Inter-Video Electronics in midtown Manhattan is selling their entire inventory of VHS tapes at the low low price of one dollar each. I passed by the store Saturday evening while looking for Bed Bath & Beyond to buy a comforter for my new apartment, and having not added to my VHS library since Congo, went inside. Thirty minutes later I walked out with 20 dollars’ worth of American cinema on videocassette — including Road House, The Mighty Ducks, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, and Strange Brew starring Rick Moranis. In fact, I was forced to drop the tapes off at my desk for the night so I wouldn’t be lugging 10 lbs. of obsolete home video in my bag. Now it’s only a matter of time until Blu Ray drives DVDs down to a buck.
I never made it to Bed Bath & Beyond. Which I suppose means I consider Multiplicity a more essential item than blankets.
P.S. Attention, New York City residents and VCR owners alike: Tapes still availbale at Inter-Video Electronics include The Muse (written, directed by, and starring Albert Brooks), the other two installments of the Mighty Ducks trilogy, and Enemy Mine, in whcih Dennis Quaid rips open a pregnant Louis Gosset Jr.’s stomach and pulls out an infant alien. Hurry, they will NOT last long.
“Thirty minutes later I walked out with 20 dollars’ worth of American cinema on videocassette”
someone should tell patrick cassles, that not only was strange brew filmed entirely in canada..but both bob and doug mckenzie were born in ontario canada.
That sounds like Canadian Cinema to me.
haha..
