• January 14, 1991
• Vol. 35
• No. 1

Picks and Pans Main: Plus

1. Total Recall

Random movie notes: 10-year-old Macaulay Culkin, the star of the smash ($118.4 million in six weeks) comedy Home Alone, has emerged as Hollywood's newest box office champ. Better make that lightweight champ though: Arnold Schwarzenegger stayed right on the imp's heels with Kindergarten Cop ($11.3 million in its first week)—and also has the top video rental with his theatrical hit from last summer, Total Recall (see Video, below).... Three of 1990's Top 10 pop singles had movie connections (see Song). In the cases of "Cradle of Love" (Ford Fairlane) and "Blaze of Glory" (Young Guns II), the record fared considerably better than the much-roasted film.... Parents: It's Saturday morning-do you know where your kids are? Probably watching a cartoon show based on a movie (see Tube). Four of the top weekend kidvid series piggybacked on successful hit movies. So that explains those "Cowabungas!" filtering their way upstairs from the den!

SCREEN

TOP-GROSSING MOVIES

2. The Godfather Part III
3. Kindergarten Cop
4. Dances with Wolves
5. Look Who's Talking Too
6. Edward Scissorhands
7. Three Men and a Little Lady
8. Misery
9. Mermaids
10. The Russia House

BY PERMISSION OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ©

SONG

TOP POP SINGLES, 1990

Wilson Phillips

Roxette

Sinéad O'Connor

Bell Biv DeVoe

Madonna

Mariah Carey

Phil Collins

En Vogue

Billy Idol

Jon Bon Jovi

SOURCE: BILLBOARD

TUBE

TOP CHILDREN'S SHOWS

2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I (CBS)
3. Garfield and Friends II (CBS)
4. Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show II (ABC)
5. Garfield and Friends I (CBS)
6. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (CBS)
7. New Kids on the Block (ABC) (tie) Beetlejuice (ABC)
9. Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters (ABC)
10. Saved by the Bell (NBC)

SOURCE: A.C. NIELSEN CO.

I: First half-hour; II: Second half-hour

PAGES

NONFICTION BEST-SELLERS

by Charles Kuralt

by Geoffrey C. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns

by Bo Jackson and Dick Schaap

as dictated to Barbara Bush

by Jeff Smith

by Ronald Reagan

by Charles J. Givens

by Barbara Mandrell with George Vecsey

by H.G. Bissinger

by Deborah Tannen

SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

VIDEO

TOP RENTALS

2. Pretty Woman
3. Another 48 Hrs.
4. Bird on a Wire
5. The Hunt for Red October
6. Back to the Future Part III
7. Cadillac Man
8. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
9. Q & A
10. Betsy's Wedding

SOURCE: BILLBOARD