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DVD This week's new releases By Ken Fox & Maitland McDonagh . + (1990; Rated R; $19.98) Is David Lynch's luridly loony tour de force as vividly "wild at heart and weird on top" as it seemed nearly 15 years ago? And how! In the grotesque, lurid, hotter than Georgia asphalt tale of young lovers on the run, Elvis-fixated Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and his beloved Peanut"-gum-popping sexpot Lula Pace Fortune (Laura Dern)-flee her mother (Dern's real mom, Diane Ladd) and cross paths with killers, crackpots and world-class creeps: Willem Dafoe's repellent Bobby Peruis a walking nightmare. Sly touches of “The Wizard of Oz" add a fractured fairy-tale | air. There's no second-channel commentary on this digitally remastered special edition, but most of the cast and crew show up for the featurettes. Among the choice tidbits they let slip: Sailor's distinctive snakeskin jacket, the symbol of his “individuality and belief in personal freedom,” came from Cage's txcelent OWN closet, bought years earlier because it aeeet reminded him of Marion Brando's in “The B Poor Fugitive Kind." Movie: 4x Extras: + wild at heart and weird on top”

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