European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 08, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Video rankings rentals 1 a few Good men Columbia tristan Home video 2 Umlor Given Warner Home video 3 the bodyguard Warner Home video.4 brim Stoker s Dracula Columbia tristan Home video 5 the crying game Pioneer Edca inc. 6 forever Young Warner Home video. 7 leap of filth Paramount Home video 8 body of evidence Mem a Home video 9 Jennifer 8 Pioneer Loca inc. 10 Malcolm x Warner Home video sales 1 Plano Tchlo Waif Disney Home video 2 teenage mutant ninja turtles Iii the turtles Are Back. I time Columbia tristan Home video 3 Beauty and the beast Walt Disney Home video 4 Playboy playmate of the year 1993 uni Oist. Corp.5 Playboy celebrity Centrefold a Sulci Hahn uni Oist. Corp. 6 Disney s sing along songs Friend like me Walt Disney Home video 7 Star trek i the undiscovered country Paramount Home video. 8 101 dalmatians Walt Disney Home video 9 Barney rhymes with Mother Goose the Lyon s group 10 Playboy erotic fantasies Iii uni dist. Corp. Music 1 comedy video classics Ray Stevens 2 Kontul dental kiss 3 Uve 4 loud Ozzy Osbourne 4 Abba Gold greatest hits Abba 5 this is Garth Brooks Garth Brooks 6 live Billy Ray Cyrus 7 making. Videos Iii guns n roses 8 i still believe in you Vince Gill 9 keep the Faith an evening with Bon Joel Bon Jovi 10 the premiere collection encore Andrew Lloyd Webber compiled by billboard. The lop 15 stateside to shows Lor july 26-aug. 1. Accord ing to the , Nielsen co season to Date ranking an n or first time showing an x for one time Only presentation or a u Tor unavailable is in parentheses 1 x movie Small sacrifices part 2 2 x movie the dead Pool 2 1 60 minutes lbs 4 x turning Point b. Walters 5 13 20/20 6 3 Home improvement 7 2 Roseann 7 15 Seinfeld 9 19 unsolved mysteries 10 6 coach 11 u 48 hours lbs 12 x dateline 13 u Eye to Eye with Connie Chung lbs 14 7 murder she wrote lbs 14 15 prime time live see entertainment Darnell Williams and sail Richardson Star in How v like me now a comedy about relationships. Video reviews by Jack Wilkinson United press International How u Uke me now 1993. Moy Universal Home Ido. R. A showcase for promising Young filmmaker Darryl Roberts. Working with a minuscule budget of $500,000, Roberts has put together a witty film about struggling singles trying to do the right thing on Chicago s South Side. Salli Richardson currently appearing on the big screen in posse plays Valeric an ambitious career woman climbing the corporate ladder and two time emmy Winner Dar Nell Williams is her Bright but unmotivated boy Friend. Swing kids 1993. Hollywood pictures Home video. Pg-13. Sounds like a musical but it in to though there is great music. Sounds like a comedy about a Bunch of coming of age kids and while it is about maturing youngsters nobody s laughing much. This is an engrossing drama about two Long time friends torn apart by nazism in 1939 when hit Ler is demanding conformity among All German youth. Peter Robert Sean Leonard and Thomas Christian Bale Are among the group calling itself swing kids German teens mostly defying the nazis by embracing forbidden decadent Ameri can swing music. Sniper 1993. 99 minutes. Columbia tristan Home video. R. In a brutal realistic movie that makes a hero of a Hitman Tom Berenger plays Mas Ter sgt. Tom Beckett a grizzled Marine Assassin prowling through the Jungles of Panama on a secret Mission to take out a rebel Leader and his drug lord financier. He s accompanied by a Young civilian Marksman Billy Zanea reluctant partner who often has Beckett in his sights just waiting for the right moment. Berenger is believable As the hard ened but haunted killer in this vividly staged and photographed thriller. Waterland 1992. New line Home video. R. Jeremy Irons plays a High school history teacher haunted by his own history so much so that one Day in class he begins telling his bored students All about a tormented past about a boy growing up amid mad Ness and lust. They Don t stay bored Long. Vid bits one of the most attractive newcomers on the kid Vid scene is of Raggl Rock the award winning Hob muppet series ready for Home consumption via Jim Henson video in four volumes. The frizzy haired wide eyed fun Loving Fra Ggles live in a network of underground passages beneath Doc s workshop Al ways ready for a party they have a 20-minute work week. Only one has ventured into the outside which they Call outer space or the final Frontier for Fragg Ledom and he sends Back postcards about his adventures. Their nemeses Are Trie giant Gorge who Are always beating them up and they in turn beat up on the dozers a hard working but tiny group barely knee High to a fragile. As their Story unfolds in the initial tape beginnings we learn that though there s a great Deal of antagonism among the three they Are actually unconsciously dependent on one another for survival. So not Only is it a Clever idea Well staged with a toe tapping musical score from Rock to reggae but it also has a message. Designed to make kids think it subtly teaches interdependence Between people be tween races. Michael Frith one of the creators says the goal is to make Young viewers aware of other races other ideas other cultures every culture is vital each unique each depends on the a graduate of Harvard where he ran the Harvard Lam Poon later working with or. Seuss before becoming one of Henson s top creative talents Frith says he firmly believes kids should be urged to use their imagination to think to shape imagination beyond the cathode listed As conceptual designer for fragile Rock Frith sees it As a Complex mythical layered world where All work whether they realize it or not. Lassie will be coming Home again in september. Fifty years ago America s favorite Collie bounded onto a movie screen. That first film Lassie come Home starring Roddy Mcdowell and introducing Elizabeth Taylor is the Cornerstone for a seven movie collection offered sept. 22 by Mem a. Among the others son of Lassie 1945courage of Lassie 1946 and Hills of Home 1948. As video dealers plan for the holidays wonder ing among other things whether Jurassic Park will be available in time for Christmas one longtime favor Ite stocking stuffer is getting attention. A new to video colonized version of Miracle on 34th Street the 1947 comedy fantasy about Santa claims working at Macy a starring Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn will be available beginning nov. 2. Fox video president Bob Delellis expects some 3 million co pies will be shipped. Miracle is generally considered second to Only it s a wonderful life among Best Christmas . T Page 18 sunday August 8, 1993
