European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Home i nth Taimi a i v / if s on vim o billboards top 10 videocassette rentals 1 the last boy scout Warner Home video 2 the Fisher King Columbia tristan Home video 3 Frankie amp Johnny Paramount Home video 4 Little Man Tate Orion Home video 5 deceived Touchstone Home video 6 Ricochet Hob video 7 Boyz n the Hood Columbia tristan Home video 8 free Jack Warner Home video 9 the people under the stairs Mca Universal Home video 10 dead again Paramount Home video Chi l t of billboard Stop 10 children s videocassette sales 1 101 dalmatians Walt Disney Home video 2 Wievel goes West Mca a Universal Home video 3 fantasia Walt Disney Home video 4 the Jungle Book Walt Disney Home video 5 tiny Toon adventures How i spent my vacation Warner Home video 6 the rescuers Down under Walt Disney Home video 7 the land before time Mca Universal Home video 8 Dumbo Walt Disney Home video 9 an american Tail Mca Universal Home video 10 Peter pan Walt Disney Home video the top 10 to shows in America for May 11-17, according to the . Nielsen co. Season to Date ranking or an x for first time showing is in parentheses 1 4 cheers 2 2 Roseann . 3 3 Murphy Brown lbs 4 6 coach 5 14 Northern exposure lbs 5 5 Home improvement 7 40 movie cruel doubt part 1 8 40 night court 9 10 major dad lbs 10 1 60 minutes lbs 10 17 a different world Jeff Daniels plays or. Alex tremor and Demi Moore stars As Marina in the Butcher s wife. Paramount ii it in it i a los by Jack e. Wilkinson United press International the Butcher s wife 1991. Paramount Home video. Rated pg-13. A Blond Demi Moore plays Marina an outer Banks clairvoyant who dreams she will marry the next Man she sees and does so a wedding a Beefy Butcher from new York George Dzundza and promptly changing radically the lives of his Greenwich Village neighbors. Flitting about in White diaphanous gowns Marina sweetly Doles out advice to the lovelorn and uses her matter of fact psychic Powers to straighten out lives including her own zeroing in on local psychiatrist Jeff Daniels obviously her True soulmate. Charming easy to take romantic fluff. George s Island 1991. New line Home video. Rated pm. A whimsical Quirky tale of ghosts pirates and buried treasure. Ten year old George Nathaniel Moreau believes what his eccentric Grandfather Ian Bannen tells him about the haunted Island that lies off the coast of Halifax Nova Scotia where according to legend Captain Kidd buried a vast treasure 200 years ago but was killed by his own Crew and now his ghost supposedly wanders across the Island keeping watch on his loot. George winds up on the Island on halloween eve to see for himself what a going on. Some violence but Overall a Good family adventure with a Beetle juice twist. Highlander 2 the quickening 1991. Columbia tristan Home video. Rated r. In this confused fantasy follow up adventure a grim Christopher Lambert and a grinning Sean Connery in a Gray Ponytail reprise their earlier roles As a couple of alien exiles warring with an evil dictator and trying to save Earth from perpetual darkness. Connery wisely appears Only briefly. Hard to follow its noted for special effects and Little else. Scanners Iii tha takeover 1991. Republic pictures Home video. Rated r. Alex and Helena Are a a scanner siblings in this third instalment about people with awesome telepathic Powers. Like their predecessors they can read minds move objects and if the occasion arises make other Peoples Heads explode. Always such a Nice touch. Helena Liliana Komorowska is Bent on world domination while Alex Steve Parrish is just As Bent on stopping her. Its the dialogue that needs scanning As when Helena is telling her army of renegade scanners that they Are outcasts no More. A we do not belong on the Bottom of the dung Heap a she proclaims. A we belong on the whatever you say. Foxfire 1991. Republic pictures Home video. Jessica Tandy plays a crusty appalachian woman refusing to leave her lifelong Rural he my filled with memories of her late husband Hume Cronyn in this warm glowing hallmark Hall of Fame movie. John Denver plays her son who wants to move her to town. Tandy won an emmy for this the Vintage Comer the loneliness of the Long distance runner 1962. Warner Home video. Tony Richardson a engrossing British film at last on Home video tells the Story of a rebellious Young Man chosen to represent his Reform school in a race a a grueling contest in which the real opponent is the establishment. The acting is splendid topped by Tom Courtenay a performance As the runner. Jim Thorps All american 1951. Warner Home video. Starring an energetic Burt Lancaster As the famous american Indian who became an olympic legend Only to see his medals taken away on a the most successful film of the year is headed for a summer Date on Home video. Paramount is releasing the Wacky Wayne a world on aug. 12. The engaging absurdities and off Center Wisdom of Wayne Mike Myers and Garth Dana Harvcy nourished on tvs saturday night live struck a movie Moth Clode with Box office earnings of $110.6 million so far. Party on it should be a a idiot a Delight. A Home video is in a Disney whirl. At least on the sales Side. Fantasia has passed . The extra terrestrial As the no. 1 Best seller of All time More than 14 million copies sold and 101 dalmatians is not far behind with 13 million copies distributed so far. They both Likely will be eclipsed this fall when Beauty and the beast hits the Small screen on oct. 30. A Many americans whether they agreed with the outcome or not have wondered what led to acquittal of the four . Police officers in the Rodney King beating trial. Court to video is releasing a two hour study of the trial entitled California is. Powell what the jury saw including courtroom footage commentary and analysis of prosecution and defense strategy. Though its a condensation of a 150-hour trial a it should go a Long Way toward giving All americans a Fuller understanding of the evidence presented to the jury by both sides a says Steven Brill president and editor in chief of court to. The two hour tape Sells for $24.95, but is free to any school asking for a copy to help inform students of the issues in the Case. For More 212 973-2882. A title of the week desire and hell at Sunset Motel described As a sex intrigue and murder without ready for a july checkout. May 24, 1992 sunday t Page 17
