European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse These top to us. Rentals last week according to billboard Magazine. A. A 1. A. 1 a. "1 die hard 2 lbs Fox 2 Flat liners Ria Columbia .3 Days of Thunder Paramount 4 Parkman Mca to Universal .5 Navy seals orion6 problem child Mca Universal 7 the freshman Ria Columbia .,8 Young guns ii Cbs-fox9 air America live Home video a 10 my Blue heaven Warner the following Are the top 20. Television shows in America according to the latest available figures from the a c. Nielsen co. The season to Date ranking or an Quot a Quot for first time airing is in parentheses. A a. A ,. 1 1 cheers Quot a 2 3 Roseanne. 2 2 60 minutes tie 4 6 America s funniest Home videos. 5 12 America s funniest people 5 4 a different world tie. 7 13 murder she wrote 8 23 movie a aftermath a test of love Quot. 9 15 full House 10 x premiere baby talk 11 5 the Cosby. Show a. 12 10 designing women 12 8 Murphy Brown tie. 14 11 Golden girls 15 16 family matters 16 x Davis rules a 16 8 empty nest tie 18 48 wings 19 21 major dad. 20 31 movie a hell hath no fury Quot a Paramount Jack Nicholson meets two a friendlies Ruben Blades left and Paul Dicocco or in his role As detective Jake Gittes in a the two Quot Al. A pump up the volume rated r. 1990. Ria Odum Hia Home video what happens when an adolescent takes his private neuroses Public Christian Slater answers that question in a portrayal that is Sla tingly like the Young rebellious Jack five easy pieces. Stater plays a shy teen Ager from the East who shakes up the overachieving students of an Arizona High school with his pirate radio station. While the premise smacks of the High school buggery so common to youth oriented films of late the practically one Man show deals with Many of. The problems common to today a teen agers a sex and pregnancy pressures to succeed even suicide a in a moving sometimes Pedantic always shocking fashion. The two Jakes rated a iwo Paramount Home video in this follow up to director roman Polanski a 1974 hit Chinatown Jack Nicholson reprises his role of private Eye Jake Gittus once again embroiled in a tangled web of intrigue murder. A it s now i 94s and several years have passed since Jake s tragic experience with Evelyn Mulray and her treacherous father but memories keep getting in the was a routine Snoop Job into a Wiles suspected infidelity turns deadly and a whole Arsenal of memories is touched off As. To Jakes dismay some of the same players from his haunted past Are again involved. Then it was. Water rights now its Oil. This is no Chinatown on a lot of counts. But tin its own it is a generally yell done atmosphere Complex crime dram with some Snappy dialogue. A a. State of Grace rated r. 1990. Orion Home video behind this misleadingly tranquil title is a Brt ital tale of vengeance and an Eru Tias tuning its own demise. In the remnants of the once notorious hell s Kitchen sect Ion of new1 a a York what a left of an hash mob called the West ies is trying to make new connections w Ith old enemies to stay alive. The result Ishoo div Sean Penn plays an undercover cop w to re turns to his old neighbourhood to infiltrate the was lies. He must pretend to rejoin two Hov Hood chums gang Leader Frankie Flannery de Harris and his hyper brother Jackie Gary Oldman. The reunion also heats up a Long dormant Romarico with the Flannery sister Kathleen Robin Wrigh who has moved Uptown to get away from the lot of them. The final slow motion shootout was pc dicta blk from the Start and comes off rather hollow. But Overall As a crime thriller it w works Well. Jack e. Wilkinson a United press International from the Back shelves. Near dark rated r. 1987. A simple love Story Between a Cowboy Adrian pasdur vital signs and a cowgirl Jenny Wright gets comply gated by the fact that she a a Vampire and has turned him into a Vampire a and he a not taking kindly to the idea. The film also features three stars from aliens a Lance Henriksen Bill Paxton and Jenetto Goldstein a As the cowgirl s Paxton is especially Good As the leather Clad Vampire with a mean right spur., a. A. Its not often you find a Vampire movie that fulfils All the horror requirements of blood and Gore yet still has a Good East and an interesting Story so enjoy it. A a. A Kelly Quinn a staff writer briefly noted corporate affairs rated r. Mem Pathe a Limp corporate comedy with Mary Crosby and Peter Schiari. Death warrant rated r. Mem Pathe Jean Claude Van Damme kicks and chops his Way through prison. Frankenstein unbound Roger attack of the crab monsters Corniani tackles Mary Shelley. The cast includes John Hurt Raoul Julia and Bridget Fonda. A associated press Page 16 a sunday. March 17. 199
