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Saturday 05 June 1999 23:02 BST
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Hardbacks

1 Star Wars: Episode One - The Screenplay Century pounds 15.99

May the bores be with you

2 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver/M Joseph pounds 18.99

Mmmm, it's really pukka

3 Score! Jilly Cooper/Bantam pounds 16.99

Rumpy-pumpy in the world of classical music

4 The Planets David McNab & James Jounger/BBC pounds 19.99

The eternal appeal of stargazing

5 Ancient Wisdom ... Dalai Lama/Little Brown pounds 16.99

What the world needs now is love sweet love

6 Star Wars: Episode One Dorling Kindersley pounds 12.99

Incredible cross-sections

7 East Of The Mountains David Guterson/Bloomsbury pounds 15.99

Would-be suicide redeemed by the natural world

8 Pretty Boy Roy Shaw/Blake Publishing pounds 14.99

You don't want to meet him in a dark alley

9 Star Wars Visual Dictionary David Reynolds/Dorling Kindersley pounds 12.99

What's it for, exactly?

10 The Guv'nor Lenny McLean & Peter Gerrard/Blake pounds 14.99

Bad lad doing good on sales

Paperbacks

1 Amsterdam Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99

Friends of dead woman negotiate moral problems

3 Tara Road Maeve Binchy/Orion pounds 6.99

House swap leads to romantic tangles

3 About A Boy Nick Hornby/Indigo pounds 6.99

Feckless male makes friends with fatherless lad

4 Inversions Iain Banks/Orbit pounds 6.99

Fantasy story of entwined lives

5 The Last Continent Terry Pratchett/Corgi pounds 5.99

Wizards find themselves Down Under in Discworld

6 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres/Vintage pounds 6.99

It's good, but it's not that good

7 Ralph's Party Lisa Jewell/Penguin pounds 5.99

Inhabitants of London house mix and match

8 Internet: The Rough Guide Angus Kennedy/Rough Guides pounds 5.99

For the armchair tourist

9 Stalingrad Anthony Beevor/Penguin pounds 12.99

Grim modern warfare drama

10 Enduring Love Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99

Erotomania follows ballooning incident

UK Films

THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS

WEEK WEEK IN CHART TO 30 MAY

1 (2) Notting Hill (15) 2 pounds 4,571,361

Don't they make a lovely couple?

2 (1) She's All That (12) 2 pounds 2,414,814

More life lessons for dull American teenagers

3 (-) My Favourite Martian (PG) New pounds 242,558

Bad 1960s sit-com becomes a worse 1990s film

4 (3) I Still Know What You ... (18) 4 pounds 2,329,593

Any guesses what the next sequel will be called?

5 (-) The King And I (U) New pounds 135,385

Rogers & Hammerstein meet Disney

6 (5) The Waterboy (12) 5 pounds 3,054,864

Dire Adam Sandler no-brainer

7 (9) The Rugrats Movie (U) 10 pounds 12,342,329

Animation with the nasty suburban toddlers

8 (4) Forces Of Nature (12) 4 pounds 2,174,230

Sandra Bullock distracts Ben Affleck's husband-to-be

9 (8) A Simple Plan (15) 2 pounds 294,058

Taut thriller from the director of 'The Evil Dead'

10 (7) The Corruptor (18) 2 pounds 305,945

Chow Yun Fat in an English-language action movie

US Films

THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS

WEEK WEEK IN CHART TO 31 MAY

1 (1) Star Wars: Phantom Menace 2 $207,099,058

See for yourself on 16 June

2 (-) Notting Hill New $27,689,760

The biggest ever opening weekend gross for a British film

3 (2) The Mummy 4 $27,699,760

'The adventure is reborn'. Apparently. UK release: 25 June

4 (3) Entrapment 5 $69,600,581

Connery and Zeta Jones's adventure. UK release: 11 June

5 (-) The Thirteenth Floor New $4,278,452

Virtual reality thriller from the makers of 'Godzilla'

6 (4) The Matrix 9 $154,764,576

Sci-fi effects with Keanu Reeves UK release: 18 June

7 (6) A Midsummer Night's Dream 3 $11,387,966

All-star cast in turn-of-the-century Tuscany

8 (7) Never Been Kissed 8 $48,980,173

Drew Barrymore goes back to school with bad hair

9 (8) Black Mask 3 $9,484,564

Hong Kong action that went straight to video in UK

10 (5) The Love Letter 2 $5,111,905

Dull romantic comedy. No UK release planned

Singles

THIS LAST

WEEK WEEK

1 (1) Sweet Like Chocolate Shanks & Bigfoot

2 (-) Ooh La La Wiseguys

3 (3) That Don't Impress Me Much Shania Twain

4 (-) Canned Heat Jamiroquai

5 (4) Kiss Me Sixpence None The...

6 (-) Saltwater Chicane ft. M Brennan

7 (2) You Needed Me Boyzone

8 (6) Say It Again Precious

9 (7) I Want It That Way Backstreet Boys

10 (5) Look At Me Geri Halliwell

Albums

THIS LAST

WEEK WEEK

1 (1) Gold - Greatest Hits Abba

2 (3) The Hush Texas

3 (29) Come On Over Shania Twain

4 (4) Performance and Cocktails Stereophonics

5 (-) The Man Who Travis

6 (2) Millennium Backstreet Boys

7 (-) The Capitol & Reprise Years Dean Martin

8 (5) You've Come A Long Way, Baby Fatboy Slim

9 (7) Talk On Corners The Corrs

10 (18) My Love Is Your Love Whitney Houston

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