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BRYAN, 3601 E. 29TH ST. available in late September Video market expands B United Press International NEW YORK — After a long ca reer in the record business, Cy Leslie says he has a feeling of deja vu in his new job as head of MGM-UA Home Video. “The parallels with the record business are uncanny,” he said. “The new rules for home video are the re cord rules.” With 14,000 retailers selling home video cassettes these days, home vi deo is now where the record busi ness was after World War II, Leslie said. “It was a modest start-up world,” he said. “You had entrepreneurs, mom and pop stores.” The parallels will continue as home video experiences an eventual shakeout that will eliminate margi nal retailers and “those less able to merchandise wisely,” he predicted. “You can’t sustain everyone who wants to be in the business,” Leslie said. MGM-UA Home Video is a sub sidiary of MGM-UA Entertainment Go. But in 1982, the parent com pany offered 15 percent of its stock in the business for sale in order to help reduce its debt. Leslie’s firm has all rights to MGM-UA material for sale to pay television, home video cassettes and non-theatrical rentals, such as schools and libraries. Its character li censing business includes the fa mous “Pink Panther” character. In his earlier career, Leslie saw re cord sales jump from an initial $200 million a year right after the war to $4 billion a year in 1977. “But this business is growing at a much faster clip,” he said. At the end of 1983, there were 9 million videocassette recorders in use in the nation. That is expected to jump to 16 million by the end 1984, and to as many as 24 million in 1985. “You’re creating a totally new au dience every year,” he said. Initially, he added, people bought VCRs to record television programs for later viewing. and “Brainstorm,” for instamB \tfOQ Bating o be used partially |em win pierciaU t Fort! Hole 0 “Now, the major interest is mov ies,” he claimed. Movies generally become available for cassette sales after a 6-month run in theaters. Then the cassettes have a 6-month exclusive “window” before the films begin to run on pay tele vision. After another year and a half, the films are available for network television release. at $79.95. But “Braimtornfi rental movie while “Space OJn p has become something of a tor’s item. Many movies like “Brainsif^j the science fiction film starrii* late Natalie Wood, do well:-1 rentals after an undistinguisliftjfc ^jok at the movie hmises, Leslif||vj f t There are apparently many p J|° en ; that are not tempting enough igH people out of their houses,biijl* i to | a enough appeal to merit the Jr ^ j mem of a few dollars in rental [J } i to , When MGM-UA issued aM.-u ( the Home Video subsidiary,s*j^ vers mated the value of its We ( old films at $200 million. TlyBr s i log of older films has beenatjftjP or tfaction, Leslie said, with gooe|L j„ y ; '•■’nging from “Tht®’ ” “Soyle “Then they syndicate it, then it comes back to us,” Leslie said. The public is ten times more likely to rent a video for one night or a weekend than to buy it for perma nent use, Leslie said. While prices probably will come down on films that have a large potential stiles audi ence, he said, “when you expect a greater universe of renters, that’s not likely to happen.” Both “2001, A Space Odyssey on movies ra ai d of Oz” to “Soylent Green, But the real biggie in theiJ UA library is yet to make it (I home video mar ket. ‘“Gone With the Wind’-iJ what you could do with that,! said. “We’ve got a brandneil ative, never used," he said. “It J make an excellent color filtJ to the most expensive conieni] production.” Discussions about what loth the film, however, are si a early stages. Leslie said it is early" to predict when “Gw the Wind’ will be on saleauhn tier VGR store. SAL first leg ;come estimat ratch Downs Scientists investigate drug to help emphysema victim “We spokest That’s crowd ; put on I The United Press International WASHINGTON — A persistent cough, labored or quick breathing and the feeling of never getting enough air are the hallmarks of em physema, a disease for which there is no treatment and no cure. Smoking is considered a major cause of tne disease, which afflicts more than 2.4 million Americans. Lor inherited emphysema suffer ers, the relatively small number who develop the disease early in life re gardless of whether they smoke, a drug under investigation by several groups may be effective in halting the progressive lung damage that causes the symptoms. for now, however, patients are stuck with treatments that help clear their lungs and help them breathe. They must minimize exposure to ir ritants which may accelerate lung damage. Emphysema is the gradual de struction of elasticity in air sacs in the lungs so that they are less and less able to expel stale air. Patients must breathe harder or faster with remaining healthy air sacs to get enough oxygen. The disorder, which shortens life by 10 to 20 years, afflicts mostly those over age 50 who smoke. About 20,000 to 40,000 develop emphy sema at age 30 or 40 because of ge netic factors. Two factors are important in the development of emphysema. One is an enzyme secreted by a white blood cell that is part of the body’s defense system, and the other is a protein that protects tissues against the en zyme. The white blood cell, called a neu trophil, is not normally found in the lungs in very great numbers. It se cretes enzymes called elastases, which break down the support tissue of air sacs. Large numbers of neu trophils have been found in smok ers’ lower lungs and in the lungs of emphysema victims. Normally, lung tissue is protected against elastase by a protein called alpha-1 antitrypsin. People can develop emphysema if they inherit a gene for antitrypsin deficiency from both parents and somehow get neutrophil elastase into their lower respiratory tract, said Dr. Ronald G. Crystal, chief of the pulmonary branch at the Na tional Heart, Lung and Blood Insti tute. It is not clear how thehoraj protein system works inemph victims who do not have an an sin deficiency, but it is belieJ similar mechanism is involveitl tai said. jLommi detenu ady for Sunda) Various groups have distil pha-1 antitrypsin from hi plasma in hopes of givinjittoi ited emphysema patientsdailv place their depleted supply. Crystal said the NHLBhil alpha-1 antitrypsin intravenoy a small group of humanpatieff six months to see if it hast® fects. One major problem, how I that four to nine tons of tk* stance would be needed annti treat all genetic emphysemas ers, t