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aM-. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1990 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR D- VIDEOS Release of honors 14 'Barbara years of Walters Specials' celebrity probing 1 1 I I Toast The New Year with a Blast from the past at the INDIANA ROOF BALLROOM With "Yesterday" in a tribute to the "Beatles" Plus Indy's own "King James Version" Package $275.00 per couple includes: Suite for two at Embassy Suites Downtown Two hour cocktail party Four course dinner at the Indiana Roof Ballroom Entertainment by "Yesterday," stars from "Beatlemania" and "King James Version" Bottle of champagne at midnight Breakfast buffet on New Years Day Party favors Free parking Package $30.00 per person includes: Entertainment Bottle of champagne at midnight Party favors For reservations call 317-236-1800 yJY Fe.i I I ting and The Little Mermaid, as well as both volumes of Elvis: The Great Performances are $29.99 each. Call (818) 562-3883. Also in the 8mm software market Is Sony, which has 60 new movie titles available in Its Cinema 8 catalog. Included are The Hunt for Red October, Glory, Driving Miss Daisy, Prancer and White Christmas.

Call (800)-8MM-P1CS. Vidbits Home Vision, a distributor of performing and fine arts videos, has an agreement with Bravo, the cable culture channel, to offer tapes of art, concert, dance, opera and lifestyle programs. The Bravo Collection features 21 videos, including La Boheme, Georgia O'Keeffe, An Evening with Alvin Ailey, Mozart's Requiem and Maurice Sendak's Opera For Children. For information, call (800) 262-8600. It's no joke: You can actually buy a video to help toilet-train your toddler.

Once Upon A Potty The Videocassette (Barron's, which comes in His and Hers versions, is an animated musical video that features Potty Song and advice sanctioned by Dr. Leo Kron, a children's medical expert. Call (516) 434-3311. On Jan. 23, MPI Home Video will have several titles available for Black History Month in February, including Martin Luther King Legacy of a Dream Mississippi Blues and Nelson Mandela: The Man and His Country Call (312) 687-7881.

Also timely for Black History Month ts RCAColumbia Home Video's promotion of six films starring Oscar-winner Sidney Poitier: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. A Raisin In the Sun, To Sir With Love, Little Nikita, The Bedford Incident and Brother John ($14.95 each). That price will be available beginning Jan. 16. (Ratings: Excellent Good Fair Poor) l-szz By RITA ROSE STAR STAFF WRITER From Cher to the Shah, Bette Davis to Bette Midler, ABC News correspondent Barbara Walters has probed the lives of celebrities and world personalities since 1976.

In celebration of the 50th program in her Emmy Award-winning interview show, MPI Home Video will release The Barbara Walters Specials (60 minutes, $19.98) on Feb. 20. The cassette will Include some "best of" clips from her interviews as well as her impressions of the people she interviewed, and what was happening before and after the filming. You'll see: Her very first special, with Barbra Streisand. Her motorcycle ride with Sylvester Stallone.

Her boat ride across the Bay of Pigs with Fidel Castro. The last, TV interviews with John Wayne and Bing Crosby. Her confrontational talk with Richard Pryor. A rare interview with the feisty Katharine Hepburn. Among the many other celebrities on the tape are Boy George, Sean Connery, the Jimmy Carters, the Walter Mondales, Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, Muhammad All, Johnnys Carson and Cash, Paul Newman, the Shah and Empress of Iran, Elizabeth Taylor and John Warner, Eddie Murphy, Dolly Parton, Jimmy Stewart and Oprah Win- frey.

"Nobody thought they would last," Walters has said about the specials, now in their 15th year. For information, call (708) 687-7881. Recent releases Longtime Companion 100 minutes, VHS only, Focusing on the lives of CiVfIC THEATRE 1200 ADELTA Yklnw'blhfAtklbms: INI DANA lX)l: Barbara Walters (left) visits Barbra Streisand for her first Barbara Walters Special in 1976. EMBASSY QUlfEQ" HOTEL 3 COMCAST1 mmwmmM CHER seven people who are affected by the AIDS epidemic, Longtime Companion gives a fine overview of the history of the deadly virus, covering all of the Issues except safe sex. The characters are gay men from various backgrounds, and several of them die before the film's end.

The film doesn't detail their lives enough to let you get close to the characters, so it's hard to get sympathetic over their deaths. Campbell Scott and Mark Lamos star. Rating: The Ewok Adventure (MGM UA, 96 minutes, VHSBeta, This is the first Ewok escapade after an intergalactlc BOB HOSKINS WINONA RYDER PLAY A PART AT CIVIC! Located on the grounds of the Museum of Art, West 38th Street Indianapolis 111 Jl Vlkvl -h li IP 1 A Earth family crash-lands on the planet Endor. The fuzzy, fast-moving critters Join little Cindel and Mace in their quest to find their missing parents, and battle a fearsome underground giant along the way. This George Lucas production is a great adventure for the whole family.

Rating: Movies and PHCs Buena Vista Home Video has entered the personal video software market with eight popular titles released in 8mm format. Three Men and a Baby. Good Morning. Beaches. Cocktail.

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