The home-video horse race once again delivers a surprise, with three new titles hitting the rentals chart in an unexpected configuration. It's not shocking that hoopfest White Men Can't Jump shoots up to No. 5, but who would have thought the much-praised sleeper Fried Green Tomatoes would be left stewing at a poky No. 14 while Sean Connery's rain-forest dud, Medicine Man, beat it out at No. 10? The sales chart, meanwhile, gives evidence that the tape-buying audience is truly bifurcated (look it up): Don Bluth's kiddie cartoon Rock-a-Doodle debuts at No. 3, while Playboy's Wet & Wild IV splashes down at No. 9.
LAST RENTALS WEEKS ON WEEK CHART &
1 1 Wayne's World 2 Mike Myers (Paramount) 2 2 The Prince Of Tides 3 Barbra Streisand (Columbia TriStar) 3 3 The Hand That Rocks The Cradle 7 Rebecca De Mornay (Hollywood) 4 4 Hook 5 Robin Williams (Columbia TriStar) 5 - White Men Can't Jump 1 Wesley Snipes (FoxVideo) 6 5 Grand Canyon 9 Kevin Kline (FoxVideo) 7 6 Bugsy 8 Warren Beatty (Columbia TriStar) 8 7 Shining Through 8 Melanie Griffith (FoxVideo) 9 8 Rush 4 Jennifer Jason Leigh (MGM/UA) 10 - Medicine Man 1 Sean Connery (Hollywood)
SALES
1 1 Wayne's World 2 Mike Myers (Paramount, $24.95) 2 2 Hook 5 Robin Williams (Columbia TriStar, $24.95) 3 - Rock-A-Doodle 1 Animated (HBO, $24.98) 4 3 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3 A. Schwarzenegger (Carolco, $19.98) 5 4 The Great Mouse Detective 6 Animated (Disney, $24.99) 6 5 Sing Along Songs: Be Our Guest 10 Animated (Disney, $12.99) 7 6 101 Dalmatians 20 Animated (Disney, $24.99) 8 7 Terminator Collection Twin Pack 3 A. Schwarzenegger (Carolco, $29.98) 9 - Wet & Wild IV 1 Erotica (Playboy, $19.95) 10 22 NBA Dream Team 12 Sports (CBS/Fox, $14.98) For the week ending August 23
