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Saturday 29 May 1999 23:02 BST
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Hardbacks

1 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver/M Joseph pounds 18.99

Mmmm, it's really pukka

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

May the bores be with you

3 Score! Jilly Cooper/Bantam pounds 16.99

Rumpy-pumpy in the world of classical music

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

What the world needs now is love sweet love

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

Tie-in with the mind-boggling TV series

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 Little Book Of Kids' Talk Nanette Newman/Ebury pounds 1.99

Now we need a little book of little books

10 Others James Herbert/Macmillan pounds 16.99

To hell and back for a missing baby

Paperbacks

1 Amsterdam Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99

Friends of dead woman negotiate moral problems

2 The Last Continent Terry Pratchett/Corgi pounds 5.99

Wizards find themselves Down Under in Discworld

3 Tara Road Maeve Binchy/Orion pounds 6.99

House swap leads to romantic tangles

4 About A Boy Nick Hornby/Indigo pounds 6.99

Feckless male makes friends with fatherless lad

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

For the armchair tourist

6 Ralph's Party Lisa Jewell/Penguin pounds 5.99

Inhabitants of London house mix and match

7 Prom Guide: 1999 BBC pounds 4.50

Start tuning up now

8 The Children's Book Of Books Children's Book Of Books pounds 1

World Books Day cheapie

9 Enduring Love Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99

Erotomania follows ballooning incident

10 Things Can Only Get Better John O'Farrell/Black Swan pounds 6.99

Perils of a life-long Labour supporter

UK Films

THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS

WEEK WEEK IN CHART TO 23 MAY

1 (-) She's All That New pounds 1,200,565

More life lessons for dull American teenagers

2 (-) Notting Hill New pounds 755,706

Don't they make a lovely couple?

3 (2) I Still Know What You Did ... 3 pounds 2,054,619

Any guesses what the next sequel will be called?

4 (1) Forces Of Nature 3 pounds 1,954,110

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

5 (3) The Waterboy 4 pounds 2,856,383

Dire Adam Sandler no-brainer

6 (4) Best Laid Plans 2 pounds 555,140

Convoluted neo-noir with Reese Witherspoon

7 (-) The Corruptor New pounds 139,738

Chow Yun Fat's first great English language movie

8 (-) A Simple Plan New pounds 139,087

Taut thriller from the director of 'The Evil Dead'

9 (8) The Rugrats Movie 9 pounds 12,216,848

Animation with the nasty suburban toddlers

10 (5) True Crime 2 pounds 385,717

Clint does his obligatory thriller for 1999

US Films

THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS

WEEK WEEK IN CHART TO 23 MAY

1 (-) Star Wars: Phantom Menace New $105,661,237

Find out for yourself on 16 June

2 (1) The Mummy 3 $100,210,165

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

3 (2) Entrapment 4 $59,889,421

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

4 (3) The Matrix 8 $149,507,510

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

5 (-) The Love Letter New $2,692,819

Dull romantic comedy. No UK release planned

6 (5) A Midsummer Night's Dream 2 $8,233,427

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

7 (8) Never Been Kissed 7 $46,190,583

Drew Barrymore goes back to school with bad hair

8 (4) Black Mask 2 $7,313,503

Hong Kong action that went straight to video in UK

9 (6) Life 6 $57,526,494

Finally, Eddie Murphy's been put in prison

10 (9) Election 5 $9,157,870

Matthew Broderick as a small-town teacher

Singles

THIS LAST

WEEK WEEK

1 (-) Sweet Like Chocolate Shanks & Bigfoot

2 (1) You Needed Me Boyzone

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

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

5 (2) Look At Me Geri Halliwell

6 (-) Say It Again Precious

7 (4) I Want It That Way Backstreet Boys

8 (-) I Quit Hepburn

9 (5) No Scrubs TLC

10 (-) Every Morning Sugar Ray

Albums

THIS LAST

WEEK WEEK

2 (2) Gold - Greatest Hits Abba

2 (-) Millennium Backstreet Boys

3 (1) The Hush Texas

4 (3) Performance and Cocktails Stereophonics

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

6 (-) Magic Hour Cast

7 (6) Talk On Corners The Corrs

8 (4) Remedy Basement Jaxx

9 (8) Fanmail TLC

10 (12) I've Been Expecting You Robbie Williams

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