European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Horvie entertainment the following Are the top 10 television shows in America according to the latest available figures from the . Nielsen co. The year to Date ranking or a Quot a Quot. For first Lime showing is in parentheses. A a a 7 7. 7 1 1 cheers . 2 2 60 minutes Csc. 3 3 Roseanne 4 x stat premiere 5 9 Murphy Brown lbs 6 8 americans funniest Home videos . 7 7 10 designing women lbs 8 12 americans funniest people 0 10 empty nest 9 4 a different world tie these were the top 10.videocassettes in . Rentals last week according to billboard Magazine. 7 a. 7.1 ghost paramount2 Pacific Heights lbs Fox 3 presumed innocent warner4 Flatt Iners Ria Columbia 5 Arachnophobia Hollywood 6 air America live 7 Parkman Mca Universal 8 White Palace Mca Universal. 9 narrow margin live Home video 10 die hard 2 lbs Fox Rocky v rated pg-13 1990. Mem a. Home video Sylvester Stallone a fifth and pc sum ably final chapter Iri the Rocky Balboa Saga finds the Champ returning to his Philadelphia roots. He a bankrupt thanks to a crooked accountant and his boxing career has apparently been ended by All those shots to the head. While a notorious promoter tries to lure him Back into the rings Rocky goes Back to work in mickeys old gym where it All started for him. ? there he takes under his Wing an aspiring Young fighter Tommy Morrison whom the press Calls a a Rocky a clone when he starts winning. But As it turns out he a not by a Long shot. He a Only in it for the Money and turns on his Benefactor the first Chance he gets. In the end Rocky reverts to his former role of the Street fighter to Settle the Issue in a bang up finale. The unlikely legend of a Small time chump who became a big time Champ has now come full Circle a sort of Quot Rocky re Dux a flashbacks increasingly invade a rattled memory and in moments of Battle there is still the spirit of the late Mickey Burgess Meredith for strength and inspiration. Rocky in his own muddled Way must also sort Chicago suburb trouble is its not a quiet place at All. The towns in the grip of a vicious drug running gang called a a the posse led by a weird voodoo embracing jamaican known As. _. Hatcher comes in retired quickly when the gang Marks him for assassination and attacks his family this is one posse that does no to get its Man As Seagall a Hatcher systematically 1 arid brutally goes far beyond evening the score. Seagal films Are popular and Slickly made but mostly Clatter and shatter needing very Little provocation to burst into Bone crunching Vio ,. In and there is plenty of that Here. Peyton plaice not rated 1957. Lbs Fox a video a Superior soap opera about scandalous a behaviour in a Small new England town based on. The once notorious novel by Grace Metalios making its Long overdue Home video debut. Norn Ina cd for nine oscars it boasts an impressive cast headed by Lana Turner Lloyd Nolan Hope Lange Arthur Kennedy Diane Varsi Russ Tamblyn Betty Field and Terry Moore and a a memorable score by Franz Vav Axman. Also return to Peyton place the 1961 follow up starring Jeff Chandler Mary Astor and Eleanor Parker and directed by Jose a a a a _ Jack e. Wilkinson a United press International Fred and Wilma Flintstone Are out on video in a 6-volume set. 7 out his relationship with his wife Talia Shire and son played by sly a own son Sage Stallone if you liked any or All of the previous four you should find this one entertaining As Well As a bit nostalgic. And while its ostensibly round done to count Rocky out yet Flintstones 30th anniversary collect lion not rated. 1991, Hanna Barbera hard to believe but the Flintstones have been Yabba Dabba doing it for 30 years. Three decades of a Fred and Wilma and Barney and Betty the Stone age la Jey moaners the first to network prime time animated series which Bill Hanna and Joe barbra kept going for six years and forever since in syndication. Now some of the Best of Bedrock can be seen in six cassette prehistoric put on from Hanna Barbera Home video. Marked for death rated r. 1990. Lbs Fox video Steven Seagall a stoic Oft spoken Pony tailed fighting machine returns to crush a gang of Caribbean crack dealers in this simplistic action gorged adventure. Seagal plays John Hatcher an undercover Dea agent so distressed Over killing a woman who was about to kill him that he decides to retire. Where better to get away from it All than his Sisters Home in a quiet the Cook the thief his wife and her Lover rated nc-17 for extreme violence casual nudity and. Basic profanity. A movie that is like no other. The Cook is a French chef who is Wise beyond his recipes. He works for Albert a sadistic criminal who surrounds his elegant dinner table with his two bit cronies. He is married to Georgina a kind arid sophisticated woman whose life is suppressed by her husband until she meets Michael. Michael is a regular customer at be hoi Laridis whose life becomes an extraordinary adventure in French cuisine when Georgina decides Michael would make a tasty dessert. With the assistance of the chef and his exotic Kitchen helpers Georgina and Michael continue their dinner time affair underneath the nose of Albert until they Are betrayed. The betrayer gets forked in the face by Albert. Georgina and Michael go into hiding until Albert tracks them. Down. Albert gets his revenge arid Georgina gets. Hers but hers is much sweeter a and tastier. The Cook the Thi filis wife and her Lover is not for children and its not for most adults. But it is for those who enjoy a bizarre and creative look at the other Side of life. It stars Helen Mir run Michael Gambon and Tim Roth. Chuck Roberts 7a staff write the misadventures of or. Wilt not rated. 1990. Vidmark entertainment was the = doll that suffered a lengthy battering at the hands of hapless or. Wilt his wife or an inflatable us Friend that a the question puzzling police who Are investigating mrs. Wilts disappearance after a party at which the Wilts had a Nasty spat. Or. Wilt was later spotted clobbering and stabbing a woman then stuffing her into a Hole at a construction site. Britons Griff Rhys Jones former pop Star Jeremy Clyde and Diana Quick brides head revisited wring much wry humor from this amusing bit of fluff. A Deedee Arrington Doke. A staff write Page 16 a sunday. April 28, 1991
