European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment video rankings rentals. 1 indecent proposal Pioneer Loca inc. 2 Point of no return Warner Home video 3 falling Down Warner Home video 4 groundhog Day Columbia tristan Home video 5 Aladdin. Walt Disney Home video 8 National Lampoon s loaded weapon Columbia tristan Home video 7 alive Touchstone Home video 8 scent of a woman Mca Universal Home video 9 Dennis the menace Warner Home video 10 fire in the sky Pioneer Loca inc sales 1 Aladdin Wall Disney Home video 2 homeward bound the incredible journey Wall Disney Home video 3 Playboy wet a wild v uni dist. Corp. 4 Dennis the menace Warner Home video 5 under siege Warner Home video6 Home alone 2 Fox video 7 Plano Tchlo Walt Disney Home video 8 the last of the Mohi cans Fox video 9 once upon a Forest image entertainment 10 Ren a a Lumpy. The classics Sony wonder music 1 comedy video classics Ray Stevens 2 our first video Mary kale & Ashley Olsen 3 la Van Lovlyn & Rocklyn that Jukebox Alan. Jackson 4. Greatest hits Reba Mcentire 5 visualize def Leppard 6 i still believe in you Vince Gill. 7 this is Garth Brooks Garth Brooks 8 Road kill skid Row 9 Konlin denial kiss 10 Call of the wild Aaron Tippin compiled by Bilboa d. The lop 20 stateside to shows or nov. 1-7, according to the . Nielsen co. Season to Date ranking an n for first time showing an x for one time Only presentation or a u for unavailable is in parentheses 1 1 Home improvement 2 3 60 minutes lbs 3 4 Seinfeld 4 2 Roseanne 5 6 frailer 8 9 Grace under fire 7 5 coach 8 x movie ghost lbs 9 12 20720abc 10 x movie dances with wolves part 1 10 6 monday Plaht football Washington a Buffalo 12 8 Murphy Brown lbs 13 18 wings 14 10 murder she wrote lbs 15 x movie a matter of Justice parti 16 u unsolved mysteries 17 17 prime time live 18 16 the fresh Prince of Bel air 18 x movie House of secrets 20 13 Northern exposure lbs Sharon Stone and William Baldwin connect in a Manhattan apartment building in Sliver. I n is by Jack Wilkinson United press International Silver 1993. Paramount Home video. R. Sharon Stone stars As a woman drawn into a Kinky world of murder and voyeurism in this tepid thriller that promises More than it delivers. Her character Carly is a recently divorced Book editor who moves into anew apartment unaware the previous Dweller who looked a great Deal like her was murdered there Short time earlier Carly quickly becomes attracted to two strange men a computer expert name Zeke William Baldwin and a burned out writer named Jack Tom Berenger. Stone s Carly seems Uncertain about most everything but sex. Baldwin Creepy Charm works Well but Brenger s character is woefully underdeveloped. Tho my pats Christmas Carol 1992, animated. Jim Hanson video. Pc. The puppets give Dickens classic tale a tantalizing twist in their first Rote playing film. Despite the silliness they manage to capture the grim picture of the times in an imaginative and witty retelling of one of the most famous stories Ever penned. Michael Caine plays Ebeneze Scrooge straight and that adds dramatic weight to the flighty fun that surrounds him. Kermit i Scrooge s faithful and abused clerk Bob Rachit and miss Piggy is his feisty wife Emily. They and heir Brood particularly tiny Tim figure heavily in the thoughts of Scrooge As he is visited by ghosts on Christmas eve. The great gonzo As Charles Dick ens acts As narrator. Most of the other muppet show up in various roles. Should become a familiar face around Holiday time. There were a number of firsts registered in the puppets Christmas was the first time the puppets appeared As someone else the first adaptation by Jim Hanson productions and the first feature film directing Job by Brian Henson who succeeded his late father As head of the company. I think Ini tally doing Dickens with the puppets Felt a bit daunting Henson told up. I was worried that this would be our biggest hurdle integrating their reverent Light spirit of the puppets with the dark sinister world of Dickens. But the different dynamic worked As for being cast in other roles our feeling is the characters Are so Well known they re celebrities. They can play other roles other charac ters in a different world. We be tried to take that muppet mentality into a whole new Henson says the next project in this format will be treasure Island my now Oun 1992. Columbia tristan Home video. R. A wry entertaining satire on habits and handguns in the american suburbs. . Plays a new Jersey radiologist who buys his wife Diane Lane a .38 revolver for Protection. She does t want it but soon becomes obsessed with it. Who s Tho Man 1993. New line Home video. R. Mtg jocks de Lover and doctor Dre Are bad news Barbers who become Rookie cops through a Fluke in the police exam. They guess wildly on multiple Choice and wind up with the top scores. The film moves beyond its earlier buffoonery and police Academy mentality to a More familiar Urban scenario with a evil real estate Developer trying to buy up the neighbourhood at any Cost. The boys take out after him when their former Boss is killed and they inherit the Barber shop. Lover and Dre a promising team need better material next time. Vid bits a cinematic giant passed from the scene two weeks ago with the death of italian director Fedri Comellini his Best works Are available on videocassette. These include la Strada 1954with his wife Giuletta Masina As a wide eyed Waif and Anthony Quinn As her brutish strongman Lover plus a haunt ing Nino Rota score la Dolce Vita i960the famous entertaining film about Joyless thrill seekers of modern Rome starring Marcello Mastroianni 8 i 1963fellini s fascinating self analytical study and Macord 1974a warm funny Bawdy and nostalgic trip to the Italy of Fellini s youth. All but Vita won Best foreign language film oscars. One of the All time Christmas video favourites Misback and this time in color. Miracle on 34th Street features Oscar Winner Edmond Gwenn As Amacy s department store Santa who turns out to be the real thing. The 1947 fantasy stars Maureen Ofiara and John Payne and introduces Natalie Wood. From Fox video Good news for music fans. At the jazz handball offers exceptional old time toe tapping foot stomping music covering the jazz age from 1925 to1933. Includes Early Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington plus rare shots of but Beider Baccke Bessie Smith the Dorsey Brothers Bill Robinson Paul Whiteman and Many others from Yazoo video. Fallen Angels the Star driven Cable to anthology series is being brought to Home video on dec. 29 by poly ram. Six half hour programs will be Divide Between two videocassettes. In addition to a number of famous people in the casts the series Marks the directorial debuts of Tom cruise and Tom Hanks. Five More of the seemingly endless Republic serials reach Home video on dec. 15. Included is Ca Nadian mountie is. Atomic invaders in which the Good Guys according to Advance poop Chase for eign infidels and endure natural disasters like avalanches and Reindeer stampedes to save the Day Way to go. Page 18 sunday november 14. 1993
