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...from plunging into the field with an eclectic selection of specialized cassettes. Looking for stars? Tim Conway plays a 4-ft.-tall golf expert in a comedy tape called Dorf on Golf, and Shelley Duvall is the safety-minded host of Earthquake Survival. Anyone for instant history? There are video highlights of Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to the U.S. and Oliver North's testimony at the Iran- contra hearings. Is the small print in those self-help books getting you down? Watch the books on TV instead, video versions of such titles as The Joy of Stress...
...sports buffs, the burgeoning library ranges from 1986 Mets: A Year to Remember to Hulk Hogan and company battling for ring supremacy in the compleat Wrestlemania (I, II, III and IV). For travelers, the video offerings span the globe, from Elephant Hunting in Tanzania to Annette Funicello's guide to central Florida. For single gals on the prowl, try How to Make a Man Fall in Love with You. For guys: How to Read a Woman like a Book. Teens can learn How Can I Tell If I'm Really in Love? from Jason and Justine Bateman. And voyeurs...
Washington-based Atlas Video, a typical newcomer to the field, has just released the second in a series of historical cassettes on the Civil War. Narrated by Edwin Newman and illustrated with archival drawings and paintings, the half-hour history lessons appeal to the "same kind of people who collect National Geographic magazines and put them on their bookshelves," says Atlas' founder and president, Peter Edwards. Another small but imaginative firm, Rhino Video, has done well with compilations of old TV clips, sensational movie trailers and oddball cartoons like Bambi Meets Godzilla. Notes Rhino President Richard Foos: "There...
Bizarre might be the word to describe the success of Dorf on Golf, which, with sales of more than 150,000, is one of the surprise hits of the home-video field. A takeoff on the multitude of golf instructional tapes, it features Conway standing on his knees to appear like a midget and doing a slow burn through a feeble series of slapstick gags. A newly released sequel, Dorf and the First Games of Mt. Olympus, has even less point or wit, as the character participates in the hurdles, pole vault and other Olympic events with the help...
Several campy collections of old TV and movie material are fun as well. ( Rhino's Sleazemania series contains howlingly bad excerpts from old antidrug shorts, soft-core porno and previews for grade-Z melodramas ("Terrifying realism! Claws at your unbelieving mind!"). The Video Doll Shoppe, from the New York City-based Video Resources, is a compilation of doll commercials from the 1950s and '60s, including a gloriously dopey promotional film from the Ideal Toy Corp. describing the invention and manufacture of Betsy Wetsy...