European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment billboards lop 10 videocassette rentals 1 the Fisher King Columbia tristan Home video 2 Boyz n the Hood Columbia tristan Home video 3 dead again Paramount Home video 4 other Peoples Money Warner Home video 5 shattered Mem a Home video 6 the doctor Touchstone Home video 7 Curley sue Warner Home video 8 deceived Touchstone Home video 9 101 dalmatians Walt Disney Home video 10 Ricochet hb0 video billboard s top 10 children a videocassette sales 1 101 dalmatians Walt Disney Home video 2 Wievel goes West Mca Universal Home video 3 the Jungle Book Walt Disney Home video 4 tiny Toon adventures How i spent my vacation Warner Home video 5 fantasia Walt Disney Home video6 the rescuers Down under Walt Disney Home video 7 Robin Hood Walt Disney Home video 8 Dumbo Walt Disney Home video 9 Alice in wonderland Walt Disney Home video10 the Little Mermaid Walt Disney Home video the top 10 to shows in America for april 13-19, according to the . Nielsen co. Season to Date ranking or an x for first time showing is in parentheses 1 2 Roseann 2 4 Home improvement 3 1 60 minutes lbs 4 3 Murphy Brown lbs 5 9 unsolved mysteries 5 17 room for two 7 8 full House 8 6 designing women cbs9 22 20-20 10 15 Northern exposure lbs Wamer Broj Bruce Willis fires away in front of Damon Wayans and Danielle Harris in the last boy Al Vii is by Jack e. Wilkinson United press International the last boy scout 1991. Warner Home video. Rated r. Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans play a pair of has beens who join forces to solve a couple of murders and expose widespread corruption in this Ultra violent non Stop action adventure. Willis is properly scruffy As a former secret service agent slumming his Way through life As a seedy burned out private Eye. Wayans plays a former pro football quarterback sacked for drugs and gambling violations. Their target is a Bunch of Nasty types a crooked senator and a sinister pro football owner who la go to any lengths to get what he wants. One narrow escape after another finally brings All the survivors together for an explosive finale at the stadium where everything is settled by halftime More or less. As crash and Bash epics go boy scout works Well though tending toward overkill. The rapture 1991. New line Home video. Rated r. For Sharon Mimi Roge Slife As a Telephone operator is definitely the wrong number. She tries to make up for her stifling boredom by having sex with strangers but even this is an empty gesture. Then one night Sharon wakes up engulfed in a religious conversion a shining path out of her meaningless existence. At first she is Content but eventually the Bliss goes amiss leading to tragedy and madness. Michael Tolkin making his directorial debut has turned his provocative novel into a haunting emotional roller coaster of a movie. Rogers is Good As the tormented Sharon an acting performance the oscars overlooked. Necessary roughness 1991. Paramount Home video. Rated r. A Light Knock about comedy that espouses the theory that every underdog has his Day. The once prestigious Texas state University team has been wiped out by massive rules violations forcing new coaches Hector Elizondo and Robert Loggia to Stait Over from scratch with a Bunch of misfits and walk on a sort of police Academy in helmets and pads a with a Little Rocky thrown in. The rebuilt team has a 34-year-old quarterback Scott Bakulla female kicker Kathy Ireland and a gang of wackos. Often silly but Breezy and entertaining in an in affecting Way. Besides any movie with Loggia in it has an automatic first Down. In the Vintage Corner singing in the rain 1952. Mem a Home video. Rated g. One of the Best movie musicals Ever made returns to Home video in a digitally remastered format to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The film whimsically follows the chaotic transition from silent pictures to the talkies featuring Gene Kelly Debbie Reynolds and feisty Donald of Connor. Jean Hagan gives a career Best performance As Kelly a silent screen co Star with a voice that would Stop the Energizer Rabbit. Singing in the rain hits just the right note throughout. Vid bits the video scene will be enlivened in the coming months As most of the major hits from last fall and Winter move to the Small screen. Oliver stones controversial Juk is scheduled for a May 20 release on Home video followed on the 27th by my girl and father of the Bride and on the 2kth by for the boys. Scheduled so far in june Cape fear the Addams family and grand c Anyon while bugs Star trek i and the hand that rocks the Cradle Are slated for july. Disney a Beauty and the beast and Hook being aimed at late october or thereabouts to catch the Holiday Trade. hear it for the de Sullivan show collection. The first two releases of clips from that Long running to variety show Are on the Market and Are delightful. The two tapes rarely have a Dull moment. They run the Gamut of Sullivan Type entertainment spotlighting newcomers like Elvis the beatles and Carol Burnett jousting with old timers such As Jack Benny and Bob Hope showcasing singers from Beverly Sills to Tina Turner and dancers from Bill Robinson to Rudolph Nureyev with comics of All sorts jugglers acrobats ventriloquists trained animals. Classical and Classy a moments. From Buena Vista Home video. April 26, 1992 sunday a Page 17
