European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse 1video ranking rentals 1 Speed Fox video 2 Maverick Warner 3 when a Man loves a woman Touchstone 4 blown away Mem a 5. Guarding test Columbia tristan. 6 the client Warner 7 Beverly Hills cop Iii Paramount 8 i love trouble Touchstone. 9 Wyatt Earp Warner 10 City slickers ii Columbi sales 1 Speed Fox video 2 Snow White and the seven dwarfs Disney 3 Jurassic Park Mca Universal. 4 the Nightmare before Christmas Touchstone 5 the Flintstones Mca Universal 6 the 3 tenors in concert 1994 vision 7 Tombstone Hollywood 8 nirvana live tonight sold out Getten 9 Playboy 1995 video playmate Calendar. A a a a Playboy. A 10 How the Grinch stole Christmas Mem a music t live tonight sold out nirvana 2. Barbra the concert barbra Streisand 3 live at the acropolis Yanni _ 4 Woodstock 94 various artists 5 hell freezes Over eagles 6 the 3 tenors in concert 1994 Carreras Domingo. Pavarotti 7 our first video Mary Kate amp Ashley Olsen 8 Janet Janet Jackson 9 live Ray Stevens 10 big ones you can look at Aero Smith compiled by billboard. A a the top 20 stateside to shows of dec 12-dec. 18, 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 Quot 1 5 monday night football Dallas at new Orleans 2 x College football Orange bowl a Miami is. A. Nebraska a a a a 3 3 Seinfeld 4 6 60 minutes lbs _ 5 1 Home improvement 6 u turning Point 7 4 Ernic 8 14 movie a father for Charlie lbs 9 2 Grace under fire 10 x Chicago Hope lbs _ a a 11 x Orange bowl pre game show 12 8 Roseann 13 20 20/20 _ a a a a 14 17 friends 15 10 Ellen 16 12 mad about you 17 16 movie Danielle steel s once in a lifetime . A 17 7 Typo Blue 19 x movie a dangerous affair 19 18 Dave a world lbs. Amy Loranc portrays Kayla and Brendan Fraser is Chazz in airheads just out on video. 20th Century Fox video sales pick up speedy Peter Nichols new York times for All the talk about cd rom and multimedia Home video s plan for next year is As Basic As it was this year to replenish a Stream of big movies setting millions of cassettes. In january there will be the mask in March the lion King in april Forrest Gump. All will be priced under $25. While people still rent plenty of movies they increasingly buy them. In 1994, the two Best Selling to ties were Jurassic Park and Snow White and the seven dwarfs with a combined total of 40 million copies shipped to video stores. It How Many of those tapes have actually been bought by Consumers is unclear. Sales were reported Strong in november shortly after both films were released but some distributors say both titles faded in the Holiday stretch. Pound for Pound distributors say perhaps the Best performing video of the year was Speed last Summers thriller about a bus with a bomb aboard. Robert Delellis the president of foxes video dive Sion which released the tape in november said that of the 8 million cassettes of Speed dispatched to stores 75 percent or about 6 million have already been bought by customers. Distributors say that is an unusually High percentage and Speed has been no. 1 on most Best seller lists for several weeks. Wha is even More unusual about Speed is that it has an r rating. Many top mass Market sales titles a Are animated and those that Arentt a sister act for example a Are normally family films free of graphic violence and in sexual matters go no further than a whiff of suggestion. Speed has a dash or two of heavy violence but Delellis called the film a soft r. In addition to its audience of action hungry teen agers not to mention girls attracted by the films Star Keanu Reeves Speed he said is popular with women As old As 45, an age some movie people consider positively elderly for most films let alone an action movie. _ Delellis cites the romantic Angle in Speed which he said is stronger than it is in most movies of this a genre. A -. A. A a a. A a. A a a but what retailers like most about Speed is that it is also no. I on Best renter lists. Dealers Hope the mask and Forrest Gump will also head both sales and rental charts in 1995. New video releases Renaissance Man Touchstone. An advertising Man with career problems Danny Devito takes a temporary Job tutoring army recruits in Reading and writing. The soldiers though Are an engaging Bunch who already write As Well As they Ever will. What a really needed in Penny Marshall s film is Relief from the cloying do Good ism that often creeps into movies about helping disadvantaged people. In this Case the cause is learning and involves a running gag about Hamlet that works for a while but then grows tiresome. A a a a a a a a a the last Butterfly new line the characters in Karel Kathy Nav a film Are unusually sedate for a film about the holocaust. The setting is ther Siens Tadt the concentration Camp outside Prague that the nazis set up As a kind of Model Community to demonstrate their supposedly humane treatment of jewish prisoners. Pressured by the Gestapo a mime Tom Courtenay is ordered to put on a cheerful performance for appearances Sake while in the Back streets of the outwardly Placid Community the doomed Are carted away. Airheads Fox. Waving toy guns three Rock and Roll aspirants Brendan Fraser Steve Buscimi and Adam Sandler take Over a radio station and demand to have their demo tape played on the air. They and the rest of the cast Are entertaining a a enough but the problem is that the plot slackers once they get inside the station and by the Middle they have nothing left to do. The endless summer it new line. One of them surfs with a longer Board than the other but that and their different hair colors Are about All that distinguishes Robert wingnut Weaver from Pat Rick o Connell. Dispatched by Bruce Brown the creator of the 1964 surfer Odyssey the endless summer to find the perfect wave the pair ride mountains of water from Alaska to Fiji. Its pretty a a All right and spectacular at times but still there so Little genuine excitement. Page 18 sunday. January 8. 1995
