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...four years. Besides traditional fare like Sleeping Beauty, the channel has offered programs ranging from the fitness session Mousercise to the College Bowl quiz show. Disney's archives have helped its home-video division increase sales from $55 million in 1983 to $175 million last year. Lady and the Tramp, released last Christmas, quickly became the best-selling videocassette of all time, passing the 3 million mark...
...nine months later.) But a few studios, notably Paramount and Disney, have pioneered prices of under $30 for first-run releases deemed to be collectible. These include pop entertainments like Raiders of the Lost Ark, cult faves like Star Trek IV and children's classics like Lady and the Tramp (the biggest-selling movie yet released on video). Industry observers believe E.T., with its enduring family appeal, will wind up in the low-priced camp...
...familiar from several Martin Scorsese movies and a hundred lowbrow sitcoms. But Screenwriter John Patrick Shanley has an ear that confounds cliche and a plot that is both devious and inevitable. As photographed by David Watkin (Out of Africa), Moonstruck is as pristine and fanciful as Lady and the Tramp. As directed by Norman Jewison (A Soldier's Story), it moves with the crack of sexual friction. Jewison has also put together a terrific ensemble of actors. Cher, rag-dolled up in heavy Sicilian eyebrows, relaxes into her most engaging movie role. And Cage has a great time segueing from...
...Francis' life is significant not for what he does but for what he dreams and fears. But a movie like this, which concentrates on mundane plot, can only show, not reveal. As directed by Hector Babenco (Pixote, Kiss of the Spider Woman), Ironweed lurks outside Francis' soul, like a tramp at a suburban window, permitting only dumb speculation on his fertile inner life. His ghosts are white-faced extras; his trek up Calvary becomes one long trudge toward oblivion. The movie provides a mug shot instead...
...Klobucher (Carmen Getit) has the best legs in the show and some of the best lines as the opera's tramp. Tucker McCrady is Tenor Eleven, the lovesick singer, whose camp sighs are overdone with precision...