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Videos From the Video Vault : By BRIAN SHELTON Staff Writer Every once in a while, you come across a person who has such an impact on your life that you know you are going to end up writing about them in a newspaper article. That's the case with to day s video vault, wnicn is aoout videos I saw with Rebecca Ann Cornfield. Rebecca Ann (not her real name but one I'm using to protect her identity and to keep her from beating the holy heck out of me) and I used to hang out. I would love to say she worshipped the ground I strut upon but, unfortunately, it was never a "girlfriend-boyfriend" situation. Rebecca was always more like a "firm handshake" than a "main squeeze." We still went out, though, and regardless of whatever plans we made, we always ended up doing the same thing. I would pick her up at her house, we would adjourn to "Stan's House of Steak and Stuff' for vittles, and then we would swing by the video store to get a movie. It was usually late by the time we got to "Videos R' Us" so, of i WillCh, fl 5 Visits (EH Meeting St. - across West Columbia -1/4 mile past Gerv rt C?td HePot H ?*#! c?o^e 5e\ecP?? ^ K sob'^clS" \|ai?e QxiaVPV c,w\\t*9 Sc^cC I ORDER YOUR UNIVERSITY OF SOL Wednesday and Thursday Sep 10.-00 AM - 4 South Carolina Booksti $20 Depc \mt l< PRPQU PUAD-nDII gj iuwi , s/i ini ruiill. (j 12oz. FISH STI $ I SPE J1 Snow Crab Legs ft All You Ca i\ (Mon. i $1.00 Off w (ggy'Raw Bar Oysters $3.00/Do2 FULL ABC BAR 1111KN CAYC /\ ^Un" \/ / to watc ten, the only movies left were Police Academy 5 and The Adventures of Pippie Longstocking. Occasionally, though, we would find a movie actually made in this half of the century and, here for you now, are some of the best and worst of them. Pretty Woman( 1990): Even though Rebecca and I were just pals, I was welcomed, if not encouraged, to compliment her on her looks. This wasn't that hard to do since the chick was gorgeous but during Pretty Woman, I decided to play a little joke on her. At one point during die film, she asked if I thought she was as pretty as Julia Roberts. I said, and I thought it was witty at the time, "No, of course you're not," to which she responded with a monstrous jack-slap. When I regained consciousness, I was able to see the film, which is about a "fairy-tale" romance between corporate-raider Richard Gere and prostitute Julia Roberts. Gere acts like he just came out of a coma but Roberts is great and singlehandidly miica. uic 111111 a coupic ui nuicnes. B+ Three Men and a Baby{\987): When Rebecca asked if I had seen this, I lied and said I hadn't The way I figured it, if she picked it out, she wanted to watch it and if I told her I viewed it already, she would have something sarcastic like, "Well, I guess you've just seen everything," and pouted all ^IslaWTSNI 794-9100\ ange The Way-You i. 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D Breakfast Club: At one time, Rebecca had this weird crush on Emilio Estevez. She liked him so much that she forced me to take her to Young Guns II (which will probably be reviewed, one day, under "westerns where people in them wear Mousse") and made me rent the John Hughes-directed Breakfast Club, in which Estevez plays an athlete who, along with four other students, is put on an all-day detention. The five teens whine about their horrible lives and, while Rebecca was drooling over Estevez, I was bored silly and hoping someone would take a club and knock them all on their heads. D+ Uncle Buck (1989): "I heard this was funny," Rebecca said and, when it comes to videos, hearing something is funny usually means you won't laugh once and will want the person who recommended it to you to be hanged by a i WC K WBe're working sn too. 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Along th vay, there are some funny gags ir 'olving golf balls, drills and on vhere Candy is beaned on th lead with the contents of hi :loset Showing her sensitive side Rebecca laughed at that last ga or 10 minutes, making the mil he was drinking come out of he ight nostril. B I Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Vhen you like someone as muc s t liked Rebecca Ann, you fini Iks (OTH narter, Like the TI-68, n't have tific that solves neous equatior ting rela- numbers and c id profes- programming. -1 M/kiaf'c JHmh T V A. 1U.U SJ III JiLjjh JSli Sm^MI 1 purpose woi H never need students, th psm- ? It handles timemath offers cash flow rate of return (D king value (NPV). overing rnm mm ^ r1"' Hcos(l L at ate ut ?ota loV?ut ^osVve> \ \ fcootf# ecial so "\ ^jdr "f i? J V< 4 I lp . WB Danson and Tom Selleck star in Thi 1, there is nothing you wouldn't do n for them. For her, I would have it gone skydiving naked and when is she asked me to hunt down a copy l- of Driving Miss Daisy, I was out a searching at every video store in e town. Unfortunately, everywhere I i- went in Columbia, it was rented e out There was, however, a copy e left at a video store in Charlotte so s I rented it and rushed to Rebecca's J, house. After apologizing for being g nine hours late, we watched the k film, which details a friendship bear tween black chaufffeur, Hoke (played wonderfully by Morgan i: Freeman) and his employer, Miss h Daisv (Jessica TandvY The film is i pretty sappy and, at times, tries to MART ARDE an advanced scien- Plus a win up to five simulta- No ma is, performs complex matter wl >ffers formula TI scienti that's rig! thing: of you now, a ing sm; I^y tific an your lo ' v 1 SOLAR, a general khorse powered by " solar cells so you batteries. 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