European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Rentals 1 Philadelphia Columbia tristan 2 on deadly ground Warner 3 Beethoven s 2nd Mca Universal 4 Grumpy old men Warner 5 Tombstone Hollywood Home video 6 the Pelican Brief Warner 7 Ace Ventura pet detective Warner 8 reality bites Mca Universal 9 sister act 2 Back in the habit Touchstone 10 what s eating Gilbert grape Paramount v / _ to sales 1 Humbelina warned 2 Beethoven s 2nd Mca Universal 3 Ace Ventura pet detective Warner 4 the return of Jafar Disney Home video 5 Woodstock three Days of peace & music Warner 6 Yanni live at the acropolis big entertainment 7 Playboy 1994 playmate of the year Playboy Home video 8 Little rascals collection vol. 1 Cabin fever entertainment 9 mrs. Doubtfire Fox video 10 Penthouse sexiest Amateur videos vision children 1 Humbelina Warner 2 the return of Jafar Disney Home video 3 Aladdin Disney Home video 4 the Fox and the hound Disney Home video 5 Barney live in new York City Lyons group 6 Batman mask of the phantasm Warner 7 there goes a Bulldozer kid vision vision 8 Beauty and the beast Disney Home video 9 mighty morphine Green Ranger part 1 poly ram 10 there goes a fire truck kid vision vision compiled by billboard. The top 20 stateside to shows of aug. 15-21, 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 6 Grace under fire 3 7 Farsi Ernic 4 3 Seinfeld 5 4 Roseann 6 2 60 minutes lbs 7 u 48 hours lbs 8 u Ellen 9 x Farsi Ernic 10 x nil exhibition 11 10 murder she wrote lbs 12 u dateline 13 x movie Lawrencia Bembenek Story 14 11 Murphy Brown lbs 15 14 20/20 16 u the John Larroquette show 17 12 movie and the sea will Tell lbs 18 x miss teen Usa lbs. 18 u sister sister 18 u unsolved mysteries Orion Jodie Foster and Kasi Lemmons in the thriller the silence of the lambs which is headed for cd rom. Movies speeding onto screens by Peter Nichols new York times tapes Are renting As strongly As Ever this summer but other formats Are pushing ahead video on demand the term for the instant delivery of any title at any time by various carriers including Telephone companies. That level of service is Many years away at Best but for Early tests Bell Atlantic and the other so called regional baby Bells Are beginning to Stock up on movies and other titles from Hollywood studios. Unlike Cable operators Telephone companies have no ready made Pool of programming and need to build a Supply of titles from scratch. We re looking for tens of thousands said Bob Townsend the president for interactive multimedia products in Bell Atlantic s video services division. But video on demand does t yet faze the Home video Industry which is breaking ground of its own. One new area is cd rom and distributors Are starting to adapt the disk format to some of the same kinds of promotions they profit from on tape. For instance on sept. 14, Turner plans to release the cd rom the people v. Of. Simpson an inter Active companion to the of Simpson trial which is to begin four Days later. The disk which will be available for both ism and macintosh platforms is perhaps Home video s or anybody else s first inter Active instant publishing title. The cd rom which will Cost under $20, draws from a voluminous Simpson file compiled by can the news network owned by Turner. An hour of full notion video drawn from can broadcasts is included along with reams of testimony and information about evidence strategy and other aspects of the Case. In addition purchasers will have Access to Compuserve s daily on line coverage of the trial. Like Turner other video distributors Are finding different applications for cd rooms. In october image entertainment a laser disk company plans to release the terminator the first of a series of mov ies on cd rom among them dances with wolves and the silence of the lambs also available for both ism and macintosh. For various technical reasons movies played on computers can use Only a Quarter of the screen and proceed at a rate of is frames a second which re sults in Quality inferior to videotape. New video releases four wedding and a funeral 1994. Poly Gram. R. Continually on Call As a Best Man Charles Hugh Grant makes his Way Between nuptials with one death intervening in a round of socializing with friends and acquaintances. Mike Newels film could have gone nowhere from there but funny material and charming performances by Grant and a Fine sup porting cast find a fresh Way across familiar ground. Only Andie Macdowell As a hard boiled american does t fit into a deft English comedy. The House of the spirits 1994. Live. R. Bille August s film never reaches for the complexity or mysticism of Isabel Allende s novel but it does take chances of its own with the Story of a South american family caught in political upheaval. Head ing a cast capable of just about anything Are Jeremy Irons As the cold conservative estate owner meryl Streep As the woman he marries Glenn close As his repressed sister wino a Ryder As his rebellious daughter and Vanessa Redgrave As Streep s Mother. I la do anything 1994. Columbia 13. Originally intended As a musical James Brooks film does Best As a satire of Hollywood at its most Boorish particularly in the person of the arrogant director Burke Adler Albert Brooks. Nick Nolle is an unemployed actor who has the misfortune of working for Adler As a chauffeur and Whittni Wright is the actor s 6-year-old studio Wise daughter spectacularly hip to the manipulative ways of the movie business. Knife in the head 1980. New yorker. No rat ing. In Reinhard Hauff s Stark study of sociopolitical currents in West Germany Bertolt Hoffmann Bruno Ganz goes to find his estranged wife who is living with her leftist Lover and is critically injured in a skirmish with the police. Left to Cope with severe brain injuries Bertolt tries to get a fix on his life in a Story that becomes part metaphysical mystery Story and part denunciation of the German right and left. Page 18 sunday August 28, 1994
