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...have changed our philosophy a little due to the VCR," says Peter Chernin, executive vice president of programming at Showtime. "We have to have more than just a few good movies to make subscribing worthwhile." < Showtime hopes to attract and hold subscribers with such regular items as Brothers, about a homosexual and his two siblings; the long-running drama The Paper Chase; and a batch of "rediscovered" episodes of The Honeymooners. HBO, while downplaying the importance of series, this season will offer six new segments of Philip Marlowe--Private Eye, starring Powers Boothe, along with the new episodes of such...
With everything from Gandhi to Fly Fishing for Trout available for the home VCR, it is not surprising that video companies also have something for the opera lover. But while filmmakers have long since perfected the art of adapting plays and musicals to their medium, opera on film or videotape is in its infancy, the equivalent of shellac 78s in the age of digital CDs. Except for such movies as Franco Zeffirelli's La Traviata or Francesco Rosi's Bizet's Carmen, most videos are theatrical presentations rather than cinematic creations in their own right. Still, there is much...
...have a good time they did. Students set up a VCR in the McKinlock dining hall and presented showings of "The Killing Fields," a Rush concert, "48 Hours," and "Mistress of the Apes...
...sold). Cross Creek, a well-reviewed drama about Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, surpassed its theatrical revenues with $1.5 million in home-video sales. A few films, like Crimes of Passion, have been re-edited for home video to restore racy or violent footage cut for the theatrical release. Some VCR owners actually prefer watching offbeat or "difficult" films on video rather than at the theater. Dianne Ghertner, of Oak Park, Ill., says she prefers to see most movies on the big screen, but enjoyed Louis Malle's critically acclaimed My Dinner with Andre at home because she could digest...
...PARKING EN ESTE DRIVEWAY reads a sign in Miami, and motorists know exactly what it means. In Los Angeles, shopkeepers do not miss a beat if a customer asks, "Donde esta la panty hose?" When a newly arrived Manhattanite asks his neighbor, "Tienes un VCR?" the reply is immediate: "Over there, under...