Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe What's new on the home video scene... MOVIES Advertisement "Bridget Jones's Diary" -- Renee Zellweger is Bridget, a somewhat pudgy thirty-something British klutz, always putting the wrong foot forward in a mixed-up single life that's getting to be too much. Deciding she has to turn her life around, she sets out, armed only with her charm and wits (and a diary), to find that elusive Mr. Right. She finds him right away, or thinks she has, in her handsome, suave boss Daniel (Hugh Grant) but he quickly proves he's not the one. Then, there's handsome but dour Mark (Colin Firth), who initially describes her as a "verbally incontinent spinster" but decides eventually that he likes her "just as you are." Based on a novel by Helen Fielding, it is cheerfully charming and funny entertainment, and Renee is terrific. 2001. 97 minutes. Miramax Home Entertainment. Rated R (language and some strong sexuality). Advertisement "One Night At McCool's" -- It was a hot night at McCool's bar when Jewel waltzed in and it got hotter for the three men mesmerized by the wide-eyed, sexy beauty (Liv Tyler). This is a sort of trailer park "Rashomon" as the shady lady and her dubious intentions are recalled quite differently by each of the motley trio -- the easy-going bartender (Matt Dillon), his big-ego lawyer cousin (Paul Reiser) and the lonely widower cop (John Goodman). They all fall in love with Jewel, a real gem of a con artist with middle-class dreams who only wants a home with a good stereo and a DVD and will do most anything to get them. Michael Douglas, whose company produced this darkly humorous comedy, shows up as a toupeed, buck-toothed, bingo-loving hitman recruited by the bartender. Violence crops up often and a fair amount of the cast bites the turf. 2001. 93 minutes. USA Home Entertainment. Rated R (violence, sexuality, language). "Tremors 3: Return to Perfection" -- Just when the isolated little Nevada town of Perfection is becoming a tourist attraction because of the huge maneater earthworms that once terrorized the countryside, here come those wormies again to panic everybody all over again and they've learned some new tricks. Michael Gross returns as the big worm hunter who just keeps blasting away. 2001. 104 minutes. Universal Studios Home Video. Rated PG-13. Advertisement "I'm The One I Want" -- Margaret Cho's raunchy one-woman show, filmed in San Francisco in 1999, takes on taboo after taboo in a funny, scabrous performance. Unrated. VIDBITS Coming up next: "Angel Eyes," "Cats and Dogs," "Town & Country," "Crimson Rivers" and "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg"... "Spy Kids" is the nation's top video rental... "Jurassic Park III" is now slated for a Dec. 11 video debut... Coming Oct. 9: The mother of all animated features -- actually, the first animated feature -- Disney's delightful "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs," making its DVD debut... "The Godfather" is making yet another offer that's hard to refuse: The 1972 Oscar-winning masterwork and its two sequels are finally appearing on DVD in a set that includes a fourth, three-hour disc of extras. It's the full story of the Corleone family, the aging crime boss and his youngest son drawn into the business to become first his protector, then his successor, arguably the best American crime drama of the 20th century, one that pretty much defines the genre, the one against which all other such movies are judged. Included are hours of fascinating behind the scenes info and enlightening commentaries from writer-director Francis Ford Coppola who traces the winding path from book to screen, highlighting, among other things the difficult days of casting (the studio brass wanted Robert Redford for Michael but Coppola stubbornly held out for little known Al Pacino).The bosses didn't want Marlon Brando either, at first, and there was even opposition, believe it or not, to Nino Rota's haunting, nostalgic theme music. And Coppola, often under fire, admits wondering at times, "How would Hitchcock do this?"... Advertisement Looking back, Coppola jokingly calls it "the biggest home movie ever made." His sister Talia Shire plays Connie, his daughter Sofia is the baby in the baptismal scene and returns years later in "The Godfather III" as Michael's daughter, his father Carmine did the music for the long wedding sequence and assorted other relatives show up here and there... The documentary "America 911" detailing the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center is expected on video Oct. 15... Variety says the all-star "America: A Tribute to Heroes" telethon that aired on all four major networks and more than 30 U.S. cable stations will be released on DVD early next year... Hard to believe it's been 50 years since "I Love Lucy" began on television. Still being seen and still funny, the show's golden anniversary is being celebrated on the video scene with "The Best Of I Love Lucy," two just-released volumes featuring 10 fan-favorite episodes.
