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Show Friday, M. Combinedwire reports Century Fox 18: May 18: May 18: May 18: Vanguard Buena Rentals Theseare the most popular video assette rentals listed in the May 21 sue of Video Business magazine, com piled from a national sampling of video tores for the week ending May 16 1. YOU'VE GOT MAIL — Warner 2. STEPMOM Columbia 3. THE WATERBOY — BuenaVista 4. A BUG'S LIFE — BuenaVista 5. THE SIEGE — Fox 6. AT FIRST SIGHT — MGM. é STAR TREK: INSURRECTION Paramount BABE: PIG IN THE CiTy — versal 9. MEET JOE BLACK — Universal 10. MIGHTY JOE YOUNG Buena May 25: Hellcab Tamark May 25: Horatio Hornblower — A&E May 25: insomnia — HomeVision Cinema 11. PLEASANTVILLE — New Line 12. A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY aamount 3. | STILL KNOW WHATYOU DID SUMMER — Columbia 4. SIMON BIRCH — BuenaVista 15. WHAT DREAMS MAY COME veram May 25: Johnny 2.0 — May 25: LisbonStory Eek Lorber May 25: The Marquise of O Fox Lorber May 25: Menof Means York May 25: Mexico — A&E-History Channel May 2 5° Music Classics (Vols, 4-10) MPI New video releasesfor children ETUBBIES (1999) (Warner) 35 apes xd each. 60 minutes each. More May 25: Opposite Corners from the popular childrens’ show May 25: Pat the Bunny: Sing With Me Golden Books May 25: Perceval FoxLorber May 25: Ponette — Fox Lorber May 25: Saving Private Ryan DreamWorks May 25: TheStory of Gospel BBC List of video movie release dates Following1S a partial schedule of coming movies onvideo. Release ates are subjectto change. 20th May25: Stock Car Fever — National Geographic Video jay 18: Batman Beyond: The Movie arner lay 18: May 18: May 18: y 18: Paramount * May 18: May 18: May 18: May 18: Movie is sweet, well-intentioned, but only skims the surface FLICKS PICKS The unsigned letterfirst casts its spell upon Helen MacFarquhar (Capshaw), the ownerof a homey two-story bookstore; she finds it ina sofa inder pile of mail. She's love les Dearest. do you knc love with you Lam? Did I trip’ Did I stumble? Lose my | graze my knee raze my heart” If you received an anonymous love letter that began with those words, would you roll your eyes andgroan at the image of raz to critique such purple pas as “I'm on fire. Not a muscle h moved. Leaves hang unruffled by any breeze. The air is still. | havefallen in love without tak ing a step...” Likewise. “The Lave Letter” is best taken on its own sweet innocuous terms, without expecting true poctry. This movie. starring andco-produced by Kate Capshaw. is the lizht heartedtale of what happens whenthe aforementioned deci ration oflove is accidentally dis covered by several inhabitants: of a quaint New England sea side village bit rigid when it es to overseeing her store vanager Janet (Elen yny and der t Scott and Julianne Clon Nicholson), but the letter caus her to open her heart and imay Wt just about anyone in town might be smitten with her The town, Loblolly By Th 1 of those little com ing your knee and heart? Nah. you'd probably just be tickled to receive a love letter and opt not and a DeGeneres), and two youn munities where everyone's a bit quirky and knows each others business, and you're meant to be charmed by the lot of them. [t's 1 wonder they don’t all have Irish or Scottish accents. Tom Selleck plays George. the kindly fireman, and when the firc darm rings, it turns out to be hoeatise a deer has loped into someone's hving room George holds a candle tor Helen, and Johnny also is pretty hotfor his boss. When Jennifer tells Johnny that everyone is enchanted by He 1, You wonder whether Capshaw has stacked the deck a bit much J mean. it isn't enough that WWF, ‘Shasta McNas May 25: Summer Fox Lorber May 25: Theory of Flight. The New Line Cinema May 25: Un Air DeFamille(Family Resemblances) Fox Lorber May 25: Wrestlemania XV — May 28: Hombres Complicado — WaterBearer May 28: Woyzeck Water Bearer May 30: Taste of Cherry — Home VisionCinema Bent — Orion The Cruise — Artisan The Dark Mist — Alpine Dirty Little Secret — The Hanging Garden — Orion Holy Man — Buena Vista |, Zombie — Bedford The Imposters — 20th By ED BARK The Gallas Moming New Here are UPN’s five new series for the fall season “Mo'Nique” (comedy) “Moesha’s” Countess Vaughn who plays boy-erazy Kim Parker, he Grown Ups” (comedy) Jalecl White as would-be “babe magnet” Calvin’ Frazier regional vice president of a cor rugated box company (as her mother, Mo'Nique) in a sitcom set at Santa Monica MeNasty, Junior College, “Secret / Costas M tqnsceene with a twentyish stud for her wie (after third str it David Arquette in “The Alarmist” and Vinee Vaughn in The Locusts”), But eastir Blythe Danner is her mother Danner is Capshaw’s senior by just 10 years As you'd expect from this type of cinematic confection, just about everybody yets a handle on his and her love life by the end. though the emotions probed don’t deeper than the words of the letter, Each charac ter can be summed up with a few quick strokes: George is finalizing a divorce. melancholy in love with Helen, nice. Johnny is driven by youthful passions, due to head back to college, nice. Helen is ambivalent about love, a fortysomething hotty. nice. Janet, who's also nice, has a sharp tongue and is frustrated by herlack of a mate: blink twice and you'll think you're watching an alternate ersion of the early ye rs of De ieneres’ television se ries. in which she And judging by “Goodbye Love “and played a bookstore owne this film, DeGeneres has devel oped a gimmick of commenting on the gay orientation of other McEwan): Helen's grandmother, Eleanor, who's there on a visit (Gloria Stuart ina role sun Chan makes his US direc plays at safe, making the homogenized torial debut here ind Hollywood/TV movie style his own. Marie Maggenti. who wrote and directed 1995's “The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love.” based her breezy screenplay on Cathleen Schine’s 1995 novel Although the movie's affec tion for its characters is refresh: ing, none of them stirs our pas sions. They're just too sketchy: and their rom ntic fates seem more a matter of whim than made-in-hez en destiny. Skimming their surfaces can he enjoyable, but, as the author of the anonymous letter might ve put it, this movie only ‘es the knees oflove Mark Caro is filling in for Michael Wilmington, who is.on assignment at the Cannes Film Festival. in UPN’s fall lineup Whitfield and Dina Meyerstar us jet-setting government agents assigned to P.O.LS.E. “WWESmackdown! (come- dy/drama) 7:00-9:00 pm Return Oe rennance by Mike Masse eY@)PIDaPasm) and folding-chair wielders, “FAMASTIC! THE YEAR'S AINA @ UE NN TANIA WILL BE SUVEWAL SAMS IU AANA NLC »* MY MAY28th31st OPEN LATE ON FRI & SAT UNTIL 11:00 P.M. Suite 700 «+ Provo ‘A Summerdelight. Funny, romanti Evy alee charming. . ” mca Eee ToM SELLECK THERINE ZETA-JONES UES WATERG acer 6 Teaco ew SUMNER HOVERS BOOKS, MUSIC, VIDEO, AND A CAFE. as, Steps at Riverwoods * 224-2720 SV2W. 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RUN Si ee eB 1 CALL (801) 355-ARTS or 355-5502 A DeltaCenter MeeRueOma eeta PO UUUa ear Pee Niet are aceor oe PAE CU LL BE eR best Onsreronslall Serpesessas LARAAAR BP SEY 2 WHAT ABOUT BOB? In the Shadows APix The Insh R.Mc2-— Aco Memonal Day Artisan My Sweet Suicide Rapmania: The Roots of Rap (3 vols.) — Real Entertainment May 18: Real Killers —- Aipne May 18: Rowing With the Wind Buena Vista May 18: of Doubt ew Shadow Columbia TriStar May 18 a Something About Sex — A-Pix May18: Ver Bad Thin 5 Polygram May 18: Winchell HBO e May 25: ABC MoenManele MPI May 25: The Adventuresof Ichabod and Mr. Toad Walt Disney Home Video May25: Alicein Wonderland Artisan May25: Altars of the World Fox Lorber May25: The Aviator's Wife Fox Lorber May25: BoytnendsandGirifnends Fox Lorber May25: The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue Walt Disney Home Video May25: Different for Girls — Fox Lorber May 25: Divining the Divine — Fox Lorber May 25: Forbidden Fruit (Narcotic. Reefer Madness, Maniac) Kino May25: Full Moonin Paris Fox Lorber May 25: Gloria — Columbia TriStar May 25: Golf: The Greatest Game — History Channel jay 25: A Good Marriage — Fox Pioneer 1 lnnvossnsssesseaseneesh “3 THUNDER SHOCK DAILY HERALD. Get Away ‘Love Letter’ doesn’t register ON VIDEO These are the bestselling video cas ettes listed in the May 21 issue of Video Business magazine, compiledfrom anational sampling ofvideo stores for the weekending May 1 TopSi 1 ROU"VE GOT MAIL Warn 2. A BUG'S LIFE BuenaVista 3. BABE: PIG IN THE CITY Jniversal 4, TAE BO WORKOUT — Ventura 5, AUSTIN POWERS New Line 6, THE RUGRATS MOVIE — Paramount 7. PRETTY WOMAN — BuenaVista 8. TELETUBBIES: FAVORITE THING varner 9. TREMORS — Universal 10. SOUTH PARK V7.9(3PK) warner 11, POKEMAN: FRIENDS Pioneer deo 12. EVER AFTER — Fox 2 MIGHTY JOE YOUNG Buena 14, TH |