Inter-Video Electronics in midtown Manhattan is selling their entire inventory of VHS tapes at the low low price of one dollar each. I passed by the store Saturday evening while looking for Bed Bath & Beyond to buy a comforter for my new apartment, and having not added to my VHS library since Congo, went inside. Thirty minutes later I walked out with 20 dollars’ worth of American cinema on videocassette — including Road House, The Mighty Ducks, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, and Strange Brew starring Rick Moranis. In fact, I was forced to drop the tapes off at my desk for the night so I wouldn’t be lugging 10 lbs. of obsolete home video in my bag. Now it’s only a matter of time until Blu Ray drives DVDs down to a buck.
I never made it to Bed Bath & Beyond. Which I suppose means I consider Multiplicity a more essential item than blankets.
P.S. Attention, New York City residents and VCR owners alike: Tapes still availbale at Inter-Video Electronics include The Muse (written, directed by, and starring Albert Brooks), the other two installments of the Mighty Ducks trilogy, and Enemy Mine, in whcih Dennis Quaid rips open a pregnant Louis Gosset Jr.’s stomach and pulls out an infant alien. Hurry, they will NOT last long.
