European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Home a / o a a k Nam movies on video billboard s top 10 videocassette rentals 1 Basic instinct live Home video2 Batman returns Warner Home video3 Beauty and the beast Walt Disney Home video 4 my Cousin Vinny Fox video 5 the cutting Edge Mem a Home video6 Thunder heart Columbia tristan Home video7 Beethoven Mca Universal Home video 8 Fried Green tomatoes Mca Universal Home video9 final analysis Warner Home video 10 the babe Mca Universal Home video children s videos billboards top 10 children s videocassette sales 1 Beauty and the beast Walt Disney Home video 2 the rescuers Walt Disney Home video3 101 dalmatians Walt Disney Home video 4 the great mouse detective Walt Disney Home video5 Fern Gully. The last rain Forest Fox video 6 Rock a Doodle Hob video x7 the Jungle Book Walt Disney Home video 8 the rescuers Down under Walt Disney Home video 9 Disney s sing along songs be our guest Walt Disney Home video10 fantasia Wall Disney Home video the top 15  shows for nov. 9-15, according to the . Nielsen co. Season to Date ranking or an x for Lisl time showing is in parentheses 1 3 60 minutes lbs 2 1 Roseann  3 21 movie the Jacksons part 1  4 2 Murphy Brown lbs 5 5 cheers  6 4 coach  7 9 Home improvement  8 24 movie Sinatra part 2 lbs 9 5 murder she wrote lbs 10 7 monday night football san Francisco is. Atlanta  11 17 wings  12 11 full House  13 14 unsolved mysteries nbc14 22 movie fatal memories  15 12 love and War lbs Burn Valati pictures whoops Goldberg stars As Deloris Van Cartier who resurrects the choir in the comedy sister act Milt it i Yir w s by Jack Wilkinson United press International Sitter act 1992. Touchstone Home video. Rated pm. Whoops Goldberg plays a Reno lounge Singer who flees for her life when she bumps into her gangster Boyfriend As he s bumping off a disloyal colleague the police hide her out in the most unlikely place they can think of a a Convent a until she can testify against the Boyfriend Harvey Keitel who has marked her for murder also. As a phony nun on the run the Sassy worldly whoops predictably brings havoc to the sheltered Little flock with her Irr verant behaviour until an exasperated Mother Superior Maggie Smith trying to keep her in Tow assigns her to sing for her supper. Things perk up when whoops takes Over the nuns tone deaf choir quickly changing the doleful discords into a soulful chorus of swinging Sisters mixing in some of her own material my girl becomes my god. Stereotypical but a lighthearted comedy a perfect role for whoops and she makes the most of it a with plenty of support from her fellow Sisters especially old pros Smith and Mary Wicks. City of Joy 1992. Columbia tristan Home video. Rated pg-13. Roland Joffey a epic account of courage and self redemption centers on three people caught up in the misery of steaming Calcutta. First there a Max Lowe Patrick Swayzee disillusioned american surgeon bumming around India. He reluctantly agrees to help feisty philosophizing Joan Bethel Pauline Collins in her free Street clinic for the poor after she nurses him Back to health following a mugging. The third Central figure is Hasari of Puri who brings his family to Calcutta to make a living winds up running a Rickshaw and helping bring about the inevitable showdown Between the Street people and the local mafia. Enc no Muci 1992. Hollywood pictures Home video. Rated pm. Or the adventures of the Cave dude. A couple of Verdish teenagers Sean Astin and Pauly Shore dig up a Frozen Cave Man Brendan Fraser in their backyard thaw him out dress him up name him a a links As in missing and Palm him off As a really a Buff Cool Exchange student. Link quickly becomes the most popular kid in school which purports to say something about the status of Modem teens. The film has a few notable moments but mostly it s a silly bilt and Ted sort of thing Low scale humor that youngsters will find amusing. For others it could be a Cro mag  the Vintage Corner the Meek of fun Manchu 1932. Mem a Home video. Good news for the Vintage Vanguard the fiend named fun has returned. Or. Fun Manchu the Harvard educated chinese master criminal played with a Etc Cut nastiness by Boris Karloff is after the sword and mask found in the Tomb of Genghis Khan figuring in his mad scheme that he can convince his restless hordes that he a a reincarnation of the warlord and Lead them to world Conquest. This 60-year-old Gem making its Home video debut is Hokey sure but fun with a jeopardy storyline that plays like an old Cliff Hanger serial. I dolts Home video business continues to thrive at a record Pace a Only now there Are More sales than rentals. According to variety suppliers raked in a record $1,16 billion during the third Quarter of this year More than half of that from the burgeoning a sell through priced to sell Market some $655 million. Rentals somewhat Flat Over the past year and a half garnered $504 million in Revenue for suppliers. There were six major sell through releases during the third Quarter Fox video a pc Gully. The lust rain Forest Disney a the rescuers and adventures of the great mouse detective Hbous Rock a Doodie Columbia tristan a Shook and Par amounts Wayne a world. Variety listed Columbia tristan As the top supplier of the period grabbing 20 percent of All wholesale video Revenue and 25 percent of rental business with Hook the Prince of tides and bugs a and upwards of $240 million in videocassette sales in North America. The hottest rental 425 copies ordered was Buena vistas the hand that rocks the Cradle. A the idea of watching a and editing a a movie on your computer screen is an intriguing one even if for most it would be a Short film. Microsoft is introducing video for windows which will allow the downloading of a motion video into a pc. While it certainly will grab your attention info world reports the picture May be Jerky seemingly out of synch because of the slower than Normal 15 Frame per Sec Ond playback. Page 18 a sunday november 22, 1992