European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment the lop 10 videocassette rentals based on billboards Survey of retail rentals 1 misery Nelson Home entertainment 2 Good fellas Warner Home video 3 Edward scissor hands Fox video 4 kindergarten cop Mca Universal Home video5 reversal of Fortune Warner Home video a 6 Green card Touchstone Home video 7 look who stalking too Ria Columbia pictures Home video 8 la Story Ria Columbia pictures Homes video 9 postcards from the Edge Ria Columbia pictures Home video the drifters Hob video the top 10 to shows in America for july 29-aug. 4, according to the . Nielsen co year to Dale ranking or an x for first Lime showing is in parentheses 1 4 Roseann 2 2 60 minutes cbs3 15 coach 4 7 designing women lbs 5 10 unsolved mysteries 6 6 Murphy Brown lbs 7 1 cheers nbc8 31 20-20 9 44 Northern exposure lbs 10 14 murder she wrote lbs Warnar bros., inc. New Jack City otters from left Russell Wong Mario Van Peebles Judd Nelson and let. Nil i a \ ii w s teenage mutant ninja turtles ii the secret of the ooze. Rated pm. I99l. New line. If anyone had told me five years ago that four teen age Man size ninja turtles would be the most popular four legged celebrities since Lassie i would have laughed in your bodacious proboscis. But Fate smiled on Donatello Leonardo Michelangelo and Raphael. The Side kicking somersault ing smart mouthed turtles have found phenomenal Success in comic books on saturday morning television the big screen and video. Beginning in March i990, the first teenage mutant ninja turtles movie made Money hand Over Fin. This March teenage mutant ninja turtles h the secret of the ooze took a Back seat to the original in Content and dollars. In its favor video renters and buyers will Nolice that the secret of the ooze does not have the Ocean of product endorsements that marred the first film. Bui it does no to cover any ground the fearless foursome Haven to covered a zillion times previously. The pizza popping amphibians show their ninja prowess when a Street gang gets control of a Slimy toxic waste that mutates Small critters into awesome behemoths. The secret is keeping the Green stuff out of the wrong hands. Gee i wonder if Don Leo Mike and Ralph will live to ooze another Day a and do another sequel Only splinter knows for sure. Max Mcqueen Cox news service awakenings. Rated pg-i3. 1990. Ria Coluni Bia. In a deep trance since childhood Leonard Lowe Robert de Niro and other victims of encephalitis it Hartica Are revived by the drug a Dopa and the ministrations of or. Malcolm Sayer Robin Williams. Penny Marshall bases her film on the real life awakenings of such patients As related in a Book by or. Oliver sacks. While the de Niro and Wil hums performances affecting the adaptation sentiment Alizes its Story and oversimplifies it beyond recognition. Janet Maslin the new York times new Jack City. Rated r. 1991. Warner Home video. A Gritty Street smart gangster movie that works Well on its own terms a violence loaded fast paced action flick that also voices a graphic anti drug statement. Wesley Snipes makes an effective crime Boss the swaggering lethal drug Kingpin Nino Brown a Man of conflicting emotions one moment throwing a belching associate off a Bridge the next handing out Money to ghetto children. Determined to Corner the crack Market Nino turns an entire apartment building into his own buy and try drug factory and automat. Acct is surprisingly Good As a Maverick cop dedicated to bringing Brown Down. Judd Nelson is his weird partner. Mario Van Peebles who also directed plays their Boss. Van Peebles tells his predictable Story with anger and angst soundly indicting the greedy heartless ones who peddle ruination on the streets. Jack e. Wilkinson United press International Vid bits Republic Home video returns to a time when silents were Golden to bring Back landmark films that contributed mightily to today a Cinema and earned a Niche in movie lore. Among them and Best known of the Bunch is . Griffith a 1915 epic the birth of a nation the still fascinating Story of two families during the civil War and reconstruction. Another in this group is Serge Eisenstein a battleship Potemkin 1925about the 1905 russian revolution. The scene of the baby Carriage and the Cossack on the Odessa Steps is perhaps the most famous Ever filmed. Brian Depalma borrowed it for the untouchables the Cabinet of or. Caligari 1919known for its haunting German expressionism tells of a magician who carries out his evil deeds through a hypnotized slave played by Conrad Veidt whose later roles included the dastardly nazi colonel gunned Down by Humphrey Bogart toward the end of Casablanca speaking of old movies it was 60 years ago that the wary movie going Public got its first glimpse of Frankenstein and Dracula and was introduced scarily to two actors new to the horror vein Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Mca Universal is bringing Back this month nine of those great old Universal monster movies. Others include Lon Chaney a the wolfman and Karloff a follow up Bride of Frankenstein and the Mummy. Wilkinson Page 16 a sunday August 11,1991
