TV & VIDEO - Aug. 5, 1991

New Jack Video: Pop the controversial film “New Jack City” into your VCR (it’s due in video stores on Wednesday) and you’ll see director Mario Van Peebles doing an anti-drug public service announcement. “Whether you live in Harlem, whether you live in Beverly Hills, the drug epidemic, it’s not a black thing. It’s not a white thing. It’s a death thing. And death doesn’t care what color you are,” Van Peebles says. The film about the crack cocaine trade in Manhattan sparked violence around the country, including a melee in Westwood, when it opened last March.