retailing New Releases OBSERVATIONS UNDER THE VOLCANO STREET PEOPLE John Huston, Jacqueline Bisset, Roger Moore, Stacy Keach ALBUMS Albert Finney Vestron Video 4210/569.95 *I/ Pacific Arts Video PAVR- 586/MCA/$29.95 STRIKE UP THE BAND Symbols for formats are 4= Beta, OLD ENOUGH Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney VHS, 4. Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Neill Barry MGM /UA 400565/539 95 = CED and =LV. ML100565'$34. 95 A Media Home Entertainment M789/$59.95 4. Where applicable, the suggested STROMBOLI list price of each title is given; OLIVER'S STORY Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, otherwise, "No List" or "Rental" *V Paramount I 178 549.95 Renzo Casana A VCI Home Video 6112 /United Entertainment /539.95 is indicated. POINT OF TERROR Peter Carpenter, Dyanne Thorne, A TALE OF TWO CITIES Vestron Video 3085/$59 95 FILMS Lou Hansen AN ALMOST PERFECT AFFAIR e VCI Home Video 7603 /United Entertainment /539.95 THE TRANSFORMERS: Keith Carradine, Monica Vitti, Raf Vallone PRAY TV MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE Paramount 1221/$59.95 Dabney Coleman Animated A Family Home Entertainment 13-I 19/IVE/$24.95 AUSTRALIA NOW Vestron Video 4201/569.95 INXS, Eurogliders, Men At Work, THE TRANSFORMERS: RICHARD PRYOR LIVE AND SMOKIN' Little River Band, Midnight Oil Vestron Video VC3075/$29.95 THE ULTIMATE DOOM Music Media M462 /Media Home /$29.95 Animated RED DAWN A Family Home Entertainment F3.120/IVE/524.95 BEYOND REASON Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell L.A. Buyers Get Justice. Geffen recording group recently signed , Laura Johnson, TRULY TASTELESS JOKES A MGM /UA ML100499/$34.95 copies of their self -titled debut album for buyers at the Tower outlet on Sunset Diana Muldaur Andrew "Dice" Clay, Marsha Warfield, Home M793/$59.95 THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD Strip in . Pictured behind the table are, from left, group members Media Entertainment Denny Johnson Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Vestron Video THE CHARMKINS 3077/559.95 Tony Gilkyson, , Maria McKee, and Ryan Jennifer O'Neill Animated THE TWO FACES OF EVIL Hedgecock. A Vestron Video 4160/$69.95 A Family Home Entertainment F2 -88 /IVE /$ I9 95 Anna Calder- Marshall, Gary Raymond SKYLINE Thriller Video THE A 202- 585/IVE/$29.95 DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION Pacific Arts Video PAVR- 587/MCA$59.95 Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Fear, X, THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN Catholic Discipline SOLE SURVIVOR Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell A Vestron Video 50691$79.95 Eight -Track Bins Reborn tr Music Media M466 /Media Home /$49.95 A MGMIUA 600578/559.95 FALLING IN LOVE SPLATTER UNIVERSITY THE VATICAN CONSPIRACY Vestron Video 5076/569.95 Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep Terence Stamp Dealer Brings Fixtures Into CD Age r Paramount 1628/579.95 SPLITZ VCL Communications VL 9044 /Media Home /$59.95 ele 1628/529.95 A Vestron Video 4195/$69.95 WEATHER IN THE STREETS lems," Alter concedes. "It's not that FRENCH POSTCARDS THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL Michael York, Lisa Eichhorn, BY FRED GOODMAN difficult to stick a CD up your shirt Debra Winger, Mandy Patinkin AND MR. HYDE Joanna Lumley L r Paramount 1235/$59.95 Jack Palance, Leo Genn, Oscar Homolka A Epic Pictures E1120- Magnum Entertainment. $59.95 NEW YORK In keeping with the and walk out with it. Plus, cus- Thriller our THE GHOUL A Video 204- 586/IVE/$49.95 law that guarantees any piece of tomers seem to like this kind of dis- A WHALE OF A TALE John Hurt, Peter Cushing STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE William Shatner, Marty Allen, Scott Kolden junk you throw out today will be- play a lot." ò VCL Communications VL 9045 /Media Home /$59.95 MEETS THE BERRYKINS A VCI Home Video 1117/United Entertainment /$39.95 come valuable tomorrow, an Ohio In order to display the disks side - GROWING PAINS Animated WHO SLEW AUNTIE ROO? Family Home Entertainment F3 96/IVE/$29.95 retailer has found old free -standing by -side, School Kids removes them Gary Bond, Barbara Kellerman, A Shelley Winters, Sir Ralph Richardson eight -track bins to be perfect for from their cardboard or clamshell Matthew Blakstad STREET MUSIC Vestron Video 4216/569.95 *V Thriller Video 202- 584/IVE/$29.95 Vestron Video VC4153/529.95 displaying and racking Compact packages and displays them in just (Continued on page 65) Discs. box. GUARDIAN OF THE ABYSS the jewel Alter adds that re- Ray Lonnen, Rosalyn Landor, Paul Darrow The previously obsolete fixtures moving the outer packaging also IF Thriller Video 202-583/IVE/$29.95 are Plexiglas- fronted, with cube- solves the problem of the lack of HIGH CRIME like compartments that allowed for uniformity posed by the store's James Whitmore, Franco Nero, stacking eight- tracks. Those com- stocking of foreign titles that do not Fernando Rey *VP Media Home Entertainment M791/$49.95 partments also comfortably hold 10 have any outer packaging. CDs standing side -by -side with their "It also enables us to sample the MONIQUE Florence Giorgetti, John Ferris spines facing out, allowing for the disks for customers," he says. "A *V VCL Communications VL 9041 /Media Home /$49.95 display of as many as 600 CDs in lot of people are leery of the sound MORE CANDID CANDID CAMERA one secure fixture. of something they haven't heard. Allen Funt "I know there's a great irony in The lack of a SPARS code on Ameri- L Vestron Video 3086/559 -95 this," says Steven Alter, assistant can titles doesn't help, although MR. ROSSI'S DREAMS manager of School Kids Records in that can still be misleading." Animated Family Home Entertainment F4.115/IVE/$39.95 Athens, Ohio. "But the fixtures Being able to save space is also a work for A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET great Compact Discs, and major advantage of the "converted" , Ronee Blakley, we couldn't fit half this many CDs fixture. Alter's shop is less than Heather Langenkamp in the record bins we were using." 1,500 square feet in size, spread r Media Home Entertainment M7901$79.95 NEW FOR 1985 The locked cases have round cut- over two floors, and sister store NINOTCHKA ALL outs that allow customers to reach Wizard Records in Cincinnati Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas - MGM /UA ML100115/534. 95 into the cabinet and examine the which conceived the eight -track 4, CDs without being able to remove case as a viable CD fixture -is even them. "We were having ripoff prob- smaller. X -RATED VIDEO FIGHT (Continued from page 22) dicates, are awaiting Grand Jury ac- BIG APPLE ENTERTAINMENT: A leading distributor tion resulting from the April 17 raid of home entertainment products serving dealers on 24 Memphis stores by 70 FBI from coast- to-coast. agents. Oddly enough, the National Capi- LARGEST INVENTORY OF ANY DISTRIBUTOR: . We stock BETA aS well as VHS. Immediate on VSDA delivery tal chapter will feature an all products. FBI spokesman at its regular meet- Large selection and extra profits ing June 11. But president Tom Ray

of Musical Sales Video in Baltimore .WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS THE FOLLOWING SERVES: Iron Malden says the topic is piracy, not adult Daily Specials Product Information by Phone 'Export Your Divisions One-Stop Distribution MontnN Newsletter on video. "We don't want to cloud the Our Specials connection for the largest issue," he says. selection of fully The chapter created a stir early licensed Rock 'n Roll merchandise. this year by announcing an adult video seminar on board a cruise NL»1_=ni il OR CALL TOLL Posters buttons calendars pans bumper stockers decals headbands ship. Ray now says that was "just tapestries manors lights incense leather something our sterering committee NAME TELEPHONE was considering." Super Selection Super Service TITLE ADDRESS The chapter also worked with COMPANY CITY 1.800-221.6730 Maryland lawmakers on a law that CALL BB 6/8 STATE ZIP TODAY In New York Call 718.441.5500 requires video stores to have sepa- See out other ad In the Heavy Funky Enterprises, Inc. 132 -05 Atlantic Ave., rate adult video display areas, Ray Metal Section points out. Richmond Hill, NY 11418 15 PARK ROW, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, 11038

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