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Television coverage of the volcano burying Montserrat didn't sate America's appetite for ash: Dante's Peak dusted the rental chart in its first week on tape. Not that there was much competition. Fran Drescher's The Beautician and the Beast debuted in 16th place, leaving the field clear for the lava-venture to roll over Jungle2Jungle and The Devil's Own. On the sales front, Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes proved more attractive than Tom Hanks, Liv Tyler, and a quartet of young hunks as the priced-to-sell Romeo & Juliet beat out That Thing You Do! for the top spot.
TOP 10 TAPE RENTALS
LAST WEEK WEEKS ON CHART
1 -- DANTE'S PEAK Pierce Brosnan, Universal 1 2 3 THE DEVIL'S OWN Harrison Ford, Columbia TriStar 2 3 1 JUNGLE2JUNGLE Tim Allen, Walt Disney 4 4 2 MURDER AT 1600 Wesley Snipes, Warner 3 5 4 SCREAM Neve Campbell, Dimension 9 6 7 SLING BLADE Billy Bob Thornton, Miramax 5 7 5 METRO Eddie Murphy, Touchstone 6 8 6 ABSOLUTE POWER Clint Eastwood, Warner 7 9 9 THE RELIC Penelope Ann Miller, Paramount 6 10 8 DONNIE BRASCO Johnny Depp, Columbia TriStar 5
TAPE SALES
1 34 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO & JULIET Leonardo DiCaprio, FoxVideo, $14.98 2 2 1 POOH'S GRAND ADVENTURE: THE SEARCH FOR CHRISTOPHER ROBIN Animated, Walt Disney, $24.99 3 3 2 SPAWN Animated, HBO, $19.99 3 4 -- THAT THING YOU DO! Tom Hanks, FoxVideo, $14.98 1 5 -- CATS DON'T DANCE Animated, Warner, $22.96 1 6 3 JUNGLE2JUNGLE Tim Allen, Walt Disney, $22.99 4 7 -- COURAGE UNDER FIRE Denzel Washington, FoxVideo, $14.98 1 8 11 PRETTY WOMAN Julia Roberts, Touchstone, $9.99 76 9 5 HAPPY GILMORE Adam Sandler, Universal, $14.98 13 10 40 TOP GUN Tom Cruise, Paramount, $14.95 146
SPORTS TAPE SALES
2 WEEKS AGO
1 2 TIGER WOODS: SON, HERO & CHAMPION CBS, $14.98 9 2 1 MICHAEL JORDAN: ABOVE & BEYOND CBS/Fox, $14.98 67 3 3 THIS WEEK IN BASEBALL: 20 YEARS OF UNFORGETTABLE PLAYS & BLOOPERS Orion, $14.98 39 4 4 MICHAEL JORDAN: COME FLY WITH ME CBS/Fox, $19.98 386 5 6 THE OFFICIAL 1996-97 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP CBS/Fox, $19.98 3 6 7 NBA AT 50 CBS/Fox, $19.98 27 7 10 MICHAEL JORDAN: AIR TIME CBS/Fox, $19.98 217 8 -- MUHAMMAD ALI: SKILL, BRAINS & GUTS MPI, $19.98 1 9 12 DALLAS COWBOYS: SUPER BOWL XXX CHAMPIONS PolyGram, $19.95 67 10 9 MIKE TYSON: THE INSIDE STORY MPI, $19.98 83
SOURCE: VIDEO BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUG. 30, 1997 SPORTS DATA: BILLBOARD FROM THE ISSUE DATED
