European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Video rankings rentals 1 the firm Pioneer Edca inc 2 sle Piest in Seattle Columbia tristan Home video 3 Dave Warner Home video i rising Sun Fox video 5 Cliffhanger Columbia tristan Home video 6 Sliver Pioneer Edca inc 7 hot shots part Duyf Ovideo 8 True Romance Warner Home video. 9 guilty it sin Touchstone Home video 10 dragon the Bruce Lee Story Mca Universal Home video. Sales 1 2 3 4 Aladdin Walt Disney Home video ,. Q free Willy Walt Disney Home video the bodyguard Warner Home video Playboy celebrity Centrefold Dian Parkinson uni distribution corp. Playboy 1994 video playmate Calendar uni distribution corp. Dennis the menace Warner Home video homeward bound the incredible journey Wal Disney Home video Home alone 2 Fox video Beauty and the beast Walt Disney Home video 10 Michael Jackson dangerous the Short films epic music video. 6 7 8 9 children 1 Aladdin Walt Disney Home video 2 Beauty and the beast Walt Disney Home video 3 pinocchio Walt Disney Home video 4 Tom and Jerry the movie family Home entertainment. 5 Ren & skimpy the daisies Sony wonder 6 once upon a Forest Fox video 7 happily Ever after world vision Home video. 8 mighty Morphen volume i of Gram video 9 fantasia Walt Disney Home video 10 Ren & skimpy the stickiest stories Sony wonder compiled by billboard. The top 20 stateside to shows of Jan. 1 7-23, 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 2 60 minutes lbs 2 x pfc championship Post amt lbs 3 1 Home improvement 4 7 murder she wrote lbs 5 4 Seinfeld 66 Grace under fire 7 x movie incident in Small town lbs 7 3 Roseann 9 j5 coach 1113 " primetime live 12 x movie in the Best of families part 2 cb3 13 10 Murphy Brown lbs 14 u Rescue 911 lbs 15 19 or. Quinn Medicine woman lbs 16 16 fun House 17 14 Uve a arabs 18 u Northern exposure lbs 18 12 20/20 20 15 Typo Blue Jean Claude Van Damme finds out that rescuing Yancy Butler in t so easy in hard target. Unto Tsal video reviews by Jack Wilkinson United press International hard target 1993. Mca Universal Home video. A Jean Claude Van Damme teams up with celebrated Hong Kong action director John woo in his first . Film a merger fans of the genre should find exhilarating. Van Damme plays Chance Boudreaux a Down on his Luck merchant Seaman roaming around new Orleans waiting literally for his ship to come in. He comes to the Aid of a woman Yancey Butler who s searching for her missing father. Wil Ford Brimley adds a Welcome Smidgen of humor As Chance s feisty cajun Uncle. Staging his Wall to Wall violent action with the skill of a Ballet master woo is not going at full Speed forced to Back off a bit or get an nc-17 rating. Whatever trims he had to make Are not apparent. For with All the shooting and booting jabbing and stabbing it s just one Van Damme thing t after another. R v v ,. Lat action hero 1993v Columbia tristan Home video. Pg-13. It bombed at the Box office last a Romen imagine showed a new Arnold Shwarz Dregger " film and relatively few came. Abroad it did better As expected. Now on Home video for presumably a second Chance it Likely will do of with its Tongue in Cheek nonstop action and its Star who always does Well with the Couch potato set. Truth is. Taken for the parody it s supposed to be and not expecting too much it s not that bad on the Small screen. Then again it s still a flagrantly excessive sometimes pointless cartoonish fantasy that mocks its Star and itself and suffers from Over spoof. Body bags 1993. Republic pictures Home . Three Short horror tales packaged first on Cable now on Home video with John Carpenter directing two of them and Tobe Hooper the third. Carpen Eralso appears As a coarse Coroner who introduces the segments. One deals with a woman working alone atan All night Gas station with a killer lurking nearby. Another shows what can go wrong for someone obsessed with going Bald. The third deals with a Ball player who gets a new right Eye from a dead Man who begins taking Over. No new ground but the jump Factor is High. De and his dead Mother 1993. Fox video. Pg-13. Grieving de Steven Buscemi brings his dead Mother Miriam Margolyes Back to life through reanimation in this bizarre Little comedy. But she just in t the same old girl. Seems she brought Back bad habits with her Little things like eating bugs. After considerable havoc de decides he made a mis take. He has you might say a grave problem. Thanks to the cast a Ich includes Ned Beatty ased s High Surun Uncle there s Hope. But not much. R Al bits ". They put the slap in slapstick and Likely were among the first to earn the warning Don t try this at it was 60 years ago that the three stooges burst Forth from vaudeville to become world famous with their Peculiar Brand of violent comedy in hundreds of two feelers in the sos and 40s. Columbia tristan is putting Moc Larry and curly and later Shemp on display in More than two dozen three episode videocassette programs including eight new to video due feb. 16. Page 18 sunday january 30, 1994
