Watch it.With fare ranging from family angst to Dr. Frank-N-Furter, this year's crop of holiday video releases offers something to keep everyone's VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. heads spinning well into 1999. * The brilliance of late gay dramatist Scott McPherson is on display in Marvin's Room (Buena Vista, $19.99). Adapted by McPherson from his acclaimed play, the film stars Diane Keaton (in an Oscar-nominated performance) and Meryl Streep as estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. sisters dealing with life-threatening illness and other family crises. Costarring are Robert De Niro Noun 1. Robert De Niro - United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (born 1943) De Niro and the unsinkable Leonardo DiCaprio. * Action-oriented pics include Set It Off (New Line, $14.98), with Queen Latifah as a bodaciously butch lesbian bank robber. Wild Things (Columbia TriStar, digital video disc See DVD. Digital Video Disc - Digital Versatile Disc , $29.99) is part noirish crime drama, part sexual smorgasbord, including the coupling of Neve Campbell and Denise Richards. * Now that an expanded edition of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Fox, $14.98; wide-screen version, $19.98) is available on video--at least for a limited time--there's no need to go to a midnight screening for a visit with that sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania. * There's also no need to see the feature-film version of Lost in Space, thanks to the video release of the fourth set of three episodes of the '60s TV series (Fox, $14.98 each; set of three, $24.98), highlighted by Jonathan Harris as the fabulously fey Dr. Zachary Smith. * Also from television comes My So Called Life (BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass , two episodes per tape, $14.98; boxed set of three tapes, $39.98), the short-lived but highly regarded series that featured openly gay actor Wilson Cruz as gay teen Rickie Vasquez. And from behind the scenes of TV we have The Real World You Never Saw: Boston and Seattle (MTV Home Video/ Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. In 1988, Sony Corporation acquired CBS Records, Inc. for $2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name, and Sony renamed the label , $12.98), an insider's peek at the casts from the show's past two seasons; the Boston group included Genesis, a lesbian who struggled with coming out to her housemates. |
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