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Lean, Strong and Healthy with Susan Powter [VHS] A*Vision Entertainment Chariots of Fire [VHS] Warner Home Video The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for bestpicture Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics devout Protestant Eric Liddell Ian Charleson a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God and Jewish Harold Abrahams Ben Cross a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice and anti-Semitism Theres delicious support from Ian Holm as Abrahamss coach and John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies Vangeliss soaring synthesized score which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s also won an Oscar Chariots of Fire was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson Greystoke and was produced by David Puttnam --Jim Emerson Baseball - A Film by Ken Burns [VHS] Pbs Home Video THE AMERICAN EPIC Ken Burns tops himself with this epic of American history told in nine innings with a skilled narration by John Chancellor and the voices of Paul Newman Jason Robards Billy Crystal and other stars The series spans 150 years starting with the myth-debunking tale of baseballs true beginnings -- when it was a game one degree above mayhem Then follow the growth of Americas National Pastime through the decades of glory and record-setting achievements as well as the scandals the bigotry and the big money The series portrays the game as a mirror of America itself -- the passions prejudices and ambitions that have shape the country After the national success of his 11-hour epic The Civil War --the highest-rated miniseries in public-television history--many wondered if Ken Burns could capture the same energy and passion with smaller subjects His reply the 18-hour history of Americas greatest sport Baseball not only quieted these worries it also perhaps surpassed his prior achievement Massive in scope it covers more than 100 years exhausting in detail and filled with celebrities journalists politicians historians and the men who played the game Burnss romantic love letter to the game achieves the impossible even those who hate baseball cant help but become immersed in it This is because Burns doesnt just detail the great players and the memorable plays and games he also presents baseball as a cultural and social mirror reflecting the beauty and hypocrisy of the nation that created it Divided into nine innings two hours each in length the video examines complex social issues such as segregation racial inequality its section on Jackie Robinson baseballs first African American player should be required school viewing labor battles between owners and players politics technology and gender conflicts among others Then of course theres fascinating footage and biographies on the players--troubled icons such as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb heroes such as Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle and tragic figures such as Pete Rose and Lou Gehrig--the men who despite a rocky and often hypocritical history constructed baseballs tradition and preserved its invincibility --Dave McCoy Basketball Diaries [VHS] Polygram Video The pre- Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high school kids As a biography the film doesnt amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use violence perversions poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim and the usual scream-and-puke dramas that go along with a cold-turkey session Director Scott Kalvert doesnt seem to realize that most people dont know who Carroll is and therefore cant possibly understand why they should care about his gutterball youth DiCaprio having nowhere to go with his performance but maintain Carrolls tailspin is boring and redundant Some kind of allusion to the literary and rock roll life that follows the mess were watching might have been helpful --Tom Keogh Building Strength with Susan Powter [VHS] Atlantic / Wea Your Personal Best Workout [VHS] Buena Vista Home Ent Burn Fat & Get Fit with Susan Powter [VHS] Atlantic / Wea WWE - D Generation X [VHS] World Wrestling Gleaming the Cube [VHS] Lions Gate Primal Fear [VHS] Paramount Guaranteed to work or your money back - PLEASE NOTE ALL MONIES FROM THIS SALE GO TO A 501 C 3 NO KILL ANIMAL SHELTER Newcomer Edward Norton became an instant movie star in 1996 with three amazing performances in Primal Fear The People vs Larry Flynt and Everyone Says I Love You Make that four amazing performances because in Primal Fear he plays a young man named Aaron Stampler whose personality seems to be divided in two one tough and cynical the other shy and fearful Richard Gere plays Martin Vail the slick Chicago attorney who defends Aaron on charges of brutally murdering an archbishop who may have sexually molested Aaron and other boys in his parish The courtroom suspense is nail-biting as the jaded hotshot Vail comes to care about the case and the defendant This is one of the better legal dramas of recent years with plenty of juicy twists and turns Frances McDormand who was soon to win an Oscar for Fargo plays a psychiatrist --Jim Emerson