Word: video
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...POSTMAN Video-store bait: Kevin Costner's movie about post-apocalyptic America sinks like a stone...
...stolen from the couple's Malibu, Calif., home soon after it was made, is now infamous, turning up at dinner parties in Hollywood and in media offices in New York City. This month, voyeurs everywhere get their chance to ogle. A Seattle-based adult-entertainment company will release in video stores a 60-minute, digitally remastered version of the domestic affairs of the Lees. Discriminating viewers may choose among several formats: standard VHS ($35.95), CD-ROM ($18.95) or the new Digital Video Disc that includes a photo gallery and multiple screens...
...subject of nearly two years of litigation. In 1996 the Lees filed a $10 million lawsuit against Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione to prevent the magazine from publishing still photographs gleaned from the tape. The Lees lost, and Penthouse ran the photos that June. Meanwhile, copies of the purloined video found their way into the hands of various Internet impresarios, who began posting shots of the more graphic scenes on their Websites. Last fall the Lees went to court seeking an injunction against the Seattle company, Internet Entertainment Group, which had announced its intention to air the short film...
...winning the video-game war between Sony's Playstation and the Nintendo64? Depends on whom you ask. Sony says it's sold more units this year, but Nintendo disputes the figures. Sony has sold more since the Playstation was introduced--6.4 million to Nintendo's 4 million--but it came out a year earlier. The Nintendo64 is more powerful, but has only 43 games, in contrast to hundreds for the Playstation. But both sides agree the industry will smash its sales record of $4.7 billion set in 1994. Who says war is hell...
...LITTLE KICKS Aired 10/10/96. Typical of this season, a golden moment (Elaine's horrid dancing) is mixed with a thin idea (Jerry as a bootleg video auteur). And before long, the awful Mandelbaums would appear...