this tune the series creators were seeking the opinions of a usually ignored group people with disabilities. The episode of Winou a drama about employ pcs at a struggling to station involved grandma thirty Weatherman Floyd Graham played by Dick Van Patten who is going Blind. And a High Quot by vocal audience w Ith a wide Range of disabilities offered an equally wide Range of reactions to the Way his new blindness is handled on screen. The audience included not Only the Blind but deaf people people in wheelchairs and those faced with such challenges As stuttering. The episodes were shown with closed captions for deaf viewers and for the Blind Asell biology called descriptive video service involving headsets in which a voice provides description of key visual elements Between the blocks of dialogue. Kathryn Pratt an exc Cut Ive producer of Winou who once worked in to news said the character was inspired by two weathermen she met during her career one who Learned to compensate for failing hearing and another who was taken off the air because he was getting old a but was reinstated by a massive write in Campaign. J Diane Haithman a. A los Angeles times Anthony Denison and Linda Purl Star in Abc screening for the Blind last week in Hollywood the producers of Winou screened two episodes of the lbs drama for an audience to its reaction a Standard proc new series gets a mixed review the new Abc series undercover which premiered last week has All kinds of Promise written and produced by the team that created China Beach it has four Strong Lead actors in Linda Purl Anthony John Denison John Rhys Davics and Josef Sommer. It is also built around Ari interesting concept the real lives of people who work for the Cia. ,. The big problems in the shows two hour Pilot Are unevenness and implausibility. Undercover is at its worst w Hen it goes for Mission impossible and comes up somewhere around macgyver on the tick tick tick suspense scale. When its smart a As in the scene where the. Characters sing a stand by me a its very smart. When its dumb a As when Purl climbs along the ledge of a building in Yalta to Bug the hotel room of the bad Guys a its very dumb. David Zurawik a a Baltimore Sun Nielsen what they re watching the following Are the latest available rank Ings. Showing the top 5 0 television shows in America As compiled by he a. Nielsen co. The season to Dale ranking or an Quot a a for first time airing is in parentheses. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 9. 9. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 29. 31. 32. 32. 34. 35. 35. 37. 37. 39. 40. 41. 41. 43. 44. 45. 46. 46. 48. 48. 50. 1 cheers 2 60 minutes x Blossom. 4 the Cosby show 30 Rescue 911 10 murder she wrote. 9 the Golden girls x Orange bowl Colorado is. Notre dame6 empty nest 69 wings tie 8 americans funniest Home videos tie 12 americans funniest people ,. 13 unsolved mysteries 36lmovie a her wicked ways 20rfamily matters 18 full House. 35 movie Quot bump in the night 23 . Law 32 Carol amp company 17 Doogie Howser 33 movie Quot Dillinger Quot a. A 28 knots Landing 33 movie Quot Case of the ruthless. Reporter Quot x nil monday night football rams is. Saints 22 growing pains _ 38 Jake and the Fatman x Story behind the Story 27 wonder years 47 dear John 39 perfect strangers tie x night court special. 40 20-20 44 married. With children tie 43 Hunter 44 guns of Paradise 40 married people tie 63 night court x Orange bowl pre Garne tie 13 Murphy Brown 53 Dallas 10 designing women 28 Simpsons tie x sons and daughters 60 father Dowling mysteries x movie Quot ghost Osters Quot 60 Fanelli boys Quot y 78 48 hours tie 60 amen. 53 going pianos tie 59 wino january 13, 1991 sunday to plus c
