VIDEO HAS FANS FOND OF FONDA FEELIN’ FINE

That strange sound you hear is all the hands being rubbed together--by everyone from video dealers to fitness fanatics--in anticipation of Jane Fonda’s highly anticipated new exercise video.

“Jane Fonda’s Workout with Weights” could be subtitled “Barbarella With Barbells” but, of course, isn’t. It also isn’t the only Fonda tape being released by Lorimar this month.

In fact, “Jane Fonda’s Workout Presents SportsAid” should be in the stores--where the actress’s previous workout tapes have outsold all other non-movie videos--even sooner than the “Weights” video. “SportsAid” is scheduled for a Sept. 16 release, while “Weights” will be released Sept. 30.

“SportsAid” has the actress teaming up with Dr. James Garrick, head of the Center for Sports and Dance Medicine at St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco. In a 60-minute guide based on Garrick’s book, “Peak Condition,” they show how to prevent and treat sports and exercise injuries.

The 90-minute “Weights” tape is divided into two 45-minute classes in which Fonda and “celebrity trainer” Dan Isaacson use hand-held weights, ankle weights and a flat bench.

Both tapes will carry a suggested retail price of $39.95.

CHASE-ING THE BLUES AWAY: Fonda isn’t the only star Lorimar has lined up for videocassette release on Sept. 30. Also out on that day: “The Best of Chevy Chase,” an hour of the comedian’s sketches from “Saturday Night Live.” The $19.95 collection follows similar videocassettes featuring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Among the scenes will be several of Chase’s famous show-opening pratfalls.

RUBINSTEIN: Presumably shown doing no pratfalls, legendary pianist Artur Rubinstein, who died in 1982, is celebrated in a 58-minute video, “Rubinstein Remembered,” released Tuesday by VAI.

Hosted by the late musician’s son, John, the tape traces Rubinstein’s career, features him performing Chopin and shows members of the Rubinstein family at a concert honoring the pianist’s 100th anniversary of the pianist’s birth, which occurred at his birthplace in Lodz, Poland. Price: $49.95.

Information: (212) 799-7798.

ANOTHER KIND OF MUSIC: If you aren’t yet fed up with the new surge of Beatlemania hype, then you’re just the sort of person who might like to know that Sony will be releasing “The Paul McCartney Special” on Nov. 6. It’s “an exclusive retrospective” of the singer, writer and musician’s career “since he left the Beatles,” says the company, “with in-depth interviews and footage never seen before in the U.S.” Performances on the $29.95 tape range from the early “Maybe I’m Amazed” to the recent “Press.”