Evansville Press from Evansville, Indiana • 89

VIDEOS chine-gun laugh courtesy of the late Mel Blanc you will have smug fun watching the two 30-minute videos in the package Warner Rated $9245 Lottie (Theresa Russell) a sexy-looking but emotionally repressed detective who works undercover disguised as a prostitute is directed to see a department psychiatrist about her tendency to shoot too fast "Sometimes working vice it excites me" Lottie says "I wonder what it would be like to lose When she does the rest of the film clumsily explores the consequences Even the most generic grade-B movie needs more style and personality than this "The Earth Day Special" Warner Not rated $945 Just in time to save the world is the video of "The Earth Day Special" that aired on ABC in April Bette Midler plays Mother Earth who is terminally ill with toxic waste water pollution ozone depletion and a host of other ailments Showing us how to come to Mother rescue are more stars than heaven can hold including the entire casts of "The Cosby "The Golden and "Married with Children" Unfortunately the video any better than the TV special which was alternately tedious ridiculous overbearing and simplistic Saving the earth is a grand idea This video is not "Hanusaen" RCAColum-bia Rated $7945 (In German with English subtitles) A Hungarian psychic (Klaus Maria Brandauer) foresees a future that includes the rise of the Nazis With the 208 and '30s portrayed as perilous times for psychics how does one live with such an explosive piece of information? Istvan Szabo's film is thick with period costumes and thin on coherence and character performance consists of smiling a lot and looking gallant in his misery not easy knowing it all Daryl Hannah offers (me bit of relief as a doctor with a liberating degree of nuttiness that shows up the sappy conventions of the rest of the movie "Opportunity Knocks" MCA Rated PG-13 $9245 Time was when a leading role on Broadway guaranteed offers from Hollywood Now the quickest way to feature films is via the late-night television show "Saturday Night Live" Be a regular on that show and every agent in town thinks movie material More often than not such thinking has been proved wrong "Opportunity Knocks" is an example It is a showcase for Dana Car-vey but Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein's screenplay about a petty con artist who lies himself into a corporate vice presidency has been done dozen of times As for Carvey "The Church Lady" he is nice enough even likable But this one-joke film uses up its one punch line early on "Sold Out!" Maier Video Not rated $1445 The California Raisins are back wrinkled as ever Though their latest video is entitled "Sold Out!" it probably will not sell out becauae it was just broadcast on CBS in May AC Beebop Red and Stretch face the music in this program when they drop their longtime manager Rudy Bagaman for slick but sleaqr Leonard Limabean You guessed it The Wrinkled Ones pay a high price to reach a bigger audience As usual Will clay-mation is superb But the raisins are getting tiresome "Woody Woodpecker: The 50th Anniversary Edition" MCA Not rated IWo volumes 91245 each You don't realize a person can take only so much Woody Woodpecker until viewing the two volumes of "Woody Woodpecker The 50th Anniversary Edition" Walter feathered friend is torture pure torture when done eight cartoons at a time But it is the little 50th birthday So if you cotton to the pesky woodpecker with the ma Continued from Page 3 hurts in the pocketbook So on with the habits and the pseudofeminine mannerisms although no one seems to question their deep voices and twday facial stubble Hie problem with this endeavor is that content to coast mice it establishes a comedk framework "House Party" RCA Columbia Rated 8995 Reginald effervescent first feature is a buoyant perceptive comedy of teen-age manners in a society that though idealized in the movie is certainly not sanitized Kid (Christopher Reid) takes on adolescent challenges from parties to report cards All of the performers are musicians who bounce and weave like they were on stage at a live concert lending the light touch rude wit and immediacy of rap The soundtrack pulses with humor aa well aa decibels "Crash and Burn" Paramount Home Video Rated $8995 Given its title you might expect a lot of crashing and burning from this video You won't be disappointed But if you expect quality crashing and burning almost any other video is an improvement over this decidedly pedestrian effort Charles Band directed this futuristic drama set in the year 2030 where water is scarce government is a Big Brother-type council and the land is covered with bits and pieces of huge robots used to fight the last great war A movement of the good guys however lingers in the shadows Among its members is a feisty TV producer (Ralph Waite) whose transmitter station is the unlikely site for the eventual clash between David and Goliath "Crash and Burn" is saddled with inane dialogue wooden acting and a plot that is a textbook cliche "Crazy People" Paramount Rated $9195 In Tony Bill's humorless satire Dudley Moore plays an advertising copywriter so desperately out of slogans that he winds up in a mental hospital The Evansville Sunday Sept 30 1900.