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HOME VIDEO GUIDE LOXAHATCHEE RIVER CRUISE LOUNGE IT'S ALIVE III: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE (1987) Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Lan-don. This thrilling chilliest installment in the "It's Alive" saga picks up right where its two cult predecessors left off. A perverse twist of fate intervenes to bring the savage humanoid monstrosities back to haunt the civilization that created them. HI-FI, 94 Warner Home Video, $79.95 (Feb. 10).

(VHS, Beta) 70 RENTAL CANOES CANOE RENTALS FLORIDA'S ONLY WILD SCENIC RIVER $9.00 ADULTS $4.00 CHILD SEVEN RENTAL CABINS Reservations 746-5804 or 746-1466 $12.00 4 HOURS 3 PEOPLE Fifth of Dixie "Best Band In Town." Playing Country, 50's 60's Friday Saturday Night Thursday Night Ladies Drink $1.00 At Superior Quality Inn 3501 Broadway, Riviera Beach Phone 863-1400 JONATHAN DICKINSON STATE PARK Required Reading For Our Italian Courses. VIDEOSfrom 26 deserted South Seas Island. CC, HI-FI, 118 Warner Home Video, $79.95 (Feb. 10). (VHS, Beta) THE DEVLIN CONNECTION III Rock Hudson, Jack Scalla, Leigh Taylor-Young.

Adventure and thrilling suspense face Brian and Nick, a father and son detective team thrown Into the "swinging singles" scene in a desperate race to catch a bizarre homicidal maniac before he grabs his next victim. NOT RATED, 50 Trans World Entertainment, $39.95 (Feb. 12). (VHS, Beta) DIRTY DANCING (1987) Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach. A vivid love story set to pounding rhythms and vibrant dance of the time summer, 1963.

Grey stars as idealistic innocence, a vacationing 17-year-old who meets up with the hotel's dance Instructor and becomes mesmerized by both him and the music. HI-FI, PG13, 105 Image Entertainment, $39.95 (Available now). (Disc) MIDNIGHT DANCER Deanne Jeffs, Mary Regan, Kaarin Fairfax. She had one burning desire: to enter the world of classical ballet. Presents the compelling story of a beautiful young girl who rises above exploitation as a nightclub dancer to succeed on her own terms.

97 Academy Entertainment, $79.95 (Feb. 10). (VHS, Beta) FOOD AND WINE COOKING WITH BEEFCAKE TOO! (1988) Jaye P. Morgan, Beefcake Boys. Singer-comedian Morgan cooks up gourmet dishes with the help of a few good men.

Introducing recipes from restaurants such as Bon Appetit and Le Dome. 69 Magnum Entertainment, $39.98 (Feb. 10). (VHS, Beta) GAMES PRO CHESS: THE VIDEO MENTOR SERIES TAPE 1 1987) Designed for beginners and advanced players alike, this video represents the first in a planned series of 20 instructional tapes featuring U.S. Chess Champion Yasser Seirawan.

Starts with the basics. 120 IVCC, $19.95 (Feb. 8). (VHS, Beta) PRO CHESS: THE VIDEO MENTOR SERIES TAPE 2 1987) Continues with the series Instruction, interspersed with high-level tournament footage, blitz chess games and interviews. Reinforces the 14 basic tactics, covers advanced pawn structures, discusses attack and defense motivations, and more.

120 IVCC, $19.95 (Feb. 8). (VHS, Beta) GENERAL PROMOTIONS BUCKBUSTERS Twenty-four chilling, thrilling and always entertaining feature films are being reduced in price to $19.98 for a limited time only during the company's President's DaySpring promotion. Consult your local video outlet for titles and film details. Warner Home Video (Feb.

10). (VHS, Beta) HORROR HOUSE OF TERROR (1979) Jennifer Bishop, Arell Blanton, Mitchell Gregg. There's a skeleton in every closet some in the basement and a few In the attic unbeknownst to a young girl and her boyfriend as they mastermind a murderous scheme to steal her boss' millions. NOT RATED, 90 Trans World Entertainment, $79.95 (Feb. 12).

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The biography of Richie Valens, a poor Mexican-American who became a rock 'n' roll sensation at the age of 17 only to die in a tragic plane crash along with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. The music is there: La Bamba, Donna and lots more. ST, PG13, 116 RCAColumbia Home Video, $29.95 (Available now). (Disc) NATURE BALLAD OF THE IRISH HORSE From the magnificent wild stallions to the sturdy work ponies and elegant racing thoroughbreds, Ireland's horses are an enduring part of the Country's history captured in this romantic portrait of man and animal. CC 60 National Geographic Video, $29.98 (Feb.

10). (VHS, Beta) THE GRIZZLIES Portrait travels from Alaska's Brooks Range to Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park for a fascinating look at the grizzly bear the powerful. Intelligent and short-tempered monarch of the wild. CC, 60 National Geographic Video, $29.98 (Feb. 10).

(VHS, Beta) ON STAGE ELEKTRA (1980) Blrgit Nilsson, Leonie Ry-sanek, Mlgnon Dunn. As one of the cornerstones of 20th-century opera Ichard Strauss' towering tragedy about a royal daughter's vengeance against the murderers of her father, Agamemnon this Is one of Its monumental productions taped live at the Metropolitan Opera. HI-FI, 112 Bel Canto, $19.95 (Feb. 10). (VHS, Beta) KING LEAR (1971) Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Jack MacGowran.

Acclaimed stage and screen director Peter Brook joins with the Royal Shakespeare Company for a starkly powerful, majestically heart-rending film of Shakespeare's play about a once-mighty monarch betrayed by his children. PG, 137 Warner Home Video, $19.98 (Feb. 10). (VHS, Beta) L'ELISIR D-AMORE (1981) Luciano Pavarottl, Judith Blegen, Sesto Bruscantini. Displaying a gift for comedy, Pavarottl stars in one of his most renowned roles the lovesick Nemorino.

Blegen joins Pavarottl to help bring Donizetti's much-loved operatic tale to Its fullest glory in this performance taped live at the Met. HI-FI, 132 Bel Canto, $19.95 (Feb. 10). (VHS, Beta) THE ROYAL BALLET (1959) Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes. This feature film portrays Fonteyn at the peak of her illustrious career as she performs with unsurpassed style and grace in three segments filmed on London's historic Co-vent Garden stage: "Swan Lake" (Act II), "The Firebird" and "Ondine." 132 Bel Canto, $29.95 (Feb.

10). (VHS, Beta) SCIENCE FICTION SPACEBALLS: THE VIDEO (1987) Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga. The gags, spoofy special effects and a winged Winnebago fly at ludicrous speed in this tale that casts aspersions on just about every sci-fi and space battle film made in the last 10 years. CC, PG, 97 MGMUA Home Video, $89.95 (Feb. 9).

(VHS, Beta) advance, slow motion, double speed forward and reverse are all common on non-digital-effect VCRs, computerized frame grabbing enhances their quality and reduces annoying noise bars. Freeze and still frame are the somewhat confusing terms used interchangeably to describe three different effects. One stops the tape while the picture is frozen. In another the tape continues to run with audible sound while the freeze frame is displayed. Yet another, usually called TV still, plucks a frame from an over-the-air broadcast while the program continues to run.

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